Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Looks great Sid. Can I come play?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Someone said my name?

That is the benefit of putting up triple digits for several months. 120 in the shade is never fun. Enjoy the nice weather while it lasts.

I made the long slog out to get my speedometer from the repair shop. I will likely get it installed this weekend. I need to add about 400 miles to it first. I guess the trusty old drill running it at 100 for 4 hours should do it.

Lets hope he really fixed it!

[flipper35]

When I lived in El Centro I teased that winter was between 2am and 4am on January 5th.

I am sure I will come back with a sunburn again.

[RKDinOKC]

Sister and her 1st husband moved to Harlingen TX. It was popular Snowbird location for their friends living in Rolla Ma. The summers weren't as brutal as AZ. Also sister got a great teaching job at a private school down there. Think she was teaching English to Spanish speaking students.

Drove a Uhaul pulling a trailer with a car on it for her when she moved back and that was a LONG drive from Harlingen to Rolla.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

When I lived in El Centro I teased that winter was between 2am and 4am on January 5th.

I am sure I will come back with a sunburn again.

Last time I was in El Centro was in the 911 of course. Coming back from San Diego I stopped to pee in El Centro. Of course it was perfect typical weather in San Diego when I left. I had the AC cranked to MAX and I was comfortable until I shut off the car and walked across a large BLACK parking lot. I think it was 120 or so. It was only 114 in Needles, CA when I cam back from Monterey, CA. Bakersfield was a hell hole as well.

None of that area is what most people of the world think of when the hear California. I can't imagine why anyone on earth would choose to like in Bakersfield or Needles. Death Valley has better conditions that that.

Boron, CA has to be the ultimate arm pit of the state. It is just horrible.

[flipper35]

The difference between El Centro and Death Valley is that El Centro has a Del Taco franchise there.

[Jim Richards]

I survived the colonoscopy, I think. Now I'm back on solid food. Who hoo!

[flipper35]

Good deal, hope the scope didn't loosen any important muscles!

[Porsche-poor]

scopes are fun. NOT!. have done it twice now.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

scopes are fun. NOT!. have done it twice now.

The scope is no big deal since you are knocked out. The prep the night before is the bad part.

[RKDinOKC]

Reminded that not all the morons are out driving around today...

Our "Network Manager" called an employee that left the company 3 years ago to do some consulting work on our network. It had to do with network security. Know this because the ex-employee sent me a message to change the public VPN backup IP addresses. No biggy, logged into Domain Registrar and made the DNS Host changes.

An hour after making the DNS changes receiving email from outside our network stops. After a few minutes diagnostics discover some of the DNS entries required for hosted exchange have been deleted. None of the other DNS entries, just some of the Exchange entries. Was able to re-enter them and get the mail flow going again...BUT

Why are they calling an outside person to manage our network security? I can do that and even have certification for it. AND, Why is the IT Director (he is the only other person with the password) going in an monkeying with DNS host file?

I've got the DNS host thing taken care of. I am a wholesaler with the Domain Registrar, the company Domain Registry and DNS hosting is in a sub account of my personal wholesale account. Talked to the registrar and added the ability to my wholesale account to do some things most Users can't. First I can tag a domain i.e. anytime there is a change the the host file I am sent an email alert. Also can create and restore backups of the host file and force replication to the various servers. Cool.

I've only been doing this stuff since 1991.

[GH85Carrera]

Good hump day morning.

It is Windows update morning. Fun fun fun.

Last week I made an donation to a charity that I support. I don't make any big deal about it and I would not mention it except now I see ads everywhere for that charity of course they want more donations. I presume anyone that goes to their web site gets a cookie and other tracking to tag me as a donor. I just flushed all my history and cookies so I will see if they still target me.

[Oh Haha]

Hey hey.


My son is a teenager today. 13 going on 65. Curmudgeony and set in his ways already.

He has his first band concert tonight. He HAS to wear dress clothes which he absolutely hates. I bought him new dress slacks and a button down long sleeve shirt over the weekend for it as required by the band director. I made him try them on and it was torture for him.

He's going to be really pi$$ed when I tell him my Mom wants a picture of him in them with his saxophone.

