The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Community => Imperial Blog => Topic started by: Tamer on June 09, 2008, 11:16:48 AM
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Well here we go again! It has been an interesting time as usual. I still don't seem to have enough time to do what I want to do, but thats life. My little gal has discovered how fun her wading pool is and I see to spend my day coming up with excuses to try and get her to wait till evening when the sun is not so hot.
I sold my old truck on ebay and now I am eagerly awaiting the release of the 2009 Tacomas so I can try and get a better deal on a 2008 new one. Man those things ain't cheap. Ofcourse I want the one with the offroad package and that is making the price go up a bit. The color I like it hard to find too. We are also thinking about trying to sell our Liberty and use that money to buy a small four door sedan so we don't have to spend all of our paychecks on gas. Daggone it is getting expensive.
I am so close to being done with my dio case. I just need a couple trim boards and some quarter round and I am ready to show it off. I have all my ships in it, but don't know what I am gonna do when the Clone Wars ships hit.
My wife is still having issues with her stomach or something in that area. We have been to the doc numerous times and just got back from the emergency room yet again last evening. She goes for yet another test on Wednesday. This will once and for all rule out her gall bladder. If its not that then we move onto more specialists.
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Time for an update:
1. Laura's gall bladder test came back negative and they gave her some antispasmodic stuff and it seems to be working so far. So thats the best news!
2. I got a lot of home projects done and replaced my hotwater tank, my heating duct, installed new drain line, reorganized my basement, planted a garden, starting cabinet work on the office area of the den, and am starting to clear off some land for my garage! Progress all the way around.
3. I downloaded xp service pack 2 so now my webcam is ready to go, watch for my mugg on windows messenger!
4. My little girl has taken over my loose ship collection and they are now "her" ships. She is still too young to play with em unsupervized, but she sure does like that potf 2 FX Xwing I have.
5. It is only about a month away till I can start whining again about all the stuff hiting! :'(
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Time for a quick update;
1. Went camping and that was fun. Gal caught her first fish and loved the whole experience.
2. Busy as all get out trying to get ready to go to the beach, learning web stuff, and getting home chores done.
3. Went to a funeral for a close cousin yesterday and have another one to go to today for my wife's great uncle. Her grandfather is now the last of the line.
4. Wife's abdominal pain hit again on Monday. Got her some heavy duty pain pills till we can get more tests and test results back. She is doing a lot better than Monday. Told her we might want to stay home from the beach this year and if looks could kill I would be dead so I guess we are still going.
5. Need to get my surf fishing stuff ready and yard work done. I just don't have enough time, but I will be out of town starting Saturday and all next week guys. Hold down the fort.
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Sounds like a good time on the beach coming up for you, Shawn. Man, I wish your wifey's tummy trouble would straighten out.
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She has three different docs working on it and has had all kinds of tests so far and still nothing. Hopefully between the three of them they can figure it out. She seems to be really doing great today though.
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Well guys I need some advice and quick like as I am a day or two away from bringing home my new Tacoma.
Is 1000 dollars worth getting the color you want? I like the speedway blue and have a price 1000 dollars over the price I have on a indigo ink (navy blue) one. My gut says save the money, but my heart is saying the speedway blue sure looks nice. What do you think guys?
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Shawn, save the money! Use it for Sw stuff. I never get hung up on color, to me a car is just something to get me from place to place.
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Chad, I am leaning that way now. Who cares what color your AT-AT is when it is gonna kick some major booty whatever color it is, well as long as its not pink or purple.
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Shawn, that is my favorite color also. My last two cars were that color but I went for my current car with the money saving option. That's why it's not blue.
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I just have to decide if one blue is a thousand better than another blue.
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Well I have been as busy as ever even though I am on summer break. I am mainly trying to nail down the best price on a new Toyota Tacoma. I am almost there, but found a better price at a dealer a few hours away from me so trying to do the haggling thing and get all the numbers straight as well as doing the whole thing over the phone and internet is a chore. The price they are giving me is 2000 thousand better than my closest dealer so I am trying to deal wih it. I decided to go with the navy one to save some money. Turns out the other one in the color I did want from my local dealer wasn't the double cab model like I specified. I let the salesman know what I thought about that type of dealing anyhow. Ofcourse he got loud and said there was no way the other dealer could offer it to me at the price I quoted and I was quick enough for once to reply,"wouldn't I be studpid not to try to get that deal?" He just started sputtering and said they would trick me and make me sit in the dealership for hours and I replied,"why would I sit in a dealership for hours?" I would have thought a salesman who genuinely couldnt beat another's offer would just apologize and say they can't beat that price instead of getting ignorant and loud. I will never buy another vehicle from that dude and will make sure no one in my family does. Heck my mom and my father in law both bought vehicles from himi in the last couple of years. When I get my truck I am gonna drop by and show him my bill of sale and then inform him because of his behavior I will make sure my family members stay away from him. Well I might not, but if I was a vindictive sob I would. I would!
My little girl has a chest cold and is snotting it up, but seems ok otherwise. My wife is still taking test on her tummy and they still can't find out what it is and she has done several stomach type tests. Good thing is it seems like it is doing ok on its own as long as she stay away from barbacue and marinara type foods so her being pain free is great. She has been doing the secretarial work with the truck deal.
As for Star Wars, I just had another hairbrained scheme for some new shelving that will be open and not cabinet style so I can get my hands on some of it and I plan to do it below my deer mounts so I will have about 10 feet of length to play with. If it goes as planned I should be able to have three shelves with a large one of the bottom and two smaller on top for figures. I should have been making it so I would be ready when the new figs and ships hit. I am just trying to nail down dimensions. Speaking of which, does anyone know the box dimensions for the BMF? A walker box is about 17inches wide by 22 inches inches in length and I know the BMF is probably gonna come in a larger box. I am gonna need that to figure out the actual dimensions of the bookshelf.
My little gal went to a small local rural zoo day before yesterday and I will have to share a few pics when I can. She loved it.
I still havent actually gone freshwater fishing yet, and man am I due. I have a plan on that too though.
Well hope to see how some of the rest of you are doing. Please let me know how you are keeping. I really like to see what everyone is up to.
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Sounds like your truck dealing is getting a little interesting Shawn. They will always try and mess with a guy. Kid's always like zoos, they have soon much fun.
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Well I am happy to report that my truck deal is now done. They gave me a better price on the navy blue on than previously reported. I got it late yesterday and have been showing it off to my inlaws this morning as well as helping my father in law with a plumbing issue. My final price on a 31,000 dollar truck was just only 24,8000. Toyota just happened to go 750 more on rebate for the 2008 Tacomas than they were doing last week. I counted the savings from the one dealership that was close to the one that was two hours away at over 4,000 smackers. Needless to say I am well pleased I drove the two hours to the farther dealership.
I will put pics up hopefully later today. Now I am getting ready to put some accesories on it. I saved for those so I could do them when I got the truck. Needless to say, by the time I get this week done, I will have spent a good bit of money, but will definitely have something nice to show for it.
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I'm glad that things turned out good with the truck, buddy! What kind of accessories did you get? I'm ordering a BRA and a K&N high-flow air filter for the Magnum, tomorrow.
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Always got to like saving $4,000 clams. Enjoy the truck!
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Well my wife left the camera with the pics on it at my in laws daggone it! ARGghghhhhn!
Of all days for her to forget the stinking camera. I even let her drive my new truck first.
Pics tomorrow I guess.
As for accesories I am getting tube steps, bug deflector, vent vizors, and a hard tonneau cover. My brother is supposed to do the work, but I havent been able to get him to return my daggone call. Arghghghghgh!
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Well I got my bug shield and vent vizors on. Just the steps and the hard tonneau cover to go.
Today I am celebrating my 10th anniversary. My wife just told me she thinks I love my computer more than her. Time to go be romantic. I might try to sneak back on a little later. Man, hard to believe I have been married ten years already.
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Well a big Congrats buddy! Its your 10 yr anvi and you on the computer?
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Well I got my bug shield and vent vizors on. Just the steps and the hard tonneau cover to go.
Today I am celebrating my 10th anniversary. My wife just told me she thinks I love my computer more than her. Time to go be romantic. I might try to sneak back on a little later. Man, hard to believe I have been married ten years already.
wait till 15 bro, ...lol
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Yeah Chad, the wife didnt like me being on the comp much. Hence, I didnt get back online that day. I was made to watch a video of the wedding. LOL. My sister in law did the service and she preached a sermon over a half hour long when I got married. We should have just eloped and saved the coin we spent on the ceremony and the reception.
On another note, like a dumb butt, I was weed eating my quarter mile of front driveway as some briars and bushes might scratch my new truck. It took me all day long yesterday to do so and I was so tired when I got done that as I was lifting my weed eater back into the bed of my truck I glanced the side of the bed. I was even able to do it so this was the string edge cutter and now I have a small scratch on my brand new truck. I waxed most of it out, but daggone not even two whole weeks of owning the daggone thing. Good thing my brother is a body man and can probably use his fancy buffer to buff it out. Well see. Only I could have done what I did.
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Oh I fell your pain. I'm guessing on our 10th I'll be doing the same thing, watching our wedding. At least ours is only about 20 minutes long. Got to love Las Vegas weddings.
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Congrats on your 10th by the way, its mine and Teresas 3rd Anni coming up on 31st of Oct, and I am just glad we didnt take any videos or dvd recordings, however theres like millions of photos taken so, I will be doing it the old fashioned way come our 10th Anni and looking at Photo Albums, now I have from now till then to come up with a good exscuse not to look at them, lol.
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Happy 10th from me and the wifey! We have been married for 7 and together for 11. When I reach ten, I would like to take the wifey on a second honeymoon. Possibly to the same Mexican isle as the first. And we still break out the wedding and honeymoon photos every once and awhile. I can't believe how much greyer my hair is now compared to then. :'(
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Yeah my mother commented that I looked young when I got married! I kinda let that slide.
Didnt get to talk to my brother today about my scratched new truck. That is gonna bug me till I get it fixed. We took our little gal to the lake today and let her swim and play in the sand till it got too hot. Then, we came home while she was napping and I mowed my grass and then brush cut the Locust that were starting to take over my pole line and beside my road. I got a good bit of yard work done this weekend.
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Yep, we all are getting older, seems like I lost more hair on the top of my head and now its in my ears, really starting to gray now.
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Yep, we all are getting older, seems like I lost more hair on the top of my head and now its in my ears, really starting to gray now.
Well i'm going the same....lol...more on my face than on top....lol
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What hair I am bald, if I was a horse they would have shot me by now, when I bend over I grunt, I am getting old, lol.
I used to be really fit and healthy, now I am ready for the knackers yard (thats british for glue factory).
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i get the knackers yard ;) Cimter, the guys over here might have thought another meaning besides glue factory...lol
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I may be gray, but I am not done yet. I did a boat load of overdue yard work and did the brush cutting today. You should see the pile of locusts I have at my house. I might just take a pic of it. I gave my truck its first wash today and it looks pretty good. My brother called and promised to fix my little scratch before the week is over as well as add the other accesories. My summer is fast leaving me and I have other jobs to do. I wanted to have my SW rubbermaid sorted and shelved by now too. Oh well. If I go back to work maybe I can get some free time. Daggone I dont know where my days are going now. I blink and its time to go to sleep.
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There just never is enough time in the summer to get all your projects done. There is just to much stuff to try and cram in in a short amount of time.
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Tamer, wern't you going to post some pics of your new ride? You could show us the before and after accessories shots.
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I have some before shots, and I just ordered my last accesory today. I will save it as a surprise and post all the pics at one time. It wont be long Clint.
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that's cool buddy. I got my car's bra in the mail on sat and will do the same, this weekend.
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Ok, I gotta vent right now cause I am boiling mad. So please take the below in that context.
Well yesterday I got my mail in rex finally after you guys have had yours for over a week only to find it had been horribly mangled at the hands of my posties yet again. O how I am disliking my postal workers for my home address right now. Ofcourse you guys have seen the result of their work over numerous boxes sent and variou other rantings and ravings. So, I stopped in to talk to the local postmaster who apologized and said he would look into it yet again. Yeah right. He finally blamed the company for faulty packaging. I told him the service here was "ridiculous". I am just gonna have to make sure I dont send to my home address anymore.
Ok so now I contact hasbro and they promptly say they can't take a return becasue the figure itself wasnt damaged. They say there are no more and ofcourse I said doesnt your promotion run till December? She didnt have an answer for that. She just kept saying over and over again that packaging issues are not a returnable issue. I then asked, "even if the packaging is part of the product that was bought"? She then said she would pass my concerns on. Yeah right. I told her so what you are saying is that if I had called and said the figure itself was damaged you could have replaced it? She said well yours wasnt so I can't replace it. I said that didnt answer my question. She said they may have pursued other options if the figure itself was damaged. Lesson here: if you call hasbro to talk about a damage issue, make sure the figure itself is "damaged" or they won't help you. So I told her thanks for nothing!
Bottom line is I have to order another if I want one. I guess somewhere along the line it got damaged. Whose fault was it? I dont know, but bottom line is I am left with a faulty product through no fault of my own either. I have a pretty good idea that the fault lies with my local posties, but am just unable to do anything about it. Guys if you have to send me packages, its probably a good idea to send em to my school addy here in a few weeks as I will be back to work. I may just have to use my mother and father in laws addy if I need to get a package over the summer. They at least seem decent. Some days it just stinks being a momc collector. There is just no way I would be satisfied with the figure. It is crushed in one corner, creased in another, and the j hook is bent, and the entire top of the card is bent at an awkward angle.
