Up early-set to leave for work-anticipating a very long day .... should be floating in tonight ready to hit the shower and the rack!

It is near the end of the month bk.

don't make me beat you....

went to bed about 0300 today. Just now got up.

Feel substantially better than I have in the past days since Friday. At least now I'm not constantly gulping down megadoses of vitamins and herbs (via Airborne-- great shit, that) and taking Excedrin Migraine every 4 hours just to feel like crap (which in itself was a huuuuge improvement).

Still have a very sore throat and a few aches, but I suspect they're more from laying about for days more than anything, Gonna take tomorrow off as well as a buffer day. After one's been this sick it's not a good idea to push back into the thick of things too fast.

Sitting here with a mug of OJ thinking about nuking another part of the steak I cut up last night after I grilled it and having another sammie. Good schtuff.... wonder if I have any horseradish in the fridge as a garnish????

hmmm.. hot stuff... better idea... maybe some sweet and sour soup from the chinese place down the way? It's the ultimate feel better food for a sore throat....

Glad to see you still have a little bit of sense of humour left.

Is this an senior citizen thing or can anyone join the argument!??!

Just be glad you are separated by time and distance from both bk and I or you'd be fighting a two front war. Those don't end too well as history has proven.

Prolly the youngest here at 4peeps...I'm throwing my hat into the ring...

BRING IT ON!!!!

well i'm looking hard at 60 , and i bet i could give you a run for your money , well maby

Hey Hey. Dont make me call in the Marines!

me ace and bull will take you all on!!! well maby , um well maby not.

Ah Pap, you're a lover not a fighter, Ace is ummm, cat whipped and bull has a bad wing. Better let me be the front man for the "older" brigade: I haven't been laid for a while, I'm perpetually grumpy, I'm so short that everybody else would have to bend over too far to hit me in the head and I've got a bad case of S.M.S. (Short Man Syndrome.) I'm an equal opportunity asshole. Remember: old, experienced and sneaky always trumps young, in shape and foolhardy.

Well Damn!

Pappy I'm sure you can still whoop my a$$...

Marines?....pfftt.
who's gonna get you there?....Navy
We're gonna get you there and then keep complaining because the cable's out...

HAHAHAHA.... Sur Sur Sur. We can take the old men. What do you think!

4.45 am just got home from hosp heart again.
because i am paralized on one side and fall a lot the dr saw the scars and called me a drug addict
so it was an ordeal to say the least

Damn Pappy. Sorry to hear. Any good news?

I'm also most sorry to hear that Pappy.

Sorry to learn of this situation. Clearly some medical doctors graduated at the bottom of their class-this sounds like one of them. Be well pappy!

Jeep was reading a misfire. So i pulled the plug and the fucker was melted Ive been working on cars all my life and ive never seen stuff like this! Its one of those E3 spark plugs. Went and got new ones, and they let me keep the defective one! I will have pictures up later

oh, so I'm without network connectivity for a day an a half, and young pup gets lippy, eh?

yeah, but you represent the Naval contingent, and if they don't have their comfy chair, AC, and ice cream, they just roll right over...

what, we need comic relief??? But we have you.....

and I'm the 30-some year younger version of that, identical in all respects (not laid in a while, grumpy, SMS, etc...)

: snikkity snikkity : ya'll still wanna play, bub?

:nods: seconded. Wish I could do something-- like whip the doc's ass for calling you a drug addict.

I had one call me that once. See, I am missing most of the septum in my nose, from multiple breaks and septorhynoplasties. This is classic sysmptopm of a cocaine addict, apparently.

some cocksure doc made an offhand comment to an underling about drug abusers and having to fix their sinus problems. "Like this druggie here" he says, nodding to me.

I explained to the nice doctor that while I understand where hes coming from, the damage is also possible from botched sinus repair operations, if he'd looked in my chart he would have noticed that, and perhaps he should work on his bedside manner before someone fixes it for him. Then I removed my thumb and middle finger from behind his windpipe.

(I'm VERY touchy about drugs- can't abide them, having lost a few friends and one love to them)

another reason not to run BS gimmick plugs. Electricity follows the path of least resistance... not the three least resistant paths.

Careful now, dont want to raise your blood pressure! Did you remember to take your meds today?!!?
Well I read some good reviews about the plugs and decided to try them, I replaced them with the Bosch Platinum ones. I have been miss fire free for 3 days!! And i see the same power/gas gain as i did with the E3 plugs. Granted its not much, but its still some!

