I'm still waiting for my nipples to unperk from walking the dog this morning! It's freakin' chilly with the 30-40mph winds!

I FINALLY have my trailerload of peas, beans and corn on the rail headed East (up until 3-4 years ago we'd usually have it just after Thanksgiving). We've already packaged all of our carry-over on some items and need it here to finish filling orders. Those of you used to just-in-time delivery are probably used to this kind of thing! Altough J-I-T would have been two weeks ago.

Today will be spent by our 1/2lb. poly bagging machine figuring why it wants to dump every 5th bag on the floor. You'd be surprised how far a 1/2 lb. of pea seeds will roll when dropped from 3.5' when numb nuts leaves it unattended for a half hour and doesn't box it in.

Other than that, just happy the week is half over!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Getting ready to head off in the cold this morning.

Feeling groovy, just had my Cheerios . . . Any of you remember that old commercial from Saturday mornings?

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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXufigwwDNo&feature=related

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Chad
2013 Jeep Unlimited Rubicon
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL

Its getting cold supposed to be down to 6 tonight and I need my tax check now! other than that have a happy mid-week day.

Soooo, what you're saying is that it's "nipply" out there, up there that way? Eh? (Is this where we start asking for "nipple" pictures? )

Sounds like you're stuffing 2 months of work into a single work week...

PICTURES???

Not until NOON!!!

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

Ooooh, the day just got a little better! There's a nice lady here from the IRS (The front office knew they were coming but I've been running around getting all of the Secretary-related documents together that they need. Someone could have told me and I'd have had it ready! ). There is a degree of comfort knowing everything was done by the books.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Trust me, you don't want that! They look nothing like I imagine Mary's (of Christmas Vacation fame) do.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Boy...it was only -12º F. earlier this morning...I felt another 10º drop in temperature...IN THE HOUSE...just reading THAT!!!!

Really...GOOD LUCK TODAY...

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

Although, I wouldn't mind a set of Clark's "c***-warmers" during the Swat-scene...

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

Been here about a week....

After I put in the new French yellow Bosch foglights and euro headlight wipers, it was time to hit the road, to Sothern Cali.



I have been down there playing for about a week now and loving it. (85* weather here brings out those girls in every iteration of sexy sundress you can imagine. Eve candy galore)

Went on a vintage Mercedes Benz W116/W123/W124/W126 diesel/gasser drive from The Mercedes Benz Classic Center, (where I spent heavily!!) then we drove out of LA and up the Angeles Crest National Forest all the way into into the 5,000 foot high snow country. Spctacular scenery!!! Great meet.


(My new signature pic is the second one of these)







Partying with friends the other night in Newport Beach the other night down by the Yacht Harbor.




Having a great time down here........

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Freezing this morning and checking bridge closings for next weeks' inauguarl events.

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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

No pre-cleanup pics, but here's my nemesis (actually the nemesis is the operator but there might be legal issues if I posted his pic):


Peas act like ball bearings when they hit a concrete floor from 3.5'. Boy do they roll!

The machine does what you tell it to do 99% of the time. When it doesn't there's generally a reason, like not cleaning the feed roller like you're supposed to do. My little sticker on top of the machine next to the control board apparently isn't enough of a reminder.


And the reason there are some issues 1% of the time. Getting the year 2000 packaging technology to communicate with1960's vintage control technology with 1940's vibratory feeder technology with a early 90's vintage Toshiba laptop in between.


It's fun to watch all of the mechanical timers spin while it's running. And the smell of old electronics that waft out!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Swamp:

Thanks for the shots...now I understand this thing about frozen peas being turned into ball bearings and such...

BTW, for everyone else...how's the "O" hangover going today?

Went to a meeting after work last night...the folks were just about "O'd Out" as the term was being used...then we just started having Kamakazis and pretty soon, as someone would mention the Inagural...we'd just look at them and go "Oooooooo..."

It's funny...a few drinks and the most stupid thing you do is funny as hell...the women were giggling and the guys just looked at the floor and shook their heads...7 adults acting like lonely cows..."Oooooooo....Ooooooo...."

Anyways, that was a few hours ago...I left when they couldn't spell "Ooooooo" properly anymore...now I'm heading to bed for a few hours and will be laughing to myself in a few hours as I stare at them at the meeting table in the conference room...our "weekly" Manglers' Meeting...I'll be the most sober one in the room...and I'm not regretting stopping when I did...

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

Sitting in a conference room in Eningen, Germany waiting for the meetings to resume.

Got to drive an Avis rental car last night/this morning. Gotta say, an Audi A4 TDI 6-speed manual is a damn sight better than ANY rental I've ever had in the US!

And, purely hypothetically speaking, an Audi A4 TDI 6-speed manual is pretty impressively quick up to 180 kph even with 4 adults and luggage. Superbly stable at speed as well. Not that I would know based on empirical evidence, of course. Purely hypothetical.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

In Philly for some sales manager/sales training. Yippee.

I'm taking my salespeople to the Flyers game tonight so at least there's something to look forward to.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)