Totallyrad

Come and get it! Coffee and donuts are up and ready. There's phoo for you who want phoo.

Morning all. Woke up at 0500, too early so closed the peepers. 0600 cramps in my left calf reopened them so I'm up now.

chaikwa

10 minutes to get anything but a blank white screen. Beautiful. I guess the theme of the weekend, which is 'How much can things suck' continues.

It's Sunday, September 15th.

1775 - An early and unofficial American flag was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Mott after the seizing of Fort Johnson from the British. The flag was dark blue with the white word "Liberty" spelled on it.

1776 - British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.

1789 - The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.

1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador proclaimed independence.

1853 - Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained becoming first female minister in the United States.

1857 - Timothy Alder earned a patent for the typesetting machine.

1858 - The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO and San Francisco, CA.

1883 - The University of Texas at Austin opened.

1909 - A New York judge rule that Ford Motor Company had infringed on George Seldon's patent for the "Road Engine." The ruling was later overturned.

1909 - Charles F. Kettering applied for a patent on his ignition system. His company Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) later became a subsidiary of General Motors.

1916 - During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields.

1917 - Alexander Kerensky proclaimed Russia to be a republic.

1923 - Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities.

1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.

1935 - The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by **** Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of **** Germany.

1940 - The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain.

1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.

1950 - U.N. forces landed at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul.

1953 - The National Boxing Association adopted the 10-point scoring system for all of its matches.

1955 - Betty Robbins became the first woman cantor.

1959 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit.

1961 - The U.S. resumed underground testing of nuclear weapons.

1965 - "Lost in Space" premiered on CBS TV.

1965 - "Green Acres" premiered on CBS TV.

1971 - Greenpeace was founded.

1978 - Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks to win his 3rd World Heavyweight Boxing title.

1982 - The first issue of "USA Today" was published.

1983 - The U.S. Senate joined the U.S. House of Representatives in their condemning of the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jet with 269 people onboard.

1990 - France announced that it would send an additional 4,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf. They also expelled Iraqi military attaches in Paris.

1993 - The FBI announced a new national campaign concerning the crime of carjacking.

1994 - U.S. President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power."

1995 - The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing.

1998 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian military to be on full alert and massed troops on its border with Afghanistan.

1998 - It was announced that 5.9 million people read The Starr Report on the Internet. 606,000 people read the White House defense of U.S. President Clinton.

Today's thought:
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Shorts

Morning yall. Back home now. Slept in our own bed last night. It was excellent. Crashed out. Felt good to drive my own truck yesterday. She was peppy after sitting a week. Guessed Big Girl missed me. I missed her too

Should be a good day

NE frmhnd

Bad shoes. Had a lump under the outer edge of my left foot. Still sore but much more easily walked on. Now if the flat-top had a decent seat in it....
New Holland quoted me $600 a day for a wheeled machine. John Deere said that's about right. Bobcat quoted $725 or so for a week for a similar sized tracked machine, and about $450 for a wheeled machine. Just gotta make a 4 hour trip to pick it up and drop it off. And a week is 40 hours on the meter. Any place I've rented anything, was by the day, not by the hour.
And I went to school with his nephew. Well, a nephew another generation out. Not sure what exactly you would call your nephew's kid.

You won't find me at a football, ever. That's on the assumption that the crowd is actually as loud in the stadium as it is on the radio. You'd think that the people who broadcast NFL and college games could afford a flippin noise cancelling microphone. Heck, I've even got two CB radios with NC mics, and a spare on top of that!
By the time I get the radio turned up enough I can hear the announcers, the crowd is so loud it hurts me ears. Had to shut the Huskers (can't really call it a game, but what other term is there for it) off several times yesterday because of it.

cougar

Mornin everyone.
To answer your questions about the truck, a guy pulled out in front of me from a side road making a left turn. We met at about 45mph. He said he never saw me, he was looking the other way. I got a fractured rib and some bruises. Don't know how he fared yet. My truck is scrap metal, he couldn't have hit me in a worse spot. Took the front end off of his. Sitting in red tape limbo waiting on the police report before anything can happen, though his insurance company has contacted me.

FiverBob

S'new week again - - wow time flies.