And for all of you older gents/peeps, dont take offense to the cracks i make its just in good fun. And besides we wouldnt want you to get stressed and have a heart attack or a stroke!

ate a whole box of snackpacks...yumm

What flavor of snack pack? Shouldn't you be working on physical fitness for the navy?

When we have you and your foolish brethern taped back to back lemme know what your heart rate is and I'll let you know whether that can induce an M.I.

Aye Aye SIR

you're never too old or to fit for a snackpack......box....

Have a squirrel named Sidney, that comes to our yard for food, (she likes multi-grain bread) and pine cones in the trees-fed her today-Ms. Df fed the birds and cats. Checked out some of the stores for food that a check book, and mortgage statement wasn't required, and did escape with about $50 outlay for one bag of groceries. Did get some flowers for my partner-she liked that, although not always happy with my food acquisitions. Unfortunately, did not have a chance to check out any DVD's today.

Just completed my last day of work as a contractor for General Dynamics.

Monday morning, I start my new job as the Site IAM for the 17th Training Group as a Dept of the Air Force civilian employee.

The fine folks I work(ed) with turned out in much bigger numbers than I would've expected, and we had a good time at lunch. They gave me a spiffy going-away gift as well... a nice bone-handle knife with an eagle flying scene in the handle with an engraved blade as well. They also had a plaque engraved for the case that had the particulars about my tenure with the company and and thanked me for my hard work and professionalism. One of the guys made a comment about my new job and got me a big foam cowboy hat with a star on it and said, 'There's a new Sheriff in town.' Cracked me up, and I vowed to wear it when I visit his office on the next security inspection.

The lady that didn't hire me for the job I really wanted was there as well representing the squadron I had been working for - she said a lot of nice things about what I've done for them and gave me a squadron coin and engraved pint glass.

It was a good day.

Went and had sushi getting ready to go watch Good Luck Chuck

Drove the firetruck in the homecoming parade. Got to take one of my daughters and her friend. Then went to the game and we won big!!!

Saw Good Luck Chuck. A lot better of a movie that i had heard. I would recommend seeing it!

bull - cool move driving the firetruck-your daughter and her friend will never forget this experience! Off for gas for the car-not taking morgage papers this time-just $20-should get me about for a few days!

ATM im losing sleep. What are you doing>

... waiting for AA to download...

710MB down, 2.2GB left. About another 2 hours...

You're downloading the "AA" manual? I didn't think it was that big.

Thats a long 10 steps

AA. As in, America's Army. As in, a video game dealing with Infantry tactics, movement-to-contact, and the like.

Practicing for the forthcoming takeover of our northern neighbors.....

an hour an' 20 minutes left.

Soon, Canuckistan will be MINE!!!

Careful, brother or I'll cut the French Canadians loose on ya. LOL. Far different rascal here than in France. These ones don't cut and run, drop their rifles or wave the white flag at the sound of the first shot.

Put some new lights on the Jeep. Thinking about buying a 350big block for it.

Reinstalled a friend's computer. Went to about a 50 acre field fire.

no such animal.

a 350 (in Chevy parlance) is a smallblock. a 454 is a bigblock.

You MIGHT be able to squeeze a 454 into a Jeep. IIRC off the top of my head, it's about 3" bigger than a SBC in every direction.

Now a 350 will fit in there with minimal fuss. Hardest thing about it was the left-side steering and the manifolds. Not so much hard to do as required a few extra ujoints and braces to snake through the manifold.

If you REALLY want something special, bolt in a 350. Inside the 350, bolt in the crank and rods from a 454. Instant 383-stroker. (It's not quite that simple, but damned close).

Of course with the price of gas, ya might just consider a Cummins 4BT swap. 4 cylinder turbodiesel. V-8 torque, and the ability to run off of waste veggie oil, diesel, JP4,5,8, kerosene, pretty much any-damn-thing-that'll-burn. Oh yeah- -and 30MPG or better while doing it.

Oops i ment long* block. I Had a buddy throw one in his cj8 and it fits with minor modification. But yes other than that a small block. Maybe i just start walking up the trails to save gas! and that way ill get more cardio

Screw that - find an AMC 304, 360, or 401 and drop it in instead. The cool thing is it'll be a complete bolt-in deal - only have to change the passenger side motor mount... it'll bolt up to the transmission even.

Plus, you'll be preserving a little Jeep heritage, considering those engine came offered as optional equipment - unlike a Chevy 350.