racinfarmer

We bought 1 farm site and hauled shit out by the end dump full. That is me, but with early to mid 2010's race sled parts.

I have family down in that part of the world and we make it down there at least once or twice a year. We love going to Decorah. On the flip side, I'm retired from the drink for a while. Maybe this winter I'll pick it back up as a hobby.

Back when we lived in the hood, there was a place that would do a weekly auction sale. Needing tools and whatnot, I headed on over one evening to buy some stuff. I won a lot of brand new Triumph drill bit sets, number, letter, fractional, and metric for $65. Probably over $1000 if you bought the indexes separately. That got all the old codgers attention real quick. Anything I bid on after that, 2 or 3 of them would just throw up their bid number. Didn't matter what it was, I was not welcome. I ran a no-name bench vise up to over $250 and stopped. Some dickhead ate that one. A used bench vise you'd be lucky to get $20 and is probably $50 at Menards. Another one was when my buddy needed a vise back in the Craigslist days. Found an ad and him and I headed on over. I shit you not, this was probably a 30'x50' shed, 4 or 5 shelves high around the perimeter. The shelves were packed with bench vises, the whole shed. In the center was anvils, the whole shed. Hundreds and hundreds of both. Guy had to be 75-80, wanted the top of top dollar, and really didn't want to sell the one he had listed because he might need it some day. I know he kicked over a few years after that, but never have heard what happened to the stuff.

I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything is a nail.

Why not call out the income like the Democrats would do? $15 billion a month sounds shitty. $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years.

We did kind of a brewery hopping long weekend around Madison and a round-about way home. New Glarus stuff was overall one my least favorite on that trip.. Some were OK, but overall, I'll pass. Goose Island and 312 stuff were far and away my least favorite, but we didn't hit those up in person, just what I've had. My favorite, still, is Toppling Goliath out of Iowa. A bonus is my favorite of their is their cheapest brew too. Damn I want some Psuedo Sue when I get back to drinking. 6 or 7 more months to go.

If you'd put a Spotted Cow and a warm Keystone in front of me, I'd grabbing that warm Keystone every time.

Oh come on now, the US and Japan do not subsidize the EU's healthcare. <insert sarcasm here>

West Coast Customs Racing is closing up shop after 3 years.

They must have a heck of a well run show. The shows they have that I'd like to make it to are Monday to Wednesday shows, and that is a hard one to swing for me

Another weekend at 141 with 160+ cars on a weekly race night. No track around MN gets that kind of car count, not even close.

Got the first meaningful ride of the year in just now, 3 miles to and from the farm round trip. My fat huffin and puffin ass in the reason it was 94-95 out today - had to expel all that hot air from myself. The wind can stop any time now...

Again, the government can't wheel a tire down a hill without fucking it up, what makes you think they'll be batting 100 on healthcare, or even half that? I served my time in med device and have utilized our healthcare system far more then I care to think about. I do not believe our government, current or during the "glory years" of Obama, is or was capable of competently having Universal Healthcare in the US. Great, the rest of the world can do it. They aren't as fucked as we are. If we could competently do it in this country, great. I'd be all for it.

Having seen the cost of a 4 year public school education, I have serious doubts the government, public option or not, would be able to reasonably control the cost of healthcare in this country.

No worries, I saw some comments on some Facespace MN news station pages saying the real reason JD was over there visiting was the deliver Elon's billions to the church to make sure the next Pope was American.

Somewhere a few watercross guys are jerking one another off at the thought of another old Firecat mod sled to chop up for a race sled.

E99 FTMFW!!!

Fired up the brand new rotary parlor last week.

Welp, anything I'd be interested in is out of the my price range. I wonder how many of those never ridden sleds will get put together and have the piss pounded out of them.

What a shocker, more fraud in Walz's MN, and the local media runs a brief blip on it and we are back to our regularly scheduled programming.

We don't really have a track like that out this way, other then Deer Creek. One track that a lot of people think is the "premier" track has a well run show, but every time I've been there has been a 1 lane train of a track. IDK, some people claim it is "dry slick." Call it what you will, but you are just burning tires and gas with 24 mods in a single file line. The other one has potential and good prep, but the 90 minute intermissions between heats and features has to change. We don't go there anymore since it isn't uncommon for a regular night show to last to 11:30 or midnite, then a 90 minute drive home. I don't know why we can't get a well run track with a good surface on it with a good core 4 classes of cars at it in this area. The whole IMCA/WISSOTA split the last 10 years or so of tracks switching to IMCA doesn't help.

Think of him as the CEO of the state.

He looks like an extra creepy version of Tattoo from Fantasy Island. Ze plane, boss! Ze plane!

Truly amazed we have the upcoming C-Suite for Arctic Cat on this very site! I'll round up a contact for Brad and be sure to let him know.