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We had a rough day on the lake, exploring a different area and hit a rock berm (about 100 yards off the bank) All souls accounted for, did have one minor casualty: Used a wakeboard to steer back to a dock and called a friend to take me back to get my truck.

Legal Tender for all Debts public and private. Once my folks sold a piece of real estate (around $50-60k) and the guy paid with a bag full of cash. It was kind of an event at the small town bank when my dad brought in that much cash.

I uploaded mine via tapa, maybe tapa is having an internal problem.?

The boat thread is pretty much on "island time", but we're going to need pics amigo

That guys sounded fun: "Now that I have gone to my reward, I have confessions and things I should now say. As it turns out, I AM the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June, 1971. I could have left that unsaid, but I wanted to get it off my chest. Also, I really am NOT a PhD... Now to that really mean Park Ranger; after all, it was me that rolled those rocks into your geyser and ruined it. I did notice a few years later that you did get Old Faithful working again. To Disneyland - you can now throw away that "Banned for Life" file you have on me, I'm not a problem anymore - and SeaWorld San Diego, too, if you read this. To the gang: We grew up in the very best time to grow up in the history of America. The best music, muscle cars, cheap gas, fun kegs, buying a car for "a buck a year" - before Salt Lake got ruined by over population and Lake Powell was brand new. TV was boring back then, so we went outside and actually had lives. We always tried to have as much fun as possible without doing harm to anybody - we did a good job at that."

OP posted the wrong damn pics:

Ouch man, that is an ass whip. I have a tool box on my truck/tow rig in which I always keep: Set of SAE and metric 1/2" drive deep impact sockets up to 1 1/8" (for lug nuts, etc.) 1/2" drive breaker bar (non-ratcheting socket wrench for breaking nuts/bolts loose) SAE/metric 1/4" and 3/8" drive socket set Set of SAE and metric wrenches SAE and metric allen wrenches Wire nuts, small gauge electric wire, electrical pliers, zip ties, electrical tape 4-in-1 screwdriver, assorted pliers, vice grips, 3 pound sledge, gorilla tape, rags, rope, tire pressure gauge, 12v tire pump, tire plug kit Stuff I usually have in there but not as vital: cordless drill, cordless driver, hot battery, battery charger big drill bit set with nut drivers/socket adapters for cordless driver, torx/star bits, etc. assorted nuts/bolts/hardware Stuff I need to add: assorted automotive fuse set 1 quart 10w-30 ??? I take this truck out to the ranch, etc. where I need tools much more often than I need them for the boat, but having my tools with me when I'm towing anything is my security blanket that gives me peace of mind.

I don't go "Cheap Bastard" on everything, more of trying to find good value everywhere. Eight years ago, I bought my wife a three year old Lexus, and its been a very good car, not great ROI by "Cheap Bastard" standards, as it still had some depreciating to do, but definitely not a money pit either. It stills looks/drives/sounds very nice and is 11 years old with 160k miles. I have done almost all of the maintenance myself, you can get on youtube or car forums and find answers to most issues, and I like amazon or rockauto for parts. Lexus actually sent us a letter saying they were recalling the dash boards in her model because they were cracking, and so we took it down and had it replaced for free (on an 11 year old car!). I had budgeted to replace her car this year, but now I'm planning to keep it another several years. In hindsight, I probably would have looked for one a little older to reduce the depreciation I absorbed even more, I just underestimated how long the car would last (we wore out other manufacturer's vehicles much faster).

Yeah there is some shit in here that will make you lose faith in humanity. Who drove you over the line - the crazy fuckers who think Caddyshack is bad or the crazy fuckers that think Saving Private Ryan doesn’t hold up?

I was out on LBJ last weekend with friends, and we had a little longer residence time on the ramp ourselves. Trailer tire completely delaminated in the ~2 miles from the locker to the ramp (buddie’s boat and trailer, not mine). Took it slow and easy, got the boat off the trailer, got the wheel off the trailer and over to Discount and remounted, back on the water in about 2 hours. Weekend turned out great.

Minor issues for first run of the year. I thought you had that boat on a lift?

Wasn’t going there at work, but will be later

Yeah, "Glock-leg" is supposed to be inflicted upon yourself, not upon others.

an underrated Lea Thompson at 56:

Serious answer: Women use about 10x the TP of men, so if you have them in the house, it doesn’t matter what your preferences are, they are unilaterally driving the costs. Save your powder for worthy, winnable battles. Regarding other paper goods, my household buys the least expensive paper plates, napkins, Kleenex, and select-a-size paper towels available.

This doesn’t have the volume, but it does have a certain je ne sais quoi:

Glad you made it over here. Still have the Nautique? How's boating season starting for you? Hopefully not like this guy's: http://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/406-post-a-pic-that-makes-you-say-holy-shit/&page=15&tab=comments#comment-214594

We have a maid that does the heavy lifting. The wife gets on a little OCD cleaning thing occasionally and does random stuff.

She moved things off of my work bench to clean the window: Thankfully the $300 powder scale wasn’t in the top box

Como un jefe.

My family would cut up a tin coffee can, bang it out flat, and it would outlast the shingles

The video I could understand being a little suspect, but what about the radar data? And are the Navy pilot(s) that are talking about it in on the scam or what? I haven't been following this very long, sorry.

The rifle blind that hunts that spot has about 300 degrees of visibility and deer are always moving. My neck aches after hunting there. Here’s another pic from the same spot:

When the Navy is releasing videos saying "we don't know what this is, it was fast as hell, affecting the surrounding environment, and fucking with our radar" (para); I'm sitting up and listening. "In November 2004, the ship's ultra-advanced AN/SPY-1 multifunctional phased-array radar caught the object hovering at 60,000 feet before nosediving to the ocean surface in a matter of seconds. It then sped off so rapidly that crew members thought it was a ballistic missile. It appeared again two days later, and a pair of high-tech F-18 jets were scrambled to intercept it, but pilots reported that the object had turned itself invisible. It could still be detected as it was triggering a a circular disturbance in the water "about 50 to 100 meters in diameter." The craft was described as "solid white, smooth, with no edges... uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons or wings", and looked like "an elongated egg or Tic Tac," according to one of the pilots. Days later, a second jet spotted the same disturbance — and this time saw the UFO hovering above it "like a Harrier [jump jet]"." http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/05/31/supersonic-tic-tac-ufo-stalked-us-aircraft-carrier-for-days-pentagon-report-reveals.html http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-exclusive-confidential-report-analyzes-tic-tac-ufo-incidents/1187688105