evening all...
I got gas and its bad....

 

Evenin' All!

Good day today. The Wife and I have been Married 8 years today! Got off work this mornin' and walked in the door to find a Turkey fryer and 5gal of oil! Been wanting one of those as well. I got here a new point and shoot camera which she really liked. Now I don't have to sleep with a new vacuum cleaner or leaf blower........

High temp today was the current -37*F. Revised forecast says -40* to -50*F tonight......

 

Kind of off your topic. Gas up here is 4.35 a gallon and diesel jumped to $1.13 a liter or 4.56 a gallon shortly after I filled up for 1.07 a liter.

Zero visibility with fog here. Temp is steady at 10F and more snow on the way. I will take the fog and the snow over those cold temps but they will be here again soon.

 

Congrats Marc! Not very imaginative on the camera tho. It's easy to get a gift when you KNOW they'll like it, but it's more fun when you take a chance and watch the expression on their face when they open it! I'd still have gone with the vacuum.

Got an email from Heidi and she asked that I pass on this info;
"i miss you DTR guys terrible!! Let 'em know I miss em and i will be fine. can't do much computer"...
So there you have it right from the source! She's doing well and thinking of us often.



Morning all.

Today is Thursday, December 16th. Only 8 days & 16 hours 'til Christmas.

On this day in 1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.

1835 - In New York, 530 buildings were destroyed by fire.

1912 - The first postage stamp to depict an airplane was issued was a 20-cent parcel-post stamp.

1940 - French Premier Petain arrested Pierre Laval after learning of a plan for Laval to seize power and set up a new government with German support.

1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.

1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."

1960 - A United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people.

1981 - The U.S. Congress restored the $122 minimum monthly social security benefit for current recipients.

1985 - Reputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a New York City restaurant.

1995 - Many U.S. government functions were again closed as a temporary finance provision expired and the budget dispute between President Clinton and Republicans in Congress continued.

1998 - The U.S. and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors.

2000 - Researchers announced that information from NASA's Galileo spacecraft indicated that Ganymede appeared to have a liquid saltwater ocean beneath a surface of solid ice. Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the solar system's largest moon. The discovery is considered important since water is a key ingredient for life.

2000 - U.S. President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to be the first African-American secretary of state. Powell was sworn in January 20, 2001.

2001 - Cuba received the first commercial food shipment from the United States in nearly 40 years. The shipment was sent to help Cuba after Hurrican Michelle hit Cuba on November 4, 2001.

2001 - A British newspaper, The Observer, reported that a notebook had been found at an al-Quaida training camp in southern Afghanistan. The notebook contained a "blue print" for an bomb attack on London's financial district.

2009 - Astronomers discovered GJ1214b. It was the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Coffee, tea & ph00 are ready. Someone left some bacon in here. Oh wait, maybe that's the smell left over from Fronty last night.

 

Thanks, And I know..... I had a serious lack of inspiration this year...... But I got some good stuff up my sleeves for Christmas.

 

Irons always go over well, or so I hear.

 

Goes well with a new mop.

 

Morning Yall

At Home, gonna be pretty scarce for a while. We are leaving tomorrow for the mountains and Im not sure if the cabin has the internets. So... To all my Breakroom buddies, if I dont see yall. Merry Christmas!

 

Morning. Dragon's stoked. Had to add a little cresote to the coffee to smooth it out. White choclate covered pretzels to snack on and some nutty dunkers.

Also, I called Heidi on the way home last night. Yes, she misses everybody. Got passed up by the big snow. Sounded good despite issues. She just got done having some internal scarring removed and some other issues. Sounds like a controlled, continuous process. Mike keeping busy building custom cabinets.

Now we just need to dig Claude out of the snow. I told him it would help if he put a blinking light on his radio antenna. Then just look for the glowing snow. Breaker 1-9... I'm here, are you there?

 

Yes! Good idea!

GONNA be? What makes this different from any other time in recent memory?

White chocolate... that's one of those oxymoron things that's just plain wrong. They just don't belong together. Like 'tech support', 'army intelligence' or 'state worker'.

 

$470 the one (and only) time I had to pay for it and that was a few years ago. I'll not get any pay for helping but I'm kinda jammed up on this one Scott. The guy is 6K behind on his payments to me. He lacked 20 minutes of working time to finish the job and usually gets paid on the Friday of the week in which he finishes. If he gets paid, I'll get a check, albeit much smaller than the amount he's behind but I need money as well. Repoing the equipment won't help because he's damaged the hoe, the clutch is out on the lowboy and I don't have a job for it anyway. At this time, I'm better off helping a little for free.

Merry Christmas Blake! Have fun with the kids and enjoy the break.

 

Or like a fireman that never gets dirty nor has any singed hair?

Rick, I feel for ya. Seems like whnever we needed to bust track in the Army, was in the middle of a snowstorm in Hoenfell's Germany in waste deep mud. Even worse, not being allowed to take your helmet, web gear and gas mask off to do it..
On a side note, if it came to it. That thing might bring more in parts than even one in good shape. In this economy, everybody's fixing thier junk instead of buying.

 

It may bring more, the only problem is I don't have any place to break it apart on the slow so I can sell off the pieces.

 

Tell him if he comes and tears it down you won't put a lein on his house for the balance.J.K.

 

He'd just put the wheels back under it and move.