15 Things to do at Wal-Mart while your spouse/partner is taking their sweet time:

1- Get 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they aren't looking.

2- Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3- Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
4- Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in housewares..... and see what happens.
5- Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay  away.
6- Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7- Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll invite them  in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.
8- When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask 'Why can't  you people just leave me alone?'
9- Look right into the security camera; use it as a mirror, and pick your nose.
10- While  handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he  knows where the anti- depressants are.
11- Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission  impossible" theme.
12- In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using different size funnels.
13- Hide in a clothing rack and  when people browse through,  say "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"
14- When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream "NO! NO!  It's those  voices again!!!!"
15- Go into a fitting room and  shut the door and wait a while; and, then, yell, very loudly,  "There is no toilet paper in here!"

 

Zombie in Ptown

Why is this the kind of stuff that gets spread around about the people in Portland?

My father-in-law believes that the attendees at our waterfront festivals "come out of the ground" and are never actually seen around town. He also attributes this ability to the workers at Fry's electronics. At least the zombie's in P-town like turtles.

Missing the music of Life

Man, I fear I may be missing it. But in reality I don't think I am totally. But the irony is that I am not missing it because I have the healthy fear of missing it- "It" being the music of life.

Beebe & Mulligan

the HotRod West rebuild of the famous dragster.

After the Cafe- Transitioning by the number of wheels

Before I take on a 4 wheeled Packard rebuild, my next step is a Morgan 3 wheeler. Anything after '37 with 2 bench seats would be perfect for us all. Is that blue car is out of place?

The Precision of German Engineers

Working with a German in Koenigsee I have come to understand the high demand for quality that his culture exists upon. They do whatever it is to the very best of their ability and then some. A friend of the family who lives here in the states used to run a BMW service garage (or something to that effect). Now he is just doing well at doing some things. One of them is the development and sales of this cleaning line called Zeder which is German for Cedar. Every product is extracted from only natural cedar oils or something. Anyway, it works great on my hands after polishing the bike. i dipped my fingers in everything from Tripoli to Engine-Brite tonight.

It's a bummer that there is no site in English that I could find. Just that Amazon link above.
Now it looks like I am an employee.

I don't know if it "kills fleas on contact" since I pretty much had Cora groomed by a shop. What I do know is that it is all natural, smells real nice and cleaned the grime right off of my hands after changing the shocks on my 9 year old truck last week. Great stuff. We should market it for the green garage types- you know... subaru shops or something.

AMEN - American Motorcycle ENginerring

No website that I can find.  Hey brother, I'd broker the deal and get you a forty thousand dollar website in exchange for a bike.  It would be cutting edge like your bikes.  Care to build a 21st century cafe?  I have drawings that will win you awards all over the board.  We'll call it the St. Vinnie

Amen Motorcycles
Rogersville, Tennessee
Mike Brown, owner and designer
Bikes start at around $37,500
423-272-6061
www.amenmotorcycles.com
Brown is continuing the tradition of the first AMEN Chopper company, "American Motorcycle Engineering"

Newt Gingrich - a Night at the Improv

blogging videos is kind of a cop-out...
Oh well

Lasse Gjertsen

I am out cleaning the garage tonight. Luckily my buddy Paul showed
me this video today. It's perfect for a pick me up.

A Big Dog Farewell

I don't remember ever being so sad. What a great friend- loyalty like I have never known. The perfect river dog. She never got in the water, she just found some shade and watched me fish. Except once when my dad and Todd and I were pulling Bull Trout out of the Metolius... I was hooked in and Todd and I were trying to wrestle the Bull out from the bank foliage when all of a sudden Cora decides she is going to help out or something. So there I am with a 20" Bull trout on the end of my line and my other arm wrapped around a 120 lb wet dog that is being sucked downstream. I don't remember if we banked that fish, but I banked the dog and that is what was important at the time. Photo credit to Richard Sprague... Nice one!



Once she put herself between us and a rattle snake. She wasn't going after it haphazardly, just standing ground between Lisa and the rattler.

Even last night as I laid next to her in the garage talking to her and petting her, she kept trying to lift her head once in a while when my voice would crack. She seemed like she wanted to be ready to keep away the impending danger she sensed in my voice. I kept asking her to just lay her head down adn take it easy for once. She wouldn't have anything to do with that. It was a rough night, for me anyways. This morning was bad but not as bad as it could have been. Tough times for the Sprague's but good lessons are being experienced by us. I hope Avery is doing better. Or at least better than me.