well, it ran pretty good. until it got up to 210 degrees and I decided to shut it down. Cell phones sure do make things nice. It was easy to wake up my wife and let her know I needed a ride.

Looks like there is a pretty major leak in the radiator. $300 is what we are looking at for a new radiator. That is a hard sell when I just talked my wife out of taking a weekend get-a-way for $300.

We’ll see.

“Why?”

Good question.

Its because tomorrow I am driving a car to work that I built with my own two hands. You remember that project car I started in 1999? It is finally “driveable”. I just finished putting insurance on the car and tomorrow I will drive it to the tax collectors office to transfer the tags and get a new title. Its been 8 years in the making, with off and on passion. Mostly, I worked hard for a few years to get out of debt but now I have had the ability to throw some money at it and really get it ready for the road. There are a few things I am going to be without, but since this is an open-forum, I must forego the details. Suffice it to say, I don’t think it will be dangerous to anyone but myself. For instance, I don’t have a water temperature gauge. If the car overheats, it could be a big bummer. But I have had the car run for several minutes without overheating so I think we’re all set in that arena.

I’ll let you know how it goes!

Here is what it looked like about 3 years. Not much different. Although it was less an engine.

super glue is powerful stuff. no doubt about it.

as some of you know, my wife and i send rubber ducks through a website called sendaduck.com. we really enjoy it and have enjoyed the process of growing the business. yesterday i was at the post office, super gluing stamps to ducks to be shipped. all was going well, until I forgot to replace the lid on the glue bottle. as i was turning around the corner, OH MY GOSH, the super glue bottle fell and emptied on the floor of my truck. I quickly stopped the truck and tried to get as much of it up and out with scrap pieces of paper, but some fell down between the door and frame. I didn’t see it.

15 minutes later I am tooling down the road, park at the store i want to go in and …what, wait…the dang door is super glued shut. What the …?! Yeah, it was a mess. The door didn’t stay stuck, it was just difficult to get open and continued to stick until I got home and washed it off.

What a mess?!