dat - Posted - 12/11/2013:  13:05:44

I like to order something different, you know it's fresh when they have to cook it

DeanT - Posted - 12/11/2013:  16:36:28

I could live on their bread sticks...

dat - Posted - 12/12/2013:  07:16:37

and plenty of the spaghetti sauce

DeanT - Posted - 12/12/2013:  10:39:18

And Jim Beam

dat - Posted - 12/12/2013:  10:58:47

now you're talkin old times,  or was it early times, whew, early times was cheap when we couldn't afford Jim Beam

DeanT - Posted - 12/12/2013:  18:41:57

I could always afford Jim Beam and Pizza... rent would just have to wait.

dat - Posted - 12/16/2013:  09:42:46

DeanT - Posted - 12/16/2013:  10:37:52

Personally, it's got to be a 175mm crank, or it just aint Christmas, and it won't be a happy New Year...

dat - Posted - 12/16/2013:  12:04:40

Jest goes to show ya, you can't make everybody happy

DeanT - Posted - 12/16/2013:  15:43:52

Frosted Christmas cookies could change that

dat - Posted - 12/17/2013:  06:33:53

I'm probably gonna slip off and buy a bottle of Christmas spirits this year,   a bottle of Makers Mark does OK, and lasts a lot longer than it used to, a half gallon jug used to didn't last a weekend, now a smaller bottle will last a year

DeanT - Posted - 12/17/2013:  10:32:13

Since I'm a teetotaler now, I'm going to have to be happy with a mug of hot chocolate.... and that lasts about 10 minutes...

dat - Posted - 12/17/2013:  11:40:34

I tried being a teetotaler, but didn't work,     I'll drink a beer or two, but three is my limit,    any more than that I want to drink a 30 pack.  a glass or two of wiz and coke, but more than that and I'll drink the whole bottle.

dmiller - Posted - 12/18/2013:  01:29:12

I was at Sam's club a while back, getting gas for my truck, and a case of Sam Adam's Boston Lager for me.  Got to talking with the clerk there (he's from North Carolina) about whiskey.  I pointed to their selection of Maker's Mark there by the cash register and mentioned how I used to "like it too much", so I don't drink it anymore.  He said: "If you like Maker's Mark, you'll LOVE Woodford Reserve"!.

He set the hook, and I bit.  In the "interest of science", I had to experiment.  The Maker's Mark is 21 bucks per bottle, and the Woodford Reserve is 32 bucks per bottle.  I haven't had whiskey in some time, but one glass of that WR made a believer out of me.  Straight/ no ice/ no coco-cola or anything/ and no chaser.  So far the absolute smoothest I've tried and was better than the Maker's Mark (which I didn't think possible until then).  That makes one more whiskey I have to quit drinking, because I like it too much.

dat - Posted - 12/18/2013:  06:15:25

I'm not sure I want to try it or not,   I finally go to where I didn't buy a half gallon of Jim Beam every time I passed the store, gave it up because I liked it to much, then makers mark, I liked it even better to much,   I might better step away

DeanT - Posted - 12/18/2013:  15:05:08

I'm glad I stopped at the Jim Beam...

dat - Posted - 12/19/2013:  12:56:31

I hate being a quitter

DeanT - Posted - 12/19/2013:  17:33:54

I didn't have much of a choice... they wouldn't let me drink in detox... 

dmiller - Posted - 12/19/2013:  22:58:40

I took my Gibson down to Arthur's shop there in Glasgow Kentucky to get him to make a new neck for it. I took I-65 south (quickest way from my folks house in Bloomington Indiana) down to his part of the country.  That was in October of 2012.  He told me it would be 6 months (at least), and sure enough it was April (2013) when it was ready and I made the trip back.

Both of those trips down and up I-65 I saw all the signs on the highway there for The Bourbon Trail there in Kentucky.  I wished I had more time to visit all the distilleries there, but I didn't.  Probably best that I didn't.

DeanT - Posted - 12/19/2013:  23:28:36

I'm Jealous... I'd love an Arthur neck on my banjo... someday maybe!

dat - Posted - 12/20/2013:  05:49:47

I'm jealous too, I would like to go back to Kentucky

DeanT - Posted - 12/20/2013:  17:06:02

I've never been there...

dat - Posted - 12/21/2013:  06:53:55

pretty country,   I would get a job up there ifin it wasn't such a long drive every morning

DeanT - Posted - 12/21/2013:  07:04:46

You could be a moonshiner

dat - Posted - 12/21/2013:  08:52:54

I'ld drink up the profits

DeanT - Posted - 12/25/2013:  06:41:28

Or make millions doing a reality TV show

dat - Posted - 12/30/2013:  08:50:06

then get kicked off my own show cause I don't care for some things, then get back on and make more money

DeanT - Posted - 12/30/2013:  12:20:53

...almost as if it was all planned out...

dat - Posted - 12/30/2013:  12:33:44

that's the great thing about a reality show, ya never know how how much was planned,  or everything is planned more like it

DeanT - Posted - 12/30/2013:  15:19:36

What ever happened to Ice Road Truckers?

dat - Posted - 12/31/2013:  07:07:44

or Hogan knows best

Mr. Quimby - Posted - 01/01/2014:  10:07:50

Happy New Year!



Just got back from visiting my folks in Indiana. I've got a day off today and then tomorrow we're starting the new year right with a bunch of OT so we can catch up with stuff that piled up while the college was closed. (700 applications, mostly.)

Edited by - Mr. Quimby on 01/01/2014 10:08:16

DeanT - Posted - 01/01/2014:  12:49:42

Great to see you back here! Happy new years you all. I celebrated today by running a half marathon in the freezing cold. It was great!

dat - Posted - 01/02/2014:  05:55:17

happy late new year

DeanT - Posted - 01/02/2014:  11:09:44

Everything still seems the same... nothing changed but the calendar. 

dat - Posted - 01/02/2014:  14:18:36

one day closer to paying the house note this month

DeanT - Posted - 01/02/2014:  23:43:20

paid mine off in 2007 man that was a great day putting the last check in the mail

dat - Posted - 01/03/2014:  07:28:01

nuthin like a good note burnin

DeanT - Posted - 01/03/2014:  07:36:47

All is well, until the property tax bill comes once a year...

dat - Posted - 01/03/2014:  09:38:56

and it's about that time too,   I believe we have 'till about Jan 20th to write that hot check

DeanT - Posted - 01/03/2014:  12:18:21

Our taxes used to be part of the monthly payment...

dat - Posted - 01/03/2014:  15:13:25

would be easier that way I believe

DeanT - Posted - 01/03/2014:  17:41:31

It was an escrow account. That way you don't get hammered at the end of the year 

RB00 - Posted - 01/03/2014:  19:24:18

Hello Dean. Welcome back. Was in your home town last week visiting mom and sis for a couple days before going north to see my wife's family. Back sometime in the next couple of months. Looking forward to BBQ!
Len

DeanT - Posted - 01/03/2014:  19:55:07

Hi Len, Just let me know when you're in town! We ate at the BBQ (Hog Wild) for supper tonight! 

dat - Posted - 01/04/2014:  08:39:29

as cold as it's getting up there, you have to eat out, the flame will freeze on your charcoal if you leave it burning outside

DeanT - Posted - 01/04/2014:  10:26:12

The wind has just started picking up... cold front moving in this afternoon...

dat - Posted - 01/04/2014:  10:32:38

s'posed to be in the teens here either tonight or tomorrow night.   I'm gonna have to wrap up with all my quilts

DeanT - Posted - 01/04/2014:  11:33:34

we get -2 over night