Merry Christmas all...

During the Holidays they say that the suicide rate goes up as those who have had losses get depressed. I for one don't have ot worry about all that. I've been taken care of this year... very well taken care of I must say. Often those who experience these Holiday lows experience such because they don't know who they are. The key is to just be yourself and if you know who you are... have a very Merry Christmas! God bless you all :) Goa run, my Ham is just about done cooking ;)

No Fat Girl Don't Sing!

Ha ha ha. Let me tell you about some biggin's, as well like to call them, that I almost have found myself smack dam in the middle of. Now everyone has had to take one for the team a time or two, if not then you're not much of a wingman if you know what I mean. It all started chatting online. A freind of mine started chatting it up with these chicks, thinking they were fine and all that, ended up that at least one of them is kinds fat. She says she's working on it and for my sake, I hope she can shed a few without being The Biggest Looser. My buddy turned me onto this whole gig and I'm at a loss where to go. They started sending us all these nasty vivid pictures and they want me to do a Spread and send it back to them. I mean, even fat girls deserve some lovin' so I'm thinking pretty hard about it. If they were fine ass pouplar girls maybe not, but for a few big ones... who know's. I consider what I'm about to do as community service. The problem is after all they've done for us, despite the grandness of the situation (haha), I want to make sure that I send some quality stuff back to them. Of course I'm gona wear a zoro mask or something like that so this stuff can never be used against me online, at school, in the court of law, on planet earth, or anywhere else for that matter. I'm trying to be creative and come up with exactely the right combination of scenery, subject matter, backdrop, etc for the photo op I'm doing. The spread has to be on target and make them happy or I'm just not gona do it at all. Anybody feel me. They asked me to send them something and they have something particular in mind.. but that's like asking someone to name a star and make it the right one... just too many to choose. Been using a razoe sharp axe that a friend just lent me, I've been trimming away and cutting down branches and sprouts out back to make a clearing for the spread. We live in a realy wooded area and I need some room to work with out there. I had some new sprouts that are coming up, but that's all stuff for the future, so I don't need them in the picture, they are way to far off from being mature subject matter for this shoot. Keeping a comtemporary theme I think I need to focus on just what these few big ones are expecting in the spread. Maybe if I break the photo shoot up into catagories, or scenes and phases, they can piece together the stuff they want and throw out the stuff they don't. Now with such a small audience, only a few big ones I tell you, the scope is going to be pretty limited to what's on hand for props and backdrops, using what is here and now. The act of doing the spread is easy, I could do this shit in my sleep, I just need to know what, clearly what will make them happy.. the rest is easy... on the spread that is. Now if they want a Playgirl style video with music and all, that could be a bit more of a problem being that I have not one ounce tallent that enables me to serenade even the most deserving big ones... I really wish i did, but it's just not in me. At a loss there. I'm thinking that I need to get some Chips and Salsa for LUNCH and get things ready to roll immediately. Probably not enough time for phone calls or fancy computer stuff... just do the spread and go from there... after I figure out what lunch is gona cost me... I can't think of anything more important right now.

Small Trip to Home Depot...

So it was a quick little trip, (my favorite kind.... shhh don't tell anyone). Anyhouse we went to look at trusses for the new barn we are working on together. The angles of cutes, stress loads, precision of reproduction as well as other things make them har dot manufacture... pretty hard to make a truss... every tried? The bigger the truss, the harder is it to make one. Just the sheer weight of the object can be a burden to suspend while working on them. It's easier to put them on the ground and work on them there. If you're lucky enough to have a good foreman around, pretty much all you gota do is listen for what he says and do it when he tells you. Sometimes it's hard to hear him over all the noise, the saws and what not, but if you hunt for the right answer you have a good chance of finding it. And by good chance I mean 50/50. There just is sooooo much to learn about building it just craziness. You have to have decades of experience in order to put it all together and be an expert like my pops is. The old grandpa, boy he's been doing it for like 50+ years... crazyiness I tell you. And I thought I was stulmbing upon something new just because it was new to me... no sonny he said. You might have all the fancy gizmo's and buzz says, but we did it all by hands and by the books back in the day. Wow, who would of thought... building a truss all by hand. One step at a time... Hurry and build all you can before you get reaplced by a machine... it's coming.

Transmission is slipping...

I've never really been the fix it type and now I am beginning to feel stupid. The transmission is slipping on my full size truck and I'm not sure what to do about it. It's starting to make thing hard for me on the farm. I seem to be able to barely get around, but when it somes to pulling heavy loads and applying the real horsepower under the hood, well things are just slipping. I'm tried adding more fluid and that doesn't seem to be helping. I've even missed some of the kids soccor games because I had to cruise real slow on the highway which made me late and all but ruined my filming of the family video's. My ytuck has broght me this far and by no means am I ready to scrap it or give it up... I'll get my hands dirty and jump right in the middle of it if I have to. I know that for people who work on transmissions for a living and have the special tranining necessary can do this kind of stuff with thier eyes closed. I've purchased the little book on the transmission from the hardware store and after I got through the basics, it's all turning into Greek right before my eyes. There is just so much out there and without any real direct help things are really slowing down... really, really slowing down. I don't feel like I am learning anything, in fact things I was learning are getting messy in my head. Right now I couldn't even show you where the dip-stick is... sometimes lately I think he's sitting behind the wheel. I'd rather not turn the job over to someone else... what I really want in some help in making this happen. I wish the local college offered a class in this type of thing becasue I know I could really tear it up then. There is no way that transmission specialists all learn by themselves. It's challenging and I've come a long way from nothing but my wheels are spinning literally and I want to make it somewhere someday and not be stuck in the same driveway... the engine running and going nowhere.