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I spent the day with my kids in the park. Shorts, T-shirts and
sandals, sunshine, 85 degrees, it was wonderful.

We had mid-seventies. My convertible is being 'renovated' but I
took some time out to ride my motorcycle on a few errands.

Magnificent weather! A little windy, but it reminded me of one
reason why I
will live here as long as possible.

Houston is too humid (among other things), Dallas is too plastic.

Austin Rocks.

How's the snow, Robyn?

Years ago, my wife lived in Iowa, and we have been to business
functions up
north (Chicago) over the past several years. When discussing the
Texas heat,
my wife always tells her Chicago coworkers, "When it's hot, we go
to Lake Travis. Plus, I've never had to shovel the heat off the
sidewalk."

I live in Austin too, and my slogan is: "When it gets hot, you can
only take so much off."

Basically, I melt in the heat like the fuckin' Wicked Witch!

"Keep Austin weird!"

If you guys are in Austin, why the hell aren't we drinking beer
together? I've always got a fridge full...and if that's not your
speed, I've got Coke (the legal kind), Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper
made with Imperial sugar in glass bottles, Crown, Rum, six different
chardonnays, iced tea, grape juice, orange juice, milk, coffee....and
a cartridge in a bare tree.

PLUS! ...the biggest deck in my neighborhood (the 'hot tub section' is
still under construction), pool table, grill from hell, etc. I can set
up networked gaming at my fire station with 110" screens.

When the heat rolls around, I hold weekend services on my boat, and I
just bought a wave runner. One of my firefighters just bought one,
also, so Lake Travis is our oyster and I'm always asking around if
someone wants to go out.

Drop me a line, or post a location to meet and we'll have a drink to
meet and trade phone numbers. I'm in town through the holidays, and
after I get this one project out of my hair (Sunday or Monday), I'll
have a couple weeks off.

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"Enkidu" <jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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I spent the day with my kids in the park. Shorts, T-shirts and
sandals, sunshine, 85 degrees, it was wonderful.

We had mid-seventies. My convertible is being 'renovated' but I took
some time out to ride my motorcycle on a few errands.

Magnificent weather! A little windy, but it reminded me of one reason
why I
will live here as long as possible.

Houston is too humid (among other things), Dallas is too plastic.

Austin Rocks.

How's the snow, Robyn?

Years ago, my wife lived in Iowa, and we have been to business
functions up
north (Chicago) over the past several years. When discussing the
Texas heat,
my wife always tells her Chicago coworkers, "When it's hot, we go to
Lake Travis. Plus, I've never had to shovel the heat off the
sidewalk."

I live in Austin too, and my slogan is: "When it gets hot, you can
only take so much off."

Basically, I melt in the heat like the fuckin' Wicked Witch!

"Keep Austin weird!"

If you guys are in Austin, why the hell aren't we drinking beer together?
I've always got a fridge full...and if that's not your speed, I've got
Coke
(the legal kind), Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper made with Imperial sugar
in
glass bottles, Crown, Rum, six different chardonnays, iced tea, grape
juice,
orange juice, milk, coffee....and a cartridge in a bare tree.

PLUS! ...the biggest deck in my neighborhood (the 'hot tub section' is
still
under construction), pool table, grill from hell, etc. I can set up
networked gaming at my fire station with 110" screens.

When the heat rolls around, I hold weekend services on my boat, and I just
bought a wave runner. One of my firefighters just bought one, also, so
Lake
Travis is our oyster and I'm always asking around if someone wants to go
out.

Drop me a line, or post a location to meet and we'll have a drink to meet
and trade phone numbers. I'm in town through the holidays, and after I get
this one project out of my hair (Sunday or Monday), I'll have a couple
weeks
off.

The other Donald wrote:

What kind of convertible?

'90 Mustang LX 5.0/AOD, red with red interior. It had a white top and
wheels, but I had a new top put on in black. I just powdercoated the
wheels black to match, and I'm overhauling the interior: new carpet, new
racing seats, ratchet shifter, custom console, new rear window motors
and gear sets.

Nice. I like the LX 5.0s because of the sleeper aspect. They look like a
plain 4 cylinder car, but pack the 302 punch.

An uptick in work plus end-of-semester finals slowed things down a bit.

also got held up because I had to have some custom parts machined to
adapt the ratchet shifter to the transmission, and the fabrication of
some brackets I designed to install the seats into the car.

Personally, I would have gone for a T-5 five-speed manual transmission.

of my friends has a 92 GT with a 5 speed, it is brutal.

I have the shell of a 66 coupe,

if I can ever afford to I'm going to find a
fuel injected 351 out of a police car and a 5 speed and drop it into it.

When I was a kid, my dad had a 66 coupe with a 351 2bbl and a 3 speed
manual. Even though it was a stock 351, it was brutally fast. I miss it.