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Dayton Cars & Coffee Fiat (owner wasn't around so don't know the model or year) Pao Honda Beat Nissan Figaro

Twenty two years ago, I managed an office building that had a similar wood system, built in the days before sprinklers and fire walls. Easter morning, 4am-ish (remember it well as my oldest was just two days old!), it took a direct hit from lightning and burned until the newspaper carrier saw it an called it in. 6a I got the call. From a mile away I could see the lights from the aerial truck! The only things left of the second floor of the building was a Steelcase desk and a file cabinet....the rest wasn't ash.....it was soot! (it burned that hot!)

In the six months after turning 25, I had to get glasses (the names and numbers on the back of the jerseys of the hockey team were getting smaller and blurry), had the wisdom teeth cut out (three impacted) and had my knee scoped (torn meniscus play tennis)....30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 have been a walk in the park!

Blue Jackets won their first ever playoff series and to do it sweeping the President's Trophy winning Tampa Bay Lightning. Love Torts!! That man knows how to give a motivation speech. If you find one on-line from Game One that is unedited, don't play it work without headphones.

I used to work with a guy who did everything his father did including when he was in the professional world (bought a Buick as his dad had one....carried a briefcase as his dad carried one). I want both my boys to blaze the own trail and follow what they want. I encouraged both both in sports (both played basketball and baseball) as you learn teamwork and just want them to try new things (we only had rec baseball when I was a kid). When my now 22 year old was playing basketball around 7 or 8 years old, they had enough players for three teams when he started but only one by seventh grade. My 12 year old played baseball against a team this weekend that the other team had ONLY nine players and one didn't show so they had to take the "L". My son was sign up #9 for his baseball team and they acquired a few more so not in danger of having to being short for a game. ...and it drives my wife nuts with some of the off handed comments, but I've told them both that athletes get the hot girls.

My youngest had his first baseball game of the season and he had a good day in the field and especially on the mound so I let him pick where he wanted to go for lunch. We went to the nearby J Gumbos but I explained in southern lingo, when they say 'hot' it's not just throwing a little tabasco sauce on it. We both had the Voodoo chili that you can get as a hoagie (if you don't want rice) and you eat it like biscuits-n-gravy.

I think this is a new entry for the commercials when "just okay" isn't okay...... I presume the guy that was in charge of the razor was off the day this one was wrapped?

My oldest said he wanted to go to the casino but all his friends are broke. I asked 'do you know how to fix that?' Without missing a beat he responded "get a better bunch of friends?" Well played my son....well played!

Chicken and waffle casserole.....family liked it but not as good as I expected. I have some work to do......

As long as it doesn't leave me, my hair can turn whatever color is wishes!! I got the bad knees and hips from my mom's side of the family, at least I got my maternal grandfather's hair! He passed at 90 with a snow white but full crop! My father was combing his with a towel when he was in his very early twenty's.

I'm still trying to get all my orifices to unpucker! The pic is taken from the InterWeb but this is identical

My youngest is playing baseball this spring (sat out last year). At one of the first practices, the father of one of his friends mentioned he bought a Demon. I said current or an older one (he has an early 70's plum Challenger and a 69 Z-28). He said a new one and asked if I would want to go for a ride one day. This is what we call a rhetorical. He brought it down to practice tonight. He made a couple short bursts but we took it one town over to side road in an industrial area which is about a quarter mile long. Wow is an understatement. As brutal as the launch is, the Brembo's bring it down nicely!

Leave it as is for now. Too many other half finished projects ahead of it.

Ahhhhh....that's much better. I tried to find a built stock car version to pilfer the hood to no avail. All the hoods I found on line had a hole in the middle. No resin options unless I wanted to buy the whole kit.

It can be a blessing and it can be a curse. My late father has a brother that has multiple diplomas in different fields of medical study. When dad was in the nursing home due to his dementia, he was telling me that dad needed to eat more of and what he needs to avoid. He's in a nursing home due to this disease and if he is feeding himself and eating at all, I'm good! However, I'm married to an ER nurse. I get free medical advice when I'm sick (wanted or not) but I get the look when I make dinners that would make a cardiologist shutter.

I believe it's the TransAm Javelin......unpainted and complete

Shrimp and andouille sausage etouffee.....(I was seriously born on the wrong side of the Mason Dixon line!)

I bought a four foot tall Homer Simpson dressed as Dancing Homer. It was stained as if it was in a flooded basement so I opened it up, discarded all the styrofoam inside and ran it through the washer.....came out fine. Now to restuff it. Went to the store and got a bag of bean bag styrofoam pellets and proceeded to restuff it. It's close but needs to be stuffed full and then restitched. I looked at a couple YouTube videos and it's now just needing a little bit more and then stitched closed. I lack that talent so I reached out to the local dry cleaner and they said their seamstress could probably do it so I brought it in. I dropped it off with a back of the pellets and several hours later they called to say it would be $55 to top it off as they would have to send it out. Are they sending it to Florida via a First Class airline ticket? Um, NO! I went back up the next morning and the lady said they were swamped with wedding and prom dresses. I wasn't trying to get my daughter into USC (too soon?) so I wasn't throwing money at the problem to jump the line.....just need it restuffed.

My Dad passed away two years ago this Memorial Day weekend. For whatever reason, he would put his pennies in a coffee can downstairs. I took one of them to a Coinstar machine today.....in case you're wondering, this is the capacity of a 39oz coffee can. I know there is another I have to cash in as well.

Left over shredded pork loin from the crock pot.....add maplewood bacon.....lay down Jack Daniels BBQ sauce.....top it off with sharp cheddar and gouda cheese. My oldest (turns 22 tomorrow) and I could only polish off half of it.

Don't see this one coming back any time soon......Factory sealed....$10

Just type in that you were searching the Internet for a solution to your explosive diarrhea and you must have typed the wrong thing in the search bar. That should give them nightmares for a while.

A couple nights ago, I pulled in the driveway and there is a patrol car coming down the street the opposite way I came and it pulled over across the street. A minute or so later the cop knock on our door asking if we have a little brown dog. Apparently our dogs (plural) were running back and forth along the back fence with the neighbors dogs (plural) when their unattended son (around two years old) came down the yard and got into the middle of fiasco and (per the officer) the kid thought it was okay to reach through the fence to pet one of mine and got bit. Didn't break the skin but the officer needed the vet records to show he was up to date on his shots. No problem...e-mailed the vet that evening and they e-mailed them to me first thing the next morning. The officer said several times we did nothing wrong. The wife is cheesed they called the cops instead of just coming over to ask as we live in small town America and we all know each other. My question is where were the parents?? Our dogs (both houses) have done this for years so it was known they get amp'ed up and we both let the dogs run back and forth. We each only do it for short periods of time as the noise is unreal.

Seeing all the hoopla about the actress paying off the college to get her daughter into USC, what was the show/movie where the parents were discussing this scenario and the school said it would require the donation of an international airport to get their kid enrolled in that school?

Beef and Broccoli.....sans the broccoli. I'm saying I substituted pork for the beef but that's what happens when you grab it off the shelf at the store without the glasses on. It did seem to have lower sodium as a result. Served over rice (from the Chinese grocery store)