We are all ready for our New Year’s eve party. It will last about the length of time it takes me to drink a couple of beers. Whoo hooo. Party time. Then in bed by 10:30 before I turn into a pumpkin.

So...black eyed peas were first grown to feed livestock. They were used as confederate rations in the civil war because when northern troops raided Confederate food stores they left the black eyed peas untouched cause they thought they were for the livestock and slaves not people. This has somehow made black eyed peas lucky?

And you are supposed to eat one black eyed pea for each day of prosperity, ie 365 of them,

Sounds to me like someone noticed the cellar had too many jars of black eye peas that weren't getting eaten to me!

Some people even put a penny or dime in the pot of black eyed peas and whomever got it was the luckiest.

Must have been difficult to get people to eat them black eyed peas.

Black eyed peas are good when cooked with a little ham. I order them even on days other than New Year’s Day.

What beans are NOT good cooked with some ham, bacon, back bacon, or pork fat for that matter!
Mom even used to melt up some bacon grease and pour it over lettuce to make yummy wilted lettuce.
She alway filter the grease from making bacon thru cheese cloth and kept in the fridge to cook other stuff in.
Learned to make pancakes by slathering up the grill pan with bacon grease to cook em.
Man, I haven't made any home made pancakes in ages.
Dad liked em with vanilla in the batter. I like em with bacon broken up and put in the batter.
Remember Grandma giving me a wisk for my 5th birthday so I could beat eggs better than using a fork for pancakes and omelets.
Think that was one of the secrets to her home made egg noodles for chicken and noodles too.

How many cups of black eyed peas do you have to eat to get 365 of them? one for each day of the new year.

Just a standard serving. We usually go to Cracker Barrel for lunch on NYD and they have them as a special. Ya gotta ask for em.

Cracker Barrel is still open? Heared most them shut down. Haven't drived by the one close to us in a while, don't know if still there or not.

I had not heard of any Cracker Barrels closing. They are always busy when we go in. On occasion my wife gets a craving for their blueberry pancakes. The local Porsche club eats there for breakfast at least once per year. We go for New Year's day because they serve a special of Black Eyed Peas. We preferred the local Delta Cafe, but they closed long ago.

Hey is it Monday? I think so. The Tuesday holidays and all the football games has it not feeling like a normal week. Of course, since I mostly work at home, that difference between a weekend day and week day is rather blurred.

Yep, today is all three, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Tomorrow is Saturday, then the next day is Monday again.

Well...close enough for me...Happy Freaking New Year!

Remember those really wide pos-a-traction torque twister nylon tires? Hard as a rock, worst tires evar. They at least had the "POS" part right.
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I had a set on a 69 GTX with a hopped up 440 and was trying to get to work, and it were raining. it looked kinda like this but was sting-bugged out and had an air-grabber hood:

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And the tires were pretty much bald for some reason.
it was like the back of the car was on ice. Couldn't get over about 30 mph because of the back tires spinning.
Believe or not I pegged the speedo in that car on the garden grove freeway one night even with the G50 over-sized tires (and no rain), felt like I was floating.
Not the smartest thing I ever did.
Dad said I could keep that car or my license. Oh to be 19 again.

It is another rainy day here. All liquid, not lumpy or frozen water. We have had the 6th or 7th wettest year on record. Way more than regular and few complaints about rain.

I guess we will miss the big New Year's eve celebration downtown once again. It is supposed to be in the 20s tonight. For some reason walking around in a crowd in really cold weather just does not appeal to my wife or myself. I think a nice warm bed about 10:30 sounds 1000% better.

They have been doing the celebration down there since about 1987. Most places have a ball drop, but Oklahoma City is special, we have a ball rise! Before the mid to late 1980s downtown OKC was a ghost town at night. We passed a sales tax earmarked for downtown improvements. It has really transformed OKC into a different place. In the early 80s they had to mow the river twice per year. Now it actually is a Olympic training site, for rowing. The have a Olympic class white water facility, The NBA Thunder team, minor league baseball team, and hundreds of businesses and restaurants that just did not exist before. Entire zones have been developed, a new streetcar system just started operating. It goes from the bombing memorial, through automobile alley entertainment area, and on down to the canal and the bricktown area.

In Ohio the rivers used to catch fire :eek:

Yea, tires have come a long way. I bough a set of 4, mounted and balanced tire for my 1960 VW bug with a smoking 36 HP (when new) for $26. They were re-cap tires. With a top speed, downhill with a tail wing of 65 MPH and 0-60 time of about a 72 seconds on flat ground with no headwind. If there was any incline or headwind it could NOT get to 60 at all.

For my 73 Bug with a screaming 60 HP I immediately put radials on it instead of the bias ply tires it came with. My 914 came with some Semperit radial tires that were horrible. I replaced them with Michelin XWX which were THE hot time back then.

My El Camino with the stock 305 and factor carb could not spin the tires from a dead stop on dry pavement, even at just 42,000 miles. Now with the 350 and much better tires than before, I ccan just get them to spin from a stop if I floor it with no brake jack. I have never done a brake jack, never will. It is hard on the transmission and drive shaft, and totally stupid to do. Especially at 369,000 miles.

The 911 can just has too much traction to spin the tires unless it is in a turn. The 915 transmission is just simply not a drag racing transmission.

Oklahoma City was founded on April 22, 1889. On April 21st there was nothing but one federal building and wilderness. On the 22nd, bam a city was born. Not many cities know to the day that they were first settled. They picked the location because it was close to a river. It would often flood so the corps of engineers "fixed" it and widened the path and it became a nice wide area, with a trickle of water most of the time. Only when the rains were heavy did it have any real water in it. Hence, they were mowing it regularly. Then the sales tax was passed and over the years the river had some locks put in and filled with water, and lined with concrete banks. It has no boat traffic at all except some evening dinner cruses and the rowers or skullers. With concrete walls, there is little wind, and no waves from traffic and now it is world class training site.

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https://www.riversportokc.org/training-site/

One time I was doing an autocross at Irwindale speedway in the 911.

I was trying to get the launch right but had bogged it almost every run that day.
So I gave it some more throttle and slipped the clutch a bit and get the turbo spooled up before dumping the clutch.
I lit up both back tires so i grabbed 2nd and they kept spinning.

Bad for the car, really bad for the launch or lap time, but it definitely got attention when a stock-looking SC left two black marks and smoke through 2 gears.
I got a talking to about that, if I wasn't helping set up the event and corner working all day they prolly would have sent me home.

A year earlier i was doing an AX at the same place in a V8 914.
One of the hot-shoes commented that I was really turning good lap times considering my clutch was slipping so bad.
He had heard the engine rev up out of every corner and thought it was the clutch but it was really the back tires spinning.

Very picture-esk scene. We don't have rivers like that.

This is the Los Angeles river (aka thunder road).
Not much to look at.
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remember terminator 2?

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My Satellite was setup for drag racing, rear lowered. The front was not aero for downforce. Blamed the curve under the front bumper, but it was more likely the angle of the hood due to lowering the rear. At around 110 mph the front would start lifting making the steering wheel less and less effective. Really wanted 50's on the back and 70's on the front, but Dad would only let me put standard all seasons on. Even with those the setup hooked up well enough out of the hole it would bust motor mounts if you just stomped it. More meat in the rear and I could have lowered the front and steer at over 110mph. It was a real sleeper with those skinny tires and wire hub caps and pretty quick with a 383 and slap stick.

Dad used to buy a new set of tires before we went on vacation, or we got a flat. He bought Michelins. Firestones you got flats new or not.

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sometimes the whole world is fake.
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The GTX did the same thing, not very confidence-inspiring.