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Commercials are intended to get our attention even if it means aggravating us or making us angry. I'm so thankful for the "mute" button. I understand that now 18 minutes of every tv hour is commercials, more than it used to be.

Beyonce's performance with the entire entourage was a great performance. I may be just a little biased because my son is her recording engineer. He worked with the group when they rehearsed the performance and recorded it for release when the show's performance was completed. I recorded the CMA awards show and went back and watched my favorite performances. Tim McGraw singing "Humble and Kind" , the CMA song of the year was super. I also loved Keith Urban's performance. I'm not a big country and western fan, but talent is talent, and most everyone can appreciate great talent.

Sounds like the name Marie brings back bad memories. A positive name might be the ticket. Like Freedom! Excitement! Maybe Danger! I should name my bike "Mary" or the takeoff "Merry" my first "real" girl friend who was big, lean, fast, and exciting!

If you watched Beyonce's performance with the Dixie Chicks at the CMA tonight, you may have noticed "Too Many Zooz" playing in the backup. In fact the Sax player took the stage with Beyonce for a moment during the performance. Fantastic performance I thought!

When I was divorced, I met a single (willing) woman named Chloe. I had to pass. Didn't measure up.

Really sorry for your loss. Her health in her final years probably caused the change in her personality. Don't the airlines give you a break on the tickets for bereavement? I thought they did. But, I haven't flown as much since my last contract job in FL that ended in Aug 2013.

I went back to windows 7 after one day and it works great!

Keep the tank full with stabil added. Turn the fuel off and drain the carbs if it sits a good while. Do your carbs have overflow lines? If not, leaving the fuel valve open only needs one leaky carb needle and seat to hydrolock the engine and destroy it. Keep the battery charged or disconnect the ground.

skydoc sells a rear caliper that has the bleed valve in the correct position, I think.

If the engine was hydrolocked, you may want to do a compression check to make sure the connecting rod isn"t bent.

Looks to me like a 2x4 on its side might break if you pushed very hard.

Spark plugs foul really quickly when you put cleaner in the fuel. You may need to change them once or twice as you work on it as it is burning all the funky old fuel that has the crud in it that the cleaner removed and put in the fuel.

How about the Vmax rear gear? Lots of demand for those among Venture riders.

Check boats.net and partzilla.com. They are the same company but have different web sites and one sometimes have more or less parts than the other. Sometimes parts are leftovers and some dealers might have stuff that others don't.

Nothing like dogs and kids to pizzoff the neighbors!

A friend said he ran over a raccoon one night with his 78 CB750 Honda and it started weaving. He pushed as hard as he could on the handlebars and regained control. He said that if he had been riding his wing with its longer rake and trail, he would have lost it.

This may help. There is a part 2 also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjODd4CDXec

Many years ago, I was getting a routine physical and when it came time to check my prostate I said. "I guess now is when you earn your money." He responded. "No, Now is when you get your money's worth!" Had to laugh!

That's great news! Glad things are better.

Yep, it's next to impossible to eliminate a government bureaucracy once it gets started.

They also look for other things in the urine such as blood. Tells them something about your kidney function. If you are taking a statin, they sometimes affect kidneys and liver. In fact if you do research on the drugs that lots of people take, there seems to be a risk of kidney and/or liver damage from many of them. I've read that organ failure is at a record high.

Just re-read your post. 50 miles you rode on that tire to get back home! That's Evil Knievel daring! Not just the danger of the tire blowing but cars running over you because you are going slow! I push my luck way too often, but I don't think I would have done it.

Glad you made it back home safely!

Today Sam's Club had reduced the GoPro Black hero 4 to $349