I decided to burn some vacation time while the weather is still nice. I'm on my last day of 5 days off. Back to the grind tomorrow.

Oh, the lofty plans I had last week - take everything out of the garage and organize it, go to my mom's and clean her gutters, fix the handle on the snowblower, dig into BSD and replace a leaky cap, maybe spend a few more hours on the Evel Knievel pf swap, wax the truck, pull TSPP out of the game room and loan it to a buddy, spend a day with the old man...

I spent the day with my dad yesterday, and will at least visit mom today, if not clean the gutters. The rest fell to the wayside.

Confess I have never had any vacation time.

My boss is a asshole. (I am self employed).

Confess I just love to work, so much that while I do love football also, so far I am only watching the night games, and working 7 days a week during daylight hours.

BUT, that does not mean I am up at 5am, or even 7am, (or even 9am), but I am getting up when I decide to get up, and getting plenty of work done 7 days a week.

And yeah, 30 years ago when I was younger, I could get the work done in 4 days, that takes me 7 days now, and I was drinking 3 times the amount of beer back then that I drink now.

If I was still drinking the amount of beer I did 30 years ago, I could not get any work done now.

Anyway, I did the math, and I can retire at age 62, for 11 months.

I confess it drives me nuts how slow my girlfriend walks.

It hurts my knees and back to even try to walk that slow.

I have no clue why she does that, but one clap of thunder and she can walk faster just fine.

Anyway, when I get ahead of her, she yells "hey, remember me", and my reply now is "I thought I heard it thunder and I thought you were ready to walk faster".

So anyway, we were at the beach recently, and when we were leaving there was this hot girl, 30 years younger than me, wearing one of those string things that I have never seen up close, and I confess I was walking pretty fast to get a closer look.

I figured I would get yelled at, but instead she just said "do you wish I was in shape like that, that I could wear one of those string things like that girl".

CONFESS I WAS ON MY A GAME!

I said "what girl, there was a bee after me".

I confess I always thought I was pretty smart, until this girlfriend.

Normally I can answer about any general question, but the questions she asks give me a headache.

Anyway, I have finally figured out that I am fine, and she is nuts.

The easiest thing to do when she asks a question is just to say "I do not know".

And I say that around 20 times a day to her.

BUT! If I am feeling cocky and ready to argue, I will call out her goofy questions that make no sense.

Most of her questions, are worded in a way, that seems smart, but once I had enough headaches from all of that, I seen the pattern.

She is easily confused, and mixes things up, so many of her questions have no possible answer, because it is all mixed up in the first place.

And if I try to correct her question in the first place, to try and find out what she is trying to figure out, then I am accused of just always wanting to argue with her.

Anyway, I am stupid now, and I just say I do not know when she asks a question.

Makes my life easier.

Confess I wish I could post a example here, but so off the wall and crazy I could not remember her wording anyway.

The last one was something about Manatees, and do they have flippers, and do they live in the artic, and do they have blow holes like whales, while also making noises like dolphins.

(confess I could not make stuff up like that if I tried, she is good).

Also, so funny how her voice changes.

Around me her voice is normal, I am used to it.

Get her around some other people and all of a sudden she has like a English accent, and all proper and stuff.

When that proper stuff happens, I am like who is that?

But she is awesome, and I hope to be with her the rest of my life.

(as long as I die in the next couple of years).

(and confess, even if she reads this, she will not remember how much I like to joke around, but instead give me hell).

Confess I can fix any of that with ok, you win, next time we will go to the beach for 2 days.

And I used to love the beach when I was younger, now except for the occasional string garments that some ladies wear that I would like to take a closer look at, the beach bores me, I would rather go fishing.

I was the superman of beer drinking back then.

Always 30 a day, with 45 being the most in a day, I have no clue how I did it, and I confess I am glad that I only need 10-12 now and I am all good.

Anyway, one last confessional, and I may be good for a long time.

(until someone else posts something that reminds me of something).

