Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Oh I did just that!

[GH85Carrera]

Good job!!!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Off to doc this afternoon.

[GH85Carrera]

Good luck!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. More tests to see if its spread and what type of treatment to use. The treatment is self will only prolong life and not cure it. If it works I may have a year maybe a little more.

[GH85Carrera]

That is just devastating news. I can't really imagine the kick in the guts feeling of that prognosis. I am certain your family feels the same way. I wish I had some magic cure, but if I did I would be a billionaire and not a small business owner looking for more projects.

Good luck in your treatment, and hope it is longer time to live.

[Porsche-poor]

yes its a roller coaster around here. I'm attempting to be nice but the sarcasm is quickly being replaced with anger and I have a really short fuse.

Of all the cancer out there this is the one you don't want to get. Visit to the doc covered everything from diagnosis to treatment to pain management to hospice. Not one mention of the one word you wanted to hear "cure". It's not possible.

[GH85Carrera]

The cold front arrived about 7:00 AM. The temps dropped from 40 to 23 in just 90 minutes. And the wind came up to 40 to 60 MPH.

We were the only customers at the Sunday morning breakfast place we like.

I dug out my HEAVY coat. It is leather outside, and fake fur on the inside. Winds do not bother it. I bought it back when we had a regular flight every Tuesday and Thursday at Cushing, OK oil storage tanks. Back then we were renting a Cessna 172 as we did not own a airplane yet. It sat on the ramp. Putting the camera equipment on it as the pilot did the pre-flight inspection in 20 degree weather sucked. Of course it sucked just as much when it was really hot.

I bought the long heavy cost, and the customer shut down the project. So i have a long heavy leather coat I were very rarely. That job helped us earn the money to buy our 2004 Cessna 182T

[GH85Carrera]

Oh boy! I get to play driving miss Daisy again. it is 12 degrees with a wind chill of ZERO.

First PT, then back to pick her up, and take her to her doctor appointment to the doctor that did the surgery. I will wear my big heavy coat again.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. We have chilly at 48 and dry today.

[GH85Carrera]

I had to WORK yesterday and today. We flew a project to calculate volumetric totals. It is a landfill, and the county pays us to fly it, and calculate the volume to double check against what the company running the landfill claims they added. It is all about tax revenue, and to check what the company claims. The company counts the trucks coming in, and weighs each truck. They should be super accurate, but it is real easy to sorta forget to weigh a few trucks.

Our client is the surveyor that put down ground control targets. I have to go in and punch in the XYX of the targets and the computer makes a map. The surveyor stamps it, and it is a survey. It is easy to calculate the volume of the mounds compared to ground level of the targets put down. Then use the previous year, and do a bit of subtraction and addition and bingo you have the increase in volume in cubic yards.

[Porsche-poor]

hey it pays the bills right?

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, it was a profitable project. For sometime next month, when they pay the bill.

I delivered my 911's alternator to the rebuild place. It is a very large metal building filled with old alternators, starters and generators. Thousands of them. And just a path to the work area. He promised all quality brands of bearings and parts, and no Chineesium.

It is in south Oklahoma City, and I live in North OKC. It was a 30 minute drive on mostly interstate. They have been in business a long time to have so much old dad parts and pieces. He likely could send a few tons of parts to the scrap dealer, but ya never know when someone wants a old part built from scratch, and he will have the core sitting there.

[GH85Carrera]

#$%(%%#@! And profanity added, we are forecast for Thursday to get 1 to 3 inches of the white crap falling onn out of the sky. Rats, we will go stock up on bananas, and hopefully just weather the crap inside the house. I will be shoveling my 25 acre parking lot. My mother told me a million times not to exaggerate, but it is a large area. It is big enough to park 3 SUVs and I can still get in or out of my garage. I have had 8 Porsches parked on my driveway. So lots of shoveling.

I finished my part of the project, and output a 1.6 Gig Tif file that is geo-referenced. Then I output a JPG2000 file that is 242MB. Lots easier to send around on out FTP site.

[GH85Carrera]

Yesterday I took my wife to see the PA of the surgeon that did her shoulder operation. He wanted to see her range of movement, and strength. He said she was rock star in recovery, and what every patient dreams of. He released her to drive, so no more Driving Mrs Daisy duty!

The alternator shop was interesting. A large building, likely 10,000 SQ feet, and it was filled with table after table of thousands of dead alternators, generators and starters saved as cores and parts donors. He asked if I waned the outside cleaned, and I said NO, no one can see it once it is inside the fan, so it is pointless. Just replace the voltage regulator, the bearings and make it like new again.

Now I need to find a dry ice blasting cleaning shop to get the grunge off of the magnesium fan and housing.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I am all set to be poked with all sorts of crap next week.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Morning all. I am all set to be poked with all sorts of crap next week.

Golly gee, that sounds like no fun at all.

I dropped off my fan and housing to be dry ice blasted at a local place. Turns out I knew the owner. He used to autocross in his BMW. He totaled it driving stupid and walked away unhurt.

I have autocrossed for 39 years and done a few thousand autocrosses. I have worn off a lot of that unsprung weight of tire tread and brake pads. I have never had the slightest incident. I have an attic full of trophies, and don;t give a hoot at all about trying to do the impossible of beating a modern car like a Cayman GTS or any 911 from the 964 to the latest version. It ain't gonna happen unless they are total beginner drivers.

[Porsche-poor]

One thing I never got into. Not sure how good I'd be anyway. I look at the tracks and see a sea of cones with no direction.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, the sea of cones can get confusing. That is one reason we loved the Sheriff's Training center. It was a track, that we used cones only to tighten up the track, and offset gates to slow the cars down. It is impossible to get lost on a road course.

We just need to get the county commissioners to agree to let us use it again. The sheriff's department wants us back, and the DA has blessed it as well. We need a politician to present it to the commissioners.

[GH85Carrera]

The alternator is ready to pick up. $175.00 for a total overhaul. He called late enough yesterday that I would have been in rush hour traffic on I-35 the way back. Nope, not gonna do it.

I told him I would be there around 10:3 AM today. It is nice to be able to avoid rush hour. Our rush hour would make the folks from Atlanta, LA, Dallas and Portland and other major cities wonder where the traffic is, and what my problem is. I choose to avoid crazy drivers trying to get to work before they are late, or idiots trying to get home to start drinking.