OUR DEAR FRIEND HAS CANCER FCS

[timebuilder]

Bret, Jeremy, and you other degenerate Muricans...(better be careful.....got no Canuck backup with Sunshine AWOL)....glad to hear JP and Bret gettin back to work.......work 'heals' a man, I'm sure.....

Goin to Calgary next week...neat stuff AND I get to see my crazy daughter...redneck thru and thru......if it was up to her....we'd kill all lazy, 'users' of the system.....makes me proud..... hoorah!!

I was in Calgary in 2003. We had flown some business guys up there for a couple of days. The other pilot was a lot younger than me, and he wanted to go to a casino, so I went along to watch over him. It wasn't much more than a single story building like you would find next to a shopping mall, not like going to Jersey or Vegas, for sure. He dropped a lot of cash. My money stayed in my pocket.

Then, we went back to the hotel for dinner, had a GREAT steak, and went to bed. The next day, we took off for Toronto, and had a 260 knot tail wind due to the jet stream at FL 400, and at one point, our ground speed was a blistering 600 knots! That's my fastest speed, ever.

I can still remember the view to the West, all of those snow capped mountains in the Rocky range. Wish I could have been there for the stampede!!!

[timebuilder]

Good morning, Bret and everyone.

[knave]

Mornin' Art! It's our first snow here in WI. Looks like about 2"!!

[knave]

Call me a wimp, but I'm glad it snowed on Sat. and not two days ago, when we dug in a geo loop.

[timebuilder]

Mornin' Art! It's our first snow here in WI. Looks like about 2"!!

I will be happy if we get only 2" this winter. I use ladders and work on rooftops.

[Doug Lockhart]

I was in Calgary in 2003. We had flown some business guys up there for a couple of days. The other pilot was a lot younger than me, and he wanted to go to a casino, so I went along to watch over him. It wasn't much more than a single story building like you would find next to a shopping mall, not like going to Jersey or Vegas, for sure. He dropped a lot of cash. My money stayed in my pocket.

Then, we went back to the hotel for dinner, had a GREAT steak, and went to bed. The next day, we took off for Toronto, and had a 260 knot tail wind due to the jet stream at FL 400, and at one point, our ground speed was a blistering 600 knots! That's my fastest speed, ever.

I can still remember the view to the West, all of those snow capped mountains in the Rocky range. Wish I could have been there for the stampede!!!

Art, straight up, you would love to live in Calgary...hardest working, most positive and God fearing people in Canada....
I went there at 18 (the drinking age) and beer was .20/glass, I lived, loved and grew up at SAIT. My daughter now goes to UofC there and lives 2 blocks from where I did. They work like hell there, share and generally all have a good time.
I dated a girl from Brooks when I was there.....the bible belt.....damn....I learned a lotta new things.....
I also dated the daughter of the local penitentiary, that was intimidating....

Stampede is CRAZY.....women stripping right off in the bars, horses riding through bars.......you NEVER work a rooftop after 10am...yer too drunk to climb a ladder....

[Doug Lockhart]

Call me a wimp, but I'm glad it snowed on Sat. and not two days ago, when we dug in a geo loop.

Evan, it's not the snow here......when we dig a 600 footer, we gotta dig a low point drain out as we typically can be in water up to our nuts in chest waders here on the 'Wet Coast' and you gotta make sure that you gotta GFI on the iron....
Three guys in the header pit; fuser, iron man and rag keeper for cleaning.....and trying to read the 6 coloured tapes on the the pipe....
It's OK till the frogs and snakes start swimming around you....

[supertek65]

Evans girlfriends are used to getting 2 inches!!!!!!!!!1

I will be happy if we get only 2" this winter. I use ladders and work on rooftops.

[Doug Lockhart]

Evans girlfriends are used to getting 2 inches!!!!!!!!!1

HARSH.......the only thing you do worse Fronk...is use his gauges and leave the hoses off....

[knave]

Evan, it's not the snow here......when we dig a 600 footer, we gotta dig a low point drain out as we typically can be in water up to our nuts in chest waders here on the 'Wet Coast' and you gotta make sure that you gotta GFI on the iron....
Three guys in the header pit; fuser, iron man and rag keeper for cleaning.....and trying to read the 6 coloured tapes on the the pipe....
It's OK till the frogs and snakes start swimming around you....

Wow we don't have quite that much water around here. Wednesday's was a 600 foot racetrack in sand. No standing water, and a beautiful day. We always take rubber boots though.

You would have good heat transfer with all your water!!!!! Do you ever chop 'em in after the ground is frozen???? One day we chopped through the frost for a header pit on horizontal bore job. That was the day the sun came out and melted the whole yard's worth of snow and guess where it ran???

Ice cold water, 3 feet of frost, no way to dig a drain. Had to bring a 4" pump and dig for pipes.

Memorable.

[knave]

And on that day it very well may have been two inches.

[Wendo]

And on that day it very well may have been two inches.

Just remember, Evan: Don't eat snow where the Huskies go!!!!

[timebuilder]

Art, straight up, you would love to live in Calgary...hardest working, most positive and God fearing people in Canada....
I went there at 18 (the drinking age) and beer was .20/glass, I lived, loved and grew up at SAIT. My daughter now goes to UofC there and lives 2 blocks from where I did. They work like hell there, share and generally all have a good time.
I dated a girl from Brooks when I was there.....the bible belt.....damn....I learned a lotta new things.....
I also dated the daughter of the local penitentiary, that was intimidating....

Stampede is CRAZY.....women stripping right off in the bars, horses riding through bars.......you NEVER work a rooftop after 10am...yer too drunk to climb a ladder....

Man, sounds like the Wild West indeed!