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  1. JB

    Adventures at The Hideout

    I can't seem to get in a black enough mood that my environment can't get me out of it.<br /><br />Been warring with my equipment for a few days.. .had to cough up nearly 2Gs for a new finishing mower, hot as normal but humid as S. FL, caught the devil from a new member because I moved his boat...
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    Say, Skinnywater. Outside temp sensor on my ML430.

    My '98 ML320 always gave an accurate outside temp indication. The '99 ML430 (Ol' Blue) is high, and goes crazy on hot days. . . 4 to 20 degrees high! It is particularly bad when driving slow.<br /><br />The book says that road or engine temp might drive it up some, because the sensor is mounted...
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    AUGH!! Oh poor JB, DUMB JB.

    With all the rain we have had lately, my grass is growing so fast you can almost see it.<br /><br />I mow about 6 acres with my Kubota and a 60" finish mower.<br /><br />Got out this morning to try to get some done. It was about 90* at 8:30 AM.<br /><br />Got about an acre done and the tractor...
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    More about VRO. Submitted by Seahorse

    The following article was published as a reprint from a Bass & Walleye Boats<br />magazine article in Jan. 2000, and Trailer Boats magazine in Feb. 2000.<br /><br />The Association of Marine Technicians (AMTECH) reprinted it in a newsletter <br />a couple of years ago<br />with permission from...
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    Oil topics 2

    Well I had to delete another thread because some folks can't just disagree on technical opinions, they have to attack or counterattack the poster.<br /><br />Sorry, folks. :(
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    An American Hero that you wont hear about in the evening "news".

    Got this link from my daughter, who is a Commander in the USNR.<br /><br /> http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200456162723
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    Cheerios quiz.

    How many out there remember what this cereal was named back in the 40s, before it became Cheerios?
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    GNN FLASH!

    JB got his package today! :) <br /><br />Looks like it's been run over by a M1 Abrams and is covered with notes, but nothing is broke.<br /><br />They had it for 11 days!
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    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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