Raves

[Bobcat Sig]

Early summer mornings
Winter sunsets
Riding bikes; pedal or motor
Passing on the right
proper zipper merging
Cold Pilsners and Lagers on a hot summer day
Scotch and IPAs on a cold winter day
French Press coffee

[Buster Highmen]

Fridays....

[smartyiak]

Summer at Rehobeth/Dewey!

[glademaster]

Stellar dendrites and the scent of wood smoke drifting through the pines.
Taking off ski boots in front of the wood stove after a full day on the hill.
The smell of the woods on a cool, dewy summer morning.

[KQ]

I tell you what's good: not feeling like shit. For years I was slowly dying from being poisoned by way too much iron in my system. I hung in there but felt worse and worse and worse. Then I nearly died. And now it's fixed. It's not like I'm superman now, I just don't feel like absolute shit all the time. Best thing that ever happened to me for sure. So here's a big thumbs up to normal.

Hmmmmmmm maybe that's what's going on .... excess iron. So freakin' out of it right now. Been looking at this thread since Buster posted it and I can't come up with anything to rave about at the moment.

Glad you're better. Hate to think of you with rusty jeans.

Edit: Well I guess I just did think of something to rave about when Booner got me reminiscing about my mother's blackberry pies, cobblers and jelly in BFD's fruit thread. Thanks Booner!

[iceman]

kq, it's fairly doubtful you have a problem with too much iron, it's from a fairly uncommon genetic condition first of all (unless you're of celtic ancestry, then it's pretty common) and also even women who have it rarely have any symptoms until quite late in life because of menstruation, which gets rid of iron. In fact giving blood is the treatment for it (I had to do it every two weeks for almost four years to get back to normal levels, that sucked but I'm pretty much done with it now).

Big ups to science!

And the bigass NY strip sitting on the counter!

And the potato in the oven!

yeah I'm hungry

[abraham]

Big ups to science!

And the bigass NY strip sitting on the counter!

Don't cook the steak in a cast iron despite what the people in that thread would say

[iceman]

heh, yeah I stay away from cast iron. too bad, but hey

[PNWbrit]

In fact giving blood is the treatment for it (I had to do it every two weeks for almost four years to get back to normal levels, that sucked

Sounds practically medieval... did they use leeches?

[iceman]

Sounds practically medieval... did they use leeches?

It actually is kinda medieval…all that bloodletting they did, well it actually is the treatment for this (hemochromotosis is what it's called).

No leeches, bigass fucking needles. Half a liter at a time, over 80 times.

[glademaster]

It actually is kinda medieval…all that bloodletting they did, well it actually is the treatment for this (hemochromotosis is what it's called).

No leeches, bigass fucking needles. Half a liter at a time, over 80 times.

Wow, the local trauma center must have loved you. Now it isn't just the ladies who can say they've had a little Iceman in them.

[butterscotch]

the first mountain bike ride of the year at sunset with my wife after spending way too much time battling elbow tendinitis and a bathroom remodel
homemade pizza
+1 for cats, boobs and whiskey

[iceman]

Wow, the local trauma center must have loved you. Now it isn't just the ladies who can say they've had a little Iceman in them.

Crazy but they throw it away even though the only thing wrong with it is too much iron and it would be perfect for transfusions and anemia patients in particular. Red Cross won't accept any blood that's given as the result of a medical procedure, it has to be a donation only. They'd fill the bag, unhook it and toss it straight in the trash.

[abraham]

I wonder if they could have run it through a magnet to pull some of the iron out and then pump it back into you. A sort of dialysis for celtic people.
When I was in high school I interned in a lab next to a group researching malaria and they had a bunch of electromagnets set up to do some filtering of the blood with them and then doing something more complicated with the infected red blood cells.

[iceman]

There's some way to do it with a centrifuge but no one does it, not sure exactly why. And there's a drug that binds to the iron so you can excrete it but it's a super-dangerous drug called exjade that they pretty much only give to leukemia patents who are getting rapid iron poisoning from massive transfusions because it might keep them alive long enough for the leukemia meds to work. Everybody just gets the needle.

[/endhijack] sorry

[bodywhomper]

Glass-off bodywhomping with my kids before dinner

there's nothing like a good bodywhomping session.

along the same lines: swimming in the surf zone with your eyes open.

along the lines of raves: https://soundcloud.com/ubiquitouslee...-fmg-july-2014

[Tippster]

Excellent handle, mon frère.

[Hugh Conway]

my stoner dog staring at the whorls made by the rowboat oars, trying to touch them, like a tripping fiend.

[booner]

Golfing (well) on a gorgeous afternoon
Pussy
My kids' smiles
A great dog

[TBS]

A big slice of watermelon after a long hot MTB ride
A nice glass of brandy in the hot tube during a snow storm
A great day of skiing followed by a blowjob and a nap

[garyfromterrace]

Getting to the top of a peak
Crunching an overhead winner (aces are good too)
A perfect Caesar salad
A perfect bloody caesar

[Buster Highmen]

Montana - hanging with the old hippies up Missoula Avenue, dinner, drinks and long comfortable talks into the night. Wide slices of sky above Deer Lodge. Pebble stumbles along the Yellowstone, chunky browns on #6 leaders.
ColoRADo - Scoping the schmear of the Milky Way on top of Red Mountain Pass - best view ever - blown necks.

[Meadow Skipper]

Nice bump.

The river to yourself and fat trout on 6x tippets.
Good memories late at night.
Decent monsoons.

[riser4]

A big dump.

[Buster Highmen]

Instahot - not having to boil water for morning coffee.