"Home Bound"

Stryke · Post by **Stryke** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:58 am

Hey John ? no gunrack ? !!!!

MikeK · Post by **MikeK** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:04 pm

That's a suburban load John. If you don't have logs, garbage or the parts of the deer you killed 2 weeks back in the bed of your truck then you aint a redneck.

George, anything looks huge next to a Miata.

I'm not a redneck but I do associate with several on a regular basis.

benzocaine · Post by **benzocaine** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:14 pm

I got too much stuff in the back: cross nets front and back with three bo and three oars hung in the webbing; a very large gear bag with mui thai pads, focus mitts and bag gloves; two jump ropes; instructional tapes, 3 vynal notebooks, cd's and DVD's. A kobudo gearbag with 2 sets of nunchuku, 2 sets of sai, jiffa, and two tonfa sets. A karate gearbag with towel, sparring gloves, shin pads, head gear, mouth piece. And a plastic suit bag for two white gi and an instructior's trimmed gi, along with two black kobudo gi.

Just in case right John

benzocaine · Post by **benzocaine** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:29 pm

I almost forgot... what good is a redneck without a dog in the back of his truck?

Keepin' in touch with the times ya know... we got seatbelt laws ya know.

MikeK · Post by **MikeK** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:16 pm

Last year on 64 I passed a pickup truck loaded with cinder blocks and the dog was sitting on top with his front paws on the cab and a grin on his face.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:30 pm

I never had - and probably never will have - a pickup truck. So I guess I can't apply for my redneck license.

However....

Years back I had a Plymouth Champ. It had a Mitsubishi 1.6 liter "MCA Jet" engine in it, and a dual-stick transmission (low and high range). That tiny little baby could fly, and would get 45 mpg on the highway. They don't make little buggers like that any more.

The thing was tiny inside, and a bit fragile. One day I broke the springs in the driver side seat. I was still in grad school, and had no money. So I took the shotgun seat out, and put it in the driver seat. My dates could sit in the back seat as if chauffered. I even sped George from Charlottesville to the Dulles airport like that.

Having no shotgun seat made it possible for Dominique, my afghan/retriever mutt, to sit like a queen in her own shotgun spot. I'd let the window down just a bit. She would poke her nose out and do something quite strange.

Where are the breathing experts???

She would exhale, and then take these long, slow inhales through her nose with nose out the crack of the window. Then she would quickly exhale again, and do it all over again. All this happened while the car was speeding down the highway. (I don't do "slow."

)

I called it... speed sniffing!

- Bill

MikeK · Post by **MikeK** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:38 pm

My dates could sit in the back seat as if chauffered.

Having no shotgun seat made it possible for Dominique, my afghan/retriever mutt, to sit like a queen in her own shotgun spot. I'd let the window down just a bit. She would poke her nose out and do something quite strange.

It's probably just me but reading those two paragraphs together just seem funny.

Too much material there.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:51 pm

...or maybe not.

My girlfriends back then always complaind to me that they came last (before school and karate and...). And I always told people that my dog stuck with me longer than any girlfriend.

You're a very observant lad.

- Bill

MikeK · Post by **MikeK** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:54 pm

Post by **gmattson** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:14 pm

I remember that ride!

benzocaine · Post by **benzocaine** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:45 pm

Bill, Your description of your dog made me think of our high flow nasal cannulas. They run up to 45 liters a minute. COPDers in there last stageseem to benefit from the warm air and the Vapotherm's ability to keep up with their high demand for Flow. It also creates some PEEP (posotive end expiratory pressure).

http://www.vtherm.com/products/2000i.asp

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:54 pm

Great stuff, Ben. It brings me back to my grad school days.

- Bill

MikeK · Post by **MikeK** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:58 pm

That's one helluva enema bag Ben.

John Giacoletti · Post by **John Giacoletti** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:21 pm

Just had a nice conversation on the telephone with my old pal George Schrieffer who's over on the Florida East coast nowadays.

George can get you fired up over weapons

He's meeting with Rick Potrekus tomorrow and will discuss Winterfest.

George is planning to attend and so is Dana.

Rick Potrekus

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Location: Lake Worth Florida Happy New Year
Happy New Year!!!

I just started looking over the roundtable and thought it would be good to see what is being discussed.

How is the Winter Camp coming along?

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:56 pm

Fantastic! I gave Dana the "heads up" last week, and she told me she'd beat the bushes for participants.

Both (Florida) Dana and George S are good people and great martial artists. It will be great having that dynamic duo there.

Maybe that will motivate me to learn the "Red Man" kata George S let me film. It'll be a perfect time for me to get him to tweak it and see if I'm on the right track.

FWIW, gang, George is also a fantastic person to consult with concerning body mechanics in Uechi Ryu. George is well-traveled, and has seen many Okinawan Uechika take the lessons of body mechanics in kobudo and apply them to kata like Sanseiryu. And you have to see it to get it. It's stuff we talk about, but can't quite get our arms around in print. Come see it!

- Bill

"Home Bound"

Re: Trucks

Yes...

Winterfest