I remember when we were first married, Just Ron had a 75 Chevy Malibu. He had the carbuerator in pieces on the dining table more than once, and I remember he rebuilt the alternator once. There's no telling how many miles that car had, we rolled the odometer once but I don't think it was the first time. The cars we have now will easily do 250,000 miles with no major repairs.
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Head Gasket Sorted - with pics
by cofty inok if you clicked on this you might be a mechanical geek like me.
some people love buying shoes or handbags for me is shiny new tools.. for the last few weeks the head gasket has been blowing on my rover 214. fortunately the oil and water hasn't been mixing so no harm done.
the combustion gases have been blowing through the water jacket which made it sounded like a witches cauldron.
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THE DC Hotel List
by tresdecu inso tonight finally had to make a decision about the dc.
we missed saturday and sunday of the one we were assigned to.
i was going to convieniently try to forget (been working most saturdays last few months) but she persisted tonight.
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When we first started attending conventions, we were assigned to Louisville, KY. The first year we went along with everyone else from the hall and stayed at a Ramada Inn. It was filthy and I refused to stay there again. The next year the elders wanted to group book the same hotel. We went on our own and booked a suite in a Sheraton Four Points. We got flack for not wanting to stay where everyone else was even though the hotel we picked was on the list. We got flack from hotel staff when we checked in because they thought we should downgrade to a regular room. We had two infants and needed the refrigerator and microwave and extra space for them to play. The next year we stayed at a Best Western, which was fine. I think after that we were assigned to Evansville, IN and we just commuted.
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JW attitudes to women
by Frazzled UBM ini would be very interested to hear from you ladies on this one.
i know that the society keeps women in subjugation through the headship cr@p but didn't ahve any sense about hoew prehistoric the attitudes are until the other day when we were driving out of the supermarket car park and my wife spotted a woman dressed in tight shorts (it has been very hot here) and she commented 'they say that women who dress like that dserve to be raped'.
i did a wtf and overreacted 'how can you blame the victim like that - such attitudes give men a lciense to commit rape and make women feel they are to balme if they get raped which in turn means that rape doesn't get reported and it gopes on with impunity.
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When I began my association with the Borg, I was a professional woman accustomed to telling men (and women) what to do. It never really occurred to me that my gender alone would disqualify me from using my skills to benefit the congregation. However, I was tired and overstretched due to a busy career, a pregnancy, and then a new baby. A second pregnancy and new baby soon followed and I had no interest in taking on a single additional task. The idea that women weren't required to do anything beyond show up to meetings and go out in service seemed like a good deal at the time. Just Ron and I shared decision making at home, and that never changed. He never developed the attitude that I was less competent based on my gender. Eventually, the anti-female attitudes at the hall started to grate on me though.
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Scary Stuff
by Farkel intoday's high school students in the usa:.
less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.
she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.
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my son, who will be entering high school in the fall, answered all but one question correctly. even my 7th grader knew most of the answers. I guess we did a decent job homeschooling.
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I Just Had A Big Fat Bomb Drop On My Head and It Leaves Alot Of Questions
by TotallyADD inwhen i got home from work this afternoon my wife was standing near the door looking at me and said you need to sit down i have some hard news to tell you.
so i sat down and she began saying my brother called and i imminently ask if my mom had died.
she said no but my mother told my brother a deep family secrect that no one knows about.
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here is my two cents. i am the bastard child ignored by my father and his family. it would mean the world to me if any of my half brothers or uncles or aunts or cousins would make the effort to get to know me.
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Another year done......thank you JW.net
by snare&racket ini have just finished the most difficult year of my academic life by far, since august i have had 4 days off.. the exams were from hell, i ran out of money with 2 months to go, 2 months rent to pay and 2 huge exams to go.
with few friends and family around, it made for a scary situation.. but i did it.... today i got the 'pass'.... 6 years done, one to go.... i am it i'm the final year of doctor training.
for all the kind words and encouragement from people here, thank you xxxx .
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Great job!!
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Another Suicide
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite inthere wouldn't have been any good way to hear the news i suppose.
it's just so strange to recall the conversation yesterday.
my "still in" parents are with me and my inactive sister having a pleasant conversation.
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so sorry Billy
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Local Needs Talk: Brothers must repair dents and scratches on their vehicles...
by Calebs Airplane inso about 8 years ago, we had a local needs talk about dents an scratches !!!!
it was given by the cobe and this guy was just your normal everyday elder.
except he had his occasional pet peeves... like (you guessed it) dents and scratches on some of the brothers' vehicles.
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and for the record, we got n estimate for a paint job on the truck - $5000. There's no way I', spending that kind of money on a 10 year old truck just to make some dude happy. It ran fine, and it wasn't horribly rusty or dented up - just scratched and there were places where the paint had been completely buffed off, and you could still see shadows of the company logo on the doors. We still have it, it still runs fine, and we still haven't fixed one single bit of the body work.
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Local Needs Talk: Brothers must repair dents and scratches on their vehicles...
by Calebs Airplane inso about 8 years ago, we had a local needs talk about dents an scratches !!!!
it was given by the cobe and this guy was just your normal everyday elder.
except he had his occasional pet peeves... like (you guessed it) dents and scratches on some of the brothers' vehicles.
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we were once told that driving a pickup truck in field service was not appropriate. The only vehicle we owned that would hold all five of us was an older, not so pretty, one ton crew cab truck. My little car wouldn't hold three car seats in the back.
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I am amused by my new Job offer
by recovering ini have just been hired as the new clinical director for a large company.
i think the following email from them is hilarious.
they want me to basically define my duties by writing my own job description.
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Perhaps the credit card application is so they can issue a company crdit card. I used to have a credit card issued through my employer to use for travel expenses.