mickeysreef <*))))<
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thats great i have time to secure the boats.
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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer
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mickeysreef <*))))<
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hey Paul. are these very small white lines with the antennae worms? they are moving super fast! so I thought maybe something else?
mickeysreef <*))))<
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mickeysreef <*))))<
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geez! already problems! I guess they'll get separated out later. or will they eat my worms?
mickeysreef <*))))<
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mickeysreef <*))))<
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thats great buddy, you are a real friend! dont worry he is in a better place and im sure he is thinking about you too!
mickeysreef <*))))<
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oh yeah i bought them early this morning! i'll pick them up on friday, my birthday!
Paul B
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Diana, Like you I consider myself a Patriot. I also try very hard to only buy American. Last week I went to 5 or 6 places to get American tires on my car. That isn't easy because tires don't say where they are from and it is all in the serial numbers.
I also wouldn't buy a foreign car, sneakers, or most other things not American which isn't easy. I have two Jeeps, I am sure they are made someplace else but to me Jeep is synonymous with America as it helped win the war. Their headquarters are still here. If it is made anywhere in America, I will buy it no matter how much it cost.
I invented and patented the "Majano Wand" and it took me two years to find a factory in the US to build it. It is made in Florida in a heart valve factory.
I always flew an American flag and I go to military cemeteries to pay my respects. I try to teach young people, like my Grand Kids what the generations before them did for them which allow dirtbags, who didn't do anything to protest just about everything.
I have been to many places in the world and there isn't one of them I would think to move to. Many people just don't understand what freedom is or what Americans did for it.
Unfortunately this is the generation of "I want something for free". Free means working people had to pay for it and work is a foreign word for many young people today.
I don't want anything for free and won't even take it. I also don't want a handout from the government, I don't gamble or play the lottery because I think it is stupid. Get a job.
I also wouldn't buy a foreign car, sneakers, or most other things not American which isn't easy. I have two Jeeps, I am sure they are made someplace else but to me Jeep is synonymous with America as it helped win the war. Their headquarters are still here. If it is made anywhere in America, I will buy it no matter how much it cost.
I invented and patented the "Majano Wand" and it took me two years to find a factory in the US to build it. It is made in Florida in a heart valve factory.
I always flew an American flag and I go to military cemeteries to pay my respects. I try to teach young people, like my Grand Kids what the generations before them did for them which allow dirtbags, who didn't do anything to protest just about everything.
I have been to many places in the world and there isn't one of them I would think to move to. Many people just don't understand what freedom is or what Americans did for it.
Unfortunately this is the generation of "I want something for free". Free means working people had to pay for it and work is a foreign word for many young people today.
I don't want anything for free and won't even take it. I also don't want a handout from the government, I don't gamble or play the lottery because I think it is stupid. Get a job.
Paul B
NJRC Member
My wife has MS and can't mover her right leg any more at all so I won't let her drive. I got her a new car with the condition that I can install hand controls.
I got the hand controls and tried them out on my car. It is basically two tubes, one goes to the gas and the other one to the brake. You hold this bar which holds these two tubes and push one way for the gas and the other way for the brake. Of course you steer with your left hand and never make a turn because there is no way to use the turn controls.
I wasn't sure if I had to inform the motor vehicle office that she would be driving with hand controls so I went to the DMV.
Of course you can't go in due to Covid so I waited outside for the guy to come out. The security guard comes out and I ask him the question. Do I have to inform the DMV my wife will be using hand controls?
He disappears inside for a few minutes and comes out to tell me, he doesn't know and no one else in the DMV knows but he gives me this phone number for the State Dept of the DMV in Albany because they have to know.
I call the number and after 40 minutes on hold, they tell me, they don't know but I have to make an appointment with my local DMV (who don't know anything)
I tried to get an appointment and I fill out this thing on line with my E Mail, social security number, date of birth, astrological sign, favorite singer, blood type etc. and I write my question.
They send me back a reply that "they will answer my question in 5 days."
12 days later I try to go on my special DMV site with my sign in information for the answer. I get:
"Your E Mail address is incorrect so you can't sign in"
My E Mail is an AOL E mail and has been the same since AOL was invented but I can't sign in and I ask the question again.
"We will get back to you in 5 days"
I knew that was not going to happen so I went back to the DMV. The security guard again goes back inside and comes out to tell me, the DMV has nothing to do with that, go to the Town Hall.
I go to the Town Hall and ask the guy at the desk the question about the hand controls for my wife.
He has no Idea and says, The Town Hall has no control over that. "Go to the Police station and ask them".
I go to the Police Station and ask the officer at the information desk about hand controls.
"I have no Idea, go to the DMV"
I explained the entire thing to him and he said he has been a Cop for 20 years and no one ever asked that.
He then said, just put in the hand controls and don't tell anyone.
I said "Really", that sounds dangerous, there is no forms, no test, no schooling to drive with hand controls.
He said He didn't think so.
I then said, so if I wanted to I could steer with my feet, push the gas with my tongue and borrow a Yak from a deranged Sherpa and let him push the brake pedal with his hoof, That would be fine?
I may not have used those Exact words. But he said, yes that is correct so tomorrow I am installing those controls on my car to give my wife some lessons.
