Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by bcj

Motorbikes, bicycles and camping gear have hit premium prices in the last year.
You won't be doing your wallet any favors buying right now. The feelz though.

SV650 is a solid bike. Not a speed monster by any reckoning. It'll tractor on through anything.
I've had mine for 12 years and not planning to swap it out.
A friend got an MT-07 last year and likes it a lot, but he's been riding Harleys for 50 years beforehand and teaches navy squids how to ride and get their base pass.

My brother had the FZ-07, before they rebadged them as MT. It was a great bike. The forks were a bit noodle-y when you rode it hard, but that was half the fun It responded very well to exhaust mods and a power commander. That is actually the bike he wished he kept the most.

[spcmafia]

Well I was hoping to take my car to Hatteras NC for my yearly vacation but the boss lady said no. We're taking the Mazda 3. I mean is more comfortable and better MPG. Now I'm genuinely worried about leaving the car outside without cleaning eventual bird droppings for week. About cover it with a fuck ton of graphene spray. Gonna miss it.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Well I was hoping to take my car to Hatteras NC for my yearly vacation but the boss lady said no. We're taking the Mazda 3. I mean is more comfortable and better MPG. Now I'm genuinely worried about leaving the car outside without cleaning eventual bird droppings for week. About cover it with a fuck ton of graphene spray. Gonna miss it.

Bubba suggests you toss a blue tarp over it and duck tape it down -

[Sapphireho]

Last night I bought the mlb package. I've really been missing giants games. Really haven't been able to watch since we moved. First game in my new service tonight...

For tonight I got some local beef for hamburgers, the best produce I could find for Idaho, fries, and a couple tall-boys of a local lagar.

So exite!

[Ultramaroon]

Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

[NoHaveMSG]

I don't care if I never get back.

[soundman98]

it's toot toot toot for the away team

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by spike021

Just got the news that my last remaining grandparent, my grandfather, passed away this evening. I think around 97 or 98 years old.

Sounds like they tried to make him as comfortable as possible, since it seemed like he was in his last few days this week.

I've mentioned him here before for a topic or two but the guy was my hero.

He and his family were in Germany during the Holocaust. He lost relatives to the Nazis. On Kristellnacht family bakery was broken into/burnt down along with his synagogue where he was bar mitzvah'd.

They came here through NY. At 16 he was drafted and landed on D-Day with the Big Red One in Normandy (one of the beaches, can't recall the exact one). He didn't know how to swim and his lander started unloading where it was still too deep, so he almost drowned.

Later, he and members of his unit were captured by the Nazis. Since he could speak German, he could understand them deciding what to do with the Americans.

Fortunately he survived.

Fortunately that was only the first and last war he ever participated in. He probably never should have. I can't even imagine that kind of life in my first 16 years.

He lived a good life after that but you could tell sometimes it still ate at him, and he had dementia the last decade or so.

Anyway, didn't mean for this to become a eulogy or something. But yeah, it's a difficult evening.

FWIW, his story was actually recorded as part of the record by the USC Shoah Foundation. If anyone's curious to watch it, I can try to find it and send a link.

take some solace in knowing his history. my grandfather was a vietnam vet. to my knowledge, even my grandmother doesn't even know anything more than the fact that he served.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by soundman98

take some solace in knowing his history. my grandfather was a vietnam vet. to my knowledge, even my grandmother doesn't even know anything more than the fact that he served.

Yeah for sure. Plus I wrote about him throughout my school years for all kinds of assignments and papers. Gave me a chance to learn about it and try to share it with others.

Somehow a lot of people (and kids at school) still don't quite understand what Europe was like during that time period.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

it's toot toot toot for the away team

Hey, what the...

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

ah... why buy both? There are peanuts in Cracker Jack. No prize inside any longer but you can scan the code for some downloadable content.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Well I was hoping to take my car to Hatteras NC for my yearly vacation but the boss lady said no. We're taking the Mazda 3. I mean is more comfortable and better MPG. Now I'm genuinely worried about leaving the car outside without cleaning eventual bird droppings for week. About cover it with a fuck ton of graphene spray. Gonna miss it.

Bummer. I got this car partly because its so perfect for road trips. Comfy and roomy and fun.

[McMCOO]

Originally Posted by spike021

Just got the news that my last remaining grandparent, my grandfather, passed away this evening. I think around 97 or 98 years old.

Sounds like they tried to make him as comfortable as possible, since it seemed like he was in his last few days this week.

I've mentioned him here before for a topic or two but the guy was my hero.

Your grandpa was a national treasure. The achievements of his generation, and the quality of so many of his contemporaries cannot be overstated. Rest in peace.

I hope you have or will get to visit some of the places where he was in those days.

[spcmafia]

Halfway into our trip to North Carolina. Chesapeake Bridge is always quite a sight.


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