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Hey shawn what would you take for it loose, as I am a loose collector and I am after one,plus it would save on gas for me.
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Hey shawn what would you take for it loose, as I am a loose collector and I am after one,plus it would save on gas for me.
Update: my wife called and with her leveler head they are sending a prepaid return envelope. All they asked her on the phone was it damaged? She said yes and problem solved. Leave it to me to get the tough operator. So, it looks like I have to return it Michael.
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Oh well, never mind, the main thing is your not out of pocket. ;D
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If you got it covered great, otherwise I would have swapped mine for yours.
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If you got it covered great, otherwise I would have swapped mine for yours.
thanks Chad. I am glad they are handling it as the fig you would be getting wouldnt be good either from what I can see through the plastic. It is smashed pretty bad.
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I may have a few due to the Mousedroid promo run here in Aus Tamer so don't worry my friend..... ;)
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I may have a few due to the Mousedroid promo run here in Aus Tamer so don't worry my friend..... ;)
Thanks Greg, at least you would pack it good. Man I love this place, you guys always come to help!
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Thats what friends are for bro..... :D
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Man am I tired. I just moved about two ton of new gravel for my road which was redone today. It looks really good. My front driveway is very steep and I have to get it redone every couple of years as the rain washes it away when we have wet years. I even had enough to make a little parking spot beside my out building for my truck.
I decided to mow my grass and got halfway through before it rained. I just finished mowing. I didnt want to do it later. Gonna take a little trip with my little gal for her first kiddie amusement park. I will use the trip to hit stores I normally cant get too like Target and Toysrus.
I am watching my team do pretty good. Some of the new rookies show promise. This new RB Mendenhall seems to be all they claim he is. He is gonna be interesting on goal line runs I can see. I havent heard Limas Sweed's name so maybe he isnt impressing anyone.
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Well today was my first day back at work so my vacation is over. You guys can send all goodies to my school addy again thank goodness. Most of the day was spent getting back out my stuff. The first thing I got out was one of Chad's custom cases and that custom Pat gave me. Good memories there.
I got a new laptop and projector over the summer so that was nice. The daggone projector cord burned out after about an hour though so I have to get new one of those already. Still its nice to have another outlet. On a related note our new boss we got last year is not letting us leave to go to lunch when we all get back together officially on Friday. She is giving us a pepperoni roll and apple. LOL. Also this year if we miss more than five days of work we have to meet with her "officially" to discuss our absences. I can't wait to see what happens with that.
My truck is slowly, ever so slowly getting the accesories on it. I hopefully get my tube steps on it tomorrow. Then, just the hard tonneau cover and I can unviel it. Man has it taken a long time.
My gals are doing ok and I thankful for that. No more stomach episodes outta my wife for a good long while. Hope that trend continues. Hunting season and football season are on the horizon so that is nice too. Not to mention I am surrounded by good folks here so I am pretty happy right now!
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I may have a few due to the Mousedroid promo run here in Aus Tamer so don't worry my friend..... ;)
my Rexes are starting to show up mate. One arrived today at my house and my nephews turned up as well. I sent away 6 coupon surveys so hopefully i'll have a spare or two...
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I may have a few due to the Mousedroid promo run here in Aus Tamer so don't worry my friend..... ;)
my Rexes are starting to show up mate. One arrived today at my house and my nephews turned up as well. I sent away 6 coupon surveys so hopefully i'll have a spare or two...
I sent my damaged one in, we will see what kind of response I get. I hope they just send me a new one. I appreciate the offer. I hope I don't have to take you up on it though.
Got my new tube steps on my truck today. The bad news is my brother's girlfriends scratched the whole side of one before I got there with my truck. I just have great luck it seems. He said he already called to get a new one, but speedy sure isn't his name with this job it seems. What can you say? She didn't mean to damage it. Evidently, according to my brother, she couldn't get it out of the box so she forced it. Like I said, I have great luck sometimes.
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Well did the last trip of the summer. We took our gal to another amusement / water park. She is really loving the splashing. I figure I get these weekend trips in now I will get less grief when hunting and football season starts. It is just around the corner. Didnt get a chance to hit the SW aisle today, but there wasn't squat for stores in about two hours of driving north into PA. This amusment park was really off the beaten path. I started humming the bars for Deliverance. That is bad considering where I live!
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just a quick note Shawn , i now have a spare Rex. just lmk if you run into bad luck with yours and i'll pop it into your box coming over...
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just a quick note Shawn , i now have a spare Rex. just lmk if you run into bad luck with yours and i'll pop it into your box coming over...
thanks Greg. I will let you know.
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No problemo.. :D
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Well I finally took some time this morning to upload a few pics and I promised some shots of my new truck. I finally got the hard tonneau cover on it just this week. My brother and I put it on in the pouring rain the other night. As you will see, I also added a little shipyards flair to the front of my truck too.
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Plus I just have to include a few shots of my little cutie while we were at Idlewild Park last week:
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She's beautiful Shawn! Your little girl's pretty cute too! I love that license plate, very nice touch!
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She's beautiful Shawn! Your little girl's pretty cute too! I love that license plate, very nice touch!
LOL! Thanks for the kudos for both of my gals Pat. This is my first new truck and it may be my last the way the stinking things cost, but I am quite happy with it. I sure had a fun time this evening bringing home four 45 gallon rubbermaid totes though. Thank goodness my truck has good latches and I could ratchet through the inside handle or I would have been done. Being able to keep things from getting wet in the bed is gonna be priceless though. The cover has a few cotter pins and the whole thing comes off. I usually won't have a need to do that though.
As far as the license plate, thanks to the photoshop program I was able to design the size file I needed to take to a local license plate printer. I think they were almost ready to ask me to work for them. They were using some shop program that came with thier machine and I dont think they know much about computer picture files. Oh well, it came out nice.
On another note, I came home today and noticed a ton of deer at my feeder. Unbekwonst to me (how did you like that word I used) the electronics on the feeder must be shot as when it came on this morning it evidently pushed through all 200lbs. of corn I had in it that I had to presift by hand yesterday evening. It worked fine when I loaded it up, who knows what happened. Some days I feel like I take a step forward only to take three steps back the next day. Still, the deer are happy!
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That's one sweet ride there, Shawn! I am liking the color. That front plate rocks also.
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Awesome Ute Shawn, very nice indeed. any inside shots?
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Thanks guys, I am still loving the truck. Today for the first time I used the power outlet in the bed. Man is that nice. I took my ole wet and dry vac and vaccumed up a good bit of the corn and blew it right back in the feeder which seemed to work fine today. Only in WV. I bet folks would have laughed thier backsides off if they had seen me. Boy, the deer are having a field day down there though. I am still so not ready for MD bow season.
I am also wondering about that hard tonneau cover. It will be nice to keep things from getting wet, but being able to use the full bed with that hieght restriction might be a pain. I am about half thinking about selling it to see what it will bring.
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Shawn, my step dad has a retractable soft t cover for the bed of his dodge. Perhaps that could be the answer to your delemma. It just rolls up into a housing twards the front of his bed.
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too nice a rig to sell it now mate!..maybe a bit longer.?...
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too nice a rig to sell it now mate!..maybe a bit longer.?...
oh I wouldnt sell the whole truck, just the hard tonneau cover. I am starting to like it this week though. I don't think there would be anyway to sell it now where I wouldnt loose at least half the price I paid for it. It is nice, don't get me wrong, but it is gonna be darn inconvenient at times.
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oh for a moment i thought you meant the truck .. ::)......sorry bro...
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Well guys a ten dollar figure price for basic figs has me wondering about whether or not to finally change my focus. I have been playing with it for some time due to space as I have most of my carded collection in rubbermaid which seems a waste as I don't have the space to store that either. I am thinking of just going after the figs I like and perhaps giving up hasbro except for a few ships and figs here and there. I am thinking of clearing out most of my stuff and making space for GG and Sideshow when the inevitable imperial troopers start coming out. What do you think folks? As I value your opinions highly I figured I would get the take from the guys who understand me, my focus, as well as the limitations of size and space.
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Tamer, I gotta say that this doesnt sound like you at all. Don't forget how much space you could save if only.......you were an opener. Man, think how cool your collection would look if only you could display it all at once, Carded or not.
Do you have a garage at the ole Tamer Homestead? Line those walls with your carded figs if there is enough space. Mabey you could put some in star cases and line the celing kind of like I used to do with Iron Maiden posters when I was a kid." I still have those stored by the way"
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Thats part of the problem Clint, I just don't have any more space. I also don't see me ever having a garage if I do not start saving a bit for it. I try not to spend a huge amount on star wars each year, but if I do the adding thing I know it comes to well over $1,200 smackers a year. I also don't see me being able to continue to keep my one of each focus with figure prices going up the way they are. I haven't made any set in stone decision yet as my wife is trying to calm me down of all people. I am gonna think on it for awhile.
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Shawn, I completely understand your dilemma, it's one I share as well. I, too, am out of space, all of my carded figs are stored in rubbermaid containers in my basement, and for what? The rising cost of everything is getting out of hand, not to mention Hasbro's inability to really do much in the way of "new." Sure, we get a few things here and there, but something like a crappy chunk of plastic with 3 rehashed figures and making it an "exclusive" for $50? Worthless to me. I much enjoy my GGs and SSCs a LOT more than Hasbro these days, and I'm already to the point of only collecting specific figures that I like. It's even to the point to where army building is not worth it anymore. I say save your money, buy less.
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I am leaning that way. Ofcourse I will keep all my Hothy type stuff, but I am thinking of letting all the other hasbro stuff go by the wayside. I will wait a few more weeks to see how I feel, but I am already thinking of taking back the new stuff I have bought as I saved all my walmart reciepts. I am not quite there yet, but close. If you guys are wanting anything you might want to let me know so I can hold it for you if I do decide to sell. I am probably gonna try to go to ebay and just put it up to see what it brings unless there are specific items you guys want. Course I doubt I am the only one seeing the economic writing on the wall. I just want to free up some space in my house too. I haven't been able to work on my basement large bathroom because all my rubbermaid is in it. I also see me getting a lot more enjoyment out of a displayed GG ATAT driver mini bust than I do of multiple hasbro items sitting in a tote, not to mention a nice lcd tv I could be putting in my new den to really watch some football! I guess I have seen the writing on the wall for a few years now, but seeing that ten dollar basic figure price was nuts yesterday. I don't see that condition improving either. I think I would stay with it if hasbro would produce less with better styles of figs (articulation, paint styles, etc.).
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I hear ya mate and it's the direction i took some time ago. Just concentrating on figs and hardly nothing else (well maybe a comic pack or BD pack here..lol) but i took the decision to stop with vehicles and larger stuff to just single figs and the odd Koto. The prices over here are horrible. I'd love $10 figs if that was a reduction here (from $15) but it's what is happening around us in the world that is going crazy with our beloved hobby.
All you can do is maybe scale back and be more selective....and i'll say that when i ring yas next..... ;)
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sounds good Greg, I might have a few figs you will want too. I will still have the fun of finding stuff, just stuff that I am liking. Don't get me wrong folks, I love all the new clones and the new sculpts, but space and cost just doesn't seem like a realistic use for my resources, not to mention a life in rubbermaid is no way to collect.
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Don't worry Shawn, things will get better. We as a collecting community just have to collect smarter with the ever rising prices......
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Don't worry Shawn, things will get better. We as a collecting community just have to collect smarter with the ever rising prices......
Those are words to live by in regards to collecting Greg. There is no way I could get out of collecting as I just like it too much, but I am gonna have to put some limits on it and just focus on stuff I really like. Daggone Pat is getting me hooked on Gentle Giant and Sideshow so I have to make sure I only get from hasbro what I really do like. The HOTH stuff.
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Hear hear!
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Well it was a busy outdoors type weekend here at the house. Got a few chores as well as a few hobby chores dones. We have my wife's Bday party today and I got her a new digital camera. Our old one is on the fritz and she had her eye on one for a bit. She knew she was getting it, but at least it was what she wanted. She even offered to let me use it a bit on here so it was kind of a win win. My father in law stayed over to watch the Arizona vs. Dallas game so it ended up being a pretty nice day. I am in a pretty good mood as this is a short week for work for me as I am taking off a few days to go hunting.
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Sounds like a hunting expidition is coming your way there, buddy. You will have to warm that new camera up. Be sure to wish Mrs. Tamer the happiest of birthdays from the Shipyards.
How is that jerky production going?
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I might just have to send you some and you can tell me how it turned out! I think it has been my best batch yet. Be warned though, I make it have a bit of bite and cut the meat so it stays on the chewy side. You have good teeth?
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My overbite has made the top incisers kind of thin but I believe that they are still strong. Is it that chewie? Kind of a bite huh? Pretty spicey?
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My overbite has made the top incisers kind of thin but I believe that they are still strong. Is it that chewie? Kind of a bite huh? Pretty spicey?
It is a lot tougher than beef jerky thats for sure and I use a good bit of pepper in it.
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Well its time for an update. Things are going pretty good. I just had to replace the entire ignition in my Liberty as I got in it Sunday morning only to find the key wouldn't turn. Upon removing the tumbler two of the key cuts were worn out. The parts guy said it looked like I was the last guy on the East Coast to get the part I needed. I asked him if there was a recall on em and he just chuckled. Man, I also got two new keys made and that wasn't cheap either. Oh well at least I have two working vehicles again.
