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  1. I've got a tough decision to make in the next few weeks. Just got my CDL renewal and it's $105. I haven't driven big trucks for a living since '95. Downgraded it to a Farm Use CDL in '12 so I could skirt the pita physicals. I got my Chauffeurs License (preCDL era) when I was 17 so for the last 43 years I've been able to drive just about anything I damn well pleased. Nowdays I'm pretty confident I'm not going to drive big trucks for a living ever again and there are lots of upsides to giving it up like regaining several civil rights like being able to fight a ticket. But damn if it doesn't hurt worse than pulling wisdom teeth without pain meds to give it up.

    I look forward to the day I can burn mine and I’ll be dancing as I pour the gasoline.
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  2. Back in the day (late 80's - early 90's) I had a pretty good TV set up. It was similar to this pic, but it was an Emerson. It was secured(?) with a small bungie cord sitting on the mattress in a cabover Freightliner. There used to be a movie rental network at Petro and TA where you rent at one place and return anywhere in the network. It was pretty lousy and I usually wound up doing the scan/computer work for the high school dropout minimum wage clueless clerks. But the set was damn near indestructible. It went through 100s of thousands of miles bouncing on a mattress held only only a small bungie wrapped around the carry handle.
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    I had a similar set back in the day.
    It had an auto replay feature so when the tape ended it would rewind and start again.
    The outlaw Josey wales played so many times I went through three different copies. I can quote that movie word for word.
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  3. I can’t decide if Motherless Brooklyn was great or not.
    I really enjoyed it. But I kept flashing back to Chinatown (one of the best movies ever) so much so that I was waiting for the last line catch phrase in the movie. And it delivered. “Brooklyn is big but some things are bigger”

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