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Ed: remind me, is it a Boy? What about "Dave"?
-juice
Craig
Steve
-Dennis
Serge - Susan is in my prayers. A very good friend of mine (some of you met Jody at the Philly show a few years ago) is going through the same thing. She just started her radiation and it looks really good - like Susan's situation. I'll be praying for you daily.
Brenda - congratulations! You do seem too young to be a grandmother! Enjoy the spoiling you'll get to do.
Jim - You are in our prayers also. I can't imagine how challenging this must be for you all, but the strength of children can be amazing.
Welcome Owen!
Juice - will you be signing autographs soon?
Dennis - should we get a posse going on the Parkway? In search of....
I have the PC back now, so I'll try to stay on top of things. I think they are going to let me go back to work on 10/20. I feel almost ready now (except I'm still a bit tired). I'm incredibly bored!
Patti
Can you get the STi into the VIP program please?!! :-)
-Dennis
-Colin
-juice
Patti, welcome back again I hope all the health issues are now behind you.
Dennis, I would not want it back either.
Cheers Pat.
Ken
Congratulations to you, Steve. I bet Emily is looking forwad to the baby sister as much as you and your wife.
My cousin visited yesterday. He lives in Adelaide, about 600 miles away and took the chance while visiting Melbourne to visit my mum and dad who live a further 90 miles away, in order to show his two kids the farm. He and his wife adopted from Taiwan whilst they were living in Singapore.
Its a real mixed family. Dad is Australian, Mum English, 7 year old son is Taiwanese native (different ethnic group) and 5 year old daughter Chinese. The early years spent in Singapore mean that the kids have very Malaysian/Singaporean taste in food. The time now spent in Australia has given them very definite Australian accents.
The kids are delightful and rampaged around the house with my two for the whole visit. They were seriously offended when they had to pack up and leave - they hadn't finished playing.
The seven year old is areal cute kid. His hair sticks straight up all over giving something of the look of a porcupine. His mother is now resigned to the fact tthat it will not sit down no matter what she does. Every other kid reckons he is lucky to have an easy care hair cut - no need to comb.
One funny story. When Cousin visited Taiwan on business a few weeks ago, he visited a restaurant where the proprietor took one look at him, said, "I know you" in poor English. David knew her as well. Turned out she owned a restaurant in Adelaide where they ate occassionally and David was memorable because of his Taiwanese kids.
Hope your little one is as much fun
Cheers
Graham
and welcome back to patti!
Patti: Good to see you back. Don't rush it if you don't have to.
juice: Yes, it's a boy. Dave is not on the short list of names, though there is at least one "K" name under consideration and my wife's maiden name starts with "K." She's not the Subie driver, though <:-( .
Ed
It's at the police impound in Maplewood and I'm heading there to pick it up now. No details yet.
-Dennis
Jon
Jon
Pleasure meeting you
Was a shame I couldn't stay long.
I was beat, I was tired, been out since that morning ~9:00am. I was close to nodding off to sleep by the time I got to the Holland Tunnel.
-Dave
Jon: pizza and BS is a great way to spend an evening! I find I always have better conversations with pizza (beer helps too). Now I have a taste for pizza...
Craig
Cheers Pat.
The front bumper and hood were smashed. It looked like they had been using my car to push another car.
I suspect it may have been used in the attempted theft of other cars (possibly of a Rex at Best Buy). My tow strap (from my OBS off-roading days) had been used.
Lots of dents and scratches, tears, etc. Steering column was ripped apart to start the car. They even put their own shift knob and left a lot of their personal stuff in the car (clothes, VW jack, etc.). Not much info on them from the police.
A pretty draining day to say the least. Everyone was pretty helpful. paisan offered to tow me on Monday, but I found a tow today so I wouldn't have to take a day off.
Ed, I'll be in Flemington 11 Oct (re-scheduled). Might still test-drive an XT. :-)
-Dennis
Sounds more like it was Bashed.
Honestly, I don't know how to feel.
Outrage over what was and had been done seem to overwhelm any form of gladness.
-Dave
Will your insurance company total it out or make it repairable? I'd rather have it totalled out as well (easier to get into that XT ;-)
-Brian
Bob
I've got a little traveling to do next week but should be able to meet up on the 11th.
