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Date:         Wed, 16 May 2012 18:24:30 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Adjustable rate fuel pressure regulator? anybody try one?
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At 11:45 AM 5/16/2012, David Bjorkman wrote: >Well, it is still early in the week, and you have to count Friday, >but ya gotta love the posts David puts up.

Sound advice, o magus. Us'n Jovian figgers are immune to flattery [our nose is just fine, thank you, Mister Geppetto], but criticism gets right up our nose.

> That guy knows many things about many things

Oh aye. Sometimes just enough to a) look as though he knows a lot more than he does, or b) be dangerous. Sometimes both. He processes very rapidly, which is a three-edged sword.

> and much about our Vanagons (worming?

Take two of your favorite anthelmintic and call your vet in the morning.

> on this list? I knew, but I live on the ocean and have some > sailing experience).

Fair number of sailors on the list. Not surprising really. If you think about it, a Westy is a good deal like a 25-foot cruising sloop that doesn't need bridges to lift for it unless the top is up.

However, I do believe I can claim one unique distinction. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in Known Space who a) brought a 32-foot sloop to a Vanagon/Bus get-together, b) on the eleventh of September, 2001, and c) [I still can't believe I actually did this] took a bunch of them for a ride and decided to show them a rock, specifically the *only* rock, right in the middle of a hurricane hole called The Basin, and forgot that this landlocked little bubble of heaven might as well be a plankton farm, and the visibility is about three inches. Heck, I'd gone swimming for that same rock years before and bumped my head on it. So they're all looking over the bow [we'd better humor the poor sod, who knows what he'll do...], she's probably down by the head a good eight inches...we found the rock all right. Just a tap, but 20 years before my father had actually hit something in the same place under the forefoot, and the pirates at the yard he went to "repaired" it with two layers of glass cloth and about three pounds of Bondo. Which naturally popped off and started leaking again. And rather than laughing themselves sick, as they would have been reasonably entitled to do, my guests were the absolute soul of helpful courtesy. Vanagon people are great.

> He is not shy about helping others out and he is not alone in that regard.

Vanity. Pure vanity. Seriously, if I'm on the list a lot it means I'm in an intermediate state between a) curled up in a tight ball on the couch and b) actually having a life of some sort (right now I'm on the rising side of that curve). I have a number of good friends here, some of whom I've actually met. I reckon we're pretty much even.

Yours, David


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