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Yep, trying to cut all the fraudulent and wasteful government spending to reduce that 30- something TRILLION dollar deficit, sounds like he's hell bent on destroying the country all right.

I'll bet, it cost me about $60 to send Andrew Bee a few bottles of hot sauce.

Yah, "we wants our free shit!"

Man, ain't that the truth!

Awesome job Larry! Looks great. And as far as the spray paint goes,.. had to go out and get Roman and Belle. 2 kids were walking by so I had to grab Roman before he decided to bite their shoes. Anyway, where was I- oh, spray paint. I got a little agitated in the Walmart store a while back when I went to pick up a can of appliance white paint. Not to paint an appliance, but that's what we used to paint our wheels with back in the day. And all the spray paint was locked up, you couldn't touch a can of any of it. There was a button there on the wall and a sign that said "Push For Help". So I pushed the button to summon help several times, waited around about 10 minutes because I wanted the paint, but no help ever arrived. So needless to say I got pissed, threw all my other items down on a counter that nobody was at anyway, and left. I went to the hardware store and got the paint, probably paid twice as much for it, but oh well. Somebody told me me later that it was locked up because kids were "huffing" it to get high. But when I went back to the Walmart store I actually saw somebody who worked there and told him the story, and he said they locked it up because people couldn't just go by the color on the cap, they had to spray in on something. He said they would ruin $600 worth of merchandise spraying a $6 can of paint to test the color.

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That is something I've always wanted to do, the Rivers of Steel Tour. You can see the Carrie Furnace from the Homestead high level bridge. I loaded steel beams at Homestead works in the early 80's. You turned right off the bridge to go down into the steel mill, you went to one side to load beams and turned the other way to load coils. It was the best US Steel facility I ever loaded at. Gary, In. was the worst and Fairless Works wasn't much better. I don't think they cared if you sat there a week waiting to get loaded, and were hateful to you the whole time you were there. I hadn't been to Fairless, Pa. for a long time but I crossed the Homestead bridge regularly going to Galv-Tech to load. You wouldn't even know a huge steel mill was ever there now. Kind of like Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, Md. And Bethlehem, Pa. too for that matter. If any of you are going to Macungie you should go over to the old Bethlehem Steel facility and check it out. They have an elevated walkway that you can walk and see the blast furnaces up close, very interesting to see. Also the 14" gun barrel from the USS Mississippi is displayed there. And there's a casino and several hundred stores there too. Maybe thousands. The first time I was there since I was actually loading steel there was one night when I was delivering something in Allentown or Bethlehem. A fellow happened to stop by with several chern in his Dodge pickup and told me he was going to take me out for dinner at his cousin's Pizza place. I'd never seen the guy before, but pizza sounded better than beanie-weenies so I got in his truck. Turned out to be a real nice guy, and he showed me around the old steel mill. Big Detroit Diesel fan, he talked a lot about them. Not the new ones, but the old General Motors 2 cycle engines. I think he said he wished he had a 6-71 in his 1958 FWD fire truck. Oh, that reminds me- he was actually a member here on BMT! Goes by 1958 FWD. I'd like to get him to take us on another tour of the steel mill, it was dark last time. I also loaded coils at Jones and Laughlin steel in Cleveland several times, it wasn't a bad place to load either.

Oh absolutely, much, much more we could go on and on about.

Why do all the democrats think men should be allowed to compete in women's sports? Do most of the American people think they should? I would think not, and it's a no-brainer, but look how hard they're fighting for it. Why do all the democrats think it's ok to murder innocent babies? Do most of the American people think it's ok? I would think not, and that's a no-brainer too, but look how hard they're fighting for the right to do just that.

Me too! I loved listening to "Coast to Coast AM". And some of it was was scary stuff, no doubt about it. And "whack job"- that's a good one, I don't think I'd ever heard it before Zina . She's always saying somebody or other is a whack job!🤣

Is that why on the older 13 speeds they recommended shifting it like a 2 speed axle, that you shift to the next higher gear first then move the splitter button back to direct, then the later ones they said it was OK to preselect the splitter?

That's for sure.

Wow, yes I remember when a small bag of chips cost a nickel, a candy bar was a nickel, and a soda out of a vending machine was 10 cents. I remember very well the time my mother sent me over to Jenkins store to get her a candy bar. The same store Dad sent me to to get him a pack of Camels. She wanted a Big Time I think, or a Hollywood. But I'm pretty sure she wanted a Big Time. But I didn't want to go to the store, for whatever reason. She gave me a whole quarter and told me to go to the store and get her that candy bar. The store was just past my grandfather's house, which was across the field from our house. And I started across the field between our house and my grandfather's house, the field that had just been plowed. I thought "I'll just show her!" So I stopped and picked up a dirt clod and put that quarter under it, then set the dirt clod back down on top of it. I started walking back towards the house and ma saw me and said "I thought you were going to the store- where's my quarter?" I said "I put it under a dirt clod". She said "where? Which dirt clod?" I said "right there-" and I turned around and looked and there was a thousand clods of dirt, and they all looked exactly alike. Me, ma, and my brothers all looked for that quarter but we never did find it. I'm sure it's still there in that field to this day.

