tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355077975159355892011-11-27T19:09:57.137-06:00When I talk about moving to Denver, I am really talking about escaping from my current reality and building a new one in a new place. Denver is my current image of paradise by a mountain, as opposed to endless flatlands with corn on the left and beans on the right.JimMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14466317716297241573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1535507797515935589.post-71041326118323223102011-07-01T18:39:00.000-05:002011-07-01T18:39:56.059-05:00

Getting close to time to leave on our big trip of the year. Not as long as recent years, at 1 week plus travel, but special indeed. Carol's family has gone to Pine Aire Resort on Lake Kabetogama, in Voyaguers national park in Norethern Minnesota, for 3 generations. Really, her Grampa took them there when she was a little girl. Our family has been there many many times, but less often in recent

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Hi blog, long time no post. I'm still dreaming about leaving the flatlands behind, tho I'm not sure when that might be. We're just wrapping up the time of year we spend with family, it's tough to even think about leaving this time of year. Last weekend we were at Ken and Shannon's for the bears game, going there this weekend as well. I've always liked Ken, though He's not aging well. Shannon is

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Hi everyone, or anyone anyway. I haven't posted for a while cause Carol's been doing a fine jobe, but yesterday she stayed back nursing a cold while the rest of us drove / hiked up Darby Canyon. We drove north toward driggs, idaho, and mark spotted this turnoff. 4 miles later the pavement ended. 5 more miles on a good gravel road to the turn around at the end of the road. From there we hilked up

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This morning it was time to pack it up and move on up the road. After 3 nights and 2 days, it was time to head north. For those of you who haven't "camped" in a class A mortorhome, the drill goes like this: Clean everything, put everything away, lock everything down so iy won't fly about the bus if I should happen to hit a bump. Dump. Pull the drain valves for the "black" and "Gray" tanks. Stow

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After a restless night with a sick puppy, we'll be breaking camp and rolling north in a few hours for the next phase of ""Our Great Adventure 2010" Read about sick puppy's here: http://firstgens.com/forum/22/1035.html?start=30 After five days of Carol having blog nightmares, I'm gonna put some pics up here and on firstgens, what's a vacation saga without pics? The Turd, hooked up and ready to

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Here it is the third day of our great adventure 2010, and we're settling down inside the bus at 9:30 pm local after a very busy day. Let's see... last night we w ere on the shore os Lake Ogallala, somewhere west of north butt nebraska. Now nebraska is interesting... not. flat as a board and road straight as an arrow, endlessly. 460 miles from one end to the other. The east side, omaha / lincoln,

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see my post on firstgens.com, as my connection sucks to badly to go thru another post/.

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Riley let us sleep in today, to a little after six am can ya believe it? I went back to bed after taking him out, and me and the missus pretended to sleep for another hour. It's still a max humidity steambath outside, rained during the night but that did not kill the humidity. Shower, breakfast, load a few other items, hook up the jeep and we're ready to roll. I'm gonna go get some blueberry

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It's wednesday mornig, and in 24 hours we'll be saddling up and hitting the road. Got lots of packing done yesterday, mine and carol's clothes, and most of the rest of the food. If I go to work early, do I get to leave early?

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spent this morning washing and waxing the bus, gawd that thing is big. Used the spray and wipe quik wax for most of it, but the front clip got mcguires paste wax, dayum that was a job. Then we went to CostCo for some meat. Scored some good steaks, some lunchmeat, and 3 rack of fabulous baby back ribs for just a schosh over 10 bucks a peice! Love Costco meat. also cleaned and checked out our

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I'll be relaxing under my awning, in my camping world recliner, sipping a cold margarita on the shore of Lake Anita in Western Iowa, our first day of traveling will be at an end. finished getting the jeep ready. tow lighting is all set. Tow bar, emergency cables. Aux braking system with breakaway finished today. Washed her and waxed her. tomorrow the bus comes home. The bus stays in the

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guess I skipped a few days? SIX days now until we leave. Today, a Friday workday, a long weekend, and 2 workdays next week, then we's rolling west.

