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Great synopsis Kirk thanks for sharing. We've been to an escapade in WY previous several years ago so I am familiar with the amount of coordination done to get me to the right spot. Given how dispersed the parking was the last time, I can see why there are so many folks on the teams. Now to find a memorable hat to wear while greeting the newcomers!

We signed up to volunteer as "parking staff" at the last Escapade. I see that they want the parking folks to arrive several days ahead of the event itself. Being my first time as "parking staff" I'm wondering what we will be doing for those days ahead of the event? Anyone done that task before and can provide some info? Thanks!

Are you thinking about selling your rig, particularly if you are within a days drive of Boise, Idaho! (about 400 miles) I may be interested. Here are my D'ruthers in no particular order: Slide toppers 15k A/C morryde pin-box (no ball) progressive industries (wired) power protection auto level 100W solar with improved charge controller heated holding tanks(optional) rear hitch Shocks on Axles ARPRV refrigerator protection (Optional) Generator ready or generator included Morryde CREXXXX suspension (optional) Thanks for looking! I will be notified by email when a reply is posted. I'll try to remember to remove this in about a month. I'll be selling my AF 25W TT when I find a 27-5L 5ver. Posted here on Feb 29,2024

Yes, I did this past weekend. The wife convinced me to get a 5th Gen iPad Air. It showed up today (20230815) so now to load it up. It was concluded after three hours of trying top input routing information into Basecamp for the Garmin GPS unit. I never did finish, there was a Thinking wheel spinning above the Basecamp when I created a reroute to a known road from one that I knew was blocked off and it thought it was a through route. We'll be using the RV trip Wizard / RVLife this trip in the iPad. The Garmin will be a back up. I wonder if the folks from Garmin use their own tools to create a multi day, multi stop route and see how frustrating it is...

I added a carry basket to the back of the trailer. It fits into the 2" receiver. I put a clamp on it to keep it from flopping about as we travel. I can't say that it's not still flopping about because the camera doesn't see it out the back... A hardwired, progressive industries power monitor was a good add as well. I recently added a battery monitor that attempts to tell me the SOC and current draw..

Two for Tuesday...A Man discovered that a blood vessel on his wife's forehead would enlarge as the barometric pressure fell.He learned that he could predict rainstorms by observing her weather vein...------During a dark night in Killarney, a group of American Tourists huddled in Durty Nellie's pub. A local Irishman sidled up to one of the them and proposed a scheme to sell a cure for leprosy. "I'm Sorry" the American said stiffly. "I'm not Irish. I don't believe in leper cons."

People have all kinds of pets and I just acquired a new one.He's really small so he's easy to keep.It's a pet termite.I've named him Clint.when he misbehaves, I use his full name.Clint Eatswood

You've been a busy guy! Sorry for the delay in responding, Life happened and I needed to attend to cleaning the rugs, putting weed killer down and helping a 93 yr old Army Lt Col. special forces chaplain with his renewed hobby model railroad.. The PCBs are for a switch controller for model railroad. Before the pandemic, I purchased them from a guy in Ontario, Canada, but he either lost interest, or some other life event, and he decided to leave his website up, but not sell any kits. Pretty inclusive site for ideas. In addition to being a HAM operator, I'm one of a couple guys at the local HO scale model train club, that can recognize the hot end of a soldering iron, so I've been building things for them. The latest was a scale speedometer. IF I can get the PCB drawing I made cut into copper clad circuit board, I can make my own switch controllers. Apparently, the laser printer I have doesn't put enough print density down to transfer for photoresist process. Fun stuff to figure out. I have an external 2Tb raid box that I think I'll try to use the windows back up on my Win 10 PC... I have too many pictures from years ago that I'd rather not lose. I've been jumping around between back up programs, including Acronis, that came with the Crucial SSD now installed on that PC, but it's a little clunky. I haven't tested the recovery process to see if it actually restores everything. One day, I'll need to try that out and actually set recovery discs in a place I can find them when (not if) I need them!!

