Hi, I'm Louis Cutlar, aka: Sonny !!!
I  was born in Washington DC, but was raised as a Kentucky hillbilly.
I moved to Las Vegas in 1975 and Vegas has grown faster than my gut.
Jim and I bought a condo in 1978 where I've lived happily ever since.
I have one daughter, Jessica, whose being lots of fun as a teenager.
I'm an engineer, at the crumbling and soon to be imploded, Frontier Hotel.
I've also written several novels (to be published here at a later date).
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Wed 
01/10/2007 10:28:56
 sonny  A pioneer effort
I have tried to E-Mail Aunt Tass one of my stories "The Tomb Of Nemesis". It is one of the simpler , more easy to read stories. I don't know if the E-Mail got through . I don't even know if this message will get through. This is essentially what I like to call a pioneer effort.
Wed 
01/10/2007 18:29:41
 warren   (Reply).A pioneer effort
Hey Sonny!! I would be ever so pleased to read one of your stories!  Youve been teasing me most infrequently with them for several years and its come to a head!  A Tomb?  With a Nemesis? Inside of it?? Please!! Just hook me with one chapter?? Ha ha , take care Sonny!

Wed 
01/10/2007 18:49:46
 Jim   (Reply).A pioneer effort
I got your log Sonny and I'm glad to see you're contributing to it.
LVDUDE.com probably has a total of 12 visitors a month...haha.
Fri 
10/06/2006 07:11:13
 Jim  I guess we’re Slum Lords, but I’m happy
It happens though. This isn't a perfect rental we have. Our tenents aren't perfect, but neither are we.
We are receiving better than normal rent for the condo. I'm happy about that.
The tenants washing machine was leaking and the dryer's heater coils may have been fried.
By the tenant agreeing to purchase/install a (new) washer and dryer for $200
out of October's rent money (plus security deposit forward) we did this:
If they don't get a washer/dryer, they can't complain about the 38 year old ones we left there.
If they do get a washer/dryer, we're ahead. Whatever they get can't be worse if it works.
However, we should add in the notes whether the washer/dryer have been replaced or not on the reciept.
I found some pretyped forms on http://www.freeforms.bidrent.com/ that I think are pretty cool.
The way I understand it though, as long as it is clear to a small claims judge that both parties signing an agreement, understood the agreement, and the agreement isn't totally stupid, its a good contract.
Thu 
10/05/2006 20:02:39
 Jim  Rental Receipt for October 1st 2006
I, James Cutlar on 9/5/2006 received $360 with this understanding:
On 9/6/2006 the tenant will dispense the balance of $640
($540 plus the remaining unpaid $100 security deposit) by
1) Paying the landlord $440 in cash 
(add the standard $90 late if paid after 9/6/2006)
Initials Landlord: ________ Tenant: _______
2) Using the remaining $200 to replace the current washer and drier
Initials Landlord: ________ Tenant: _______
It is further understood that the tenant will dispose of the old washer and drier
by any method he deems fit,
and the replacement washer and drier will remain the property of the landlord.

October 2006's rent will be considered paid in full, upon completion of these events.
Initialing of each of these activities by the tenant and landlord
will cause this contract to be deemed completed.

Signed: __________________________________________ Landlord

Signed: __________________________________________ Tennant

Date:    __________________________________________
Wed 
10/04/2006 23:29:27
 Sonny  P1443 - OBDII Scan Code
OK now I have a P1443 code and my book only goes up to P0999 or somthing like that. does anyone know what the heck P1443 is???? STUPID Pocket Scanner!
It's an evaporative emissions dtc. To cure it, replace the canister purge valve and the flow sensor next to it. It should be located near the rear of the engine compartment on the pass side ona Mustang.
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One log says that the gas cap being lose (not screwed on tight) is the most common cause for this Check Engine light.
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The purge flow sensor is being tripped.

Could be the sensor or purge control valve, but the first place I would check is the gas cap seal.

