Grille, 1956 Farmall 100

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I was just down to the grocery store, told the produce manager there was a storm warning and all folks under 6' should go home before the snow gets too deep. He said, " Haven't you got something better to do, than come to the store. Why don't you go home and plow your driveway, or is the old Farmall broke dowm." "WELL", I assured him the 49 year old Farmall was not the problem, but rather 64 year old flesh.

I come home and now, you don't want me to have a sleep. You best look again, I was here before you.

No sleep, no YT! Bummer. :>(

Allan

Its a descending daisy chain of death: sleep apnea deprives us of rest => Fatigue => depression=> high blood pressure & heart strain at night when heart ought to resting => leads to heart attacks and/or strokes.

My father, grandfather, and an uncle all snored loudly, as do I, but NONE of EVER thought we "quit breathing" - - but, they all had heart attacks and strokes.

Mr. Allan, and anyone else that isn't sleeping well OR is ALWAYS tired when they GET UP in the Morning, please take care of yourself, we want your company for a long time to come!

I may be up early but I sleep well while I'm there. I've never slept more than 6 hours per night in my entire life. I just plain like getting things done when no one is around to interupt. You can achive far more when no one disturbs you.

The way I've got it figured sleeping 6 hours per night indicates I've enjoyed 427,050 hours of wide awake living at 65 years. Now the guy sleeping 8 hours per night will have to live to 73-1/4 years for the same enjoyment. We all require different amount of sleep, and much of that is dictated by how well relaxed we are in everyday life.

The way I see it, we have this bunch of baby boomers slightly younger than Allan and I, and they are bound and determined they are going to live forever. They don't even want their children to inherit their money. They want to spend at least 20 year in a nursing home, completely unaware of who they are, and then they want to manage their money from the grave. Never in the history on mankind has the been such a greedy bunch.

Now, I may die of a heart attack tomorrow, next week, next year or 10 years down the road, but I'm damn well certain I want my heart to die before my brain. I've seen folks brain dead for years, not pleasant.

And, I also hope you continue to LIVE well and to BE PART of this forum and my life for many more years - - unlike my Grandfather and Uncle, whose strokes unfortunately made them semi-brain dead and physically incapable of having Life as they or we would have preferred.
Thanks & Regards!
John

I have this happen if I'm designing or building something out of the ordinary. Problem is I keep designing all night, even right down to calculations that involve volume of a cylinder. I've gone to bed with out the answer, and by morning I'll have all those answer in my head. At breakfast, my good wife will ask what I designed and built overnight.

During the early 1970s over a period of 4 years I built a new free stall dariy barn complete with milking parlor and silos to house 120 cows. This whole complex was designed around the skid steer loader. There were no engineers, no designers, just two carpenter friends and myself. By the time that construction was over, My wife advised that next time I designed a building she was going on a trip until until the project was complete.

You can get away with that when your young. This is what Allan is into, he's designing on those old tractors all night. Probably spends as much time coming up with the questions of the day here at YT. He takes great pleasure, and puts a lot of work into that YT one, but your right it will kill him. He initiates at least 4 to 5 threads everyday, and you can see signs this is wearing him down. He will play out providing his activity doesn't due him in first.