Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Burp.

[Oh Haha]

We had to put our dog down today. It was a tough decision for us but his quality of life wouldn't have improved much even with medicine. We buried him with his rubber tire toy that he had since he was a puppy at my in-laws house.

It was more difficult to make the decision than I thought it would be but it was the right one.

Didn't mean to bring the group down. Sorry about that.

Glen-I take it the 911 ran ok at lunch?

[Porsche-poor]

That is a tuff one. Sorry to hear that.

[GH85Carrera]

Wayne, sorry for the loss of your dog. It is a the very hardest decision that needs to be done by the owner of a pet.

Yea, the 911 ran perfect. After a very light lunch I ran a couple of errands. I had to park at two locations but it ran just like a Porsche is supposed to run. The engine is about 195 degrees or so and I will go out in 10 minutes and see if it starts after a good heat soak.

One of the burgers Ann's has is a one pound patty with FOUR slices of cheese on a 5.5 inch bun. Sitting on top of a large pile of fries. We did not try that one! I have never tried it. I have seen it eaten.

[flipper35]

Sorry to hear about the dog Wayne.

Richard, we have space for your trailer. No rent or anything if I can borrow it a couple times.

Jim, way to rub it in and now I find out we are flying in to San Diego this year. Does your wife like SD?

[RKDinOKC]

Condolences.

The passing of my 17 yo 1st dog, Penny hit me harder than even my parent's passing.

[GH85Carrera]

Richard, I am loving that new spam filter. I am down to very few spam messages getting through to my inbox. I go check the spam box for the quarantine messages and there are few. Not near the volume of the rejected messages.

I had one that was supposed to be from my Credit card company. It had a link to me to click on and log on and fix some issue. Yea, right. It was automatically blocked and it was freakin Brazil. I am pretty sure USAA is still in Austin, TX.

I would never ever click a link in an email to check out any account of any sort.

[RKDinOKC]

I've only gotten one or two to my inbox in the last 3 weeks. Usually get anywhere from 2 to 6 in my quarantine per day that are spam. No false positives.

[pete3799]

Sorry Wayne. I've been in that situation several times now. Just know that you did the right thing and remember the good times you had with him often.

[RKDinOKC]

Both Pepper and Camber I had to give the okay to have them put down. That really really sucked.

Just couldn't see putting them thru pain and suffering so I could have them around a little longer.

Penny was 17 years old and going thru organ failure. She was already on lisinopril for congestive heart failure and was not getting oxygen. They said the could operate on her and put her in the health she was in a couple months earlier. Just couldn't let her go through that and just have it happen again.

Camber got an inoperable growth on her spine that eventually paralyzed her from the waist down. She had stopped eating and drinking because she could not control herself. There just wasn't really any option.

Went 3 months after Penny passed before missing having her around made me really want another dog. That's when we got Camber. Worked so many hours that Camber was really Mom's dog instead of mine like Penny was. Mom and Dad were traveling and visiting relatives for the first 6 months I had Pepper.

Had to have Camber put down early one morning. Mom's reaction was so bad that took her and got a puppy the next day. That puppy stuck to her like glue for the month and a half till Mom passed. Really helped Mom a lot. Mom was more aware and alert than she had been in years. The puppy just wouldn't leave her alone. Mom laughed and played with the puppy so much I thought she had that thing where you can't control laughing. When Mom passed Pepper came and got me and took me to her, went over and licked her face.

[Jim Richards]

Sorry about your dog, Wayne.

[Oh Haha]

Thanks guys. Mack was our first "baby" and used to go for rides with us in the 911. He was always great with the kids as they grew up.

My son is having a really tough time with it. We explained the situation in honest terms and reminded the kids of the ending in Marley and Me.



Anyway, I'm happy to hear Glen's 911 seems to be fixed.

[GH85Carrera]

I drove the 911 home with zero issues.

I do remember the move old Yeller. The ending was horrible in my eyes. I have not seen it again since seeing it at the theater when it came out. Typical Disney movie. Like Dumbo, they seem love to make kids cry.