Deer hunting has been good. I am waiting on some deer bologna now with some hot pepper cheese in it. Sounds like it ought to be good. I am gonna bring over a guy I work with to see if he can get his first deer with a bow tomorrow. I am not sure if he can hit the broadside of a barn door, but he is sure excited to try so I am gonna let him. Maybe one day I can talk Wayne or Chad into coming down to take one on with a bow. Bow season is so long. It comes in Sept. 15th in MD and doesnt end till Jan. 1st. Rifle season is the week before Thanksgiving and only lasts for about two weeks.
My gals are fine which is good news. Momma hasn't had any tummy issues and my little gal has been nice and healthy. My wife got a new camera for her birthday and now I will get to see if I can put it to good use here. It is new Canon and has tons of buttons. It is 8 megapixels so I am hoping to use it a bit here too. I can see there is a steep learning curve with it though.
I look forward to seeing how things are going with you and yours. It is amazing what happens in such a short time.
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Well we had a Halloween party yesterday and my little gal was a "good witch" this year. Couldn't talk her into a Star Wars outfit this year. She was cute, I will post some pics when I get a chance. I missed part of the party cause I had to patch some holes in my concrete and get my decks ready for treating. Man, that pressure washer wore me the heck out. I didn't get to watch any football till the third quarter of the Giants pounding of Dallas. I also recieved a used four wheeler from my brother so that was nice too. No more lugging and dragging of the deer for me anymore! It will also allow me to open up a bit of my property and patrol a bit as I think some of my neighbors are sneaking in. I am in the middle of a deer hotspot and I think a few of my less than respectful neighbors are violating some game laws. I have heard one too many shots of late that were too close to my house.
Still, it was a good weekend. I didn't find anything Star Warsy to buy, but its coming in and I am getting some bills paid off and feeling pretty good about my house being almost ready for winter. I have to replace the top pipe section on my woodburner, reinsulate my basement outside door and I think I will be done. Tomorrow is Thompson's Water Sealing day. Man, that stuff is expensive!
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Sounds like you had a busy weekend.
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Sounds like you had a busy weekend.
Sure was. Busy, but fun. I am trying to get all the chores done up while it is still warm. It was over 70 degrees here today. I think I should be fine treating my decks tomorrow. I got all the concrete sealed, just need to do the stovepipe and insulate and trim out my basement door and I think I am done. Bring on the big bucks(whitetails that is)!
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Well I turned election day into work day. I did all the prep work to treat all my decks, then treated said decks (man did I make a mess), spent another hour cleaning up said mess after that. Then I cleaned out the dryer and dryer vent hose which was long overdue. The wife said it now dries clothes in half the time. Then, I cleaned out my one outbuilding to make it ready to go for four wheeler deer hauling, caught a wild hair and washed and waxed my truck. Then I sealed some doors and windows to hopefully save a little bit of energy this winter. Oh yeah, I managed to fit in voting in all that and I finished my day by carving a pumpkin for my little gal. Man did she have a blast. I am gonna have to go back to work to get some rest! I am just trying to get all my chores done as I let too many slide this summer.
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Well I turned election day into work day. I did all the prep work to treat all my decks, then treated said decks (man did I make a mess), spent another hour cleaning up said mess after that. Then I cleaned out the dryer and dryer vent hose which was long overdue. The wife said it now dries clothes in half the time. Then, I cleaned out my one outbuilding to make it ready to go for four wheeler deer hauling, caught a wild hair and washed and waxed my truck. Then I sealed some doors and windows to hopefully save a little bit of energy this winter. Oh yeah, I managed to fit in voting in all that and I finished my day by carving a pumpkin for my little gal. Man did she have a blast. I am gonna have to go back to work to get some rest! I am just trying to get all my chores done as I let too many slide this summer.
Another busy day by the looks of it
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Gonna be a busy weekend, but I will then have lots of time for fun around the holidays! Get ready to be bugged by the Tamer Yarders!
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I feel for you sealing those decks, buddy! That is one of my least favorite chores. They do look nice when they are done though.
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Yeah, it was nice to see the water beading yesterday. I sure didn't have fun cleaning all the Thompsons off the side of my house though.
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Pretty messy huh? Did you roll, brush, or spray? I tried spraying once and decided that it would be less messy to roll.
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I am too lazy I use the deck sprayer. Its all those spindles and rails that kills me. I just wanted it done quick and it was still quicker to do the clean up than roll. Oh well, now its on to waxing the other car and my mom's car and then Ihave a door to seal.
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Ok, I gotta vent. I just got back from putting a coat of wax on my mom's car so she will be ready for winter when I saw the only road home was blocked by a police officer. So I am waiting for a good portion when he motions me to the left to which I point I needed to go right and he shook his head no that I could only go to the left. So I pulled up and pointing my mom's car to the left I rolled down the window and politely told the officer that my house was just on the top of the hill of the road he had blocked. He said to come back in a half hour. I then politely told him that this was my only route home and how was I going to get home thinking he would be able to offer some advice on another route. He then replied in a very threatening tone, "You won't get home till a half hour now go somewhere for a half hour and come back." Shocked, thinking I misheard him I said, "what?" He then said the same thing again in a more threatening tone. Luckily for me I kept my anger in check or I would probably be sitting in the town pokey right now, but I did ask him for his name before I left which he gave and I said, "thanks officer" and went left and then remembered there was a longer way to get to the road I needed.
I found out later that the reason the road was blocked was because of a Veteran's Day Parade of which I am a veteran so I am now ticked off more. I probably ought to do nothing, but feel I should call the town chief of police and at least register a complaint. If this guy would respond to me in that type of threatening tone I can imagine the way he talk to other folks. Not that I deserve anything special because I am a veteran, I volunteered to do my duty, but being disrespected during something honoring veterans just burns me up! I am hoping Chad reads this and maybe can advize me on what to do or whether to let the whole thing just drop. What do you guys think, should I just call an ahole and ahole and get over it? I just feel that a public servant, even though he was probably bugged by countless people, probably should have responded to me a little more politely. I know a few of you guys are public servants yourselves and would appreciate your advice on how to respond to this. I will probably be over it by tomorrow, but now I am pissed!
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Tamer, I'm sorry that happened to you dude. I suppose that there are those people in the law enforcement community that are tempted to show off their athourity. I would imagine that more than likely this guy was just having a bad day and possibly wasnt a veteran. Like anyone else, he might have some personal troubles and was venting his frustrations in the wrong way. I do have alot of respect for members of law enforcement but also remember that they are there to serve the people, especially law abiding citizens such as yourself.
I didn't know that you were a veteran, Shawn. What branch were you in and where and when did you serve?
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I was in the Army during Operation Desertstorm as part of the 18th Airborne Corps. based out of Ft. Bragg from 89 to 92. Like I said, I don't expect a "parade" for my service. Those of us who are veterans, Wayne is one too by the way, don't expect anything. We volunteered to do our duty. I was just upset even more after I found out I was treated in such a manner during something to supposedly honor folks like me. It was kind of like a double slap in the face. I am pretty much over this now, I was horribly ticked when I posted yesterday. If I were a real jerk I would try to make a report, but I guess the guy probably had a bad day and I was probably the four hundreth person who was needing to get home. I don't know I guess I also have a respect people issue period. I try to teach my school kids how to respect eachother and I do have the highest regard for public service workers and I guess I was kinda delusioned in the fact that I never though I would have one treat me in such a manner. I go out of my way not to be rude on general princile because so many people just are.
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Little Big-man syndrome, too many cops seem to have it. I would have spent my half hour at the Police station filing a formal complaint against the officer, as well as pressing charges of intimidation which is a form of assault. It may have gone nowhere, but cops need to be kept in check. I get so tired of their attitudes, just because they got a badge and a gun. Most likely, he was pissed because he was put on parade detail. Too bad. That sucks Shawn, sorry your day was ruined like that.
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I may still call the chief of police and see what I have to to register a formal complaint. Oh, I almost forgot, this made me late for my birthday surprise party. Oh well, it was just one of those whacky days.
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Ok Shawn, having worked parades before I know what a pain in the butt to work. I can understand where he was coming from. You may have just been the unlucky person who he vented on. You may have been the 19th person trying to get through the road and he was just getting a little tired and you just got his wrath. That being said, there is still no excuse for his atitude and the way he handled your deal. Now if you would have said it was lets say a very major crime scene or an incident that may have put in harms way, sadly to say that is how those things are handled, need to get people out of the area and do not have time to explain. A parade does not reach that level. Now to file a complaint, that is your call, I can't tell you one way or another, but it is your right. It does seem he does have a temper and atitude that may need some attention. But then it depends on his Chief, do you think he will pay any attention to it. I know mine would and I would get a nice cosy chat with the boss. I f you feel that this is how he deals with people in general then he does have some issues. I hope this helps.
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Thanks for your input Chad. I am making some polite inquiries into this officer as I do have a few friends from the local police force who are checking on this character. If I get back some similar type reports I believe I may file a complaint. I am pretty much over it now, but I just can't fathom that type of attitude with the general public. I could understand if I was downright defiant or obnoxious, but as you guys know that just ain't my style and I did feel he went a bit too far. Still, we all have our off days, myself included.
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Happy Birthday buddy...... ;)
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Happy Birthday buddy...... ;)
Thanks Greg. I turned thirty seven and it feels like seventy seven! I think I may be getting the flu now too which is not what I want to have this time of year. Maybe its just a bad cold. Hey, its Veterans Day today so I don't have to go to work which is good. I need to go get a front page news item up thanking our veterans.
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Happy birthday Shawn, and thanks for serving your country!
37, wow! By now you are starting to feel it, arn't you? I'm 39, by the way.
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Bout time you joined the 37 club!, Happy Birthday Bud!
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Thanks guys, this birthday has me feeling under the weather. I am trying to tell myself its just a cold, its just a cold, its just a cold. I go get a flu shot tonight so we will see how that goes. I feel awful.
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Well, if you ain't puking of have diarrhea, then it's a cold. Here's what you do...
Take 2 Tylenol Cold capsules and some Echinacea (sp?) and drink a half gallon of orange juice. Eat a Subway footlong sub sandwich loaded with everything you like on it. Let it all settle and do something that makes you sweat for 2 hours or so. Drink plenty of water while you do it. Take a nice hot shower and go to sleep, make sure you go to be early enough to get 8-12 hours of sleep. You will wake up feeling great. Always works for me. The cold capsules, vitamin, and orange juice provide an initial defense against the bug. The sandwich is full of vitamins and nutrients, which your body uses in metabolism to rebuild the immune system and provide energy. The sweat removes the toxin from the body through the pores, the water prevents dehydration. The sleep lets the new white blood cells and immune system work through the body to rebuild and repair, so that when you awaken, you're all refreshed!
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SUBWAY! Eat Fresh.....lol.....
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well coming from and EMT I might just have to give that cure a try! I was just starting to feel queezy in the stomach, but no loose BMs yet! I will try your cure by tomorrow and let you know. Thanks Pat!
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Well I go in for my six month check up for my bp and cholesterol tomorrow. I hate going to the doctor. I would almost rather take a beating. As it has been awhile since my last update I will share a bit. My little girl has decided each day it is time to open her Xmas presents. We have so far put her off with an advent calendar which she gets to open one slot a day. It is hilarious. Man I am hoping the diaper thing is almost gone too. She is almost, almost ready. I know not to push her, but man I will be glad when the diapers are gone!
My brother has sure decided to show up lately and take care of some of my deer population. It was funny to hear him call me last night and talk about how "we" didn't want to shoot any more small ones and wait for "Mr. Big". Still it has been a fairly good deer season for me overall. I am seeing some good buck sign right by the house now and if I can get him to slip up once maybe I can post more pics. From the sign I am seeing he should be a wallhanger. It looks like it is time for a meeting so off I go. Let me hear updates from the rest of you please!
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Well guys it has been some time since I updated this so here goes:
The wife has had some issues with some horrible stomach pain and we have yet to figure out what it is. I am starting to be known by name in the local ER and that is not good! She has been up and about the last few days so that is good news. I have been bothered by some type of burning back/stomach pain and am trying to get that figured out too. Still, I am up and about so I ain't whining too much.
My little gal is still a joy. We had a snow day the other day and we heard some noise from her room. Low and behold she climed out of her three and a half foot high crib and was turning on all the lights in the living room se we would get up! We have a monitor and heard some noise up in her room, but we sure didn't think she was rapelling! Needless to say we converted her crib into a daybed kind of thing so now she is getting up in the night and turning on lights, but she isn't climbing Everest either! She is so daggone smart I don't know what I am gonna do with her in a few years. Still, every house needs at least one Evie! She is a tornado on two legs, but when she sneaks into our bed in the morning and says, "I love you Daddy", so you don't get cross with her and send her back to bed its priceless.
I am still spending most weekends building the office cabinets. I must say my father in law has helped me there a good bit. We are in the process now of getting two small countertops made and boy are they expensive. 300 bucks has been the cheapest estimate and it is only one small chunk (about a three foot width) and a four by four corner section. We are only trying to get pretty cheap stuff at that! Now we are onto building the upper cabinets, one with a barrister look and another regular one in a 19 inch depth to give the wife more music storage space. Then we tackle the corner section and I hope to be done. We are having a hard time figuring out exactly what we want to do there, but the wife will take care of that in short order I am guessing.
Still, it is time to get superbowl oriented. My Steelers are doing the big game on Sunday.
I hope everyone else is doing ok.
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Tamer, my wife is going for the Cardinals and says that your Steelers arnt going to make it.
Dude, I am sorry to hear about your and your wife's health issues and wish things would clear up for you guys.
