Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 7023 Location: My Grandkids' Farm
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: Secrets you keep...
Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's
I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.
I think about PO sometimes as I tune that engine or work on the upholstery and every time I start it up just to hear it run.
What is the secret activity you keep from your fellow POer's?
Try to keep it at least relatively clean and honest. _________________ Make a plan and work it:
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4351 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
Don't do it peeps...
That is why they are called secrets pops...get it? _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
Joined: Dec 18, 2004 Posts: 4991 Location: One Mile From the Columbia River
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
I post about this so it ain't no secret.
Good idea Pops.
I ignite way more than my share of oil by flying internationally once or twice a year. This behavior makes me partially responsible for all sorts of Very Bad Things. We're all familiar with what they are.
I try to make up for it by using considerably less than most people in all other areas such as in home heating, gas burning, buying locally whenever possible, practicing vegetarianism, walking, scootering, or biking most of the time, and growing as much food as possible on our smallish plot of land. . _________________ Got Dharma?
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4867 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
Pops wrote:
Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's
I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.
I think about PO sometimes as I tune that engine or work on the upholstery and every time I start it up just to hear it run.
What is the secret activity you keep from your fellow POer's?
Try to keep it at least relatively clean and honest.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Such decadence. Shame, shame, shame on you!
Joined: Jun 14, 2007 Posts: 157 Location: SE Qld Australia
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
I read books. Non fiction of all stripes. I break it up with a bit of fiction too.
I don't bother generally with TV.
Cheers
Dr Bang _________________ For every question , there is a lie. For every lie, there is a truth. For every truth, there is a way. And for every way, there is a time. This is the time.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
I'm redoing my 85 jeep cj-7. Just put on a 4.5 inch lift kit. 33x12.5 mudders with polished alum rims. Have it striped down and am in the process of painting it hugger orange. Going to pull the inline 6 out and replace it with a 350 smallblock.
Nothing wrong with a nice bug out ride
One more thing I keep my thermostat at 68 in the summer _________________ Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose but has everything left to gain.
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Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 13191 Location: naive idiot fantasy world
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
My husband and I eat out once a week or so.
We sometimes go to the movies.
We subscribe to Netflix.
I encourage my husband in his automobile hobby - he has restored a 1965 Datsun pickup (our "farm truck"), is in the process of restoring his 1970 Datsun roadster, and recently bought a 1968 MGB GT. _________________ "...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow." - jboogy
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
Pops wrote:
Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's
I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.
You work ON a Ford - bless you!!!! I work FOR Ford (but perhaps not for long with 15% white collar cuts imminent).
Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5715 Location: Body in OK, Heart in TX
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
I have a PSP. And I use it a lot, for mobile web surfing (no iPhone or Blackberry) and for games (mostly old SNES and NES games played via a homebrew emulator). I try to make myself feel better about this by reminding myself I don't watch TV anymore. My husband calls my it my "crack".
I have a TI-92 emulator on it, and a PDF reader with a big library of classic books, if that makes it any less horrible. It was a gift, but I asked for it. I mostly wanted it for the web browsing capabilities. That was before it became harder to find unprotected wifi. We actually got some good use out of it one night when we had to evacuate due to a tornado. I found a wifi hotspot and was able to look at the radar to see if it was safe to return home. _________________ "Every junkie's like a setting sun..." - Neil Young
Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 1198 Location: Central NC
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
TheDoctor wrote:
Pops wrote:
Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's
I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.
You work ON a Ford - bless you!!!! I work FOR Ford (but perhaps not for long with 15% white collar cuts imminent).
Which of us had the darker secret?
Always good to have someone on the inside!
My wife and I would drive to work separately 2-3 days a week mostly cause she had things she wanted to do after work and I wanted to go home. 25 miles one way, we worked at the same place.
In our defense we both drive cars that get 50 mpg, but just proves the paradox, eh? _________________ "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…"
Sir Winston Churchill
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
TheDoctor wrote:
Pops wrote:
Secrets you keep from your fellow POer's
I don't talk about it much here but I work on my '69 Ford, short-bed 4wd pickup with the 390 big block, four bbl carb and dual exhaust for enjoyment when I get the chance.
You work ON a Ford - bless you!!!! I work FOR Ford (but perhaps not for long with 15% white collar cuts imminent).
Which of us had the darker secret?
Of course he works on a Ford. One is always WORKING on a Ford!
I couldn't resist _________________ Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose but has everything left to gain.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Secrets you keep...
Homesteader wrote:
My wife and I would drive to work separately 2-3 days a week mostly cause she had things she wanted to do after work and I wanted to go home. 25 miles one way, we worked at the same place.
In our defense we both drive cars that get 50 mpg, but just proves the paradox, eh?
I think Jevon just gave you a big thumbs up from his grave!
My wife used to work at FORD as well before permanent maternity leave. 50 miles one way, and we often drove separate too due to meeting schedules or after-work plans. Oh Jevnon, how wise and how ahead of your time you were.....
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It was a gift, but I asked for it. I mostly wanted it for the web browsing capabilities. That was before it became harder to find unprotected wifi. We actually got some good use out of it one night when we had to evacuate due to a tornado. I found a wifi hotspot and was able to look at the radar to see if it was safe to return home.