[RKDinOKC]

When I was in first grade they thought I had a reading problem. When the teacher had me read aloud in the class, I would start with the first sentence just fine, then would start making up my own story (which I thought was much better). Remember having a special meeting with My mom and the teacher and after that i got a weekly magazine called weekly reader I had to read articles aloud to my parents from, then tell the teacher what the articles were about.

After a few months they decided I just read to get information and didn't like reading stories. She took me to the grade school's library and had me check out and read "Where the red fern grows." It's a 5th grade level book. For some reason she thought I would like it. It was terrible for a 1st grader. Like old yeller by Quentin Tarantino to a 1st grader.

The boy in the book saves his money to get two coon dog puppies. He raises and trains them to be champion dogs. Then on a coon hunt both dogs get very graphically gutted by a mountain lion. Can even now still remember the vivid picture in my mind of the gutted whimpering coon dogs the story gets you very attached to. They bury the dogs. The boy grieves for a bit missing the dogs, saves his money, and as he brings home two new puppies they pass where the first two are buried and a red fern is growing in the spot.

Really turned me off recreational reading which I really didn't care for in the first place!

Several months later my Dad found a guy where he works had older boys that had out grown a huge collection of Hardy Boys mysteries and they gave me two boxes full of Hardy Boys. Liked em and couldn't get enough. Still couldn't get me to check out a book from the school library though.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, Where the Red Fern grows was pretty horrible when I read it.

I was a voracious reader in school. Since I moved to a new school every single year I had a new school library to check out. I would read every single science fiction related book the library had and then start re-reading some of the Asimov or Arthur C. Clark or EE Doc. Smith Lensman and Skylark series. I was staring at the books trying to find something to read and the librarian asked if she could help. I told her I had already read all the good books and wanted to find another good one. She pointed out "The boy that batted 1.000" It was so stupid I had to quit 1/2 way through which was just a hour or so of reading.

The good news for me was we were living on base that year and I had access to the base library which had a great collection of Asimov. I still have several dozen Asimov and Clarke books. I really need to read the entire Foundation series in order again.

Good Hump day morning all!

[RKDinOKC]

Hump day happens. Embrace it, then chew it up and spit it out.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. I was not a reader in school but now I either have a real book in hand or an e-reader almost all the time.

[RKDinOKC]

There are so many good books out there I just don't understand why they have to keep remaking the same old movies over and over.

Not that they don't butcher most books with their screen writing crapola. Some stories they completely change but claim it is from the book? There also does not need to be some sort of cutesy comic relief character in every story!

Met a lady at South By South West one year when I attended a lot of the event parties. She had the rights to a story about the Mexican Air Force in WWII. There was one squadron in the US Air Force that was the whole Mexcian Air Force. They were and still are considered heros in Mexico. There was a really good story about a couple of the pilots and their love interest. She was trying to get a movie made that respected the people involved (her family) and stuck to the facts but everyone that wanted to produce the film kept changing the story around.

Found out about it as a friend hooked me up to try help her with a web site to promote the story. From the information I was given there wasn't any reason the producers and their writers were changing anything except for the sake of change and trying to put their own signature on it. They had the poor lady so messed up I had to give up because she was afraid to actually change anything about how the web site looked, and it was terrible, difficult to understand, and cheap looking.

Don't think that story will ever be made into a very cinematic documentary like she wanted and the story deserved. She was absolutely sticking to her guns about not changing the story. Just don't understand why the industry felt they had the change things. It really was a good story.

[Porsche-poor]

The power that be always know better. They often wonder why the movie is a flop but they know better...........

[RKDinOKC]

The interesting part is the lady got the rights to the story because she is family. It is a well know story, in Mexico at least. So just don't understand, why they would even think of changing it.

It wasn't long after this that the movie Red Tails came out. Evidently she got some producers jazzed to make a WWII pilot movie. Wonder just how much poetic license went into that movie.