Bill's Junk (Page 3 of 9)

Hi Bill: May i suggest you keep the track if it does not sell and when you get the new home location, (if you still have track) then see how much you can incorporate any existing track pieces into a new track that will fit into the new home track area.

So here's the latest update on our move:

We have found a house in Vancouver and the offer we submitted was accepted. We had the home inspection today and all went very well. We are proceeding and with any luck should be able to complete the move in August. The house is located 1 mile directly north of the Vancouver Mall. Here's five key elements in our decision to move across the river into Washington: 1. This house fits our needs and fulfills our wants almost perfectly. 2. This house is almost 1,000 square feet smaller, one level, and is not costing us more than our current house is worth. 3. The property taxes are $2,500 per year less than our current taxes. 4. There is room on the lot to build a medium sized shop (roughly double car garage size). 5. This house is $100K LESS than anything else comparable that we have looked at (YES $1 times ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND)! And then of course there is the fact that I HATE Multnomah County, almost as much as I HATE PORTLAND!!!

So there you have it. Sorry if you are disappointed in me. I tried my best to remain an Oregonian, but it just did not make sense.

Me and my junk are headin' north!

========Bill

That was one of our worries Mitch, the 205 bridge or worse yet I-5 bridge. But being retired we figure we will only occasionally have to come back to Oregon and we can do so outside of the terrible commute hours. Or if we by chance run into a traffic jam, we can just turn around and go home! For my Odd Thursday Night Racing I will be headed in the opposite direction as the majority of the traffic. I made that commute for a few years before I retired when I was working in Vancouver. It was a piece of cake as I took the airport exit off 205 to go home, which is the same exit I would use to go to Al's. The 205 south backup generally starts at that exit or just past it. Bad news is there probably won't be any Odd Thursday Night racers at my place. The flip side of course is that I should be able to win a few!

There won't be any or is that many racers?  If it's any, you wouldn't even need a track and you could still win.
A legend in his own mind ;-)

Been awhile since I voiced anything here, probably overdue for an update!

OK, I am officially an Old Guy! Today I pulled a muscle in my ASS! I have learned a lot throughout this moving process! Here are my latest 10 bullet points indicating old age: 1. Heavy boxes are MUCH heavier when you're old! 2. Part of being old is the practice of falling down, the older you get the better you are at it! 3. You should try to avoid falling down while carrying heavy boxes (this could result in pulling a muscle in your ASS!). 4. Some how the muscles in you ass are connected to the muscles in your leg. 5. Soon after pulling an ass muscle your leg will start hurting and the resulting limp will make you more likely to fall again! 6. It is possible to severely strain your neck muscles while tieing up a bush! 7. Your neck will hurt less once your leg starts hurting from pulling an ass muscle. 8. The actual wound or cut is at the top of the trail of dried blood running down your leg. 9. When you're old you have no idea where those trails of dried blood came from! 10. Bandaids are much cheaper in bulk!

Just in case anyone was wondering, it is 3.3 miles farther to our new place in Vancouver than our current house in Fairview (as measured from the I-205 / I-84 interchange).

Time-wise that could be measured in HOURS depending on the day and time!

Probably no Odd Thursday Racing in the future at my place.............

Now THAT could be a possibility!

Just move the starting time to 7 instead of 6  run three classes and the real junkies can run a 4th. traffic really is not that bad your almost there anyways if your going to Bills old place or to Al's the most is another ten or 15min in traffic once you hit the bridge it clears up fast take the 18th street exit and is smooth sailing from there to Bill's new place.

I might drive 6 or 7 minutes more to race at Bill's.  9 would be pushing it.  15???  That's out of the question unless Monte shows!!

But seriously, if someone in the metro area is gracious enough to build a track andd host racing, I will make the effort to show my ugly mug.

Hey moving sucks. when do get to unload everything at the new homestead

We're out, we're in, and what a freaking mess!

Thanks again to everyone that helped us with our move!!!

We won't have internet service at our new house until sometime next week, so I'll probably be out of touch for awhile.

=======Bill