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    Shipping container for storage

    Thanks for all the info... I have a pole barn but was hoping this would be more secure. I dont live on site and have quite a few tools, saddles,etc. My place is on the edge of an oil play, things are getting pretty "wild west" like up here in the Dakotas. I suppose I could also build a more...
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    Shipping container for storage

    Hi folks, I was looking at getting a 20 or 40 foot shipping container hauled in to use for some "secure " storage. I was just wondering if anyone is using them and how they are working out. The guy I talked to would add a little ventilation for a few dollars more...seemed worth it to me. Anyway...
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    Time to move back home?

    Thanks for all the great replies. To tell the truth I made my decision 5 years ago and so far I have stuck to my plan. First I paid off all my debt by taking every minute of overtime I could. Then I started sockin away cash. One thing that cut hard into my stash was some land that came up for...
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    Time to move back home?

    John, I just dabble in yearlins...50-60 hd although I have pasture for 100. I will need a real job which kind of sucks.
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    Time to move back home?

    Angus, I am already locked in on 20 yrs worth,enuff to generate 26k/yr @59.5 in todays dollars between 401k and pension or actually I think I could even tap it now for about 11k/yr thru something called a SEPP...I don,t really understand that. So really I just need to make a living for13 yrs...
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    Time to move back home?

    A friend and I were having a few beers and we started talking about "back home" stuff. We are in pretty similar situations... late 40s,no kids, no debt,20+ yrs in our jobs here in the city. We both talk about quitting and moving back to our respective home areas to live out life. I would be...
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    Computer for "oldtimer" question

    thanks for all the info, I was thinking laptop just for comfort(recliner) and space since like anyone who has lived most of their life in thesame house, its pretty full. I see where your coming from about screen size, keyboard, and mouse things tho. I haven't really used a laptop much so I...
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    Computer for "oldtimer" question

    I would like to get my mother a computer. All she wants to be able to do is Email her brothers and other family and friends. I am leary about getting her a used one so I was thinking a new laptopof some sorts. She has never even turned a computer on so I have to keep it simple as about all I...
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    torn rotator cuff

    good info there fellas, the mri just showed a partial tear but the surgeon was expecting to find something more, on my discharge papers it says 2 slap somethings. I see him again next week so i can ask him what he did.I got 6 holes in my shoulder anyway. thaks for your replies
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    torn rotator cuff

    thanks for the advice,I will follow it
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    torn rotator cuff

    Thats whatI was wondering. I thought about waiting till next winter. But I decided to get it done with. How long was it before you were at least 75% Dun?
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    torn rotator cuff

    i just had my shoulder scoped and was curious if anyone else out there had been thru something similar. I had a knee done years ago and that was no big thing, but this is starting to seem like I could be fairly limited for several weeks.Also how were your results?
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    Update: Could you recommend a smaller type car with good gas

    I drive a malibu for a work car...gets around 32 at 70-75mph on a straight higway run, 28mpg in town. Personally if I had known the impalas got 30+ on the hwy I would have went that way just for the comfort. But it was a fair bit cheaper. Also I am in it for 4 hrs at a time...I wouldn't mind a...
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    lasik surgery

    Any more experiences with laser eye surgery? A while back a few were thinking about it( including me). Just wondering if anyone did it and how the ones that already had it done were still happy.
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    Cope vs Skoal!!

    I chewed copenhagenfrom age 12 or 13 until 40...bottom line the last 6 weeks have been tough(since I turned 40) . Take the advice of those of us who have been there and those who are trying to quit.. stop now its alot easier when your 17 than 17 years later
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    Hows the weather in the US and Canada?

    87 on monday back below freezing tonite, but in general a decent spring,although its bone dry and not a drop in sight
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    jeans

    Subsoil... I run into that problem with wranglers(leg twisting) fairly often also. I usually don't notice till after I wash them but I take them right back and exchange them. I have never had a store even argue with me about taking them back
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    Contact wearers

    I am also dumb nuff to work outside and wear contacts,been wearing them for 20+ years in any weather. I even forze my eyes shut in a blizzard one time but the contacts were fine. I'm with you Jake, I can't see as good with glasses.
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    Best Western movie??

    My alltime favorite... The Cowboys(John Wayne) but right up there has to be Cheyenne Social Club(Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda)And I don't remember the name( It might be The Commancheros) but the Jimmy Stewart movie where him and Dean martin are brothers, Dean is an outlaw , I believe Raquel...
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    NFR

    I am going to veas this year for the finals and was wondering if anyone has any tips of things to do or see. I have been there a few times in years past but all we did was go to the rodeo and then party till dawn. This time I am bringing my fiance so I'm going to try and act like a grown up. Can...
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