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Happy New Year Rob.

Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to all.

Sure, there's only these few-

No, but you can tell him that it's closer to the garden hose.

Hah, no apologies necessary!

What about boobage? Everybody loves boobage, cake, and ice cream. That's why there's "Odds and Ends", so you can sit in a Peterbilt truck eating an ice cream 🍦 and think about boobage🤣

Yeah, the swelling is about gone, it's still a little sore but not near as bad as it was. This time a week ago it was intense.

Geez, I hope not- I'm too old to fight anymore, and too sore to run!😆

Thanks, so far so good I guess. Nothing out of the ordinary so far, I'm down to 4 pills a day now. Went back to work today, picked up a load going to Norcross, Ga. for Monday.

Thanks Larry. The shed came from Old Hickory Buildings and Sheds, they made it up 29 north of Lynchburg in Nelson Co, but they make them and have dealers all around. This one was supposed to have gone to a dealer's lot in Danville. I went up there on a Saturday when they were closed just to look and a salesman happened to stop by. He sold me this one as being from the dealer lot in Lynchburg so it would be close enough to get the free delivery.

I think it's time for this old favorite again, we're inside of 12 days now.

I remember back in the 80's when we were hauling structural steel to Boston just willy-nilly. I hated it, all the traffic and narrow streets. Anyway, Sam couldn't make a right turn to get to a job site because a car was parked on the corner- illegally of course. So he was sitting there, had the entire street blocked, both directions. A cop came walking up and asked what the problem was, and Sam told him he couldn't make the turn without hitting the car. The cop looked and told him to get turning and unblock the street. Sam said "I can't, i'll hit that car." The cop told him to run over the car because the car wasn't supposed to be there in the first place, and if he didn't HE was going to get a ticket. So he proceeded to run over the car. I would have probably enjoyed it if it was me.

Here's the one from Macungie. A fine looking unit!

Wow, I might hit 60 homers next season!..still won't get in the hall of fame though.

When I was a kid- yeah, it's been a while- my Dad always used Quaker State oil. I don't know how the 292 engine in his Chevrolet pickup looked on the inside, or the 327 in Ma's Impala either, but as I got older I heard more than one person say that Quaker State oil would gum your engine up. And it may not have been any worse than any other oil, but I didn't take any chances with it, I used Pennzoil. Still use Pennzoil, but I use the Pennzoil Platinum synthetic oil now.

Old Bill also had a story about Peninsula trucks on his website, but I didn't remember that he drove one until I just got the book out that he sent me and looked at it. He saw one with the Rolls Royce straight 8 engine too.

It's pretty nice, I could put Ollie's bed in one corner and my chaise lounge that's on the porch in another corner.

I've seen a Duplex in Macungie a couple of times, but can't get to a picture right now. I'm sure it's in my Flickr pictures though.

A lot of students drove the busses when I was in school too. And most of them were Internationals, a good many of them were anyway, including old number 8 that I rode. It looked kind of like this one.

Old Bill had a great story on his website about his adventures driving a Leyland Hippo. That was the first I'd ever heard of them.

I remember my wife taking it when she had cancer, along with many other drugs, but I don't remember what she was taking it for specifically.

The shed guy delivered the shed today, it's nice. I would have rather had it around back, in front of that big chestnut oak, but it would not clear the power line you can barely see behind it. I could have had the shed guy try to go all the way around the other end and get it there, but the ground is soft and it was raining at the time. It's a lot bigger than the old one too, even has a hay loft. It has a loft storage area at each end, and it's open in the middle. Nice. It was over $3000, but I don't remember exactly how much. I wrote the shed guy a check for $2900 today, but we paid some on it when we first looked at it. Zina from Florida put that on her Allegiant card so she could get airline points.

Well, I went to the doctor Saturday. He wrote me a prescription for this- Start off taking 6 pills a day for 4 days, then 4 a day for 4 days, then 2 a day for 4 days. It's still swollen but it doesn't hurt near as bad as it did.

Yes, that's the one!

The thing is, I've never had knee problems before. I've got arthritis in my hands, and I've had gout attacks before but only in my feets. And I don't remember straining it or twisting it. Maybe I should go to a doctor.