Ok, 90% of everyone here I think knows how some of what I post is serious, and mostly trying to be funny also.

And we all know I sometimes make very long posts.

So I confess, for a while when I made a post, just to be funny I would do a quick edit, and say the post was too long so I deleted 5000 words.

That was meant to be funny.

Then I got called out about the 5000 words I must have deleted from the Red Lobster sickness.

I confess I just started to say the part about the deleted words were meant to be funny, but you know what, that crap about killed me so I can go ahead and type a whole lot more about that.

Everything here I post is true, but I confess I do twist some things just a tad, to try to be funny.

I have met a lot of members here, but so far the only member here that has been around for beer together is Jay, and we text and PM a good bit.

Last night after the Monday Night football game I wanted to make a post in the NFL topic, but my internet was out.

So I texted Jay a book.

(confess I am about to pm Jay now).

It is crazy how much I used to drink, and by most standards I still have too much, but getting better.

And recently I thought I did not have anything to say here for a while, and all of a sudden I was on a roll and having fun posting here tonight.

(and while this may not be funny, hopefully the edit will be).

While ago I was telling my girlfriend that I worked outside all day, today.

She said "but, it rained all day".

I said "I know, and it felt great".

If it was not raining I would be soaking wet with sweat anyway, and the cool wet from the rain felt a whole lot better.

I am sure she will do her outdoor work when the sun is out and it is nice outside, and she will gripe later about how much she sweated.

Confess back when I was a little kid I never let a rainy day get me down if I wanted to be outdoors, I would just put swimming trunks on and enjoy being out in the rain.

Confess I am still like that now.

And I confess I was never into any Godzilla movies or any of that stuff, and I have no intention of ever owning a Godzilla pin, but I am glad they are being made.

Through the years I seen plenty of posts here from members saying they want a Godzilla pin.

And I am not interested, but I hope Evil Dead and Scooby Doo also gets made by some company, I have seen a whole lot of posts about wanting those games.

If a game turns out to be very awesome, I may would sell something to get another game.

But I confess that I have broken the addiction, and I will never have games all over the house.

And lately I have not played anything, I have been too tired and sore from working, but my girlfriend has still been playing the Big Buck Hunter arcade a lot.

I get caught standing out in the rain often. My snakes like it and so do I, so long as it's not cold rain.

New computer is up and running. Old one going to storage for emergency stand by use.

The old tower was started over a decade ago. Was going to be used for streaming events. Unfortunately my tower before that fell to expanding capacitors and the next tower got finished up and pressed into service quicker.

Over the last months the old tower was starting to drive me nuts with various, random issues. That none of my computer friends had seen before. And not wanting to take a chance on losing some things. I thought get the next one going.

Finished it up tonight with Jackson's help.

LTG : )

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And yeah, it is raining.

Several years ago I had a nice looking metal roof put on my house, so that I would never have to mess with roof stuff again.

All was good for a few years.

Then some leaks around the fireplace chimney, and a bathroom vent pipe.

Paid some people to fix the stuff, lasted a while, fixed the stuff myself, lasted a while, and now leaking again.

The last person I wanted to fix the leaks wanted 2 grand, said the roof was done wrong in the first place.

I call bull crap!

If it was done wrong in the first place, why did it take 7 years to finally start leaking?

Anyway, I confess, none of the leaks are anywhere near any games, or I would be paying the 2 grand real fast.

I just have a beer cooler that I take on road trips catching the leak in the basement, and some kitchen pans catching the leak at the chimney upstairs.

And when it stops raining I will go on the roof again, and try again to fix the leaks.

In the meantime no way are the leaks bad enough to rot wood and cause more damage in my lifetime.

And I confess, I hope no members on here work for any insurance companies, and if someday my house gets wiped out from a tornado or something, my claim is denied because I had roof leaks in the first place.

(and I just stay so damn busy that even though they keep calling me to remind me about my car warranty, I also keep on forgetting to take care of that).

