Toyman01 wrote: In reply to wearymicrobe: I seriously dream abut getting off the rat wheel.Might be time to slow down and smell the roses.
Even if I could just cut down to 40 hours a week I would be happy, and maybe move out of San Diego where a shack is not 750K.
That bike and a small shipping container house just might be my escape cabin if I could find some decent land up north near the coast.
Appleseed wrote: I just got done reading about Armstrong's X-15 flights.
The X15 was a seriously badass plane. Get dropped off the wing of a bomber then see if you can light the fuse. Get fired out of the atmosphere by an experimental rocket engine, where missing cutoff by a few seconds means tens of thousands of feet of elevation. Then you glide back to earth in a brick and land on skis.
I got one of these refurbished from Woot!, we've needed a new vacuum for a long time, kind of wanted a Dyson, but didn't want to spend Dyson money, and have made due with an old Dirt Devil upright canister for far too long. I knew the Dirt Devil didn't do that great, but it still picked up stuff, and I thought we were relatively clean people. I went over our bedroom floor, which appeared to be clean, twice with the new Dyson last night, and I managed to fill the Dyson's canister 3/4 full. There was so much hair, I don't know how SWMBO has any left on her head. 
Color me IMPRESSED! 
Yeah, I love my Dyson. I wish I had spent the extra money and gotten the Animal, but even my regular one works very very well.
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We were holding out for an Animal originally, but when comparing the Mutlti Floor to the Animal, the only difference was attachments. Woot! had a great deal on the Multi Floor so I jumped on it.
However when it arrived it came with the mini turbine head. Lives up to its name, that thing spins crazy fast, and sound like a turbine. I wasn't expecting to get the mini turbine head with the Multi Floor model.
http://www.aacamuseum.org/motoring-mysteries-far-east/#!
Mill fire about 6 miles from here. They have evacuated a 1 mile radius around the site. Looked like it was a few blocks away from work but it is just much larger than it looks.
Wally wrote:
http://appleton.craigslist.org/cto/4533238322.html
American Austin Bantum 1931 - $8000 (Sheboygan Falls)
1931 American Austin Bantum, Needs work yard drives & stops,brush paint job little rust,good tires new battery all glass good one window not installed. $8000.00 or best offer or take 1930, 1931 Model A Coup in part trade.Or looking to buy Coupe Body! Call
In reply to bigdaddylee82:
I just want to note that you followed a picture of the X-15, possibly the baddest plane ever to exist ever, with a picture of an overpriced vacuum cleaner who's sole claim to fame is that the guy in charge has never figured out how to turn his vacuum.
In reply to tuna55:
It's really that badass.
wearymicrobe wrote:Toyman01 wrote: In reply to wearymicrobe: I seriously dream abut getting off the rat wheel.Even if I could just cut down to 40 hours a week I would be happy, and maybe move out of San Diego where a shack is not 750K. That bike and a small shipping container house just might be my escape cabin if I could find some decent land up north near the coast.
Cranking the money machine to feed the consumer machine is getting old.
If I didn't have two kids still in school and a wife, I think I'd be living in a camper in the woods somewhere, and doing handy man work for cash and food. I've done broke and enjoyed life just as much as I do now, if not more.
This may well be me in 10 years.
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