Other possibilities:

EVAP system lines/hoses (check for proper connections, damage or blockage)

Loose fuel vapor hose/tube connections to the EVAP system components.

The vacuum line from the input vacuum port to the intake manifold on the EVAP canister purge valve (the control vacuum solenoid part of the valve) is removed.

Blocked vacuum hose between the EVAP canister purge valve solenoid and the engine intake manifold.

Damaged fuel tank or fuel filler pipe.

Wed 
10/04/2006 01:03:08
 Jim  Aunt Tass sent pictures of Great Great Grand Mothe
Her name was Katheren Blount Lassiter.
She also sent a copy of the Skinner Coat of Arms
I'd put the pix on this website but, I just had a slip and fall accident (can still type though).
Squirt had a bone from a ham hock in the hallway. I stepped on it and fell into the furniture.
YOUCH! What a mess!
Wed 
08/23/2006 21:10:54
 Jim  Condo Rental Mechanics
We will be renting for $950 month-to-month with a $400 security deposit.
The tenants sign an agreement before the end of the month to rent the condo.
Before the 1st
The tenant fills out a Rental Application and gives us a $200 check.
That check will either apply to the first months rent, or be forfeited if the tenants changes his mind.
On the 1st
- We do a walk-thru, write everything down thats wrong. They sign it.
   We don't have to fix anything. This will protect all parties.
  Any damage not mentioned on the walk-thru comes out of security deposit when the contract terminates.
- We collect $1,300 ($900 for the first months rent + $400 for the security deposit).
- We surrender the keys.
By the 5th
- You call Nevada Power and have them turn off service on the 5th or sooner if the tenants agree.
By the 15th
- You call your insurance, and tell them you need landlords insurance (?)
- You arrange to have the association, water, garbage, sewage, insurance and tax bills come to this address.
- I help set up autopay for all the bills
- I transfer the shared bills from this house (electric, water, gas,  garbage, sewage, insurance, telephone, internet, cable) to autopay from the joint account.
- We will match each others deposits of ($500 a month) into the joint account. I like to pay these kinds of things in bulk, so, I'll probably be popping in $6,000 per year.
In the event that they don't pay us $900 by the 5th of each month:
- On the 6th, we send them a 5 Day Pay or Quit notice to pay $900 with a $90 penalty by the 10th.
- If they don't pay us $990 by the 10th 
   __ We file the Five Day Notice to Pay o Quit,
   __ Certificate of Mailing
   __ Affidavit of Complaint of Summary Eviction
   __ Order for Summery Eviction and
   __ Instructions o the Constable with the Justice Court on 200 S Third Street.
   The clerk will give the Judge the documents, where he will sign an Order for Summay Eviction.
   He gives that to a Constable. The Constable will remove the tenants within 24 hours.
- At this point, they either pay us all money owed, or a constible seals the property on the 15th.
- We have the right to sell any of their possessions to satisfy their debt.
The Joint Account
- The joint account (not considering maintenance, income taxes, non rental periods) should grow at least $6,000 a year.
This will be our nest egg.
- All money in the account will be jointly owned, and should yeild approximately 2% interest a year.
- Should we decide to withdraw money for personal use, it will be subtracted from our 50% contributions.
- If it grows to a substantial amount of money, we can easily invest the excess in mutual funds, stocks or bonds online.
Thu 
08/10/2006 10:41:48
 Jim  I love these talks with Sonny
We were talking about what gravity would be at the center of the earth.
While talking, I researched different articles, complicated formulas, things people said.
The way the articles stated things, it all seemed so complicated.
I know now, its simple, when its broken down, with all of the confusing formulas and terminalogy.
I started to write the program for determining the motion of an object falling throught the center of the earth, but, haha, it
would take maybe a week to write. The earth would have to be sectioned off by mass, a routine written for the distance and weight of the object as it passes near these masses, and finally, some mile marks for the resulting weight would be generated along the objects path. Not too bad.
I mentioned science had developed a working artificial lung back in the fifty's.
It seems the major problem they have is funding. The lungs are built. They can sustain life. They are powered by the heart.
But, other problems exist, like clotting.
