Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-29-2014 | 09:24 AM
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01-29-2014 | 09:33 AM
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From: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
01-29-2014 | 09:45 AM
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Ha! Timbo, with my driveway, that's about right.
I called the conference line and finally got through. Oh, so you're not here yet? "Nah, I live about an hour away." Stand down, FO 80!
I called the conference line and finally got through. Oh, so you're not here yet? "Nah, I live about an hour away." Stand down, FO 80!
01-29-2014 | 09:58 AM
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Had a BMW when I moved to MSP in 98. Having lived in that part of the country before, I put it in the garage and relegated it to a "summer only" car (about 3 weeks a year). MN puts so much salt on the road in the winter it seems like other states could come to collect it off the roadsides like a salt flat.
I went to a Subaru place, and picked out the cheapest POS lease return on the lot with manual transmission and A/L brakes (still an option then). Turned out to be a little green 97 Impreza Outback Sport wagon with 20k miles on it.
Drove cheap, felt cheap, looked cheap....BUT, after 16 years that car never stranded me and held on to the road like it was on rails in practically any condition. Snow, slush, ice, whatever. When the snow plows would bury your car in the parking lot, that little car would just climb right over them.
When I finally moved that car sat in the parking lot in MSP for a year and a half before I had a chance to get it. Started on the first crank.
My only true complain about the Subaru is that factory parts are priced like they're made of gold, and if you live somewhere where they're not common, trying to get anyone to work on them is $$$$. Mine has has some occasional electrical gremlins and fried switches which required factory replacements.
But Rockauto is your friend along with a set of metric tools. The AC finally seized up and the local place wanted $1500. Had the local shop drain the freon and purge the lines, got a $250 compressor from Rockauto and some busted knuckles and $90 for a charge later, back in business and colder than ever.
Still have it. 100k miles on it, and it still cleans up. I use it for my "throw crap in the back" vehicle.
Nu
I went to a Subaru place, and picked out the cheapest POS lease return on the lot with manual transmission and A/L brakes (still an option then). Turned out to be a little green 97 Impreza Outback Sport wagon with 20k miles on it.
Drove cheap, felt cheap, looked cheap....BUT, after 16 years that car never stranded me and held on to the road like it was on rails in practically any condition. Snow, slush, ice, whatever. When the snow plows would bury your car in the parking lot, that little car would just climb right over them.
When I finally moved that car sat in the parking lot in MSP for a year and a half before I had a chance to get it. Started on the first crank.
My only true complain about the Subaru is that factory parts are priced like they're made of gold, and if you live somewhere where they're not common, trying to get anyone to work on them is $$$$. Mine has has some occasional electrical gremlins and fried switches which required factory replacements.
But Rockauto is your friend along with a set of metric tools. The AC finally seized up and the local place wanted $1500. Had the local shop drain the freon and purge the lines, got a $250 compressor from Rockauto and some busted knuckles and $90 for a charge later, back in business and colder than ever.
Still have it. 100k miles on it, and it still cleans up. I use it for my "throw crap in the back" vehicle.
Nu
01-29-2014 | 10:04 AM
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Not sure if climate change is real or significant or, if it is real, would be good or bad. But I think it is impossible to discuss it without considering the politics, because the sides of the issue were co-opted early on by capitalists and socialists with other agendas. Until I see gondolas on Wall Street or Polar Bears fishing the Gulf of Mexico, I'll have a hard time signing on to the proposition.
01-29-2014 | 10:14 AM
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From: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
You at least put your hat on when you called...?So now you can collect Suit Up pay!
Try not to spend it all in once place.
Here's a song for all you guys that live in ATL but are stuck out and can't get home:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbGm2Yt7LO4
01-29-2014 | 10:19 AM
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Left the house in CHA at 8:10 for a 1159 sign in. Zoomed south on I75 until the Allatoona bridge and sat there until about 1130. Ran up the shoulder to the next exit and turned around and now back in CHA at 1415. I hope ATL is fixed tomorrow. Gave it the old college try.
01-29-2014 | 11:03 AM
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Snow on the Mountain
Over an inch of snow on our mountain so I couldn't get out to the liquor store. We may have to survive on food and water for a few days!
01-29-2014 | 11:08 AM
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From: Urban chicken rancher.
Ok. I quit. I apologize, 80. (I'll delete my post.) 
BMW X5. The roads were bad, but I've seen a lot worse. I'm not exactly sure of the conditions of the expressways though. After watching the news all afternoon, I realized no matter what you drive, it's kind of hard to drive on I-85, or I-75 when they are blocked by 3 semi's apiece.
What really hurt was when they let the kids go to school, then sent out a mass text message, at lunchtime, telling parents that they would be dismissed in an hour, sending every working parent rushing out of their office, or lunch, at the same time -- adding to the gridlock.
BMW X5. The roads were bad, but I've seen a lot worse. I'm not exactly sure of the conditions of the expressways though. After watching the news all afternoon, I realized no matter what you drive, it's kind of hard to drive on I-85, or I-75 when they are blocked by 3 semi's apiece.
What really hurt was when they let the kids go to school, then sent out a mass text message, at lunchtime, telling parents that they would be dismissed in an hour, sending every working parent rushing out of their office, or lunch, at the same time -- adding to the gridlock.
01-29-2014 | 11:38 AM
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