07:48 – Ooh Rah! We’ve finished packing up the stuff we need to take along to the closing next Monday, and gotten it loaded into our vehicles. Other than last-minute stuff, that’s it for this phase. Now we return to packing up stuff for the next trips up: clothing, LTS food, Christmas stuff, and so on. Barbara’s goal is to be completely moved up to Sparta in time to have Christmas there. I think that may be optimistic, but we’ll see. The movers are coming tomorrow to give us an estimate, and we have no idea when they’ll be able to move the furniture. But that really doesn’t matter much. We can certainly be living in Sparta by Christmas, but we may still be using the air mattress, folding tables and chairs, and so on.
I’m counting on Barbara to keep us organized. Time was when I could keep everything in my head, including detailed to-do lists. I can’t do that any more, so Barbara’s organizing skills are critical. That also means she can’t yell at me if I forget something.
Incidentally, my apologies for not being very responsive to comments. We just have so much going on at the moment that I don’t really have the time to keep up with them. I hope that’ll change once we’ve closed on the house and pretty much moved up there.
Back to packing.
Good luck with the move preparations. Don’t worry about the comments here. We’ll amuse ourselves…
Here’s a start:
For the liberty and firearms enthusiasts among you, might I suggest taking a few moments to tell the European Commission what you think about its proposal to ban private ownership of scary semi-automatic long arms, using the Commission’s official feedback website:
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/?fuseaction=feedback&docId=3085376&language=en
I know it’s tempting to say F* that, it affects only the EU. But believe me, the firearms industry and the firearms community are global, and there will be knock-on effects, not the least of which will be that a success for our gun-grabbers will encourage your gun grabbers… Moreover, targeting lawful gun owners will do strictly nothing to combat terrorism in the EU or worldwide.
Please take the time to respond, and ask as many of your friends, family, forums, gun club members, social media contacts etc. as possible to respond as well. Note that the feedback can be anonymous, but it will perhaps carry more weight if it is attached to a name. There is no rule against using a “Nom de Guerre”. The comment can be as short and to the point as you like: “EU – target the terrorists, not my hobby!” is a good start, but use your imagination…
Proxy war is heating up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3331558/Turkey-shoots-fighter-jet-Syrian-border-Local-media-footage-flaming-plane-crashing-trees.html
I wonder how good Turkey is at shooting down ballistic missiles?
We’ll amuse ourselves…
Look, squirrel!
Cats are varmints aren’t they? Big one on my back wall.
We’ll amuse ourselves…
Look, squirrel!
Look, flashlight!
Look! That flashlight lit that squirrel on fire!
http://xkcd.com/1603/
Look! Our cat thinks it can catch a squirrel running up a tree but forgot to bring the FLASHLIGHT
Lordy!
Is it a tactical flashlight? Does the cat have a spare in his pouch? Does the cat understand OPSEC?
The big male cat here don’t need no stinkin’ go-bag or tacticool FLASHLIGHT. He understands OPSEC full well ’cause I saw him run off a trespassing female tiger cat yesterday afternoon from our firewood stack. He don’t like interlopers that may threaten his nice cozy gravy train life here. He also thinks he’s a dog and goes for walks with us when we take the mutt out for those.
Hooray! Wife’s checks arrived by noon, as the FedEx peeps had claimed. We guess because the Priority designation was applied to the Overnight one yesterday in Mordor. One smaller check and one large one; smaller check will be credited by tomorrow, the bank sez, and the larger one they’re gonna sit on some more, you know, skim the float a bit, along with millions of others no doubt.
Now we can pay our stacked-up bills, shovel out $ to Princess again, and get some more chit done around here for winta.
No more flashlights, please. I’m getting scores of G700 flashlight spams. Whoever is doing this apparently bought a container load of these things from China for probably less than $2 each, and is now pushing them for outrageous prices, as in 20 times or more what the things cost them.
I would like to buy a container of AKs and SKS rifles from Chiner and sell them for, oh, I dunno, semi-outrageous prices, say, three times what I pay for them, more if I clean them up and customize them. Much more, in some cases. It would be a total blast, pun intended.
Some of them I’d booby-trap and sell to gang-bangers, while saving a few for SJW types who finally realize the errors of their ways and foolishness on guns and want some in a real big hurry.
sell them for, oh, I dunno, semi-outrageous prices, say, three times what I pay for them
You sir, are government contractor prime candidate.
I used to fake extreme umbrage at being called “sir,” but now I don’t; I’ve met a couple of actually decent former officers and know of more, including a couple on this board, PLUS, it is a sign of respect for my advanced age and presumed senior wisdom, lol.
The insult, of course, is being called a prime gummint contractor candidate, but hey, if ya can’t beat ’em, join ’em, amirite? Let’s get in on the giant piggie pile before it all blows up! Sign up for VA and SSD and milk the system until it’s gone and good riddance! (actually I’m kinda dragging my feet on the VA disability thang, as I don’t want it to mess up any licenses I wanna get in the very near future…). And I’d like to hold on until 66 for the SS, but the other vets in the group advise grabbing it now. Of course, they’re mostly 66-plus already; I’m the baby of the group except for our more recent Desert One, Gulf War, and Sandbox guys. (boy are they fucked up; gee, wait, kinda like us 45 years ago…eh?)
