Joe Handley

Had a Dr appointment last night, she went over what the findings of all my tests were with me, she repeated what I saw where everything looked ok for my size and excessive weight. I did express my concern about the blood pressure med I had started taking and she decided my blood pressure isn't bad enough to warrant that med, but advised I keep up on the exercising and diet changes then talk to my normal Dr in 3 months. I'm lucky compared to 2 guys on the RCCrawler site I also posted this on, one has to have back surgery and the other thought he had a small stroke but the MRI instead showed a mass in his right front brain lobe Liluckily the Doctors he's talking to think it's operatable and and will be back to normal after they're done, he just needs approval to get the work done at Rush in Chicago first.

That's why I drive a low end 200 in black, they generally aren't know to be quick, despite the V6 models being capable of 14's in the quarter and 0-60 in the 6's, only have one visible cue to what's under the hood, and will blend in just about anywhere.

At first I thought Bale was James Garner there.

It's weird, in the last couple years I've managed to aquire a few C1 Vettes and had a couple Widebody ProTouring C2 Vettes going a decade ago that I can no longer find that I had been building from the Revell Snap Kits.

Picked these up today, been eyeballing both for a while now and finally decided screw it and bought both.

Toxic could describe the salesmen's attitude towards the color though.

With the exception of the mosquitos, it was!

Is that the same White T on these covers?

Met up with that same friend again and went crawling again this time, had this old warhorse out and worked it hard for the first time in about 5 years too. It's the AX10 that I converted to a SCX10 almost a decade ago now and the only thing I had to do was charge the battery and reprogram the speed control (lost reverse for some weird reason?!) To get it out there. It's been a great little rig and was good to get it out and beat on it again Had my little Traxxas Telluride indie suspension trail rig out too, did well for how little ground clearance it has compaired to my SCX10, but gearing, motor, good all around choice in rolling stock, and a smooth belly can go a long way in making up other deficiencies. And as you can see, I'm not afraid to hang a tire out there either Here's my friend's AX10 Ridgecrest, 100% box stock and a perfect example of how a good choice of rolling stock can make a huge difference on the rocks. Both the SCX10 and Telluride would out climb it and have better grip in general, even though it has a smaller body, wider axles, and taller tires!

Is that the same platform as the Tiguan?

WOW, that is bright enough nobody, and I mean NOBODY has an excuse for not seeing that car coming from a mile away! Just out of curiousity, how long as that color been available, never seen one of those Civics painted that color before? Normally it's grey, white, dark blue,with the occasional black, even on the factory hot rodded models of the car, and the with the exception the white on the Si and Type R cars and black, they're otherwise all kinda "Meh". While it's not something I would get, as I'm too much of an introvert and leadfoot to get something that bright, I do like that color on that car!

I'm surprised Round 2 didn't try to get Counting Cars or Count's Customs licensing on this kit. Danny Koker has a thing for these cars and has built a couple these Plymouths for himself.

At least we don't have armadillos here, occasionally will have rabbits camp out behind the garage, but they're fairly harmless, like the squirrels and chipmonks we get in the yard, and don'y bother anything. We usually have bigger issues with hornets, wasps, and the occasional territorial bird or skunks that can't seem to find anything to eat in the yard.

Well, the parts on that list above showed up today Even though I haven't worked at HTU for almost 3 years now, I started feeling like I needed to grab the price stickers and start pricing these to put on the sales floor BTW, if you have to ask how much, you really, really don't want to know

Luckily it isn't a squirell problem (we keep them well fed outside), but mice that have gotten into the house instead. We've caught a bunch of them, but they must have family hiding around the main floor. The stuff I have upstairs is ok, just this one that was on the main floor got chewed on.

We've been dealing with some furry little squatters last few months and haven't had much luck getting rid of them and went to see if the battery I had for my Vaterra Ascender scale rig would still take a charge. Grabbed the truck from the room it was in and found that the little buggers had chewed up the wire leads for the steering servo and the battery leads on the battery and speed control....oddly leaving the ones for then motor alone Here's the damage I'm just going to use electrical tape as a fix for now and can use the speed control that came with the Ford GT bodies car I bought a couple years ago now that I've gone brushless in that and can heat shrink the battery leads since I would have to change the battery plug and will eventually heat shrink the servo wire. Does anybody know if there is something that can keep this from happening in the future until we can get rid of the little buggers? I beginning to think I need to bring home a cat or terrier of some sort If anybody us curious, this is the the truck in question...

Met up after work with a friend and former co-worker for some much needed R/C action, bashing a variety of vehicles on and off road, for the second friday in a row....this time with a couple now former co-workers from the dealership he just left to start teaching at the local UTI branch. Let me tell you, after this week, I needed this!

Apparently they were working with GE's Additive division and their 3D printers. https://www.hrewheels.com/wheels/concepts/hre3d-2

Thanks Bill, I am Thanks, Mom had been taking the medication in question until she went to the Mayo Clinic in 2012 or 2013 and they put her on something else, may see if Dad can remember what it is/was and ask when I go in for that follow up next week. I've very hesitant to continue taking what's left from the original prescription or getting the refill I ordered but have yet been unable to pick up. Besides what I went into the hospital for, another side effect is lack of energy, when combined with shortness of breath that was aggrevated by this med and a heartburn like sensation and tightness in the chest, kinda works against me trying to get back into exercising as I had planned after getting that ingrown toenail removed.

So far, but I really don't trust the medication that was new to me a month ago and suspect may have caused it. My release was delayed due to a systems crash, but I stopped by the office and grabbed the 34oz Bubba Keg full of now skunky tea I left there thinking I would be back in a couple hours, grabbed food for myself and the Parents and went home. Mom, being bed bound and not being able to easily leave the house, hadn't seen me since I went to bed on Sunday night (she was asleep when I left for work Monday morning, so she was happy to see me. Since I'm trying to get some exercise in again, I've been reviving my R/C stuff to use for some of it. I met up with another former employee of the HTU I worked at last Friday and did some bashing and to hang out, since we hadn't talked face to face in nearly year and this may become a Friday night thing. Got my Stampede and 4-Tec 2.0 ready to bash, found a spare Revo stub axle from when I built the stretched, hearse bodied Wheely King monster truck several years ago so I can patch my E-Revo back together for now.

Just waiting on the valet to get the 200 now

Found this on RCCrawler today.

Not sure yet, this last test i'm in the middle of might tell there.

Everything is looking good so far, just have the second part of a Nuclear Stress Test today and will hopefully be going home today.

Thanks, I'm hoping it's mostly the fat and middle aged thing getting me.