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Will do Ken. I always message him if I see his green light on, but like slpwlker said, he's not on facebook very often either.

that's good Vinny, some schools have been open down here for 2 weeks already! I always got out around the first of June and didn't have to go back until September.

that was August 14 when I talked to him, just happened to see him on there. Said he was taking it slow and easy until he got back in the swing of things.

yeah Bob, our ribs look way better than her's...we just don't look as good cooking them!

talked to him on facebook a couple weeks ago, he said he'd had another stent put in, and the Texas heat wave wasn't helping things, but he was doing fairly well otherwise.

"no, I don't need a ride, i'll just walk- but thanks for the offer though"

Nice! I only rode in a Corvette once in my life, and that was just a couple of years ago.

Thank you very much indeed!

need pockets, gotta have a pocket for your pen, lighter, and a pack of camels.

Russian woman trying to impress Vlad.

those were my favorite model Corvettes, I liked the split windows and the way they tapered in towards the rear. '66-'67 i'm thinking?

...and now- the rest of the story! didn't see much else really. Took this from Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg, looking up 29 north. Happened to catch 2 big Mack trucks going south.They said the truck would be finished at 2:30 or 3pm, but it wasn't done until 5. closer look- Their Brigadier yard dog and plow truck. I did finally see a new airbag. and I saw another girl in another car again. you'd need a crowbar to get a credit card between her knees, her momma taught her well! Big Komatsu dozer on the coal pile...well, the blade anyway. Had to go from Oakland, Md. to Warren, Oh. to get this load at Flex-Strut. Got it strapped and half tarped- note the felt pad in front to protect tarp from sharp edges- got a bunch of them out of a dumpster at Lane Steel in McKees Rocks. All tarped, at the yard this morning. The nice looking big Mack for sale in W.V. I held the camera out the window and aimed behind me to get this, sorry it's so blurry.

I fueled up at Truck World today.

Got a new airbag, and new U bolts. They say the U bolts were loose to start with, let the axle move, sheared off the centering pin, and that's what caused the airbag to suffer catastrophic failure, probably rubbing against the tire. Got more pics. when I get home, i'm in West Virginia now, on the laptop instead of riding like I should be doing.

too bad it's not the same weekend, you'd almost be there! I haven't been since '06, maybe '07, because i'd go to Lincolnton,N.C.in summer, and Colfax, N.C. in November. This year they moved Lincolnton to September also, so i'm going to check out Winchester again. It was a good show last time I was there, and a lot more trucks than at Lincolnton i'd say. here's some pictures I took in '06- http://www.thedieselgypsy.com/Tom%20Blackwell-truck%20show.htm

Oh, and i'm gone- i'm behind the Lowes store in Oakland, Md. now.

everybody loves boobage!

I hope i'm done for the week now, been sitting around all day. If I have to leave tonight i'll have to stop in Winfall and get a Red Bull.

...next thing you know you'll be talking about them wimmins too.

wow Vinny- you're starting to talk like a truck driver or something!

Anybody planning on going? I think I might go this year, since they changed the date of the Lincolnton, N.C. show. It's September 26-28.

That's what worried me about that blown airbag yesterday. I had a load of treated lumber on, had to go from Lovingston up to rt. 6 to turn around, then back 8 or 10 miles to drop the trailer. I was thinking the whole time "if another one blows from all the pressure i'm gonna be in a world of doo-doo!"

Jo asked me what it was, and that's exactly what I told her- "it's one of them things where they back it over a big iron container of hot steel and connect to it, then they lift it up and take it someplace else and drop the container, then a crane dumps the container into a thing, then this machine takes the big iron container back to where it started, to get more hot stuff." They can turn that thing around on a dime though.

I was lucky there, we were sitting at a red light.

I went to truck enterprises in Lynchburg, they gave me a ride to the shop and I got the pickup and came home, it's only about 5 or 6 miles from the shop.