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Today I loaded up the truck and drove to Indy. Tomorrow I install a system at Adidas, they print every sports T shirt in the country here! This is my last big scheduled "work" before our holiday. Once it is done, it is going to be very hard to stay focused on work. while I'm on the road, I need to find new wiper blades for "the bus" Not much luck so far.

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It's finally time to go see Colorado!! Hopefully that link will hook us up with my wife's official colorado blog, and I'll ass my 2 cents here in my own special(ed) way. Anyway, I think she said we leave in 10 days. Come on along with us!

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Sorry for my , uh... 3 or 4 fans... been a whole week. Maybe you should just read me on facebook or firstgens.com? So Thursday I had a road trip to indianapolis, and somehow I brought home a PUPPY!! Riley is a Norwegian Elkhound, and he is 8 weeks old. Here's some pictures: So far so good, puppy is housetraining quickly. Elkhounds are very very smart, friendly, and mostly well behaved dogs.

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Happy weekend everyone and welcome to Saturday! Wonder what I'm gonna do today? It's looking kinda cloudy and soggy outside, but it's 47 degrees so it not all bad. Guess what? We brought the bus home last night. Hopefully I'll get started on some spring maintenance as camping season is approaching. For some odd reason, the backup camera display won't powerup, so that will be on my list. Service

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Got to 65 degrees on the ole thermometer today! Bright and sunny, too. Spring is in the air no doubt. So, I dodged out of work early again, did a lil more yardwork, and fired up the Camaro and went to get Brian after school. she was a lil rough after her long winters sleep, but smoothed right out after a bit of a warmup and a brief 2 gear blast. We had burgers on the grille, and tonight I'm

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Good morning and happy wednesday to all!!! I've officially declared it springtime in Chicagoland!! It's been warming up gradually, near 60 yesterday, 47 right now. It's been raining, almost every day, washing that icky salt down the drain, cleaning winters crud off my world. Pretty soon, I'll be able to take my Camaro out to play! But until then, I've been d riving my Corvette, just cause I can.

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Gotta give Shannon credit for the idea at least. Yesterday at Lynn's Big FIFTY party, Shannon invited her familty over so I could grille filet mignon for them! Well, they didn't show, but the filet's did. Bought 4 steaks at Jewel, a pound and a half of meat, two inches thick, tender and juicy even before we cooked em! We tried something different today, and I gotta say we did good. First, I

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I'm still trying to get over 2100 miles in the silverado, not to mention several days worth of "bitchin Betty pot luck mexican food" That's when you ask the gps (bitchin betty) for the nearest mexican resurant, and eat there. End result, so far... vast quantities of noxious fumes. Still. And I woke up with a tummy ache last night, paced the floor for half an hour around 4 am... And then this

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And I'm back. 4 days 3 nights. 2090 miles. visited 6 customers. Cemented 3 regular accounts. one good cop story. Enjoyed "bitchin Betty's mexican food roulette" That's when you ask your gps to find ya some mexican, and go where it tells ya. Tonights was pretty good. Last nights was not.

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Gearing up for a working road trip. Wish I could bring the camaro, but need to haul stuff. Wish I could use the motorhome, but my first 2 clients are picking up the hotel rooms. Oh well, it's not quite camaro or motorhome season in north freeking dakota anyway. So I leave tomorrow morning for a 12 hours drive to jamestown north dakota. Monday morning working at the daily newspaper there

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What a day from hell! I loggged into firstgens.com this morning to be greeted by a black screen, a skull and crossbones, and the message "you've been hacked by Dr. bl@ckdeath!!" Damn... So I spent an hour this morning fixing rogue index.html files and figured, ok, that wasn't so bad... Then my BIL Ron called from the office. "Jim, all our websites are down, hacked by Dr Bl@ckjack" Oh shit,

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Saturday night pizza night with the firstgens.com south side gang was big fun. Good pizza, good margaritas, good company. Carol had a good time too. Sunday I was in computer hell with forum stuff. I installed the jsubsilver template that we must use with joomla, and then got to putting our current mods into it. That all worked, then I started working on a mod to resize image attachments. This one

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Twas a good day in the ole garage tho. nuttin like the smell of gearlube on a saturday afternoon. Looks like it's junk 2, Jim 1. The trailblazer has a trashed front diff, due to all the oil leaking out cause the drain plug wasn't tight. This is not Jiffy Lube's fault, I asked them. I was gonna fire up the Camaro just because, but no. Battery is kinda flat. Damned computer draws enough to take

