May I?

[The Gammons]

Welcome Hube.

I'm not in my email like I once was, just got to this.

JimG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hubert Few" <hfc687@comcast.net>
To: <migcruisers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:44 AM
Subject: May I?


> Hello Group,
>
> My name is Hubert and I live in the metropolitan Atlanta area.
>
> I ride a Suzuki DL1000, also known as the "V-Strom".
>
> Mine is yellow, an 03 model with approx. 22K miles on it. In the last six
> months I have probably only put 2K miles on it. Changing priorities I
guess.
>
> I used to work for a large corporation doing something I didn't like, I
> don't anymore. Depending on the day of the week and my frame of mind, If I
> were asked, "What do you do for a living" I am likely to reply "I'm
> unemployed" of "self-employed" or "I do yard work" or "I'm an inventor".
>
> I mention this because the question seems to occupy an inordinate amount
of
> parking space in my mental parking deck as to just what the heck it is "I
do".
>
> Fair to say, like all humans, I am a "work in progress".
>
> One of my Patron Saints, Jim Gammon, mentioned your list in passing during
> an unrelated communication. He described it as "mellow". I seem to be
> reaching a point in my life where "mellow" works.
>
> What is really unique about this list, judging by the roster of
> participants,  is that I have personally met nearly everyone here at one
> time or another. One noteable exception being Curtis Jenkins. I hope to
> have that pleasure as well one day.
>
> Curtis. Something about our circumstances seems to doom any attempts at
> telephone conversations. I'm really not much of a "phone talker" anyway.
>
> I read some of the messages from Sept. in the archives. I see that folks
> here are as concerned about the issues raised by a couple of really potent
> hurricanes as I am. To say that I have been pre-occupied with it would be
a
> gross understatement!
>
> I recently acquired a 1990 Ford F-150 "XLT Lariat" club cab:....I guess
one
> of our yard customers took pity on my wife and I working out of the back
of
> the Ford Escort and turned us on to the whereabouts of this
> truck....original owner, 59K miles which had mostly been sitting in their
> yard gathering leaves and such. I immediately saw it for the "diamond in
> the rough" that it is! The older couple that owned it was having to
> liquidate some assets for the simple reason that they no longer drive.
> After a couple of weeks of less than intense bargaining we agreed on a
> price, which was about half of what the truck is actually worth... $2300.
I
> knew how much I could afford to pay for it and apparently selling it to
> someone "worthy" weighed into the decision to part with it. They also have
> a late model Lincoln if anyone is shopping for such a thing!
>
> here's a picture:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~hfc687/misc/f1505.jpg
>
> Taken before I cleaned it up and rubbed out a lot of "dead" paint.
>
> I mention the truck because it is one of the really really good things to
> happen around here lately.
> I love driving it....it has the optional 5.8L (351 windsor) engine (IT
> loves to drink gas!) and it sure beats the hell out of loading and
> unloading a mower, backpack blower, weedeater, etc etc out of the back of
> the car!
>
> Due to it's thirst for gasoline it's pretty much a "work only" vehicle,
> even tho I drive it very slowly.
>
> Well, this is about the best I  can do when I really don't have anything
to
> say.
>
> Happy to be here.
>
> Hubert
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