Well, duh......
I've got it down to 2 remaining. At least I'm smart enough to know that a real IQ test has more than one part.

this not a true IQ test. Anyways, it's pouring buckets here at the beach. We're in the trailer waiting for it to stop.
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I WON -- I WON.
Took me 40 times, or maybe more. I lost count.

I messed with that from 10 pm til 5 am then went to bed, got up a half hour later because I was so bummed out that I could not figure that darn thing out. Every time I thought I was getting it I got shot down. And I am pretty good at those things as a rule! Trying to stay away from it tonight! Ah, failure--it sure brings you down! Sure glad it says it is "Eye Q" test instead of IQ, I can at least blame it on my hand/eye coordination or lack thereof!!

I just came across your post. My gosh, you were up till 2:24a to solve this thing.

carbon, this nice lady racked herself till the early morning hours to get this thing.
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I did not intend for anyone to lose sleep over this diversion. I actually thought that it would possibly be sleep inducing. Just goes to show how much I have to learn.

Please note that I won after 2AM on Tuesday. I started this thing on Saturday!! Instructions to MYTMITE: Make a large pot of coffee before proceeding.

I still have a few days to go.

I lost count too until I finally solved it, and then duplicating the feat took even longer.

A blind hog gets and acorn every day or two!
Non-blind hogs figure it out in seconds.

My internet server was out for a few days. I'm new at this. Trying to get to the blogs from last week about DFACS-- Thanks

Glad to help.
No strategy involved.
Just keep doing it until only one is left. LOL

Was not asking how to solve puzzle. Way figuring how to get back to a blog that has been posted earlier and no longer showed up--it was the story and blogs regarding the DFACS situation. But would have accepted it if you did tell me how to figure out the puzzle!!! LOL

Go to search at top left of page. Type in "DFCS director."

Appreciate it

5th try was a winner and it was fun!
Thanks

Are you still at the beach?

Will return Wednesday.
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Heading out within the hour to Savannah and then on to Cocoa Beach for some kayaking, surfing and general down time.

If you spot a white Civic with Yakima racks and a big yellow kayak headed out of town, give me a honk!

Hope you guy’s have a safe and pleasant trip to the beach

Some of us are jealous.

I will be at your favorite hospital next week having some test.

Wulf

as a prostate cancer survivor, I truly feel your pain. I hope that all turns out well and know that you are in my prayers. Keep the faith.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

It seems almost monthly now, people we know here on the blog, and in Fayette County, are going in for 'tests' or 'treatment.'

In the 2 years I've been blogging, it seems so many folks are being hit with something.... muddle, his wife, cyclist, tug, wulf... and others who have mentioned colon and prostate cancer, women with breast cancer.... Is there something in the Fayette water? Run-off from the airport going into the Flynt River and Line Creek? Runoff from the pesticides used in the golf courses?

I've never been around so much cancer in my life. It just doesn't seem normal.

Scarey thought.

We have been drinking bottled spring water by the gallon for quite some time, though I do use the tap water to make coffee, and for cooking.

Has anyone noticed how very foul the tap water tastes if you run a cup and come back for it a bit later? I noticed it a long time ago, as I'm in the habit of keeping a glass of water on the nightstand at night. In the middle of the night the water would have taken on a kind of "chemical" taste that made it virtually undrinkable. At first, I thought the explanation might be the plastic cups that I was using. But the local water has that taste with glass as well, and the spring water never does, even in the plastic cups.

Perhaps the explanation is benign, but it sure does make one wonder what is up with the local water.

"We have been drinking bottled spring water by the gallon for quite some time, though I do use the tap water to make coffee, and for cooking."

We do the same. Plus, we have a Brita filter on our faucet, but I don't know how much that helps.

I noticed that our water looked very brown, almost rusty, this week and I asked my friend (environ. engineer) if the water was unsafe. He said that the "color" of water is not a violation and is only considered unsafe if it contains contaminants. But I would think brown water would be unsafe to drink anyway - there must be something nasty in it to make it brown to begin with.

Sometimes I really irritate my kids because I'm always trying to buy, and cook, healthy food. But someday I hope they will be thankful for instilling a healthy lifestyle in them. I try to buy organic and natural foods, especially with meat and dairy, because I believe that the growth hormones they pump into cows and chickens is transferred into our own bodies. That's why we see 9 and 10 year old girls starting their periods at such a young age and puberty starting earlier and earlier in kids - it's the growth hormones in the foods they are eating.