He's a challenge most days but he's still my boy.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

Hey hey.


My son is a teenager today. 13 going on 65. Curmudgeony and set in his ways already.

He has his first band concert tonight. He HAS to wear dress clothes which he absolutely hates. I bought him new dress slacks and a button down long sleeve shirt over the weekend for it as required by the band director. I made him try them on and it was torture for him.

He's going to be really pi$$ed when I tell him my Mom wants a picture of him in them with his saxophone.

He's a challenge most days but he's still my boy.

I feel his pain!

My early days were in Hawaii in the 1960s. I went to school in a pair of shorts. No shirt, no shoes, just shorts. I went everywhere like that. I hated it when mom made me get "dressed up" in in flip flops and a shirt. I have photos somewhere of me at Easter Sunday getting ready for church. One year I had clothes two sizes too big, the next year the same clothes two sizes too small. One year for Easter I did not have one pair of shoes that would fit. I got to wear flip flops to church for Easter Sunday.

Even in high school the in fashion was bell bottom jeans and even elephant foot jeans. I hated them with a passion and stuck with Levi's 501 just because they were unchanged. Then the era of GIANT cuffs on the horrible "1970s style." Just shorts and a t-shirt is fine for me all summer and jeans when it gets cold. I think I own 5 or 6 long sleeve shirts total.

[Schumi]

gentlemen.

long time no see.

I'm going to be joining y'uns over there on that other continent soon- I'm permanently moving to France here in two weeks, on Christmas actually. Selling off everything here now. Moving to start a new business.


Unfortunately that means one sad, sad thing needs to happen- I have to sell my MV. Quick. Don't want to deal with the expense of shipping it over there and then not having a place for it when it gets there. So it is up for sale.

If you know anymore near LA that wants a hot readhead with killer looks for the price of a wild weekend in vegas... here's a link to my FS post, pass it along.... Fs: 2000 F4 S 750 - MVAgusta.net

[GH85Carrera]

Wow Mike, long time no see.

Good luck with the new business whatever it is.

I personally have zero interest in two wheel transportation devices. I can appreciate them but it is like 4x4s and off road driving. Not my bag. Keep in touch occasionally.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

Hey hey.


My son is a teenager today. 13 going on 65. Curmudgeony and set in his ways already.

He has his first band concert tonight. He HAS to wear dress clothes which he absolutely hates. I bought him new dress slacks and a button down long sleeve shirt over the weekend for it as required by the band director. I made him try them on and it was torture for him.

He's going to be really pi$$ed when I tell him my Mom wants a picture of him in them with his saxophone.

He's a challenge most days but he's still my boy.

Sounds like a typical boy to me.

I, however was never a challenge for my parents. Nope.

OK, there was one period of my life I may have been. I think it was between 1969 and now?

[RKDinOKC]

Oh Boy, a teenager! Aren't all teens 13 going on "I am all growed up, know everything, and I don't have a lawn for you to get off of, but leave me alone"?

When I was in band the concert band did any concerts we had to wear black slacks, black shoes AND socks, and a white shirt. The school provided clip on ties and blazers. The Stage band or Jazz band had to wear the same thing sans ties. Oh, and sometimes we got small group gigs like quartets, ensembles, etc and had to wear the "concert uniform" for that as well.

The black shoes, socks, slacks, white shirt and schools black tie came in handy. Any time there was a concert there were ushers and you could volunteer to be an usher and get in the concerts free. But you had to wear all but the school blazer. They gave you a gold blazer to wear to usher. You could tell who in the group were total noobs because they didn't bring a change of clothes to change into after the concert started and you were done ushering.

At a Jethro Tull concert I got to usher 2 young ladies that were wearing dresses that were almost clear and had on no undergarments. One on each arm! Their seats were front row center. It was before women started waxing. Pretty exciting for a teenager!

[Porsche-poor]

afternoon all. Came into a full inbox of mark ups from CA. They are finally getting into the swing of things.

[flipper35]

Did you pull the old (best agent 86 voice) "I have a phobia of showers away from home and I have to stay with you?" trick so they would get moving.

I would have at least made that statement to prod them along.