Doohickie
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I tried really hard to like the 100 mile to the gallon cars. I really did. In the end I needed my horse power back. So I guess its 19 mpg's forever lol.
I never got addicted to horsepower. I still manage to have some fun driving.
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It is pretty big for an "econobox."
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I test drove a Ford Fiesta first. It was great- smooth, well mannered, and.... well, boring. The Fiat on the other hand....
So my son, who just bought a Fiesta in October, came home from work tonight and observed: "It's obvious your car is European; it makes my Fiesta look HUGE."
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I have a Sport. I've heard several complaints about the seats in these cars, but so far I think they're fine. Maybe I have the right build for them or something.
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500s are cool. Love em in white.
Eh. White wasn't my first choice, but virtually everything else about the car was what I wanted. It's fine, but I was kind of thinking of one of the bolder colors- blue or yellow or something. White's fine though.
I test drove a Ford Fiesta first. It was great- smooth, well mannered, and.... well, boring. The Fiat on the other hand....
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So the first part isn't awesome: The 1998 Mercury Tracer that my son drove through high school and college died- the head gasket blew, and I don't want to put the money in it to repair it. The solution is awesome though: Let him drive my Elantra, which means I now get to drive this:
Just got back from the dealer. Gotta love that new car smell.
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Tingles.
A man with cojones.
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I still expect (& today gives some justification) that TP has far more Illitch in him than Dan Snyder.
Well, maybe it's because TPegs expressed a desire to emulate the Red Wings when he bought the team.
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Looks like you have "multi-quote" down pretty well.
:P
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Haha, the hiring of Tim Murray has enhanced the perception of budgetary strain in Ottawa, and the Ottawa fans have started to pour on the self-loathing. Excellent.
Like I said, they're just like us.
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Gus, Zadorov, and Risto will be THE SABRES CORE. No real point in trading them in the foreseeable future
Gus is our next captain.
Calm down.
Too late. Grab some paper towels, eh?
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one scenario is better than the other....
Pat Lafontaine, Craig Patrick & Tim Murray or Darcy Regier ??
happy dance !!
I keep picturing the AT&T commercial that has the one guy talking to a table full of kids: "Which is better? The trio of Pat Lafontaine, Craig Patrick & Tim Murray or Darcy Regier ??"
And all the kids yell back, "TRIO!!!"
It's not complicated.
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Winston and Cookie (our beagle) definitely noticed that Sugar is missing. I wish I could explain to them, but they're probably better off without those details. Live for the day.
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I wonder if Murray does anything before the Olympics. Might take a bit for him to assess the situation.
I'm sure he's given it some thought during the interview process; he's probably already been queried by PLF what his first moves would be. Obviously he hasn't reached out to other teams yet, but he probably has a plan of what his first phone calls will be.
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If I remember right, he wore that shirt to a Wings Alumni game at U of Mich., and it has signatures of some of the old-timers on the back including Alex Delvecchio.
It's such a sad look to me. You see them grow up and they're strapping and full of life, and then you see that look at the end. It's almost like resignation and "get me out of here."
I dread that with my youngest dog, a German Shepherd mix. Sure, all our dogs were/are family, but Winston is more family than the rest, probably the best dog we've ever had (he even sleeps in bed with us most nights when it's cold). And right now he's in his prime (almost 4 years old). Not looking forward to his decline; he's such an awesome dog. The recently deceased Sugar was my son's dog and he was her boy. I'm sad at her passing, but I never felt as bonded to her as I am to Winston.
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Is that pic from last night?
Actually from Monday. She was slipping fast at that point, although we didn't realize how fast at the time.
That sux man.
(And I don't mean the Red Wings shirt.)
When that pic was taken, we had just moved from Detroit to Fort Worth, and the Wings had just won their first Cup in 42 years. Also of note: That little boy is 6'-5" now.
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These things come in threes right?
I hope not. We have two other dogs!
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Well, here's a picture of her and my (now 26-year-old) son from 1997.
She was close to 17 years old.
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So... what is everyone watching tonight? Another game or what?
I watched my dog slowly slip from this life.
...and took her to the vet this morning to finish the job.
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It's the Sabres and Carolina. It's 0-0 in the seventh.
Get me caught up- did he complete the no-hitter?
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I wonder if they could simply postpone it a day? Yeah, it wouldn't avoid that three-day-in-a-row thing, but it would get it done and over with, and there's no way to avoid that anyway. I think it was Carolina that has the three games, maybe the third could be delayed a day to give them a day off.
I have no idea what your job it, so let me ask: is your job extremely grueling on the body, are there random large men constantly running at you trying to destroy you, are there heavy frozen rubber objects flying at you, do you constantly have to pump your legs at your job?
Unless you're either a hockey player or an Alaskan porn star, the answer to all those questions are no.
I guess you didn't see my tongue. It was in my cheek.
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There are legitimately no dates where the game can be played without forcing at least one team to play three straight nights unless they throw it at the end of the season after the season is over.
So? I work 5 days in a row all the time.
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Wow, this is an awesome GDT.
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Our younger son "failed out" of nursery school. At the time he was about the same age as your son. If you ever saw the scene in Mr. Holland's Opus where they find out their son is deaf because he was throwing tantrums cuz he couldn't communicate? My son was like that a lot. He was diagnosed with "autistic spectrum disorder"- not full-blown autistic, but in that direction.
My wife strongly advocated for him to get the help he needed, but the other side is she also made sure they put him in the highest functioning environment possible. She wanted to make sure he didn't get "warehoused" in a classroom where he wouldn't be given what he needed to improve to his potential.
So from almost three, he went to a full-time early intervention setup with speech therapy, occupational therapy, all that. From that he transitioned to where he was in the same school with our older son, but was full-time special ed. Then, to part-time special ed. By the time he got to middle school, he was able to function without special help. By high school he took some AP classes and he actually graduated college this past month.
We really had to fight at times to get him the right treatments, therapies, placements, etc. The school districts want to just put the kids where they don't cause trouble; you have to convince/motivate/work with/push them to get what's best for your kid because they're not nearly as interested in outcomes as you are.
One thing that my son got when he was about 5 or 6 was a program called Fast Forward. As I recall, it was a computer program that helped him learn how to catch up with the aspects of speech he didn't learn the first time around. It monitored his progress each day, and the following day's lesson was tailored to the results from the previous day. If you can get the school district to pay for it (or if you have the means), look into Fast Forward. It made a big difference for our son.
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The hitch receiver I ordered for my bike rack came in today. I'm disappointed in the shoddy packing job they did; lots of finish damage.