{"id":9170,"date":"2026-03-24T01:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:56:08","slug":"that-sucked-and-still-sorta-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/that-sucked-and-still-sorta-does\/","title":{"rendered":"That Sucked (And Still Sorta Does)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!
Tell you what, overexhaustion, and working out next to sumdood who what hacking up a storm should have been my clue. Last weekend I started feeling a wee bit down and out. Not this past one, but the one before.

That Thursday, I think it was the 12th I hit the gym at lunch for a quick shoulder workout. The guy on the machine next to me sounded like he had a two-pack a day habit, and I just sort of filtered it out as ‘noise’.

By Sunday the 15th, the voice started to go. No sore throat or anything… just …..raspy. It kept getting worse and worse until that Wednesday I called it a day and hit the Med-Shed. I was like completely<\/strong> wiped out mind you… I did the 3 days at People’s Glorious Tractor Factory (suffering as I did NOT want to burn my precious vay-kay), and the docs were quick to diagnose me with Pneumonia.

Which unfortunately missing that 1\/2 an airbag from the cancer leaves me HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE to lung issues. I generally am good, as I can tell normally<\/strong> when I’m getting the wet heaving coughing fits, as I start coughing up the green nasty. In this case it was dry-dry. Which was different. The docs set me up with the nebulizer (again) the puffer (again) and loaded me with the meds that I need to kick this…

Which I have.
Pretty much
The voice is still raspy AF, and I’m still feeling like someone ran me over with a truck… that tired\/no energy sort of feeling. And then my sleep cycles have been all fucked up too, so I’m trying to recharge, reset, and get back to normal.

Otherwise, everything is still<\/span><\/strong> fake and ghey AF.

Pretty sure Satanyahoo is ded too.

Seems his son disappeared for 7 days right after the airstrike that left ole Bibi at room temperature, aka a ‘Good Izzy’. The 7 days being the mandatory 7 days of mourning in Ye Olde Synagogue O’Satan’s “church”…

He also missed out of a BIG High Hebrew meetup in Hungary either yesterday or today, and has not<\/strong> been seen IRL outside of some MAD sketchy AI Vidyas. Got me a hunch things are going to go extremely<\/strong><\/em> pear shaped in the VERY near future.

So… I did something a LOT of y’all will disagree with, but I liquidated a BUNCH of my hard silver coinage whilst it was still over $80. My own analysis pointed to them pushing a harder crash on it, to the point it’s now hovering at $70 or below.

Which means I’ll be able to restock on it in a few months after paying off a few sezzle purchases. I did some maffs. Silver one oz coins are great, and a good hedge and ‘real money’… however, it’s got to be tendered<\/strong> or tradable<\/strong> and also, you need to be able to defend it<\/strong> or at least keep what you have right? If the shit hits the fan? What comes after? I mean silver DOES keep its value but when<\/strong> does it become useful?

Sooooo…
I reinvested the payout on a new tool.
One that’ll hold it’s value AND provide a certain degree of… security? Namely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As well as 2x 800 round cans of linked M193 with a 1 in 5 mix tracer\/ball. Plus a shitload of extra links.

As well as a FRT.

It’s going the definitely<\/strong> rattle the Fudds at my rifle range when it comes time to test it out… I might have to find a better place to break it in. I mean I was<\/span><\/strong> a SAW Gunner nonpareil in the Infantry amiright?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I figure a new way to bring the hate is worth the trade.
And why not right?

SO I’m wiped right now
Off to bed.
More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greetings and Salutations!Tell you what, overexhaustion, and working out next to sumdood who what hacking up a storm should have been my clue. Last weekend I started feeling a wee bit down and out. Not this past one, but the one before. That Thursday, I think it was the 12th I hit the gym at … Continue reading “That Sucked (And Still Sorta Does)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}