Joe Handley

Thanks guys, this hospital is one Mom has spent lot, and I mean LOTS of time at. Ran across staff that recognize Mom's name and one ER nurse even recognized me from one of Mom's many visits.

I had been feeling off for the past few days and the symptoms seemed to line up with side effects of a new medication I've been on for the last month. Called the Dr's office on lunch and advised a nurse of the issue, and she recommended going to the ER soon, went back to work, talked with my boss and went to the local ER. Since these issues were heart related, I was admitted to the ER and everything has checked out all right other than one thing. Now I'm spending the night, if not the next two un the hospital.......

Well, took my Traxxad Telluride and E-Revo out and went "bashing" with a former coworker from HTU that became a really good friend over the last 18 years. It's been around 2.5 years since the Telluride was out and at least 5 since the E-Revo had a workout. Things were going great until I lined the Revo up against his Traxxas Summit and we tried to drag race. Grenaded the u-joint yoke at the right rear corner/wheel of the E-Revo when I launched before getting 6" out of the hole. I may have a spare on hand here for now and can patch it at this time, but I decided to all but completely rebuild the suspension with the available RPM R/C Products goodies and some stock and upgrade Traxxas goodies while I'm at it. I just ordered the first batch of parts last night and this ain't going to be cheap either, this is just enough to get the sub-assemblies going.

Don't mind me, just waiting on the lock here..... That said, just happy I'm no longer on the retailer end of this hobby, as well as the R/C hobby for what ever mess this might cause.

Picked up an "old" Revell (Hobbico Era) '57 Snap-Tite kit at Michaels for $9.00 on clearance and found an AMT '59 Imperial just down the street form there at Hobby Lobby, used the 40% coupon and picked it up for $20!

Funny you mention that CRV CabDriver, there's a kid here in West Chicago (for reference, we're a "small" suburb about an hour west of Chicago) that has a white first gen CRV that has been dropped with different, but still Honda/Acura wheels on it. I kinda dig that he's done it and drives it, but he's young enough that it could be his first car too. One thing I've been noticing alot of is more and more Maseratis and Alfa Romeos around here, moreso in the more affluent suburbs St. Charles, Geneva, and Batavia. Also saw an unusually large number of non-WRX or STI Subarus, Outbacks in particular today.....it was kinda weird. Keep forgetting to mention it, but I've noticed one of the K-Body Dodge or Chrysler Convertibles that is way to clean for this area......not to mention it's even older than that Reliant on the last page too

And now I'm seeing an ad for one right on this page

My friend sent me more pics of his three, the stray, Linus who must be part goat and still want to share my friend's meals. Then there's the sisters he had since they were kittens, Mocha and Grace (fur coloring should make who's who obvious), apparently Grace figured out how to get into that cat food tub open and made herself sick a couple weeks ago, so he put those blocks of cement on top of them to keep her out. As you can see, she's not too happy about that......

4.0l XJ Cherokee, here's a pic of mine from at least 15 years ago, but any year, really.

I'm willing to bet it being pink fit this commercial, but also may have had a Gen X or older car guy involved in the planning what cars were going to be used.

Funny you mention the epson salts, just grabbed an 8lb bag at WalMart a few minutes ago for that very reason! I had the same done on my other big toe over 20 years ago. The Lady Dr I had used a couple relatives of Novacain on mine, couldn't feel a thing in no time. What I thought was interesting was my drive there took about as long as the visit, including walking to and from where I parked the 200. Drive isn't huge and the place was easy to find, but traffic sucks from the start of morning rush to the end of the evening rush. The one nursing home Mom has spent lots of time in is about a mile southeast of that office, so I know most of the backways there and none are all that quick with what is typically "the quickest" being blocked by the cleanup of a semi that got laid on it's side right at that intersection!

Had an ingrown toenail removed yesterday, once I get the infection taken care of the doctor will be killing off the nail bed to fully stop it from happening again. It's so nice to be able to walk and not be in pain like I was and it should only be getting better!

Those are apparently customs, although there were a couple prototypes built back and the day, this one is the known survivor. Kinda looks like a Baby Nomad/Safari to me!

I never knew these little guys ever existed

I could probably feel it here in Chicago too, by the looks of it.

I saw that, I think a Turbine is getting repainted too.

I've read recently that there have been a number of digital scans of the building in recent years for both digital preservation and video games creation and are going to be used during the repair process.

Yup, Disney kicked in $5m too, from what I had read.

Same thing with R/C Cars, Planes, and Quadcopters (drones). I know that there are kids out there that work on their own. After seeing a dealer mechaic's work on an R/C Truck one time, I think I'd be more likely to trust that kid fixing my 200 or XJ than the mechanic

Hot Tar Pitch could do that, IIRC, that's how those churches in Chicago were lost. One crew realized what happened and just left the place to burn, no calls to 911 or anything!

I wouldn't be surprised if it was construction related, there had been a number of historic Chicago churches that burned up over the last 20 years while roof repairs were being done and apparently Notre Dame had a leaded roof. Very well could have happened when the lead work was being done, in some ways, I can't imagine that kind of lead work being that much different than lead filler on a car body.

Did you hear about that cop's kid in Louisianna that burned a bunch of churches? He used similar language in his reasoning for doing so.

We've been monitoring this at work between calls, the lead CSR in my office is hoping some of the statues were already off the roof and someplace save since there was work going on up there.

I hear yah there, that's mainly whybI was thinking about selling my Jeep, too many issues that aren't going away or other to replace the ones that are. Then there is the time and weather to fix them, since we don't have a useable garage, we can't work on it in incliment weather or after dark and Mom's medical issues and caring for her that has takes up time that the weather and darkness doesn't. Sometimes it feels like I could take all 2 weeks of my vacation time when the weather will be really good so we can wrench on it and have somebody keep an eye on Mom and it still won't be enough time to fix all we need to. At least with it being an older, somewhat desireable Jeep, it carries more resale value and even though it is rusty, is regaining value, and I can sell it for more than I could most of vehicles from '98 in the same, if not slightly better shape.

So new that they can't be bought yet either