Luckyforward

Thanks, all!

Hey Fellow TGOers, I would appreciate your feedback and advice. It's about time to open up the gun safe and sell some excellent firearms that are tired of sleeping. I am not the brightest bulb in the pack in knowing how to value my firearms (to sell ONLY on TGO and our members). Thank you in advance for books, websites, etc. where I may discern how to price my firearms before offering them for sale. As always, thank you. I wish the very best for all of you!

I carry both at times, but am growing to prefer a revolver - just because I am an old wheelgunner!

I've been working at home as a mental health therapist seeing people by telehealth for the past year and it has gone well. Before the pandemic insurance companies would not pay for telehealth; I'm hoping that they will not change as things start going back to normal. My clients are so used to not having to come in to the office I am fearful many will drop out of therapy if they have to return. We'll see . . .

Fresh sausage:

So should we be making our own gasoline?

So as a therapist, I wish we still had mental hospitals; a short history on why we don't anymore. In 1955 there were 559,000 people in mental hospitals in America. (Would be over a million in today's numbers.) Through the late 50s and early Sixties, a trend called "deinstitutionalization" started in mental health. This trend was aided with the first psychotropic drugs that lessened the need for inpatient. In 1963 the "Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act" went into effect to build between 1,500 - 2,500 community mental health centers to get patients out of the hospitals and into community care. By 1977 only 650 centers had been built. In 1981 the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act shifted funding to the states in the form of block grants and states decided to spend more money on community mental health rather than hospitals, so it is from the early 80s we began to have more homeless mental patients on the streets. The lack of institutionalization plus the reality that you cannot force someone to get or stay on medication makes it difficult to treat the pervasively mentally ill.

Jeff has done all my work for years; I wouldn't trust my firearms to anyone else.

When you say don't go cheap on the SD card, what does that mean? Buying one with lots more memory?

How many of you have dash cams and do you find them useful? What brands and how have they worked for you? Thanks!

Seven inches of snow atop 3 inches of ice in South Nashville.

Pretty good incline on my street. Those who try to make it up the hill begin with a running start from the cul de sac at the bottom. Just watched the latest attempt with the driver sliding backwards down the hill and taking out 4 mailboxes . . .

Had no more fun than letting Elmer's Glue dry on my hands and then pulling it off while telling everyone I am "The Mummy."

I've been sticking glue sticks into my ears. Stops the sound okay but attracts flies . . .

I do marriage counseling if you need it . . .

I caught a bunch of crappie earlier today . . . I was dreaming while I took a nap . . .

I have one I bought used in 1985 for $600; still a good shooter!

Fish hooked and caught - https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30787522/sources-ucf-josh-heupel-tennessee-volunteers-coach

Latest fish that has been hooked: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2021/01/26/josh-heupel-tennessee-vols-football-coach-candidate/6698999002/ Report says he had been hired by the new AD in the past. Oh great, the buddy system - just what we need . . .

Ditto to familysearch.org - It is free and amazing what I have found about my family there!

Vol Nation is boiling over for Hugh Freeze.

Yep . . . another losing season to look forward to.

So Pruitt being fired for cause suggests he gets no payout; so he is lawyering up. Phil Fulmer is retiring so the next AD can choose his own coach. Thoughts? Possible replacements for both positions? https://atozsportsnashville.com/tennessee-vols-jeremy-pruitt-is-being-fired-from-ut-for-cause/

Same thing happened to a friend of mine. He chided me because "you spent too much money on that Uplula thing" but found one that the seller at a gun show told him is "just as good as an Uplula." He decided to load all his Glock mags and didn't make it through two mags when the frustration led him to throw it against his concrete basement floor. After recovering from his angst he ordered an Uplula . . .