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G'mornin everyone, and how the heck are ya? I'm GreaaaaT! to quote Tony the Tiger. As I said yesterday on facebook, I had a really good (read profitable)  week at work, kinda nice for a change Got up at six to bring Brian to a scout ski trip at 7, so it was an early start to get the ole blood moving. Did my excercise bike thing, 1.81 miles in 30 minutes today, without hardly breaking a sweat or

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cause it's 10:20 and I'm tired. Today was "smiley day" on http://www.firstgens.com/ I added a bunch of new smileys and the guys are having fun with em. Work was good today, the mailman was nice, and we were able to get some bills paid.

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I guess. Still having some add moments. busy busy at work. Found Carol the new dishes she wanted. Did some reading on how to fix the 4 wheel drive on the trailblazer. going to bed now.

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I think it's the exercise. I did my now usual 30 minutes on the eliptical, a full 3/4 mile today, continuing to get faster, followed by 25 situps. Scale rewarded me with a 197 this morning. It's only 6 pounds, but I'm seeing and feeling the difference. Maybe it's moving around? The tummy don't stick out as far. My jeans are looser. Not so much at the waist, but the thighs are like I'm wearing a

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What a bunch of crap. 5 hours total, and it still doesn't show any text when you hover your mouse over a thread name... but Carol and I got our house all nice and clean today.

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Not that, get your mind out of the gutter! Excercising is especially hard to do on Saturday. I've been good all week, 30 minutes on the elyptical (1.7 miles today, getting faster) followed by situps (now up to 25 yesterday and today) every day. The scale is being good to me. 198 yeserday AM, 199 last night, 198 again this morning. So that's down from 203, in a week on the bike. I tried and

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all read and it's only 9:15am! Day start when an earthquake  woke me up at 4:30 AM. Kinda an unusual occurance here in the Chicago Area.... Whole house went bump bada bump. I looked out the window to make sure the house hadn't been clipped by an errant snowplow, then went back to sleep. 6 am, up and into the coffee. Checked my forums, then headed to the exercise machine. Did 1.64 miles in 30

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This morning I did good. 20 minutes on the machine followed by a solid 20 situps. I worked up a pretty good lather...lol. Morning scale said 199. I generally vary a lot from day to day, as well as morning to night, but 199  is good,  lowest I've seen if not by much. I figured out a breakthrough with the new site software tonight. If it survives "Jan the volunteer programmer's" scrutiny, maybe we

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So, I'm sitting here watching a dvd of the fifth season of  Northern Exposure, while looking at the exercise machine. Northern Exposure is a very quirky hourlong comedy that was pretty popular 15 or so years ago. It's set in an imaginary small town somewhere in the backwoods of Alaska. I love Alaska, someday I'll go there!

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And this eating like a rabbit isn't doing it by itself. Today I did 30 hard minutes on the elyptical, followed by 10 minutes in the hot tub, followed by  lousy 18 situps. I'm gonna do thisz twice a day until I look like this again and I really need to use a different editor, cause this basic blogger one is less than worthless. I also need to work up some keywords and metadescriptions and stuff.

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Travel week for me. Went to partay with the south siders at Hooters, then rolling down the highway. Found a nest for the night at the motel 6 in Lafayette (we'll leave the light on for ya!) Tomorrow I see a customer in Maysville Kentucky, Friday it's Erlanger Kentucky then Cincinatti Ohio, then back home. G'night all. It's late and I'm tired.