I've driven 4 different trucks with 18 speeds in them, many with 13 speeds, and I never knew there was an air filter on them. Of course I never claimed to be a mechanic, and not much of a truck driver 🤣

VA. does have a good governor, and I'm planning to vote for Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears when she runs for governor. On the other hand, we also have worthless POS tim kaine here, and that other worthless a-hole POS mark warner.

They have lots of toys Plus a few more that's scattered about, and when the back yard had a small creek running through it a couple of weeks ago I picked up all these and put them on the picnic table. There's a gallon vinegar jug there, one of Zina's shoes, and much more 🤣

I did that for a while when I hauled pulpwood and wood chips to the paper mill in Covington. We had these books that I think you could put a week on one page, you had to keep track of your hours but not break it down like a regular log book.

I did some more grilling today, I cooked some ribs for a neighbor. This nice lady dropped by and wanted to know if she could help and maybe learn a bit about smoking ribs. I'd never seen her before, but she said she lived just up the road a little ways, so I said " sure, grab a Miller Lite and we'll get going here". She drank about 4, then she said "you wanna see these?" I said "heck no, they've only been on the smoker half an hour, they're nowhere near done yet, so there's no need to look at them!" Then she said "I think i'll go home now". She was weird, way too complex for me to try to understand.

I drove for years and my log book said I drove 452 miles today, even if I drove from Seattle to Memphis. 452 miles. 🤣

No doubt, the T660 got great fuel mileage. I always said if I only ran to Florida or Texas every week, which I did not, it would be a great truck. It was just not the best suited for what I was doing. If it had 3.70 rears, or even 3.55's, and a 13 speed with the 485hp. engine it would have been much better I'm sure. I think 485hp was the biggest PACCAR available at the time.

Daggone it, I guess the big cup wasn't a good idea- this post is in the wrong category altogether! Can an official modulator move it for me, or do I have to do it manually?.. hate when that happens!

I decided to make a meatloaf today, because Zina suggested that I make a meatloaf. I didn't wrap it in bacon, because I didn't have any bacon. It looked like this after I mixed the ground chuck, Jimmy Dean sausage, peppers, onions, and some other stuff together. I found this pan laying outside of the dumpster last week, but I scrubbed it good before I put the meatloaf in it. I like it because of those holes in it. Then I put it on the grill, as seen here- After a while it looked like this. This temperature gauge says it's done- So y'all can come on over any time. I used this cup to cook the meatloaf because it holds 2 Miller Lites, so I only have to come inside and get a Miller Lite half as often. Not sure if that's really a good thing yet. And this is what I did yesterday, made this walkway. I'm trying to do 5 things, so I don't get fired. 🤣

I used to drive a T660 and it was one of the best and one of the worst trucks I ever drove. But it wasn't the truck's fault, it was just set up totally wrong for what I was doing. I was hauling mostly treated lumber and steel- I would load the lumber in Moneta, VA. and take it mainly to Ohio and western Pa.then load coils and bring them back to Lynchburg, VA. It was uphill all the way up there, and it was uphill all the way back. I was loaded heavy both ways, I never weighed a load of the treated lumber that wasn't over gross. And the truck had a 455hp. PACCAR engine in it with a 10 speed transmission and 3.36 rears. It seemed like a slug to me, especially after getting out of a Peterbilt with a 550 Cat with an 18 speed. When Jeff traded it for a T800 it was on it's 3rd. turbo, only had 400 and some thousand miles on it. For the "best" truck, it was one of the most comfortable trucks I drove. It rode great, drove great, and was one of the best insulated- no, that's wrong, it was THE best insulated truck I ever drove. Unless it was under 20 degrees I could turn it off in winter and sleep comfortably. It had 3 way power mirrors that went up and down, not just in and out. I often said that if it had had the running gear that the T800 that I got after the T660 it would have been the cat's ass. This is the T800 Jeff traded it for, it was a great truck. 500 ISX Cummins, 18 speed, 3.55 rears. I had no complaints about this one. This is the 2nd. T800 Jeff bought, I was driving this when I retired. It had a 500 HP X15 Cummins engine, 18 speed, 3.55 rears too. Identical to the first one except for the external breathers. And both of those 500hp Cummins engines would out pull the 550 Cat, easily. Same transmission, same rears.