Recent content by gamboolman

As kid, I watched my Grandmother succumb to Alzheimer's - it was sad and brutal. So at age 66 more to just satisfy my curiosity, I went and had a Neuropsychological Evaluation done just to set a Baseline. It turned out fine and no issues. The Testing took about 4 hours or so. It was quite...

I am glad to see this thread. I thought maybe I was unusual in that I dream of work after retirement almost 6 years ago. Unfortunately, my dreams are usually of antagonist relationships with people at work and putting up the the unethical behavior exhibited in the megaoil corporation I...

Welcome and Howdy from the Great Nation of Texas ;) This is a nice forum and had has nice folks posting on it.

That was hard to read. Sorry for your troubles. Prayers offered up.

Why not just hire an independent CPA to review the work of the Firm that you used vs your own calculations. Based on what we pay our CPA to prepare our taxes - i am guesstimating it would be in the ballpark of $500 to $1K or so ish... But a CPA would give you a better estimate once you...

Another one. About in 1979/80 or so, I had gone to work on land after being offshore and riding out Hurricane Frederick on ODECO Ocean King. I said to Hell with Offshore and being stuck out there in a hurricane and went to work for Delta Drilling Company on land the day after I finally got...

Snake stories…..I have beacoup of them - as growing up in East Texas hunting and fishing it was impossible to not have Snake encounters. One time I was squirrel hunting with my Mother and Grandfather. I was probably around 8 or 9 year old. I was using my Grandfathers old single shot 22 Rifle. I...

I like this thread. So many good songs that bring back so many good memories and some sad ones also.... This one is ms gamboolgal and I to a Tee. Sad ones....We lost our only son when he died in his sleep at age 34. Turns out he had heart disease that no one knew about. A hard hard thing.

Some more on Mr. Beam. Not sure if it was before or after the Nuremberg Trials but he was on Eisenhower's Honor Guard. Not sure what that entailed or for how long but he said the Honor Guard members were all men who, who were combat veterans who had been in Units that had seen alot of action. I...

Nuremberg Do recommend Abit more of the personal aspects focusing on the American psychologist who interacted with the Nazi's. ms gamboolgal's father was a guard at the Nuremberg Trials. He was on details that took some of the Nazi's to/from their cells besides standing guard. He was with...

We still have piles of notepads and "Tally Books" (Oilfield folks will know) all piled up. But we both have fallen into the convenience of using our phones and the dictation thing for notes..... I do however, make it a point to send out hand wrote Cards and notes afew times per year - all...

Welcome, this is a nice Forum.

Glad your OK. Lots of good advice has been offered herein. Agree that you might ought to consider getting a camera(s). We have a Ring Doorbell and we have 6 X Ring Cameras around the entire perimeter of our house and also facing the backyard and sheds; and we have one facing the back of the...

Prayers of comfort offered up for the murdered Victims, the wounded and their families during this hard time. So sad

Thanks OP. I learned something today. The more you know, the more you know you don't know - ha ! I remember growing up as kid that I noticed the Old Folks smell but I did not know what all I now know - ha ! I was surprised to find out from consulting with "Dr. Google" that Nonenal Odor "Old...