(and I have no vacations planned anytime soon, so if I am not here it would be because A: I tried to drink like Superman again, or B: seems I have legal matters I need to tend to, and if I do not send 5 grand of gift cards to some law enforcement I have never heard of, I am going to jail).

And I just cracked open another can of beer, so have to type more, and just say I have got enough junk mail, wanting to buy my house, or my rental houses, that I can burn all of that in the fireplace this winter and have FREE HEAT! So Thanks!

My girlfriend did call one of those junk mails for a house that she needed to get rid of.

It was so funny, they send out all of this junk mail, and they have no clue what to do if anyone actually calls them.

She ended up just dealing with a real, real estate agent to get rid of that place.

And all of this stuff was funny for a while, but just old and not even funny now.

I am all for anyone trying to make a decent living, but if the best you can do is car warranty stuff, sending junk mail to buy houses when you actually have no money to buy a house, or you want to start a scam and you demand payment in gift cards so that your victim does not go to jail as you claim they will, you really need to get a real life, and stop bugging the rest of us, it is getting very old.

And I confess, if any of that crap I just posted actually worked for you, and you have pinball machines now, and you are active here now, well, please let us know!

So far I have never downvoted the first post, but if I knew that poster was the one that made any money off car warranty crap or any of that crap, I would downvote any post they ever made.

LEAVE US ALONE!

If we actually want a car warranty we will go visit our car dealer, and not mess with you in the first place!

(and my girlfriend knows first hand, just because they send a card in the mail that says they have cash and want to buy your house, they do not have cash, and they have no clue what they are doing, or they could have just bought a house anyway).

(almost like they want to brag to friends that they are self employed buying houses, and in this case, that person lived in a apartment, and had never even purchased the first house in their lifetime).

Confess I wish I was just making this stuff up, but no, this is all real, and very funny.

I hope all of you have a awesome week!

I confess I had some of those same issues around 30 years ago, and then I stopped clicking on porn sites, and forever now my computers have been ok.

(and if you was not doing that anyway, you need to change your passwords, maybe Prada was looking at some stuff while you was sleeping).

You just never know anymore, the world we live in is just crazy.

Hell, just 5 years ago I never would have guessed that I would have 15 phone calls a week about my car warranty now.

GET a tub or two of "Through the roof" - unreal for leaks.

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No, nothing like that going on.

The computer had all updates, scanned thoroughly with multiple sources. Came clean every time.

LTG : )

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One of my local pinball joints an hour or so away got a new Mando LE table over the summer, so interested to see how it played, I put a half dozen games into it. I got a multiball all six times, and being perfectly honest, I don't feel like I earned them...

Totally forgot that i placed a bid on a machine last week in an auction 160 miles away, and won it an hour ago. Don't want the game anymore since I put a deposit on Godzilla 3 hours ago.

Now I'm intrigued.
160 miles west of you would be just about here.
Is it this way, what game at what price?

It’s pretty easy to get multi ball, the trick is to start a mission, then get multi ball going and then hold the action button to light 8 shots on fire with the flamethrower.

My wife has been on me to install a Ring doorbell system. I finally did today, and text her to make sure it’s working. I sent her a cock shot at work. It works.

No. South, in Ohio.

I didn't know you raised chickens.

A lot of people around here try to raise chickens, and that is against "county code", so the early morning loud noises do not last long.

It makes no sense to me, best I can tell eggs and chicken is pretty cheap at the grocery store, while chicken feed is pretty high at the livestock feed store, so seems like a lot of trouble to not really save any money.

Which also reminds me of my uncle that likes to grow tomatoes. He spends a lot of money on miracle grow, and a lot of time watering the plants, and last I noticed tomatoes are pretty cheap at the store without all the work.

Hell, he probably spends more money on miracle grow than what he would just buying tomatoes as needed in the first place.

Confess I would love to get some tobacco seed though, cigs are not cheap at the store.

