My name is Tim and I too am a Hotwheel collector.
I have a collection "not for sale" of over 2000 loose cars including opened treasure hunt vehicles that force me to listen to "for value" collectors complain " why did you open that?". I also have 1000s of unopened cars I plan on opening someday. My future retirement plans are to build cities in my basement that rival HO train setups. I do not like trains but I like cars! Keep on opening them cars and playing with them. I do!
Tim
Thank God Hot Wheels are so dang cheap or I'd have been priced out of this hobby a long time ago. I don't know how many cars are in my collection now...but I've kept up with my collection-Hot Wheels only came out with 38 new cars for 2006. I've found, or friends have found, about 3/4's of them...
To read the story Hot Wheels, Hooves, And the Illusion of Happiness go here: http://www.highmountainranch.com/SomeDay/Ch1.shtml
Enjoy...
Glad to have read your soap box meanderings on your current political debacle.
It always amazes me and it truly makes me happy that my grandparents slipped north of the border to be with other branches of family. Though the other day I was asked what sort of Canadian I was "French Canadian or English Canadian? No I responded guess I am either just "Canadian" or if I have to be tagged "American Canadian", with 1 parent and 3 grandparents that were citizens of your fine country.
Sigh I like "Just Canadian" best. I have found I am tired of being anti American because you have an idiot president. You have so many wonderful and fine people in your country, I don't feel as family that we should slag you. You need all the friends you can get to help you realize that you are more than the lowest common denominator.
I kind of think that the Chinese Government is chuckling at your country for throwing your resources away like the Spanish Armada at England with your war in Iraq. While they are taking over your ability to produce your own products. Anyway good luck to you and yours, we have our own idiots to deal with here.
Henry, Alberta Canada...
I learned some interesting bits about my family several years back. I spent a couple weeks of my vacation with my grandmother Billie Lopeman. I didn't know it at the time but it would be the last vacation we'd take together.
For weeks, we debated whether we should take the trip, and if she was up for the journey. Finally in early september of 2001 we hit the road. I had to lift Billie into my 4x4 at every stop, but that was her only limitation. Indeed with each mile, she seemed to lose a decade.
At 85 she was completely up for the trek, so longing to return to Montana to visit old family homesteads, longtime friends and neighbors and to validate where she came from.
It was the best vacation I've ever had. Once that journey started, so also began a dialogue of not only where she came from, but also where I came from. Five generations suddenly had context.
I learned that my great grandparents originally homesteaded in Sask. & Alberta, Canada and that my great grandfather's gambling debts eventually led to the "encouragement" for their quick resettlement in Montana-although many of my great grandmother's sisters remained in the Calgary area. My great uncle Ed Loskot was actually born in Canada-but because he was born at home without a birth certificate, when the family resettled in Montana, his Canadian birth was quickly "forgotten".
I have great fondness for Canada...as Canadian politics have evolved, their economy stands tall and with their humanitarian commitment to their people- as well as the rest people of the world, Canadians are a fine example of what we can be.
Here's the story about Billie's last adventure:
http://www.highmountainranch.com/TalesFromtheRoad/tremendously.html
Timbo, that's a very thorough list of reasons you posted.
Maybe you should go back and add the secret meeting Cheney had to set the energy policy. the meeting with all the big oil executives. the executives who refused to testify to congress as to the content of their meeting with the VP. then be sure to remind everyone that the price for gas is simply market forces at their best. thats how it works in our capitalist economy. our democratic way that now includes govt policy meetings that are secret from the population. democracy. yeah
Brad, Georgia
It looks like the Bush Administration is getting the roll over from congress. Some pundits are referring to Senator John McCain as the Mcrollover man. The US Constitution now stands as the greatest causalty of The War on Terror, followed by the Geneva Conventions, with congressional oversight and checks and balances bringing up the rear.
Anyone, anywhere can be arrested and labeled as an enemy-a terrorist. Forget about due process. Forget about your rights under the Geneva Convention. It is a very scary time for Democracy...
Tim,
Beginning with the next Oct 1 issue, Spokane Public Schools will be distributing Stonewall News issues to High School and Middle School staff as well as administrative staff. These Stonewall issues will also be available to students and their parents. Spokane School District website will also provide a link to Stonewall website to enable access to current and back issues as well as other information available on the Stonewall website.
This is being done as part of a larger effort by the Equity Dept of the school system to be supportive of its student population in a truly non-discriminatory manner. The school system is finding itself trying to cope with students who are coming out at younger and younger ages.
The GSA's within the school district will also begin using the online Stonewall GLBTQA calendar and their events will be published in the printed edition of the Stonewall. Discussion has begun to engage GLBTQA students through the GSA's in contributing their own writing in the Stonewall just as other GLBTQA organizations currently do. Further, Spokane School District will begin rotating 3 1/4 page color ads every month in Stonewall beginning with the next issue. I was shown the ad ideas yesterday and they're wonderful!
I share this with you because this bold progressive partnership between Stonewall and the public schools is monumental, particularly in (conservative) Spokane. With school system staff of 5,000 and 29,000+ students, Stonewall's circulation will increase dramatically and the dynamics of Stonewall's readership will shift. Our audience will trend younger and more mainstream, and this presents new opportunities to engage, educate, and enlighten in our columns, writings, and overall presentation as a publication.
As contributors to Stonewall - thank you for the work you've done and continue to do. :)
Mike, Publisher Stonewall News Northwest http://www.stonewallnews.net/index2.htm
I am really excited about this. As a monthly contributor to Stonewall News Northwest, I've been so proud that under Mike's leadership, Stonewall News has become something I'm not ashamed for someone in my family to see. Even my very conservative parents.
Unlike the Seattle Gay News, which has an entire section that seems more appropriate for an adult bookstore, Stonewall is far more progressive and professional. I applaud Mike's courage and willingness to go in new directions and lead rather than follow. Although the rest of the country might think of Spokane as Out in the Middle of Nowhere-I'd offer that we are actually poised front and center on the crest of the new cutting edge. I am humbled that I get to be part of that exciting new direction.
If you have comments on anything you find here, or on www.highmountainranch.com , you can send them here:
highmountainranch@povn.com Write on!
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