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What a year

pdq67

Donation Time
A few years ago, I was traveling doing fleet inspections. I had my bags packed for a week in Miami in February. Sounded good to me. The day before I was supposed to leave, the boss called and told me I needed to go to S.D. instead. I put over 1,000 miles on a 4WD Explorer in the state. The only time I have ever been colder was winter at the Korean DMZ. I went back to S.D. in April and what a difference. Beautiful. I took pictures on both trips and sent them to my boss. They were labeled "South Dakota With Snow" and South Dakota Without Snow". Yep, that pretty well sums it up.
In some ways, it is a bit like South Carolina. Nobody is in a hurry.
 

Paul A

Alpine Registry Curator
Platinum Level Sponsor
Soui Falls [is that how you spell that?] is where the job is I will be headed out to the corp offices in SD to train or qualify to install the new companies systems so maybe while I am there will change my mind.

Hi Jim:

When you get to Sioux Falls give me a call at 605.770.7788 A dinner with you can easily be arranged. ;)
 

bluoval

Donation Time
lost our son to the west

hi jim our som had just turned 21 and was attending the univ of akron our daughter eas 15 and still in high school decided to take a family vacation thinking it would be the last with all of us togather so we decided on a dude ranch in wy so we packed up the car and made the drive from ohio. the first nighi justin was invited to an employee keg party and by the third night he was offered a job at the ranch for the summer .on the sporting clay course we had done some shooting of sporting clays and he was a natural (now a wy state champ) he decided to take the job for summers and finish school in salt lake city he has not looked back and is now madly in love with the rockies i cant imagine him living anywhere else and now excuses for my wife and i to go back to the rockies you will love the west if you give it a try best of luck earl blu oval
 

Jeff Scoville

Donation Time
Jim, I hope things take a change for the good soon.
Today, after 6 months of BS with the insurance co.(AIG), I get a call that they finally read all the paperwork I had submitted and are now going to reinstate my benefits and schedule my second (and hopefully final) surgury.
While I am not looking forward to the surgery and subsequent recovery time, I am looking forward to working without the fire in my right elbow!
Anyhow, maybe the planets are re-aligning or whatever they say, and things will get to a better place.
looking forward to seeing everyone in a couple weeks, and hearing what good news you will hopefuly have!
Keep the faith!

So, this was pretty much my last post til now. Originally posted 8-13-07. As you know I didn't make the Invasion. What most of you don't know, is that the insurance co. never came through. I have since had to move into my shop as the wife couldn't take my living with her and my daughters while not contributing to anything and becoming unlivable with.
After a few weeks of that I had a nervous breakdown and have spent the last 6 or 7 weeks undergoing shock therapy at the local "Nuthouse". I am now doing out-patient therapy and trying to regain what sanity I had.
I now have an 11-13-07 court date to see if AIG is going to belley up and fix my elbow, let alone come up with the year-plus wages I have lost in the meantime.
If it goes poorly, I may be seeling off the herd to stay alive. I can say though, it's nice to be back on the SAOCA website again and catching up an what I've been missing.
Prayers are appreciated, and welcomed.
Hopefully by next years Invasion we'll all be doing better than we are right now. Looking forward and not back seems to be the way to go.
 

Rsgwynn1

Silver Level Sponsor
A prayer--ecumenical, non-denominational, universal--comes your way. Jeez. Take care.

Sam
 

65sunbeam

SAOCA Membership Director
Diamond Level Sponsor
All the best to you Jeff in these times ahead. I will send a few prayers out for you. Playing with cars can be good therapy when nothing else seems to be going right with the world. Please let us know how things are going. Eric
 

Bill Blue

Platinum Level Sponsor
Jeff, was looking forward to meeting you at the Invasion and am really saddened to hear your troubles. Also noticed you had not visited the board for a long time. I am not much for prayer, but I've certainly been thinking and wondering about you a lot.

Wishing you the best.
Bill
 

skywords

Donation Time
Jim
Do what I did and start driving a school bus. It's a hoot. Two to three weeks training and you off down the road in your own 40ft banana barn and at the end of the day when you get in the Alpine to drive home you will feel like your driving a super charged go cart.

The best part is we are in short supply and the kids will always be going to school no matter what the economy is doing. The money is not great but the if you take a few field trips it's livable.

It is a split shift and lets me run my airplane business mid day.
 

Bill Blue

Platinum Level Sponsor
Hey Rick, I once knew a gal that drove a school bus. Her personal wheels was a Honda Civic. She said if you want to feel stupid, swing left to turn right in a Civic. Ever happen to you?

