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Big ass tumor on the right lumbar nerve at L5. Left me very little movement in the musculature of my right leg from the calf, ankle, and top of my foot. Chemo got the fucker, but once the damage is done to the nerve, it doesn't heal. Now it's just a lump of non-conductive scar tissue. Had a similar smaller tumor on the left, one in the right brachial nerve (that hurt like a mother fucker), and 4 tiny ones in the brain stem. Left leg is mostly numb, but didn't have as significant damage. Others left no damage at all. Funny how that works. Sounds like she had some nerve damage too which is understandable considering the radiation. That's just burning the cancer from the inside and quite usually leaves scar tissue and loss of function/sensation. I say numb, but that's not exactly true. I can still feel pain and my feet are hyper sensitive. Can't stand for anyone to touch my feet. Takes a lot of effort to wear socks and shoes. If it weren't for the regular doses of GABA analogues (similar effect as alcohol), I probably couldn't not could walk. Neuropathy is a bitch.

90% of the time I say The Return. Occasionally I'll think otherwise. Then I listen to Return and remember it's the best. BFD and HH are pretty much equal in my book.

Bathory - Hammerheart Bathory - The Return

So much depends on your age/experience, what you're doing and feeling at the time you hear something, how it's presented to you, etc. Food is a great comparison. I've hated tomatoes all my life. Tried to eat on in the school cafeteria around 5-6 years old. Got sick. Never looked at another one until recently. Tried it mainly to avoid aggravating my wife (which is normally my favorite thing to do in life) and found them tolerable. Not tasty mind you but tolerable. Different experience in a different time produced different results.

Knob Creek, especially the small batch and single barrel, are excellent for the price and even stand up very well to much more expensive bourbons. Another fine choice is Four Roses. The single barrel is my favorite but the small batch is very good too. Both brands are fine places to start. I do like Woodford and Willet, but agree there are much better choices out there.

Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty

Getting old sucks indeed. I'm thinking I need to focus on more flexibility than solely strength and/or aerobic training. Not sure I want to go full yoga just yet, but being a bit less stiff would be nice.

The only Sierra Nevada I've had that I liked was at the brewery itself. Nothing they offer in stores. Shame because they can make good shit, but the stuff they sell widely is meh and about a touch better than the mass market stuff. My best buddy lives about 2 miles from the brewery. Still there's about 6 other breweries we'd rather hit when I'm there. If you're ever in Asheville, Mills River is where it's at.

Squishabug sucks. The demo was ok, but the full length felt like a bunch of filler tracks. Frozen Soul is solid Bolt Thrower worship, but forgettable.

I go back and forth with this and Clayman as my favorite from them. Yeah, I felt that way the first few times too. Old Star is a better album, but EH is great drinking beer jamming tunes with the boys music.

Sacrilege you dirty mouthed whore! Just kidding. I get why people don't like later Darkthrone, but I really like the last 2 albums. And I like that they apparently don't give a single fuck if anyone likes it or not.

Back in the day when I could feel my legs. On active duty I would do 10 miles before work and usually 10-15 after. Weekend training runs were usually around 20. Probably closer to 100-120 most weeks towards the end. All those miles start to accumulate. Little nagging injuries forced me to start taking days off. I never kept running logs, but I usually did several half marathons and a couple fulls a year. I love running more than any other exercise or sport, but I just can't do it anymore. When I lost feeling in my legs post cancer, changed all of my mechanics and made it painful. Plus I don't get the "push off" from dorsiflexion, so I'm very slow and tend to slap the ground with my feet. Cycling is out too. I don't trust myself to be able to clip out when I need to and avoid a fall. No balance for surfing that I love. All I'm left with is golf. Not the end of the world because I love golf and I'm decent at it. Just not the best exercise. I do like to fish, but it's frustrating, expensive, and I can only take it in small doses (1-2 hours at a time) and it's not exactly an active activity. Need to get back in the gym. Have always been a gym rat but rona fucking broke my will to go. I have plenty of equipment at the house, but I never work out that hard at home like I do at the gym.

Fields of Nephilim - Dawnrazor

I used to be that way with both running (150 miles/week) and cycling, but my joints complain too much these days. Even did CrossFit for years at 1 hour x 4-5 days/week for a few years at 5am. Pretty much the only exercise I get these days is 1 round of golf per week. Not nearly enough. Need to find something to do to get my ass mobile again.

Willet was one of the first bourbons I really loved. Good choice! I'm probably going to go with a little Eagle Rare tonight which is my current favorite.

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Yeah we were both at that show. I stuck around because my buddy really likes Satyricon. Was a decent set for what it was. I like songs there and there from them. The early stuff is 2nd tier at best, but still reasonbly ok. The black and roll stuff is better than the pure bm stuff imo, but they are a "singles" band imo at best. Can't say there is a complete album by them I really like. NP: Nightbringer - Terra Damnata And Immortal's best is Pure Holocaust

Letting other people define what you like or how you feel is the least metal thing anyone can do. Being true to yourself is the very ethos of metal, whether that's death metal, black metal, or any other flavor (except maybe glam/hair metal). Like what you like and anyone who disagrees can fuck right off.

Satyricon - Volcano - I find some newer Satyricon enjoyable, at least a few tunes here and there. This album's high point, and one of the better songs in their later catalog, is Rapined Bastard Nation. Really dig the guitar tone on that song. Arghoshent - Galloping through the Battle Ruins - enjoyable if basic American melodic death metal. Monarque - Jusqu'a la Morte - icy Métal noir québécois. Circle of Ouroborus - The Knives Beneath EP - early lofi bm version of CoO. Impaled Nazarene - Suomi Finland Perkele - no comments needed here.

80's animated cartoon series https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Duckula&ved=2ahUKEwjI5Z2tu8X1AhVxl2oFHa49D_AQFnoECC8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw3OH704UQtH3Znx4A04FPSw

Yeah that's the thing. We don't have the equipment for cold weather. No salt/sand for the roads, no snow plows, we don't have furnaces, most have a warm jacket you guys would think of as light. 30° is the low end of the normal temperature range here that we see 1-2 times a year, so there's really no need. And most people don't know how to drive in snow/ice. That's why shit closes down. We have tons of bridges here which tend to ice up when it gets that cold, so better to shut down than have a mass casualty event I guess. People still go out and do their regular business, so it's really just a free day off for schools and government workers.

Australian Shiraz is good shit. I prefer them to other reds when I can get them. Pinots would be second. Never ventured into cabs. Had 3-4 fingers of Bullet Distillers choice tonight. Mighty tasty on a frigid Florida evening. You folk in the frozen tundra would have a good laugh, but the government and schools here closed today due to a high of 35° F and a "potential" for freezing rain. It was in the upper 30's today but no freezing rain. Was fucking cold though.

Immediately and with extreme prejudice.

Pinot noir from Willamette Valley, Oregon is what converted me after many years and many failed attempts at acquiring a taste for wine. Just like with music, sometimes you just have to keep trying until you find the right one that opens the door. And chilled red wine sounds disgusting. Cold wine in general sounds unappealing.

I need to go through some of these again. Several I've never gotten around to.