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So hey! What goes on with you? Are you healed up? Did you ever get any of those motorcycles on the road?

So hey! What goes on with you? Are you healed up? Did you ever get any of those motorcycles on the road?

I'm headed to the Seattle-Tacoma area. I lived in CO for a couple years and my family has a cabin here. The suck that is I25 - I'm very familiar with that. The mess down in Trinidad was new to me though. That one-lane snake was probably the toughest part of the trip. The narrow lane combined with the reversing curve made for a very interesting time.

Rather than take I25 up and then turn west in Wyoming, I'm going to take 70W through Utah. It means going through the Eisenhower tunnel, but that is the only wet section per the CDOT page last night. It looks like they got a bit of overnight snow in the Vail/Loveland pass, but I'll be hitting it later in the day. The road conditions in Wyoming look quite a bit worse. The famous Wyoming winds are also something I'd like to avoid.

Fun!

Motorcycles. You can talk about motorcycles.

And guitars.

I threw myself a small party when I retired the last of the CC bills. Being totally debt-free is wonderful!

So what happened?

This will be my 14th knee surgery. I'm just so glad it's not a long-term thing. What surgery did you have?

So then what happened?

Thanks for the tips. I'm 6ft and my dad and brother are both 6ft2in+. I've heard some of the horror stories about the E4OD/4R100, but I really want to stay with any automatic. I prefer a standard in a sports car, but an automatic in a truck. I've driven both and much prefer the auto. I'll be budgeting for a highly overbuilt heavy-duty replacement trans in the mid-term.

Glad to hear you're up and around again. I'll be getting a full knee rebuild at some point. I'm definitely not looking forward to it.

Headache Rack - defnitely! It also give me something to mount ham radio antennas on.

Toolbox - I'm thinking of a box that combines with an auxiliary fuel tank. I'd like to be able to carry 50-90 gallons of extra fuel.

Bed rail protectors - Yep!

The side boxes are tempting. I'm doing some digging to figure out what I can do that won't compromise the ability to haul 4x8 sheets and 8ft stock. Given that I won't be doing it daily, I don't mind doing it with the tailgate down. If I could find side boxes with an aux-tank at the back end that would be a winner. The other possibility is to go with a larger under-body main tank and/or relocate the spare tire and drop a tank from an Excursion in its place as an aux-tank.

Of course gauges, intake, exhaust, and chip are high on the list. Any truck I drive has to be capable of shaming ricers.

Right now is when you need to be in the garage, turning wrenches on one of those bikes! That way, you might have one up and running by the time you're up and running...

I've never used WMP much, I've always been a WinAmp guy. The Rio Nitrus MP3 player used Rio Music Manager, which I liked very well. Media Monkey is another good one...

Luckily the Kaizan event isn't looking at any part of the department I do, so I'm not too worried about working harder. And hey, if I'm really lucky I'll be one of the people not being replaced soon enough.

IhopeIhopeIhope...

Oh shit!

So they took up a collection... that's very nice of them, but I figured you had pretty good insurance and all that, seeing as how you fix trains for a living. You know... union work, good pay & benefits, yadda yadda...

Anyhoohaw, man, this downtime might be a good opportunity to get one of those motorcycles running! Maybe you can't ride it for a while, but you could work on it...

Yeah, maybe next weekend I'll be able to stump out to the garage. one thing is for sure, the drugs give me the kind of focus and patience that I've never had. It's hard to get frustrated when you are stoned. thank god for it though, I'm out of new books and tv sucks so incredibly bad that I do not understand how it survives as a viable medium. at least this way I can drool at the boob tube and not lose my mind.