Garden vegetables generally taste better. Plus some people just enjoy doing the gardening regardless if there is much of a difference or not.

Corn in the cob? Oh, definitely so much better than store bought.

The downside is that the squirrels go after it here. Though, what is frustrating is that if the squirrels manage to get the corn, they will just have like 3 bites out of each ear and that's it. They don't even eat the whole thing. 3 bites and onto the next ear. It's like they destroy the crop out of spite or something.

Especially if you grow the kind you like. Get your water boiling. Grab a ear of corn off the stock and cook immediately.

I had that problem too. One year I put in a row of Indian corn to use for decorating. The squirrels went nuts for it and left the other corn alone. Worked every year until I stopped gardening.

LTG : )

JohnnyPinball007 You asked how Prada is. Here you go.

LTG : )

I confess one of my favorite sayings comes from one of my customers.

Lock your dog and lock your wife in the closet for 20 minutes. Whose going to be happy to see you in 20 minutes?

Not that I advise locking your pet in a small room like that.

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Apparently i owe Deadpool a dinner.

Great to see Prada is still doing awesome!

I know all about corn and squirrels. While they never bothered the corn in the garden I did for a short while, it was so funny watching them on this thing a friend put on a tree in my yard.

The thing on the tree, it was a stick mounted in a certain way, and I would buy corn on the cob at a feed store, and the squirrels would climb up the stick to get the corn, and the stick would just take them round and round and they would be frantically hanging on.

The squirrels finally got smart and chewed the stick into to end all of that, and I never replaced.

I am sure if you Google "fun with squirrels, there are a lot of products out there to toy with them.

The short time I did a garden, my problem was rabbits. Never any squirrel problems.

Confess the only reason I ever did a garden, and it was a very large one (I mean very large, plowed with a farm tractor I am part owner of), was because a roadside veggie seller ripped me off once, and to get revenge I was going to grow all of this stuff and go undercut him with better stuff for less money than what he had.

The corn did not do well, the watermelons and cantaloupes looked promising at first, but never made it to full size.

But holy shit the 3 rows of cucumbers kicked ass!

Back at that time my main work was internet, so it was nice to get outside and mess with the garden anyway.

For a while I had so many cucumbers that when I took my packages to the post office, I would also take cucumbers to give them.

For fun they would weigh the cucumbers, and I averaged giving away 55lbs of cucumbers a day for a while.

I confess I also did very well with okra also, and that was my favorite. With okra you do not have to do all of that bending over to get it, you just walk around and cut it. (kind of like corn would have been, had the corn actually grown well here).

And I confess the only reason I ever messed with a garden in the first place was to get revenge on someone, but I never followed through with that, I became busy with other things, and in the meantime a whole lot of people were happy with all of this stuff from the garden I was giving away.

NOW, back to the rabbit issue.

***WARNING***

If you can not handle very graphic violence, stop reading now, please!

Once the plants were bigger, rabbits were not a issue.

But for whatever reason, about the time seeds would sprout, and a little green coming up all over the garden, every rabbit in the southern states were on it like a rat infestation.

I tried running silt fence around the garden, did it so they could not get below it, and hopefully not get over it.

All of that trouble, and it did not work, I was pissed off.

***WARNING***

(last warning, I do not want downvotes for something I am confessing I did like 30 years ago).

Ok, so the rabbits would come out at night and do all of this damage to this 1/4 acre garden, even after all the silt fence stuff I tried.

Well, one day I set up a whole lot of very bright lights on stands, like you would use for working on a construction site, and at midnight one night I turned the lights on, and went to the garden with my rifle.

There was like 17 rabbits there, and I opened fire and was picking them off very good.

I was happy, I was now getting revenge on those pesky rabbits.

Well, it got to the point there was only one rabbit left, and instead of trying to run away like all the others did, he just came right up to me looking all sad.

