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  1. JB

    Is this normal? Do I expect too much?

    On June 2 I bought an item on eBay. Through my error, Paypal sent the seller my mail address rather than my shipping address.<br /><br />On June 3, the seller printed a shipping label with an unshippable address on it, and the shipper picked it up with an unshippable address on the label. They...
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    New GPS products from Garmin.

    A few weeks ago we had a conversation about adding GPS capabilities to a PDA. Before that we had one about adding GPS capabilities to a laptop.<br /><br />I was miserably obsolete at that time, but I have done a bit of research.<br /><br />Garmin now offers a GPS adapter to add on to PDAs and a...
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    June 3, 1944

    I was 8 years old.<br /><br />My home, Southern Pines, NC was close to Ft. Bragg and to Camp Mackall. Most of our neighbors were military families. . .82nd and 101st Airborne. The men had been gone for about a year.<br /><br />It was common to chide someone who was being slow at something by...
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    China.

    The news media has been ignoring a development that will affect the future of the world a lot more than the high adrenalin stories they love so well.<br /><br />China has become the 800 pound gorilla in the world economy.<br /><br />China has become a capitalistic socialist/communist culture.<br...
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    Phoebes and nesting sites.

    Three years running, now, a pair of phoebes have built a nest ON TOP of the wren house hanging on my front porch. Each year I have destroyed the nest when putting the house up for the winter (to keep wasps from using it as a hibernating spot).<br /><br />Also, there is a phoebe nest on my...
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    No WMD?? They not only have them, they are now using them!!

    An artillery shell loaded with sarin was used by "insurgents" in a IED in Iraq.
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    B-series Kubota cooling.

    Have a B2150HST, 4X4 and Power steering.<br /><br />I operate several implements on the 3point hitch.<br /><br />Book says use 48" mowers, tillers, cultivators, etc. Dealer says use much easier to get 60" implements but reduce ground speed.<br /><br />The Diesel would pull the world if you could...
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    Attention, Codkiller!

    I have deleted your thread bashing a vendor.<br /><br />While objective descriptions of problem transactions are welcome here, we don't carry attacks on vendors. Too often dissatisfaction is the result of misunderstanding or an isolated incident. Once the problem is resolved nothing can undo the...
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    Postcard 2 from The Hideout

    This hen wild turkey walked into my yard while I was having a cuppajoe and enjoying the glorious morning today.<br /><br />
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    A few thoughts about the latest scandal.

    It is eerie, but not very surprizing, how the actions in the Iraq prison look so much like the sort of "preparation for interrogation" that "POW Survival Training" included 50 years ago.<br /><br />The idea was (is?) to break the spirit and pride of the detainee/POW by the most humiliating...
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    Hand soap for us grease monkeys.

    Well, with the advent of Spring I am once again elbows deep in machinery of one kind or another.<br /><br />I think it was about 1946 that my Dad, who also had a love affair with anything mechanical, introduced me to Boraxo. He used both the cream and the powdered versions.<br /><br />I used the...
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    Happy Birthday to Ryan T.

    Fifteen today (4/6/04).<br /><br />Congratulations, Amigo! :D
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    Post Card from The Hideout

    <br /><br />I am so glad to live here, in the USA, in this time, that it sometimes makes me weep with joy.
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    Ooops!

    An honest man is being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy <br /> boulevard. Suddenly, the light turns yellow, just in front of him. He does the honest thing, and stops at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.<br /> The...
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    WOW!! Sasha Cohen is in peak form!

    I follow women's figure skating. Have since I fell in love with Carol Heiss nearly 60 years ago.<br /><br />In the women's short program this afternoon Sasha Cohen (USA) gave one of the finest performances I have ever seen, maybe the very best. Great panache!<br /><br />The free skate is on ESPN...
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    Thanks to all.

    I need a seperate thread to thank BV, Admin5, all of my fellow members and my fellow Moderators for the wonderful expressions of support and congratulations upon my posting 10,000 posts.<br /><br />I have learned a lot more that I have "taught" here, and am a better man for it.<br /><br />Here's...
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    Hey, 12Footer is back!!

    He posted in the Force forum this morning! :D <br /><br />Really glad to see you again, 12Footer. We've missed you a lot around here!
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    Win a free lure! Name JB's new toy.

    I name all of my toys. <br /><br />Shotgun is "Elizabeth II"<br />Tractor (Kubota) is "Big Orange".<br />Boston Whaler Montauk 17 is "Sunshine III"<br />Boston Whaler Tender 11' is "WeeBit"<br /><br />I recently traded my ML320 (Shining Armor) for a newer ML430. She needs a name.<br /><br />She...
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    Dad-gummit!! NBC News bias.

    At the end of a report on the siege of Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, the reporter said, "The world is waiting to see if this is a breakthrough in the war on terror. . . or just another false alarm." (italics mine). The italicized words dripped with disdain.<br /><br />This is, of course...
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    Hey, Skinnywater! ML430 throttle tip in.

    I traded my beloved ML320 ('98, 130,000 miles, needed some expensive replacement parts) for the only vehicle I ever drove that I wanted more than the ML320. . .a '99 ML430 (56K, 100K warranty, Bose/CD, ESP, Sunroof, 5K tow package, one owner who I interviewed). $24K, less $12K for my ML320.<br...
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