Max Hell.

… If you liked my post on Max Hall, the BYU QB that shoulda kept his mouth shut after winning the game, you should check out Writer’s post on him too.  It get’s a 2 thumbs up!

13 in one month.

… Spam posts.  That’s what I’ve gotten 13 of in the last month.  They’re real interesting.  Like as interesting as watching paint dry, and I’m getting tired of even having to see them.  So, if you comment on my posts here you may notice something like this showing up before you get to send your comment off to me:

 … It’s a picture of letters that you will have to enter before you can send me your comment.  It’s just to make sure you are a real human being and not some computer program that wants to send me messages like “Our polished stand by together of high practised pharmacists will help you Cheap Discount Viagra Pharmacy On-line, consulting on disparate constitution questions.” or “Hello !.You may , perhaps very interested to know how one can reach 2000 per day of income . There is no initial capital needed You may begin earning with as small sum of money as 20-100 dollars. AimTrust is what you haven`t ever dreamt of such a chance to become rich AimTrust incorporates an offshore structure with advanced asset management technologies in production and delivery of pipes for oil and gas. It is based in Panama with structures everywhere: In USA, Canada, Cyprus.Do you want to become really rich in short time? That`s your choice That`s what you really need! I feel good, I began to get income with the help of this company, and I invite you to do the same. It`s all about how to select a correct partner utilizes your savings in a right way - that`s it!.I earn US$2,000 per day, and my first deposit was 1 grand only! It`s easy to start , just click this link <link deleted by me> and lucky you`re! Let`s take this option together to get rid of nastiness of the life”

… Not only is the English atrocious, but I’m not really interested in Viagra and, as much as I would love to make $2,000 a day for sitting on my butt, I really don’t think sending $20-100 to some unknown, untraceable, out-of-U.S.-jurisdiction company will do that for me.

… So, sorry for the inconvenience, but keep in mind that those couple extra seconds will be saving me a lot of time that was spent deleting emails and rejecting unwanted comments.

… Thank you for your cooperation.

Repent, the end is near.

… I was reading the Utah Ride section in the Salt Lake Tribune and came across a disturbing article; “Crown Vic a victim of police-car wars.”  According to the article, Ford is going to custom design a new rear-wheel drive vehicle, specifically for police use.  This means, since they will no longer be building the big, agreeably outdated, Crown Vic for police use, they will stop building the Panther platform car (which also includes the Mercury Grand Marquis and the Lincoln Town Car).

 

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… The Crown Vic (full name Crown Victoria), was originally used on a model of Ford in the 1950’s, but was revived in the mid 80’s as the upper-level trim for my beloved Ford LTD, which ironically started out as the upper-level trim for the Ford Galaxie.  The car came out in 1959 as just the Ford Custom and Ford Galaxie.  In the late 60’s Ford offered the Custom, Galaxie and the upscale Galaxie LTD*.  By 1969 the upscale model dropped the Galaxie name, becoming known as just the LTD.  By the mid-70’s the whole lower level cars were dropped, and Ford only offered the LTD, until the early 80’s when they offered the LTD and the upscale LTD Crown Victoria.  In the late 80’s or early 90’s the LTD Crown Victoria became simply the Crown Vic. and later in the 90’s Ford dropped the LTD moniker, selling nothing but the Crown Vic.

… So it seems the family line of my classic car corral is about to die out.  According to the Tribune article, 2011 will be the last year they sell the Crown Vic.  Bummer.

 

 

* There is still debate over what LTD stands for.  According to the Wikipedia article I got my information from, it could stand for “Luxury Trim Decor”, “Lincoln Type Design” or simply be three random letters.  Personally, I always believed it was the abbreviation for “Limited”, as in Limited Edition.

My buddy Max Hall

… For those of you outside of Utah and not big college sports fans, Max Hall is the Brigham Young University quarterback.

… One of the biggest rivalries in Utah is between BYU and the University of Utah.  Every time they play each other, especially in football, the state is a sea of red (U of U fans) and blue (BYU fans).

… This year, after beating the University of Utah, Max Hall commented “I don’t like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them.”  When asked why, he responded with “The whole university and their fans and the organization is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff and did a bunch of nasty stuff. I don’t respect them.”  This is what I call a sore winner.  So, here are a few pictures that I got in emails this last week:

Below are some of the University of Utah football leaders.

I truly want to believe that this one below is an actual picture from his high school yearbook.  Anyone who knows Utah County, where BYU is located, knows that the comment under his picture is not unheard of there.

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HAS GONE THROUGH AN  EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION LOOKING FOR THE FANS WHO POURED BEER ON MAX HALL’S FAMILY

HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

   

Ok, God, I get the point.

… I’d been thinking about selling the Subaru and using the old Fords for regular transportation.  Part of me was thinking it would be kinda retro cool to be driving a 70’s vehicle all the time.  On the other hand, I figured I probably would end up having to go into debt to buy something like the Subaru in a few years, so why not just keep it. 

… Now, most of you who know me are thinking: yeah, with his history, he’s bound to sell the Subaru and end up going into debt to get something else in a couple years.

… True, true.  Whenever financial frugality come into conflict with automotive decisions, cars have always won.  Until this time (probably).

… I got up this morning planning on driving Old Blue into work.  Went out to the garage, cranked it over, turned on the swamp cooler and closed the garage door*. I got out of the car to go get the stuff I needed for school and by the time I got back the car had stalled.  And wouldn’t start again.  I tried for about 5 minutes and gave up.  I knew I had flooded it, but needed to get to work, so I couldn’t wait for it to settle. (I got it started right away when I got home). 

… This is when I realized I needed to keep the Subaru.  It’s frustrating enough trying to get an old carbureted car running when it’s freezing out, but the added bonus of needing it to get to work would have been too much.  Thanks God for the Subaru.  I just got everything out of the car, brought it over to the porch and then went back to get the keys out of the car.

… This is where things got really-really fun.  Because the house was locked, the garage doors were closed and I forgot the side door of the garage was locked when I shut it.  No keys, no phone, locked out of the house in the cold and already 15 minutes behind schedule for work.  Not happy.

… I ended up having to kick in the back door to the house to get to the garage door opener there.  It was shockingly easy to kick in the door, took only 3 good kicks and the door jamb just shattered.  At least I had built that back porch with the lockable storm door in it.   So I spent this evening replacing the door knob and the door jamb on my back door.

… The good thing is that I did get to feel like Joe FBI for a few minutes this morning, kicking in the perp’s back door.

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*I do this because when it’s cold the car needs to idle a few minutes and I don’t want the noise to drive the neighbors crazy at 6 am.  The swamp cooler pumps fresh air in so I don’t end up committing suicide.