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I've not done any business with Home Depot in quite a few years but went to one in town today looking for a battery powered leaf blower since they had several models on sale. I'd gone to one of the Lowes stores yesterday and been disappointed at the lack of selection and no one offering to help me. Today what I later learned was one of the store managers noticed me trying to find a product in the lawn equipment section and asked me if I needed help finding a product. When I told him what I was looking for he took me straight to them, discussed product selection to me an noticed a better sale item on a better product then I was looking for and pointed it out to me. I was impressed that someone knew how to do their job. Then when he found out I was looking for a small gas grill he told me he had just what I needed and took me to a grill they weren't going to carry this season that had already been marked down to $149.00 and offered to let me have it for $100.00 if I wanted it. Then he and another employee loaded the grill and leaf blower into the back of my truck while I placed items in the cab. Needless to say I appreciated it and asked if he was a manager and confirmed I'd guessed correctly. I remember when customer service was awful at that store so I'm glad to see it doing better. I also remember when customer service was better at Lowes and hope to see it improve.

I was playing around in my garage, trying to create something unique for my 1911 collection. I had this idea. This is how it turned out . . . . . (photo heavy)

Camaro 2SS RS just rolled over 17k miles. Vararam intake and full Corsa cat back so far for mods.

We will be hosting our monthly 3-gun match on sunday March 5th. We will have 5 stages. Longest rifle shot around 220 yards. Round count will be under 100 for each gun but bring more if you plan to miss alot. There will be 2 slugs needed. Check in at the range between 11:00 and noon, new shooters please get there early for a new shooters briefing. Anyone that can be there early and help with set up is welcome. New safe shooters are always welcome. Match fee is $25 for non members and $20 for MTSC members. I can be reached with any questions at sumocrp@aol.com

They look great. Good detail.

Nice and the 1911 coins really set it off.

Nice job.

How long did it take you to do the checkering? Nice work, like the "1911" coins!!!

Looks like a good switch operator to me.

I've seen that thing sitting out front a few times and my wife tells me to keep my eyes on the road.

I don't need to go fast. I need to go anywhere! That Toyota pickup is all kinds of cool! That's an incredible find.

The problem with Tennessee is that you cannot (without buying a permit) openly or conceal carry any sort of firearm outside of certain exceptions like vehicle or home. It can probably be said in most states that requiring folks to buy a permit to CONCEAL still allows people to bear arms because they can openly carry for free.

On the Autobahn My Land Rover is only "quick" on snow covered roads or off road

Cool car, what mods did he make? Mostly I'm curious if he upgraded the differential. In my automotive days, I worked on development of the CTS-V. I got to go for a ride in a prototype "super CTS-V" that had the blown LS from the Z06 the they said they'd boosted up near 600 hp. Problem was, they couldnt get the diff to live very long and the bosses wouldn't buy off on a caddy with more power than the vette, so it never saw the light of day. It was a fun ride though.

Here are a few from my before kids days. No longer have em, but will again someday 1997 Trans Am 2008 Z06 05 SRT-4 and 06 GTO

Not terribly uncommon. Ruger seems to be the only company that announces on the same day (or after) they begin shipping.

@Capbyrd You just let me know exactly how fast your wallet wants to go and I can get you all set up. Untitled by Erik, on Flickr Untitled by Erik, on Flickr Untitled by Erik, on Flickr Untitled by Erik, on Flickr

Sold the CTS-V a few years ago.

one of mine

Altered is a long term project that I enjoy gathering parts for. Wagon is a 7.40 1/8 mi street car that hurts a lot of feelings. Lol

One of mine '14 GT500

As a small business owner for over 10 years now, bingo. I would disagree with the hard work statement as I think people misunderstand that. It's not just about hard work (hours or physical labor, one or both will apply) it's about smart work and most of the time, risk. I took a great risk 10 years ago and am now seeing the benefits. People want zero risk and want to put zero smart effort into their jobs these days. The ones that do are making good money.

If you have ever had to make payroll, you'll get it. If you have ever had to make out P&L statements, you'll get it. If you ever had the Gooberment stick their hands in everything your small business does, you'll get it. Higher wages should be based on merit (merit = hard work) not the over reaching hand of the Gooberment.

Yeah, I think I took a few years off my life with that period of time and the schedule but it needed to be done. Needed more money, wanted some more guns too. Went to work.

Fun watching this conversation. I remember when you had two jobs.

Some are just less dogmatic than others. No need to poke a stick in anyone's eye.

I've been using Amazon since 2002. They're not always the lowest price, but they're pretty close 9 times out of 10, and the time/frustration savings at being able to skip the store are a value in itself. It must kill some of you that the free market is favoring more than a few companies owned and run by liberals.

It's kinda funny. I started buying from Amazon when they were actually a book store. That's it, just books.

Oh, as am I... but my first discovery of Bill Nelson's work was "Live in the Air Age"... bought the album right after it came out, because the album-rock station (remember those?) that I listened to in Birmingham had played it in its entirety one evening, and I thought "Wow... this is a bit like prog, a bit like glam, and a bit like jazz... cool!" From there, I worked my way through the catalog, but the Live album is still probably my favorite, as it has great tunes from most of their studio albums, and the engineering & production is surprisingly good for a live album. I was already a Roxy Music fan, and BeBop Deluxe was sort of a natural progression from there, only with much cooler guitar work. Anyway, probably my single most favorite BeBob Deluxe song is from the Axe Victim album...