Sunday, October 29, 2006

neal boortz is the coolest!

neal boortz was in tulsa last night at the PAC, mom won tickets on KRMG. we were in the orchestra row H seats 1 and 2. it was great! he had a funny about chicken cannons that they use to test airplanes. the french borrowed one from the FAA to test their fast trains. they shot a chicken at one of the trains, it went through the window, destroyed a seat and hit an instrument panel and caught the train on fire! they complained to the FAA, who asked to see the test data cause they had never had that happen. they looked it over, and told the french to thaw the chicken before using the chicken cannon next time! some people...

working on 12 inch granny squares for a charity project. i need 12 done by next saturday, i've got 6 done. i need to buy more yarn. we're making them for the veteran's home near claremore. i'm doing mine in OU colors.

nice to have fall here. i'm enjoying the cooler weather. last friday, i got industrious and waxed my car! it's a red 1991 volvo sedan, and you know how red likes to oxidize. i'm not real fond of red, but as i never get to pick the color or the car... my last 2 cars (both volvo's) were hand me down's from mom. i started out with a 1974 green volvo station wagon that i bought off the neighbor for $500 when i graduated high school in 1991. i drove that car until 1995, when a drunk driver in a taurus didn't stop at a stop sign. i tried to stop, left like 40 ft. of skid marks, but i plowed into him anyway, pushing in the entire drivers side of the car. i crunched the front drivers side of the volvo enough to bend the frame and puntcure the battery. i got out of the car and started saying some not very lady like words to the man. he went to the hospital and then to jail. of course, he didn't have insurance... so, anyway, i had $1000 in the bank, and the bank gave me another $1000 loan and i bought a 1982 cream volvo stationwagon the next day. this i drove until 2001, when the 1982 developed a nasty oil habit and was well over the 200,000 mile limit. mom being the nice person she is, gave me the 1987 silver volvo sedan. she had just got the 1991 red volvo that i drive now. 3 years later, the 87 up and died, and mom sold me the 91 for $1000. she had gotten a nice 1998 dodge grand caravan, and wasn't using the volvo. so, now the 91 is well past the 200,000 mile limit. i'm not real sure on the exact mileage cause the odometer broke about 6 months after i got it. it was at 178,779. what i want is one of those new toyota fj crusiers in voodoo blue... but at about $28,000... i don't see that happening.

well, i've gone on long enough... stay tuned...

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