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Not my best pic, but here it is. I jumped in the shower to wash all the blood out of my hair, then had Lisa comb it away from the cuts and put a washcloth on it, and the stretchy headband thing to hold it in place. Kept it there there until I went to bed.

Wife says it scabbed over nicely...(gotta trust her as I can't see it)....Gonna go back at it today. Took the week off to get this done and the weeks comin' to an end quickly.....Seems like I used to get this stuff done faster when I was a young fella.

Been re-siding the garage and replacing the small porch that gets my brother up to his apartment..... Went to move the ladder and forgot the hammer on top. Frickin' claw end hit me right on top of the melon.... Rubbed my head, and came back with a bloody hand....then it started dripping down my face and got in my eye....lol....I'm not happy, but at this point I'm trying not to laugh at myself....It was raining a bit so I had to throw the tools in the garage,,,drove the van back up to the house and kept the bad side away from the wife and told her I'm ok.....don't freak....and she pretty much didn't.....Washed my hair....combed it away from the two gashes where the claw hit...put a washcloth on it with my wifes stretchy headband to keep pressure...now just gotta sit here and make sure I didn't crack my skull....If I don't start seeing spots or getting nauseated, I think I'll be ok....I have a really hard head.... I'm done working for today...lol.....

Here's a timely one: "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

"We're all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." Ben Franklin.

"'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.' — Abraham Lincoln"

What can one say.....My deepest sympathy goes out to the family.....I've personally experienced such a death by someone close to me and know the pain that it causes to loved ones. No one knows what goes on in someones mind that would cause them to take such drastic action, but it's also true that no one knows what happens between a person and God either. It may be small comfort, but Gods will be done. Rest in peace Dale....see ya on the other side.

I think it was Mark Twain who said: "It's much easier to fool people than to get them to realize they've been fooled."

"Change oil soon" indicator came on in my work van, so I stopped at the local NAPA to get what I needed for a change. I asked if they had any oil change deals going on and he said they had a sale on NAPA brand synthetic blend oil and a oil filter.....I didn't ask the price, but told him to go for it. 6 quarts of 5w 30 oil and a oil filter. Out the door it was $18.19. I told him he must have made a mistake as it was too cheap. He said "nope"...that's the deal. Oil is $2.19 a quart....can't remember how much the filter was....do the math.... Anyhoo, he says the sale goes on all week, so I'm going to go back and stock up. Been a while since I was able to change oil for under $20....let alone using a synthetic blend.

​Confucius say: Man who stand on toilet is high on pot. He also said......Man who keep hand in pocket feel cocky all day. I got tons of 'em ....I'll stop for a while.

It's easier to fool people than to make them realize they've been fooled.

Youth is such a wonderful thing.....It's a shame it's wasted on the young

You can tune a piano, but ya can't tuna fish.

I'd take a bottle infronta me over a frontal labotamy any day.

Personally, I'm not too keen on the idea of driving into Mexico, but I would like to see it. My niece, Tabi has been splitting her time between San Miguel, Mexico and Central Ohio for 15 years now. A couple of times a year she's been driving there and back on her own. She says she doesn't stop in Mexico until she's a few hours from the border. She also says the police are corrupt, but it's really not a big deal...If you get a speeding ticket, you pay them directly instead of the government....cost is about the same and is negotiable. She's 5'4 and of a gentle nature, so I guess if she can do it, others can too.

I'd think a decent machine shop should be able to clean them up without removing much material.

As I'd mentioned elsewhere: What's good for the goose is good for the gander"

That smells political...You, of all people should know better.

A load is good. I've found that when dealing with electronics, it's very possible to register voltage on a meter without potential. At the risk of revealing that I don't know much about electronics, I think it's called a TRIAC or something like that, where the aforementioned voltage closes the "gate" which allows the current to flow. When testing a circuit being controlled by electronics I do make sure there's a load. Keeping in mind a load is typically a solenoid coil, but the "phantom" voltage does not have the potential to energize the coil. Hope that helps more than cornfuses.