Somehow, we got to talking about Moses, because I was talking to Jennifer about him
Now, I'd read that basically, he went up the mountain, alone, and came back down to his group.
But, before he did all this, he told the people to build a church full of gold and nice things...for God.
I also read, he told everyone to go off and bathe.
Jennifer came up with the classic story about the burning bush, and God talking only to Moses, and she didn't see anything odd about this.
So, I started rereading the Bible on Moses. I about fell asleep on the lengthy portions of what God wanted in his church. Wow. Boring. A lot of gimme gimme gimme in there. I'll finish it up later, but for now, it seems like a great swap for a couple of tablets with chiselled words on them. Actually, from what I've read, it had to be a GREAT IDEA for way back then, to give the people a decent place to go, and to give them some rules to follow...like a club. It would sure beat living in a hut.
Tue 
05/02/2006 12:05:11
 sonny  .Citizenship Test
I got 8...nananana
Wed 
04/26/2006 01:33:50
 sonny  THE TOMB OF NEMESIS.
The discovery.
The area was hot and dry during the summer months but even then it was freezing at nighttime.
During the long winter months which were soon approaching, temperatures would plummet to well below zero even during the daytime. Such was the climate where C.B. Talcus and his small team of amateur paleontologist were fossil hunting.
The team was in a hurry to complete their investigation of the various Biotypes to be found in the K-T boundary of the region before the long and severe winter months set in.
Most of the team consisted of volunteer college students still in their early twenties, out for their doctorates.
By comparison, C.B. was a grizzled old man of thirty-six and it was a popular joke among the other team members that he liked studying the "Gray" period because he was gray himself.
Actually, C.B. had a bold and different idea about what secrets the K-T boundary might hold, though he had spoken to no one about it yet.
His partial theory was borne from a single femur that he had discovered nine years before of a dinosaur, but one that would have walked erect like a modern day human being.
Potassium –Argon dating had placed the fossil's age to be around sixty-five million years B.P. which neatly corresponded to the K-T layer's age in which it had been found.
Lately, C.B. anxiously but without divulging as to why, had his small team intensify their search of the area in order to get a better idea of what the mysterious creature might have been like in real life.
Being naturally secretive, C.B. insisted on being present at all finds so that he could take over immediately in the event of any further discoveries relating to the strange fossil leg bone he now had secretly stashed away in his remote home.
So far the searches had turned up nothing new and after nine years of strained silence; C.B. finally felt the need to tell someone.
The rude awakening.
Jason Tilgerth was jarred awake by the sound of his phone ringing even though he was a light sleeper anyway.
As the phone continued to ring, Jason glanced at the clock near his bed that said "Two-twenty-one AM' on its illuminated green digital display.
Jason already knowing who was on the other end sighed in exasperation as he sleepily answered his phone. Before Jason could say anything he heard C.B.'s gruff anxious voice at the other end, "Hello Cap!" C.B. called Jason "Cap" because of their former service in the military a few years back.
"Get over here immediately!" "I've got something very important I want to show you!".
Jason looked again at his clock through his bleary eyes just to make sure that he had gotten the time right before he irritably spoke back to his rude but life long friend C.B.,
"Listen Drinker, Unless you've got something that threatens our national security and I am once again being reinstated as captain in the marine corps special forces, We can wait until my normal time to rise for me to see this "Important "Thing" of yours Okay?"
Jason affectionately called C.B. "Drinker" due to the fact that C.B. was an exact double in his physical appearance to the late nineteenth century paleontological genius Edward Drinker Cope.All who had encountered C.B. went further to say that he also shared the late genius's abrasive personality. Jason had dealt with all types during his twenty year service in the Marine Corps.
He saw that beneath C.B.'s aggressive and defiant exterior was a man very much afraid of failing.
C.B. shouted back,
"I mean now Cap!" "This is extremely important or I wouldn't have taken the trouble of calling you!"
