Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
They've missed first breakfast...
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping. If it's just corrosion, the fix will cost all of about two bucks (the cost of buying a chocolate bar for the guy who has a kit for cleaning 'em...he's a chocolate fiend!)...but it COULD be something serious, I guess. I've never had single problem with this car in the two years I've owned it, though, so I guess I can't complain too much.
Highland pipes. Just the thing to get if you want to bother the neighbors.
And the neighbors, and the neighbors, and THEIR neighbors. They can carry a mile or more! My brother comes over and practices in my basement sometimes since it's cement and therefore the sound doesn't carry quite as much, but you can still hear them quite a distance away.
When I took my son to the Bush Inauguration, my transmission went out just as I pulled into the parking space at the Metro Station. We went on to the swearing-in and dealt with it later. But it was a pain.
Hehehe...that'll teach 'em to let their kids play trumpet in the school band.
Ugh! We did that, too! Two of my brothers learned to play trumpet...trust me, a trumpet beginner does NOT make pretty sounds. (My Mom said it sounded like a cow in heat...)
Let's see...we've had to listen to people learning bagpipes, violin, and trumpet. Have we covered ALL the most-obnoxious-in-the-hands-of-a-beginner instruments?
I dunno. I played saxophone in school band...
Ah...there's one we missed! Those can make some pretty awful squeaks and screeches, no? I wanted to learn, but didn't. Took flute instead, and never really liked it.
My Mom said it sounded like a cow in heat...)
My son is learning trombone, which I have likened to a Water Buffalo in heat ;^)
But God bless him, I love to hear it nevertheless. He is really enjoying it, and that's all that matters...
I apologize for pinging some of you to an article that really wasn't that great after all (good but not great - he is an elitist and overly wordy), but I thought since it had LOTR references it would be of at least minor interest.
Rosie: After you clean the corrosion off the battery leads, and verify that the battery is still good, smearing Vaseline over the connections helps reduce the corrosion buildup immensely. But you probably know all about "winterizing" your car. We have to, don't we? ;^). I missed the sale at Green Linnet, but please let us know when the next on comes on....
Also, I have ordered a Dell laptop (Inspiron 2650 with 1.7 GHZ, 256MB RAM, CDRW/DVD, etc.) But I am balking at the cost of RoadRunner cable, yet still tempted.... Are you happy for me?
"We're happy for ya..." is the refrain of one of our humorous sportstalk radio hosts around here after playing sound bites of bragging athletes....
Ha! Or a moose! Yeah, one of my brothers took trombone for awhile, too. Sounds rough at first, but then you start to hear more and more music mixed in with the...other sounds. My fiddle playing still has far too many other sounds, but I'm working on it!
Rosie: After you clean the corrosion off the battery leads, and verify that the battery is still good, smearing Vaseline over the connections helps reduce the corrosion buildup immensely.
Yeah, that's what the guy who's going to help me with it said. I'm the first to admit I'm clueless when it comes to cars, so I didn't know. I'm just glad my car has, been so dependable except for this one issue. I love my car! It's boring, but does what it's supposed to do very well.
I'm happy for ya...I have a Dell laptop, too - similar to the one you're getting. I like it a lot. I'm also tempted by cable (they just started offering it in town), but it's $50 a month...as nice as high speed would be, I don't know that I could justify it, even with the phone savings. I WOULD get cable TV (I don't get ANY channels now), which might be nice, but also could be addicting and I don't have enough time as it is!
You might be better off than you realize. I am increasingly of the opinion that TV and 90% of the stuff it churns out is "of the devil". But that is probably just because I have kids now and see it through their impressionable eyes. We don't watch much TV in our house any more and don't miss it at all. But we did enjoy "The Rookie" last night, a very good movie....
Excellent movie.
LOL!! I used to have to do that for our Festival Choir. For the first few years, we hardly had any men, and the tenors showed up the last couple of practices. The higher tenor notes I can do fine, and I can hit most of the lower notes, but I don't have any volume on them. I've never had to to the actual tenor parts during Mass, thank goodness. But it means I had to learn 2 parts, which is a pain. I don't read music, even after having been in choirs for lo these last 35 yrs! I guess I really ought to learn, huh?
Fortunately the last two times we've sung (last Christmas and Easter) we've had LOTS of men show up, so I've been happy to go back to the alto corner!
I DO have a TV, VCR and DVD player, so I can watch videos, just not TV.
I listened to some beginning saxophonists at our kids' old school. AACK! They sounded like a huge flock of really angry geese!!
I'm a baritone, but for years we were in smaller churches where there were no tenors (or none of the macho guys would sing tenor). So I sang it because I could. Now we're in a huge church, but I'm still singing first tenor. (not always well mind you).
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