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I looked all over for a really small one for Momma's desk but all I found were too large. Best Buy had one I think would have been fine but they were out of stock.

Rob

I got them a Kodiak because it had the 16:9 screen aspect ratio, same as this monitor, and I resize most pictures to fit my screen. Plus I have a Kodiak cammer and the kodiak photosmart program on here. It only had an 8'' screen, but most of the others I looked at only had a 7'' screen.

It's lookin' good! I just turned it over and surprisingly the brownest part was on top before I turned it-I was afraid it would burn on the bottom, nearest the fire!

This is what it looked like just a few minutes ago when I went out to turn it over...

I'm using an old grill top inside the grill to cover the meat.

The flames go out when I close the lid.

Yeah, that's the same thing Jo said-the boston butt does look kinda like an alien's head.

Fox is the only one that is fair and balanced. Katie Couric said that we are an angry nation, you damn right we are! The lamestream liberal media is pulling this because that is what they do and also they are trying to get ratings because American's finally woke up and found out that the lamestream liberal media is on Obama's pocket. Why do you think they wanted to ban Fox News?

The morons on the show were laughing and joking about what Alan Keyes said-I told Jo "that man knows what he's talking about".

The news was on a minute ago and they had a list of people called "wingnuts of the year". Alan Keyes was on it because he said Obama was a Nazi and a communist-the people of Illinois knew it, and now the rest of America would know it. I've heard him speak before and he's a man I would vote for. He also said if something doesn't change the U.S. as we know it will cease to exist-sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Rush Limbaugh was also on the list for comparing Obama to Hitler.

It was on CNN of course. That's why I like Fox News.

Mornin' y'all

MMMMMM smoked Boston butt

I'm up due to habit. Quiet, enjoy some jazz music, make a coffee cake.

Merry Christmas

Hope I haven't burned it on the outside-got my coleman lantern out there, but it's still hard to see.

Nice looking Shaker's. I've always been partial to Freightliner for as long as I can remember especially the FLD and Classic XL. I never cared for the Century Class or Columbia much. I prefer the Columbia to the Century Class any day of the week. The main problem with the Century Class and Columbia was lack of insulation which got the floor really hot from the heat of the transmission. Other than that they are just your average fleet trucks. I will admit the FLD and Classic felt like an actual truck and the Century Class and Columbia you can tell had European influence designed especially in the ride. I'm so partial to Freightliner I prefer one over a Pete and KW. I even like the Cascadia but my main gripe is the cab sleeper mounted antennas. From the way it's mounted it would be tough to run a Wilson 2000, I would assume the swr would be way out of whack consider the cab is blocking most of the coil.

Todd's got a bunch of Columbias. I drove one to Dillwyn once to pick up a load of kyanite while my truck was being serviced. Felt like I was turning over all the way. You can see good out of them though. I always thought the Centuries looked like a possum in the face, where the Columbias look more like a chipmunk.

I can tell it's a 05-newer because that was when they tried to copy KW and went to the cowl mounted mirrors. Jeff should have put you in Freightliner, they didn't have not nearly as many problems or issues with the new emissions in 03. At least I haven't heard anything as far Detroit's go and seemed to have been CAT and Cummins struggling.

drove a couple of Freightliners at H.H.'s. Pictures didn't come out too good, took it from pictures in a photo album.

That is what I'd like to know, normally he ain't on until 7am. The only reason I'm up is well I'm a night owl and I'm practicing my lack of sleep for when I become a steering wheel holder err professional educated truck driver.

I'm up because I put a boston butt and a piece of boneless tenderloin on the grill to smoke at 4 am. Might be done by noon. I always wake up early anyway-except when I gotta go to work

Right click on the desktop and click the Screen Saver tab. You will see My Pictures Slide Show. You can select what files you want to show and then have then automatically flash on your screen as a screen saver! It's really cool...but you have to leave your PC on all the time.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I had the big bulldog up for a while, but I didn't know about the slide show.

I got the digital frame working. The USB cable did not come with it, and of course Wal-Mart didn't have one that fit, but the one that came with a little Panasonic video camera I've got fits it. I didn't use it anyway- I bought a little card reader and a memory stick, plugged the memory card into the reader, plugged the card reader to the computer, put the pictures on the memory stick, plugged the memory card into the frame, works great!

Yup. And for his posting to drop off like it did, well, there is something there beyond his control. First the wreck, then the therapy, then sale of "Oldog", etc.....

Can't be good.

Rob

what are you doing up so early?..you been up all night?

Got a nice Christmas e-mail from Old Bill. He's still having his difficulties of course. He'd been picking out an outfit from Murt's closet to take to the nursing home for her to wear today. He's very appreciative of any and all help he's recieved. Even though her care is paid for by her- whatever their equivalent to our social security is called, gummint pension I believe- he no longer has that part of their income to live on and said he'll probably have to move to a smaller (cheaper) place.

I know he's having financial problems too.

Citing that it is Christmas time; Why don't we "regulars" pitch in $20.00 each to get him a new laptop?

Hell, maybe he'll get to posting back with us.

Rob

I'm in. I was wondering if he got anything from the kid's insurance co. when he got wrecked, but he probably could afford Johnny Cochrane and Perry Mason to defend him. Bulldog man had to go physical therapy for a right good while.

He's got 'puter troubles, but he posted a message on Facebook and asked me to share it with y'all.

And I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all of you here a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

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Thank you very much indeed, and the same to you and yours.