Moved down into lower NC on Friday. At son's mountain home in Sapphire Valley - - really nice here. Have not spent much time around here, but sure purdy. About 3500' elevation. Golf course right below his house is a gorgeous one - - not flat like our Florida courses are. Quite a quaint locations. Recommend.

OK, off to have fun - - have a good one.

Bob

Fronty Owner

did I miss a week?

j_martin

That's why my next upgrade is a train horn

Justwannabeme

whoa, sorry about your truck Coug.....you Did mess up your back, right?lawyer joke. really hope the paperwork flies fast. have a lawyer deal with the insurance company. for 50 bucks he can peruse the contract before you sign it. really worth it.

T raddy is now napping. tired t raddy. anyone got the shaving cream and make up? bwah ha ha

feel proud of my maintenance; boat engines both fired right up after three years down. bucket of suds for tomorrow.
logs cut up, one more trunk brought up. cat on knees for a lil nap.
gluten free spaghetti with garden fresh veggies,

keep calm and carry on! Buffalo Bills won! woo hoo

Lary Ellis (Top)

Good Evening Folks...Got to hang out with my Buddy Madhat this weekend, we raided the armory and he went home with a (censored) and some ammo for it....

Sure was good to have visit Mark and help me thin out that Bourbon supply...don't want it getting stale

Shorts, happy to hear you have a home

Heidi, I need you to pm me your address I got sumpin for ya

The rest of you wild and wacky folks, be safe out there!

Bark

Evening to you and howdy Shorts, Rick, Martin, frmhnd and others.

Well, that's one thing going for you. They will probably try and shaft you on the truck.

Depends on how you look at it.

Wow! Awhile back we went to Seldovia to work on F-inlaws boat. Been sitting covered for over four years.
Twin 327's. One engine wouldn't even bar over. The other we never got started. A lot of controls wouldn't move.
Just sitting has got to be the worst thing you can do to a boat.

2013 - Bark dropped his toast on his foot and discovered toe jam again.
It was perfectly browned perfectly buttered perfectly covered with a thin layer of jam and landed face down on my foot.

chaikwa

Soooo... your foot is so dirty you couldn't eat the toast?

Evening all.

Site is still s l o w. Even got a popup that said 'A script on this page is not loading correctly. Do you want to continue to attempt the script download?' Then it gave the address, (I guess), of the script and it was that loadus excalator thing again. Yup, it's my Michigan connection awright.

Got a new motor for the lawn mower a couple of weeks ago. And blew it up yesterday. Going for motor # 4.

Clutch fan in big truck still not coming on even when engine temp gets to 214 degrees. Went to Cat and they put it on their computer. Diagnosis; "That's not right".

My man van still refuses to start when it's damp or raining outside. Pounded on dashboard in frustration; it started. Maybe that's the solution for everything. If it doesn't work, hit it!

Totallyrad

Did you try United, Hertz etc. United has an office 120 miles from McCook. We usually pay $160-200 a day, three day rental is the same rate as a full week. Typically 8 hours a day daily, 40 hours weekly.

Crap buddy, bad luck for sure.

You are so going on my watch list!

Shorts, glad to hear you'll soon have a place to sleep again.

Evening Bark.

Bark

Evening Rick,

Probably be less unemployment in some areas.

Nope. I am so fat I could barely eat the jam off my foot.

Nice sunny day but didn't get anything done. Supposed to be gone by Tuesday but that may not happen if I keep getting on the comp and watching tv.

jhenson

BOOOOO!!!!! Sorry but I couldn't resist it.....I'm an AGGIE and even though they blew it against the Tide I still have to root for my team!!!

Trying to get back into the DTR lineup so I'm not forgotten. Been super busy with work and school. It's all I can do to find time to sleep these days....I thought morning classes might be easier on my work schedule but now I'm doubting that theory!!!

Going to purchase a SWEET '95 3/4 ton tomorrow.....the price is just WAAAAAAAY too right not to. Everything is cherry but the driver door....needs replacing.....cheap and easy. The A/C needs a recharging as well.....again, super cheap and easy and for the asking price, I simply can't pass it up for no more than needs repairing.

Will try and chime back in tomorrow after all is said and done.

Later folks.