im here and not illegal

With the current situation likely to bring strange legislation from Congress, there can be nothing but open road for you.

B

Anwesend noch einmal!

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John

2003 Firemist Red/grey leather SL 500
2015 Palladium Silver/black mbtex GLK 350
1987 Smoke Silver/burgundy mbtex 300E Sportline (SOLD)

Click to see 87 300E

Mother ___ I?

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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/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

STILL here.

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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K
07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

Yo Yo Ma

Yo Ma Ma.

Ah the wonderful month of May. The chill of winter behind and the swelter of summer just around the corner. Meanwhile flowers bloom, birds twitter and our government continues to be unable to cope with the agressive failures it created. Yes, indeed we are here.

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

Ah, but that is the great unknown at this time. Some plans that have been tossed about would lead one to believe several rungs could be attained in one fell swoop. Other plans make each successive rung that much harder.

Right now, the current administration has a little unwritten rule...for the next position higher (and all above that) they are requiring HQ time in DC, not detail time but hard time on the ground. Not my cup-o-tea. I did interview a week and a half ago, I'm sure the selection has been made and the name is being vetted. Maybe we'll find out by weeks end. My closest competitor (my book) has 6 years HQ time, while I have experience actually running a post. I guess it all boils down to who the guy with all the stars wants .

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

Here.

The official count down has started.

15 days till my European Vacation. I can't wait.

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

That realization back about 8 years ago is what slammed shut my career path and in all honesty, f**k'em. I like what I do, I get some great toys, and am appropriately (if not abundantly) compensated.

In my agency the HQ folks are lobotomized at the 12-15 layer (field folks in the 12-15 layer [ahem] are closer to normal). I don't know how they do that, it's like that old movie where they switch CO for nitrous oxide in the operating room. They go in normal and come out as zombie organ donors.

But if you don't take the blue pill (mixing movie metaphors) you'll go nowhere in mgmt. For me, I realized that I prefer the sci-tech to the admin so I took the red pill and live out of the power loop. It's a good life. I think if I had entered service at an earlier age (I entered in my 40's) that I would have gone the other way. Priorities change with age and experience.

It's the time of the year for alergy and lawnmower threads.

Speaking of... would water cooling a lawn mower make it quieter?

Present. 'Tis the season for golf tournaments and moving up the tennis bracket where I live. Getting ready for a scramble on Friday

Not to hijack a thread for a sub-topic, but...

It's hard to say where the lobotomy line is drawn for us, seems to me to start at the 14 level. Unless it is regarding the blue pill group. Seems they hit the lobotomy room much earlier, and subsequently float much higher in the bowl. I, on the other hand, am proof that you can be knocking on the 14 door without prostituting one's beliefs. Although I will admit it is a much slower journey.

That and having the nads to tell the guy with all the stars he is wrong. Definitely slows the career path, but it does make you feel good inside (especially when they're forced to admit).

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.