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I was hoping it wasn't that bad but no such luck. Please post a daily update Skipper. We're all family here. And as a Ninja rider myself this is especially troublesome.

DUKES.....DALLAS.....DYNASTY That was the Friday night line up on CBS....back when TV was good.

ATLANTA (Where Boss Hogg's recording studio was in Daisy's Song). The real city names went away when they moved the show to California. I liked when the show was filmed in Georgia.

I will do that Cousin Roger. Yep troublesome indeed. Poor Donny.

Cousin Boss... He has broke neck and broke back and lots of road rash.

CATHERINE Bach

It was a slightly different race in Monaco yesterday. Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc had put his Ferrari on pole, and was about to do an even quicker lap when Red Bull's Sergio Perez had a minor crash which resulted in the final qualifying session being red-flagged. Behind him on the grid were his team mate, Carlos Sainz Jr. and the two Red Bulls. Rain had been predicted, and minutes before the race started, the rain came down heavily. The race was initially delayed for about 10-15 minutes, and then started behind the safety car. They only completed a lap before the red flag came out. It wasn't until about 45 minutes later that the race proper finally got under way, and even then, two cars had minor incidents behind the safety car. Because of the wet start, all cars had to start on full wet tires, which meant it was up to the drivers and teams to decide when to gamble on intermediate or even slick tires as the track dried. Due to bad strategy by his team, Leclerc went from first to fourth in the pit stops after leading in the early stages, and Sergio Perez got his third F1 victory. Carlos Sainz Jr. was second, and Max Verstappen extended his championship lead in third. Mercedes' George Russell was best of the rest in fifth. Mick Schumacher (son of Michael) had a bad crash on lap 27 where his car split in two, but he walked away unhurt. You can see the highlights here.

Keep us updated.

Thanks Cousin Roger. I will do that.

.......the anthem of all HaZZardites

Boss always got nervous whenever the state bank eXaminer was in town.

Jesse "How you gonna tax VICE?"

I had a car wreck that almost killed me in '82 and when I got around 45-50 my back started bothering me and I had to start going to a Chiropractor. An Orthopedic surgeon put me in an MRI and said I have Osteo Arthritis in my spine and nothing can be done about it. It came from that car wreck.

I bet Roger. It's been a long time since I've been through Cleveland but I've seen plenty of dashcam videos on YouTube and it seems like it is just as bad as Cincinnati traffic. I'll never forget the last trip coming back from Tennessee and that stupid idiot going 45mph on I-75 crossing over 4 lanes in front of us. Thank God the tanker truck driver behind us had good reflexes and brakes. There was a drive-by shooting in the neighborhood behind my Dad's Saturday night. Not 100% sure what happened as it didn't make the local news but according to neighbors an empty car parked on the street got shot up by a dark colored vehicle. A few weeks ago catalytic converter theives struck the neighborhood. A week before that police responded to reports of someone randomly shooting a gun. Last week some kids were going through people's mailboxes. That neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be.

Been stressed wondering about him and my head hurts. Mom's head hurts too.

He lived. Car ran stop sign. He had to jump curb. Only curb saved him. Broken neck and back. Specialist comes in tomorrow.

That stinks Spike. I have plenty of back problems too. I was born with problems and they only get worse as I age. My back is feeling bad right now. We went to Detriot for a wedding and traveling is always rough on my back. The mental pain was worse. I've lived in the sticks my whole life and I don't know why anybody would want to live near city traffic. I went through Cleveland and then Detroit. And then repeated the process. But at least it was only Memorial Day weekend traffic. I've been in Cleveland rush hour traffic before and that was worse than what I experienced this weekend. Even so, I thought I was going to die a few times today and Friday.

Not sure how or when but I jacked my back up some time this week. That killed our Memorial weekend plans since our boss gave everyone Friday off too, we were going to do some day tripping but I mostly laid in bed or on the couch till today. Since the pain wasn't going away the wife took me to an Urgent Care after we did a little grocery shopping this morning. I told the wife "you sure had this planned out this morning didn't you", she got me there just as they opened up lol. The Dr that was on staff this morning had me do a urine test just to make sure it wasn't a kidney stone and then he felt my back and felt my muscle was swollen and knotted up so gave me a shot and a couple of prescriptions and told me no heavy lifting for a while.