Good luck with the insurance co.
Ed
Craig
The car has probably been badly whipped, there is an old saying in Ireland, it takes a borrowed horse to have hard hooves.
If the insurance will not total the car you might be wise to dump it after having it repaired.
Cheers Pat.
My wife bless her heart without missing a beat said well unlike a two legged mistress a car will never come to door claiming to be pregnant:-).
Cheers Pat.
Sorry to hear about the car, Dennis. Did they arrest anyone, or just find it at the end of a street someplace? I often wonder what I would do if my car were totalled out like that.....XT or some boit du merde to hold me over to the new Legacy....
I've got a real stolen car horror story, and it's kind of long. It happened to my neice. Her car was stolen and she reported to the authorities. A week later it was recovered. The police came to my neice's apartment and took her to the station where they interrogated HER. It seems that when they picked up the car, the theives claimed that my neice was one of their drug customers. They told the police that she had let them "borrow" the car and then when she wasn't happy about the drug deal, she claimed it was stolen. My neice had a picture of herself, her day planner, plus other personal items in the car when it was stolen. The theives knew what she looked like, where she lived, and where she worked which convinced the police it was a drug deal gone bad.
For four hours my neice was grilled about her association with the scumbags and her "drug" problem. She was finally vindicated, but it was quite a traumatic ordeal.
I guess the moral is to never leave anything in your car that might be used against you.
My parents' Accord was stolen right out from under their noses at home one night. Alarm never tripped and, as would be obvious later, no sign of forced entry. There was a thievery ring at the dealer service dept- they copied the key during an oil change.
So mom and dad are driving through downtown a week later and, voila, there is the Accord parked on the street. Mom grabs a cop and Dad heads home to get the keys. After an hour of waiting, the cop moved on, and my parents stole back their completely unscathed Accord.
Wow, Dennis. I guess I'd have it inspected mechanically as well as physically. I think the tires are the first place to look. They'll provide the most information. Look for flat spots, severe wear, etc.
Be prepared to negotiate perhaps a new set with the insurance co. If the clutch is slipping I'd ask for a new one of those, too.
Maybe even ask if they'll buy it from you, if you think you might trade it in anyway.
Ed: no Dave? Bummer. OK, what about Mike? Steve? David as a middle name? LOL
-juice
It appeared the cops were more concerned about finding drugs (the theif's clothes cut, seat cover unzipped) than anything. I don't have any details of the recovery, other than where the car was found.
I probably won't hang on to the car. My wife doesn't even want me to take it back after it's repaired. That's the way I feel as well.
-Dennis
I have to get a state inspection this month, and don't even want to turn the keys over to a stranger for that. I would probably need shock treatment if the car got stolen!
Craig
I tend to get attached, too, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same.
Plus, he just got that Rex, probably had not bonded yet. (just tryin' to make you feel better Dennis)
-juice
Changed front/rear diffy oil
Changed engine oil, air filter
Added UK OEM acrylic headlight/foglight covers, rear cupholders,
Added 17" wheels/tires.
Blue i-badge
Added SPT rear swaybar
My daughter told me if I get a new car, I shouldn't "bling it out". :-)
-Dennis
I say customize, personalize, go for it. Just no big fat yellow stickers and coffee can exhaust tips, OK? ;-)
-juice
Greg
Greg
Thanks, Greg.
-Dennis
-mike
I'm glad that they found your car, but I'm really sorry to hear about what it had been through. I hope your insurance company takes care of it for you. It would seem to me that no matter what amount the insurance company paid you, it wouldn't fix the emotional damage to the car.
Did they catch the punks who did it?
Ken
-mike
It's a Subie! It's the car, not A car.
Just kidding. ;-)
-juice
It's one year to date, and I still miss Al'Gator.
But I had good times and memories with him. My first new car. My first AutoX was with him. My first car [but not the first vehicle] I've ever rolled. Out manuvering a Viper on our trip home from Maine... can't say anything was done in his back seat ;-)
He was a reliable companion and he went down fighting. That's the memories I keep and I'm glad they were not tainted.
-Dave
-mike