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cheesy last won the day on February 13 2023

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    Elburn, Illannoy
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    1948 DeSoto Custom Coupe

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    Grandpa getting close to retirement
  • Occupation
    Railroad equipment mechanic

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    Dundee, IL
  • Interests
    Motorcycles, bicycles, pressure lanterns and campstoves.

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  1. Alaska has great night skies away from Anchorage. We stayed at a B&B outside of Denali and it was wonderful. I can say that the night sky in rural Iceland is pretty dang nice, too.
  2. Enough to be dangerous.
  3. Illannoy instead of Ill-a-noise. The taxes kind of suck but I still like it here. I have both a cheap reflector and refractor, plus a couple of spotter scopes. If I can keep the grandsons interest, I plan on getting a better reflector over the summer. I want them to see the nebula in Orions' belt next fall.
  4. I still have that sense of wonder, even at 68. There's still a pretty decent night sky where I am in rural Illannoy and I'll point out stars and planets to my grandsons. They're pretty impressed that grandpa actually knows this stuff. The night sky where my oldest lives in Maine will knock your socks off, though.
  5. Being in NE Illannoy, if there is a celestial event, it will be overcast. We deal with it and move on.
  6. It's not sewage related but I had a pulley split in half on my lathe.
  7. My oldest granddaughter when she was 8. She'll be 16 this year. She can't decide whether if she wants to learn how to drive the DeSoto or the Ural when she comes out this summer.
  8. I'd have to say the e-brake shoe retaining pins that came with the last repair kit I bought for my Wrangler. I think they were made out of solder. I had to dig through the trash and reuse the rusty OEM pins. The shoes ran a close second, but the OEM shoes were nothing to brag bout, either.
  9. Having watched Homer and family since it was a short on the Tracy Ullman Show in 1989, that quote just sprang to mind. I think I used it on my oldest grandson when he took an elbow to his mouth playing soccer and a couple of little girls came over to check on him.
  10. Owowowow. I've had three knee surgeries due the friendly ol' meniscus. Only one was due to having fun/being stupid. The others were caused by mundane things. I'm planning on visiting the rink next Thursday to thank the kids that helped me up. As a 'regular', I'll let them know that I probably won't be back until school's back in session. I used to push healing but it never helped. Too soon old, too late smart.
  11. Roller skates, not a problem. Ice skates, ehh, maybe. Skateboard, hell no. Skating was a weekly thing for me in the late 60s, early 70s. Always had fun. Both my daughters did women's Flat Track Roller Derby in their 30's. The rough play may be what led them to their current interests. The oldest does power lifting, the youngest has a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Doe and spent part of last summer in S. Korea with her oldest at a couple of tournaments. She went up against a guy from Hong Kong in the form competition and pasted him. I could read his mind over the video..."Damn, I lost to a 40 year old mom from the US. I suck."? She's boxing now. She has a stressful job and she likes punching things. My SIL is kind of scared of her.
  12. So no hard cast. An Aircast/walking boot. I have a pair of these now, so there are plans afoot for a robot costume come Halloween. The knee is still a bit swollen but that's going down. The doc did do a double take when I said roller skate racing at 68. So, I have to wear the robot boot for a week then see the doc again. If the break stays stabilized, I'm stuck in the boot for a few more weeks, followed by a few weeks of PT. If not, surgery and more hardware in this foot with even more time laid up. When the call comes for the 18 and above races, I think I'll just take a seat and watch.
  13. Just thought I'd bump this thread for us old guys. I partook of the 18 and above roller skate race last Thursday. I was leading halfway through the first lap when something in my stride went sideways, then so did my left knee and ankle. I scored a DNF. I was clutching my knee when I went down but when the refs tried to help me up, I collapsed like a heap, my ankle not supporting me. The visit to the ER showed that I earned a broken fibula for being the oldest teenager on the rink floor. Out for about six weeks. I am getting the 'look' several times a day from my other half and hear clucking under my kids breathe. Grandkids want to know when they can draw on my hard cast, which I'm getting today. To quote Lance Murdock of The Simpsons,(When they were still funny) "But the fact that the matter is, bones heal, chicks dig scars, and the United States of America has the best doctor to daredevil ratios in the world!"?
  14. Here's one of the inspection cars. It was at the Illinois Railroad Museum in Union, IL in 2017.
  15. Regarding old people and weather, we are getting hammered with snow and wind in SW Kane cty. Buster dog is a Border Collie/Pointer mix and his man parts are dragging in the snow.
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