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Oh yeah, got all that. It was at the top of the list. I'll bring it to Macungie.

Happy birthday!

She's 81 now. Here's a photo of her from this year.

We got some plants, a bottle of Lucas because the front hub on the furniture truck was just a tad low, a bottle of power steering fluid because the reservoir on the GMC was just a tad low, a few bags of rocks for the driveway so I can back the GMC in beside the furniture truck... don't remember what else, I'll see if I can find the receipt and get back to you...

We found out that a single axle sleeper is kind of hard to come by.

No, it's black. I haven't seen any evidence of red paint on anything.

Just a unit we picked up that was for sale. Zina saw it on marketplace and showed it to me and said "that's the truck we need". I said "yep, sure is, too bad we just bought that GMC". I was actually going to go look at it for somebody else, then he said it was no longer for sale, then the owner called me and said I could get it if I wanted it, so we went to look at it and drove it. And ended up bringing it home. I had already told both of them that if the other fellow didn't buy it we would, and he didn't, so I was committed to buy it then. The GMC is too slow for her, so maybe this will be the one that we can get in and go places. It's a fleet-spec truck, has about a million miles, but had a Re-mack engine installed at around 800,000. I've been doing a little painting and polishing on it, and put a new mattress in the sleeper. Cleaned the interior, it looked like it hadn't been cleaned since 1998. So I guess the GMC is for sale...I guess the big green International that runs now is too.

I had a Muncie 4 speed in my hot rod Nova that I had when I was a kid (18), then I put it in a 70 Chevelle SS that I bought. I had a Hurst Competition Plus shifter on it, but when I saw some guys small block Vega with a vertigate shifter in it I thought I had to have one, just because it looked so cool. But it wasn't nearly as quick as the Hurst, had a longer throw too, but it did look cool!

I get e-mails all the time from trucking companies trying to to recruit me to drive for them. And some of them offer like TWICE what I was making before I retired. Makes me wonder...but I'm not going back.

Just got the GMC back from Powell's Truck and Equipment. They ended up sending the pump off to be rebuilt because it was taking so long to get a pump for it. Been up there since February. They also replaced the air bags, leveling valve, a fuel line, and a turbo clamp. A little over $4400. But we drove it to the Walmart store today.

Sounds legit. I'm not an engineer but I don't see why that wouldn't work. I have an old lawn mower out back that you can the wheels off of if you want them.

Maybe if you strapped some of these to the front bumper?..just a thought (VanScott builders, 1962).

I have to admit, years ago, long before I retired, I used to get a little pissed off at all the people at truck shows that were zooming by on the scooters and golf carts. I was going to the Turkey Rod Run in Daytona during Thanksgiving for several years and that was about the worst, I think those scooter drivers down there would run right over you and think nothing of it. But anyhow, the older I get the more I can understand the golf carts. But still, some of the people, and especially the ones in Daytona, did not appear to be handicapped in any way except for laziness.

Happy birthday!

That's how I look at it, we were watching some show on TV last night, Zina calls it "the jailbirds" but that's not the name of it. And it showed these 2 gay guys, one had just gotten out of jail, and his boyfriend was in the hot tub at the motel waiting for him to get there, and it showed them hugging and kissing. And what they do on their own time is their own business, that's between them and God, but I don't want to see that crap.

I think if I ever got in trouble in Reno I'd just tell 'em I know Bob. "Oh, you know Bob? Well, that changes everything, you're free to go sir, sorry for any inconvenience".

I remember Arnold saying that in a movie, just "get out". I don't remember now if it was a Rambo movie or a Terminator movie. I found it, one of the Terminator movies. https://youtu.be/uQwjojvRNI4?si=XdPnb2C51JEinrAv

I'll remember that if I ever get thrown in the slammer in Reno. When I get out I'm going to demand that they give me a horse!

I think so too. Don't worry, if we're wrong I'm sure the smartest one on here will set us straight pretty quick.🤣

By the way, anybody know anything about a '37 LaSalle?

Everything's always on topic here...I don't even remember what the topic was, I have to go back and look. Meanwhile, here's Susanna in the 80's.

I don't think anybody has any problems at all with people coming here legally, obeying the law, being good citizens in general. But when all the illegals have been just walking across the border freely for the last several years that should be everybody's problem. I'm sure some are good people and I'm just as sure some are absolutely no good, the drug dealers, rapists, robbers, and murderers. And they are only here to take advantage of the system, be it by criminal activity, collecting welfare by false pretenses, or voting for democrats. And you mean that even though these thugs and criminals walked into this country illegally they can't be rounded up and shipped back to wherever they came from legally? Common sense should apply here, but it obviously does not. It's a good thing I'm not king for a day, when I hauled their asses back I wouldn't land the plane, I'd just open the door and say "get out", in my Arnold Schwarzenegger voice.🤣

I have to say, that Susanna Hoffs is one of the most beautiful wimmens ever, in my opinion. I don't know anything about Nena, but every time I hear that song nowadays all I think about is this- And I've seen ZZ Top in concert more than any other band, but I've always regretted not going to see them in Roanoke when they were with George Thorogood.

We watched this TV show a while back called Outlander. Actually it's a series, had about 8 or 10 seasons. Y'all might have heard of it, but it was new to me. There's so many shows on so many channels now it's hard to keep up with them all. But somebody told Zina about it, she started watching it, so I started watching it, so she went back to the beginning. And it's really good, seems to be historically accurate too, very entertaining show if you're looking for something to watch.