I downloaded Macrium the other day after visiting the EASEUS site and being tricked in to believing that the trial was free... I think only the download of the file was free.. The activation screen kept popping up and if bypassed, it took you to a purchase page. I only had the one machine to clone, and didn't need a month/year/lifetime subscription so I went looking and found Macrium. It wasn't smooth sailing though... The software (free trial for a month) loaded just fine and it appeared to clone the HDD to the SDD, but the system wouldn't boot from the SSD no matter what the BIOS pointed to. I ended up creating a rescue CD within Macrium and booted from that. Oddly it took about 4 minutes or more to boot to the CD... After that, there was a routine within the repair/rescue program to "fix boot disk" So, 2 minutes later the system booted from the SSD. I timed the boot up. With the HDD, the login prompt appeared at about 45 seconds from button press. With the SSD, it was 10 seconds faster. The pc has a cheap i7 in it with 16Gb of ram, but it works fine as the Local machine to run the CNC while pulling the edited files from the main PC in the house. For a period of time, I worked at Hewlett Packard in a capacity that I had to run qualifying runs of replacement HDD that were going into the printers for job storage and processing.. Most were 2.5" but a few were full size. The qualifying was very limited, and mostly consisted of installing them in the printers in the life test area for 2 to 3 weeks. They were running 24 / 5 processing and pushing pages constantly to the printers to find something that would break either mechanically, software, firmware, or disk related. The disks went through a rollover about once every 6 months, then the size would increase or some other feature was added. Needless to say, I ended up with boxes of 2.5" 80Gb Hdd and still have about 10 to 15 of them. Want one or two?? If you think USB 3.0 in a case is slow, you probably don't want any of these 80Gb drives.. I think I have 2 or 3 IDE drives too! I had handed off the task of qualifying just after the SDD's became available. They upper management wouldn't allow them to go into test due to a read/write limit that many of the SSD's had in the early stages. I never did see any of them go into printers before I left HP in 2012. You mentioned something about heat dissipation, and I had forgotten how important that was. I'll need to consider adding some fins to the SSD I just added to the Win 11 PC. I am right on the cusp of being able to create my first PCB on the CNC machine. I just need to find a reliable set of drill bits to mount the components through. Lastly, I'm still messing with RV Trip Wizard for the right paths from SW Idaho to Maine and back. We plan on leaving Sept 14th and travel for about 42 days. Cheers and Stay Healthy

Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by twoi types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand. ------------------ A reporter asked Mahatma Ghandi "Mr Ghandi, what do you think of Western Civilization?" Ghandi replied, " I think it would be a good idea!" ------------------- Captain Penny's law: You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool Mom! ---------------- I've had one child. My Husband wants to have another. I'd like to watch him have another... ---------------- Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it's understood.

I heard this today... I don't really know what I'm doing with my wife or my kids so I'm the "Assistant Manager" of our family. MY wife is the Manager and I work as a Team, that's what the Assistant Manager does, even if I don't have the same understanding or enthusiasm for OUR policies. I tell the kids, " It doesn't really bother me either if you don't replace the toilet paper roll, But this is coming from cooperate! My hands are tied. I agree with you that the rolls should be stacked on the back of the toilet , I suggested that at the meeting but that idea was shot down." "It's important to you mother that if we're out of toilet paper, we do a 6' crouch walk to the cabinet to get the paper..." We need my wife to be in charge, so is so good at running our family. I am not! The only reason I get to be Assistant Manager, is I am Sleeping with the manager! That's also why we have so many employees. I can't be fired, I'm a Co-founder!"

Hmm, I'll have to check for an M2 slot. A while ago I inherited a plug in card that adapts M2 PCBs for computers that don't have a slot. I would presume the transfer rate to the adapter card is a lot slower than having a slot on the motherboard. Thanks for the tips on EaseUS, I may have an older copy hanging around. I've been distracted with having too many hobbies... CNC, woodworking, Ham radio, Model railroad, photography, RV, tinkering with electronics, IT CRAP, and some smaller side projects. I only do a couple of those well.

I thought they were retirement tours... They ran out of funds, and now have to tour again... I have a CNC tied to me Windows 11 machine. I hope it speeds up when I clone the spinning HDD to a SDD!. BTW, what's your favorite FREE cloner? I have acronis that came with a Cruicial brand SDD, on this PC, but it's not clear if I can clone discs other than the primary drive in this machine.

