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January 2003
- From: Utah - USA
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Posted by wipw
on Friday, September 19, 2003 4:47 PM
Wow! Second hundred didn't take nearly as long as the first!!
Okay, I'm back. Who wants a piece of me first??? ![Big Smile [:D]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif)
I told Robert not to post that pic. Now look where it's gotten us. This is one of the hottest topics out here at the moment! And it's in the Armor section, after all. Guess that's because we've all got such tough hides from emulating our model projects!
Robert got one thing wrong...I got back last night (it was after 7pm, so it was after my poor, old, toddering bed time!) and I didn't have a chance to look at the posts until today. I started going over them at home before work and was about falling off my chair (wheel chair, that is). My kids (and believe it or not, they run 15, 13, 11, and 7) wanted to know what was so funny. As opposed to so many things you see on the internet these days, I was actually able to tell them and read some to them!
To all of you non-follically impared folk out there, if you could see a highschool picture of me (yes, they had cameras back then...Who said that??), you'd see that a full head as a young buck don't mean nothing in the later years!! But to be honest, my hair line hasn't changed much for a few years. It was about the same in my early 30's (yes, I can remember that far back...Who keeps saying these things??? I'm gonna start taking names...!)
Seriously, it was great to meet Robert. And for all you guys and gals out there wondering, he is just as cordial and as much a gentleman as he appears in these forums. And he aint lookin' up stuff in his ref books when he tells you something. He's got it all down. And not just about Shermans. He was spotting Challengers, and Lynx's, and stuff litterally blocks away from where we were. (Dare I tell them, Robert, about the German (yes, I said GERMAN) WWII artillery piece you spotted down the street before I even saw the barrel?? He is an amazing man...and friend.
btw, Robert, I think I found the hobby shop you were looking for, 104th Street between 70 and 80th on the east side!!
One very glaring similarity (that MUST be related to working with those little, bitzy parts) is that we both ware glasses. Speaking for myself, I couldn't find a backlit door from inside a dark barn without mine!!
I saw a comment about feeling 10 years older as soon as your kids are born. For me, it was the opposite...I felt 10 years younger. My 4 boys keep me going, and my life without them would be much less. Bless all of you parents out there for giving all that I know you must to your kids.
And Moses (you young pup!) I'm glad you didn't let anybody know your baby's sex. I mean how would it be if you'd let on that you were going to have a girl to all these treadheads!! LOL Congratulations. And we'll all expect pictures here on the forum!
And Eric, I agree. While I wasn't a #1 fan of Dale Sr. (probably a #2 level), it's just not the same without him out there "Intimidating" (capitalization intended!). I'm just now getting back into where I can sit through a whole race.
Thanks to all of you (I think) for your comments and caring...Wait, I must have been reading a different thread about someone else!
Bill
Bill
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