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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I have had some queries from some members as to whether I was still around, so I thought I would tell you all, to the disgust of some, yes I am motoring on.
My wife's operation to correct a cataract blindness has not been as easy as we would like. She recovered her sight not too long after the operation, but because she is diabetic, it suddenly went away, requiring laser treatments to correct blood vessel problems, which we are still working on and there is still hope there.
I mentioned earlier my $300 '88 Toyota Tercel that my grandson abandoned at my house and I have been working on. I rescued the air conditioning and converted it to R134 to where it can freeze me out easily, after I paid Pep Boys $29 to tell me it would never work again. I stuck all the missing pieces that I found laying around inside it back on, like the brake light on the hatch, and trim around the windows, pounded the loose bumpers back in place and lubed all the latches. The engine hafd been rebuilt as a shop project at my grandson's high school and runs like a top, nice 1494cc 12 valve 4 cylinder engine. Being an '88, it is carburated with six miles of smoggy vacuum lines so I have spent many hours studying that system and some minutes correcting the leaks and wrong connections. The upshot is, my wife, who when she had a business in 1989 and bought us two new Colt Vistas, rode in the Tercel and thought it ran almost as good as our new Colt Vistas. (The last one of which I was driving when I was T-Boned by a red light runner, leaving me bruised and broken for some time and I have recovered.)
My son's Buckeye Bluegrass Band issued a great CD of all original bluegrass songs that can be heard on www.bandspace.com and 3 of the songs are in the top five in the bluegrass charts on that web site.
I am trying to switch my playing to electric guitar as I haven't been playing in a band for a while. The possibilities are endless. My possible time left to experiment are not.
HAPPY NEW YEAR Amigos!!
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Good to hear from you again, it's been a while. Sorry to hear about the streatch of rough road but these things do straighten out.
Just keep playing, Al Dimeola once tolf me that your guitar will never let you down even when all else will.
Now I've got 1200 miles infront of me to get back to where the weather suitas my clothes.
See you again soon. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Bailey,
Nice to see your words and name in print again. All the best in the health journeys, and may your mechanic skills not let you down, either. |
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Location: Waurika OK | Bailey,
Good to hear from you.
Hope your wifes eyesight can be corrected.
We have missed you. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Bailey, good to hear from you, I was just thinking about not having seen you on here for awhile, and hoping all was well with you. Prayers for your wife.....I am borderline Type 2 diabetic myself, I understand the complications of the condition. Best wishes.
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Location: East Tennessee | Bailey,
Welcome Back and Happy New Year. :)
Hope this year will bring you and your wife back to the mountaintop. |
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| Happy New Year - I really hope things get better this year. And don't forget - when the going gewts tough you can always come here and be insulted. We love to kick a man when he's down.... |
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| I was about to attach a smiley to that when I hit the wrong button - ;)
Don't be gone so long next time. |
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Location: Tennessee | Happy New Year to you Bailey! I'd come to cherish my morning coffee with the Bailey Blog posted in the middle of the night. Post when you can. Best wishes to your family. And crank up that Viper! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks all for the nice thoughts
Schroeder, it is one of my great pleasures being able to jump to other continents so easily, and you don't need no smiley, I enjoy the British humour and can't be anything but appreciative of it, I often use some acerbic comments that at times have been taken wrongly by the overly sensitive, such as Al.
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Location: closely held secret | Nice to see you back, Bailey.
Good wishes and blessings for you and your wife in the new year!!! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Bailey:
Thanks all for the nice thoughts
Schroeder, it is one of my great pleasures being able to jump to other continents so easily, and you don't need no smiley, I enjoy the British humour and can't be anything but appreciative of it, I often use some acerbic comments that at times have been taken wrongly by the overly sensitive, such as Al.
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| Your point being? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by Bailey:
Thanks all for the nice thoughts
Schroeder, it is one of my great pleasures being able to jump to other continents so easily, and you don't need no smiley, I enjoy the British humour and can't be anything but appreciative of it, I often use some acerbic comments that at times have been taken wrongly by the overly sensitive.
Bailey
Regretfully, I must inform you that the British have no sense of humor. They live on a cold, grey isle whose biggest commodity is Dampness and favorite cuisine is smashed peas and mad cow. What's there to be Humorous About? |
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| Hey, we gave you Herman's Hermits, Iron Maiden and Benny Hill. Don't be churlish. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | point well taken. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Bailey,
Missed you man. We made it thru another one! (Let's have toast to the old year!). You know ... I just reread that. I left out the article and I was going to write some pithy thing about life and blah blah blah ... what the hell, let's have some toast and another drink.
Take care. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Schroeder forgot to mention Monty Python, the gift that keeps giving. I watched "Fawltey Towers" just last Saturday. |
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Location: closely held secret | I've got the whole (1) season of FT on DVD. Have a marathon just about annually. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I get BBC America...Black Adder, Monty Python, The Office, Coupling...great sh*t |
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Location: NJ | I just got 3 seasons of "Chef!" on DVD for Christmas . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You haven't seen Chef? It's what Anthony Bourdaine wants to be if he grows up! :D
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Happy New Year to some great friends
