porcupine48

Hey,Happy New Year everyone!

(blanket bonjour,hello,ciao and missed you to everyone)

And a wink to you comicdonna

Drive by nice books 

Sorry for the disturbance,best wishes on the sale,with true blue cool Cap. Brit!

On 1/5/2023 at 2:50 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

How cool is that! 

The GCD has #27 as an "Overseas Service Edition", as I'm sure you already know...

...but there's no mention of your #28 anywhere that I can find online.

Maybe add it to @N e r V's thread here (I see you mention it on page 5):

Very cool, Captain 

Did someone say cool?

On 3/27/2022 at 1:54 PM, KirbyJack said:

Good to hear about the kitty. This big bast@rd is almost 25 pounds and he just watched a baby mouse pass 6 inches from his nose. He couldn’t be bothered.

My deaf Maine Coon mix is nearly a twin of yours but with ling,long hair.His ruff is ready for a hair metal band  and yeas,fat effer just ran around meowering his head off about the petit souris.But I forgive him,he sleeps under the covers in the crook of my arm every night the sweetums

Also as it's three years tonight Penny died in my arms,here's a photo.I'm going to go say a lil prayer and hug Pineapple.

Rest in Peace best girl

@THE_BEYONDER sorry it's late,but here's Pineapple and her part husky boypal Keanu.Wow,what a pair of dog names!

Oi oi oi ahoy volkennerds!

Whiner whiner porcupiner here.I know,I said I'd be back sooner and believe me,I've been anxious about not.Not that I'm super self absorbed and think y'all are salivating awaiting my return,but that's why I hate saying a date or a time....time melds for me I lose days or sometimes the mental illness os so much of a turd on toast it's literally crippling.Like it makes no sense but just thinking of online gives me mad dread.

I ended up needing another 'round' of neck blood cleaning,so four times four hours ugh.Wiped me out,scared me and I just have no luck in March.Three years today Penny died.So many other bad memories..but,pretty sure I'm gonna live.It was really touch and go again,blood infection,was worried it got in bone and the leg would go(insert silent crying).And my mom was in hospital same time nearly,having heart speed issues,too fast and it caused a small stroke.sigh,and now my partner just had to spend a night in hospital for IV antibiotics coz of a cut while cleaning a fish tank.WHY?

So,yeah,whiner porcupiner. 

@Get Marwood & I please tell me a Charlton story.

@Ken Aldredif I havent replied already,thank you for your words.I have a good idea you understand some of my issues and I yours a bit.Also on Antiques Roadshow they had a segment on John Polk clay pipes and it made me think of you.Those things are cool!The Manchester connection y'see?

@Robot Manthis is the toy car I excavated!Well,stock image.I'm super pleased.

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0315/13/vintage-tomte-laerdal-blue-mercedes_1_15d6733a935223ebe2ab74ebe57097ef.jpg

@KirbyJack when I get ahold of a camera I have a Hot Wheels I have to show you.It ties into a comic of yours I swear  like,I thought of you when I got it and it's not FF!

@namisgr Maybelline was not doing well for a bit-the American tabby you are fond of of Ardy and I's- she's so old and small that the vet said there was nothing we could do about the dental issues she's having and when Penny died she stopped eating for a long time and was tres skinny.I honestly thought I was going to lose her at 18.Well,I started giving her a small amount of cbd and giving her kitten food thrice daily from the can and things are great.She even caught and savaged a big ol mouse today! Anywhoo,she said to tell you about it! 😎No photos as the Pineapple was going crazy with the other kids and my partner is back getting the infection checked,so no camera/phone.I'm still a Luddite no monile tracking device here!

Anyone here dig Hot Wheels,toys and or comics?Let's dish!