It really makes me want to go eat brisket now at our BBQ tonight - NOT!

From Huckleberry Finn's adventure on the logging raft (Life on the Mississippi):

"They sung 'jolly, jolly raftman's the life for me,' with a musing chorus, and then they got to talking about differences betwixt hogs, and their different kind of habits; and next about women and their different ways: and next about the best ways to put out houses that was afire; and next about what ought to be done with the Injuns; and next about what a king had to do, and how much he got; and next about how to make cats fight; and next about what to do when a man has fits; and next about differences betwixt clear-water rivers and muddy-water ones. The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three-quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn't no better than Ohio water--what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up--and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be.

And they talked about how Ohio water didn't like to mix with Mississippi water. Ed said if you take the Mississippi on a rise when the Ohio is low, you'll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the east side of the Mississippi for a hundred mile or more, and the minute you get out a quarter of a mile from shore and pass the line, it is all thick and yaller the rest of the way across."

Mark Twain is my absolute favorite American writer and his tales of the Mississippi are real "word portraits". Sort of reminds one of the mighty Susquahanna, eh? Keep the faith.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Over the last thirty years it has gotten worse and worse. Look in the daily obits and it seems almost everyone has died from cancer. Now the "cancer of the day" seems to be pancreatic or esophageal cancer. I have thought for a long time that it is all the garbage growers are allowed to put in our food supply--growth hormones-spoil retardation agents--there are some items that are so full of these things that they will stay 'fresh' for months! Pesticides to keep golf courses, ball fields and even our lawns green. Maybe it is time to go back to the way we ate and preserved foods years ago. This way certainly isn't working. Now children are even born with cancer! And we seem to be no closer to a cure--with new types popping up all the time. We have got to get over being so spoiled that we want convenience at any price. I think the price is finally getting too high. Sad to say.

more die from heart disease. The majority of these deaths are attributable to life styles. This is coming from someone who has to shed about 60 lbs.
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I wonder about the same things.

Example: My maternal grandparents both lived well into their 90s with no cancer concerns whatever. And there is no known cancer in the earlier generations of the family (and there is quite a bit of knowledge of people for a few generations back).

However, things did not go so well with the next generation. Of seven children, four died of cancer. One just wonders where in the world it comes from, and a good guess is that it has to do with some sort of "environmental" change. My first thoughts go to the changes in the American diet. My grandfather grew his own vegetables, raised some chickens and hunted to put food on the table. In his youth, he would have been exposed to none of the food products that have since come into the market. Not so with his children--and their children (my generation).

I have a daughter who has become fanatical about what she will and will not feed her child. She is deeply suspicious of just about everything processed. Her fastidiousness makes shopping difficult and expensive. But she might just have the right idea.

Who is fanatical about what she eats and drinks, does everything to keep physically fit and what is ironic is that of my four daughters she is the one who has had cancer twice--once,about 30 years she had cervical cancer and just a few years ago she had thyroid cancer. It is so hard to figure. I read several years ago that radial tires slough off miniscule particles with every revolution and that we breathe these particles in constantly and that is thought to be one of the problems. I still think everything we inject, spray or whatever to all we eat and drink is very responsible. But have we become too spoiled and lazy that we can not do without these conveniences and would companies go back to producing products without these enhancements? I doubt it.
A friend had a cancer removed from right in front of his ear which the surgeon said may have been there before he was even born. I also remember a television actress who's child was born with cancer of the eye a few years ago. It is scary to think that is possible.

Food doesn't cause cancer unless it is dipped in radiation.

Most cancer comes with the package at birth. The ability now exists to check ones make-up at birth and in many cases predict accutately if cancer is in the cards and what kind!

Smoking and ingestion of copious amounts of some cancer causing particles does also cause certain kinds of cancer, like lung congestion.

There really is no magic pill, food, regimen, or wish it sway stuff, that can cure it. Not even the famous "cancer centers of America!" There are so many types and how much time with it varies so much, that cures are a long way off, if ever. Some can be whacked out if found soon enough. Some can be killed.

There is more cancer now primarily due to there being many more of us!

No need to be scared about it. You will die sooner or later and all will be well.

Food doesn't cause cancer unless it is dipped in radiation.

Most cancer comes with the package at birth. The ability now exists to check ones make-up at birth and in many cases predict accutately if cancer is in the cards and what kind!

