meant to hit new post, but must have hit edit and deleted the last one. Anyhoiw, It turns out that hearing through the grapevine can distort info, who would have thought? Apparently the fella who worked for the marina & got burned isn't nearly as bad as I'd heard. Burns on 20% (rather than 80%) of his body and they're mostly second degree rather than...
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What's new? All the eye news is as best as could be hoped for, should be a simpler matter than either of the last two operations, although there is some risk of messing up my downward vision. I can live with a compromise if I can get back on the bikes with low clip-ons. My priorities are obviously idiotic, but hey, that's me. Operation is...
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kenyon:
what afterbirth said is what i was thinking. and: party at wheezy_e's folks house everybody!!!!!!!!!! (ps - kisses to norvin)
afterbirth:
I am ashamed (I think) to admit I do not get that reference....
Some promising news about my eyes: First, Dr. Shin is still very hot, too bad she now has the HUGEST rock on her hand I've ever seen. She operated on me in 1997, her staff searched for my records and concluded they must have been destroyed by now. But she sent someone to look elsewhere and they found 'em. This is very good because I...
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kenyon:
hmm . . . i'm not exactly sure when my subsciption ends, though i suppose there's a way of finding out. i should get on that in order to give a proper warning, etc.
psyched for your sis and her 2nd book. publishing is crazy. i want to have a book. i should - i should be more ambitious about it. i will be. i guess . . .
psyched for your sis and her 2nd book. publishing is crazy. i want to have a book. i should - i should be more ambitious about it. i will be. i guess . . .
guitargeek:
How's them peepers, eh?
apologies to all who have been commenting in my journal without me doing the same, I've not been spending as much time online as I used to. Mostly working 12s, training some guys so hopefully it'll ease up on me a bit when they can work on their own.
Car: After getting the trans issues sorted I turned my attention to why the car was...
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philipfry:
Burning rubber and drifting on 8 cyls? Sounds like a great time to me 
afterbirth:
Vegas IS bad!!!!
check it out bitches. I have aching transmission fluid soaked cuts on both hands and my head, I have a gnarly headache, I'm way past starving, and I have all four gears in the mustang. I'm happy enough to dance a jig. My luck is good, perhaps I should drop a few bucks in a video poker machine? I NEVER gamble.
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afterbirth:
Only four?
Bitch?
Bitch?
philipfry:
Sounds like a small price to pay for all four gears in the 'Stang. Congrats!!
O shit fuck ass. I don't feel like typing out my frustration twice so here's a cut & paste from formuscle.com thread concerning my missing 3rd & 4th gears:
Ok, here's an update. I pulled the valve body and went through the shift kit install instructions again fully intending to pull the od servo as well. I was very happy to find two pieces of...
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Ok, here's an update. I pulled the valve body and went through the shift kit install instructions again fully intending to pull the od servo as well. I was very happy to find two pieces of...
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i___zombie:
OUCH! ... about the trans...
Norvin sounds like quite the character...
The Chef is a favorite!
So is the Professor, and Beaker!
Right now, our favorite, but have yet to find, is the two aliens, with the phone... I'll go find it...
Norvin sounds like quite the character...
The Chef is a favorite!
So is the Professor, and Beaker!
Right now, our favorite, but have yet to find, is the two aliens, with the phone... I'll go find it...
philipfry:
That sucks about the trans. I need to replace the one in my Buick but Im not to motivated to get it done. And theres nothing wrong with talking like the Swedish Chef in public. I do it all the time...
fuggin hell I'm busy. not a complaint. I'm almost certain I tracked down my missing 3rd & 4th gear on the coupe. Pulled the valve body, the 2-3 valve assembly was stuck without a doubt. I pulled it out & took some 800 & 1500 sandpaper to the travelling/sealing surfaces & it now moves through its range nice and smooth. Hopefully I'll put the valve...
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guitargeek:
Told ya! 
philipfry:
Nice!
ok. friend's victory in the garage for a month is getting a little old. first- the set of head & base gaskets he got ended up being 2 rears. second - he pulled a stud out of the case torqing the heads (luckily it was the rear for which we now have 3 gaskets). Third, he took the stud to get a helicoil the right...
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guitargeek:
Awww, I miss having a fast car. That makes me want to dig into the Flinkin... Then I realize how much money that's going to cost to get it running and I go back to tinkering on my bike.
How's the quality on that Victory? Is it as big a piece of shit as a Harley?
How's the quality on that Victory? Is it as big a piece of shit as a Harley?
heterochromia:
The Triumph dealer in Sac also sells Victorys (Victories?). I don't care for the styling, too Harley-like for my taste. Say, how's that Norvin of yours doing?
guitargeek:
That's fucking crazy!
philipfry:
Wow. Old people are so cute when they dance and listen to rock n roll.
I've been pretty absent here lately, busy playing monopoly. Spring means an excess of work & I've been training some new guys. This year there's an invasive species of mussel in the lake that causes a lot of headaches for boats. I doubt it will have the huge effect on our boat lift business that others assume, but I don't at all doubt that it...
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guitargeek:
I was working on my clothes dryer one time. It was a 220 model, an old Norge and it worked great but the bearings on the drum were shot to shit. I was using carburetor cleaner to get the cooked on grease off of the bearings and spacers. I sprayed enough to fill the laundry room with fumes, which eventually made their way to the pilot light on the water heater... (insert mental movie of me break dancing, all the hair on my arms on fire)
Glad your business is rocking along, bummer about the zebra mussels. The main problem we're having with out local lakes is that they're drying up. Levels are way down, dangerously low. All kinds of debris is starting to show up: boats and cars that were sunk decades ago, submerged tree stumps from back before the lakes were originally flooded (all the many, many lakes in Oklahoma were made by the Army Corps of Engineers.)
Glad your business is rocking along, bummer about the zebra mussels. The main problem we're having with out local lakes is that they're drying up. Levels are way down, dangerously low. All kinds of debris is starting to show up: boats and cars that were sunk decades ago, submerged tree stumps from back before the lakes were originally flooded (all the many, many lakes in Oklahoma were made by the Army Corps of Engineers.)
philipfry:
I like fire when it doesnt involve me or my stuff. Good to hear that no neighbors or Mustangs we harmed. Not to sound totally ignorant but what all is involved with a lift business?
Take care of yourself, and enjoy your recoup vacation. I'm off week this work. I like how that typo looks so I'm leaving it unfixed.