I saw the largest handwritten bill I've ever seen today. Handwritten, a single sheet, for ~$67K. From a local franchise of a national drain cleaning company for substantial plumbing work in the county jail, but on the same single sheet you or I would get if they came to snake out a plugged drain at our house. Just 3 more zeros. I'm not even saying it was overpriced, though I'm sure they made money, just the informality of it.
In a way I like it, it was a bid price job, and who says you need formality to do work and get paid. People billed things before .pdf's existed.
He must have been FaceBooking when I cruised into his radar doing 55+ in a 40,
because he pulled the car about 100 yards behind me over. <=== (that's my, "I be thankful" emoticon)
At least, that is what a Hancock County judge told the Fostoria, Ohio, man even though Miller was right there in court, speaking and breathing.
“We’ve got the obvious here,” said Probate Court Judge Allan Davis. “A man sitting in the courtroom, he appears to be in good health.” But the judge went on to tell Miller that because he was ruled legally dead in 1994, he missed the deadline for coming back to life, at least in legal terms, by 16 years.
Saw a bike cop going around a fire truck with lights and sirens yesterday, nothing too odd there, probably going to the same place. Except as he went around and hit second he popped a wheelie. Not full up nor did he ride it out, but he caught 10-12" of air. Never seen a cop pop a wheelie before.
what is it with Ferrari transmissions? I just drove a 365GTC and a 412i. Both had 5-speed manual transmissions that are possibly the worst I have ever driven. A double clutch big rig 16 speed is easier to shift.
Both cars went up on a lift and whats even worse, the transmissions are physically larger than the V12 engines. When you look inside its mostly air space -- the gears and shafts look like they belong in an industrial revolution manufacturing shop. This may have been state of art for a 5-speed in 1950 but how are they still used in 1969 and 1986 virtually unchanged? The transmissions Ford and Chevy put behind big block V8s of the era tiny by comparison.
I can see why Enzo drove an automatic transmission 412 as his personal car. i though it was the other Italian sports car maker who started with tractors.
Turned on the news this mornig and there was was a school shooting down the road. Two peoploe dead . So I figure I'll go down and put a couple $hundred on the Giants for tonight.
Reads more like the Onion than the NY Times. Not that it couldn't happen, just the way it reads.
A guy I work with has a brother who is big into pigeon racing. It's insane how much breeders will pay for a winning racer when it's past its prime. He showed me one that sold for $150,000 once; the thing probably never left the loft after that. Understandable when a hungry hawk could take out that investment right quick.
<=== (that's my, "I be thankful" emoticon)
