You've been here since 2002. If you can't recognize sarcasm by now...


Sorry for the challenges life is throwing at you Cincy.



THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th:
1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.

1846 - Inventor George Westinghouse was born. He was the founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems.

1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days. Sort of like Amtrak is today!

1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.

1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.

1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.

1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."

1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Now we need to build them to protect us from our president.

1986 - A Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles from New York.

1992 - Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race.


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

 

Dang Eric, guess you've have had a tough month. Extra prayers from here bud.

Stan, I wouldn't take it as all is OK but that some are just too overloaded to ask. As far as our drivel, what do you think we use for the base in the phoo.

Morning. Replaced the LF CV axle in a 93 MX6 yesterday and pulled some parts off the Intrepid and headed back to the salvage yard today. So much for teaching lessons, wife's tired of driving her son to work. I need something else thrown at me before I head out.

 

Being ugly beats the alternative. As long as I dont look like Chaikwa


Thanks for all the thoughts guys. Life has really been testing me lately. I also forgot to mention that I did sell my house however we have yet to sign on another. I have till the 17th of this month to be out If we cant find one, then it looks like I'll be moving to Rick's house.

 

Hang in there Eric..... Prayers sent from WV...

Me I am doing well, came back to my desk Monday after 3 months absence and already hate the look of it I got a long way to go yet but nothing a little hard work won't cure

 

Thank you for the prayers they mean a lot. I'm glad getting better, I couldn't imagine being on bed rest

 

Well look at the bright side, if nothing else you have a really good foundation for a top ten country song!!!

 

Yeah being stuck in that bed for 3 months was pretty tough but it is behind me now.

 

Happy afternoon people.

Cincy, we were just talking about how the fall season is when there's a row of tough times for people. Hang in there. The silver lining on you selling the house, you sold your house in a market that is tanked. I know the 17th seems right here but the Navy has taught us two weeks for a move out is graciously long. I've been there, looking for a house with nowhere to live...well, almost no where. It was a dumpy Budget Suites, might as well have been on the streets. Just focus on what you have to do. The man upstairs will take care of the rest. Sorry to hear about your back When it rain it pours. Keep on, friend.

 

A bit of good old entertainment. This is for the conservitives. I think we all are in here anyway.

http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.c...d-in-1948.html

1948 Cartoon It's about 3 minutes long

 

Well, Bob and I probably passed each other today. We've been hanging out off-grid up in Taos and just came down to Albuquerque this afternoon. Hope to see some balloons tomorrow and Saturday before heading back to Oklahoma.

Night all. Just logging in with my cell phone hot spot so haven't taken time to catch up but thought I'd offer a fly-by greeting.

 

Bye bye yankees!!!!

 

Poor A-Rod.

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7th:
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."

1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.

1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.

1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.

1982 - A record was set when 147,000,000 shares were exchanged on the New York Stock Exchange.

1989 - In Budapest, Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.

1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.

1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.

2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Has your greatest fear ever come true?

 

Morning fellow sludge drinkers..

Going to look at a house tonight.

 

Morning everybody


Cincy, hope the house is a good'un