Haha Mike that looks great! Too bad about the 3.78 liters though lol.

 

Would all of you mind voting for my step daughters rat of a dog Hamhock in some contest she's entered? She thinks she's going to wind money on this, so I'm out campaigning.

Picture Perfect Pet Contest

Thanks

 

voted.....

 

Yep, I voted too!

 

Afternoon everyone!

Great news!

Oh, I am!

Doing great! How are you?
I wish more women like you would live in the east! All of them here think they sound like school buses and are dirty!

Voted, Chris!

 

Nothing much so far today. Work is REALLY boring. I work for an Electrical Manufacturers Rep firm. With residential building down so bad we do a lot of sitting around.

Consider it done!!

 

the last was pretty bad,I had to wear a hard collar for 8 months,and when I came out of surgery my right arm didn't work anymore and they couldn't do theropy on it till the neck stuff healed so in that 5 months my shoulder froze.
After 10 months theropy on my arm and shoulder I now have about 40% use of it and have straps and screw holding my head on

I would have picked the same parents but I could have done better in the line of siblings

 

voted.............

 

Voted

If yo don't mind me asking, who is the manufacture? Being an electrician I may have used their products.

I could have done better in that department too. It's a messed up story.

 

I need a new friggin internet connection. I just did a speed test and it came back at a whopping 12 kbps. This is back where I was when I was on dial up. The town I live near got a state grant several years ago and put up a tower, that if you could see it from your roof, you could get high speed internet. Well so-called high speed anyway. It's rated at 768 and they charge $30/mo. We've been thinking about upgrading to the 1.5 service for $50/month. It works pretty well when it works, on days like today it absolutely sucks.

Problem is, the phone lines to my house (for several miles) are too old to carry any dial up connection faster than about 22kbpa, with typical connection speeds of 12-15. A true 56k modem would seem fast right now. No cable, no DSL, no fiber optic, no other choices.

I figured I'd complain here since there's a good chance this post won't make it all the way through. Either that or the dropped connection will end up in me posting this 5 times in a row. Of course 5 times in a row for me right now will leave plenty of time for others to post in the thread so at least my duplicates won't be back to back.

Oh, and the weather is awful today, so my other options of things to do are kind of limited.

 

Who said complaining didn't help? The submit button worked pretty fast from the last post, so I just checked again. 203kbps

Thanks for voting guys.

 

Yea, I was in the same boat as you were, Chris. Almost a year ago I finally bit the bullet and got the verizon air card for my computers. Phone line out here is 21 years old...too far out for even cable tv...everyone has satellites for television. Seems like we are on our own island sometimes!

 

Chris, I have satellite internet, and its quite different too. I wont say it sucks, cause sometimes its not bad, sometimes its smoking fast, and sometimes its slow as hell. At least web pages seem to load decent for me. Its when i actually up/download files when it starts to bite haha.

Oh and dont get me started on the latency!

 

Jim, We rep Cooper Wiring Devices, Allied Moulded, LH Dottie, Edison Fuse, Eiko lamps, LEW Electric fittings, Mulberry Metals, NSi/Tork

 

I've got AT&T on the cell and can plug my phone into the laptop to get online like an aircard. Problem is, we don't live close enough to the big city to get the good speeds on the cell connection. It usually will connect at around 150 at my house, but it's had some issues too. I just wish there was some competition out here.

The local phone company has plans to upgrade things and offer dsl to us, but they've had those plans for about 5 years and still don't have any idea when they will actually get started implementing them. Too bad since they offer 3 times the connection speed for half the price.

21 year old phone lines sound new. These phone lines are the same ones they used when everyone still had here a party line.