Your little one sounds like she is growing like a weed. What a sweetheart!
The cabinets sound like a big job. Any chance of some update pics?
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I will try to snap a few pics of the job so far. That or maybe wait till the countertops are in.
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Well it has been busy as usual. I know I am long overdue for an update. I am having a heck of a time.
First, I got diagnosed this week via MRI with disk degenerative disease. I haven't met with the doc to see what the cure involves, but I hope it involves some good pills. My back has been on fire since June! At least the doc has an excellent reputation as both a pain management guy and a neurologist. So maybe he can fix my head too!
Second, I went home last night to a slighly askew outbuilding due to the high wind. I spent all yesterday evening putting the daggone thing back together and it was well after dark. I woke up this morning to see only one sid partially standing. I have never seen wind like we have had the past couple days. I am hoping my home owners covers at least some of it. Now I have to break down and finally get a good one. There goes my money for SW for a bit.
Third, I found out that we now have a new "defined" retirement plan. That part is good as now we are out of the stinking stock market so I know I will at least have a retirement when I meet the requirements to draw it. The only drawback is now, since it is a one point percent increase in premiums I now have to buy back into the daggone thing. Luckily for me I had another retirement system they are gonna allow me to just transfer some funds for it. The bad news is the wife doesnt so we are gonna have to cash out my retirement, whats left of it, pay horrendous taxes on it, and then will still probably owe a few thousand so she can retire the same time I do.
When it rains it pours no?
On the bright side, my little girl is still rasing cain and I am slowly but surely getting finished wth the office cabinets downstairs. I might not be able to buy anything for it anytime soon, but it is progressing. I also got back my deadlined desktop and that turned out to be just a power supply and not a motherboard so that was good.
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Shawn, I don't think that any amount of therapy can cure you of your ATAT fettish. Were you to freely give me all of your walkers and driver's might be a step in the right direction, though. :-X
I am sorry to hear about your back there, guy. That kind of stinks. You know that if you came to work with me, we could work your kinks out for you.
Too bad about the outbuilding, you know that reinforced concrete will be the way to go, next time.
Good deal about the better sounding retirement. I just found out that health ins is now included with mine. Assuming that I make it to retirement, that is.
When you get done with the cabinets then it is dio time, right??
I'm just giving you a hard time buddy.
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Man any retirement with health insurance is awesome! I am watching my inlaws spends thousands of dollars per month on thiers till medicare kicks in and it is not pretty.
My building search has begun. I am thinking of going either 10 by 12 or 12 by 12 and doing vinyl sides with four panel steel doors in the same color of my house. You wouldn't believe the disparity in prices between different shed businesses. I have had high end of 4,ooo smackers all the way down to 1,884 smackers. Ofcourse the low end sounds good as long as I can assure myself the quality will be as good. I want to put this to bed by the time mowing season starts. I had to move my tractor, push mower, and four wheeler to different locals. Half of it is up at my brothers, the other half at my father in laws and I hate it!
My back is what it is. I am trying to exercise a bit to keep it moderately pain free, or well burn free. Some days are better than others. We are still trying to figure out what is wrong with the wife too. I go back to see about treatment options the first week of March.
PLUS THERE AINT NO WAY I AM GIVING UP AT-AT'S!
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Well I have decided on a twelve by twelve building and I am finally starting to get some estimates I think I can live with. The best bid is a place about two hours away from me that looks good on the website, but I haven't been there and am wondering about delivery from that far away even though they say it is free. I have a closer place that is a few hundred higher and am trying to wrangle them a bit. I can go look at the place too before I commit. I actually have good news in that I am actually getting some insurance money on the old plastic one I had that is way more than I thought they would give. That and my tax return should cover it, but alas no big screen tv and the wife is out some spending money for the beach vacation, but what are you gonna do. If anyone has a chance look at these links and tell me which one you like!
http://www.alansfactoryoutlet.com/woodvinylshedsgarages.html
http://tristategazebo.com/pages/sb_2008_01.php
I am looking for the twelve by twelve A Frame with vinyl siding to match my house.
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Well I put the building search on hold for just a bit as I have to prepare the pad, but I have a good idea who I am going with now. Lately it seems the office cabinets in the den have taken priority. I hung a barrister cabinet and a small cabinet right beside it on Saturday and Sunday. The countertops are supposed to be done this week too. Now though, I have a nasty cold that is making me feel like sleeping all the time.
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I'm sorry you arn't feeling good, buddy. sounds like you are getting stuff done, though.
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I'm sorry you arn't feeling good, buddy. sounds like you are getting stuff done, though.
Yeah, I am taking a half day off work so I can go get some blood work done this afternoon and then I am gonna take it easy. My wife is even letting me out of a dinner at her parents house so I can just nap till they get home. Then, I am back at work on the office cabinets tomorrow and I hope to go pick up the countertops. I am still in the midst of getting gravel and leveling a pad for my new building too. I don't have time to be sick!
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Well I got some work done today. I started off with my office cabinets again. I got the barrister cabinet wired and installed a neat surge protector. It actually not only plugged in, but I had to take the screw out of the plug cover and this thing screwed through it. It even has a surge for a phone line, however the heck you use it. The wife is gonna use it for her keyboard music components. I then hung some smaller cabinet doors, installed the edge my countertop is gonna sit on, and put on some door pulls. After that I did some prep work for my building pad. I think I am gonna need around 5 ton of gravel. It wouldn't be too bad if I could find someone to haul it for not too much. I will have to see what I can find about that.
I finished the afternoon by doing a bit of yardwork, raking the leaves and man do I need some mulch for the flowerbeds. It was sure a nice day though. Nice and warm. We actually had the windows open today. Then, I had a talk with a friend I haven't chatted with for a bit. A pretty nice day.
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Wow, you must be feeling better if you got that much done, Shawn. Nice to hear that you are getting some nice weather also.
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Wow, you must be feeling better if you got that much done, Shawn. Nice to hear that you are getting some nice weather also.
Think my cold is done finally!
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Well it has been awhile since an update so here goes;
I am still dealing with my degeneratuve disk stuff and have physical therapy twice a week to see if it will help. I go for back injections next week so I hope that will end the stinking burning pain I have been having. I have been doing exercises and I think it is helping. I also found out that I have "stomach erosions" which has been causing me some burning pain too. I am on medicine for that, but have had to see a new gastro doc as the one I have will not fill out any prior authorization paperwork to get my prescriptions cheaper. The pills he has prescribed cost over 200 smackers a month and I can get em for 8 bucks if he would have just done the paperwork. He said just to take baking soda and water. I also checked his background and found some bad stuff so I am going to a new guy with good marks so to speak. So, I feel this whole thing is gonna be solved!
I am still working on getting a building and finally felt ok enough to level out 6 tons of gravel yesterday. I almost have it level. I am using a line level and am getting a 16 foot two by four today to really get it right. I am also getting a few tons of mulch for the flowerbeds so outdoor chores are gonna be on the menu for this weekend.
My office den area is almost done and I can't wait to post a few pics, but I want to wait till it is complete to show you. I am going to sand a corner cabinet my father in law bought the other day and then it is just two small cabinets till the job is done. We put in the new countertops and installed an barrister top cabinet ( you will just have to see it to see what I mean) and it is really looking good. I am gonna have a top notch area to do my website playing here before too long. Ofcourse my new falcon predominates the adornments (thanks again Wayne).
Lets see what else? My wife and gal are doing fine and boy is she growing up (little gal that is). She was trying to help me use the line level last night and when I was telling her to get off the string it was hilarious. I gave her a little hand rake. She didn't move quite as much gravel as I. I am telling you having her around is keeping me sane! She is pure work, but she is also pure joy. I just hope we can get her off the diapers. Potty training is a chore!
Think that is it for now. I hope to hear how the rest of you are doing. Thanks to those Yarders who have been encouraging my hairbrained schemes. I feel like I am still collecting again! I am so glad I changed my focus though. I still can't get motivated to open the rubbermaid and start selling, but that is coming too.
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That must have been fun moving all that gravel. So is like a dump truck load?
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6 tons is a good load. Just hearing that makes my back hurt.
I am anxious to see pics of the new office area and of the shed project as well.
Don't forget me come rubbermaid time as I am still anxious about that, assuming I will have any money, then.
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Yepper Chad, a full size dump truck load. I had em deliver a 16 foot two by four today and can see from initial work I didn't do too bad so the final level work shouldn't be too hard. That same dump truck now has the same amount of mulch piled up so I will have to get to that too. The good thing is it isn't as hard to move.
Don't worry Clint, I will let you know when the first rubbermaid tote gets open. I will post some pics of both projects when they get done. It will probably be about the same time. If I can get this done, I might actually get a summer without at least one or two major projects. I need to build a trash bin down at the bottom of my driveway, but that should be it other than doing some vegetation spraying. Who knows, I might just have time to work on my dio!
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It would be a nice feeling to know that you have a couple of major projects out of the way. Lord knows that I have two or three on the horizon.
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I usually try to wait until the summer when it is so hot it is unbearable to be outside during the middle of the day. This should take are of most of the heavy work while it is still kinda cool.
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Well I got my first set of back injections today. I am not sure I am sold though. I think my back is burning now more than it was before I went in. They said to give it three to five days. The shots weren't the most comfortable things in the world. I sure hope it works though. Fingers crossed. I go see a new stomach doc on Thursday. At least I think this one will do prior authorization paperwork if it is needed. I have never seen so many doctors ever!
I have leveled the gravel, got most of the mulch spread (still have a big weedy flowerbed to tackle), and did most of the yard cleanup prior to the mowing season. At this point I am going to try and order my building in the next few days or no later than the weekend. Can't wait to post some pics once I get it here. I have been working on this one for awhile.
Then I just have to dig out a culvert, get to that flowerbed, and relax this summer. I want to build a trash bin down at the bottom of my road so I can sleep in on trash days and not have to worry about neighborhood dogs and racoons getting into it. Speaking of dogs, I am noticing a new one whose favorite passtime is to dig all the new mulch out of my flowerbeds/garden area. I might have to see if I can find the owner if it continues. I also found my feeder about half knocked over yesterday which makes me wonder if there is a bear loose too. That might be fun this bow season. Speaking of hunting, turkey season is here and I am not a bit ready. Guess I will have to rely on the slate for the first part of the season.
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Well it has been another week of stomach tests. I had an ultrasound the other day and they just called to say it didn't turn up anything on the ole gal bladder so I go for another scope next week. Fun. Fun. My back is still about the same, maybe a bit better and the doc wants me to do more injections. I don't know if I am sold on em though. It stinks getting old thats for sure!
I finally got rid of my old buildng in a rain storm yesterday evening and am eagerly waiting for the new one to arrive. I spread the last of the mulch I had and unfortunately I need to go get more. I vowed though to have the mulching done before summer break and I mean to do it.
This weekend is gonna be spent going to a picnic at my brothers who is introducing his new family addition (an no its not a baby). More news to follow on that one Yarders! Then Sunday, we are taking the little gal to see her very first circus. I hope it is nice and she doesn't get too scared. I will try to find time to snap some pics and post em. It has been awhile since my ugly mug was posted. Course that might be a good thing.
Oh, before I forget, my little gal got to play with her first atat last night. I took one home to get packaged up via a hairbrained idea Clint and I have and she loved it. I am gonna have to get her one too. Wait till you see the pics of it! I will try to post a few of those too. She filled up the inside with all of her little people. She was petting it like a dog! She thought the guns were antlers too! Absolutely priceless.
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Well it has been another week of stomach tests. I had an ultrasound the other day and they just called to say it didn't turn up anything on the ole gal bladder so I go for another scope next week. Fun. Fun. My back is still about the same, maybe a bit better and the doc wants me to do more injections. I don't know if I am sold on em though. It stinks getting old thats for sure!
I finally got rid of my old buildng in a rain storm yesterday evening and am eagerly waiting for the new one to arrive. I spread the last of the mulch I had and unfortunately I need to go get more. I vowed though to have the mulching done before summer break and I mean to do it.
This weekend is gonna be spent going to a picnic at my brothers who is introducing his new family addition (an no its not a baby). More news to follow on that one Yarders! Then Sunday, we are taking the little gal to see her very first circus. I hope it is nice and she doesn't get too scared. I will try to find time to snap some pics and post em. It has been awhile since my ugly mug was posted. Course that might be a good thing.
Oh, before I forget, my little gal got to play with her first atat last night. I took one home to get packaged up via a hairbrained idea Clint and I have and she loved it. I am gonna have to get her one too. Wait till you see the pics of it! I will try to post a few of those too. She filled up the inside with all of her little people. She was petting it like a dog! She thought the guns were antlers too! Absolutely priceless.
That's a great story about your daughter and the walker! How many little people will fit in that thing, Shawn?
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Well it has been another week of stomach tests. I had an ultrasound the other day and they just called to say it didn't turn up anything on the ole gal bladder so I go for another scope next week. Fun. Fun. My back is still about the same, maybe a bit better and the doc wants me to do more injections. I don't know if I am sold on em though. It stinks getting old thats for sure!
I finally got rid of my old buildng in a rain storm yesterday evening and am eagerly waiting for the new one to arrive. I spread the last of the mulch I had and unfortunately I need to go get more. I vowed though to have the mulching done before summer break and I mean to do it.
This weekend is gonna be spent going to a picnic at my brothers who is introducing his new family addition (an no its not a baby). More news to follow on that one Yarders! Then Sunday, we are taking the little gal to see her very first circus. I hope it is nice and she doesn't get too scared. I will try to find time to snap some pics and post em. It has been awhile since my ugly mug was posted. Course that might be a good thing.