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama are committing treason with the way they are trying to govern this nation! They should be hanged together a sunrise like common criminals.

that pretty much says it all too

Lets not forget the other "benifits"........Since my 63 Corvan has no airbags,crumple zone or anti collision devices and I could get seriously injured.... it is bad for my health so lets make ie illegal. My Ruger could hurt someone...bad for their health so lets make it illegal too. Micky D's...no good, Caffine...nope get rid of that too. Everything deemed " bad for your health " can now be eliminated with the battle cry of health care. Truely a sad sad day. Paul T Cheshire

excellent point

Technically you been working for the Moore family 30 and a half years if you really think about it. What you mean got a better truck? If it ain't a Mack it's not a "better" truck.

yep, it's all in the family. I haven't driven a Mack, except for my cement mixer, since about 1983 when I got out of a '79 F-model. The first brand new K100 H.H. bought for me was an '83 model.

Jeff put me in a nice W900L at first, then he traded it for the Pete i'm driving now. It's nice, top of the line. Shame the sumbitch stays brokedown so much. Maybe that's why the previous owner only kept it a year. I really wish Jeff had kept the Kenworth-it was nice too, and the N14 (525 hp) never malfunctioned. It had almost 700,000 miles on it when he traded it.

Fuck all the verbage and whether if offends or pleases anyone.

Just remember: "The reason for the season".

If Jesus Christ hadn't walked the face of this earth, there would be no holiday to celebrate, nor be joyous in.

Get back to roots and be happy and content there are people that love/support you, and don't forget to give thanks to your creator for the many blessings you have in your short tenure on "Mother Earth".

I wish everyone a happy holiday season, and prosperous new year.

It'll get better. We just have to endure the next three years.

Rob

Amen brother, Amen!*

*there's an extra "Amen", so Bulldogman does not get credited for this quote, and therefor recieves no royalties or other compensation

Your with F.L. Moore ain't ya? Wasn't H.H. going down the drain for awhile anyway hence why PGT stepped in? Isn't H.H.'s yard also in Concord?

Yeah, been at F.L.Moore and Sons 5 years now. Was at H.H.'s 25 and a half. I left mainly because of the low-life good for nothing a-hole dispatcher they had at the time. Got along with most everybody 'til he crawled in.

Now I wish i'd left sooner because I run south and west instead of northeast all the time, got a better truck, and make more money. I really like Bonnie and Larry Moore though, can't say anything bad about them.

Their yard is just west of Appomattox on 460. We're about 8 or 9 miles further west.

I think you mentioned that about PGT buying out H.H. Moore. Are they keeping H.H. Moore separate or combing operations and making it PGT?

It'a all PGT. They took H.H.Moore Jr. off the truck doors and put PGT on them. They're still running some of the old H.H.Moore trucks but they're going to the newer PGT IH's as they phase the older trucks out.

I didn't even know Lynchburg had a steel industry. I was wondering where H.H. Moore was getting their steel from to take up to the Northeast. My uncle has a friend who drives for H.H. Moore.

That's what I disliked most, that the biggest part of it went to the northeast. For a while we'd run 2, and sometimes 3, trips to Boston every week. I don't care if I never go to Boston again!

Story is the main reason PGT bought out H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. was to get the Banker Steel account.

Never been to Montage-Betts or Kyanite Mining. Been to Griffin Pipe in Lynchburg and the Gyp plants in Norfolk and Baltimore along with running up and down I-95 and the Northeast too many times to count myself.

Montague-Betts was a big structural steel plant in Lynchburg. Actually they had 2 plants, the south plant near the airport and the north plant near the stadium. We hauled steel all over from there-lots to Boston, the Pittsburgh area, Baltimore and northern Va. They shut down and Hirschfield Steel was in the old South plant for a while, and one of the top Hirschfield guys, Don Banker, went on his own and started Banker Steel in the old North Plant. Then Hirschfield left and Banker Steel then moved part of their operation back to the south plant, so they are now about the same as Montague-Betts was in the 80's. And the main reason Montague-Betts gave for selling in the first place was that there wasn't enough business to keep them going. My next door neighbor works for Banker Steel now and he started with Montague-Betts then worked for Hirschfield, so he still works in the same place, but for 3 different companies.

hmmmm...is that why the cat picture that I made small came out real big in the actual post? then when you clicked on it it instead of biggerizing it shrunk down to the size it was supposed to be in the first place.

I tried to post some pictures on my blog too but they never would show up, and I smallerized them a lot too. It's a wonder my keyboard even works this morning- I spilled half a glass of red kool-aid on it last night.

Yeah I knew Western took over Huss' terminal. I know they closed down the Chase City yard and most of the old Huss driver's went ahead and leased on with Western pulling flatbed. I know Huss had a terminal in Norfolk running out the US Gypsum plant which I believe Western also took over. It doesn't surprise me that TMC is hauling out of there, they probably cut the rate big time. Actually I think TMC was running black pipe out of Iowa since there is another Griffin Pipe plant in Iowa as well.

Yeah, i'm sure they did. We never did haul much of that pipe anyway, Huss had that pretty much covered and H.H. pretty much had all the Montague-Betts freight and kyanite mining. We would get a load of it from Huss sometimes when they were real busy.

Other Dog, at least ole Moore doesn't have to compete with Baxter Huss anymore. Did TMC takeover the Griffith Pipe account in Lynchburg or when Baxter Huss sold Huss Inc. to Western did Western get the account?

Western Express is in the old Huss terminal in Madison Heights, but TMC opened a terminal at Concord Turnpike and old 460, right on the corner there across from where Templeton's Market used to be before they put the bypass in.

Western Express was hauling most of the pipe from Griffin, but now I see mostly TMC hauling it.

Saw this coal train in West Virginia, headed west. It should have been going east, so I flagged it down to see if the engineer was lost and needed directions. Santa Claus himself was at the controls. Said he had several stops to make in Illinois and needed a train to carry that much coal, and as soon as he dropped the coal off he would get on with his regular deliveries.