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From: Buckingham, IA
Joe, glad to hear that you are on your way home! Sounds like you can't let your guard down quite yet but it is safer than where you were. Guess the stores need to stock up on liquid beverages before you hit home!
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From: Dallas-Ft. Worth
Yea, technically speaking you are, but I figure you're sitting in a nice air conditioned building now, not out in the "field". Now we just have to hope that someone else doesn't think your ride should be used for something else more important so you can begin the ride home.
The temps back home are nice. Low 90's but we'll have to re-introduce you to that little thing we call humidity.
The temps back home are nice. Low 90's but we'll have to re-introduce you to that little thing we call humidity.
I don't mind humidity. We had a couple "humid" days in Iraq. Got up to around 50%, and it felt really good! Humid air doesn't heat up as fast as dry air, so I'll take those 85-90* days, humidity or not!!
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From: Brinklow Md
Snowboard season cometh..
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From: Gulf Coast of Florida
Very true, so long as you get the snow.... back in MD in High School I did some snow shovelling, but the big $$$ for me was in pushing people out of snowbanks they slid in to. Talk about a leg workout. But it was pay me $50 or call the towtruck, wait 2hrs, and pay $150+.... man did I sleep good at the end of the day!!
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From: Brinklow Md
Very true, so long as you get the snow.... back in MD in High School I did some snow shovelling, but the big $$$ for me was in pushing people out of snowbanks they slid in to. Talk about a leg workout. But it was pay me $50 or call the towtruck, wait 2hrs, and pay $150+.... man did I sleep good at the end of the day!!
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From: Columbia, MO
What have you all found to be a good internet browser for use with Vista? IE is starting to get really slow and completely locking up at times. It's fine on the laptop with XP, but the desktop has Vista and that's what's giving me the headache. So what works well with Vista...Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Mozilla, etc...?
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From: Dallas-Ft. Worth
Jeremy, I swear by Firefox, but I have no idea how it runs on Vista. I'm staying with XP as long as I can. Relating to the "getting old" list, I guess I just don't give a crap about having all that "bling" on my PC. My laptop is a plain black Thinkpad, my desktop is a homebuilt 2GHz Athlon in a plain white case, and XP is just fine on both of 'em...
Lead Driver
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From: Columbia, MO
Thanks Chris. Haven't heard much about Chrome, but I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.
I would have liked to stay with XP, but my desktop completely wiped itself out and I had to get a new one. Vista was my only option, and at the time I couldn't afford to spend the money to get a Mac like I wanted.
I would have liked to stay with XP, but my desktop completely wiped itself out and I had to get a new one. Vista was my only option, and at the time I couldn't afford to spend the money to get a Mac like I wanted.
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From: Columbia, MO
Ok, just installed Chrome. I'll see how it goes. First off, it seems to be a little quicker than IE. Also seems a little more basic, which is fine with me, as IE has too many options and add-ons, IMO.
Edit, just realize that Chrome has a built in spell checker, when you enter text. Neat little feature. It underlines the word, and a simple right-click pulls up suggested options.
Edit, just realize that Chrome has a built in spell checker, when you enter text. Neat little feature. It underlines the word, and a simple right-click pulls up suggested options.
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From: horicon Wi
I started riding with my dad when I was 15 shoveling the side walks on the job sites he was plowing, he told me he could give me a little piece of crap shovel or I could buy a nicer one so I did. The next year when I could drive I bought a plow for my dads ATV and paid him a percentage of what I made for letting me use the ATV. I made $55 an hr plowing side walks of shopping centers and govt. complexes, I was even at the vice presidents house twice clearing sidewalks. The last year I did it I ran a crew of about 5-8 people and even got a job offer from Brickman to come work for them just riding around checking on jobs and running a larger crew. So Jacob if you dont wrestle one year you can make some big bucks doing snow removal.