so waht ya doin today?
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Ian
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I got a Suburban with the whole back full of 203s, 205s, 208s, an extra 4x4 SM 465, and six or eight rebuildable K-case 700-R4s. In the shop I got two engines on stands halfway out back together and boxes of new parts. What I need is $2000 worth of rubber and about a month completely to myself.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Heck, a significant number of recruits at my Academy only got a drivers license because it was required and had zero road time! As for guns, not a chance. The country bumpkin males from the sticks had no problem with guns or driving. I'm sure that statment makes me horribly sexist, but guns and driving were 2 soft spots for our urban and female recruits. Academics were a soft spot for another group that got all the answers spoon fed to them while the rest of us studied until our eyes bled.
Suburbans! I loved my 'Burb, a 95 with a 350. Great car/truck. Love to find a similar year in a 3/4 ton 4wd. Hard to do in rust country.
Warm here, mid 40's, wasn't expecting that. Pulled a darn muscle in my lower back putting a sock on! I hate the whole getting old thing...
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Ian
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Proverbial straw/camel's back. Cut any firewood or goose-step through any snowbanks lately?
Bret,I don't see it as sexist at all,but understand some could. At some point(and would say facing live fire WITH a partner will hold water in this respect).... a spade is a spade. I will say women and stupid fast racing motorcycles sorta don't get along. Takes 3 tenths of a second to make a conscious decision..... at a buck fiddy+ we don't have the space that .3 seconds covers. Slow it down in say,an autocross situation and they do much better. Drag racing is a touch different from road racing(total # of synapses).As target shooting is to decisions "under fire".
smokeywolf
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Was just at the sawbones yesterday and got new scripts for muscle relaxant and 800mg Ibuprofen for those once every year or so back muscle spasms.
I can put my socks on myself, but Mrs. smokeywolf usually does it because of my back and hip problems.
I can put my socks on myself, but Mrs. smokeywolf usually does it because of my back and hip problems.
uncle jimbo
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Just got back from the doctor's office, for a 70 year old "old fart" I am doing good.
Pistolero
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Hmm. I splattered a femur in 1971 and have always sat down to put sox on. It happened so long ago
that I have no memory how I put sox on before that accident.
Might be getting the next level rebuild on that 49 year old accident soon. the good news is that in half a
century, the medical options have improved a huge amount. No more "stone knves and bearskins"...
Bill
that I have no memory how I put sox on before that accident.
Might be getting the next level rebuild on that 49 year old accident soon. the good news is that in half a
century, the medical options have improved a huge amount. No more "stone knves and bearskins"...
Bill
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I very fondly remember working for my dad and then after he retired, the next old guy mentor/biz partner who was about 5 years behind dad.....
At the end of a day,they'd sit on a saw horse or tailgate and I'd pull their carpenter overalls off from the bttm of the pant leg.
We'd laugh about it,thinking ahead to the time when I would be in the same way. That was 45 years ago.... dang,I miss those two old goats.
At the end of a day,they'd sit on a saw horse or tailgate and I'd pull their carpenter overalls off from the bttm of the pant leg.
We'd laugh about it,thinking ahead to the time when I would be in the same way. That was 45 years ago.... dang,I miss those two old goats.
Doc says I have 20/20 now, see ya in a year. Had to pay 96$ to get the oil changed, can't get down on the floor till the leg heals and it's still cold here. Worse than putting sock on is getting those old rubber golashas off, buckles frozen with ice and socks are still wet. Or cowboy boots. But she has been helping with the socks the last month. Unfortunately they get caught on a toenail and that hurts.
CZ93X62
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The socks on one side got easier to reach & install back in October. Be careful what you wish for! No worries--things are going right well.
The Chevy Suburbans have always been outstanding vehicles. I have always been a Ford man, but I recognize a couple things--Detroit got away with building some real crap cars for many years until Japan started eating their lunch in the mid-1970s, but the USA's trucks HAVE to be good--or people would avoid them like the plague. Unlike cars, trucks had makers that took quality pretty seriously--esp. Black Bow Tie and Blue Oval. Dodge built a pretty decent truck, too--but my shop had a bunch of 1980s Ramchargers that were absolute wreckage after 50K miles. Only International with their Travelall could compete with the Suburban. IH annoyed me back in the days when I turned wrenches, because so much of the 'consumables' parts inventory was "Dealer Only"--which meant a 12 mile trip to Dieterich International in Colton, instead of a parts house runner delivering in 30-60 minutes. Now ALL of the automakers pull that stunt with parts--GRRRR!!
So, the Burbs kinda stand alone for me as Best Possible Vehicle for an outdoorsy, boat-dragging, gun-hauling, chukar-chasing sportsman. I have yet to own one--closest I have gotten was a 92 Ford (big) Bronco, which is by some distance the best vehicle I have ever owned--kind of a 'compact Suburban', of sorts. The One That Got Away.
No worries--things are going right well. The Chevy Suburbans have always been outstanding vehicles. I have always been a Ford man, but I recognize a couple things--Detroit got away with building some real crap cars for many years until Japan started eating their lunch in the mid-1970s, but the USA's trucks HAVE to be good--or people would avoid them like the plague. Unlike cars, trucks had makers that took quality pretty seriously--esp. Black Bow Tie and Blue Oval. Dodge built a pretty decent truck, too--but my shop had a bunch of 1980s Ramchargers that were absolute wreckage after 50K miles. Only International with their Travelall could compete with the Suburban. IH annoyed me back in the days when I turned wrenches, because so much of the 'consumables' parts inventory was "Dealer Only"--which meant a 12 mile trip to Dieterich International in Colton, instead of a parts house runner delivering in 30-60 minutes. Now ALL of the automakers pull that stunt with parts--GRRRR!!
So, the Burbs kinda stand alone for me as Best Possible Vehicle for an outdoorsy, boat-dragging, gun-hauling, chukar-chasing sportsman. I have yet to own one--closest I have gotten was a 92 Ford (big) Bronco, which is by some distance the best vehicle I have ever owned--kind of a 'compact Suburban', of sorts. The One That Got Away.
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Sent some 7mm "spoilers" downrange today out of the 7-08 R700....
Spoilers in the sense that JB shooters would be dang proud of the 3 shot groups. "They" are calling for several days of rain.... me and the dog are looking fwd to it. Am slamming some water proofing spray on the ole hunting boots.
Spoilers in the sense that JB shooters would be dang proud of the 3 shot groups. "They" are calling for several days of rain.... me and the dog are looking fwd to it. Am slamming some water proofing spray on the ole hunting boots.