I confess that rabbit changed my life. The way he just walked up to me like "go ahead and shoot me also, you have already killed all of my friends and family".

Anyway, that was the end of messing with a garden, and now late at night I am just happy to go outside and see some rabbits running around.

And I have friends that deer hunt, and that is totally fine, just not for me.

Confess I could never shoot a deer myself, they are just too pretty.

Confess I do draw the line at things like cows, pigs, and chickens, because I can not survive off plants.

Anyway, we are all different, and I know some people does rabbit hunt, and I will tell you what, if you want to have some good luck with those hunts, plant a garden and they will show up.

I have a friend that lives on a farm, and they raise pigs and cows as pets, and pet them, until time to harvest them.

Confess I like to just go to the grocery store myself, and have a random stranger for dinner.

I love to fish, but I care nothing about hunting.

I could hunt though, if I ever needed to.

(and while my girlfriend does very well on the Big Buck Hunter arcade, one time I had her hold a gun, and feel the weight of it, and she was amazed the difference).

And I feel bad anymore when I cut grass.

I mean grass is a living thing, and it must hurt when I cut it.

And not to mention all of the ant mounds I run through, and kill 100's of ants at a time.

BUT, so far I am still fine with swatting a fly, or better yet a mosquito, they suck!

(and I will try to run over a ant mound a few more times, and kill 100's more).

Sorry for my long post, I hope all of you have a AWESOME WEEKEND!

I confess I love the feeling of early morning when the sun hasn't risen yet (or is rising). I also confess I don't usually get up that early often.

Pretty rare day I'm not up by 4 am

That’s about when I’m going to sleep.

I know all about that.

BUT! I am normally up by the crack of noon.

And I confess, I was YouTubing with my girlfriend just now, and one of the pop ups was ABBA, and I played the song, and I remembered how when I was young I thought the blonde girl in ABBA was super cute.

Well, I confess now I liked that 70's blue eye shadow young girls wore, and the the way they did their hair, but now that I am older, I see how her face and teeth were really not all that.

And watching YouTube video songs that I used to like. some are like WHOA!

Take for instance NENA, 99 Red Balloons, I like the song, she is kind of cute, but DAMN! when she lifts her arms in the air she has more hair there than I do.

I hope all of you are having a AWESOME WEEKEND!

I have to go now, and participate in my awesome weekend.

Suzie Quatro.

They don't get better.

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Same here, though also doesn't happen often. Add a cold winter morning, couple logs in the fireplace, hot cup of coffee, a book (or PlayStation controller) and a recliner and all is right with the world.

I also enjoy Sunday mornings like this one - in bed, coffee, browsing Pinside, just some quiet time before life takes over again.

Try this: add 2 cups of milk and a ¼ cup of sugar to your boiling water. You can thank me later.

I have TSPP, I love the Simpsons, but don’t like the pin. Tried adding pinstadiums and pinsound with the alternate sound file but it’s not cutting it. Would be gone in a second if my wife and kids didn’t love it.

Kinda same boat with a twist - we used to make many of the TSPP mods that have now been copied by others, like the flying saucers and custom shooter rods, among others. Wife has finally said "I'm done making mods, you can sell it".

I haven't watched The Simpson's in 20 years, and probably haven't played 10 games on it in the last 5, but I know I'll never get another one for what I paid for it, and it looks good in the lineup, and....and....

I suffer from sellers remorse almost always.

That actually makes me feel better. I’m not alone. Haha

Spending the day in the sun, drinking beer and listening to Ween at ear shattering volumes. The o=dd game of pinball is getting played too.

LifeIsGoodPunkin

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I played TSPP one time at a bar, and I was just not into it.

I never loved the Simpsons, but early on I did watch a little to see what all of the fuss was about.

I am always amazed at how many people say that they want a Scooby Doo pin.

I loved those cartoons when I was a kid, along with all the other Bugs Bunny and Road Runner cartoons.

A few years ago a good friend told me that I have to see the movie Sausage Party, that it was so funny.

