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Of course I didn't-I have way too much respect for you as a human bean to blame you for anything!

get under a tall tree,quick!..just kiddin'!

Karl finally got out of the "nervous hospital" and ended up becoming a cop...

I made that trip to Puyallup this winter, my first trip to the great northwest too. I'd been to California several times, but it was 30 years ago. I loved it, except for the snow and ice part-you can really cover some ground in a day out there in the wide open spaces, with little traffic on the road, 70 or 75 mph speed limits, and it's just beautiful country too. I certainly wouldn't mind making that trip again now that it's warm. Montana's probably even prettier now.

I'm glad I drive a Peterbilt. You'd probly be bored without having me to pick on.

Besides, if we were like real politicians we'd have a secret meeting in the back room of a body shop at an undisclosed location somewhere in the midwest, with a cloud of cigar smoke over us and the liquor flowing freely- then blame somebody else that had nothing to do with us veering off course, like nocluejoe, or perhaps Greg Rider

you're welcome

hey, it was good enough for grandpa! btw, i've scrood around with this picture so much i've lost the original face...uh, you wouldn't happen to have, uh... maybe you could post it again so we can continue to mess with it?..perhaps?..just a thought (Paul VanScott) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w5Le0w4pQ8

might as well talk about the garden...ain't been doing any truckin'. It's really growing and looking good. Even the upside down tomater in the bucket looks pretty good...bucket's kinda ugly though. Got some herbs in the round things. Waitin' on Paul to tell me what to do with 'em. And squirrels are already eating the peaches, and they're not even close to being ripe. Why don't these squirrels eat all these acorns and hickory nuts around here, like real squirrels?

oh...sorry-I really like her "Mack" necklace and earrings!

yes it does-I like her Peterbilt necklace and earrings too!

I do

no, the stealer is not supposed to get caught, and when you do the owner is not actually supposed to shoot AT you, just in the air to scare you when you're running like hell! They must not have known the rules of this tradition

I would guess a junk yard or find an old unit sitting in the woods somewhere...I don't know, they're hard to find anymore. If i'd only known 20 years ago what I knowed now, i'd have bought a few dozen. Then you could go in any truckstop and find a wide variety of knobs, adapters, extensions, whatever you wanted. Then they had to go and change the range selectors and splitter button.

We were hauling piling from Va. to Conoco-Philips in Roxana for a long time, all spring, but I guess it's over with. Hopefully they're just driving some of what they had on the ground and they'll need more later. Things are kinda slow now.

raiding a watermelon patch is a time honored tradition-kinda expected.

I agree. I was robbed at the old TA truckstop on I-70 just north of Dayton around '80 or'81. While I was taking a shower a thief reached over the door and stole my pants off a hook. Got my wallet with my drivers license, what little cash I had, all my keys-had to take the switch out of that F-model and start it with 2 paper clips. I still wish i'd seen that arm coming over the door so I could have twisted it off and showed him what the other end of it looked like.

I have way to much respect for you as a human bean to accuse you of such a dastardly deed-or to pick on you.

I got the first contribution today! A very generous donation from A BMT member. I'm gonna wait a little while to send it, just in case more comes in.

South Roxana, Il?..we've hauled a pile of piling out there this year to the Conoco Philips refinery!

stimulus money?.. yay, stimulus money! ...right. Anyway, the tomatoes are growing, looking good- already got green ones on the vines. Best looking garden i've had for several years. Even the herbs look good, I think...never grew any before, and don't know what to do with Basil, Chives, Oregano, Cilantro, Sage...and something else. I need to be figuring out which to dry, which to freeze, which to use fresh, when to cut it, and so on.

Crap!..This week STILL ain't going too good so far- I went to the doctor today and he told me to come back tomorrow (again!) so he could look at it and change the bandage (again!). Only tomorrow i've got to see him in Lynchburg. The doctor couldn't believe the amount of stuff that was still in there. He said "I think we've about got it!.. no, wait- spoke too soon." He said maybe tomorrow I would be good to go with just a band-aid. Same thing he said yesterday. And the day before...and the day before. Meanwhile, no income, and i'm getting crankier all the time. Had to pass up a load going to Fremont, Ohio today. I try to tell myself it's best to do what he says and not risk having even bigger problems with it, or having it get infected or something, but this is getting old fast. I feel fine, but he's had to work on it every day this week. Good thing I can't get to it, or I might monkey up And how about David Carradine (Kung-Fu)? Just saw where he had hanged himself in a motel room. So many people in the world struggling to live...and he kills himself.

thanks for using the "w" word- Jo called me a "pu..." word. , just because I was writhing in pain when she grabbed me and wanted a smooch Friday.

Damn, that's more crooks and liars involved than you should encounter in a lifetime! I hope you get this mess straightened out, good luck.