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ya, I guess... Who's gonna read this if I don't write it? Need to find time. I got 3 minutes, then brush my teeth and get in bed and watch two and a half men. A day...  up at 6. no time to read the paper. coffee and computer. check the forums, type a few posts, answer some pm's. Today I downloaded some software Jan needs for the new site and ftp'd it onto the server. 6:30 15 minutes on

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I'd like a decent title, but heck, I'm gonna take the time to write something anyway, might even be something good for the 5 people including my wife who read this. The "NewJim" program is doing pretty well. After a week of salads and lo carbs, my scale's gone from 206 to 199, the first week is always easy. We'll see, if I can get to 190, maybe it will keep coming off. Last time, I stuck at at

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WooHoo, it's Saturday night and I ain't doin nuttin! The carpet's done, and most of the stuff is moved back. I went to North Dakota on business, and came back again. I put in a new wireless n access point today, and hope to never ever have to go down in the basement and power cycle the linksys. o far so  good. I can't remember the admin password for my webcam so I can't switch it to the new

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Friday the carpet man called! We had some extra cash at year end, so ordered and paid for new carpet for the master suite. And Tuesday they are coming to install it. I hate carpet, and would do hardwood if I could handle the $7 per square foot plus moving out for a week, but that ain't in the cards right now so new carpet it is. Stuff in there now is nasty. 10 years old, lots of spills. Some

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How does one deal with "volunteer helpers"? The new website http://www.firstgens.com/ is fantastic. Lots of fun to do, and lots of fun having all my friends from other websites, mostly Team Camaro, all coming over to say "Hello"! We're up to 158 members now! And as far as the software stuff, I'm so far over my head it isn't even funny. I can handle some simple stuff, but nothing complicated. A

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This new website http://www.firstgens.com/ is taking some kinda time. And I'm not even doing anything to it, other than posting, and answering emails and pm's (twenty or thirty per day!!!) and fixing avatars for people. The average avatar takes 4 - 6 pm's and 2-3 emails. Many can't manage to send me the picture first try, and nearly all don't tell me in the email what their user id is! So it

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My new website is really taking off. It's a gas watching it grow. http://www.firstgens.com/ We're up to 84 members and 1138 posts now, that's more than 30 new members this week alone! And today... wow, what a day. Today we opened a new section with a new moderator. For the first time ever, Jerry McNeish has agreed to lead a section on an internet board! So come on over to "Jerry's Place to

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it's time for a blog post. I'll try later this morning, got to hit the shower and get off to work now. http://www.firstgens.com/ Jim

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... and tomorrow winter just might set in. But we had a fun day. Sister in law Shannon came over, brought the kids to look at Sarah's senior pics. Brian and Andrew took off doing boy things with plastic weapons and strange noises. I went downstairs, figured I'd work on getting the basement apartment ready to paint. Next thing I know, Kayla follows me down and tells me she's helping. I had no

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Well, it looks like it's gonna be hitting the fan this weekend. As most of my very few readers know, a few weeks ago, I started my very own Camaro Board. The url is http://www.firstgens.com/ There's our front door. Anyway, this morning i recieved a PM from the autoforum guy who owns Team Camaro now, it went like this: --------------------------------------------------- Hi Jim: I see that you

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Well sorts of... it's not really winter, it's the tail end of the holidays, New Years Eve. On a Thursday this year, so I got 3 full days before "winter" sets in. And I ain't gonna think about that. It's a beautiful day, sunny, cold, stiff breeze out of the northwest. A typical Chicago winter day. I just finished clearing an inch of fresh snow off the driveways and sidewalk, and I'm sitting in

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and the whole world was vegging out, except me, who couldn't sit still on a bet. I cleaned out the closet behind the laundry room. I thought about cleaning the basement. I snowblowed twice I went out in the blizzard and paid for the new carpet we ordered, and bought Brian a new sled. how bout some pictures?

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Recipe: 1 3oz package lime jello 8 oz boiling water 3 oz tequila 1 oz triple sec 1/2 oz lime juice 2 ice cubes Mix well, add booze, mix, add ice cubes, mix till melted, pour into shot glasses, refrigerate, put the toothpicks in after a couple hours in the fridge!

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I shoulda known... The bottom disk in the Camaro's changer is... The monkees Greatest Hits!!! Cheer up sleepy Jean, O what can it mean\ to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen

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On A Place in the Sun, which was ,of course, in the Camaro's CD Magazine, where it had been since that summer of 2008 in Yellowstone. Playing it now... And then back to cleaning. Scubbing the mudroom floor, on my hands and knees, with a scrub brush and pine sol. Long overdue... Seventeen, Don't it just fly by wild and free...