That movie was ok, I would never care to see it again though.

I am just not into any cartoons, not even adult ones.

Confess for a long time I would watch Mr. Bean the movie about one time every couple of years, and would always laugh a lot, but now I am done with that.

Same with The Jerk, I used to watch that every few years.

Confess I do still like to watch the Forrest Gump movie every few years, I like the humor in that movie, but I really doubt I would ever want a Forrest Gump pinball machine.

And all I can remember is that the ending is sad, but I would love to watch the movie Old Yeller again, I have not seen that in over 45 years.

Anyway, I am happy with what I have, and any new game will have to be really good for me to get rid of what I have to make space.

Theme wise, me and my girlfriend both like Josh and Casey in Deadliest Catch and Bloodlines, so if a pin was ever made with this theme, and plenty of callouts from them, and the game had some cool new features, then I would have to order one.

I know a whole lot of people want a Evil Dead pin, and while I like the movies, I would only be into it with Bruce Campbell being funny with callouts, and the pin would have to have some amazing new features.

And hell no, when I say new features I am not talking about online or any of that, just stuff like JJP did with the Pirates pin, with the rocking upper playfield.

I do love the depth of Oktoberfest, the build quality and customer support, so I really hope someday AP will make a Deadliest Catch pin.

(and if they do, it will be a toss up whether to get rid of TWD, or EHOH to make room).

My girlfriend would love to see Oktoberfest gone, but not happening, too many ways to play that game, kind of like JJP Pirates in a way.

And yeah it sucks how prices keep going up, but really that is a good thing, it is a fun investment that you may make a few bucks on while having fun, instead of having fun and then losing a few bucks.

Anyway, sorry for the long rant, BUT I HOPE ALL OF YOU HAVE AWESOME WEEK!

Confess I hate spiders.

Back in 6th grade one bit me, and whatever drugs they gave me had me sleepy all the time.

Whatever cream they gave me had a funky smell that was cool, like a combination of peanut butter and vanilla.

But just because one bit me, is not why I hate them.

I hate them because I get so damn tired of walking through their webs and getting that crap on me.

And they are fast at building a web.

5 hours ago when I opened the gate at the street to let my girlfriend in, coast was clear.

5 minutes ago when I opened the gate at the street I ended up webbed.

I hate that feeling of spider web on my skin, and it keeps going, making me think the spider is still on me and webbing me more.

The only spider that I do think is cool is the big one they call the writing spider.

Those spiders make enough web that I can see it good, and normally they build their webs in places that I do not walk through anyway.

Anyway, I made the last post here 21 hours ago, and no one else had anything to post here?

Sorry for the long rant about spiders.

Unless someone else posts something soon my next beer rant will probably be about ants.

I confess I love when someone posts something way out there, that reminds me of something I have not thought about in a long time.

Wanna see way out there, check the Ode To Fillet of Fish thread and what blew up this afternoon.

AllMyFaultPunkin

When I worked at the state fair, those buildings were empty 11 months of the year. They'd warn us about brown spiders. Wouldn't kill you but you could get really sick.

So we hit farm auctions and would pick up a box of chemicals. Going through them you'd find some had DDT. Then a couple weeks before we'd start prepping the shooting gallery for the fair. We'd go in and spray the building inside.

Might be a dead moose out front. But you sure didn't have to worry about spiders.

LTG : )

I used to buy Dairy Barn foggers at the farm store. These were huge cans and when you set one off in a house roaches, spiders, anything living would flood up out of cabinets and climb to the ceiling trying to get away.
Really a sight to behold, they didn't come back for a long while.
Can't get them anymore, they offered those little Hot Shot foggers that DONT WORK.

This is why you hate spiders:

A few years back i was buying Chinese take out every day on the lunch special.

I started worrying about the frequency of my diet and asked a workmate if he thought i could live on Chinese food.

His reply?

"Twenty billion of the cunts can't be wrong."