scharmer05

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Well....I do a lot of city driving with my Impala....so i usually get about 22-24mpg on a tank....with about 3/4 of the tank being stop and go driving. On a highway trip with it I usually get about 27-28mpg. I burn E85 in the suburban. I have burned through about 10 tanks of it and seems to have averaged out at about 13 mpg. Compaired to about 14.5-15 i was getting with regular gas. I was pulling my boat this last weekend as was getting about 11mpg with it. I gets a little steap. I put over $150 in gas in both the boat and the suburban at one stop....OUCH. But if I want to be able to go fishing and skiing in the summer....and to be able to pull my snowmobiles around in the winter...I need a suburban or something at least as big. It won't work to have anything smaller. So I guess that I'll just eat the extra cost and deal with it, although I can see myself driving the impala more and more if I don't have to be pulling something.

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St. Peter Coulie

before that they put a sticker inside the fuel door saying that you can use E85...my suburban has the sticker and so did my mom's old caravan that she had for work.

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i would LOVE to go skydiving....my roommate and I have been talking about doing it for months now....just waiting for a month when i have a little extra class so we can do it. There is a place just outside of town where you pay 100 for a 8 hour lesson and one dive. Then you can go after that whenever you want for just 40 bucks. I really want to do it.

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actually, he was wearing a helmet and they think he may have been better without it. The holes in the top of the helmet actually directed the antler at his head. It may have not mattered at all, but had he not had the helmet on it may have just cut his head rather than being directed right into it.

So I was home for graduation parties like a week and a half ago. On Saturday night while I was out at a bonfire in the country, my pager went off. It was a medical call for a man that was choking ( at least that is what the dispatcher picked out of the cell phone call that was broken up) The dipatcher pretty much only knew where it was based off the GPS signal that the cell phone sent. So I hopped in the burban and took off, I was only about 3 miles away (luckily, considering that everyone else on the squad would have been in town which was 7 miles away). So I'm first on the scene. As I get there, I notice that it is not a man choking but rather a 10-11 year old boy passed out on the side up the ditch in his fathers arms bleeding from his head. I was the only one there and had only little training with something like this. I got him out of his father's arms and laid down on the ground. I felt for a heart beat, that was regular, then i put my ear next to his mouth. He was breathing a little, but not nearly enough. I checked his throught, he had vomitted earlier and it was blocking his airway. I began to clear his airway as our rig showed up. I then let the EMTs take over while me and a few others took care of other things that need to get done. Turns out what had happened is he and his little brother had been riding their bikes around their grandma's farm. His grandma had one of those tacky cement deer in her yard and the boy had fallen off his bike and into it and one of the antlers had gone 3 1/2 inches into his brain and then back out again. His parents had been trying to control the bleeding, not knowing what had happened, they thought it was just a cut. I would think they should have known from the gray brain matter on the top of his head, but im not going to second guess what they did because that is not my job. They stayed at grandma's house for about an hour before they decided to head to the hospital. They put him in the van and headed for town. They said the made it about a mile before he started puking and whithin another mile he became unconscious, so they decided to stop and wait for an ambulance. Once the ambulance got to the scene, they stabalized him and headed to Grand Forks (the largest hospital that is close) They did 5 hours of surgery that night and by the next morning the boy was conscious, was walking around, knew everyone's name, knew the date, like nothing had ever happened. I really think that god was watching over this little boy. Not many people survive that kind of injury. I really do think it was a miracle.

I was over in central MN this weekend....it was 95 and humid most of the weekend, but I spent most of the weekend chilling on the pontoon so i survived....and there was a nice breeze too.

awesome tails....they look real nice...especially on silver

the chick just down the street from me just got a new black escalade, another guy a few blocks away has a nice H2 on a nice set of 20s...the coolest i think would be the old guy that lives across the street from me that just got a Z06....what a rush

salmon

yesterday

I paid 1.99 for E85 this morning regular was 2.59 at one place in town. I'm getting like 13 mpg with it in my suburban compaired to like 14.5 mpg with regular. I haven't done the math to see if im losing any money on it, but I like the idea of using mostly ethanol and supporting the local farmers so it is worth it to me even if I am.

I just got a job detailing cars for the local chrysler dealer (I know....but its a job) I have been doing it for a couple weeks now and i've been enjoying it so far, but it is a lot of manual labor. Great deal about it is that I get to use all of their stuff to shine up my car at the end of the day. I'd say go for it if you enjoy cleaning your own car.

i own a suburban, and i probably can't really afford it, but i'm not going to be giving it up any time soon. I need a full size vehicle, as do quite a few people that own them. I can see a few people moving down to something smaller, but many will just eat the extra costs

remake

holiday

ahhh.....toby was a good dog

my cousin has a 02 boxter. It's a fun drive, but I feel cramped inside and im only 5'9", so I would never buy one. I would like to drive a 911 to see how it feels.

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