jporter12

Brrrr.... COLD! I'm getting older, and don't handle the crashes as well as the last time I went to the "slopes of Ohio" (hills...) I really need to start out at least walking, work up to a jog. I'd be lucky to run or jog 1/4 mile without being winded.....

Yeah, right. Not going to happen. He NEVER shuts up from what I've seen!

Oh yeah, nice find. Looks like a clean Blazer. Maintain it well, and it will last!

That will be taken care WHEN the fuel pump goes out. Ya know, I haven't seen the fall run on fuel pumps this year, I woner what's up? Have they not switched the fuel over to the winter blend? Fall and spring are usually busy fuel pump times for us....

So, I'm in the overweight category, by .1. Nice. I guess my cholesterol level agrees with that! The doc said I need to get off my lazy ass and exercise an hour a day, 5 days a week. That's been over a month ago, and I haven't hit an hour yet! Seriously, does anybody have any ideas on how to get me motivated, and what sort of stuff to do to get me started? I think we ALL need to be more concerned with our OWN health, but not FORCED to do so.

Oh my! I about 'd myself off the chair!

If it's only one bolt, it will probably seal, and last for a while. I think the last 6.0 I did, and didn't get the bolt out (one of the few that it hard to get to for drilling) and it was quiet for quite some time. It may still be ok, we haven't seen the truck in a while, but should be soon, with plowing season coming up....

The babies actually become money makers for the insurance companies. They get to insure them for another premium coming in! Infants make MANY trips to the Dr. even if they're NOT sick, and I'm sure the premiums reflect this.

I don't really like having to go through the CCW permitting process to exercise our rights. On the flip side, should any nutjob be allowed to openly carry a weapon? That is why many SMART LEO's MAY simply question somone openly carrying, unless they're being a retard about it, and flaunting the weapon. If everyone was to OC, it would be commonplace, and this discussion would not be happening. I guess what it all boils down to is the FEAR that anti-gun groups have instilled in the general public. I'm sure you've heard and probably said this one before (many times): Guns don't kill people, PEOPLE kill people. The gun is just the tool they used to do it. Maybe carpenters and framers shouldn't carry their hammers on their belt anymore, as a hammer could easily kill someone, with a person on the handle end of it...

That's what she said..... And later found out....

Say you worked for a small business owned by a good friend, such as I do. They find out that it's more to insure a smoker, so they ask you to make up the difference in insurance costs between smoker and non smoker, or get coverage elsewhere. What would you do in that situation? We don't have that happening, and it hasn't been that way in the past with smokers, and not even sure if it would come into play, just throwing it out there as a "whatif".

Detrimental to your health insurance costs. Directly affecting the company. Again, it was only for new hires, they knew the policy going into the job. If you agree to it, abide by, if not, go elswhere seeking employment.

Who would enforce such things? Hmmm..... It comes around full circle.....

Nope, it's not a freedom taken away. You still have the freedom to find employment elsewhere. It's not like they were the only company in the area that was hiring, and while they were at one time, they weren't the highest paying, either. I personally know several people that worked there that continued to smoke on their own time. They wouldn't do so around people from work that they didn't KNOW wouldn't rat them out. How is something that you do on your own time any of the company's business? If it affects them, it becomse their business. You go out drinking the night before work, it affects them because you are probably hungover and not able to perform your duties. I was spared the wrath of the firing hammer for doing so, once. Never did it again, or at least built up my tolerance to where it didn't affect my work performance.

I've seen quite a few trucks do that on their own (corrosion, had 6.0l in them.) Fortunately, most of them you can get to with a drill to get them out. If there's any bolt left sticking above the head surface, we've had a lot of luck with welding a nut onto it and backing it out (with the manifold off, of course.) Even worse about this are the Ford trucks. MANY 5.4's and v-10's that we've seen have that problem.

Kind of related, the company I used to work for (before they moved everything to Mexico, thanks Bush1, and CLinton for NAFTA) had a policy that they only hired non-smokers. They didn't test for it, but had the right to fire someone if they later found out that they smoke. People that were employed before this policy were grandfathered, of course. It wasn't a problem for me, since I didn't smoke, and I'm going to guess that it helped with insurance costs not being passed on to me. They later removed this policy, after a couple insurance company changes, and it's amazing how many people just started smoking!

And don't forget you have to be here legally in order to vote. Also' date=' registering to vote is to know WHERE to vote, and what you'll be voting for or against. QFT

No walmart AT Polaris, but just northwest of there, on 23, Lewis Center (close enough?)

That's pretty much my thoughts on ANY gun control crap. It's not the law-abiding citizens that will LAWFULLY own guns, and register them that need to be worried about, it's the criminals that have guns that nobody WILL know about that we need to worry about. It would be the same story (maybe even worse) if a gun ban was to occur.

I'll videotape the whole thing, if you'd like!

I'm not about to argue that one......

Spot on there jbot.

And we're going there for the weekend... Ugh... Welome!