Bill
 

jack Bacon

Silver Level Sponsor
Jeff,

Welcome back to the forum and good luck at your court date. The insurance companies are for sure a bunch of bastards! They can't seem to see that it's cheaper to go with what the customer really needs. They would rather have some one see countless specialists with no forseeable end result in the future. It's actually costing them twice as much in the end. Just ask my wife about her foot problems!

You are in our prayers,

Jack
 

mikephillips

Donation Time
You have my best wishes as well Jeff, and sorry you were unable to make it last summer. If there's anything any of us can do for you please don't hesitate to ask.
 

Jim E

Donation Time
Dang Jeff,
That is rough. Keep your head up buddy you will come out on the other side. I figured my brain was trying to kill me there for a while but finally got over it or killed enough brain cells that it stopped.
 

Jeff Scoville

Donation Time
So as if things can't get any worse, today I went to fill my new prescriptions.
1 months worth of 4 different drugs $1151.46
At least after my insurance I only had to come up with $250.00
Still, I can't believe it.
 

Nickodell

Donation Time
Believe it, Jeff. My wife and I are, of course, on Medicare. This is OK for the medical side, so long as we kick in $400 a month for "medigap" through the AARP (to cover the co-pay that Medicare doesn't), but until last year we had to pay 100% of all our medications. My wife, being an invalid, is on over a dozen medications, some of which cost $300 per prescription. In 2005 we spent over $9,000 just on drugs, which was nearly 4 months of our combined Social Security. In addition, we have to pay $2,400 a year out of our Soc. Sec. to get Medicare.

Part D of Medicare, introduced last year, is a big help, but one soon moves into the "donut hole," where once again you're paying 100%. So the $9,000 is now closer to $5,000, but still a lot to swallow, no pun intended. To add insult to injury, unless you itemize deductions (and we don't, having paid off our mortgage) you don't even get a tax break. I always tell people who complain about their jobs: You have no idea what those benefits mean until you lose them.

Anyway, I hope your own situation soon improves. As they say, it's always darkest before the dawn.
 

Jeff Scoville

Donation Time
I always tell people who complain about their jobs: You have no idea what those benefits mean until you lose them.

Anyway, I hope your own situation soon improves. As they say, it's always darkest before the dawn.


My Father is 73 and still works for this very reason.
And thanks.
 

Jeff Scoville

Donation Time
Well guys, it's been forever since I last visited. I had hoped that maybe concentrating on real life issues, and not so much my hobbies would help re-direct my life.
No such luck.
I had finally gotten a hearing back in February with an Arbitrator Judge. After 3 months of waiting for a decision, it came back 100 perrcent in my favor, including damages and attorney fees so my attorney would get paid without my having to give up any percentage. My attorney had never deen a Judge do this which pretty much let the insurance co. know how wrong they had been through all this.
Well, as it turns out, they have 30 days to stall paying me, or to even actually contest the decision. 30 days later, they contested. From what my lawyer says is they're only hope is that by doing this' they will try to settle for less rather than make me wait what could be another 2 years before we can even schedule another hearing.
If this wasn't all enough for me to give up on this whole crazy world, my divorce goes through in less than 2 weeks. If it wasn't for my 4 and 7 yr old daughters, I'd figure out a way to go to Irac and trade places with someone that has some sort of future ahead of them.
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Anyhow, sorry to post all this on here, but it all leads up to this. I have a CRAPLOAD of Sunbeam parts that I just don't know what to do with. I suppose listing some of it on ebay wouldn't be a bad idea, but I just can't seem to find the time or energy to do it. I guess over the next few weeks I'll go through some of it and see if any of it may be of some use to anyone here in the club. For instance, I have at least 4 or 5 trannys that it just seems a waste to scrap. Would Jan be interested in me just giving them to him in the hopes that the parts or complete units may benefit someone, or should I just pitch them?
I'm truely at the point where it's not a matter of making a bunch of dough off this stuff, (although I could use it), it's a matter of not tossing stuff that someone could use to get they're car back on the road.
Over the next 3 months I will be "scrapping" 3 or 4 semi complete cars. 1 or possibly 2 are MAYBE salvageable units, I just need them gone. If there's truely enough interest, I will try to make time to get a list of some of the more desireable stuff together over the next few weeks, I will say, I'm not very interested in going through a bunch of packing and shipping, so if someone want's to show up with a big trailer, it might just be your lucky day.
I'm hoping to reaclimate myself with the club as it used to bring me alot of pleasure chatting away, you've all been missed.
 

mikephillips

Donation Time
Jeff,
You might consider contact Tom at TWAutomotive about the cars and bits you want to get rid of. He's local to you and that should make it easier.
 
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