Oh, before I forget, my little gal got to play with her first atat last night. I took one home to get packaged up via a hairbrained idea Clint and I have and she loved it. I am gonna have to get her one too. Wait till you see the pics of it! I will try to post a few of those too. She filled up the inside with all of her little people. She was petting it like a dog! She thought the guns were antlers too! Absolutely priceless.
That's a great story about your daughter and the walker! How many little people will fit in that thing, Shawn?
All of her polly pockets girls and animals. She gets ticked that it won't walk though. I told her she would have to ask you about that sometime. Her reply was, "Clinthead can fix this?" I told her maybe after I stopped laughing!
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LOL!! That's the hardest i've laughed all week! She is certainly something. That is too cute.
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I don't have much time, but I wanted to post some pics of my little gal's walker session I talked about yesterday. Today was a busy day and tomorrow looks to be the same. I can't wait to share the pics I took today.
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Too cute, buddy. Man, she is growing!!
That t-handle for the neck control is going to have to go for our project.
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Way too cute Shawn! She definitely is growing up!
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Too cute, buddy. Man, she is growing!!
That t-handle for the neck control is going to have to go for our project.
I figured it might Clint. Think there is any way to save the electronics in it so the chin guns still fire? Maybe hook them up inside the cockpit or further up into the neck? If it can't be done, so be it, its just hard to find a vintage one with working cannons and light.
And yes guys, my little gal ain't so little anymore as you can see by her hieght compared to that "dog walker". That is what she is calling it now.
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Is the control on that t-handle. It's been so long, I can't remember. If so, I'm sure that it could be relocated.
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Is the control on that t-handle. It's been so long, I can't remember. If so, I'm sure that it could be relocated.
Yepper the firing button that moves the guns back and forth is right on the back end of that T handle. I wouldn't really care much if it didn't work sweet. I took the batteries out to send it, but it works pretty good with the light. I have a few now and its the only one that really works good. I sent you my best for this project!
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Is the control on that t-handle. It's been so long, I can't remember. If so, I'm sure that it could be relocated.
Yepper the firing button that moves the guns back and forth is right on the back end of that T handle. I wouldn't really care much if it didn't work sweet. I took the batteries out to send it, but it works pretty good with the light. I have a few now and its the only one that really works good. I sent you my best for this project!
Now that's saying alot, buddy. I'm sure you are not including the 3 or 4 mint in box walkers that you have stacked up around there. I just gotta ask, How many walkers do you have, Tamer?
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Is the control on that t-handle. It's been so long, I can't remember. If so, I'm sure that it could be relocated.
Yepper the firing button that moves the guns back and forth is right on the back end of that T handle. I wouldn't really care much if it didn't work sweet. I took the batteries out to send it, but it works pretty good with the light. I have a few now and its the only one that really works good. I sent you my best for this project!
Now that's saying alot, buddy. I'm sure you are not including the 3 or 4 mint in box walkers that you have stacked up around there. I just gotta ask, How many walkers do you have, Tamer?
a couple! >:D
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Is the control on that t-handle. It's been so long, I can't remember. If so, I'm sure that it could be relocated.
Yepper the firing button that moves the guns back and forth is right on the back end of that T handle. I wouldn't really care much if it didn't work sweet. I took the batteries out to send it, but it works pretty good with the light. I have a few now and its the only one that really works good. I sent you my best for this project!
Now that's saying alot, buddy. I'm sure you are not including the 3 or 4 mint in box walkers that you have stacked up around there. I just gotta ask, How many walkers do you have, Tamer?
a couple! >:D
More like a couple dozen I'll warrant.
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Is the control on that t-handle. It's been so long, I can't remember. If so, I'm sure that it could be relocated.
Yepper the firing button that moves the guns back and forth is right on the back end of that T handle. I wouldn't really care much if it didn't work sweet. I took the batteries out to send it, but it works pretty good with the light. I have a few now and its the only one that really works good. I sent you my best for this project!
Now that's saying alot, buddy. I'm sure you are not including the 3 or 4 mint in box walkers that you have stacked up around there. I just gotta ask, How many walkers do you have, Tamer?
a couple! >:D
More like a couple dozen I'll warrant.
I don't even have a full dozen yet I think.
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won't take ya long i'm sure..... ;)
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I got some good news from my stomach doc yesterday. All this stomach and back pain I have been having has caused me some problems, but I DO NOT have cancer. I have been through numerous tests this past few months with some doosies last week, but I don't have to go back to the stomach doc for the forseeable future. I get one more back injection from the neurologist and I am done!
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I got some good news from my stomach doc yesterday. All this stomach and back pain I have been having has caused me some problems, but I DO NOT have cancer. I have been through numerous tests this past few months with some doosies last week, but I don't have to go back to the stomach doc for the forseeable future. I get one more back injection from the neurologist and I am done!
That is good news, buddy! I have been wondering about you.
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Well my day got better. They delivered my building!
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Buddy, that is a sharp shed! The gravel and ramp look good, also.
How many MIB walkers do you think you are going to be able to fit in that thing?
Your little cutie is getting tall!
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That looks so cool! I'm sure you'll be able to FILL it with your SW stuff mate.......and will it all fit?
lol.. ;)
btw agreed Clint, that little gal is growing too fast....cute factor 100!
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thanks guys, she is growing fast thats for sure. She gets right underfoot quick like now!
Now that building is the home for all my motorized stuff, lawnmowers and such. I will never have to move my stuff for winter again! I have to paint the floor tonight and then the move in begins. I have such a weekend of yardwork. I mow my grass for the first of the season.
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I mowed mine. last week, for the first time.
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I mowed mine. last week, for the first time.
I should have mowed mine, I am in for a mess tomorrow.
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I mowed mine. last week, for the first time.
I should have mowed mine, I am in for a mess tomorrow.
I also weedeated, edged, sowed weed n feed, and spread mulch out around the trees.
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I mowed mine. last week, for the first time.
I should have mowed mine, I am in for a mess tomorrow.
I also weedeated, edged, sowed weed n feed, and spread mulch out around the trees.
Daggone. I got the mulcing of all the outside stuff one. I spread some crabgrass preventer on about half of my yard and man did that stuff shoot up my grass. Guess I might fertilize the other half after I get it mowed. I found out my riding lawn mower is in good shape, but my push mower has issues. Looks like the gas tank is leaking around the top seal and it is giving off some white smoke. If I only put gas in it below the seal it doesnt leak and it seems to have good compression so far so we will see if I can limp it through another mowing season and look for a good deal on a push mower the end of the mowing season at the end of the summer. My weed eater is also leaking gas so I will have to look into it too. The bad thing is if you have to have work done on em, it is most of the time cheaper to just junk em and buy new ones.
I will see how long it takes me to mow tomorrow. I also put a coat of floor paint on my new building and have to give it one more coat tomorrow so no new stuff goes in till Sunday. Oh well, it will help protect the floor and if I have waited this long I can wait a couple more days.
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Sounds like you have all of your ducks in a row. Too bad about the leaky tanks. It takes me about 1 full tank to push mow my yard.
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Sounds like you have all of your ducks in a row. Too bad about the leaky tanks. It takes me about 1 full tank to push mow my yard.
It takes me about a third of a tank if I had to guess, its mainly just a small hillside. One of these days I am gonna till it up so I can ride mow it all.
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Well my compressor in my heat pump died yesterday. Now I have to either get a new one or a brand new system. I am inclined to do the later if I can afford it. I can't afford either option really, but I have no choice. I have to have heat for the winter!
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well, if you can swing it, geothermal is nice, but costly.
the vertical shaft I have no experience with, but the systems in general are awesome.
and hotwater as a bonus, when is that a bad thing?
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Now those systems are really expensive. I will check, but doubt I could even get close to one of those.
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Well my AC is still outta comission. Good thing its cool. I got a bid to fix which is 1100 smackers. I am waiting to hear the bid for a whole new system. If its even close I am upgrading to a new system. We will see if I get sticker shock here in a few days. Hope it doesn't get too hot.
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I just came out from under the house, repairing some crappy roll-out ducting that was just lying on the GROUND!!! They shelled out some major bucks when they got the system installed on this house - you'd *think* the guy would have done a better job installing the ductwork.
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I hear you. My ductwork is ok. I just need to get the air handler working again. The bad thing is if I go with a new systerm that means I have to replace the heating system along with it if I want to warranties to be valid.
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I wish you were closer. buddy. My neighbor is an HVAC man who owes me a few favors.
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I wish you were closer. buddy. My neighbor is an HVAC man who owes me a few favors.
Yeah, I wish you were closer too. I got the bid today and my pockets are now gonna be lighter for about a year, but we are going with an entirely new Trane system with a twelve year warranty on everything so I won't have to worry about it again. I am sure there will be something else I can worry about though.
On another note I did get in a box of SW goodies today and man am I pleased.
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Thats one thing I always think about, on message boards, I wish we were all closer together.
Segnett is my closet neighbor thats into toys, and he's what, seg, 90 miles away?
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Tamer wouldn't want me too close to him. I would be a bad influence in a good way.
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8)
AFFA - Because toys were made to be played with!
Action Figure Freedom Alliance
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LOL. Contrary to popular opinion, I do have a few open things.
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*snicker*
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That's not the influance to which I was referring. I am sure that Tamer has some open stuff but much much more moc stuff.
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I wish i was closer too......lol ;)
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Just one more week till I start my summer vacation officially. I can't wait. We go to the beach that following weekend starting the 13th. My little girl is having a hard time sleeping this year. I hope she gets in the ocean this year. She got so spooked by the sound last year. We are going for two weeks this year; once with the inlaws, and the next week with my hunting buddy. He is like a fish out of water, but his wife loves the ocean.
My new heating and AC system goes in today and I am glad. Two weeks with no air or heat was a pain. I hope they can get it done today. I am getting a Trane system. It has a 12 year warranty so I don't have to worry about it now. I spent the weekend cleaning up the cars and put two coats of wax on my Shipyards Tacoma. It is shining now. I will be high profile when I hit the beach again.
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Good deal on the AC system. I am sure that is a load off of your mind.
You are going to leave us for 2 weeks. But...............how will I be able to torture you with custom goodness???
I would have liked to shine up my car for the Branson trip but it was raining on that first day so it didnt happen. I still got some looks, though. Perhaps it was all of the facial piercings................
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Just how many holes do you have? NO, don't answer that! LOL. I will be sporting my Shipyards license plate and see what propoganda I can spread while down there this year.
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See if you cant stir em up for us, Shawn. No, my only piercing was administered to my left ear in the steak house parking lot prior to an Iron Maiden concert in 1986. It has long since closed up.
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Ouch. LOL. Well my new heating and AC unit is in and I am loving life. It is freaking huge, twice the size of my last one. It is as quiet as a mouse too. I am really pleased so far. It seems to really blow good in my second story too. I hope I am done writing about it for a good long time. Guess so, it has a twelve year warranty. I got my grass mowed, all my stuff washed and put away from turkey camp, and I got my fishing license for the beach as well as a parking pass. I read some reports that the rocks were a running so I hope to cash in. I have never caught one off the surf and have always wanted to catch one. It sounds like the blues and kingfish are running too. The week after next might be good for the first tamer fishing trip. Kinda sad it has taken me so long to go on a serious fishing expedition. Wish there were a few Yarders down there to help me enjoy the week.
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where is it, again?
We are in the process of pricing a new AC unit, the current one is just not big enough, they enver upgraded when they built the addition, :(
Still, I'd like to get a couple more years out of this one.
Did you check to see if there is a tax credit for your AC? Barry Obama is giving out our grandchildren's money willy nilly.
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Yepper I did check on that tax credit thing, my unit was just too big as far as tonnage. Wow, that didn't come out good did it. As for the beach, it is called Bethany Beach and it in the middle between Ocean City MD and Rehobeth Beach DE. We have been going for years now. We always start our summer off that way. This is the first year we have stayed two weeks though.
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I just have one new entry;
Packing for a two week beach trip with a three year old bites! And then I have my real three year old gal who likes to help too. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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I just have one new entry;
Packing for a two week beach trip with a three year old bites! And then I have my real three year old gal who likes to help too. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Breathe, breathe......... ;)
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Well I made it through a two week vacation with my in laws. There isn't much to report, I went fishing a good bit with not much to show for it. The wife hit the outlets and cleared em out of most of thier merchandise. I did find out how to catch some blue crabs though and it was nice to steam and eat those bad boys. I didn't see much in the way of SW merchandise I am sad to say.
I came home to some major flood damage to my driveway. I get started on that tomorrow. I will get to see what kind of shape I am in.
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Well I dug out one section of the driveway and roughly estimated that it would take me the rest of the summer to redo all the ditches on my roughly 3/4 of a mile driveway. I did the sensible thing and called the excavator who did the digging for the house. I hope to see him show up any day now. Guess I can't expect any gravel driveway with regular size ditches to handle 5 inches of rain in two hours.
Friday starts day one of the father in law deck project. We start out by renting a posthole digger and I am sure there will be a learning curve with that one too. Guess I can't complain, I am gonna get four holes dug myself so I can start the playset construction. I am not planning on doing anything fancy other than a silde with a lower sandbox. Maybe the next few years we will add other components.
Hopefully this week will see me getting started with webwork for this and the church website I host. I am so behind here and I don't even know where to start with the church one. Oh well, gotta start somewhere. I still plan on taking some time to do a few fishing expeditions this summer. I can't let Clint and Chad be the only ones to post some pics in the fishing thread. Guess it won't be long till I need to start shooting the compound too. WV opens some early seasons this year. First one starts the 14th of September. Lots to do as always.
