BlueSky

Many years ago, I was getting a routine physical and when it came time to check my prostate I said. "I guess now is when you earn your money." He responded. "No, Now is when you get your money's worth!" Had to laugh!

That's great news! Glad things are better.

Yep, it's next to impossible to eliminate a government bureaucracy once it gets started.

They also look for other things in the urine such as blood. Tells them something about your kidney function. If you are taking a statin, they sometimes affect kidneys and liver. In fact if you do research on the drugs that lots of people take, there seems to be a risk of kidney and/or liver damage from many of them. I've read that organ failure is at a record high.

Just re-read your post. 50 miles you rode on that tire to get back home! That's Evil Knievel daring! Not just the danger of the tire blowing but cars running over you because you are going slow! I push my luck way too often, but I don't think I would have done it.

Glad you made it back home safely!

Today Sam's Club had reduced the GoPro Black hero 4 to $349

My sister's home located 45 miles north of Greenville NC was flooded again, the 4th time in the last 16 years. The first time was in 2000 and they said it was a 500 year flood. I think the Army Corp of Engineers must have done something farther inland to cause the flooding to worsen. I grew up there and the area where her home is located never flooded.

That's when you go to the door with your semi-auto 12 gauge with extended magazine loaded with buckshot.

The auto dealers in my area used to ask their fantasy price for their autos and the first thing they wanted to know is if you had a trade. If so, they wouldn't talk about reducing their price, just trade difference. For example, if their fantasy price was $20k for an auto and they really wanted $17k for it they would offer you $3k more than their wholesale price that they were willing to pay for your car. Buyer went away happy that he got a good price for his tradein and the dealer got the tradein at wholesale. They don't do that any more maybe because of NADA that gives an average tradein value. The tradein value was inflated under that method. Now, they offer you their wholesale or usually less than wholesale for your tradein against whatever they really want for their auto. Most of the time, I don't like the process. When I bought a used Miata for my son from the local Ford dealer's used lot, the sales manager deserved an academy award for his acting and his lies that I had to deal with before I got him to his minimum price. I felt like I needed a bath after I left he was so sleazy. On the plus side it was a fantastic and reliable used car for my son.

Yeah, I agree. That's typical for a dealer. Sell it yourself. But, it may take a while. Just be patient. The sales tax savings works in NC too, except it is 3% on vehicles.

If you google crisis map weather and events, you can see the roads that are closed.

3:10 PM Saturday in Wilmington NC on the coast. The eye of the storm is over my home at this time but the wind and rain from the storm passed mostly to our west dumping a lot of rain. I'm sure there will be lots of flooding in some places. The wind never got above about 40mph at my location. Got a lot of pine tree debris in the yard but got off lucky. I keep threatening to cut down all 9 of my pine trees so they can't fall on the house.

It is fuel injected so there won't be any carbs to clean because it sat forever and a day. That's a huge plus in my book.

I've had a similar situation. My relatives have mostly lived in a small town all of their lives and since I live 160 miles away, they think that I am too far away to be interested in coming to the funeral or wedding of a relative. I usually find out about their demise after the funeral. I suppose it has saved me a fortune in flowers over the years but it has bugged me a little. I think that is modern day life though. We move away and live our own independent lives and rarely see relatives. It's good and bad I suppose. Perhaps Facebook is the answer to keeping in touch with relatives. Maybe I'll break down and get an acount. Maybe? My excuse in the past is that I didn't want my old girl friends looking me up since I was divorced for 15 yrs between marriages. There was a reason I stopped dating them. But enough time has passed that it shouldn't be a problem.

I'm afraid of EZ outs. I've broken off more than one in the drilled out bolt hole and then was stuck. I think I would drill it with a larger and larger bit until I had drilled out most of it and then use penetrating oil and then the EZ out. By then the threads should be loose.

I just measured my 89 and I measured 21" of windshield. Wind buffeting also has a lot to do with how far your head is from the windshield. If you look at a Goldwing, I think the windshield is sloped back at a grearter angle than the Venture with the riders head closer to the shield. I previously owned a 1983 Yamaha Virago 750 and I put a National Cycle Plexifairing 3 windshield on it. The wind buffeting around my helmet was awful. I currently own a 1985 Kawasaki ZN700 that has a shorter frame and I'm sitting more forward. I installed a National Cycle Plexifairing 3 on it and my head is close enough to the windshield that I don't get buffeting around my helmet.

I thought about this thread today when my wife and I drove out on Ft. Fisher beach and splashed around in the still warm ocean and surf fished. It was around 80 degrees ambient. There is a hurricane acoming though.

Wow! I'm impressed that a liberal state like NY is doing such a thing.

I like the "optimized performance curve".

I was in Sam's Club today and they have more of the Go Pro Hero 4 Black cameras in stock but now they are $379. The Monster brand I was asking about is $119.

Maybe a 2% back on everything card from citi bank. Get 1% back when you purchase and 1% back when you pay it off. I used to be a cash only type person but what the hay, we are paying extra to the merchants for the cc fee so why not get some of it back.

I think 2014 is the only year too since that is all I've seen advertised and there are lots of new ones available. The cheapest one on craigslist new is $9,995 in my area. It went over about the same as the Pacific Coast model way back when if you remember that one. The PC would probably sell well today but we weren't ready for that style back then.

My boat is used infrequently so I disconnect the battery when I park it in the back yard. I hook up a charger just before using it to make sure it's charged. I also disconnect my riding lawn mower battery. Previous mowers would discharge the battery quickly just sitting so I don't want to take the chance. I will hook up a charger on the motorcycles if they sit for a while but usually not.

I saw a Jay Leno's garage show recently. It may have been linked on this forum. I forget. Anyhow, they were saying that AGM batteries needed a special charger, not the normal one everyone sells. Had to do with the charging voltage or something. That's about all I remember about it.