EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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Hi y'all. This old guy is still around too. Just a little different. Trying to rebuild my life. The expression from 'Shawshank Redemption'- "get busy livin' or get busy dyin' strikes a chord with me.
In the last 3 years, I pretty much became a new man. I had been a heavy beer drinker much of my life. In spite of having been a runner, skier, and playing a variety of sports, I slowly let myself go. I tried to start losing weight. My son and I went canoeing. I got angry with myself when I realized how weak I had become. I quit drinking cold turkey. I took an already good diet to a whole new level, started working out at the gym, up to 5 days a week.
To improve a bad ankle that had been reconstructed about 45 years ago by getting a total ankle replacement. That left me bed ridden for a month and house bound another month. I couldn't drive because I had a manual transmission and stepping on a clutch was too painful. About a month after starting to drive again, the clutch slave cylinder failed. It required pulling the engine and transmission to repair so that would cost more than the car was worth. A call to the junkyard brought a tow truck to my driveway and I traded the title for an $85 check. I didn't need to go anywhere but the 2 grocery stores, 2 drug stores two hardware stores, the gym, Tuesday night pool league, post office and bank. Most of what I need is within 2.5 miles of home. I decided to forgo buying another car and my ankle benefited from walking. So aside from gym visits, I was walking 2 to 5 miles a day. If necessary, I get an Uber.
The end result is that I've lost 1/3 of my weight. I feel like I'm about 25 until I look in the mirror and wonder who the old man intruder is in my house.
I had my Kona Mountain bike rebuilt and once the snow goes away, I'll get back into that as the weather improves.
Those are just the lowlights of the last couple years of this 73-year young guy. About a year ago I needed an umbilical hernia repaired. The worst part of me physically is my eyesight. I'll soon have cataract surgery. Other than the ankle repair 45 years ago, I will only have 3 surgeries in my life - all within 18 months. It is disconcerting when parts wear out. Good thing everything else works as good as new.
 
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As for the vehicle situation, I'm on a fact finding mission about my life. Am I better off with walking, biking and Uber or buying another car. The fact finding is comparing current costs to the purchase, taxes, insurance, maintenance and ownership costs. My health insurance also covers 12 Uber rides a year to doctors, dentists, hospitals and even pharmacies. My dentist was quite far away so that was very helpful. Those methods don't work when I need to travel afar. Close to home I can get an uber for 8 to 15 dollars. I also found a company called Turo. It is how you can rent a car from individuals. I tested that this past weekend as I had to teach a chicken class on the other side of town nearly an hour away. 900 miles was included in the 3 day rental and I was able to get a lot of things done over that time. I picked up a new computer at Micro Center, picked up a monitor over in Illinois, stocked up on products at the Asian/Latin market that is normally hard to get to. I met my daughter at her workplace and even met a couple of her very pleasant and attractive co-workers, one of whom I asked out for a coffee date. (the result remains to be seen)
The rental was a brand-new Nissan very easy on gas. I figure I can rent one of them about once a month and lump all longer trips that way. I'll decide by April which path I'll take.
Call me old school but I have yet to take advantage of Insta-Cart, amazon or other delivery options. I much prefer handling the produce myself before buying rather than trust the unenlightened.
I did recently join something called Misfits Market. That is a weekly delivery of perfectly good food, meticulously packaged but rescued because it would be declined by the grocery industry as being the wrong size, shape or color. It is nearly the same price as at the store and a $70 purchase yields free delivery. I've had 4 deliveries thus far and along with one grocery visit a week, I have all the fresh fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, beef, pork, fish and chicken I need to keep well nourished. I also get a large loaf of sourdough each week from Panera. No preservatives. Nothing artificial.
 
ChickenCanoe said:
I remember when growing up that dented cans could be dangerous, but I think that is when they were made of tin.
Thinking that they are no longer problematic.
Am I mistaken about this?
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If really dented up still concern of botulism.
I'm thinking if I use first it's probably ok.
I would be concerned for waiting to use by date.
 

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