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So it sounds, buddy. I am going to be at the lake fishing, tomorrow afternoon so keep your fingers crossed. I need a whopper crappie.
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Well the excavatar is here today. He already has my back road back in shape. He did a bit more than I wanted, but I ain't gonna complain too much. I just keep wincing every time I see another 25 tons of gravel dumped though. Good lord knows what this bill is gonna be!
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Well today was a busy day. I was woken up to the sound of heavy equipment tearing up my yard. Talk about a rude awakening. Still it has been about 9 years since I have had my septic pumped and it was due. It wasn't too bad when they got the cover off. It feels like they dug up my whole yard to find it though. I spent all morning getting it back in shape to plant grass. I would have done that today, but I figured it needed time to settle a bit. I tried to get em to put a cover on it that would lead to the surface to make it easier to pump the next time, but they were out of the caps and the stores we needed to be open were closed so I had em put the cover back on and fill it in. I told em next time I want it done though.
Then, I got my first oppurtinity to use a two person auger all by myself. That daggone thing jerked me all over the place. The bad thing was the thing would dig pretty good, but would bog down the last few inches and get stuck in the hole. Reverse would even budge it so I had to jerk and pull and wrestle the thing out by hand. I think I spent more time getting the daggone auger unstuck than I did drilling the holes. I get to use it tomorrow to drill the holes for the playside posts. If I can still walk tomorrow that is. Daggone I am bone tired.
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Those things using them would still be shaking ya two hours later!..the vibrations go right thru you...
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I was afraid that was the machine that you were referring to, buddy. I can't imagine trying to use one of those by yourself and would have opted for the tedious post hole diggers instead.
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I am gonna try to dig four more holes today and then I hope I never see that machine again! Good lord I am sore today.
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Well it is time for an update on the deck project and I am sad to say a lot of progress hasn't been made. I ended up having to pretty much redig by hand all the holes I fought that daggone auger for as they were not in the right spot to get the posts square and plum. Then, having to manhandle twelve foot long six by sixes wasn't the easiest of things either. It isn't any wonder I have back issues. I had hoped we would get the posts notched and then cemented in the ground yesterday, but my father in law thinks two of the posts are not pressure treated enough and wants the lumber company to give him two new ones. They looked fine to me, but there was no argueing with him. I am pretty frustrated with this at this point. I hope I am still on speaking terms with him by the end of this. He has a set idea of what he wants, but it mainly involves the physical degradation of one son in law helper who is basically doing the job of two perhaps three guys by himself. I guess I am whining a bit so at least I am still partially healthy!
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I wish that I could have been there to lend you a hand, buddy. With the deck and that particular engineer that you are dealing with. We would have had that thing in the air by now.
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Yeah, I bet we could have Clint. I did go and buy my daughter's slide today for the playset I am making her. The daggone thing was 162 smackers? She sure did like it though. I stuck it one my tailgate and she slid down it from there for about an hour till my arm got tired from holding it up there!
My father in law has helped me with most of my projects here at my house so I hate to complain, but he sure is paranoid about some things. I know I am not perfect either, but the post thing was driving me nuts.
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The deck saga continues. He got a call from the post company who assured him the posts were ok. Go figure, the company is going to say thier product is bad? He is a head shaker sometimes. Today I mixed 36 bags of cement in addition to digging out yet more holes so the posts were in the right position. I can't believe I fought that auger. There hasn't been one hole I didn't have to redig. I don't know if I am gonna survive this.
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an engineer can't figure out the right layout for the post holes. Go figure. That would never happen on one of my jobs. "yuk"
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an engineer can't figure out the right layout for the post holes. Go figure. That would never happen on one of my jobs. "yuk"
The thing is he measures absolutely a hundred times. I don't know how he can measure so much and get things wrong. I try not to say much, but it is driving me crazy. I would have had holes with two bags of cement tops if I had just dug the damn holes myself. He came over this morning and ran over my outside planters, now I have that mess to clean up.
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measuring things so much will get you in trouble kind of like balancing your checkbook too many times. Get enough numbers flying around and you are bound to make a mistake. He is measuring his layout off of the existing structure "house" is he not?
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measuring things so much will get you in trouble kind of like balancing your checkbook too many times. Get enough numbers flying around and you are bound to make a mistake. He is measuring his layout off of the existing structure "house" is he not?
Sort of. Its kinda hard to explain. He has a six by six foot concrete pad on the back of his house that we are now building off of the build the rest of his deck. We are using the house to get our square, but it seems the more he measures the more it is out of sync. I am very leary of trying to handle sixteen foot two by tens now that are gonna form the beams for the structure. I am just not sure he can handle the weight. I am probably gonna call it quits when this starts. It is starting to get dangerous.
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are you sure he's an engineer?
I have an engineering degree, but its not worth anything when it comes to building or, well, making a paycheck, :)
I say ditch him.
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Well I am gonna see if he can handle his end of the two by tens and if he can't then it will end. I am not gonna be ten foot up in the air and get knocked off a ladder by a sixteen foot two by ten. He has said that he would hire it out if it got too physical for us and I am gonna hold him to it.
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Well I survived the beams. You ought to see the saw horse we made to use a pulley to handle most of the wieght of the four by tens by sixteens. It wasn't the safest operation ever, but I got the last beam emplaced today. Now it is just a few sixteen foot floor joist and most of the harder work is done. Daggone, what a job. Came home and mowed the grass. I was gonna see what the Shipyards thirty two did tonight, but got done too late.
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Nice hearing that you survived the installation that you were dreading. How bout a pic or two of Tamer's bane?
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Nice hearing that you survived the installation that you were dreading. How bout a pic or two of Tamer's bane?
my mother in law took a pew pics. I will see if I can get her to send me a few.
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Wow am I tired. The biggest reason is I took some Benadryl as I got stung by about a dozen yellow jackets today while doing the weed whacking. It might also have something to do with building a playset and a deck for my father in law. The good news is that the deck in now getting floorboards. He can pretty much handle it on his own now. If I never see a twelve foot six by six again it will be too soon. Well, I have no doubt, I am rambling. I have a great idea on a hunting blind I am gonna build next year. See you tomorrow Yarders.
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Sorry about the yellow jackets buddy.
Sounds like one project inspired another.
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Sorry about the yellow jackets buddy.
Sounds like one project inspired another.
Yes, my daughters playhouse slide I built her was relatively simple and went up pretty quick once I got the posts set. I am thinking of making a little hunting house the same way. I will get some pics up when I get a chance. At least my foot is not as swelled up today.
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I saw the Fantasy post on the front page. Hopefully that will bring in some participants.
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Well it has been awhile since my last update so here goes.
It has been busy at work as usual and hunting season just came in. I have only had the chance to go hunting once even though a bunch of seasons are in, but I hope to get some MD archery in this week. I have been hearing reports of a few bucks in the place I hunt so I plan to check em out again.
Today was lots of yard work, trying to get ready to pressure wash and stain the deck. I also had to drop my vehicle off for some hopefully not so expensive work and waxed my mom's car. It has been a busy day. Oh, I did see about five or six nice gobblers this evening too. I also got a walmart visit in and saw some new figs.
I plan on doing some more yard work, mostly in preparation for a garden I want to plant next year so lots of digging up of old plants in preparation for tiller work this spring. Then, I want to treat my outside deck and other areas and then my yard work is over and hunting season can begin full force.
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Once you get a house the yard work never ends ;) I have not been hunting in ages and this time of year when the leaves start turning , my buck fever starts to act up. One of these years I'll have to join you on a hunt.
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Once you get a house the yard work never ends ;) I have not been hunting in ages and this time of year when the leaves start turning , my buck fever starts to act up. One of these years I'll have to join you on a hunt.
One of these years we are gonna have to do it. Still, I can't seem to find time to go msyelf now. Ah, as the little one gets older, more time will present itself. I am hoping to get all my outside chores shored up so I can just relax and enjoy my time afield and not feel guilty I am neglecting some needed home maintenance. Still, with almost three hundred bucks tied up in hunting licenses, I do make sure I go a bit. My home state finally did bring in some early deer seasons, doe season with a muzzleloader starts Monday if you can believe it, but I am worried that some folks will just use it as an excuse to hit the woods early and shoot whatever comes in front of them, buck or doe. We definitely do not have enough dnr officers for the amount of hunters in our area. They have too big of an area they are responsible for. I am not looking forward to the trespassing incidents I bet I have to deal with next week. My house sits in the middle of the woods and I have had to run a few folks off before for shots being fired at or very near my house.
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Can we organise a hunt for after C5? ;)
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Can we organise a hunt for after C5? ;)
I get you on all this game, you may never go home Greg. What will the missus say? That sure would be a great way to end it thats for sure.
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May have to send for her and Jayde to come over and join me. The Virginian air may make me emigrate..... ;)....lol.....then i'd be DARTH AMERICA!
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May have to send for her and Jayde to come over and join me. The Virginian air may make me emigrate..... ;)....lol.....then i'd be DARTH AMERICA!
LOL. This country could use a few more good souls like you Greg!
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Will be nice to get back over there mate, just hope i can pull it off and get the funds togther.... ;D
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Slightly off topic from Tamers blog but a couple of years ago a young Aussie family movied to Green Bay just to follow the Packers football team for 1 complete season, it was the season we went 13-3 and hosted the NFC championship game, I will have to see if I can find any news articles on that archived in the local papers site. You could use that as persuasion :)
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Wouldn't take much persuasion Sarge.....lol......totally enjoyed my stay over there in 05 and want to see more
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Well I know that a few of US would be more than willing to offer a room, you can tell the misses, you can off set hotel stays ;) You can travel the US
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Were Greg to see a packers game, he would want to stay, LOL
You are welcome at my house, Mate.
Sorry for jacking your thread, Shawn.
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Sounds like i'll need more than a few days guys, i'm very touched by the hospitality...... :)..thank you...
And now back to the original program
Take it away Tamer!..... ;D
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If CFive is in Baltimore, you guys are gonna have to come here. I am about a three hour drive from Baltimore.
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done!
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If you guys get lost or hijacked and end up in Kentucky, I live there.
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I read a rumor that it could be in Orlando next
Summer.
If that is the case, I am going to start saving now.
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Saw the same lit on Orlando. You think Disney is in on this?
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would tie in with Star Tours being revamped into Clone Tours...
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would tie in with Star Tours being revamped into Clone Tours...
was thinking the same thing. If it is there, it's gonna be waaay more expensive.....
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Well that would probably mess me up if it were down there. If I go to Florida it would have to be for a Disney World trip and doubt I could convince my other half to do the SW thing too. I can't even imagine the cost if it were down there.
That being said, back to my little bloggy. I have been sick as all get out the past few days, still ain't feeling top notch, but have been itching to get on the forums and catch up a bit. I can see that I have 4 pages of unread posts since my last visit! That is awesome! I won't get through all of em tonight, but I can't wait to see what the folks have done since I have been down for the count.
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Glad to see you're feeling at least a LITTLE better! Call me if you get the chance!
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Glad to see you're feeling at least a LITTLE better! Call me if you get the chance!
Will do Pat.
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Tamer!!! Good to see you in the forums buddy. Sorry you have been feeling ill.
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Tamer!!! Good to see you in the forums buddy. Sorry you have been feeling ill.
Nice to be feeling a bit better. Just so tired now. My wife wants me to go get checked out, but I think I am over it. I am tired of doctors, did that last year to no effect. Man, there is a ton of new stuff to get into. I have so much web work to do too. Its nice to be so busy though!
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nice to see you back up and about. Calling ya later tonight my time... :D
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nice to see you back up and about. Calling ya later tonight my time... :D
Sounds good guy. I will get onsite here when I get up to see if you are around! Going to be early, still a bit tired, but at least I could breathe today without tons of sinus pills.
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Well, I got a lot of my yard work done yesterday. I still have some plants to dig up on the flower bed which I am converting to a garden next year and want all the roots dug up so I don't get yanked when the tiller goes through it next year. I also have to figure out how to fence it to keep the deer out. I sure can't see any now for hunting season being in, but I know I will have em by the dozens as soon as the first plant is in the ground. I am gonna take a pic of the space and get you guys to give me your fencing ideas.
Well I finished my first ebay auction and am slightly disappointed. Now I know with today's economy things are gonna go down, but I was surprised by the many fees both ebay and paypal charge for an auction! Basically I only got 15 dollars on an auction and then have to pay ebay 1.36 and paypal 1.09! I can understand you are paying a fee for thier auction services but geesh that seems a bit high. I guess I will do better with other auctions, but man if Doc hadn't bid on that thing a bit I would be up the creek. Then, ebay tries to get you to pay to print thier shipping label when you can go to the daggone usps site and print your own and a tracking number for free! I am so in need of everyone's ebay tips. My first goal is to just get rid of all the junk I have lying around the spare bedroom and then start taking the lids of one tote at a time and just see what happens. I think I might need to start a store too to just make sure I get bottom line what I want instead of trying to make ebay millions!
Hunting is going horrible, there are so many acorns in the woods that it is hard to pattern the deer and the early archery and muzzleloader seasons for antlerless deer have spooked em up for sure. I think it is gonna be a long season. Today I am gonna hopefully go pick up my brother and we are gonna go shoot some guns.
All I have left to do now is treat my porches as I got em pressure washed yesterday and dig up a few plants and my outside chores are done for the year. Then, I can go find SW and hunt!
