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July 6, 2005 4:59 PM
It's some afternoon - had to look it up - it's Wednesday. I just got the truck back again and I'll talk about that a little later. First, We went fishing to a small panfish pond this morning. The weather was perfect bright and it promised to be hot (and it is - it's about 5pm and I'm in an airconditioned coffee shop), but the temperature was perfect and the little panfish where hitting the beautiful bumblebees and bunblebees that my brother had tied. All of us got fish, but few the size of mine. I fought this one for more than 3 seconds before I wrenched it from it's home, gave it a stern talking to, and returned it unharmed.

Same fish left and right, but thought you might actually like to see the monster.

That was the morning, and then we stopped at Great Harvest for a free taste of bread before getting home for lunch. Butch made fried cheese and apple sandwiches on Great Harvest bread. It was great.
While I was at the lake I received three phone calls, and one was from the garage saying they were ready to stop working on my truck and I could pick it up and try and break it. (Smart chicklets can just guess who the other calls were from, da?)

Truck details for the mechanically replused - skip this.
The shearing of a distributor pin can be caused by any of four things. a
1. Defective pin.
2. Defective distributor
3. Defective camshaft gear
4. Defective oil pump.
I'm sparing you the details, but first two towing experiences were attempted to be solved by replacing the pin. That didn't do it. Pin sheared a third time 3 days ago. So this time garage replaced the entire distributor - number two (different garage - smarter people- or at least willing to call other people).
They called Ford and they called Napa - Ford says replacing the distributor fixes the problem in most cases (mine?). Napa says to be safe replace them all. Cost 400 to replace the distributor, doing the cam and oil pump would be about 1200 more. That is in addition to the $2500 I have spent so far on this trip on the truck. So this garage, closer to me in Loveland - Warren's- went with the ford recomendation and then took the truck out on the freeway and went 75mph for 1/2 and hour - did nasty shifting and loading and generally tried to break the pin. Running fine of course. I

All that being said, I have the tow truck driver's number on my phone and I'm going to beat the crap out of the engine until July 14th. I need to move the truck then as I'm paid through the 15th of July. The sap that is dripping out of the trees is so thick that I just can't stand to keep the airstream and truck in this park. I'm afraid it will turn to amber overnight and I'll be found entombed a 1000 years from now, a broken distributor shear pin in one hand, the other scratching at the glass. What would those archeologists think?

Anyway I've been pretty down about the truck - it is 1/2 of my moving home, and that means home is broke, and that is insecure. I realize that all things break, but I've been holding tight - control issues - to the fact that my money has to last forever and be replenished. I realized that I'm holding onto the wrong side of the equation - money in money out. I need to get to work writing and selling books and be of good cheer. I was reading George and Tioga, and George is having his problems - having blown up something major on his engine last night, but as you know, George is a cancer survivor and follows Lance Armstrong's philosophy that he has only good days and great days. I know it's smaltzy but I need to remember that. I'm upright, the south still rises and I still can watch a movie and laugh, and best of all, laugh at myself.

Other notes: Congratulations to my nephew dave - good bouncing back! He had a catch and release date and went right back fishing - successfully. Meanwhile my calendar remains uncluttered by amorous adventures, as planned calls have not been made, letters to arrange meetings have not been returned, and generally slowly fall into Moltay's philosophy - the old Radar O'Reilly , Mash - "wait for it". So enought of them, heck I still have tapes I haven't watched and I have work to do.

Rick has sent me some TV tapes so I'm looking forward to seeing Rescue me with they arrive. Also, today I sold about $60 of books on Amazon, and Amazon payments are finding their way into my ULaneO account (oops - Oregon Community Credit Union), and life is good.

Love who you can and don't go to bed alone if you can help it. Kiss more, argue less. Turn the radio up.

Miss you all. - the fisherman

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