Minor Confession Thread

In reply to mtn :

Don't fight it, its easier that way.

I have two. 
If you're an adult and you're wearing a backpack, especially to work, I have a difficult time taking you seriously. 
 

I love the way cars drive in really cold weather, and the colder it is the more I like it. 

In reply to Peabody :

We had a -20dgF actual temp day a few years ago in Chicago and it was cool to gingerly drive my Silverado.  I know what you're talking about.

I haven't managed to get my E36 M3 together all day, and im ok with it.

Peabody said:

If you're an adult and you're wearing a backpack, especially to work, I have a difficult time taking you seriously.

I don't commute to an office anymore, but I can't think of a single person at our main office who doesn't use a laptop backpack, at least below the top executive level.  Way more efficient than an old school laptop bag, keeps both hands freed up when carrying it.

Peabody said:

I have two. 
If you're an adult and you're wearing a backpack, especially to work, I have a difficult time taking you seriously. 

I wish my laptop bag had two shoulder straps

I got my QuickJacks in the mail like 2-3 weeks ago, and I haven't even had the time to unbox them. 

Seriously thinking of purposely getting a thread nuked. I don't think I need to mention which. 

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

* curiosity intensifies *

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Not to worry, I don't take you seriously now anyway

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

Oh I think most of the heavy lifting needed to make that a reality already happened overnight so no need to walk into that punch.  I’ll be surprised if it’s still around by this afternoon. 

I needed to replace the radio in the crappy Santa Fe I bought because listening to FM radio on my 80 mile per day commute wasn't cutting it.

After seeing the brand name, I couldn't NOT buy it 

It's actually.... not bad. It's a cheap Chinese Android head unit. Android Auto works great. I replaced the 20 year old stock paper speakers with $30/pair Skar Audio 6.5s and it sounds decent. 

barefootcyborg5000 said:

Seriously thinking of purposely getting a thread nuked. I don't think I need to mention which. 

If it's the one I'm thinking it is, I'm surprised it got as far as it did. I saw the title, read like 3 posts, and filed it in the real estate thread category. 

In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :

I've heard some surprisingly good things from the car audio YouTubers about that particular head unit. Probably makes your car faster, too. 

wawazat said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Disturbing new evidence suggests that Leon Russell might have hooked up with one of my older sisters back in the 70s. .. 

I read this and my mind changed Leon Russell to Leon Redbone.  Not sure if that's better or worse.

That was my other sister. 

Stampie said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Disturbing new evidence suggests that Leon Russell might have hooked up with one of my older sisters back in the 70s. .. 

Is the evidence a kid that looks a lot like him?  Guess that would be old evidence unless it was just recently noticed.

And now I can't stop picturing a baby that looks like Leon Redbone. 

 

Which would be awesome. 
 

Peabody said:

If you're an adult and you're wearing a backpack, especially to work, I have a difficult time taking you seriously. 

I'll expand that to include women wearing a tiny backpack in lieu of a purse. It looks out of place and deliberately infantile - especially when the woman in question is, uh, not tiny.

That said, backpack acceptability depends on the job and the person doing it. At our engineering firm, our commissioning team wears backpacks when they go on a site visit, and so do many members of our design team. It's the right tool for the job when you're dragging your gear all over a building or construction site. Fortunately, we are taken seriously based on the quality of our work, not our alignment to society's perception of acceptable "professional" dress code. Horses for courses.

Minor confession: Saturday is my day to keep the kid (who is three and a half) out of Mrs. Monohue's hair, and I'm having a hard time dealing with his relentless need for engagement at every single moment. He's at a stage where he just can't let a minute go by without interrupting a conversation or demanding something or making a fuss about what we're doing or where we're going or any damn thing he can think of. He must be at the center of all things. He must be the one who turns the light on or measures my coffee grounds out or chooses his meal or zips up his jammies or opens the door or decides which aisle we go down at the grocery store or which direction we go down it. He must NOT be the one who gets the aforementioned jammies started so he can zip or picks up his 150+ Hot Wheels cars or places his giant stuffed frog in the bed just so or pulls up his own blankets. Most of all, he must be the decider. It's a hell of a lot of work not to strangle him.

I guess the confession is that, every week, I almost strangle a preschooler. 

I don't love the acr anymore, but dread selling it. 

In reply to DarkMonohue :

To clarify, I'm really referring to adults wearing something that looks like it belongs on the back of a 14 year old boy on his way to school. I've seen engineers do it, and saw my boss do it last Friday. 
 

But hey, if you want to wear your purse on your back, more power to you
 

Peabody said:

In reply to DarkMonohue :

To clarify, I'm mostly referring to adults wearing something that looks like it belongs on the back of a 14 year old boy on his way to school. I've seen engineers do it, and saw my boss do it last Friday. 
 

You can justify however you want 

My laptop backpack has a bottle opener built into it.  Not sure if that makes it a 14 year-old's backpack or not.

Peabody said:

To clarify, I'm really referring to adults wearing something that looks like it belongs on the back of a 14 year old boy on his way to school. I've seen engineers do it, and saw my boss do it last Friday. 
 

But hey, if you want to wear your purse on your back, more power to you

Might be a matter of context here. Our commissioning guys typically use pretty heavy duty industrial packs (Custom LeatherCraft, IIRC) and design staff usually use their own outdoor (North Face, etc.) packs in reasonably conservative colors and patterns. We tend to keep the Bedazzling to a minimum.

I don't need to carry that much stuff on site visits, so I usually just bring an old Polish Army bread bag with my lunch, sunglasses, flashlight, boo-boo kit, etc., and leave it in the car. It's my lunchbox as much as anything. Whether it's a murse or not is up to you.

I guess another post warrants another minor confession. I can't be bothered to keep my garage clean, and today's going to be a bad damned day if I can't find the small engine fuel line I bought a few months ago.

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

wawazat said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Disturbing new evidence suggests that Leon Russell might have hooked up with one of my older sisters back in the 70s. .. 

I read this and my mind changed Leon Russell to Leon Redbone.  Not sure if that's better or worse.

That was my other sister. 

Flash back a couple (?) decades to young Woody asking his dad the difference between theory and practice.

Woody: hey Dad, what's the difference between theory and practice?

Woody's Dad: Go ask sister1 if she'd berkeley Leon Russell for $1000.

Woody scampers off and returns to answer in the affirmative.

Woody's Dad: Go ask sister2 if she'd berkeley Leon Redbone for $1000.

Woody scampers off and returns to once again answer in the affirmative.

Woody's Dad: in theory, your sisters are sitting on two grand. In practice, your sisters are whores.

In reply to DarkMonohue :

Mine's 7.5 and still acts like that. Even worse if she has the inkling of a cold or allergies acting up. 

RevRico said:

In reply to DarkMonohue :

Even worse if she has the inkling of allergies acting up. 

Two things messed up my girl and 1/2 the time we forgot.

1. Have you eaten today? No - eat something then we can talk. (Usually the teen years)
2. Always take your allergy medicines or she gets unhappy then crabby.

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

Yeah, absolutely. With the little guy it's pretty evident when he's just hangry, but less obvious when we are hangry and losing our patience.