Well, my experience is limited to prostate cancer (PCa). When I was diagnosed, I spent two or thyree months learning everything I could about the disease and its treatments. I recall reading a Q & A in a book by Dr. Sheldon Marks. Question: What is the best way to prevent prostate cancer? Answer: Choose different parents. The consensus does indeed seem to be that the primary factor for predicting this disease is genetic.

BUT...

It does not follow that "environmental" factors--including diet--are simply irrelevant. For example, Asian men are far less likely to be diagnosed with PCa than males in Europe or America. This in itself says nothing in particular, as it is possible that the genetic differences are responsible (consider sickle cell anemia and African Americans, for instance). But studies have found that Asian men who have taken up, say, American dietary habits have shown a significant increase in instances of PCa. (Similar studies have followed men in Mediterranean countries, who also are less likely to develop the disease.) Such studies have motivated the concern to adopt dietary habits similar to those found in such countries: low in animal fat, certain teas, red wines, tomato products, etc. Further, Stanford University has conducted some rather extensive studies involving pomegranate juice. The studies suggest that men who have had PCa and undergone treatment are less likely to experience recurrence if they have included a regular intake (8 oz. per day) of this juice.

The facts are not all in so that it is too soon to draw bold conclusions about the effect of diet on such diseases. But I think it is also overstating things to suggest that diet is inconsequential.

Appreciate your research on prostate cancer. I suppose those old cave men who ate mainly raw or half-raw meat mostly, would have had a lot of prostate cancer had they lived very long!
Trouble is, there are so many kinds of cancer--all destroying us somewhat differently--that I just don't know how many ounces of pomegranate juice, tomatoes, and red wine would be necessary to avoid lung cancer, brain cancer, melanoma, kidney tumors, on and on.....
Coffee enemas will put you on edge quicker than drinking it, but in general they don't stop cancer.
Positivity (I invented that word) is also preached a lot about survival, but I have my doubts there also.
I do like those dudes in France I think it is that drink about a gallon a day of the wine and they hardly ever die at all!

My 97-year-old mother's advice. Live everyday of your life. She was diagnosed in her 60's. Received medical treatment (surgery)/received radiation. Given five years to live. . . so she did! (And then some.) After all the steps taken to correct the physical - a lot has to do with attitude (spiritual). Be grateful for each day, each relationship, and each challenge. Life is a gift! She says don't waste it worrying needlessly. Do what you can - and live! She'll be 98 in December.

This world is full of junk that can make you ill. It often surprises me as to all the stuff that is added to preserve our food supply and such. Makes me sometimes wonder if I need to move out to the farm and grow my own food supply. But I would need a little Round-Up to keep the weeds out of garden. Some of that white powder to sprinkle on my tomatoes and peppers. And some DDT to keep those tater bugs off my potato crop. Other than that I suppose I could certify it 'organic".

All silliness aside.... In the late 1800's and the early 1900's the life expectancy of an adult male was somewhere around 45 - 50 years old (I think). Now we're expected to live up into our 70's and 80's fairly easy. What I've often wondered is if the same diseases were around back then and killing our ancestors off at an earlier age and we just didn't know any better. With that said, I sure to have a lot of friends, family and acquaintances that are getting nailed by cancer in their late forties through the sixties.

Lately I've become a fanatic as to what I eat. Give me the fresh veggies, fruits and fish. Although I refuse to dump my beef.

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I am proud to call myself an environmentalist. The resistance to cleaning up our act comes from the groups that think(?) that every environmental regulation is bad for business.

One example: "It looks like there's 100 percent exposure to the U.S. population to this rocket fuel contaminant"

Thanks for that link... I sent it to a friend of mine and they knew quite a bit about perchlorate. It sounds like just a minute amount of that stuff is enough to affect the human thyroid gland and perchlorate is found in ground/drinking water and is finding its way into the food chain.

Since perchlorate is also in fireworks, does it make sense for municipalities to be shooting them off over drinking water sources and parks, like we do in PTC? I know we can't protect ourselves from every toxin in the environment but there sure seems to be alot more cancer among friends and family these days.

Here's a link:

EPA FACT SHEET - PERCHLORATE

But, sad to say, I think we are not in the majority and as long as our government (Rep or Dem) panders to big business and lobbyists are permitted to do their wining and dining and donating I see little chance for change. What I can't understand is that those people don't realize that regardless of your position in life: prestiege, power or money, cancer can strike you or your loved ones. In many cases it does not matter if you can afford the best medical care or not. Every few months another friend is diagnosed with some form of cancer. I see no end. May you and yours remain safe and healthy.

