Very cool. It should be an interesting supply service to run that at near full capacity.
Gunner
"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"
Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno
I could easily handle that when I was younger. Ted isn't much younger than I but he is a husky lad. Even shorter than I, but built like a fireplug. I did feed them well but wouldn't have had to. Ted left grinning big. Mary had given him her '57 Jeep, that's why he was here. It was a gift. (She likes Ted.) It's a bad idea to make her shitlist but she's real good to those she likes. We loaded the Jeep onto Evan's trailer, then loaded what they wanted from the "Jeep heap" in the garden -- goodies like a spare tranny, transfer case, radiator etc. That stuff is kinda rare. The stuff they didn't want from the Jeep Heap went into my truck for disposal: a front axel with diffy, a rear axel with diffy, said kaputsky Rabbit engine block and various other rusty stuff, turned out to be about 750 lbs of stuff.
The Jeep was her Dad's, has been on blocks under a tarp in our back yard for a decade. Ted will actually maintain it, drive it and enjoy it -- and he'll keep it at the lake during the summers so I can use it too for foolin' around with boat trailers etc so I can drive a car (rather than the truck) back and forth all summer. I'll enjoy it more this way than I have while it's lived here, and I like Ted too. It's a win-win all round.
Today's report: Ted got her runnin' today already. I didn't think it'd take much. Outwardly it's a CJ before they called them that, looks just like an M38A1 ... but under the hood is a Pontiac V-6 engine and power steering. It's kinda squirrelly on pavement but quite amazing in the woods. Bernie once pulled a cement truck out of a tamarack swamp with it. How did the cement truck get in the swamp in the first place, you ask? Anyone who has lived up north won't have to ask.
He didn't, but the clear answer is don't even enter the MRI lab. They'd have to pull it if I needed an MRI. That isn't a big huge hairy deal, they also have to do that to change batteries every 5 or so years. They don't actually change batteries, they change out the whole unit. They do reuse the "leads" from the implant site down to the heart and the unit is just under the skin so replacing it is no big deal at all. Costs more than a few bux, but I've more than paid my dues along the way.
I got that reaction too. I don't recall them asking if had any metal parts. I have had various stainless plates and screws within me in the past, none remaining now AFAIK. No frags or shrapnel either.
Ditto. Pre-shove, the tech told me he'd be doing an IV infusion of radio-opaque X percent saline shit. (I may not have that term exactly correct...) I asked how much. The guy blinked, said how many milliliters, why? I said because saline is sodium chloride and I'm to limit my sodium intake to 2000 mg/day, how might this factor into my daily sodium budget?
He said nobody'd ever asked him that before. I waited for more. He apparently considered his response as an answer because that's all I got. I did a little mental arithmetic and decided that it wasn't worth pursuing. Shove away, Mate!
The cylinders are gone. There is now another Crapsman table saw there. Paid $20 for it yesterday. Fired it up today..and the motor ran for 3 minutes before the magic smoke came out. Nice looking 10" saw too.
Now I got to hunt around for a 3hp motor...sigh....
Gunner
"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"
Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno
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