Fun Facts for today:1. You can't see your ears without a mirror.2. You can't count your hair.3. You can't breath through your nose, with your tongue out.4. You just tried #36. When you did no.3 you realized that it is possible, only you looked like a dog.7. Your smiling now, because you were fooled..8. You skipped #59. You just checked to see if there's a #5.10. You're considering sharing this with your friends for fun.

Today's inspirational thought A the grocery store, a bottle of water is a little more than $.50.A bottle of water at the GYM , is $2.00.That same water at the theater is at Least $3.00and $6.00 on an airplane.If you think of it, nothing changed except the value at the place of the purchase, it's still just water...SO, the next time you feel your worth is nothing,Maybe you're just in the wrong place!

Asking "do you remember when" Might not make sense if you're too Young... ------------------ Isn't great that you can still remember your childhood phone number, but not the password you created yesterday? I wonder what the part of my brain that used to remember peoples phone numbers, is doing now... ----------------- Hard to believe that I once had a phone attached to a wall.... When it rang, I'd pick it up without knowing who was calling. ----------------- My wife asked me to stop singing "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees because she found it annoying. At first, I Thought she was kidding, Then I saw her face... -------------------- When I was a kid we were forced to look up (GOOGLE) things with magical books, called encyclopedias. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnal... -------------------- I recall when a phone booth was a "mobile phone" when I was a kid.... ---------------------- I miss when the "Wizard of OZ" was an annual television event...

Other thoughts last night..... Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations where smoking is prohibited? When you're sending someone Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from? Why are there Braille signs on drive up ATMs? When I think of the past, it brings back so many memories... I played a blank DVD at full volume. The mime next door complained! I put skylights in my place. The people who live above me are furious. Maybe I should keep my thoughts to myself...

facts according to Snapple (the drink co) Children grow faster during springtime. Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s. -------------- This one is for the geeks... 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321. --------------- Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3 ------------------ A group of jellyfish is called a smack. --------------- Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.

pix 3 NO injuries or real contact at the center of the figure 8, but plenty of rubbing in the corners!!

pix 2 Fun was had by all...

Entertainment in Idaho July 29th.... I guess I need to upload the pictures 1 at a time... 100kB limit and all....

more odd thoughts....I may be schizophrenic,but at least I have each other.------------------I'm not your type.I'm not inflatable.----------------Preserve the Spotted Owl(in formaldehyde)-------------------When you work here,you can name your own salary.I named mine, "Harry".------------------Money isn't everything,but it sure keeps the kids in touch. ------------------- Rejected Idaho license plates (2021 version)IDFK8DIGBICKSHATB0XFAKEAWDJ4CK455PB4WEG0SNDNUDZWRECTUMIH8EWTINYPNYN0T GAYSTAYNCAP00BARUJEEPSHTBIGWANGI DGAFMANEATRBAD AZZHLLBLLYX X XPHATGUYVYAGRALIL PPF B0MBand many more I can't post here...

I can't resist, I posted these on another web site.... Did you ever think about...Following your dreams, except the one where you're naked in church.--------------I have kleptomania, but when it get bad, I take something for it...----------------Sometimes, too much to drink isn't enough.(coyote morning?)---------------Kinky is using at featherPerverted is using the whole chicken.------------------------Heaven is Where:The Police are British,The Chefs are Italian,The Mechanics are German,The Lovers are FrenchandIt's all organized by the Swiss.Hell is Where:The Police are German,The Chefs are British,The Mechanics are French,The Lovers are SwissandIt's all organized by the Italians-------------------My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be.Also, I've noticed my short-term memory's not as sharp as it used to be.---------On the other hand,there are more fingers...--------------Sign seen entering Utah:Welcome to UtahSet your watch back 20 years...--------------

I'll start a thread here to lighten things up a bit. Occasionally, I stumble into things that are funny, well, at least I think they're funny and have the need to share. IF you have something that tickles you, feel free to add on! Here's the first one... With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey", died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.

I like the idea of the "D" rings! I usually have stuff just bouncing around. I'm considering the hot water re-circulator for the shower like what some of the Motor homes have: Shower miser It sure would save some water boondocking, but it seems that it would warm up the fresh water tank and possible over fill it if connected to city water.