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pepperj said:
Had a employee that was Goth and was into the pits. Never really thought too much of it at the time, other than "I Just don't get it" :dontknow:

Jesse was so likeable that he couldn't do anything wrong, so easy to work with-everyone's fav. it seemed.
Had this walk'/stride of rolling his step as he walked coming off the tip of the toes, so he looked like he elevated his tall body another 4" with every step.

Shortly after I sold/retired I received a call that he had been just rushed to the hospital. They had found him the bus shelter at the end of the street, drinking his usual morning coffee.
He had suffered an aneurysm, he had another 4/5 over the next day and was taken off life support.
The final report was that he had hundreds of these small ones in the brain-result of many hits over his short lifetime. Something like a football player would have getting head hits in the scrimmages.
The conclusion was the repeated mosh pits-home life of beatings before he moved into a shelter all contributed to cause.

Before we attended the service I called my foreman up and asked "What are you wearing to the service?"
Being that that Jesse and his lovely gal were so Goth-we had no idea.
He was sort thinking along the same line-really we had nothing to go on.
So we just went with a dress shirt and jeans, casual loafers. We arrived, and wow moment, did we stick out like the 3 odd ones.
Everyone had their best of best, impeccably dressed, piercing removed, no Goth to be seen.
I still remember that and a little life lesson also that we painted a picture in our minds of what we believed/perceived as their world-we were not even close.
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Wow, who would have known that could happen?


I never was a head banger. It gave me headaches. Now I can see why!
 

Gas UP another 0.10 now $2.69 :BangHead::tongue3::dontknow:
 

Bart,

Odds are the local prices for mahogany on the West Coast makes it worthwhile to do the long haul exercise.



Blak bart said:
Hanging around the shop today. Got a truck coming from Seattle to pick up some mahogany.....long ways to come for wood !!
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RTR said:
Any bets on what it will be by summer ?
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Hidin Biden is talking about raising the gas tax to help pay for his new $3 TRILLION (with a "T") "infrastructure" spending bill. This is in addition to the previous $2T blue state bailout disguised as "covid relief".

Just keep printing money. What could possibly go wrong?
 

Boatlode said:
Hidin Biden is talking about raising the gas tax to help pay for his new $3 TRILLION (with a "T") "infrastructure" spending bill. This is in addition to the previous $2T blue state bailout disguised as "covid relief".

Just keep printing money. What could possibly go wrong?
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Hmm. Debt could exceed gross domestic product. That would not be good.
Or worse , we fail to pay interest on national debt.
Debt held by debt instrument holders worldwide....
Devaluing the dollar seems of little concern. It being backed not by anything tangible , but rather , goodwill.
 

Boatlode said:
Hidin Biden is talking about raising the gas tax to help pay for his new $3 TRILLION (with a "T") "infrastructure" spending bill. This is in addition to the previous $2T blue state bailout disguised as "covid relief".

Just keep printing money. What could possibly go wrong?
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everything? :dontknow:

With the price of gas going up, the price of transporting goods goes up, so the price of everything goes up.
 

bill from lachine said:
Roger,

Time to get a bike.....:laughing7::laughing7::laughing7:
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Since the seventies (up to 75 cents a gallon!) rationing ect. I've seldom dwelled on gas costs.
Yes when running a hundred miles round trip to work at around 8 miles per gallon in my old truck it was noticeable , but I knew I was going to buy it regardless.

The plow truck I drove year round a dozen years till last year gets around 9-10 m.p.g. plowing and tops around 12 in summer.
The new truck is around double that.
About the only concern is how much to put in the tank when prices change. Too little , or having to go back inside the building to get a refund because my estimate was off.
(Which is not as bad as leaving after forgetting to pump the fuel after paying for it..... And yes I have.)
 

releventchair said:
Hmm. Debt could exceed gross domestic product. That would not be good.
Or worse , we fail to pay interest on national debt.
Debt held by debt instrument holders worldwide....
Devaluing the dollar seems of little concern. It being backed not by anything tangible , but rather , goodwill.
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Exactly.

I was being sarcastic. This is all part of the plan to collapse our economy.
 

My guess is by the end summer, it will be at least $3.16 a gallon.
 

Bart,

I checked on line and appears in the Western U.S. mahogany is going for $28 per board foot.

https://www.westwindhardwood.com/product/hardwoods/mahogany-genuine-honduras/

Versus $12.00 to $20.00 depending on size and thickness of the boards in Key West.

So there you have it depending on the volume the guy is buying could very well be a smart move.

Heck if it were me I'd sell off enough to pay the transport expenses and what I kept would be subsidized.





Blak bart said:
Hanging around the shop today. Got a truck coming from Seattle to pick up some mahogany.....long ways to come for wood !!
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RTR said:
Gas UP another 0.10 now $2.69 :BangHead::tongue3::dontknow:
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We're paying $4.85C a US Gal. or $3.86 US

So you have it pretty good still.
 

Duckshot said:
Did you get your license RustyRelics?

I drive through Kentucky frequently. Let me know what you are driving so I know if you are about to run into me. :laughing7:
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My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln."
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod
Race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin' the pace.
That story is true,
I'm here to say
I was drivin' that Model A.
It's got a Lincoln motor
And it's really souped up.
And that model A body makes it look like a pup
It's got eight cylinders; uses them all.
It's got overdrive, just won't stall.
With a 4-barrel carb and a dual exhaust,
With 4.11 gears
You can really get lost.
It's got safety tubes, but I ain't scared.
The brakes are good, tires fair.
Pulled out of San Pedro late one night
The moon and the stars was shinin' bright.
We was drivin' up
Grapevine Hill
Passing cars like they was standing still.
All of a
Sudden in a wink of an eye
A Cadillac sedan passed us by.
I said, "Boys,
That's a mark for me!"
By then the taillight was all you could see.
Now the fellas was ribbin' me for bein' behind,
So I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind.
Took my foot off the gas and man alive,
I shoved it on down into overdrive.
Wound it up to a hundred-and-ten
My speedometer said that I hit top end.
My foot was blue, like lead to the floor.
That's all there is and there ain't no more.
Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said, "Slow down! I see spots!
The lines on the road just look like dots."
Took a corner; sideswiped a truck,
Crossed my fingers just for luck.
My fenders was clickin' the guardrail posts.
The guy beside me was white as a ghost.
Smoke was comin' from out of the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac.
Knew I could catch him, I thought I could pass.
Don't you know by then we'd be low on gas?
We had flames comin' from out of the side.
Feel the tension. Man! What a ride!
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly!"
And that Caddy pulled over and let us by.
Now all of a sudden she started to knockin',
And down in the dips she started to rockin'.
I looked in my mirror; a red light was blinkin'
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln!
They arrested me and they put me in jail.
And called my pappy to throw my bail.
And he said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot... Rod... Lincoln!"

 

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