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Weird day...  Very Friday like, last workday of the week. I sold a system, those are few and far between this year. 28k if it makes it thru a 60 days trial with a money back gaurantee from the manufacturer, I'm just along for the ride. We got the rest of our Christmas food shopping done, we're having beef tenderloin, ham, and JELLO SHOTS!!!  I even made the margarita ones. Tomorrow I'll do red

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Tough day, heck even tough couple days. Work is way busy, that would be a good thing. Lots of year end stuff coming to a head, lots of deals to get closed and on the books in 2009. Maybe there is some "pentup demand"? Between the websites, I am completely out of time. Team Camaro is being slowing driven down the highway to hell by autoforums, the mod team is on an uproar, the members are

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Been working on and around the new website almost all weekend, and my head is spinning and my brain cells are sore. I managed a successful database backup, followed immediately by a software upgrade. I got the homepage looking pretty good. I did a lot of searching and reading about a bunch of stuff related to working with phpBB3. and my head is spinning round and round and round. http://

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every day is tough. Not cause I don't have much to say, I have lots to say, heck, that's part of the problem. And certainly not cause I don't do much, I'm always doing something. There just isn't any time, particularly during the week. To any that actually read this, I'll try harder. I just finished the "outside stuff." Wow, it's a gorgeous day. Mid thirty's, 2 inches of fresh snow. The snow

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... to ME!!!         Yes indeed, rolled another year under the drag radials yesterday, I am now 52 years young. For our birthday celebration, I came home from work to find the entire block bathed in total darkness! Yup, no power. Piled the family into my pickup as Carol's family truckster was trapped in the garage by the non-functional electric garage door opener and went out for a good steak.

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Got to spend most of the day at Heritage Woods helping move my Mom to a different room. Big thanks to Carol for coming back with me and helpin g her get all her "stuff" put away and organized. The new website http://www.firstgens.com/ is rolling along. Wish I could find it in me to make a nice banner page, but haven't yet. Started photoshopping pictures for an event review on our trip to vegas

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Finally that 2000 mile back and forth week to Kentucky is over. Guess it serves me right for not doin it right the first time? Though I saw nuttin wrong with the system the second visit... Warrantee board swap and I'm out and gone. This is gonna be one busy busy weekend tho... Clean the house Trim the Christmas tree Get the rock hard snow / ice off the driveways and sidewalk. Make Christmas

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Good morning all. I made it home from Kentucky last night, after a good 2 1/2 day roadtrip. Colder than a wtiches you know what out there today, single digits and windy. Trying hard to figure out what if anything I missed at the office, people are talking to me like I should know this stuff by osmosis or something, lol.

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Well actually southern Ohio right now, found a place to bed down a lil east of Cincinatti. So tomorrow I go to the local newspapers in Maysville KY to stupidvise an upgrade being done be another company, to some equipment that feeds into the stuff I take care of. On this trip, I also get to do a maintenance call in elizebethtown, KY, and hopefully sign a maintenance contract with the Enquirer in

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Good morning world, and welcome to another busy Monday! It looks like I need to saddle up and head to Kentucky earlier than I planned, getting ready to go now. We got a dusting, maybe an inch of snow overnight. More in store later today, but I'm ditching out and heading south. More later.

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And I gotta say I'm sad to see another weekend draw to a close... We got our house clean, that's always nice to say it's done. Not a "full clean" job, but pretty good. I cleaned my garage too, Ron, my BIL, came over Saturday to do brakes on his company car, so I needed to clean and get rid of all the sawdust from all the woodworking. Saturday afternoon I laid around and watched a couple Harry

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And my new website is functional. http://www.firstgens.com/ is on the air. I'm not sure why, I suppose we can just say "why not"? I need to work on the appearance, not at all happy with that, get some content going, and do something with the splash page, maybe I'll feel a lil creative this weekend.

