Jon

The truck is a 5 speed 2003 4X4 Ford Ranger XLT 4L engine.

It doesn't make the noise when it is moving or idling. Only when I first accelerate and even then only for a few seconds. So basically if I'm at a stop sign and I engage the clutch and hit the gas it will make the urt noise.

It also doesn't do it every single time and I've tried varying how fast I release the clutch and how much gas I give it but nothing recreates the problem every time.

3 weeks ago I decided to get back into running. For 1st week everything hurt because I was warming up to it all again. For the 2nd week all was well for the most part. I ended my 2nd week with a 10 miler. I took 2 days off after my 10mi and then when I started to run an easy 6mi, that's when my ankles and knees started to hurt. For this past week I took 1 day off to rest but when I started again the pain was still there.

I tried icing them but that doesn't really help, it only makes my knees very stiff. I've had shin splints before and those hurt, but I can run through that pain, this on the other hand is a problem for me. Taking days off doesn't help because the pain is all the worse when I start again.

My plan right now is to back off and alternate on 3,4, and 5 mile days. Does anyone have any advice on what else I could do? I'm staying away from pain killers because I'd rather not mask the problem.

Oh, and I'm not going to stop running, so you people can skip answering if that's all you've got. If John Landy can run a 4 minute mile with torn stitches on the bottom of his foot I can go with a little ankle/knee pain.

It was our first day back to college from winter break and I was hanging out with my friends waiting for our next class. It was then I saw this girl who I had liked and went out with once but she cut it off because she was having all these home problems and didn't want a boyfriend at the moment.

So it turned into an I liked her she didn't like me stage so it was just really hard to be around her at that point. This was about a year ago. But today when I saw her my heart just sank and I got that gut wrenching feeling. We left each other on relatively good terms so we don't hate each other or anything like that.

I've had this problem happen before with someone else and I just kept avoiding her and that really didn't help at all.

So what do I do? Should I just avoid trying to see her? I mean after I saw her I carried that awful feeling all through my next class and when I got home just collapsed on my bed crying. That's pretty pathetic by my standards but it was all I could do. How do I fix this so my next few months are a hellish game of hide and seek?

I've started to ride my bike around town because of gas prices and I want to be able to ride around in a proper manner and not going on side walks and against traffic like a lot of people do.

Here's the set up I encounter often. I'm going down a one way street with a bike lane on the right hand side. If I want to turn left do I do it from the bike lane? Or if I'm on a two way street and want to turn left and there is no bike lane do I still initiate my turn from the right side and just wait for traffic to clear?

I have these dreams occur pretty often and they are of space and star wars. These dreams are on a grand scale where I can see entire armadas heading towards each other and gigantic planet wide battles. Things range from me being an individual person having light saber battles and trying to escape from the Death Star to me flying through space observing these epic space battles.

The thing that gets be is that I'm not really a Star Wars fan but these dreams keep coming back. Sometimes they can be scary if I'm inside a building or doing a dangerous rescue mission and lasers are flying all over the place but then they can be amazing and empowering. Anyone have some outside thoughts on why I'm having these dreams?

I like to sleep on my couch in my room instead of my loft bed and I've been doing that for almost a year. The thing is that about a month ago my dog decided she wanted to hop on and and sleep with me. She takes up the end where my feet go and I would think sleeping there wouldn't be that comfortable but she still likes to pry my door open every night when I hope into bed and jump in.

She used to sleep on my couch when I was in my loft bed but that was an on off thing where some nights she would but then maybe a week later she would stop.

I don't think it's an alpha beta issue because she knows very well who's boss and she's never had an authority issue before. She's getting old but is still very fit and in good health. So why does she suddenly insist on sleeping on my couch?

I'm looking for a sheet approximately 10ft by 4ft. I can go to metal companies sites but they want me to submit a quote and I just need a basic estimate.

I have a 4 speed automatic rear wheel drive 1996 dodge Dakota. On the left hand side of the dash next to the head lights is a button labeled O/D, which of course is the overdrive button.

I want to know when I should use it. I've read around that it supposedly drops your RPMs and saves gas mileage. Well I don't know about other peoples O/D but when I push that button the rpm's go up, not down. I have found out that it is very useful on hills at high speeds and if I need to accelerate and I'm already in 4th gear.

So when should I used it? At speeds above 45 mph? But if it saves gas mileage then why do the rpms go up and not down?

So I know in normal message boards that if you want to put a link into the post most of the time you add [url]www.link.com[/url] tags on it. Is there any way to do that in myspace messages? Is there a way to put named tags on links if this is possible?

I have a 96 Dodge Dakota that has been running great, but for some reason the speaker just behind the drivers side seat now makes a vibrating sound. I don't know much about speakers in cars so if anyone has ideas to stop the sound please post an answer.

I figure it's a nut or something that managed to rattle loose over the years but I can't see a way to expose the speaker itself to get a look at what it's up to. When I push against the speaker the noise stops. Here are some pictures of what it looks like. The white thing is a napkin that I pushed in between the window and the plastic to see if it would stop it but it didn't really help.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20935331@N07/22408473...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20935331@N07/22408473...

I'm pretty sure I've tried everything I could get my hands on. Honey, tea's, garlic, iodine, and gargling with salt water. So far nothing has really worked. It's been 4 days of this and I'm setting up for a doctors appointment but I wanted to see if anyone could come up with another suggestion. I've already heard of that apple cider vinegar stuff so I might try it.

My symptom's are sore throat obviously.

It hurts to swallow.

I used to have a slight stomach ache with a mild head ache.

My neck itself hurts a little too so I don't like to move my head back and forth.

And thanks to that garlic my mouth has the funkiest taste in it which really just ties it altogether.

For the brave I include a picture of my throat. I don't look down my throat that often but that white stuff in the back doesn't look to normal.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2156997215...

I started making out with this girl I know and afterwards or even after we've been doing it a while, I get this weird taste in my mouth. It tastes like turkey, and I don't really like turkey and its really weird. This has happened on multiple occasions and she says she's never noticed it before and apperantly she doesn't taste it. She hasn't been eating turkey either. Does anyone know what up? This is the first girl I've made out with.

I started making out with this girl I know and afterwards or even after we've been doing it a while, I get this weird taste in my mouth. It tastes like turkey, and I don't really like turkey and its really weird. This has happened on multiple occasions and she says she's never noticed it before and apperantly she doesn't taste it. She hasn't been eating turkey either. Does anyone know what up? This is the first girl I've made out with.