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depois,botei uma iluminaçao se pá ajeitei o olho heuahuea

Doubts even here

Those steps which seem to take a lifetime
When eyes just turn and stare
The day begins, collapsing without warning
You fade from sight, there's nothing there

No hope allowed, calls are answered daily
Questions are on your side
Deeply moved, beyond all consolation
You felt the pulse, now hear the cry

In my mind, thoughts are becoming clearer
I'm watching every move you make
Counting time spent in observation
A single blow a false mistake

Then you revealed to me
All that I need to know now
(The close went down to times
too, too much behind us)
Then please don't turn away,
Why can't I talk to you now?
(The number of forgotten years
Where my honor isn't deepest
Grows the deepest feeling and it
Grieved for safety and despair)
There's nowhere left to go
Where is this taking her and how?
(The torish threats forevermore
Over our natural favor
And us and he's and I'll fall
Far in it, and it sees enough
In our failures and it's not time.)
There's nothing more I want
To know beyond your trust now
(I missed his promised time again
For my friend)
Don't throw our joy away
Why must you just you leave now?
(Has God forgotten to approach us?
Has He remembered to not despise us?)
Memories are all that's left
I need you near to me now
(There, now, now, don't come to mind my deeds
And call out in defiance of times gone by)

--New Order

Slap me silly

Sadly, the almost 40 year old inline 6 truck engine is finally giving up the ghost. Sometime in the last month or so, one of the cylinders generates 'piston slap' before the engine warms up. Basically the piston is flopping around in the cylinder. This magical pinging sound is accompanied by prodigious amounts of smoke as the nearly worthless cylinder burns up a bunch of oil.

Honestly, I'm not driving the truck much. I've already put on almost 1800 miles on the motorcycle since the end of April. It's summer. Riding in the rain isn't that big of a deal.

I've been debating various solutions to this dilemma for a couple of weeks now. For a while I looked at various vehicles I might buy as a backup (all within the 3k or so I probably could scrape up). Nothing really worked out. Today I took a look at a $300 inline 6 on craigslist. It seems fine to me. Actually, it has an aftermarket intake I was thinking of getting (normally 1k or so), so the 300 is basically a free motor with a great intake.

I'm supposed to pick it up tomorrow in the morning.

One problem -- I don't have a shop crane to get it out of my truck bed. I ran over to harbor freight for a 2 ton folding shop crane, but they are sold out. I was hoping to put the engine on my stand and clean it up. It's pretty dirty. Instead, I guess it will have to hang out in the back of the truck for a week or so.

After I clean it up, I'll stuff it into a engine test stand (to be purchased) run it, and make sure it's going to work out OK.

On a more interesting note, I was considering hanging myself in the garage with a 6 foot length of Chinese manufactured chain, but instead decided that the 5 year old neighbor girl Hope would be too disappointed in my absence.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention...nana croaked bout 2 weeks after our visit. She was the last grandparent.

Entropy is a pisser.