Coffee anyone ?

Baymule said:
Not only are you a Texan, you are from southeast Texas, hot humid, barely a frost in winter and snow is a freakish event. What the heck are you doing up there on the Polar Ice Cap????
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Somewhere around rucking it in 120°F plus temperatures with chemical suits on, gas mask on, body armor, full battle rattle of 40 grenades, 210 bullets, 2 frags, couple of canteens, with or various implements of destruction, a ruck sack weighing 150 lbs across the sands in Iraq I think a fuse blew, maybe more. Ninety-six hours without sleep might of crashed the mainframe with a few explosions. They might of crossed a few wires when upstairs tried to self repair. There is more, but everything was never put back. I break fingers, hands,toes doesn’t matter I keep going.
 
About a month ago a piece of metal went into my eye, cut it pretty good. I could still see, and was stuck in there for a few days, took a magnet to pull it out. Yesterday was first day to go outside and not be blinded by the sunlight. Couldn’t look at computer screens or a tablet/phone screen without sunglasses, even had to turn the lights off, but I kept going even welding here when needed. Poor wife was running around with a flashlight for weeks. Just something’s aren’t the same between me and most.
 
Mini Horses said:
Ya know -- smokers toss lighted butts out the window while driving!!! Just like an ember, it can ignite dry grasses.

Once I was driving a long and came upon a pickup truck towing a trailer of hay...a front bale had ignited!! I'm frantically blow horn & pointing to it!!! He pulled over. Hard to say how that went, I drove on. But
weather was great, middle of a highway -- you know how that happened -- cig butt, driving winds fanned it. :idunno
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Confirmed arson on all three fires. Also saw fire investigators on the way back from dropping lambs at the auction.
 
Weldman said:
Somewhere around rucking it in 120°F plus temperatures with chemical suits on, gas mask on, body armor, full battle rattle of 40 grenades, 210 bullets, 2 frags, couple of canteens, with or various implements of destruction, a ruck sack weighing 150 lbs across the sands in Iraq I think a fuse blew, maybe more. Ninety-six hours without sleep might of crashed the mainframe with a few explosions. They might of crossed a few wires when upstairs tried to self repair. There is more, but everything was never put back. I break fingers, hands,toes doesn’t matter I keep going.
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Even a Texan can have a breaking point. You have been repaired but not good as new. Sadly, like so many of our veterans, you are damaged and some of it could have been prevented,

Weldman said:
About a month ago a piece of metal went into my eye, cut it pretty good. I could still see, and was stuck in there for a few days, took a magnet to pull it out. Yesterday was first day to go outside and not be blinded by the sunlight. Couldn’t look at computer screens or a tablet/phone screen without sunglasses, even had to turn the lights off, but I kept going even welding here when needed. Poor wife was running around with a flashlight for weeks. Just something’s aren’t the same between me and most.
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Didn’t being a combat veteran do enough damage to you? You gotta go stick shrapnel in your eye?

You would feel right at home in Beaumont right about now. They got a bunch of snow and it’s gonna be 11 degrees tonight.
 
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