Most of us know the pain of losing a "fur baby", and I know that with time, the bulk of the memories will be happy ones. It's been years, but I still grieve for Ted and Kodi...and Rudy, Peanut, and Digger and Little Dog and Morgie.... But when I think of them, it brings smiles and fond memories. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I had a friend of a friend who owns an auto-body repair shop do some work on my Expedition...That's a story of it's own.....but when it was done, and I went to settle up with him he said the total cost was $4500, or, if I'd prefer I could install a complete HVAC system in a house he was building on Kelly's Island. Labor only. So I opted to put the system in. As the house was just being built, I figured that since he had already took all the materials on my list to the site, I could load up the motor-home with tools and our mutual friend who was willing to help, and sleep in the motor-home as I expected the job to take at least a full weekend. So I load up and Friday after work we head up to make sure to catch the ferry before it shut down at 9:00. It's about a 2 hour ride. Left at 5. Halfway there I heard the boom...and rear end felt a bit squishy. Blew one of the 4 rear tires....Crap.....pulled over at a wide spot on a two lane, only to discover I didn't have the correct socket to change. Called AAA and an hour later I was back on the road with the spare. Got about another half hour up the road and heard the same boom...but this time there happened to be a truck towing a parade float with a cannon on it. I couldn't tell if the sound was me or the cannon....lol...funny thing is that when I pulled into a parking lot, the truck pulled in right behind me to check his cannon....he said something was leaking in it an it sometimes fires on it's own. What were the odds of that....turns out it wasn't the cannon....I blew the other rear tire on the same side. Now, with not much time to spare before the ferry left, I'm wondering where the heck I'm going to find a replacement tire. I told my buddy to call his friend to let him know that we weren't going to make the ferry. I take out my phone and google tire places and choose one that was a 24 hr truck and trailer tire service shop and, looking at my phone....it was pretty close....really close....I turned around and saw that it was their parking lot I was in....again....what were the odds of that? Long story short, an hour later and $950 shorter I had 2 new tires on that side and we made the ferry as the last rider. Pulled up to the ticket house at 8:58, Completed the job Sunday afternoon and headed home to find that due to high winds they were only running the large ferry and had a 3 hour wait to board. The guy we were working for had his pickup parked at the very front of the ferry and had a wave come over the bow and swamped his truck....lol....It was a pretty hairy ride....they sure do pack 'em on that ferry like sardines. There was about 4" between my motor-home and the fenders of the trailer next to me and with the rockin' I was worried that I'd rock into the trailer, but at least THAT didn't happen. All's well that ends well as I made it home safe....matched the two replacement tires with two more for the other side on the rear. Front tires at this point are 8 years old, but still have good tread. I'll likely replace them next year. I'm happy with the work he did on my Expedition....he's happy with his HVAC system....it's all good. As a side note I since had him paint a gas tank for my 85 Nighthawk S and, as payment, I made him a switch over device where if power goes out he can run his fridge from a couple of golf cart batteries...at least until the batteries die. Enclosure, relay, trickle charger and inverter. He supplied the batteries. I even put a muffin fan on the enclosure to remove heat. It'll be interesting to see what our next project will be.

Just had quite a rash of bike droppings..... Rode up to the cabin with 5 friends. Had a great, long weekend with lots of riding in North / Central Pennsylvania...visited the Zippo lighter factory and the Straub brewery. Decided to beat the rain and head home Saturday. One of the guys injured his leg just before the trip but went anyway....Right by the cabin, as he was turning a not too tight circle with his Cavalcade, he went down.....I was just getting my bike started and situated to roll when I heard him yell for me....ran over and got the bike back up...checked him out and no new injuries to him or the bike...just damaged pride. Ok ...so lets try again to get going.....Began up the 1/4 mile long, bumpy dirt road from the cabin to the paved road.....Saw one of the other campers there, outside his cabin and stopped to say "hey" and ask if he was going to attend the annual campers meeting. Heard yelling again and looked back, and my cousin had dropped his 87 Goldwing...softly,...but was just lifting it back upright.....Geeze......OK....let's try again.....Got to the blacktop, which required a not too tight circle to head up the mountain...with an incline as turning the circle. We've all done this several times before....I did it and was starting to roll and heard some fuss and stopped and turned around to see my buddy with his Harley on it's side....barely...it was a soft fall...I saw no damage. This was 3 bikes dropped within the first 300 yards. We decided that it may be best to just hit the interstate and make a bee line for home. Everyone got home safe. 200 mile ride for them...350 for me. Been riding with these guys for 35 years and I can't remember any of them ever dropping a bike before,,,,now 3 within 10 minutes. Weird. Just glad nobody got hurt, and the bikes seem ok too.

I really wanted the Honda CB 900. The one that had the dual speed hi/low trans. I thought that would be a good tour bike. Got one of those in the garage waiting 'till I have time to do a resto. Doesn't need much other than fluids changed and the head replaced. An exhaust stud pulled out and someone did a poor job of trying to repair,....that pulled out too. I have a good head....(for the bike...not on my shoulders)....and figure that bike and a 69 Chevelle I have sitting in the garage will be the focus of my first year of retirement. As far as bikes go....I have too many old bikes already, but have always wanted an old V-Max, along with a V65 Magna, ...and I'd REALLY like to have an 83 Honda CB1100F Supersport....only made 'em one year and many considered it the first superbike. Good looking, good running and upright seating position.

I saw this posted on Craigslist. I wanted to post it here in case anyone was interested in this innovative, well built project vehicle. All for only $300. What's a Polaris Razor got that this little gem doesn't have anyway.... https://columbus.craigslist.org/snw/d/ostrander-go-kart-unfinished-project/7162926688.html?lang=en&cc=gb

One Q for the OP, did you buy ANYTHING bicycle related on that trip or did you Google search anything about bicycles recently? Did you text/email anyone about the bicycle seat? Google and Yahoo do scan your emails and use that to advertise to you. I would love to know if and how they got you on the bike seat. Nope, nope and nope. Last thing I bought bicycle related was a tire for his bike...maybe last April. (From Amazon) Had no reason to search anything so related since. Just happened to be walking through the bike aisle and noticed the seat,...and thought of Jeff. When I put the tire on and test rode the bike, I thought this is an awful hard seat, and hadn't thought of it again until I saw that big, cushy seat....kinda like the pillow-top on my second gen...lol... Went to it, took it off the rack and inspected for maybe 10 seconds, then decided I could get him one when I got home. Then when I logged onto the 'puter, that ad came up for an over-sized, cushy bike seat. Scary.