Wish me and all the pedestrians luck.
I got the hand controls and tried them out on my car. It is basically two tubes, one goes to the gas and the other one to the brake. You hold this bar which holds these two tubes and push one way for the gas and the other way for the brake. Of course you steer with your left hand and never make a turn because there is no way to use the turn controls.
I wasn't sure if I had to inform the motor vehicle office that she would be driving with hand controls so I went to the DMV.
Of course you can't go in due to Covid so I waited outside for the guy to come out. The security guard comes out and I ask him the question. Do I have to inform the DMV my wife will be using hand controls?
He disappears inside for a few minutes and comes out to tell me, he doesn't know and no one else in the DMV knows but he gives me this phone number for the State Dept of the DMV in Albany because they have to know.
I call the number and after 40 minutes on hold, they tell me, they don't know but I have to make an appointment with my local DMV (who don't know anything)
I tried to get an appointment and I fill out this thing on line with my E Mail, social security number, date of birth, astrological sign, favorite singer, blood type etc. and I write my question.
They send me back a reply that "they will answer my question in 5 days."
12 days later I try to go on my special DMV site with my sign in information for the answer. I get:
"Your E Mail address is incorrect so you can't sign in"
My E Mail is an AOL E mail and has been the same since AOL was invented but I can't sign in and I ask the question again.
"We will get back to you in 5 days"
I knew that was not going to happen so I went back to the DMV. The security guard again goes back inside and comes out to tell me, the DMV has nothing to do with that, go to the Town Hall.
I go to the Town Hall and ask the guy at the desk the question about the hand controls for my wife.
He has no Idea and says, The Town Hall has no control over that. "Go to the Police station and ask them".
I go to the Police Station and ask the officer at the information desk about hand controls.
"I have no Idea, go to the DMV"
I explained the entire thing to him and he said he has been a Cop for 20 years and no one ever asked that.
He then said, just put in the hand controls and don't tell anyone.
I said "Really", that sounds dangerous, there is no forms, no test, no schooling to drive with hand controls.
He said He didn't think so.
I then said, so if I wanted to I could steer with my feet, push the gas with my tongue and borrow a Yak from a deranged Sherpa and let him push the brake pedal with his hoof, That would be fine?
I may not have used those Exact words. But he said, yes that is correct so tomorrow I am installing those controls on my car to give my wife some lessons.
Wish me and all the pedestrians luck.
mickeysreef <*))))<
NJRC Member
hey Paul. I'm sure it should be fine but the answer is here:
dmv.ny.gov
Report a Medical Condition | NY DMV
If a physician reports that an individual has a condition that can affect his or her driving skills, DMV can suspend his or her driver license until a physician certifies that the condition is treated or controlled and the individual can drive safely.
Paul B
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Thanks Mickey. I think I like what the Police told me. Just do it and don't say anything. I am sure submitting that form will open up a can of worms and being they don't know what they are doing, it won't turn out well.
I am 71 years old, what can they do? Throw me in Jail!
I am 71 years old, what can they do? Throw me in Jail!
Paul B
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Someone on another forum asked me to post the link to this battle I was in and I figured I would also put it here for any War Buffs.
www.vfw.org
There is a book about it. I read it and I am not in it. I was the COMMO Chief for the 1/77arty.
The FDC (fire direction control) that is mentioned and was hit and collapsed had my men in it.
www.barnesandnoble.com
The guy who wrote the book Keith Phillips was here with me while I was giving a talk about the battle.
Here are some pictures of that place after the battle. I think the bunker in the top left picture was mine. But I can't be sure, it was fifty years ago and they all kind of looked the same.
fsb illingworth battle - AOL Image Search Results
I posted the link to this battle a few times. It was the worst day of my life but thank God for PTSD as I remember very little of that night.
Firebase Illingworth Illuminated in a Titanic Horror
April was the deadliest month of 1970 for U.S. troops in Vietnam with 730 deaths. On the first day alone, North Vietnamese Army (NVA) units shelled some 115 targets throughout the country and launched 13 ground assaults.
There is a book about it. I read it and I am not in it. I was the COMMO Chief for the 1/77arty.
The FDC (fire direction control) that is mentioned and was hit and collapsed had my men in it.
Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds|Audio CD
In the early morning hours of April 1, 1970, more than four hundred North Vietnamese soldiers charged out into the open and tried to overrun FSB Illingworth. The battle went on, mostly in the dark, for hours. Exposed ammunition canisters were hit and blew up, causing a thunderous explosion inside...
The guy who wrote the book Keith Phillips was here with me while I was giving a talk about the battle.
Here are some pictures of that place after the battle. I think the bunker in the top left picture was mine. But I can't be sure, it was fifty years ago and they all kind of looked the same.
fsb illingworth battle - AOL Image Search Results
Paul I will definitely watch this late tonight when I wake up I’m still at work since 4:30 yesterday morning and I’m still going
mickeysreef <*))))<
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dont mind paulie. hes been up working for like 72 or 96 hours straight. paulie. i need to move a tank when you recover. no worries just off the stand on on to a couple of dollies, so literally like up off and down. anddddd no rush lol