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Agree...tend to the golf balls. ;)





>> >> Mayonnaise Jar & Two Beers...



When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.



When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.



He then asked the students if the jar was full.





They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.





The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.



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He then asked the students again if the jar was full.





They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.





Of course, the sand filled up everything else.





He asked once more if the jar was full.





The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.





The students laughed...

'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.





The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the20other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else---the small stuff.





'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.





The same goes for life.





If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.



Spend time with your children.





Spend time with your parents.





Visit with grandparents.





Take time to get medical checkups.





Take your spouse out to dinner.





Play another 18.

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There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.





Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter.





Set your priorities.





The rest is just sand.





One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented.

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The professor smile d and said, 'I'm glad you asked.'

The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.


**Willing to delete this for you but it seemed pertinent at the time.

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Hey VT, Leave it.

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Welp, my granny is doin' great. Off the ventilator and alert. Still in the ICU for a bit but thats ok. Don't care what anyone says, prayer works!

All the parts to be yellow are now grey! I'm headed back to the garage for some finish sanding and tomorrow if all goes well, I'll shoot the paint.
Pics to come later.....

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To tired to sand, lol. :waah:
Its a good feeling having it all one color, even if it isn't the final color.
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My exhaust fan does a fine job. This wouldn't work in some places but I'm out in the county in KY, lol. I stick it on a stand in the doorway and out all the overspray goes.
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That's a big step, color coming soon!

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Awesome dude!! :metal:

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good job j keep going your almost there...

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Not today, lol.....

Gotta love it. Drivin' me nuts, can't wait to have it in yellow.

I thought I would be able to have it all blocked out and painted by the end of the day today.... I thought wrong:lol:. Just incase anyone doesn't know or has some how forgotten.... I really don't like sanding. I've got it all knocked down, just going back over it for a final smoothing. The doors are done and the hood is half done, topside anyways. I can't decide if I should smooth out the underside of the hood or just leave it and shoot it. Any thoughts? Keep in mind this is a driver, maybe a show here and there, lol.
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Its been a long day. As long as no kinda crap goes down between now and in the morning I'll have some cool pics to post by the end of the day tomorrow. I hope I've got enough paint......

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It didn't come out as nice as I'd hoped but nothing a cut and buff won't take care of. Oh, ran out of paint too.... Luckily I was saving the rockers/bedsides for last anyways so everything got the paint it needed. It did take more than I expected to get good coverage.
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Looks really good J, can't wait to see it in person.

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The banana boat is comen in:ito::ito:

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lookin good j!!

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Nice work J, looks like all your hard work has payed off. Nice color choice

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Thanks for all the kind words. My wife has always had a thing for Tweety Bird so now of course everyone is calling it the Tweety mobile, lol. Not me though, I'm partial to Sylvester:lol:. Went back over to check on how its curing. Theres nothin' like watchin' paint dry, lol. Looks good but theres still a ton of work to do.

Almost forgot. I couldn't find someone to take a pic of me not moving while painting......:ito: Didn't wanna stir up any dust.:chevy:

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That looks great J! :metal:

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Looking good J!

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I can't wait to see it together - I think I'm really going to like that color on your K5!

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Looks good, kinda like this one:

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and there's J in the background with his gun talking to Jamie in his cowboy hat!!!!!!! :lol:

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Can't wait too... Just gotta scrape the dough together for more paint to finish up the tub. Bills come first though, friggin' bills, lol.

Thats a cool mag right there. Look at the price on it, wish they still were that cheap.

Now thats funny.:lol: True too:metal: Yeah, I'm a fan of firearms. If there were a gun section on this board it'd be the greatest thing in the world. Well almost, me getting my Blazer done and enough good paying jobs to go around would be pretty good too.

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:metal:lol

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I had a guy thats done paint and body work for me in the past come up today and take a look. After talkin' with him for awhile I'm feeling tons better about the job I did. So heres the plan. Paint the rest of it. Put it all together. Block out the runs and light orange peel. Take it to a paint booth and lay on 1-3 wet coats and we should be good to go. He's got a 50's Ford show truck he did like that (minus the goofs I did) and it looks like glass. Don't know if I've said this yet but the paint is Single Stage Acrylic Enamel from Napa. MSA 5007C Lemon Yellow now called Corvette Yellow, MSA 575 Hardener, MSA 560 Reducer. Its made by Sherwin Williams.

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Your saying 'add' three more wet coats to what's already there?

Why the h*!! didn't he recommemd that the first time 'round? :sumo: :lol:

Can't wait to see the yellow glow coming out of the south...

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It took 5 coats to get coverage... Just to be safe when I do get some extra dough I'm buyin' 2 gallons of paint. I'll have to shoot the bedsides 5 coats to catch up with the rest before assembly. Yes it will be bright, lol. Won't even need headlights at night:lol:

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Nice work J. Congrats.

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Okay...been a week, we want more pics! :sumo: :lol:

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Yeah...what he said! :metal:

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Not to be a whiner but this past week I had the stomach flu or virus or bug or... All the fun stuff that goes with that. Got over that and now have the full on flu. Can't win for losin', lol. I've got the paint and its in the 70's outside. Yeah it sucks, lol.

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got well soon big j..:metal:

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Just bustin' on ya, show us the goods when your back at it. :)

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Feelin' better so I snuck into the garage today. Did some wet sanding and prep. Tomorrow I'll be sneakin' back into the garage to toss on some more paint. Shhhh, don't tell the wife.:lol:

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The paint is done for now. After its all assembled I'll block it and take it to a booth for a nice slick finish coat. This time around I got the gun dialed in and it all went great!
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wow! now that there is yellow. i like it! cant wait to see it all together. keep up the good work. :metal:

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I put in a simaler fuel door in the blazer i'm building. Mine is out of a crysler minivan. It has the cable that unlatches it. nice to see someone has the same idea. Never did like the fuel cap on the 1st gen blazer, looked like an after thout by GM.


P.S. Love the color.

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Looks awesome! More pix!

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NICE JOB that looks outstanding. I really like that color

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you sure got this right:smoke:

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looks great j!!!

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WOW! Looks excellent. Great job, like the color choice. Keep it up.