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Did you tell her that it's your anniversary too ? And Happy Anniversary !!!

After our dinner at Arby's we went shopping at Walmart.....you can't make this shit up.

Today is our 42 year wedding anniversary and I asked Wo46 on where she would like to go out to dinner and she said..............(drumroll)..........Arby's I have a coupon. Seriously no steakhouse restaurant, no fancy Italian restaurant...Arby's.

Just got settled in Vegas, WOChrisL & I drove. As we drove mid day traffic was light leaving OC (it can take 2 hours to go 50 miles in drive time) so that was good. Except… I forgot how much of a PITA truckers are. There are only 3 lanes and they take all fucking 3 as the slow guy in the right lane holds up a truck so other trucks pass in the middle lane. Then another trucker decides both trucks are too slow so decides to pass. So net result is right lane truck going 55, middle lane truck going 57 and left lane truck is going 60 and they are tying up traffic for miles. But wait it gets better, apparently when middle lane truck wants to pass in the left lane, he just comes on over regardless if there is a car there or three or not… I was 3rd car in a row of cars in the left lane and car #1 got pushed into the shoulder, car # 2 held is ground hitting the horn & got pushed to the shoulder too! Both cars passed the truck in the shoulder. Anticipating a pile up I backed off and got fucked… Three trucks three abreast 55, 57 & 60 MPH holding up traffic for miles again…. I’d say if the 200 miles of desert roads, half of them were spent stuck behind trucks blocking all lanes.

She's more of a Southern Culture on the skids....and she likes to go to the dirt track races.

Country boy going to do another city ride. It starts in downtown Youngstown, Ohio and goes out to the airport and back. Only 44 miles total. I wonder if I should take one of my other bikes?

7:28 pm EDST. Feeder is up. I hope he comes back.

Happy Anniversary! It will be 42 for us in September. Pretty sure we will do more than Arby’s even if it means we cook it ourselves. That does sound like some of our date nights, though.

How to get a 14'6" box into an 11' freight elevator. Early this morning, I get a phone call that rudely interrupts my web surfing. There's a truck here to make a delivery of a piece of equipment for one of the new labs. I get the call because I'm the only one here. I go up to meet the driver at the "Loading Dock" - which is just a ground level overhead door near the freight elevator. I go up and meet the driver and he tells me it's a 14' long box and weighs 800 lbs. Hmmm, this could be problematic. The grad student who works in the lab that this is going in shows up. The office guy who called me shows up. There is much consternation as to not only how the hell we're going to get this thing into the sub basement where it's going, but how we're even going to get it off the truck. Office Guy tells me he emailed and called Shiftless Jay -the building facilities guy who is supposed to handle this kind of crap - several times yesterday, but got no answer. The prof in charge of the lab shows up. There is much consternation and head scratching and the conclusion is reached that the truck driver is going to have to deliver the box to Facilities because they have a forklift and a real loading dock. No one's really sure what they're going to do after that, but at least it will get it off the truck. Then the prof mentions that what's in the box is a clean room. "So what if we take the cover off the box and unload the stuff by hand - at least enough to lighten the box to the point where we can lift it?" I receive dumbfounded looks, all around. I thought these guys were like, geniuses and shit? I go back downstairs, grab a screw gun and start taking the lid off. FNG shows up (he doesn't start til 9) grabs a second screw gun and we take the lid off. We unload all the small parts onto a cart and that goes in the freight elevator, along with the shorter pieces of aluminum extrusion. The 14' extrusions - easily carried by two people have to go down two flights of stairs but they manage. FNG and I grab a couple of saws and implements of destruction and make short work of the wooden box. THEN Shiftless Jay shows up.

Happy Anniversary! That entire album is great. A line I remember from Michael Perry's book Truck: A Love Story-I knew it was a special date, because I had a coupon for the Pizza Hut.

No... an old supper club / restaurant. WoBG knows the owner. https://www.starvedrockcountry.com/2022/03/22/the-pines-supper-club-serves-up-retro-charm/ Today was a trip to Menards for another load of mulch and we stopped for pizza and beer at another ma/pa restaurant. https://www.perupizzahouse.net/

4/23/24 50.7 miles this morning on the group ride

Not for me .....I stayed on the sidecar. We use the videos to see what went wrong and how we can avoid it happening again. Wo46 said that she knew exactly what she did wrong before she even hit the ground.

If there are any cigarette butts on the ground there… Seymour butts.

Sorry for you loss. Yeah... I live in rural IL. There are more than a few blind hills on the country roads here. During planting and harvest we avoid the country roads. I we don't, you need to pull to the right and slow down a LOT on a blind hill. I learned this once the hard way when I crested a hill, and a farmer was pulling a planter and it was wider than the entire road. I was glad I was gong slow enough to stop.

She would say too many carbohydrates....and I have a coupon for Arby's

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@Randomguy is about to get a cease and desist letter from the EPA.

I’d wager the initial design sketch was done on a cocktail napkin

But hey, we got a couple attaboys out of the deal: "David, Andrew, Thanks for the help this morning - you guys are awesome". and "Indeed, way to save the day David and Andrew. ".

22 miles on the road bike.

I thought this was a euphemism for something. I no longer have any interest in this thread.

I am thinking toilet paper or shitter wall.