Stop in for a cup of coffee

[ScampMike]

you have had a month to remember haven't ya!? damn...

Totally off the previous discussions, but last night I got a text from my friend who is renting my house in Memphis saying "We have a tornado warning, looks bad, fingers crossed."

Then I got nothing but radio silence after that. I texted him and tried calling a couple of times before falling asleep at 2 am.

I slept fitfully until he finally texted me back at 3:30 am saying the tornado missed them but they lost power for a few hours and his phone was out of charge so that's why he didn't reply. They were all safe but the roof was missing a few shingles and a couple of small leaks had started in the attic but he had buckets under them.

I don't have any pics yet, but it looks like it's time for a new roof based on his description later today. It's year 16 on a 15 year warranty builder roof, so we'll see if insurance will cover it or if it's out-of-pocket for me. Ugh!

I'm mostly just glad he and his family are safe.

 

[toolmanmike]

Dang, I have been watching the local budget meeting, Hopefully they are ok.

 

[ScampMike]

anywho - it's about the weebitching hour.. and I am PFT.. will catch youz on the morrow.. Cyas!

 

[Ddaddy]

you have had a month to remember haven't ya!? damn...

A month I'm hoping I will forget eventually...

 

[toolmanmike]

10 min recess. My wife got up to the microphone and kicked some azz!

 

[Ddaddy]

What is it about the green ones?

 

[straightlinespeed]

Budget cuts for the city TMM?

 

[toolmanmike]

My father-in-law is doing just ok. He started radiation today. I had a phone conversatipon today with her. She thinks he will last a year or longer. The Dr's and Nurses predict a few months or so. It was a tough conversation to say the least.

 

[toolmanmike]

Budget cuts for the city TMM?

Yes sir. She is the CFO. A $185,000,000 budget. (Damn, that is a lot of zeros) LOL

 

[Ddaddy]

My father-in-law is doing just ok. He started radiation today. I had a phone conversatipon today with her. She thinks he will last a year or longer. The Dr's and Nurses predict a few months or so. It was a tough conversation to say the least.

Jeez, that's rough. No way around it but to hope for as much time as possible and hope it is gentle in it's conclusion.

When my Mom's cancer moved into her brain, it was only a matter of months before it was over, but she went gently and without pain in the end with family around her 27/7 for the final days. It was an incredibly peaceful passing and I have always been grateful for that because it spared her and my father the alternative.

 

[Ddaddy]

10 min recess. My wife got up to the microphone and kicked some azz!

Score! :cheers:

 

[straightlinespeed]

Good for her man! Sounds like we could use her at our college. They just cut the overall budget by 1.7M and could go up to 2.7M. Im not sure how they expect the facilities dept. to keep the place running when they take around 200k from our budget.. Its ridiculous!

 

[dartnabout]

Wife is pissed I won't go get an X-ray. Ripped about a 3/4 inch of skin of just above the bridge of my nose.

What did you do that for?

 

[toolmanmike]

Good for her man! Sounds like we could use her at our college. They just cut the overall budget by 1.7M and could go up to 2.7M. Im not sure how they expect the facilities dept. to keep the place running when they take around 200k from our budget.. Its ridiculous!

I've figured out that you can't have it all.

 

[toolmanmike]

Yes sir. She is the CFO. A $185,000,000 budget. (Damn, that is a lot of zeros) LOL

Sorry $147,000,000 ++++++++++

 

[straightlinespeed]

LOL close enough!

 

[toolmanmike]

One of the new council members has the dry erase boards up showing his proposal. He keeps asking my wife "is that the figures?" She said "I don't know where you got your figures" This guy is just making stuff up.

 

[Ddaddy]

A friend found an old newspaper clipping with a photo of an accident his grandmother had in 1972 with her 1967 jeep and asked me if I could restore and colorize it for the family album (No one was hurt). He told me the colors of the two vehicles as his grandfather remembered them.

Sure...no problem.

Before and after:

 

[Mopar Tim]

Does that mean that they will cover everything???

450 deductible. :cheers:

 

[Ben Drinkin]

450 deductible. :cheers:

Sucks, but it beats the heck out of 10X that much...

 

[Mopar Tim]

Sucks, but it beats the heck out of 10X that much...

Sure does, I had to tell "mom" it was free or she would not let me get it. "you spend too much money on me" I do if you flush it down the damn toilet!

 

[toolmanmike]

Play by play...Tom (clueless councilman) has a proposal. He was one to vote last Thursday because the mayor didn't give enough time to digest his proposal. Now it's ok. (they have been working on budget proposals for 3 months)

 

[dartnabout]

Play by play...Tom (clueless councilman) has a proposal. He was one to vote last Thursday because the mayor didn't give enough time to digest his proposal. Now it's ok. (they have been working on budget proposals for 3 months)

Sounds like the whole state of PA

 

[Princess Valiant]

really cool looking dart sport

 

[dartnabout]

I like that Rani