Jason in a partially raised voice of his own spoke back irritably,
"Okay Okay!" Just give me a minute will you?"
But all he heard at the other end was a dial tone. Jason was angry at what had been unusually rude behavior even for C.B. but there had also been an undertone of urgency in his friend's voice that spurred Jason into hurriedly getting dressed and heading for C.B.'s home. Jason arrived at C.B.'s remote home an hour later. C.B.'s modest one story house was located twenty miles outside of town in a densely wooded area. C.B. was not poor by any means but he did not spend his money lavishly either. "Besides." He would always say to Jason, "Why spend a whole lot of money on a big house when most of my time is spent outdoors anyway?" "I only come in to organize my finds and to sometimes eat." Jason shook his head in disdain at the old house that badly needed painting as he politely knocked on C.B.'s front screen door that was never locked. Getting no answer Jason opened the front door and walked carefully inside. He had to step carefully through the dark unlit living room so as not to crush any of the hundreds of neatly arranged fossils that lay everywhere on the living room floor. Jason had been in this house almost as many times as C.B. had over the years and was by now familiar with the best path to take in the direction of C.B.'s dinning room where he knew C.B. would be waiting for him.C.B.'s hallway was also similarly choked with carefully arranged fossils except that at least it was lit. Jason carefully followed it down and turned to his left at the end where the dimly lit dinning room was located. Upon entry Jason saw C.B. quietly staring at a solitary package in the center his otherwise empty dinning room table. C.B. suddenly looked up upon Jason's entry and then just as suddenly looked back down at his wrist watch with a stern frown. As he sarcastically said, "Well, I'm so glad you could finally find the time to make it over here!" Jason looked slowly around at the orderly clutter that was in every room visible except this one empty dinning room and came back witha quiet statement, "I can see why you never got married Drinker." Jason then focused his gaze back on C.B. "Tell me Drinker, Just what am I doing here in this dinosaur mausoleum at this ungodly hour?" Jason started to yawn but stifled it with C.B.'s dramatic gesture toward the single 4"x4"x10" package marked "FRAGILE" in the middle ofhis dinning room table as he said, "I have brought you here Cap to witness an anomaly to all established facts ofmodernPaleontology." "But First I'll need your vow of silence before I can allow you to lay eyes on what you are about to see." Jason having known C.B. almost his entire life was now accustomed to the man's usual theatrical behavior. Expecting nothing more than a fragmentary relic to one of the small shrew –like creatures that flourished during that time period, Jason tiredly yawned as he nodded his acceptance to C.B.'s vow of silence. He wondered absently why C.B. felt the need to pack the usual tiny fossils in a package that could hold a medium sized cat. As if C.B. had sensed Jason's last thought, C.B. roughly pushed the package toward Jason such that Jason was cut off in mid yawn as he had to stop the Speeding package. C.B. just as roughly commanded Jason, "Open It!"Jason carefully complied as he gently undid the wrappings. Jason's eyes widened in surprise as he uncovered the mid section of what appeared to be a coelosaur upper leg bone since as far as he knew all dinosaurs were alleged to have gone extinct at this time period. Jason froze in astonishment once he had completely removed all of the wrappings to the fossil. Speechless with disbelief, He alternately looked at C.B. who seemed to be standing there waiting patiently for a conclusion on Jason's part and then back at the amazing fossil before him.Many thoughts raced through Jason's mind. Most prominent were the possibility of a hoax or an elaborate prank but he was quickly able to dismiss these thoughts with the obvious authenticity of the fossil's condition. He then had to grapple with the implications that went with the fossil being for real. Jason was barely able to speak and stuttered his first question to C.B. , "Has…Has… This fossil been dated yet?" "I..I mean , is it contemporary with the K-T event?"C.B. just stood there in silence as Jason wiped the perspiration from his forehead from his tense excitement. Jason looked back at the fossil for a closer examination.Speaking mostly to himself while he examined the fossil femur further