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I have the day off. Nice!

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

The Mrs has it off. I will work today at least a while and she and I will probably do something vacationlike for a while as well.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

No, we get 11 paid holidays, but MLK day is not one of them. We have a week or more of paid plant shutdown after X-mas so we don't get the "minor" holidays off like the Feds do.

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

The cynic in me says it would be Politically Incorrect in San Francisco not to give its City workers the day off.

So I breezily enjoyed it every year until I retired.

Bounced paychecks, horrendous hours, many unpaid, from private industry made me move into City government, and even without bonuses, 401k plans, and all that other kind of stuff that is the lure of private business, the medical and dental and vision benefits are sure worth it now.

And the City will NEVER go out of business either, and so neither will my pension go down the toilet.

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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)

Nope, I'll be working all day. Which gets me out of the houseful of kids!

Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day are it for closures for us (besides Saturdays Nov-Feb).

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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)

Off "work"? I suppose you could say so. The holiday to me means:

M(asonry) There's that bit of cracked stucco by the back door needing patching and paint.

L(aundry room) Gotta put some more shelves for soap and stuff over the washer, made the mistake last week of putting some shelves into my work shop last week and wasn't quick enough to keep her from seeing them

K(itchen) Really need to repair the spot in the plaster due to my over-zealous moving of the 'fridge while cleaning the coils, the wife's making noises about cabinets again. Need to straighten the bowed shelving so all the dishes don't slide into the center of the cabinet.

So yeah, I guess I'm "off" work. Stinkin' holidays wear me out!

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― Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now

The employee group votes on what vacation days we take off. The day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) always wins out to MLK. and Good Friday to Presidents Day.

On a fine note. Today Mississippi also celebrates Robert E Lee's Birthday ! Ironic eh?

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15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
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No, I work today but we can take MLK as a floating holiday so I can pair it up with my two days off and get a three day weekend.

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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.

Until 2000, VA celebrated Lee, Jackson (Stonewall), King day. But changed Lee, Jackson to the Friday before King day. Obviously they saw the conflict.

When I still worked, I always had MLK day off. But my favorite holiday was always Columbus day. Only federal workers had it off. Everyone else had to work while I played.

Yes, to all of the above.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

Tell me about it.

Just had to order a new updated defrost control board and air handler control board for the heat pump - $160 online - A/C service techs that came down to troubleshoot the beast on Saturday wanted $300 EACH for them - plus gave me the used car salesman routine (no offense to Tyler) about how I needed to spend 5 grand and put in a whole new system from their company - that has a SEER rating two notches lower than our present system - to "save money".

Not to mention I had to take my laptop, with the Amana technical pdf on it, outside so they could figure out how to troubleshoot it - and when I opened up the control panel to verify the board numbers yesterday, found out they'd left 2 of the wiring connections to the present defrost board unhooked, whether by mistake (it was getting dark and it is crowded with wiring in there) or on purpose to convince me to buy a new system.

Needless to say, won't be calling those gents again.

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Just say "NO" to Ethanol - Drive Diesel

Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club

You must work for slave drivers....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Nope, have to work. I also work Xmas and Thanksgiving. Not a big deal to me, I'd rather make the money.

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Damn, cheap-@$$ swamp yankees!

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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)