Mrs. OFD is on her “let’s clean and scour every square inch of the house before our one-night T-Day guests arrive” kick so I gotta make an appearance here for the heavy lifting…
So, lets say that you needed a new passenger side mirror for your 2005 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer, would you buy it from Ford Parts for $257.13 ?
http://www.fordparts.com/Commerce/PartDetail.aspx?n=muB1B0jhAo4nGdIQRt18HQ%3d%3d&id=333676633&m=2&search=true&year=2005&make=Ford&model=Expedition
Or from Amazon for $183.95 ?
http://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Heated-Textured-Folding-Passenger/dp/B00NSD02P4/
All of these cars are going to do me in. Along with my piss-poor backing up.
Jeezum Crow, side mirrors for a ten-year-old vehicle cost THAT much??? Yikes! Could you find one in a local junk yard? Gotta be one around cheaper than that…Craigslist?
One of the prep-type things I wanna get at some point in the next year or two, assuming we haven’t been hit by Lucifer’s Comet or World War IV, or another Black Plague, or whatever; an older 4x V8 pickup truck. Prices for ’em seem to be in the $3,000 to $15,000 range, depending on condition, of course. This would be our general-purpose rural vehicle here for all kinds of regular chit, and then if the regular chit turns into fan-blown chit, we’ll have it prep-ready with stuff in the meantime. A Ma Deuce mounted in the back would be cool but I’ll settle for my old Pig. And a million rounds of ammo.
I admit that I’ve never much cared for the M60. They basically took a superb MG in the MG42 and butchered it. I can’t think of a single change they made that was much better than horrible.
Jeezum Crow, side mirrors for a ten-year-old vehicle cost THAT much??? Yikes! Could you find one in a local junk yard? Gotta be one around cheaper than that…Craigslist?
It is heated and has an embedded turn signal. And motorized adjuster for the glass. I broke it all! The case, the mirror, the turn signal. Sigh, incompetent. And right after I was raving at the wife for the old and junky Hondas we own.
Mr.Miles_Teg’s dream come true. What comely rasslers.
Inside the all-FEMALE fight club: The secret Berlin group where women go topless to take part in no-holds-barred bouts that leave them bruised and bleeding.
@lynn
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=2005%20expedition%20side%20mirror%20eddyie%20bauer&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684
Ebay is your friend for expy parts.
Also there are 2 junk yards in N houston that specialize in suvs. I got a bunch of trim and seats for my expy.
and there is a junkyard service that will find your part nationwide and ship it to you,
and there is a cheaper online ford parts wholesaler I’ve used too.
I’ll look later tonight.
Gotta get the kids from school
nick
“Now we can pay our stacked-up bills, shovel out $ to Princess again…”
Why? How old is she?
MrAtoz wrote:
“Mr.Miles_Teg’s dream come true. What comely rasslers.”
I’d pay good money to see Sandra Bullock whip Cankles, Chelsea and Mooch.
“They basically took a superb MG in the MG42 and butchered it.”
Oh, agreed; it’s what you’re used to; they trained me up real good on that mutha and I learned how to do all kinds of neat tricks with it and with different mounts. I fired Expert repeatedly and could hit man-size targets out to 1,200 meters regularly. I’ll have to query our younger machine gunner vet from the various Balkans capers and see what he used.
“It is heated and has an embedded turn signal. And motorized adjuster for the glass.”
Oh, well then. Does it also make yer coffee for ya and show the latest flicks angled for your POV?
“What comely rasslers.”
Saw that already; indeed, a HUGE nocturnal dreamland for our most prolific Oz correspondent. TOPLESS, Miles, TOPLESS!
“Why? How old is she?”
23, and on the Six-Year-College-With-World-Travel-Plan, evidently. She’s worked the occasional part-time, minimum-wage job over the years but that’s it. We or her grandma have financed everything else. It’s a Canadian university (McGill) and we couldn’t do it otherwise, not for one of the lousy skools down here, that’s for sure. She allegedly works her butt off for the classes and has a 3.6 GPA with double major in music and languages and is fluent in at least seven or eight so far. Also plays stringed and keyboard instruments, including public performances. Lately specializing in British Isles folk stuff and the associated dances, particularly with the Celtic harps. Wants to learn violin? Gets one secondhand and is playing on it the same day. Wants to learn Turkish by next weekend? Not a problem. ‘
Other behavior not so great over the teenage years and some of it continuing. Well, none of is perfect, I reckon, least of all Yours Truly, a major train wreck for decades.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=2005%20expedition%20side%20mirror%20eddyie%20bauer&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684
Hey, they have my leather seat covers! The before picture is my driver seat exactly with that bigass rip right where your cheeks go over the left edge of the seat.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-Expedition-Eddie-Bauer-Driver-Side-Bottom-Leather-Seat-Cover-2-Tone-Tan-/121821174525?hash=item1c5d1b9afd:g:MBsAAOSw8-tWUSNv&vxp=mtr
But I did not see my fancy fancy fancy heated Eddie Bauer side mirror there. I’m surprised that there is not an auxiliary power plant in that thing. Plus, I already have a used side mirror with six cracks in the glass to boot. And the turn signal hanging down a foot or so. And the casing broken in half. I did it good this time.
