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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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alaskaleftybass said:
View attachment 3138446 A view from our grocery store today.
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You have to be careful what you catch down at the port. The port can be a seedy part of town.

Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you.
She also told me, "stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch."
Just the other day I heard a soldier falling off some Indonesian junk that's going round.

Surrender — Cheap Trick
 
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We aren’t the only shoppers in the store...
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Al Kraft said:
What a gorgeous view! The scenery across from our local grocery store is...oh who am I kidding, we don't have a view like that anywhere around where I live or where I shop. :)
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Here, you can have one of mine, from the closest brewpub to my place:

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Credit: Everybody's Brewing, in downtown White Salmon WA.
 
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What beautiful places we all live in. Yesterday Carey and I had breakfast with my 79 year old cousin from Metlakatla. My dad's side-- called Tsimpshean Nation. When he was young he looked just like Rock Hudson. When he came up to us at the restaurant I almost blacked out. He looked like my Dad. My dad made it to 79 when the Big C took him. I couldn't believe how much he looked like my dad. I hadn't seen him in 24 years. Dad died in 1994. But there was my flesh and blood-- and closest thing to a brother, and almost like my dad incarnate. It was amazing and scary at the same time.

After spending much of the day with him Carey and I decided we're going to go down to Metlakatla later this year to visit my other cousins and say hi. I had felt so alone for a long time because I was out of touch with my cousins. Now I'm energized to re-establish bonds with family.

Today was drop dead gorgeous and we spent time running errands and actually drove around town for quite a while watching the young people riding bikes, skateboarding, eating ice cream cones-- all the fun stuff young people do in the sun. We aren't what you'd call financially successful but with wife at my side and such a beautiful day I still felt like a rich man for a moment.
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
What beautiful places we all live in. Yesterday Carey and I had breakfast with my 79 year old cousin from Metlakatla. My dad's side-- called Tsimpshean Nation. When he was young he looked just like Rock Hudson. When he came up to us at the restaurant I almost blacked out. He looked like my Dad. My dad made it to 79 when the Big C took him. I couldn't believe how much he looked like my dad. I hadn't seen him in 24 years. Dad died in 1994. But there was my flesh and blood-- and closest thing to a brother, and almost like my dad incarnate. It was amazing and scary at the same time.

After spending much of the day with him Carey and I decided we're going to go down to Metlakatla later this year to visit my other cousins and say hi. I had felt so alone for a long time because I was out of touch with my cousins. Now I'm energized to re-establish bonds with family.

Today was drop dead gorgeous and we spent time running errands and actually drove around town for quite a while watching the young people riding bikes, skateboarding, eating ice cream cones-- all the fun stuff young people do in the sun. We aren't what you'd call financially successful but with wife at my side and such a beautiful day I still felt like a rich man for a moment.
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ALB, you ARE a rich man in every way that counts!;):thumbsup::hyper:
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
I couldn't believe how much he looked like my dad. I hadn't seen him in 24 years...

...Today was drop dead gorgeous and we spent time running errands and actually drove around town for quite a while watching the young people riding bikes, skateboarding, eating ice cream cones-- all the fun stuff young people do in the sun. We aren't what you'd call financially successful but with wife at my side and such a beautiful day I still felt like a rich man for a moment.
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The years pass by so quickly, especially as we age. In a blink of an eye, years can pass.

When you live in a place with relatively short summers, you appreciate everything that comes with the warm weather. Enjoy it, the farmer's almanac is predicting a brutal winter for 2019.
 
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Brian, you might know your first shipment when you move home is mostly tax exempt (no vehicles or business quantities). The new D30 law greatly increased the balikbayan tax exempt limit. There was a lot of hoopla going on with customs that D30 wanted cleaned up (overtaxing so recipients would abandon the good and customs got to keep the goodies, outright theft, etc.). It was a great system that evidently deteriorated over the last ten years or so. They set the value of the goods themselves if you didn't include a sales receipt. He was supposed to go after all that hoopla, but also increased the tax exempt limit from I believe 10,000 PHP to 150,000 PHP Invalid Link Removed

You probably already know all this, but I just don't want to hear you got burned on P300,000 worth of goodies! I'm sure the box shippers know the rules when you bring the box in. My nearby Asian Market/shipper) in Indy has shut down :( There are a couple of others there, all the way across town. Last I shipped was $80 to Luzon, outside of Manila. Less if I go up to Chicago. I might get a container. Make a great shop and/or underground bunker :D



There are positive offsets as well. As far as cheap tires go (not that you want to risk it on a bike), there's a vulcanizing shop every 100 ft on any highway, and time stands still, no one is expected to be on time.
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Buying things from USA mail order vendors can result in the hefty import duty if shipped via certain commercial carriers. I've been told FedEx was singled out for some political reasons and no longer serves the Phillipines. This is commercial trade which is separate from the balikbayan system.
We moved here with balikbayan boxes with zero problems 8 years ago. And have used it a couple of times since. We have a great guy in Connecticut. He operates out of his house and has his own wharehouse in Manila. $55 for the big size boxes.
We weighed the pros and cons of getting a container which was around $12,000. Some guys I know went that route and it was good if you had a garage full of tools and a house full of heirloom furniture like one guy I know.
As far as the local tire guys, they can only fix tube style tires. My Yamaha FZ16 uses tubeless radial tires and are a slightly rare size too.
 
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Buying things from USA mail order vendors can result in the hefty import duty if shipped via certain commercial carriers. I've been told FedEx was singled out for some political reasons and no longer serves the Phillipines. This is commercial trade which is separate from the balikbayan system.
We moved here with balikbayan boxes with zero problems 8 years ago. And have used it a couple of times since. We have a great guy in Connecticut. He operates out of his house and has his own wharehouse in Manila. $55 for the big size boxes.
We weighed the pros and cons of getting a container which was around $12,000. Some guys I know went that route and it was good if you had a garage full of tools and a house full of heirloom furniture like one guy I know.
As far as the local tire guys, they can only fix tube style tires. My Yamaha FZ16 uses tubeless radial tires and are a slightly rare size too.
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Would you possibly be better off trading/selling the bike-or the wheels/tires?
 
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< super grumpy today. fostering a stray german shepherd, been three days since she ran up to us in public, taking her to the vet tonight to have her scanned for an id microchip. i want to keep her. we have to prove that we search for her owner for 30 fays (legally), before a GS rescue and/or shelter would even consider taking her. sorry flea bag, worms etc. completely rehabilitating her. will probably end-up with her, not looking forward to finding housing for my wife and I that will allow for us all.

would love to share pix, but not a good idea if she turns to be stolen etc
 
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Bevause I am one lazy SOB, I still haven't canvassed the local motorcycle parts shops and haven't asked my buddy where he got his similar tires.
One other option is to take a three hour hell ride of a drive to Butuan, which is a larger city with more shops. We go there on shopping trips every now and then.
But due to my laziness, the fallback choice of getting the OEM tires, the crappy ones made in India, from the Yamaha dealer might be it.

Living in the Philippines next installment will be about getting clothes that fit for a guy who is 6'2" and 230 lbs. in a country where the average height is about 5'3".

When I walk down the street here I look like one of those balloons at the Macy's Thangsgiving Day parade in NYC.
 
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