Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

[mookie1995]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

I'm not on your dam lawn!

dammit!

 

[Beer Pong Horn]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

dammit!

Should you and gmann get a room?

gmann, picture link works fine for me here. Dunno what's wrong.



Evening, Lodge. Fair today Started with cheese curds, ended with Sweet Martha's Cookies, walked all over the *ing fairgrounds.

 

[gmann]

Should you and gmann get a room?

gmann, picture link works fine for me here. Dunno what's wrong.



Evening, Lodge. Fair today Started with cheese curds, ended with Sweet Martha's Cookies, walked all over the *ing fairgrounds.

That is the same link I am trying to post in the show yourself thread. When I preview post I can see the pic but when it's posted it's not available.

 

[Scarlet]

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I was able to see it on the link as well! Not sure why it's not posting properly.

Just booked my flight to Grand Forks in November. mookie - are you going?? I had looked in the spring and the fares were high. Looked about two weeks ago and the fares had dropped and I should have just booked. But nooooooooooo. I waited. And fares went up again. Crap. So I booked now in case they went up any more. Will do hotel and possibly rental car later.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

gmann: Just tried posting it. Works for me so far. Quote the post and copy it.

 

[gmann]

gmann: Just tried posting it. Works for me so far. Quote the post and copy it.

W t f? The computer and the Internet are stupid just like the state fair.

Edit. Thanks. Going forward, sue fans aren't stupid and stinky. Now they are just stinky.

 

[Greyeagle]

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Did she have the surgery for it?

She did not. Her doctor started her on specific prescription glasses and she showed improvement every 6 months & her eyes have been improving without surgery. Unfortunately a few years ago he left MN for an offer he could not refuse at BU, he's now chair of the department at BU. I suspect she's mentioned in at least one of the articles (see link), every time he saw her there were a gaggle of interns/students/other doctors in the room, too.

We've continued the treatment with good luck and she can now wear contacts, which makes her very happy.

 

[Beer Pong Horn]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

W t f? The computer and the Internet are stupid just like the state fair.

Oatmeal and raisins called, they want to know why you hate America.

 

[gmann]

Oatmeal and raisins called, they want to know why you hate America.

Nice. Made me lol. Might be sig worthy.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

The world's greatest trophy made an appearance at the global HQ for Tacky & Abrasive today.
Sadly, I had a meeting and could not get down to see it.

I'm surprised they'd take it out of the case at the U of M booth at the fair for the day to bring it over there. I'd think they would have done something like that before the fair.


Stuck in a hotel in a small town in southern Indiana. 3 days of work at a customer site down here.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #154: Olympics

Savannah, GA for the night, 1272 miles down, 353 to go!! Another uneventful day, very little traffic.

Amusing, found out my car is essentially "too smart" for a u-haul trailer. While I haven't had my car completely double-checked to make sure it isn't an issue on my side, a VW service manager in NC told me that he has seen issues with my model and U-haul trailers where the car simply isn't compatible with the lighting on the trailer. Go figure, **** German engineering is too smart for its own good!! Soooo I continue with my daylight driving restrictions and hope that my running lights can keep me from being pulled over. 95% interstate tomorrow, so hopefully the no traffic trend continues.

Its trailer lighting. The same wires that go to bulbs of lights on your car go to the plug for the trailer, this isn't rocket science.

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

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Its trailer lighting. The same wires that go to bulbs of lights on your car go to the plug for the trailer, this isn't rocket science.

That's what I thought too, but wasn't what I was told by a VW tech over the phone today. He said I could go in and they could tweak the programming to try making this trailer work, but it would essentially just be a bandaid, and that it was quite possible that a future trailer wouldn't work then, so I would have to do it all over again. I think I finally found the fuse #'s for the trailer module, so I am checking that in the am. VW is incredibly secretive about their stuff, there isn't a fuse diagram in my owners manual, and several other things you need to really look around to get info for.

 

[crazytechfan]

She did not. Her doctor started her on specific prescription glasses and she showed improvement every 6 months & her eyes have been improving without surgery. Unfortunately a few years ago he left MN for an offer he could not refuse at BU, he's now chair of the department at BU. I suspect she's mentioned in at least one of the articles (see link), every time he saw her there were a gaggle of interns/students/other doctors in the room, too.

We've continued the treatment with good luck and she can now wear contacts, which makes her very happy.

My surgeon died before I was discharged!
I had a surgery at 6 months and one at 6 years. Wore glasses in between. Ended up with glasses at 11 for nearsightedness... Honestly, with contacts now, I can feel my eye straying, but with glasses I'm fine. I told my boyfriend of 4 months about it the other day, and he had never even noticed, so maybe I'm just more self conscious? Not sure. Far better than it used to be though.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

My surgeon died before I was discharged!
I had a surgery at 6 months and one at 6 years. Wore glasses in between. Ended up with glasses at 11 for nearsightedness... Honestly, with contacts now, I can feel my eye straying, but with glasses I'm fine. I told my boyfriend of 4 months about it the other day, and he had never even noticed, so maybe I'm just more self conscious? Not sure. Far better than it used to be though.

Or he's not looking at your eyes...

 

[bigmrg74]

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That's what I thought too, but wasn't what I was told by a VW tech over the phone today. He said I could go in and they could tweak the programming to try making this trailer work, but it would essentially just be a bandaid, and that it was quite possible that a future trailer wouldn't work then, so I would have to do it all over again. I think I finally found the fuse #'s for the trailer module, so I am checking that in the am. VW is incredibly secretive about their stuff, there isn't a fuse diagram in my owners manual, and several other things you need to really look around to get info for.

So in other words, VW took something that's fairly pretty simple, and had to complicate it all so that it doesn't work? That sounds like something the Italians would do!!

 

[Patman]

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She did not. Her doctor started her on specific prescription glasses and she showed improvement every 6 months & her eyes have been improving without surgery. Unfortunately a few years ago he left MN for an offer he could not refuse at BU, he's now chair of the department at BU. I suspect she's mentioned in at least one of the articles (see link), every time he saw her there were a gaggle of interns/students/other doctors in the room, too.

We've continued the treatment with good luck and she can now wear contacts, which makes her very happy.

BU? This sounds like a job for Super Grover... err... Super Scarlet.

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Good morning to tLodge!

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Good Morning, MEUSA!


Good Morning to the rest of tLodge!



Heading back to DC this morning.

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

So in other words, VW took something that's fairly pretty simple, and had to complicate it all so that it doesn't work? That sounds like something the Italians would do!!

Well, the control module has a lot of safety features built in, as I understand it. Extends the anti theft for the car to the trailer (doors locked and trailer connected? Don't undo the wire harness!), anti sway controls built in (not sure on specifics here, but have seen it mentioned on various forums), light issue warnings relayed to the driver info screen, and who knows how much more is part of it, but it is an impressive unit.

I've made it almost 1300 miles with no brake lights, I should be able to make it the remaining 350.

 

[goldy_331]

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Good Morning Lodge.

At freshman day yesterday Jr went to his French class and it was just him and a buddy who transferred from the same school since everyone else in French IV will be upperclassmen. Should be fun to be one of two frosh with a bunch of juniors and seniors, and speak better French then they all do.

We're going to go watch that buddy play soccer tonight as he made the B team. I'll be interested to see how this kid plays soccer, if it's the same way he plays hockey. The kid has a world of physical talent and zero head for the game (exact opposite of Jr - if you could meld the two you'd have one hell of a player), he made the Peewee A team in second year peewee and they won the State title, but then he quit hockey. I hope he "gets it" in soccer cause he sure didn't in hockey.