I need Small Help tonight

[mud]

^Can I come?

Absolutely, everyone is welcome.

[ill-advised strategy]

I appreciate it all.
Aging is a mf

[skifishbum]

good texting with ya
and glad things are lookin better
you should share that hs detention report
it made me smile
you and thin cover are a couple salt of the earth brothers and your acquaintances and others like you are the reason i dont want to give up this strange addiction

[Marshall Tucker]

Aging is a mf

Yah, sure as hell is.

[riser4]

Yah, sure as hell is.

My dad always said that it beats the alternative. Until he got Parkinson's/MSA and dementia. Then he would yell obscenities about it in his more lucid moments. In the not so lucid moments he would just yell obscenities about random things. Do not go quietly old man. Rage. RIP.

[BCJC]

For anyone feeling down: This movie is a beauty. Just a very well done little film with all manner of levels.

[~mikey b]

Yeti

You helped me today

[mud]

that’s BBI’esque of ya! A FANTASTIC motto

Life is all about our daily bread.

[ill-advised strategy]

Yeti

You helped me today

Small Help.

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Hope you're doing well, yeti!

You're a rightious and gifted individual. Don't let life get you down

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[mud]

Aging is a mf

It's not the aging it's the expectations of growing old that needs to be put in check. Many of us listened to the bullshit we could have it all as kids, we forgot to focus on basic love and happiness and some were driven to keeping up with the Jones's

We should all be rock stars driving Ferraris if we believed in what society thrusts upon us as kids. But instead we found skiing, climbing or mountain biking so all that bullshit fell by the wayside because we figured out our happy place early in life, it wasn't about the worries of bills or kids, it was about the love of the game we were chasing flowing down a hill.

Just remember as long as you have friends you will be okay, they will always be there to remind you society is bullshit and to appreciate a fine cooked home meal, the feeling of being young again and a long needed hug.

[ill-advised strategy]

you should share that hs detention report
it made me smile

Young derelict.


This was in a box of stuff my mom saved. Skiing was my downfall, I was a good kid until The Addiction. Here I am with a crippled back, hobbling to the top of the paved wave—on a weekday no less—to longboard down.... like some junky hobbling down to the corner to score. I mean, it’s awesome, but it’s also a little pathetic. I dream of buying a onewheel like Tyrone Biggums dreams of that giant crack rock.

[Mazderati]

That's great.

[iceman]

Just remember as long as you have friends you will be okay, they will always be there to remind you society is bullshit and to appreciate a fine cooked home meal, the feeling of being young again and a long needed hug.

So make sure you make some young friends.

[Tippster]

Young derelict.


This was in a box of stuff my mom saved. Skiing was my downfall, I was a good kid until The Addiction. Here I am with a crippled back, hobbling to the top of the paved wave—on a weekday no less—to longboard down.... like some junky hobbling down to the corner to score. I mean, it’s awesome, but it’s also a little pathetic. I dream of buying a onewheel like Tyrone Biggums dreams of that giant crack rock.

You'll be ok. Maybe beat yourself up a little less, heal that back, choose the cruisers over the bumps, chutes over cliffs. It's all good.

Let me know if you want/are able to go to LCC this winter in Feb.-ish and I'll make it happen.

[ill-advised strategy]

I

We should all be rock stars driving Ferraris if we believed in what society thrusts upon us as kids.

I'm more troubled by what society thrust on me as a young adult:
i.e. I had a strong sense of direction and an overarching confidence that whatever happened was supposed to happen and that if I followed skiing everything would work itself out. I had good jobs and friendly bosses and plenty of money. When one door closed another opened. I figured life would be like that indefinitely.

I never imagined it being very difficult to find a good job or living in chronic pain. For some reason those possibilities never even occurred to me. I have a relatively young surfing friend, and the way he speaks to me indicates he feels the same way. "just start a business". "just change jobs". The world's a big fluffy playground right up until it's not anymore and there's no reverse gear.

[hikesalot]

love the suspension report, Yeti. And I find you inspiring, your struggles are real and you put yourself out there. Keep on keeping on.

[jono]

Page 5 is like -9 Ogdens. That suspension report might be the post of the year.

[rideit]

Glad you are around, Yeti-man! If there is ever anything you need in Jackhole, just shout.

[iceman]

Huh, I had it ranked at plus 8. Damn Ogden scale. I can never remember if Ogden itself is +1 or -1.

[ill-advised strategy]

Ogden itself was about 3 Ogdens 10 years ago when The Ogden was conceived. It's probably Ogden-neutral now, what with your various meatdrinks and frozenwaters furiously gentrifying for a solid decade now.

[mcski]

I went to HS with a guy named Ogden

[ill-advised strategy]

did he smell like a dog food factory?

[Buster Highmen]

I like Ogden.

If they would just slip in a tram from Weber up the backside of Snow Basin, not only would it save billions of tons of CO (okokokookoo….) that would be tits and do wonders for the Old funkhole Ogden.

Actually, that might ruin it.

Anyway, yeah, darkness, darkness.

[skiJ]

It's not the aging it's the expectations of growing old that needs to be put in check. Many of us listened to the bullshit we could have it all as kids, we forgot to focus on basic love and happiness and some were driven to keeping up with the Jones's

We should all be rock stars driving Ferraris if we believed in what society thrusts upon us as kids. But instead we found skiing, climbing or mountain biking so all that bullshit fell by the wayside because we figured out our happy place early in life, it wasn't about the worries of bills or kids, it was about the love of the game we were chasing flowing down a hill.

Just remember as long as you have friends you will be okay, they will always be there to remind you society is bullshit and to appreciate a fine cooked home meal, the feeling of being young again and a long needed hug.

This thread has value...

since yeti's detention report is preserved, I'll cover mud's post :
I talk a lot these days About adjusting expectations : people - friends - past sixty(,) who want to be thirty forever. …

I call bullshit.
I sat with my Dad in the last year of his life: Dad was eighty-four.
dementia (classified as Alzheimer's). we did not need to speak. he was down to monosyllables, three and four word expressions took (great) effort.
And He had lived it. I know it.
I would read essays of our beloved North country(,) and adventures we love.

Don says when you hit Fifty(,) start subtracting ( Not adding) birthdays. … That makes A hundred the goal...

IF I have anything to add (probably Not), I would claim it is never too late to start taking better care of ourselves.
My back. yeti's back. … I never thought about chronic Pain. it changes things...

enjoy - Be grateful - what we have... skiing, biking, surfing and paddling... Water. friends and Family ( Family may (or may not) be relatives ) .
love life : death is forever.


end of sermon.

this is a good thread, i-as. … my post may be bullshit. we 'll see...


Thanks... and my thanks to tgr for hosting this community (!)

Let's go skiing... ! tj