Jason said, "This appears to be some sort of advanced Dromosaur.." Jason looked up at C.B. with astonished disbelief as he concluded, "But one that had walked as erect as you or I now do." Still getting no response from C.B. Jason frowned slightly as he carefully turned the fossil over furtively glancing in C.B.'s direction as he added, "This fossil was badly scorched." "The burn characteristics indicate that its owner was either alive or dead a very short time when the flames had engulfed its body."Jason took a long look at the femur before he said, "The only other thing I can conclude from this amazing fossil is that its owner stood somewhere between four or five feet in height when it was alive." Jason looked directly at C.B. as he proceeded to repackage the fossil. "I take it that this is your only specimen for the moment?"Jason went on before C.B. could answer him, "You don't suppose Drinker that this individual was contemporary with the K-T event do you?" Jason upon hearing C.B. draw an exasperated breath braced himself for another verbal onslaught from C.B.C.B. replied, "Suppose, Suppose, Suppose !" "That is all one can do with just one fragmentary fossil!" C.B. with his hands thrust into his pockets was now pacing the room in his frustration. Finally he waved his arm in a wide exasperated arc as he once again faced Jason, "I have had you along with the rest of my team comb the entire area for more fossils related to this specimen until we have practically turned the area upside down, but all we keep coming across are more teeth and jaws of those prehistoric shrews!" C.B. waved both his hands with his increased frustration as he almost shouted, "There's got to be more fossils out there of this same type creature somewhere, but the problem is where to look Cap!"Jason shook his head in understanding as he looked once more at the scorched fossil. Once again he was momentarily overwhelmed by the implications of the fossil as he said, "I certainly agree with you Drinker." "This was obviously some kind of advanced coelosaur but there isn't much more that can be concluded than that from just this one fossil."C.B. with his chin up in a defiant pose argumentatively responded, "I beg to differ with you on that Cap!" He suddenly became animated as he lectured, "I have every reason to believe that this creature evolved from some common ancestor related to the Stenonychosaurus as was proposed by Dr. Dale Russell back in the early eighties.""You remember his Dinosauroid don't you?" C.B. took the package from Jason and carefully removed the fossil from it as he pointed to its joints. "See the scars where the muscles were once attached to the two joints on this specimen Cap?"Jason nodded his affirmative as C.B. asked him, "What do they tell you?" Jason spread his hands as he replied, "They imply great strength in this individual's legs I would say." C.B.Countered in his exasperation, "Any amateur could have come up with that conclusion Cap!""Anyone can see that this was a powerfully built individual as far as his legs were concerned." "If I could project the rest of this individual's strength in proportion to that in his legs, He would have possessed a physical strength equal to twice that of an average present day human of the same size." "But Cap, As usual you seem to have missed the finer points with respect to the characteristics of this fossil." Jason had long ago become accustomed to C.B.'s abrasive manner and just patiently waited for C.B. to state his idea. C.B. brought the fossil closer to Jason's vision as he said, "See here Cap?" "In spite of our late hero's impressive physique, you'll notice that the wear patterns on these joints do not correspond to those of an individual that would have had to hunt and forage for a living." Jason replied in amazement as he recognized the truth in C.B.'s statement. "They are very similar to the wear patterns that would be found on contemporary sedentary people in our own time!" C.B. spoke with an excited force, "That's Right Cap!" He then brought his face within inches of Jason's as he said almost inaudibly, "Even with just this small amount of evidence before me Cap, I can boldly state that not only did this individual live to witness the impact event" C.B. paused for dramatic effect and then quietly said, "I believe that he was well aware of its coming long before the impact took place!" C.B. DESCRIBES A HOMOSAUR.
Fri 
01/13/2006 19:57:39
 sonny  New guest
 hello It's me Ithought about it for a long long time. Tht's from an old song that I can't remember.

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