All will be well by Sunday.. I have high hopes....?...it will have been 3 weeks of being in a time funk and I'm ready to move ahead.

Don't forget to set your clock forward France

 

Thanks Kernow................will do..........time again, we are all controlled by time and the clock. It even controls you when you've retired, plenty to do and never enough time. I thought I'd left all of that behind when I finished working, rushing around like a 'headless chicken'.............nothing changes.

Remember the 60's, 70's and even the 80's, life seem so laid back by comparison..............that's progress for you...............computers, labour saving devices etc...........problem is they don't save you any time.

 

OffroadFrance
If you are a fan of Kaoma then you will like this.
Oyez what more can I say other than I wish I had the moves like the black guy in the white pants!
T/V

 

Thanks tuercas viejas, that's a great latino record, I just love it...........

 

The clock on my off spring's D1 showed it was "time" for a new battery yesterday. No clock display, driver door only unlocks with key, no lights, no crank. Just like in the 60's, old battery no like temp changes. I had forgotten the "female driver battery rule" - replace battery on their birthday every year. Put old battery in something less critical.

 

That first guy with the short ponytail is the spitting image of a guy I went out with for a short while in college. He worked at a small corner grocery store owned by an Asian family and my girlfriend and I would go down and get an ice cream cone every so often. He was mysterious.. wore a long black coat had slick hair like the guy in the video, a real charmer for sure. He liked to tease.. After a few times of going in and ordering up a rocky road he asked me out. It was a slow romance.. I helped him practice his taekwondo moves down by the water's edge near my apartment til dusk (I would hold his kicking paddle, etc.). We'd meet in the Student Union and study together (he told me that he was a Chemical Engineering Student), take walks, go to a movie, etc. It was right around the time of a murder just up the hill from my apartment (an unheard of thing even now in that small town) and the woman was killed with an ice pick. Everyone was on edge and coincidentally Sean (his name) started showing me strange objects that he carried in the pocket of his long black coat (a ferocious looking Chinese Star and other oddities). Kind of freaked me out. I really liked him and we had fun together, I gave him a silver bracelet that I wore of 2 rams heads because he liked it and he wore it on his wrist. The next time I went in to the grocery store his Master/boss was there. He told me that Sean was under his supervision and that he was a high school student from the Detroit area who needed to finish High School as he was a troubled teen. He was his 'Master' of Taekwondo and Sean lived with him. WOW..was I ever bamboozled! I think about him from time to time when I see a Ram and think of that experience. Did he like me? Was it just a thrill for him to see what he could get away with?

They solved the murder a few years later after I graduated. The suspect was walking around a woman's apartment with a backpack of paraphernalia (duct tape, knives, etc.) late at night. She heard a noise, was scared and called the police. He confessed and the case was closed. He worked for the Department of Social Services!

 

Back on the thread, what is the real world?.............everyone's world is their real world be it an LR fetish, hippies from the 60's, high powered job in banking, petro-chem or whatever, hi-tech wizzkid in NASA in computing or space exploration...........everyone has to be what they want to be and they all have a place in our society. Without the diversity of people it would be such a boring life. I often wonder what all of you guys do for a living and when reading the threads and posts try to paint a mental picture which is probably wildly wrong. One day, when I've got 'time' I would love to go back to the US and drift around sight seeing the places and country as it was magic and the diversity was fantastic. One day hopefully.

 

Offroad... 'It's my thread and I'll whine if I want to..'

The 'real world'... I work in the oil industry, I'm an environmental engineer. I analyze pipelines and oil wells for corrosion to prevent disasters from striking. We work with many folks from Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Houston, Dallas, etc. Who did you work for when you were in Houston?

I often wonder the same thing about what people on this forum do for a daily living. I've run across quite a few military guys, engineers, no lawyers yet :-) It's great that the world is so diverse. Each of us is our own unique snowflake and I wouldn't want it any other way...

 

Hey, I'm the worlds original whinger it keeps me alive ..........
I worked in construction for Aramco, FWEL, Chevron, Conoco, Phillips, Statoil, Mobil, Total and Elf in petro-chem starting with onshore facilities and latterly offshore rigs after that I worked on military nuclear (bad boy) and civil projects in the UK. I worked on the Phillips North Sea Maureen Field construction and spent some time in Houston. I have been fortunate and worked from Saudi to Panama, France, Norway, the US, ESTL Thailand, Aberdeen and much in Scotland and of course London. Many other backwaters also including the Yemen and Egypt. I think I've spent half of my life in airport departure lounges one way or another. I now passionately hate air travel, I'd rather drive everywhere in an........................LR.

 

"female driver battery rule" - that's a new one to me