Thanks everyone.I'll try and make a longer post tomorrow maybe.I've kept it close,so even those I have on fb from here this'll be a surprise too(and I don't go there anyways really anymore)-anyways long short a bunch a bunch of tres terrible stuff's been shakin',more deaths,we're at thirteen in 22 months now,close friends,almost all the punkerfolk I grew up with are gone now,it's close knit in a big town small city like Capital city,you get chummy when you have to fight off doi yois  that want to beat arse because off hair or clothes.Had to narcan a friend five times today when I went to do a welfare check on them after dialysis glad I did.And yeah,sneakered that in there,I've had that hell going on again four sometimes five times a week.No hospital stay,NO WAY! even if all the cabs cut into fun and food money!Nuh unh!Noooooooooooooo! Ooh,new smilies? Anyhoo,as birthday pres(March 20,party hard for me volken!I can't!) we think I may just go in for last bloodwork to be extra sure and no treatment.That stuff,man...it's so.friggin'.HARD. And traumatizing seeing blood pumped out of your NECK whoosh hishhed and then back in?No fun.It wipes me pretty damn bad.Then tonight I went through some on Joey tfl Ghost Riders boxes it's taken me that long and I figured I was already miserable...could it get worse?Yep.A box of cassettes,many with his handwritting and a good bunch with mine that I'd gifted him he's put notes inside saying how much he loved them and he loved me and whoooooooooooo well here I am,I just needed you gang a minute sorry.I hope I don't go into a wicked friggen manic episode coz of it if I wasn't already on the way.Between the bi polar and dementia I just don't know what the heck is going on a LOT of the time now just walk the dog when I can read comics play with Hot Wheels...

nyhow,I'm really tired thanks for being friends

Much love

Jimmers

Hey friends,many plenty sorries if anyone's been concerned...not my intent at all,sometimes I just crumble and it's been awfully difficult trying to put myself back together this time around.So many sad and terrible things I didn't/couldn't deal with properly,put on the back burner because I needed all my focus to be on positivity,to get well and keep healing my body.They catch up and build up-I've lost a bunch more people I was close with since last on, one being a girl I loved very very much before Mrs Porcupine came around.It broke me like ai never thought possible and the floodwaters poured out with "B'" loosing her battle.

My mental health is very fragile right now with depression still weighing very heavy annd the temptation to relapse is so spooning strong every day.I was gonna jump on yesterday after running some errands-I have some loot sitting with Lizards and it's been a WHILE,figured I should finally send him some quills so he could pack it off to Arden,now that mail is SORTA okay.Well,guess I dropped my debit walking Pineapple and someone had a good time 'tapping' on my dime.Let me tell you,that shot the carp out of feeling okay.What a terrible feeling.I'll be reinbursed,in TEN DAYS-I had tap turned off,but seems banks lifted that across the board?!!?Anyways,that just freaking pooped me off.I hope the person really needed that and maybe I made someones day a bit brighter?Have to try to be silver lining guy...but all that time on the phone,the moribund feeling of being ripped off...och,it's still eating me.

I want to be my ol' happy self when I post here,but I can't right now.The mental illness cripples me to the point I have attacks of anxiety just thinking about logging on.For real..it's absurd,but I freak out thinking about it.I'll lay i  bed thinking about making a post to say sorry,but then get anxious and my mind goes off and a million roads later I'm exhausted and I just hide the computer.I draw a lot.Art a few hours a day.J write,I mirco clean(think manic dusting organizing) I garden,I just try to stay busy and not let my mind go a zillion miles an hour.Today I was playing with my old table top victrola and the motor went.Joy!Sweated and maniced over that until K realized I needed to google,youtube how to fix it.So,I was online and thought I'd make a quick hi,excuse for where ai'd been and now,look,I'm rambling.

I think of you gang everyday and I have guilt.Larry,Marwood,Bats DOMO(💛again,thank you),batmiesta @Kevin.Jare you okay mate?RobotMan,my secret pm group(it's a SECRET)Ken Aldred DrX i have not read the pm @steveinthecitythanks so much for giving a shout.  @Get Marwood & II thought the letter would have been there...i'm not trying to miss anyone,sorry if you don't see your name it just means I'm overwhelmed right now

On 9/22/2021 at 10:01 PM, Surfing Alien said:

Never too late to claim another collectors soul 

The stuff you gentlemen post makes it soooo easy!

On 9/22/2021 at 10:12 PM, frozentundraguy said:

Thanks.  I noticed that Taine has a few hard cover books of interest with iconic covers to boot. Finding room on the bookshelf could be an issue. I'm already at 4 storage tubs for PB's, what's one more. 

Between the comics/mags/folios/stuff like that  the record lp's and singles,toys,cassettes,Hot Wheels,book books-just plain ol books our flat is... ah,cozy!  

I've nearly filled this shelf I hacked together and the four depression era cardboard suitcases I've stuffed with paperbacks/pocketbooks are proof I've developed a problem! And there are five free book libraries in walking the dog distance.I can hit them all in an hour and that's a big part of where most of the good to great stuff I find.I'm not complaining.My wife is,a bit  -but she's a voracious reader as well.

Oh,I collect bowling balls too I see! good grief!