May you and yours remain safe and healthy.

Thank you, and I wish you and yours the same.

I hope it isn't serious. Take care. From what muddle has said you are in good hands. Just don't go to our local hospital.

I hope everything turns out well.
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Thank you all for the well wishes.

After three days of tests I am back home.

The tests were for a second opinion and the results and prognosis was the same as the first not very good.

I hope you guys have a great 4th of July.

This 4th of July will be very special for me.

Wulf

Love to you and your family, wulf. Hang in there, and let us know if any of us can help, in ANY way.

Thank you all for the kind and encouraging words.

I battled this disease 15years ago.
Two years of treatment and a bone marrow transplant finally it went into remission. My now deceased father provided the bone marrow that saved my life.
We had a bond that very few fathers and sons ever have the privilege to experience.

I hope all of you have a great 4th of July.

Mainstream, you guys have a safe and wonderful trip.

Please remember all of our military personnel and their families.

Wulf

I cannot seem to find the original post that describes your disease, but I can infer from what I've read.

I wish you all of the strength and courage it takes to beat this thing. I have an uncle who had colon cancer in his 40s, prostate cancer in his 70s, and then a rare form of lymphoma now in his 80s. He soundly whipped the first two, and, at 87, is still going strong against the third more than two years after his diagnosis. Attitude is not everything, but it certainly counts.

Best wishes.

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement.

I can only hope that I can muster as much strength and courage that you and your wife have shown to the rest of us.

You guys have been through hell and are still standing. I wish you guys the best with your employment situation and most importantly your wife’s health issues. I will keep your family in my prayers.

As I am sure you understand this has been a very emotional week for me and the outpouring of well wishes from my fellow bloggers have brought tears to this old wulfs eyes.

I am going to take a break from blogging for a few days to get my emotions under control and to let everyone get back to the real purpose of this sight.

Wulf

is debatable at best.

One of the greater reasons is for people with differing view points to share and hopefully educate the rest us to their point of view.

Another reason for this blog is to support one another when one needs support.

To that end I wish you a speedy recovery.

Happy 4th of July.

Thanks for the kind words.

Wulf

You are in my thoughts and prayers. Let us know if we can help. What blood type is compatible for you?

Have a great 4th, be safe. Do you have family here?

Good luck with the treatment.

God bless us all.

To my bone marrow if needed and if compatable--in fact any thing I have enough of you can have surplus. Take in each day and revel in what you see around you.

Thank you for the kind offer. Unfortunately I will not be a candidate for another bone marrow transplant due to health and age factors. I will be going up north in a couple of weeks to be evaluated for an experimental program.

We have been blessed to own our own company and are financially stable.
Our oldest daughter has been running the day to day operations for the last two years and will be stepping up to take my place to give me the freedom I need to seek the best treatment available.

Wulf

I just saw your post. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
God bless your heart.

Think positive.
Tug

Thank you kind lady,

I believe you stated that you have had some tests recently.
I wish you well and hope that any health issues that you may have are not serious.

I will keep you in my prayers.

Wulf

For whatever they're worth, you're in my prayers and have my best wishes. For all the nastiness that goes on here on this site sometimes, we are kind of like a family, with all that that entails, and the family will keep you in their prayers.

I yam what I yam....Popeye

Thank you for the kind words.

I realize that you are going through a similar situation with your sister and I know how tuff that is.

I wish your sister well and will keep her and your family in my prayers.

The past few days have been very emotional for me and I can’t seem to find the right words to thank all of you for the outpouring of kindness and encouragement.

Wulf

You too buddy. We are all thinking about you.
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Are you back at work or still on vacation?

Hope you had a great 4th.

Wulf

Nope, had to come back to the house. Had to make an appearance at work yesterday and probably tomorrow. Good to hear from you!!!!!
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Don't want to sound like another cliche'. But God's best to you and your family. Hang in there friend and keep us posted.

After three days of tests, I can only imagine how good it feels to be home.

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I am hoping for the best for you and yours. Have a nice holiday.

My thoughts and prayers are with you buddy. Give me a shout if you need something.

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And that you have many wonderful days and memories ahead.

Good luck

We're very sorry to hear this. We'll be praying for you. Anything else just let us know.

Thank you for the well wishes.

As for the anything else (Sam Nunn VP)

Wulf

Hey! Have fun!

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