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I didn't think I had a lot to say tonight, but it turns out it's been a busy couple of days. I missed yesterday because it was Hooters night. During the colder months, the Team Camaro South Side Gang get's together at Hooters in Orland Park, IL for Food & Fellowship. We also enjoy the Beer, Margaritas, and "girls in orange shorts" We had a good turnout, maybe 8? It was a fairly late night for a

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yup, that's me tonight, just a failure. I almost got Brians computer working again, so that's almost good. I think it will work tomorrow, so I guess that's not quite a failure. We loaded Windows 7 64 bit on Dann's computer today, now there's a failure. It's having a couple of driver issues, and the sound doesn't work. Dann's way too frustrated by this, and he's NO FUN when he gets like that. I

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And it's still got one more day. Today my name was mostly woodwork. Since I finished the stairs Thursday, the project of the week became completing the basement apartment that used to be my Mom's. I'd never really finished it, it's tough when someone is living there... So Friday I started trimming out the batheroom. I had enough pieces finished to do most, had all the baseboard, linen closet door

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Well, it turned out to be a major brain fart on my part. Last week, my router went kaput. Some digging revealed that "mr. nobody" hit the master reset switch, resetting the router to factory settings. Of course, all of my children denied having any knowledge of this, even Dann the 18 y o high school senior computer wiz kid denied any knowledge of a rest switch on our linksys router. But I gotta

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Hi all, and Happy Thanksgiving! We spent the day at Carol's sisters with most of her side of the family. It's almost weird with all the kids getting grown or near grown. Food was great, as was the company. Before we left, that big black scab popped off the thumb. It does look like it might scab again, but it's nearly done healing now. Seems the website and camera are down, something to do with

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Hi all, cheated death again. Takeoffs still equal landings, always a good thing. I'm gonna go thru some pictures, but we had a fine fine time. In case I don't get back here tonight, I'll leave you with a thumb update. It's healing right up. The black thing in the middle is a scab, and it'a about ready to fall off, another day should do it. The new skin is pretty tender, but will thicken up

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Well, the weekend is in the record books. It was an anticlimatic finish for sure, with an hour long cleanup followed by bye run finals in pro street and outlaw 10.5. The drag radial final was a good one, then we left after another oil down.

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Good morning from the strip! First round of pro street is in the history books, outlaw 10.5 coming nest!

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Good morning and happy Sunday! This is Mrs. JimM. I thought I would write a post while the hubby is kickin' it out in Vegas with his buddy from up there in Ya-Hey-Der land. Oh by the way, he cashed in MY American Airlines miles for that FIRST CLASS ticket to sin city. Still not sure what that's gonna cost him! Especially since I seem to be left behind taking care of lots of stuff around the house

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Hi all, we're still in vegas! And we're anything but boring. Danielle, thanks for filliing in for me, you done good. Sounds like you had a fun time today, glad the rain held off. I was thinking bout calling you tonight, but we jusst weren't anyplace qiet enough. I'll call you tomorrow from the track...lol.

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dad and jim are boring - we haven't heard from them much. They must be having fun in Vegas. We had a great time at the ropes course today with Guides - zip lines and other fun stuff. Luckily it didn't rain while we were there but it has rained most of the rest of the day. It was cold though - my fingers and feet were numb. Want to go back though.We couldn't get cream of broccoli soup at Tim

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Hmmm, i've no idea if this is working, buy i am in vegas

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on the plane then send it l8r but something weird happened.

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alf, but the second half may have posted. Starting right in the middle of a sentence. This is hard with only one useable thumb. I was trying to type a long post

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Well i have no idea what happened with my earlier posts today. I was typing on the plane and suffering from fat finger syndrome, lol. I think i lost the first h

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, the movie is a cartoon, i read a super fchevy and 3/4 of a camaro performers, and i

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. Nice big comfy seat, enough leg room to stash 3 small children, free beer, and a real meal that was actually good! I could get used to this real quick! But

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the $11 magarita. I think they forgot the tequila! So i switched to beer. Finally got on the plane, and to my surprise, seat 6f is in first class! How cool

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Accomodations than we did, the hotel sandra booked is $20 a night! So the truck gets to sleep outside for $16 a night instead of inside for $35. I even got to r

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inal. Once inside, i got a treat, my boarding pass saie aapriority so i got the short line at securiity. No problems there, but i didn't really think much of

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ide the train thing to the terminal, another first. In fifty years and hundreds of times in and out of o'hare, I've only done main parking and walk to the term

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ly faster, the kenedy was a major parking lot today. I parked in lot e for the first time in my life, i didn't want my truck to have better

