Morning coffee

[4banger]

Just had my coffee and pancakes. Wax and buffed the 57 yesterday. Going to OLD Town car cruise today. 85 degree temps in Orlando today. I'll take every degree they throw at me.

[RICH MUISE]

85degrees...   #%@@*&!! I need to get an outside thermometer..according to the weather channel this morning for Amarillo..todays low will be 17 degrees, with the current temperature 10 degrees.  HUH?
On another note...what's with UPS?? last weekend I ordered a part from Calif. It shipped Monday, usps, and arrived Wednesday. On Monday I ordered one part shipped from Ohio, Fed Ex, and it arrived Thursday. On Monday I also ordered some stuff from Summit in Georgia, UPS. I got an email from Summit the package was waiting for UPS pickup Monday afternoon....it didn't leave the local Ga. UPS docks until Friday!..won't be here until Wed. next week.

[Ford Blue blood]

Enjoying a balmy 39 right now.  Had a catastrophe yesterday, went to the shop and found the "beer locker" was tits up!  Lost two packages of meat but most importantly my pop, water and beer was warm .  Got it fixed with a new used fridge for a buck and quarter off craigslist.  Did eat up the best part of the day doing the search and rescue.....but all is well and there is peace in the shop .

[hiball3985]

Just returned from my first short trip in the rain, I can consider it christened 

[hiball3985]

Rich, weather this week may be a big factor in delivery times plus all the holiday shipments. I had two deliveries this week and they have a two man crew on the truck. The driver only drives and the helper does all the running and shes cute...

[RICH MUISE]

Could be the weather...UPS tracking had a note saying the trailers weren't unloaded due to "local disruption". I guess they word it that way just to leave us wondering what a local distruption entails. Tornado? sinkhole in the road approaching the ups warehouse? Local "loco" going postal (or in this case...UPStal)? Party for Billy Bob's birthday? in mourning for the local high school's lost football game?
Just went out and turned the space heaters off in my garage...after 4 hours, temp never got to 32. I'm bored.

[RICH MUISE]

Any of you guys bought any cool tools lately?...unusual stuff you're real happy with...or unhappy with? or just some unusual neat tools you've got? I'm bored. Man can only clean so much.

[hiball3985]

Haven't bought a new tool in years. I ordered my sway bars last weekend from Concourse hoping the shipping may be cheaper from Nevada. They sent me a nice letter this week informing me they are being drop shipped from the manufacturer, have no idea where that is, and coming by UPS, with no tracking number  . That OK, I'm not in a rush..

I love Amazons plan to use drones for deliveries for the idiots that have to have everything right away. Hope that stupidity never gets off the ground. But they would make good target practice 

[hiball3985]

Could be the weather...UPS tracking had a note saying the trailers weren't unloaded due to "local disruption". I guess they word it that way just to leave us wondering what a local distruption entails. Tornado? sinkhole in the road approaching the ups warehouse? Local "loco" going postal (or in this case...UPStal)? Party for Billy Bob's birthday? in mourning for the local high school's lost football game?
Just went out and turned the space heaters off in my garage...after 4 hours, temp never got to 32. I'm bored.

A friend of mine is driving a truck and was in Texas this morning after leaving Billy Bobs birthday party last night. He said it was the first time he's chained a truck in Texas. I'm not sure where this is but he said from Rockwall to north side of Fort Worth is 60 miles and it took him 5 hours. He's now stopped on the side of the road and refuses to go any further due to the icing.

[RICH MUISE]

Yep...Texas is big. Rockwall is a suburb of Dallas, so after 5 hours your friend never got out of the DFW metropex. They got hit pretty hard down there yesterday....ice, not so much the snow as you can see. Recent ads for the Fort Worth airport claim the airport is larger than Manhattan Island.

[hiball3985]

Yep...Texas is big. Rockwall is a suburb of Dallas, so after 5 hours your friend never got out of the DFW metropex. They got hit pretty hard down there yesterday....ice, not so much the snow as you can see. Recent ads for the Fort Worth airport claim the airport is larger than Manhattan Island.

This is ice skating rink where he parked it this morning, that was the last I heard.

[4thgen57]

25 degrees here at 5pm, early morning today with a double header hockey game for my son. outscored the other team 14-2, he had 2 goals. another early morning tomorrow. 7 am game an hour away with another winter weather advisory! should be a fun trip!  Maybe I'll take the 57 with no heat!!!!

[Frankenstein57]

We had 4 degrees this morning, glad I'm not on call. Switched the tractor over from mower to snow thrower, worked on a snow blower I acquired for the other house I bought. Took a load of scrap in today, got $100 bucks. All shined up for the company Christmas party,should be fun, its at a casino.

[hiball3985]

25 degrees here at 5pm, early morning today with a double header hockey game for my son. outscored the other team 14-2, he had 2 goals. another early morning tomorrow. 7 am game an hour away with another winter weather advisory! should be a fun trip!  Maybe I'll take the 57 with no heat!!!!

I don't envy you, I remember too well the days my youngest son played hockey.

[gasman826]

I had too much coffee this AM.  I started looking for all my garnish molding so I could prep for paint.  I started hyperventilating when I couldn't find all of them.  The harder I looked, the more duplicates I found.  A six hour search yielded them along with a lot of other things.  I found two rear view mirrors.  Both from '57 Customs.  One with a swivel ball in the little garnish piece and the other threaded into the garnish piece with a lock nut.  Which one is the odd ball?