Oof. I've got some persistent pain from 20 years on factories and machine shops and it helps a lot. Helps with my anxiety too. Usually.

We've had medical since '18 or '19. I didn't move back to OK until 2023 so I'm catching up.

For my health.

I am going to start referring to it as exercising my rights as an Oklahoman now.

And Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” has been a Thanksgiving staple as long as I’ve been aware of Thanksgiving. Set during Thanksgiving dinner, it’s been played on the radio for decades:

youtu.be/m57gzA2JCcM?...

I can only try

The bad smells happen sometimes. They're generally incapable of making noise by the time they get to me.

I may start using this one, although I'm not sure how well it applies to butchery.

"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"

"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"

"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"

"About as intelligent as a border collie."

"So, intelligent. Why?"

"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."

Today I had to build a new leg for an industrial mixer out of angle iron. It's ugly, but it should work.