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Funny: The new principal at my high school is 4 years younger than me. Real weird experience...

I was a band geek...

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Got to spend some time with my adoptive father and his family...

Another weird interaction.... Nostalgic and quite uncanny. But very good and I haven't seen my father since 2010.

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And then another cool opportunity:

Got to hang with @bkfj40 and @BlueCruiser84 in VA. Thanks for the hospitality BK and thanks for coming out and hanging Brian.

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I highly recommend Maine a vacation spot. Just absolutely awesome. Beautiful days, cool nights.

My brother is up by the lakes near Mt. Washington. Absolutely stunning.

I am grateful and lucky to have a brother and family that tolerates me for an entire week! I know NorCal crew gets sick of me after three days... :lol:

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And it's great to get the young kids together for these experiences. These are the types of times I remember from my childhood.

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Dude you are crazy, Maine sucks and nobody should go there in the summer. :D

Your pictures took me back as I had my first job working in a pizza joint/breakfast place at the base of that lake many years ago.

Brought back memories of the "older" waitress (I was 16). The table galaga video game and the jukebox.

Driving around in my 1984 Toyota mini truck

Crazy.

Glad you had a great trip hanging out with family making memories. Now back to your torture of talking about and selling land cruiser parts and knowledge.

John
 
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Dude you are crazy, Maine sucks and nobody should go there in the summer. :D

Your pictures took me back as I had my first job working in a pizza joint/breakfast place at the base of that lake many years ago.

Brought back memories of the "older" waitress (I was 16). The table galaga video game and the jukebox.

Driving around in my 1984 Toyota mini truck

Crazy.

Glad you had a great trip hanging out with family making memories. Now back to your torture of talking about and selling land cruiser parts and knowledge.

John
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Funny John. Naples, ME is where the brother's place resides.

Just awesome. I'd move there if it was the way it was all year round (i.e.: no snow!!).

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We usually get over to Naples in the summer a couple times a year to visit sunsports water sports shop.

I love that area and would go back there in a minute and have entertained the idea periodically. We now are about 1 hour 15 min north east of there a bit more in the woods but still on a lake.

Spent many hours on the many lakes around that area growing up.

I grew up in a small town south of there called Limington that didn't have much to offer

Glad you enjoyed it and have a brother with a place there willing to share.


It never snows here really.
 
Why is Karl Marx on your band trophy?
Tchaikovsky is a far better composer, IMO.
Marx, always with the worker protest marching music.:rolleyes:

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I have been asked numerous times what my return policy is. As such I will post it here publicly for posterity:

The following items cannot be returned once purchased through me:

-- Special ordered parts
-- Electrical parts/assemblies
-- Any opened packages or unsealed parts that cannot be sealed to look the way you received them (basically, making them un-re-sellable)
-- Any item that's been installed, used, or not basically a brand new part in re-sellable condition
-- Any parts from another parts source (Sorry, I cannot give you a refund on SOR parts)
-- Any item without the most important thing: The Toyota Part Number Label on it.
-- Any item that Toyota says I cannot return (very rare, but it does happen)
-- Any core (starter, alternator, caliper) that cannot be rebuilt in the Toyota core exchange program.
-- Any part where you provide me with the part number and it is incorrect for your vehicle
-- Any parts that are non-US parts (IE: I order them through TMC/Nagoya directly, off-line).

Of course, if I screw up, I take care of it. There are never any questions asked there.

Hope this helps.
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Hey man just because I live in Canada doesn't meant I need a toque in the summer! :flipoff2:

Thanks again as always!

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So Toyota inherently creates both conservative parameters for design forwardness while at the same time building in fail safe abilities to design beyond the boundaries by futural justifications.

What Toyota--in the end--rewards is thinking that assumes both an understanding of traditions as well as a view of a horizon.

Very similar to humans: we must understand the past--contextually--to develop a future that is commensurate to the foundations... As Dr. Merton said many times, all great movements in human history develop because there is an understanding of the past.

As such, I've tried to inculcate that mentality into the movements of my own situation.

@cruiserdan entrusted me with his mother's 1991 Camry Starion Wagon. It served me well because it was developed and implemented in the heyday of Toyota engineering. Everything was overbuilt and designed in a manner that represented their takeover of the American dominance of automotive manufacturing worldwide.

The pedigree was perfect: a vehicle that was built and meant to be an appliance but allowed one to connect.... Connect in a way that meant continuity.

One that means perfection... All material items that mean anything beyond their use-value have a position that develops inherent meaning in terms of its space in our minds and consumption of our time/energy.

They inhabit us; they guide us; they present us with options that are more useful for satisfaction as well as companionship-- The best of the tribal mentality.

Unfortunately that vehicle has died; I could no longer support its care.

But it was the best of that era of Toyota thinking:

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And now I have developed an understanding of the next movement in Toyota engineering.... On both sides of the equation....

31 years old and timeless:

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6 years old and moving in a manner that is built into Toyota thinking....

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Yeah... A Prius.

Frugality and economic realities require efficiency in the appliance realm. Will it inhabit me? Will it allow me to develop with it? I don't know. Not sure I am in a position to let it denigrate my allegiances and waver towards a future yet...

So do I lose my man card?

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