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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
Yeah, a Plymouth Superbird!boston1450 wrote: »Just think of what you could buy with that kind of dough
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Re: You know you’re getting old when…
... and then, buy all the records again for twice the cost.
You wish it was twice the cost… more like ten times.
nooshinjohn
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Re: You know you’re getting old when…
Nope. Some of us never got into cassette tapes or MP3's and still have the ever-growing LP and CD collections that started when we were kids. Streaming isn't needed when you have physical music but is awesome to check out an album prior to purchasing.....or for a selection that isn't on physical music.
That meme (to me) is more about not so smart music collecting, than age. But I do get the humor it's trying to relay.
I did do R2R tapes BITD. That was fun but it came with it's own set of deficiencies. Mainly tape hiss but tapes were also harder to aquire for me back then. You couldn't just walk into a store and buy them, like you could vinyl (or CD's after they first came out).
Tom
That meme (to me) is more about not so smart music collecting, than age. But I do get the humor it's trying to relay.
I did do R2R tapes BITD. That was fun but it came with it's own set of deficiencies. Mainly tape hiss but tapes were also harder to aquire for me back then. You couldn't just walk into a store and buy them, like you could vinyl (or CD's after they first came out).
Tom
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
I spent the month of December making made a bunch of 'em (MP3s, that is, @ 320k) -- ripped from VHS HiFi Stereo audio recorded onto videocassette
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Re: You’re doing it wrong…
Not yet impressed. I'm holding out for a really good drain cleaner flavor.
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Re: Bad Christmas for Me
@stangman67 I am really sorry to read this. My wife had something eerily similar. Ear pain, went to doc, got prescription. About three days later, much worse, lost complete hearing in one ear. Went to ENT. Got a different prescription, and they also gave her 30% chance of full recovery. No kidding. All very similar. They said it would take 6-12 months to fully recover (meaning, to get as much recovery as she could).
I don't recall her having any balance issues. She's on her feet all day at work, so I think I would have remembered if that was a complaint. However, she did have occasional shooting, debilitating pains.
They took pressure measurements (I think because of the pain, but maybe normal part of the ENT's examination of her condition), and the nurse said it was insanely high. So, they intentionally ruptured her eardrum. Had to drain fluid. Didn't help the hearing to come back but helped with pain. In the incision they put in what she said they described as a "cork" that would naturally pop out as the eardrum healed, and they would recover it in a later visit.
No hearing for about a month, and it slowly started to come back. Not like an aha-hallelujah moment, so I think maybe it started to come back while she was asleep one night, so by the time she woke up, her brain didn't hit her with an, OMG, I can hear! situation. Anyhow, it was slow, very slow. And the cork took like a month longer than they said.
That was 8 months ago, and today she says she's about 70% of the way there. She was literally at zero. When she first got to the ENT, since her PCP had already looked and said it was a common ear infection, their tone was an initial shrug. Then they did a hearing test and showed her the good ear first, and then the second ear. Absolutely deaf. So their tone changed to very serious. She freaked out. Broke down in tears. Fast forward from April to today (happy new year!), 70% is very positive. Hopefully, over the next 4 months she'll get the rest of it back.
I hope the same for you. Sorry to share such a long story, but I've been away from Club Polk for a while, and when I read about your situation, considering she went from "you may never hear out of this ear ever again" to the majority of hearing in that ear returning, I thought it might be a good story of hope.
None of us want any of the rest of us to go through what you are. I'm pulling for you, my friend.
I don't recall her having any balance issues. She's on her feet all day at work, so I think I would have remembered if that was a complaint. However, she did have occasional shooting, debilitating pains.
They took pressure measurements (I think because of the pain, but maybe normal part of the ENT's examination of her condition), and the nurse said it was insanely high. So, they intentionally ruptured her eardrum. Had to drain fluid. Didn't help the hearing to come back but helped with pain. In the incision they put in what she said they described as a "cork" that would naturally pop out as the eardrum healed, and they would recover it in a later visit.
No hearing for about a month, and it slowly started to come back. Not like an aha-hallelujah moment, so I think maybe it started to come back while she was asleep one night, so by the time she woke up, her brain didn't hit her with an, OMG, I can hear! situation. Anyhow, it was slow, very slow. And the cork took like a month longer than they said.
That was 8 months ago, and today she says she's about 70% of the way there. She was literally at zero. When she first got to the ENT, since her PCP had already looked and said it was a common ear infection, their tone was an initial shrug. Then they did a hearing test and showed her the good ear first, and then the second ear. Absolutely deaf. So their tone changed to very serious. She freaked out. Broke down in tears. Fast forward from April to today (happy new year!), 70% is very positive. Hopefully, over the next 4 months she'll get the rest of it back.
I hope the same for you. Sorry to share such a long story, but I've been away from Club Polk for a while, and when I read about your situation, considering she went from "you may never hear out of this ear ever again" to the majority of hearing in that ear returning, I thought it might be a good story of hope.
None of us want any of the rest of us to go through what you are. I'm pulling for you, my friend.
smartie_panta
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Re: Happy New Year Polkies
You haven't purchased a record since last year. That's what happened.
Tom
Tom
treitz3
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Re: You know you’re getting old when…
sucks2beme wrote: »When your kids hit their 40's you are old. I'm pretty sure it gets
worse when your grandkids hit 40.
My oldest daughter turns 44 next month. My son is 38. My youngest daughter is 16......I don't even know who I am anymore much less know how old I am....
28 years between kids? 😱
billbillw
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