Inside the all-FEMALE fight club: The secret Berlin group where women go topless to take part in no-holds-barred bouts that leave them bruised and bleeding.
Looks like my great grandmother, Poppamomma, from Stuttgart that lived about 40 miles down the road in Wharton. She was about 5 foot tall and 5 foot wide, weighing over 300 lbs according to Mom. She thought any child who did not get a daily beating was a needy child. And she did not like needy children. Poppamomma used to get up at 3 am or so and make bread for the ranch hands. The leftover bread and gravy was how she fed her ranch dogs. She taught Mom how to cook the old way: butter, butter, and more butter.
@lynn,
This one isn’t it? that’s all the stuff you mentioned…
04-06 FORD EXPEDITION EDDIE BAUER DRIVER SIDE DOOR POWER MIRROR HEATED OEM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/04-06-FORD-EXPEDITION-EDDIE-BAUER-DRIVER-SIDE-DOOR-POWER-MIRROR-HEATED-OEM-/221901482033?hash=item33aa5be831:g:ipkAAOSw37tWDKA1&vxp=mtr
I need the right side mirror. The driver side mirror is still in excellent condition with 162K miles. The passenger side mirror did not survive the third strike on the garage frame.
Bah, I can’t find the parts guy I used for the stuff I ordered new. it was about half the cost as other dealers. I’ll keep looking.
nick
Sorry just re-read the passenger side….
searched on the part number and ~$185 is about the price you’ll pay. Unless you can find it in the junk yard…
Bah, I can’t find the parts guy I used for the stuff I ordered new. it was about half the cost as other dealers. I’ll keep looking.
Please tell me it was not The Midnight Auto Supply …
I’ll get you the five finger discount…
nick da hood
I’ll get you the five finger discount…
My mechanic says they can’t leave cars outside overnight. They pack them into the shop. It’s el barrio ’round there. Most common theft is catalytic converters.
Be careful of buying seat covers off eBay. A family member worked for a guy here in Houston that sold them along with sequential turn signal led light bars for trucks and SUVs. The stuff was made in China, fit could be problematic. They apparently changed eBay ID every few months.
Ford Parts for $257.13
My Avalon mirror was $600.00. I did not have to pay because a truck from Oak Ridge National Lab snapped it while backing one of their trucks. Made them pay for a rental while my car was being fixed. They balked but I said not having a mirror was a safety issue and if I had an accident in the vehicle while waiting for the mirror they would be held partially liable.
I used to fake extreme umbrage at being called “sir,”
I figured you outranked me while you were government issue.
it is a sign of respect for my advanced age and presumed senior wisdom
Age I am not so sure, wisdom I certainly will bow to your expertise, sir.
The insult, of course, is being called a prime gummint contractor candidate
Yeh, I probably overstepped the line on that one. Punish me by having me sniff cankles pits after a hard day of campaigning.
“I figured you outranked me while you were government issue.”
Very doubtful; I was an AF and Army short-timer both, never rising above exalted E4.
“…wisdom I certainly will bow to your expertise, sir.”
Again, extremely doubtful as to any alleged wisdom I pretend to possess. It’s all just smoke and mirrors, with more of the former in earlier times.
“…Punish me by having me sniff cankles pits after a hard day of campaigning.”
Way too harsh. I wouldn’t sentence hardened criminal offenders to that. SJWs and Progs on the other hand…followed by wiping Rush’s butt after a dozen chili dogs washed down with rancid Murkan lager.
24 here today with a dusting of the white stuff.
I bought a full set of leather for my Expy on Ebay. They were oem takeoffs. I guess it’s pretty common for someone to get custom seatcovers and remove the oem ones. The fit was good, and the quality is just fine. They made a HUGE difference in the look of the truck. Since they were for the current model, and mine is an O8, there were some very minor differences in how they attached to the seats. Nothing I couldn’t work around though. (The Expedition stayed unchanged for long periods with only cosmetic differences. So in theory, 08-14 were the same.)
like anything, care and due diligence is required.
nick
never rising above exalted E4
I stand corrected. I made it to the high plateau of E5 before I decided I had enough of the boys in blue.
They were telling us E4’s near the end of our terms that we’d be instantly promoted to E5 if we simply re-upped for four more. My little chat about that took place while they were still picking shrapnel out of me in Thailand and I laughed in his face. (second dose of shrapnel for me; first was two years earlier in ‘Nam).