OldTrucker

Well the IL. Governor is shutting down the state starting tomorrow afternoon. Really sucks, now I'll be stuck at home doing the same things that I have been doing every day for the past 7+ years!LOL On a real note kind of sad because with the wife's health problems like COPD, asthma and heart issues the kids have all told her to stay on the safe side they will be staying away for a while and the wife really is upset because that means no grandkids for a while.

That is what I'm doing! along with counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all, playing solitaire til dawn with a deck of 51! I don't smoke cigarettes and Captain Kangaroo ain't on any more!

If memory serves me correctly that engine (the semi-hemi) can be easily converted into a hemi. (used the same block) That isn't the same as a 318 poly though. There are differences.

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Second completion of 2020. De chromed most of the trim, drilled the collectors out added a bar to the cage and a mount for the fuel tank. Otherwise an out of box build.

Great looking truck, especially weathering on the drive train! I could almost hear her running!

Beautiful! Takes me back to better times. My wife's cousin Bennys had one that looked just like it!

My son called this morning to tell us he and our oldest son had possibly been exposed to the corona virus by a guy they had worked with on Friday. Saturday my son and his daughter stopped by and later our oldest came by to pick up cookies his mom had baked for him visited us and later their other brother and his family had stopped in and visited. The whole work crew my sons were working with had to go home and the builder had to lock up the house they were doing trim work in until it could be cleaned. Turns out after the big boss of their company told the guy he needed to provide doctors reports to him before they could let him come back after quarantine the guys story started to change and by the end of the conversation he claimed it was all a misunderstanding with what his wife had told him and while the lady his wife worked with had been tested and found negative his wife was quarantined and tested, but for the flu, not corona!!! Turns out he was trying to get a few paid weeks off through the Aflac insurance from work! My wife had COPD and heart issues and it scared the you know what out of us all thinking she might have been exposed! I figured it was several degrees of separation between the person tested and my wife but with no real information on just how exactly this could be transmitted it does make one worry! The boss is looking into firing the guy but his lawyer told him to tread lightly so he doesn't get sued in the end.

Chinese food too

In crazy times

And no sanity for their parents!

The scolds in Indiana are closed until the middle of next month according to my son.

Doing the same here in IL. starting tomorrow is what I have heard.

Saw that this morning when I went to Kroger. Talked a minute with the store manager and he said corporate told them they may use this as an opportunity to permanently cut back the store hours at many stores. Said he wouldn't mind it here as sales have been way down during the hours between midnight and 6am. He said it dropped off when they stared closing the pharmacy early.

Went to the store this morning. Meat department well stocked again, had some large packs of TP and paper towels on the shelves. Dairy cases were filled back up and it was quiet in the store. Only needing a couple cashiers to handle things. They did finally put a 2 item limit on coronavirus related items. They also had the entrance doors locked down so you couldn't exit through them. They had people running out yesterday without paying through those. The only thing I didn't find that we needed was Generic Tylenol. Funny, all the generic stuff was gone but the real Tylenol was stocked full. Guess if it cost too much people would rather skip it. I was just looking to buy our usual double pack and be set for the month.

Have a friend works at a place that makes toilet paper and paper towels. He said they are now on overtime!

Went to the Meijer store at 9:30 last night. People walking around looking shell shocked! The grocery side of the store looked like it had been looted right down to boxes on the floor and can goods rolling around in the aisles. Found the few things I went for and by then they were shutting down a lot of the checkout lanes with only about 4 in line at each. Most looked to be just trying to do normal shopping on what was left. Bread aisle empty, meat department only had a few high dollar cuts of meat left. Pasta aisle was bare. Most ready to eat canned goods were all gone too. Went to Kroger and found our corned beef brisket for St Patty's day dinner. Their store was not as trashed but lots of bare shelves. But their meat department still had a fair amount pf stuff left. The guy from dairy said they had a special milk delivery and that in this one day had sold as much milk as they do in a week! Didn't even bother to look at the paper goods aisles.LOL

Next Thursday the wife has to go back to North Western in Chicago for more tests. She is very nervous about it. Our family doctor and cardiologist are both calling patients and telling those with just general followups to not come to the office but to call on that day and they will determine if you need to come in. I asked if we were getting charged for that call (as an appointment) and they wouldn't answer.LOL I went yesterday to pick up a sample inhaler for the wife and they hospital the doctor's office is in looked like a ghost town! All the self check-in kiosks are posted out of order and signs telling people if they have a cough and fever to only enter through the ER entrance. Hand sanitizer stations at every corner and even IN the elevators! Thing is what good are they against a VIRUS???

Our prayers go out to your family Don. So sorry for your loss.

One of my sons did that on one of those hard rubber dog toys early one morning before work!LOL

She definitely was a looker. Remember seeing her in a Three Stooges short too! But don't let my wife see you knocking her, she just loves that show.(but not the later shows without Desi) I had to buy her the series on DVD! I do like The Long Long Trailer movie though!

My uneducated Truck Driver guess would be it started in some lab in China.

I know it seems extreme to do all of these closing where there would be close contact but really due to human nature you can expect hat many with symptoms or have been exposed to someone with them would still insist on attending these events. Case in point the dad that decided even though one daughter showed symptoms and the family was quarantined at home for it decided was ok to take the other daughter to a daddy daughter dance and possibly expose others! Unfortunately there a many that are just like that who would risk infecting others for selfish reasons like not missing a game, race or club meeting. Now as to some of the other hysteria. Was in a farm store yesterday to pick up bird feed and a couple ice cube trays and saw to women get into a fight over paper towels and napkins. (the store was out of TP) The one lady had grabbed everything on the sheve into 2 carst and refused to let the other one have any! Needless to say they both left without anything after the manager and a couple employees intervened. The manager then told the employee to take it all to the back and to make a sign telling customers to go to the courtesy dest if they wish to purchase those items and it will be 1 per customer of each as supplies last. He told me the truck was due at mid day with TP, toes and napkins any way!LOL

I like the extra hour of daylight in the evening but I would settle for splitting the difference and then leaving it alone!

It is fine if you wast to build it as a Malibu.