don't believe him! he will change jobs and then skip out on ya. Oh wait that's just for the parade......

The next job change for me is hopefully when Google Earth offers me a bazillion dollars for our company. Or maybe Amazon will buy it. Yea, that's the ticket. :rolleyes:

You have no idea how much I want to go on the that trip. I just could not figure out any way to make sense out of spending a few grand right after getting fired, and spending money like I had some to start a company. In the end, logic came out on top.

This last Parade was the only one I can remember Glen missing.

Yea, first one I missed since 2004. Of course I did our 1996 Parade since I was the registrar. My wife and I did the 2000 Parade is Sacramento, CA. I skipped three of them than from 2004 on, I hit em all. Looking forward to going to Tan-Tar-A Resort next year in MO. An easy one day drive.

One day? What fun is that?

Yep but I just want to bug you about it.

he didn't say how fast the drive would be. Sounds like the exact opposite of this year for me. I made it in 4.5 hours.

I guess next year would be 6 hours from us.

The Oklahoma Parade was further away for me than the Ft. Worth Parade.

Our shirts and hats are done.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1506982712.jpg

Several Polo shirts from Lands End. Two buttons per shirt!

Tomorrow my partner is giving a presentation to the egghead seismic geologists. He gets a polo to wear and look professional!

It costs just $45 to get a logo digitized into the format that the embroidery machine needs from the JPEG file I provided. Then $7.50 per item to put it on there. We bought our own shirts and provided them to the place.

I think they look great. If any of you want something with the logo on it just send it to me and we can get it sewn on. I figure it will be right up there with other fashion logos. Soon the big Hollywood stars will be wearing it.

next years will be 30 hours and over 2000 miles away.

If you drive like a maniac. Made it to Rolla MO in 4 hrs driving like a very polite maniac. 400 miles all highway. That included a stop for gasoline and lunch. And it was on a 4th of July Weekend! Didn't tailgate or cut anyone off, and didn't pass anyone going more than 10mph faster than they were going. Only went fast betweent the clumps of traffic.

When drive back and forth to college a lot I had an Audi. Back then tried to get to the open road between clumps and go the speed of the clumps so I would not have any traffic around me.

Logo looks great. looks like the illustrator got his act together......

Wasn't me.

Good Morning group.

I am registered for Porsche Palooza in Eureka Springs Arkansas for next month. It is refreshing to have a simple registration process, cheap hotels and very affordable meals and events. It is all just driving tours. They have some of the best roads for a sports car in the world.

When our region hosted Porsche Parade back in 1996 I was the registrar. Computers were new and the internet was virtually all dial up. Everyone mailed in a sheet of paper to me and my wife and I entered the information into my system on a Access database. I used my BBS system (at 28.8 baud) to host the files for PCA national to download reports. Things are different 21 years later.

Morning all. Fall is here 40* out and just a tad damp this am. This year at the parade felt like 1996. I took two hours of waiting to get my dad swapped out for the kid and I still had to pay extra for the privilege.

Yea, Parade is now run by PAID professionals. They want money for everything, and Parade makes 400K typically. It is stupid. The national club has so much money on hand now they risk having to pay taxes. When an organization has over 5 million of cash on hand it is hard to say it is a non profit club.

I was having fun this morning. I have been using Quicken for my personal checkbook and financial information since the 1980s. The first version I installed was on 5.25 inch floppies. I have my checkbook files back to 1989. I only upgrade when I have to since I am cheap. I was using Quicken 2015. They had a update and some of the text became stupid crazy small. Some (and only some) of the text was the size of the security micro printing on the $100 bill. Insane small. The only "cure" was to break down and get the new version. $60 and a few minutes of time and I am now on version 2017. The text is now designed to work with a modern 4K display.

I really need to look into Quicken. I'm still using an old version of MS Money that no longer has connections to online stuff. I just don't have the time to figure out which one I need and learn it.

Quicken is fairly easy. Of course it has a new look for the 2017 version. I started using it back then when I wrote a lot of checks. (Back in the olden days!) I could print my checks on my laser printer and they were entered right. Before Quicken I had a hell of time keep my account balanced.

The house I bought back in the days of Jimmy Carter and 18% mortgages was a bargain because the many I bough it from did a bargain 12.5% interest loan. His one think is he wanted a cashiers check or bank check. It was a pain to go to the bank to get one then mail it. I tried a check printed from Quicken on my laser printer and he took it. No more running to the bank!

I made the mistake of running a report long ago on how much pizza I bought. I never ran that one again.

My 83 year old mother in law uses Quicken. She likes how she can download the files and balance the account real easy.

Good * all.

Glen we probably will be coming back through your city on the way home a week from Monday. I think Monday. Still working out all the last minute stuff on where we want to go after the conference.

Too bad Richard hasn't gotten his car back yet, Emily got her driver's permit paperwork today!

Yeah, a 928 GTS manual is a great car to teach someone manual on. It is almost impossible to kill it by just letting out the clutch. Just too many low end torques.