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ote at another customer, and made my way out of the city. As i had plenty of time, i took the scenic route, milwuakee ave to higgins road. I think it was actual

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7! So i didn't leave the officfe til 2. Dropped off an order, went to mr. Beef for a late lunch assuming they wouldn't feed me on the plane, dropped off a qu

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's night and i can't see squat. Was jonesin bad at work today, it only got worse when i read the fine print and found the my flight didn't leave at 4 it was

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Hi all! I'm somewhere over the rockie mountains, passed colorado springs and denver a lil bit ago. Weather is crystal clear all the way from chicago, too bad it

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Time to try a test from the phone, let's see what happens

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Barely made it thru work today. Left around 3, went to heritage woods to try to help my Mom with her TIVO. Ever since Comcast went all digital, her tivo has been very confused. The cablecard got all the channels, but tivo's tv guide had no idea what was on them. So I managed to do a full setup on it, and believe it or not, it works! Got a haircut too, if yer paying attention, it's the second

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yes indeed, it's been 3 days since my last post to El Bloggo. Maybe it took that long for the hangover to go away? Naaa, didn't have one actually. In fact I was sober before my wife got home! Good thing, too. Anyway, I been working on those stairs, just finished the third coat of poly, they looook goooood..... I'll put a fourth coat on em, but they don't really need it. Tomorrow night I'll get

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Can I do this now? it's 2:10 pm saturday afternoon., looks like it's starting to cloud up and cool off, but it's been a  beautiful day. My fifth margarita is history, but I spilled the 4rth all over the counter, and half the fifth too I think, so only counts as 3 1/2. Still, I got a good buzz on. That can be my excuse. Mark, looking forward to next weekend is vegas. May decide just not to come

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Some decade or so ago, when we were first planning for our new home, we started cleaning a decade's worth of "lived in" from our existing home. During this process, we vowed "no more smoking in the house" and "No more CATS!" So we gave away our cats, and smoked outside or in the garage, but...  Before too long Carol brought home a kitten. And then a couple years later, the neighborhood stray

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I bought myelf a plane ticket today... well Carol bought it with her credit card miles. I'm heading out to Las Vegas next weekend for the Street car nationals! This will be 3 days of total insanity. "STREET" cars, with functional doors, painted on headlights, and 10 1/2" tires, running SIX second quarters at well  over 200 mph! These cars are nuts, it's gonna be fun. Of course Mark is joining

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had thier second annual "Taste of Africa" tonight. Brian goes to Parkview, has since he started thier all day kindergarten many years ago. He's in sixth grade now. This place is unbelieveable. If you ever doubt your faith, or start thinking maybe there isn't a God, go spend some time at Parkview. We are sooo lucky to be able to send our youngest son there. Yesterday, he brought home a "High

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Well almost... That bunny is not as exhausted as I am.... I almost got a little work work done today. I did have to go work on Carol's computer, and also had to deal briefly with my Mom and her tivo. Thanks Dann, for helping me out on that one! Dog's and brats on the grill for dinner, and then back to my woodwork. I did get you guys some pics, but first, how 'bout a thumb update? Here's

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Spent most of today over at Carol's studio. She worked me pretty hard, all 3 computers, cleaning gutters, even up on the roof sealing up a leaky skylight. I think I got everything handled pretty well though, fingers crossed! Brian had scouts tonight, finished his first aid merit badge work, and got meal planning and such done for this weekends campout, he should fiunish his archery badge there.

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Gooood Mooorning! Another beautiful day, shower and breakfast are handled, it's 9 am, and I am back at it. First will sand, seal, and stain those peices of base shoe I cut yesterday. Then need to finish pulling all the carpet staples off the stairs, and trim the toe of the steps back. I didn't talk of this yesterday, as I had Dann to work on it. I'm "reskinning" the formerly carpeted stairs in

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Good Morning World!!! It's a beautiful warm sunny autumn day in chicagoland, and I've got lots of activities planned. Shortly I'll be out in the garage for activity one, troubleshooting and repairing what appears to be a failed "blend door" in the heating system of Dann's 03 Malibu. The webcam is on at  http://www.jimragtop.com:12000/ user is team p/w is camaro you have to install the active x

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