I did good. This is arguably the most difficult ski marathon in the lower 48. It uses the Olympic training courses at Giants Ridge MN. Temps were -5F at the start of the race and warmed to 10F. The actual course turned out to be 52k but what's a coupla k's here and there. First 26k were OK, I was fighting a lot of traffic. Second 26k I skied alone because there were a lot of DNF's and most opted to do the short course. Finished in 3:48 and change.

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Friendly soccer tournament this weekend. But I did finish painting my brake calipers on the ML...gonna button it all back up tonight!

On the "running" tangent...my 7th grade daughter finished her first cross country meet 2nd overall with a time of 6:26:00. She plans to improve that greatly, since the top runners in the region are under the 6:00:00 mark!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Visited the beautiful Midland/Odessa, Texas area. Was glad to get back to Northern Virginia!

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Celebrating Groundhog Day by liquoring up and dancing with good friends.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Pissed off that my flight got cancelled last night and due to the short duration of the trip, I couldn't leave this morning on a replacement

Not gonna go in today though

Delta or Useless Air? I'm sorry this happened.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

American. I would have gone and come back a day late, but I would have missed the first day of my anniversary trip.....which I am sure you would agree, would have been stooopit!

I hate America- they thought they were going to strand me at Miami International on Christmas Eve, due to weather in DC we were late taking off and when we landed they said the connecting flight had left when in fact it was still sitting on the tarmack and god forbid they try and push it in the air to make up the time. I got three of my weary fellow travelers together, rented a car and off we went to Fort Myers driving along Alligator Alley at 1:00 a.m. singing holiday songs. American got a poison pen letter from me and I got my money back. This never would have happened when my dad was flying way back when...

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

They offered me a ride to a city three hours away to leave at 10pm last night on another airline, but I didn't have a ride to the destination which was 1+ from the airport, ect.....they offered me a ticket anywhere in the US which is fine.

Nice to see their customer service has improved....

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Flew in from a short trip to Dallas late last night. It started sleeting and then snowing about 4:00 p.m. Thursday night, and the airport acts like it's never seen snow. Takes them 2 hours to de-ice the plane. At least I was comfortable ensconsed in first class throwing back three (3) Beefeaters and tonic.

When we finally touched down in Denver, I had missed my connecting flight. Every flight was backed up, full, and wait-listed. However, I pulled rank and bumped someone off the last flight from Denver to LAX.

Knowing that my wife was going to pick me up, I decided to finish off the evening and ordered a double Scotch (Dewer's) on the rocks.

Woke up late this morning with a splitting headeach, decided I wasn't going to work, and drove into Pasadena to The Container Store and ordered some more shelving for the right-hand side garage wall.

Will install it tomorrow and then get a haircut.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Bleh I'm a little sick. We're racing again this weekend, 35k this time, but it's gonna be -2F for a high.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Vermont early tomorrow,fresh Kero for the lamps,coal for the water pump and new bed linens.

Gonna go black powder shooting,love the smell,just like anthracite in the kitchen range,sweetly acrid with that pungent sulphurous aroma....AHHHHH.

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Friday is it.

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

$210 isn't really bad for that tire. The steer tires on my Freightliner cost me $450.00 each. If one goes bad you always have to buy two for even wear reasons. The drive tire cost in the neightborhood of $325 each, and trailer tires always cost atleast atleast $260 each. Imagine drives or trailer and having to do all of them. There are 8 drives, and 8 trailer tires. Those all can be changed individually, but steers are a must for changing them both at the same time. Cheere up buddy.