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Sound like you have been busy, buddy.
The notorius pile of eBay and paypal fees are something I have learned to deal with on a daily basis and do realize that usually to make any money, it takes alot of selling. The learning curve of making money on the bay is more detailed than alot of people relize and the best reason for even trying it is the sheer number of people there looking to buy stuff.
Ask me anything, buddy. I am here to help.
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Well it is time for an update. Long story short is I have been really sick. Not the swine flue thank god, but a really nasty sinus infection that I waited way too long to go to the doctor for. I am starting to improve though so watch out the hunt for the atst is on!
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Glad you're feeling better mate....
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I can tell that you are on the mend, buddy.
post a pic of that atst when you find it. I'll make you famous.
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FILM AT ELEVEN!..... Tamer finds ATST first!.....
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I can tell that you are on the mend, buddy.
post a pic of that atst when you find it. I'll make you famous.
LOL. I am on the hunt! Still sick though. Back to the doctor again today. Still coming to work today may be a pretty daggone nice treat!
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Well it has been a few weeks since I have updated this so here goes: Well, I am almost done with my cough and nasty sinus stuff I think. I have a bit of that junk left, but am feeling a bit better. I actually climed a few trees with my climbing stand my back felt better too. I don't have anything to show for it as the deer seem to be scarce and it is bumming me out, but man the rut is starting so it has to get better.
My two gals are doing fine, the wife is bummed because our co-workers got me a cake this week and they forgot her bday last month so she is ticked about that. They really can be careless folks sometimes, but again you take the bad with the good. I would like to see the workplace get a little bit more aimiable with stuff like that. They go through the motions, but don't seem to really mean anything. I guess a lot of workplaces are like that. Good thing I like my clientelle, most of em anyway.
My little girl told mommy she wants a big falcon like daddy so I am hoping mommy hears her and gets her one for xmas. Good lord knows we have enough for her already, but xmas is sure a fun time with a kid in the house.
Star Wars wise there are these rascals who got me hooked on the action fleet line so I am pursueing a few of those purchases and am still trying to find my Legacy Ugnaught, dewback, and am eagerly waiting for that TESB wave. I am probably gonna buy every helmetless atat driver I can get my hands on.
Well, thinks thats it. Nothing too exciting, but nothing too bad is going on either! This thing was reading like Dear Abby the last year so it is good to be doing better. Life is like that too, course I seem to find bad luck more than good, but I ain't complaining this week! Hope this selection finds you and yours doing well too. Thanks for taking the time to check in on the life of Tamer.
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Well here is what it looked like at my house yesterday morning.
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Here is what it looked like yesterday afternoon.
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I haven't seen a snow like this for a long time. I don't know when I will get out, but I am gonna try to go down to my lower driveway where I have my Liberty and try to dig it out to the road as I left it about thirty yards from the end of said driveway. It will probably take me hours to dig it out, but I probably should have a way to get out if I need it. I bet school will be cancelled for most, if not all, of the week and we are supposed to get about another foot supposedly Tuesday. Ah winter, I am ready for it to be over.
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Good lord, Shawn! I am glad you took pics but very sorry about the teriffic dumping of snow that you got. Man, imagine how much extra weight is sitting on your roof in those shots. What does you little one think about all of that white stuff?
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Good lord, Shawn! I am glad you took pics but very sorry about the teriffic dumping of snow that you got. Man, imagine how much extra weight is sitting on your roof in those shots. What does you little one think about all of that white stuff?
We acutaully had a snow that was a little more about six years ago and it makes me so glad I have a cape cod style roof on my house so the pitch is steep to handle those types snows and snow melt. My little girl is loving it. Ok enough playing, I have to go down and start shoveling out my Jeep and then come back to see if I can dig out my truck which is in the first daylight shot you see.
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Woah! I didn't even realize that was the truck. Tamer, I'm thinking that a guy like you could really use a good snowblower,if not a tractor with a blade.
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Woah! I didn't even realize that was the truck. Tamer, I'm thinking that a guy like you could really use a good snowblower,if not a tractor with a blade.
Clint, a snowblower for as much road as I have wouldn't do much good. I have debated getting a tractor with a plow, but its a big expense for the small number of times I would need it. I have a four wheeler with a plow, but it wouldn't do squat with this much snow. There are two guys who live on my back road with trucks and plows, but they can't touch this. The good news is the excavatar who helped build my house comes when I call. He is gonna plow me out the next day or so. Good thing, I starte down to my Jeep and it was such rough going (over four feet of snow I think now) I just said the heck with it. Glad I did the wife said the excavatar had called and said the other roads weren't plowed yet anyway. So I would have gotten down there to just come right back up anyway. Right now it is 51 degrees so it is really melting. Good thing, another foot on Tuesda and Wednesday is in the forecast.
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4ft, Ouch! Better break out your snowshoes.
That impending snow on tuesday has me spooked about my layover in Tenn on the way to Fla. Man, if we get canceled on the way, it will just crush us.
I just can't get over that mound of snow covering your truck.
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Well I get another day off tomorrow. Looks like I can watch the superbowl and sleep in. I have a feeling I will have Tuesday off too as a neighboring county already called off and then there is the more snow on the way so who knows when I will get back to work. Glad we can't go past June 8th as far as when work lets out. I guess this is the last year of that though.
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I heard that the East Coast was getting a lot of snow, but I hadn't imagined this much! I love Winter and snow, so I'm planning on living on the East Coast someday, preferably somewhere close to Washington D.C.
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Well I still haven't been plowed out from the first batch and we are supposed to get anywhere from a foot to two feet this time. It is supposed to start around ten am. I may not be able to be online much today. Hold down the fort guys.
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Well it has been awhile since I updated this. Not too much new to report. Just trying to keep from going stir crazy from the long winter. It was nice to see the sun this week and see some warmer temps even if it is gonna go back down again next week.
I did score some of my Action Fleet and Micromachine wants so that is about it on the SW front other than trying to sell off quite a few of my earlier non ESB items. I am making some dent in it though. I am gonna have to start listing figures here before too long.
On the non SW front I am debating starting a real garden this year and because I live in the woods it will mean some type of fence and then a lot of digging up of bushes and flowers to make room for the garden. I will take pictures of the before and after and see if I can document any progress and see if I can grow me some taters and maters. Daggone produce is getting outrageous in stores.
On the shooting front I was finally able to get my tactical sks put together and with some replacement parts from TAPCO turned my single shot sks back into the automatic is was supposed to be. I am not sure I hit anything with it, but hearing it cycle was sheer music. I think I am gonna get me a red dot for it if I can find an acceptable scope mount I like. I still have some sillohuette targets Sarge gave me and I want to do a one hundred yard group on em. I need to see if I can find a decent hunting round for my hunting one too. I aim to take a whitetail with it this year. I am also starting to gear up for turkey season and patterned my shotguns. My encore sure did better so I will use it I guess. I did see six longbeards in my driveway earlier this week, two of em were fighting over a hen. They didn't even run when we went down the driveway. Women, they will just make you crazy sometimes.
Thanks thats it. It is good to hear about other folks and what is happening too.
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I has been a long time since I had an update, but I have been busy with lots of outside chores, including starting a rather large garden for the first time. I am happy to report that everything is growing and I just installed my first electric fence to keep the critters out!
I also just got back from a fishing trip from the Chesapeake Bay that was ok. I caught my first few stripers even though they were a bit small. Speaking of fishing my little gal caught her first real fish a few weeks ago. They were quite tasty.
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I am the one with all the grey hair!
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Wow, Shawn, she's growing so fast! I can remember when she was just a tiny little thing, and it seems like yesterday!
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Wow, Shawn, she's growing so fast! I can remember when she was just a tiny little thing, and it seems like yesterday!
tell me about it Pat. tell me about it.
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Heck, she'll be driving to Celebration X in no time!
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Well I have a small update. I got back from the beach last week and I had a pretty good time. Most of it involved me trying to catch some type of water creature while I was down there. I was finally able to figure out the bridge and caught a few fish each day. Next year, I want to target the stripers. Anyhow, here is a pic of the bluefish I was catching. Those bad boys hit pretty good. The trick is either bumping it along the bottom or reeling in fast just under the surface.
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I caught some blue crabs too and boy did they eat good. I will get some pics of them up later.
It was nice to get caught up here a bit. I have some more web work to get too and some ebay auctions to start, but it is nice to have some time off. The garden I started as an experiment sure has sprouted up too. Now we just need some rain. My grass in my yard is already brown!
I am also pretty psyched as yesterday I bought my CV tickets. It will be my first full blown SW experience. I can't wait. Poor Pat doesn't know what he is getting himself into!
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Well it has been a few months since my last update so here goes.
I am in a post CV lull, Wow was that a great thing to do. I don't ever see me not going to all the rest of them. It was really great to meet Kreeper2 and talk SW with someone who knows what that means. My only CV regret was I didn't meet more Shipyarders. Still, there will be CVI.
Work has started out better this year than what I can remember in a long time. There have been quite a few changes, but for the most part good. I am eager to get past the preliminaries to start some real projects. My room is already starting to fill up with SW. That bust I got in from Most Wanted Collectibles looks sweet.
I am gearing up for hunting season and have actually been seeing a few nice ones. Season will tell if I can connect though. It can't get much worse than last season though. I hope to hear more from Chad and Wayne and perhaps their seasons too. I really do enjoy reading the blogs. Make sure everyone does an update.
My family is good for which I am grateful. My little gal is growing like a weed. It is hard to believe she is four already. She told me today that she showed grandma her GG busts so I guess I don't have any anymore. She has also claimed the new flying Falcon I bought at CV, and here I thought the dress up DisneyLeia and Amidala would be enough. My mom got a kick out of her showing her my new items from CV and making sure she (my mom) didn't touch any of them. I have to laugh at that as I really don't have to tell her that, she just knows I don't touch em much and she makes sure no one else does. I think I may have her hooked. She is trying to deal me away from my GH Walker still though. She is gonna give me back one vintage and one potf walker for it. I am still trying to decide.
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LOL, she is trying to swap out walkers..........priceless. She is getting big, buddy.
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LOL, she is trying to swap out walkers..........priceless. She is getting big, buddy.
That she is Clint. That she is. It is hard to believe next year she starts school. She goes for preschool starting next week. I met her teacher this week and she seemed ancient and kinda mean. Kinda like me!
My brother had hernia surgery yesterday so I found out a whole lot about low hernias, a lot more than I really wanted to know, but he came through everything ok. This was like the third time he has been to the doctor since grade school. He hates them. I figured I had to go in to make sure he actually went. Hopefully he will learn a lesson and not do that anymore. He burns the candle on both ends and the sides.
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Ok, I am irritated. My wife noticed our satellite tv bill went up twenty dollars a month so she called and was going to cancel our service, but magically they were doing a free upgrade to hdtv, you could replace your old recievers with new dvrs, and lock in a lower rate than we were paying now for two years. I am glad to report that that part was true and I am now watching my new tv with HD and wow is it awesome. So, ultimately I am gonna be alright, but the installers left my house a freaking disaster area.
They had to install a new dish and I am glad they didn't put it on the roof as I think that would lead to roof leaks down the road. My mother in law (who was watching my little girl at home) was gonna watch em for me and I don't blame her a bit, but she didn't check my basement before they left. Well you could literally follow the trail of mud they left in every room it was that bad. I am not talking about a spot here and there, but a daggone trail. Ok, I spend a couple hours cleaning that up. Then, I look at how they run the wires and see they started off running them in the holes I had for all the wires through one side of my floor joists, but then for some reason they just stopped and started using cable clamps and screwing them to the bottom of my floor joist (right beside the daggone holes I had cut through them) and ran the daggone coax right on my dryer vent pipe on their way to my breaker box. Now, I could see things hanging there and notice some open cables there now and while I had hoped they might take down the old sdtv dish and wires I can live with the fact that I might have to do that myself, but seeing open wires means I have do that now as some of them evidently still some charge to my old sdtv upstairs as I shocked myself checking out the wires. Ok, dummy me for getting into those wires as I should know better. Then, I go outside to check the new dish they installed right outside my basement door (looks like I am extending a flower bed this spring) I can see they ran the wires inside my house in what is going to be my bathroom downstairs and that looks good (new rubber insulation grommets where they go into the house which I liked) and then when I took a quick glance in my bathroom I see one wall that has mud smears from the top of the wall to the bottom.
So, I instead of going out to eat with my family I spent it cleaning up the new installation. Now, my tv seems great and it is easy to see the difference from sd to hdtv so I do like that with the deal they are giving us. I am just upset that the install crew didn't pick up a bit after themselves before they left. I can handle a bit of dirt, heck I do that myself, but after cleaning up for a few hours at the least I am gonna have to repaint one of my bathroom walls, change the cable route so its not up against my daggone dryer vent, and rerun said cable back into the floor joists that are just a few inches away from where they used the daggone cable clamps. I guess it could be the fact that it has been a rough few weeks dealing with my little girl being sick and just feeling like I haven't caught up on my sleep, but I feel like giving the foreman of the dish install crew a couple what fors in regard to how they leave a house after they install an hdtv satellite dish. I have learned to always at the very least sleep on things when I am angry and then approach them again the next day. I still think I might call to let em know that while I like the service, I didn't appreciate the mess the crew left. What do you guys think? Should I just bite it and do it right and shut my trap or call and give em the Tamer Two cents?
I can also see it has been awhile since I have posted here so perhaps I need to keep this up a bit. Thanks for reading my vent folks, I already feel a bit better.
