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Holy mackerel
Kill that shit, Doc.
Went and visited the gladiator school in Capua last weekend. It’s here where Spartacus started the slave rebellion. Very cool place but not much of it is left. After gladiator fights were made illegal, they used the Colosseum as a rock quarry, leaving little of it left. Walking down below it was hard not to think about all those who entered down here for the very last time before their fight. Also of importance, it had multiple elevators leading up, which allowed for multiple animals or humans to come up at a given time. 
Amphitheatre of Capua - Wikipedia
Amphitheatre of Capua - Wikipedia
Over the course of my life I've had five Jeeps, including an uninterrupted string of various models from 2009 or so until now. But this past Veterans Day, I traded my Rubicon in and joined the Taco Gang.
My family names our vehicles, often after their color. For example, we had Gandalf the Grey (gray) Dodge Ram pickup. We had Silvia, the appropriately-named silver Jeep LJ. And we also had Redia, the (rather-uninspired) name of our red Jeep JKU. In fact I pre-emptively named our last Jeep "Bama" so my kids didn't name her "Burgundia" or "Maroona" or something.
Given that tradition, and since my only experience driving Toyota pickups was in Afghanistan (I had a pretty cool Land Rover in Iraq), I named our Tacoma "Tori." Tor is the Pashtun word for "black," and was sometimes used as a nom de guerre by fighters in the Taliban or HWN or other assorted baddies.
When I explained the name, my wife happily pronounced this vehicle as "Tori, the Taliban Tacoma." Despite my protestations that the signature vehicle of the Taliban was the HiLux, not the Tacoma, I think the moniker is going to stick.
So here's Tori, everyone.
My oldest is coming home next week for Thanksgiving so she's going to be out in the New York winter weather helping me mod it out. I'm sure that's exactly what she wanted to do during her break from military college :)
My family names our vehicles, often after their color. For example, we had Gandalf the Grey (gray) Dodge Ram pickup. We had Silvia, the appropriately-named silver Jeep LJ. And we also had Redia, the (rather-uninspired) name of our red Jeep JKU. In fact I pre-emptively named our last Jeep "Bama" so my kids didn't name her "Burgundia" or "Maroona" or something.
Given that tradition, and since my only experience driving Toyota pickups was in Afghanistan (I had a pretty cool Land Rover in Iraq), I named our Tacoma "Tori." Tor is the Pashtun word for "black," and was sometimes used as a nom de guerre by fighters in the Taliban or HWN or other assorted baddies.
When I explained the name, my wife happily pronounced this vehicle as "Tori, the Taliban Tacoma." Despite my protestations that the signature vehicle of the Taliban was the HiLux, not the Tacoma, I think the moniker is going to stick.
So here's Tori, everyone.
My oldest is coming home next week for Thanksgiving so she's going to be out in the New York winter weather helping me mod it out. I'm sure that's exactly what she wanted to do during her break from military college :)
Us, too. We have Whitey Ford (my wife's 2014 Escape), Blackie Ford (our old '97 Ranger), and my 2011 F350 dually flatbed, Flatty Ford, lol.
If I ever needed a new small truck, I'd probably get a Tacoma. I like 4-Runners too. Nice truck, sir.
This is how my dog Heidi usually waits for my wife to get home:
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That is so awesome! What a good girl!
Oddly enough, that’s how my wife usually waits for me to get home.
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Oddly enough, that’s how my wife usually waits for me to get home.
Oddly enough, 'Heidi' is my wife's name....
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"Now that's a pie!", said in my best Italian....
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Came packed in dry ice. Minimum order of 6 was about $120 w/shipping. The sausage is FANTASTIC!!!
Came packed in dry ice. Minimum order of 6 was about $120 w/shipping. The sausage is FANTASTIC!!!
Giordano’s > Lou Malnatti
Giordano’s > Lou Malnatti
We've been having some floods. Since Mid October... Access to town is still not 100% restored and communities to our North are coming into their 3rd month of being under water. House block islands, surrounded by barely moving flood water everywhere.
I've been helping out with some 1 tonne bulk bag sand bags. Still haven't managed to get a flight on the chopper yet, although I do like my new JCB tele-loader.
I've been helping out with some 1 tonne bulk bag sand bags. Still haven't managed to get a flight on the chopper yet, although I do like my new JCB tele-loader.
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Due to me being on an iPhone, I thought that was a boat in a Murray tributary.
Day work yesterday, night dude called out, I picked it up with a longtime partner/friend and a medic student.
24 hours, handful of accidents, 2 legit heart attacks, a 16 male in projects that ran from po-lice and got thumped, a bunch other nonsense, I'm torched. Hour to go.
24 hours, handful of accidents, 2 legit heart attacks, a 16 male in projects that ran from po-lice and got thumped, a bunch other nonsense, I'm torched. Hour to go.
