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Yeesh. It’s been a while. A lot has happened up here in the last 5 weeks. First off, I got COVID somehow and had to isolate for 10 days. My positive came in right before school spring break so I didn’t miss too much school. Because of this, my class had to isolate as well and couldn’t be in the building but I could after my 10 isolation...(what?!) So that meant that they had to do online learning for 3 days mid week after break! Productive much? Right....


So school went back to “normal” and then totally unrelated cases were identified elsewhere in the community and school! We were shut down last week and have been doing online learning. Ugh. One day while doing online teaching someone tried to steal my Duramax and buggered up my passenger door. 9:30am. In an elementary school lot! A student’s mom (high school friend) saw him and told me that it was happening right now and where he was because he took off when my alarm went off. So, she and I took off in Maximus and I had that guy cornered with a baseball bat in a backyard and the only reason I wasn’t swinging for the fences was because I wasn’t 100% sure he was the one. My friend was in the truck calling the cops. If she had said, “That’s him!” I’d likely be in jail. I was literally “not there, blackout” mad. He ran inside his buddy’s house and went out the back and I lost him. The cops eventually picked him up and charged him, but THEY HAD to release him immediately after because of our backwards justice system. I love the cops and their work, but their hands are tied on the rules.He has a court date in 2 months...oh good. (Sorry moderator, I’m done) We know who he is though...keep tuned kids. I sure like how Batman deals with stuff. I had to pick and pull a handle and they are a PITA to get out of those doors. You basically rip the whole door apart to change the outer handle. AARGH!

So that was a big curveball. During that time, we tried to have our daughter’s 2nd birthday party but because of new in place restrictions she again got the short end of the stick for her birthday. A drive by donut/coffee stop was our answer, but it just wasn’t the same. I know she won’t remember, but I will. I feel like I’ve let her down, even though I know it’s not in my circle of control.

In the meantime, I finished the intake on the C10. i just need to make a little bracket to bolt to the alternator mount to stiffen it up. Not beautiful, but functional as I maintained the stock MAF sensor. I only had to buy the filter as my bro in law had piles of scraps from our time building rigs. I had to build an adaptor to fit the MAF and then a 4” for the KN filter. I hope it works.

I also finished painting my wife’s Rambler’s rims and mounted the new rubber. We also polished up the old hubcaps. A little elbow grease goes a long way. Hey, Doyle?!