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The Tamer two cents, give em the Tamer two cents!
It's good that you have hd programming now but sounds like they were a lackluster crew.
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Yeah, I slept on it and think probably the public need protected from this type of service crew.
I spent most of the morning reinstalling everything and now it is run through the hole in my floor joists so it looks a heck of a lot better. I drilled a few new holes just in case I had to run anything else new so if there is every anything new (who knows down the road) the service crews hopefully won't take the lazy way out and just run them through said series of holes.
I also broke my wife's daggone clorox wetmop (scrubbing so hard the handle broke where you hit the squirt juice) so I have to get her a new one of those. Still, I now have HDTV, wires that are now ran safe, and a clean house. I just have to paint the wall and take down the old dish, but that can wait till we get warmer temps.
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Hey, it looks like I haven't whined here in some time so I may as well blow some of the dust off this while I hit refresh on the SDCC Hasbro Chamber Set every few minutes. ARGHHHHH! I don't even want to talk about Hasbro so I won't.
Well I am happy to report my little gal is doing well and even went to soccer camp last week and ran for two and a half hours a day for four days which is sure nice after having all that hospital trouble last year with asthma. I was very leery, but the doctors assured us it was ok so I relented. She loved it. She now has two soccer balls and she won a medal at the camp.
I am currently at war with the cats of the house: Vader and Luke who have decided that the entire house should be their litter box instead of the two we have for them. After having to replace a cieling tile in my collection room and having to rewire a recessed light certain areas of the house are now off limits till we get them resolved. My wife is getting one prozac if you can believe it. Geesh, my plan to put them outside till they settled down seamed a lot cheaper. Needless to say I spent a lot of days cleaning and even got some professional cleaner that worked thank the maker.
On the crafty note I have currently begun to restore some old military firearms namely an 8MM Mauser right now from the ground up. Note to self: never ever wear light clothes when using paint thinner again. I was broke out for a week, but the cosmoline is gone and the barrel ready for blueing. Let me go check Hasbro (still out of stock). I have a few other metal parts to get ready and then I will blue it a couple of times and then work on the new wood laminate stock I got for it. I am also cutting off the bolt to put a new handle on it to allow the mounting of a scope (for those who know anything about Mausers their bolt comes straight up). If anyone is interested I can snap a few pics when I go back to work on it tomorrow. I also happened to take my concealed carry class here in WV finally so now I am looking for some type of personal defense pistol and a biometric safe. I have been meaning to do this for some time before the option was taken away and finally did so. I don't really plan on packing it around too much, but the class was all about pistol safety, shooting, and defense so it was nice. My wife even took it with me it was so laid back (I found out they make bra holsters too). ;D I also started on some very basic rifle safety and shooting with my daughter and she likes it a good bit:
I also have an SKS I plan on doing up AR style and Tapco makes some awesome accesories for them. About all I need is a new scope mount and am wondering whether to go red dot or regular optical on it. Williams Firesight makes an awesome fiber optic open sights package for this gun too (well many for that matter). I have this on my hunting sks and it rocks. I also today inherited a model 1894 Winchester today that looks like it came right out of the box. I don't know if I am gonna shoot that one yet or not. Anyhow, I have been messing with guns here and there.
As some folks know we went of vacation to the beach a few weeks back and it was pretty fun. I didn't do too much exciting, went fishing once and caught a huge ray (pic coming Clint). We caught some blue crabs and steamed em up and found a pretty cool nature trail where we were staying (hasbro item still sold out). It was a fun couple of weeks away from the grind:
And since I am posting some gal pics anyway I wanted to thank Chad again for sending my little gal a Marvel Black Widow and now she is Widow Crazy.
Still out of stock and I just got another message in from Sideshow. I think they hate me. :-X
Update: My wife got mad at me for posting my gal pics so I took those out. Geesh. Its not my night.
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I can suggest 2 pistols Glock 23( so easy to strip) and a ruger lcp 380 you can sometimes forget that little booger is even there.. Never owned a sks think that is 7.62x 39 am I right? I go with it's cousin the Ak47 wasr 10-63 fairly cheap and with 30 round clips its fun lol
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I haven't seen anywhere to buy an AK or I probably would. My next purchase is either gonna be a twenty guage semi-auto turkey shotgun (tristart probably) or some type of AR. I definitely want to look at a few Ruger Pistols too. And yes the SKS is 7.62 by 39. When I got them they were very cheap. Now, not so much.
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http://www.gunbroker.com/ and http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/index.php If you didn't know about these 2 sites you do now my local store is clyde's armory and they have all the cool stuff...If your lookin for something to buy me for my birthday look no further Tamer https://danieldefense.com/rifles/daniel-defense-m4-carbine-v3.html saving funds for that hope to get it by dec lol
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LOL. Perhaps I can send you my bday list too then.
I am very familiar with gunbroker, but buds gun shop is a new one. Right now I am knee deep in Mauser and Mosin Nagant Conversions so I might get back to my AR and SKS Projects later. I haven't even shot my new Model 94 yet. I must admit taking this Mauser and building it from the ground up is quite fun. Today, I took a new stock and bedded it to the barrel. I am also working on a new trigger and safetey for it. I must say it is the first time i have ever grinded on a bolt. It is gonna look sharp though. That laminate stock is sweet.
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Shot a mosin nagant about 2 months ago for the first time and have to say im impressed...Than my buddy got one and we shot about 40 rounds through it and enjoyed every bit of it...He is trying to sell it to me and I might just buy it but if i did i'd have to buy the scope mount amd change it to a black synthetic stock...Good luck on the Mauser
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My father in law just put a pepperwood stock on his Mosin Nagant and it turned out awesome. There are so many aftermarket products for some of those military surplus rifles you can really soup them up and shoot them cheaply. So for so good on the Mauser, I will put up a pic of it when I get it finished.
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Bet that stock turned out nice...Yeah and the price of mosin $115 you just cant beat that 2 ammo clips and a bayonet
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Wow, it has been awhile since I posted in this, but I finished a little outdoor project today that was on my bucket list for the summer and it was fun to add a small SW Flair.
No deck project is complete without some party lights
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A person needs a new grill to take care of those bantha steaks
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Someone is enjoying the R2 party lights under the new canopy
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Nice, are you really going to hide the new grill from us?
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Nice, are you really going to hide the new grill from us?
LOL. Nah, I will take some pics of it during daylight hours. It is one of these new four burners. It is pretty nice. Grilled some steaks for the family yesterday for Labor Day.
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Clint, sorry I haven't posted the grill pics. I used it this past week with some new chicken marinade to great results. About the only thing that is bugging me is the stainless sure does get marked up easy, but does clean off the same.
On another note I just had a great day finally popping off a few rounds in my zombie killer and assorted firearms. The great thing was seeing my whole family, including my mother in law, get in on the shooting action. Between trips to the creek to look for salamanders and crabs my daughter even shot and hit the target with a twenty two today all by herself (well I was pretty close) with her holding the weight of the firearm and everything.
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Well it has been a minute or two since I add to this! Wow, where does the time go!
Ok, I will warn you I have a rant coming here.
So two weeks ago, I go to have new tires put on my wheels (first time I have done this as its a new truck) and after waiting four hours for them to get done as I was checking out and paying for the new tires (I like the Wal-Mart protection plan as you can find a Wally World anywhere) a tech walked up and said to make sure to put there were scuffs on the wheels before the work was done.
I was like hold up! There aren't any scratches or scuffs on my wheels. It is pretty much a brand new truck! I said we will have to go see about that. Well we go out to the parking lot and I see a huge scratch around the rim of the front driver side wheel that you can tell was just done. Part of the clearcoat from the wheel they scratched off was on the brand new tire! They said it was damaged like that before the work was done. I called bull on that!
So we get manager 1 who kept trying to say it was plastic. It was an alluminum wheel and what you are seeing is the damn clearcoat you guys scratched off that is now on the tire.
Then we get manager 2 who is a little better and says we have insurance to take care of things like this, but you will probably loose because it was noted on the print out that there were "scuffs" on the wheels prior to the work being done. I said wow isn't that convenient. I keep saying I wanted to take to the tech for his or her dishonesty, but they wouldn't say anything when I requested that. So I fill out their claim stuff and am promised I will get a phone call in a few days.
Fast forward a week and I get a letter (no phone call) that says if pay to get an ASE Certified mechanic to say they were damaged when the new tires were put on they will "move foward" with the claim. So I have to pay and get a mechanic to say they damaged my wheel! I mean take a look at this wheel and tell me any normal reasonable rational person couldn't tell the apparatus they use to get the new tire on the wheel didn't do this! I mean it is right around the daggone rim of the wheel!
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Lesson of the day is that when you go to get new tires, take pictures of your wheels you are gonna have em put on so this doesn't happen to you. I guess I am gonna get a mechanic to say this so I can see where this goes from here. I will be very surprised if I get one cent from them.
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That sucks dude. Some nerve to get you to sign a waiver that basically says it was already like that, something a 5 year old would say. They design this red tape so you just say screw it, it's not worth it. I would follow through, to like the Supreme Court. Make them responsible for their incompetence.
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Oh I didn't sign anything that said I agreed with them, I just filled out the claim where I was allowed to share "my side."
So to update this, as I had time at the end of work yesterday and a tire shop was just down the road I went in and had my "second opinion". The mechanic at the tire shop said the white stuff you see around the "scuff" on my wheel is tire molding paste so thats the only way that gets there!
I will send in my proof and see what they do. I bet they still refuse to pay.
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Did the mechanic say what could have caused it? If he says yeah it was done by a tire mounting machine, that's it. Based on the scratch pattern it looks like someone slammed into a curb. Those automatic car washes can do it too, maybe their drive on lift? Yeah there's no way to definitively say they did it, unless like you said had before and after pictures.
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Oh yeah he said it was the mounting machine and wrote up a statement that said that. I emailed and faxed it in yesterday.
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That sucks Shawn, I usually get scuffs in the bank drive thru or checking a curb somewhere. My wheels are powder coated black which is certainly more forgiving at a distance.
In the work truck, I end up checking curbs all over the place. Still not used to sitting so high or something, I guess.
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Yeah, hate having to fight them over something so apparent, but we will see what happens.
It is getting time to put some meat in the freezer so that will be fun.
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First off, stuff like this sucks for ever and I'm really sorry to hear this happened to you. As you said there's insurance to pay for accidents. Sh*t happens and the joke shouldn't be on you as a customer.
When I read through your description, I found one detail fishy right away:
The wheel was already ON the machine with the new tire put on, when the tech walked up to you to make you aware of the damage. If he was an honest guy/company they would check this PRIOR they put their hands on your car!
Remember when I rented a car on Spain? There's a sheet to fill out and note ALL existing dents and scratches on the car. If that's not done, I will not get on the car because you never know if they want to sew you.
For reference here's a damage caused by a curb, which Clonehead already mentioned above. My dad had a discussion with a client and didn't pay full attention while parking. That rim is $500 so he bit his tongue quite a bit after this.
To me your damage looks different, because it's a smooth bent for a lack of a better word. I could ask a mechanic here in Germany what he thinks of your case.
I hope it'll be figured out, but it's annoying nevertheless...
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Best wishes and be safe everyone!
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Yeah, thanks Philipp. I still like to think most people are good, but man it is getting harder and harder these days.
As for an update, I still haven't heard back from the claims woman. I am gonna call the main company tomorrow just to see if I can talk to a live body. I know they didn't expect me to get the mechanic report and now will have a harder time wiggling out of it. I may go back to talk to the Wal-Mart manager too even though I don't expect him to do much. He needs to know about the quality of all of the staff involved in this.
I have no doubt this situation will arise again there.
Anyhow, I appreciate the support. I don't normally moan and groan so much, but this one has me buggered.
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How much are your tires going for these days, Shawn?
I priced tired for the Challenger the other day and they were $300 each
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Hey Clint, it looks like one of my wheels goes for around $530.
Update on the situation, I got another email and letter saying I needed to send in an estimate for the cost of the replacement so I did the same day I got the email.
Now I had a message on my answering machine saying they still needed the estimate. So now I guess we go the you didn't contact me route. This is such a convuluted mess just so they don't have to pay.
I will keep you updated.
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Remember the 3 principles of life.
Never quit.
Never give up.
Never say die.
Satisfaction will be yours.
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Ron, I am definitely keeping after them.
Gonna email em again today and try to call again.
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Wow, not keeping up with this very good. Feel like I should change this to Tamer's Rant instead of Blog.
First the good news, I finally did get them to reimburse me for my truck wheel after months of wrangling. And a few months later I went back to that same Wal-Mart and saw Automotive was under new administration; they even gave my wife a deal on four new tires ( Uh, don't get an all wheel drive car folks!).
Now onto my latest rant. We bought a new door for our house last Spring (2021) and today we are on our fourth door that had to be sent back due to being damaged. I kid you not, from the manufacturer they are damaging it in either shipping or the factory. Our builder assures us this is usually a quality company and he has never seen this type of thing in all his years of working. Lucky me I guess.
Most of the damages have been coming from them shipping it and it showing up buggered up. Our builder just sent us pictures of the latest one with a big end in the upper right and and the framing tore off the right side. He won't even leave the warehouse until they take off the shipping materials to check it. He said he has never had to do this before.
I am thinking it might be time to try a new door company, but get this, our builder has already cut the hole for the door size we want and the "loaner door" we are using fits said hole so we are trying to get by so he (our builder) doesn't have to redo all the installation work he has put in so far. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Does any shipper ever care about their product showing up in good condition?