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[90cummins]

We’ve all made mistakes
If we only knew
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[grsthegreat]

i could have used a helicopter today. had to drive up a mountain 14 miles, half of it in 4x4 LOW to get to a cell tower. and they were logging to boot. my truck looked like a dust ball when i got thru.

sad part...i have to go back as they want to add sell monitoring to it now. why didnt they tell me before i drove up there.

 

[3930dave]

i could have used a helicopter today. had to drive up a mountain 14 miles, half of it in 4x4 LOW to get to a cell tower. and they were logging to boot. my truck looked like a dust ball when i got thru.

sad part...i have to go back as they want to add sell monitoring to it now. why didnt they tell me before i drove up there.

LOL .... Gotta love those "Oh yeah, by the way..." conversations......

Scaring me... about "retiring"..... you make it look like a lot of work ! Hopefully you are billing mileage !

Rgds, D.

 

[grsthegreat]

Yes on milage. Bt ive cut it down to 2 days a week. The problem is, the wife is always asking what days i work, so if im not getting paid i can work for her for free.

 

[3930dave]

Everybody loves free labour, except the person doing it !

Told this one before..... Pan Am Games in Toronto.... once security forces calmed down, the married LEOs were thinking "Damn - a real man-cave, with electricity and NO cell reception - we're gonna have to secure this site, probably for years !". ( a couple a guys were digging a cave, in an empty field - mental health exercise only).

More than a while ago, I'd heard about select high-end restaurants adding Faraday cages (not what they'd know it as) to their walls.... people were sick of cell chains, even back-when.....

I have a Class A license... if I had a spare 10MM or so lying around, you could outfit a 53'er with slide-outs, and set up a real nice mobile man-cave, or high-security mobile conference facility. I could make either work !

Rgds, D.

 

[grsthegreat]

Who needs test runs…. Stupid power went out again just now.

 

[ultrarunner]

PGE sending out notices to prepare for public safety power outages…

A couple of days with the power out changes one’s prospective.

My elderly prince of a guy neighbor passed away last year…

I kept my Honda 5000 in his garage with neatly bundled 100 10ga and 50’ extension cords, etc…

He would cover 4 household refrigerators and a light or two with my generator including moms place.

Passed at 97 but was excellent at rotating fuel, stabil, etc… they just don’t make neighbors like that anymore…

Power off at 10 pm and back on at 6 am…

California born, raised on a farm to Chinese emigrant parents and had his drivers license at age 12 to drive the farm truck to market… licensed signed by the chief of police…

 

[3930dave]

Who needs test runs…. Stupid power went out again just now.

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

PGE sending out notices to prepare for public safety power outages…

A couple of days with the power out changes one’s prospective.

My elderly prince of a guy neighbor passed away last year…

I kept my Honda 5000 in his garage with neatly bundled 100 10ga and 50’ extension cords, etc…

He would cover 4 household refrigerators and a light or two with my generator including moms place.

Passed at 97 but was excellent at rotating fuel, stabil, etc… they just don’t make neighbors like that anymore…

Power off at 10 pm and back on at 6 am…

California born, raised on a farm to Chinese emigrant parents and had his drivers license at age 12 to drive the farm truck to market… licensed signed by the chief of police…

Trying to remember the name of the movie Dudley Moore was in.... played a top-dog Ad man, who gets cursed into having to speak the truth..... would be great to wave that wand when you want....

"PGE's Lawyers and Bean-Counters have decreed that for the "safety" of the corporate bank accounts, You get to huddle in the dark, risk exposure, starvation, spoiled food, non-functional medical equipment... ad nauseum "

Day-dreaming aside...... serious question - what happens to Traffic Lights, during these "Public Safety" shutdowns ? Do any keep functioning ?

Your neighbour was a great guy.... hard to replace, esp. today. Growing up on a working farm can teach many things.... Personal accountability, is one of the first things I think of.

That generation of immigrant, and the values they taught their kids, is part of what (literally) built up your country, and mine.

Rgds, D.

 

[ultrarunner]

Trying to remember the name of the movie Dudley Moore was in.... played a top-dog Ad man, who gets cursed into having to speak the truth..... would be great to wave that wand when you want....

"PGE's Lawyers and Bean-Counters have decreed that for the "safety" of the corporate bank accounts, You get to huddle in the dark, risk exposure, starvation, spoiled food, non-functional medical equipment... ad nauseum "

Day-dreaming aside...... serious question - what happens to Traffic Lights, during these "Public Safety" shutdowns ? Do any keep functioning ?

Your neighbour was a great guy.... hard to replace, esp. today. Growing up on a working farm can teach many things.... Personal accountability, is one of the first things I think of.

That generation of immigrant, and the values they taught their kids, is part of what (literally) built up your country, and mine.

Rgds, D.

Yep…many interesting stories growing up in a itinerant farmer shack where 5 million dollar homes are common now.

He was quick to learn about machinery and loved tractors… so many stories starting on gas and switching to kero and such to save a few cents.

He became a butcher and when drafted the Army made him meat inspector at Fort Lewis… predudice was alive and well but the Army really expanded his horizons and treated him well.

I was the only non family member seated with family at the funeral and to the right of his widow.

He took better care of my generator than I would have… kept under a blanket and meticulous on fuel rotation logging run time, service, etc.

As for generators mine was bought when you were obligated to inform Utility of the presence of a generator onsite no matter if it was not tied to house circuits.

Now the utility encourages generators.

Nice thing about the Honda is quiet and reliable.

So many neighbors bought Home Depot specials and it’s like hearing a loud mower all day… these same owners are having problems after prolong storage.

Traffic lights work for a number of hours but most eventually cease.

Cell Towers now hardened with extended standby power but generator theft is a problem…