Ok, time for an update. Not much has happened around here except for Thursday when I played smacky mouth with a guard rail. Not to much damage to my truck, none to me, just my pride. Imagine me at clutching my stearing wheel, vainly trying to bring my little truck to a stop with out hiting anybody. Yeah riggghhhht.... the truck goes "I think I'll slide to the right.... no... make that left.. no right.. no left... did I say left? I meant right... oops was that the guard rail????" as I slip and slide into a guardrail, then spin across traffic to the center turn lane and stop with a flat tire, and pieces of the plastic air dam from the front bumper scattered across the road. Called the boss at home to let him know I would be a little late to work. He drove by a little later and yelled out the window "You bum... learn how to drive". Nothing like changing a flat tire in three inches of slush to start the day. All told the damage was a cut tire, not repairable, a bent rim, good for apare only now, a bent inner tie rod, replaced, and a 1/4 of the air dam missing from the bumper. Gauuud I love Chicago winters...... will somebody please remind me of why I stay here.... Oh yeah, I hate Southern summers, and winters that are just miserible, too warm for snow, too cold for rain... so you get crap that none of the locals can drive in. And I can not afford to live in Alaska.... sigh... maybe one day again.