LOL! Thanks Andrew. Coming from a younger person who is in touch with whats is and is not cool, I appreciate that.

The funniest part of the spider prank - my older sister Kim SAW me with the spider and gave me the fishing line I used to tie it to...and she totally bit when I pulled that prank. I was mostly going after my 16-year-old sister Holly, she is kind of an easy target. Kim's reaction was a bonus. She told me afterwards that she was trying to decide whether or not she should save me from the spider or run away.

My brother-in-law was out on the porch too when all of this was going on. He just sat there like a big log, didn't move a muscle. Initially I thought he caught onto my joke, but it turns out he thought it was real too..and he was just going to allow all us girls to get eaten alive by a giant spider I guess. lol.

 

Damn, how did I miss the front/rear end conversation....

We carved pumpkins tonight and the beater on the drill worked awesome!!!!! Use a sawzall to take the tops off then the beater to clean them out. The family thought I was crazy but loved how quick it made it.

Travis- We will need to see pics of you from Halloween. Arianna looks so cute in your pictures from today.

Scott- Great pictures!!

Brandon- Would you quit posting pics of food, they make me hungry everytime I see them.

Lisa- You are too damn much! I think I would have laughed my *** off if I had seen you pull that prank on your sisters!!

 

I'm a little puzzled how they work. Do they flatten out with more rpm? Right now it looks like all they would do is pivot the entire plane around and around.

 

Sounds like a fun evening Lisa. Any alcohol involved? Yep I grew up in the '80's. I unfortunately dont know any more of that song then that...I dont know how unfortunate that really makes me, though. HA HA.
Drill and a sawzall!? Cris I just dont know what to say to that other than I'd hafta give you props on that. Give'm he!!.

 

for the record: "Baby Got Back" didn't come out until 1992

 

Thanks for clearing that up Travis. Still got the CD?

 

The CD is in the attic somewhere, but yes...it's loaded on the ipod, along with about 1200 other CD's

Lisa referred to it as being from the 80's lol

 

I had thought it was from the '80's too. I'd have to say I dont have it.

 

I've got a few hazy memories to that song from the old bachelor pad party days.......it doesn't make it into my musical rotation much anymore lol

 

Yellow all

 

Heya people, hope everyone is having a good weekend!

 

Sorry Travis I was 10-years-old in 1992, my memory of those days can be a little hazed you know. All I remember was hearing it for the first time when I was a kid. And its not that big of a deal I was only a few years off.

LOL nope no alcohol involved. Don't drink very much actually.

 

damn that makes me feel old...I was 29 in 92

Hey Travis...why didnt you post some zoo pics in the Az chapter?

my phoenix zoo pics are here...Photo Sharing by MyPhotoAlbum.com :: Mark was here!

I only saw half the zoo in the 3 hours I was there, but I got a membership so I plan to go back again.

 

oops...just found your link in the az chapter Travis!

 

I know flat tires aren't really that big of a deal, but I've never had one quite like what happened last week. On Thursday, as I'm getting ready to leave the house, I see the driver's rear tire looking low. Check pressure - 20 psi. Yup, low. Hear air seeping out from the bottom of the tire, figure it's a nail or small screw and I'll quickly plug it & be on my way.

So, I jacked the rear tires off the ground, rotated it around, and was shocked when I saw this:




I'm looking at that, thinking it's the head of a bolt that had been broken off stuck in the tread and has just pierced the carcass of the tire. No big deal, right? So I go to pulling it out of the tire, and it just keeps coming out, until finally, I've got this:




The tire immediately deflated when that thing came out, so I had to take the tire off and somehow fit it into the back seat of the Escort to haul it to the tire shop. That had to be a sight to see. They fixed it no problem though.

Now, I have no idea where that came from. What I really don't get though is just how in the heck something that long and that big around (0.40") is able to even pierce a tire in the first place. It's not even sharp! I think it's an old lag bolt of some sort that just has the threaded part broken off since the shank is completely smooth, but also beat up pretty well.