Subj : Re: Socialist "Democrats" To : DIGIMAUS From : Rob Mccart Date : Sat Dec 06 2025 08:50:19 RM> Over the past few years I lost both my mother and father and you RM> don't think about things until they are gone. I was fortunate that RM> I lived only 20 miles from them so I could spend a lot of time RM> visiting with them and helping them out while by brother and sister RM> were hundreds of miles away and only saw them a few times a year. RM> We were lucky they both lived into their 90's.. DI>Both of my parents are in their mid-70s. My dad is severely disabled >and my mom has age-related issues, so it'd be good to be close. The >loss of our parents is an issue with me and my sister (younger) so we'll >be glad when they settle down. Yes, it can be difficult as they age, especially these days when so many live to their 80's and 90's. More time for things to go wrong. My mother had a little trouble getting around but lived in her own house (with some help from me) until she passed at 92. My father, unfortunately, ended up in a care facility the last couple of years before passing at 90. He didn't have Alzheimer's but something with similar symptoms. Mom and I tried to keep him at home but when he had a fall one day and ended up in hospital for treatment, they had a good look at him and said he couldn't go home with us in the mental condition he was in. He actually ended up quite happy in the place, although he didn't know us anymore when we visited, but his happiness was more important. DI>Not to be morbid but my dad (and mymother, as his wife) and I are set up >to be buried at the Mountain Home (TN) National Cemetery here. My >maternal grandparents are interred in the mausoleum there so we'll all >be there in the same cemetery. Our family were never ones to get into visiting graveyards. My parents were both cremated and their ashes were placed in a big flower garden in front of my place.. RM> I could count it in gallons per mile if I was running it hard.. DI>I remember a guy I knew back in '89 that had a 900HP Nova and he did >that too when he was driving it hard, somthing like 90 miles to a tank >of expensive 140-octane gas! Ha.. One time I didn't pay close enough attention and realized I was almost totally out of gas at my parents home and it was a fair distance to a Sunoco gas station so, to be safe, I dumped a gallon of gas my father had there for the lawn mower into the car. Surprisingly it actually seemed to run okay if I took it easy, but when I got to the gas station and turned off the ignition, it ran on quite smoothly as if it were still on. I ended up having to put on the brakes and dump the clutch to stall it since they won't let you fill up a running car.. B) When I had my engine built they had a standard rebuild that would have given me 800 HP. (This was a big valve Corvette 327 engine.) I told them to ignore horsepower sine 327's make lots of that, and to make all their choices based on what created the most torque. I ended up with 575 HP (built on a dyno, so accurate) but it put out the same torque as a 500 cid Cadillac engine. The man running the place delivered my car to his house, which was much closer that the tech institute. He later admitted, and was none to happy about it, that on the way home he, in my car, and a friend of his who was driving his car home, had a bit of a drag race, and he was not the least bit happy when my car blew his off the road.. He had a Special Limited Edition Charger (actually illegal to sell in Canada) with a 440 six pack that had other work in it and had been tested and could easily pull 12 second quarter miles.. --- * SLMR Rob * Accountants do it until they lose their balance * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (618:250/1) .