9:32am. My soul is about to be crushed by 30 miles of rural highway and nine hours of the office.

@kdfrawg I had the bulletproof myth shattered in dramatic fashion.

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@kdfrawg It's why I don't get upset when a younger one mines me for advice then ignores it. We all did it to some degree being that we are all prodigies who were born knowing everything. :)

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@kdfrawg It's never when a mentor tells you that stuff.

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@kdfrawg My olfactory nerve and the optic nerve of my left eye were totally severed in a hunting accident (.22 bullet ricochet)

The loss of smell was more long term traumatic than the vision in my left eye.

Eventually, my taste adapted. Took several years for my appetite to fully return.

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@kdfrawg Truth

@kdfrawg The hospital one I had no idea what I was walking into. It happened while I was there and I was the only one working for that particular company who knew anything about WORM drives. The IRS stuff was me learning that some jobs are okay to say "No" to.

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@kdfrawg Having your taste change is a lot more difficult to deal with than people realize. I lost my sense of smell when I was 16. I nearly starved because nothing tasted right and my hunger response was all but disabled. I went from 200 pounds to a little over 150. (I was, at that age, 6' 1" and medium-large framed)

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@kdfrawg I had to modify some that was in use by a federal income tax processing center. That was about as stressful as getting a hospital's WORM drive back online. There were surgeries waiting on my getting that records database back online.

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