Minor Confession Thread

I'm doing Dry January again... but this year instead of giving up alcohol, I'm giving up flushable baby wipes.

They were starting to mess up my septic system.

I'll admit that I've become a bit of an addict over past few years, but so far, I'm doing okay. Thanks for asking.
 

The only real challenge has been on Taco Wednesday, which is the morning after Taco Tuesday.

Full disclosure: I still cheat at work, because we employ our own plumbers, and I don't really give a E36 M3 about their plumbing.

In reply to RevRico :

I can remember in the late 90's early 2000's there were a handful of software packages that were designed to do just that for business users.  They would advertise it as something that you'd open up when someone called you or you called them and you'd be able to record kids' names, spouses, important dates, hobbies, and all sorts of stuff like that.  You would think that something like that would be an even bigger deal when you've got your Rolodex in your pocket at all times...

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

I'm doing Dry January again... but this year instead of giving up alcohol, I'm giving up flushable baby wipes.

They were starting to mess up my septic system.

I'll admit that I've become a bit of an addict over past few years, but so far, I'm doing okay. Thanks for asking.
 

The only real challenge has been on Taco Wednesday, which is the morning after Taco Tuesday.

Full disclosure: I still cheat at work, because we employ our own plumbers, and I don't really give a E36 M3 about their plumbing.

Either get a bidet, or this: Diaper Genie Compact Pail : Target. Also, use TP first, then the wipe second. 

Sometimes when I'm under a vehicle holding wrenches or ratchets up above my head I have this fear I'm going to drop one and hit my mouth and break or chip a tooth.  

Then I'll be some 62 year old man making sales calls selling hoses with busted teeth.

People are going wonder what the berkeley is wrong with me. 

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :

Same. 

But if it makes you feel any better I'm soon to be 63 and it still hasn't happened 

In reply to Peabody :

We should market automotive mouth guards - get Stacey David as a spokesman.  

I've gone two years without having the option to "daily drive" a manual at-will.  It's the second 2-year stretch recently (the first being 2018-2020 where I didn't drive anything), and first stretch where I drove 'autos' exclusively, in my almost 20years of driving.

back in December I drove my mom's 6spd 535i take the family to a Nutcracker performance, came home and realized: I miss being able to drive a manual.

doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon, and it's collided with a whole bunch of other realizations around cars/motorsports, complicating the processing of it.  so, I figured here was the best place to post about it.

When I was a kid, I built models of Camaros and had pictures of Camaros on my wall. I had three Camaro slot cars, and I played with them all the time. 
 

I think I've only been in one Camaro in my entire lifetime. 

I mopped the garage. Before the engine swap was finished. Or even proven to hold liquid. 

Datsun240ZGuy said:

Sometimes when I'm under a vehicle holding wrenches or ratchets up above my head I have this fear I'm going to drop one and hit my mouth and break or chip a tooth.  

Then I'll be some 62 year old man making sales calls selling hoses with busted teeth.

People are going wonder what the berkeley is wrong with me. 

In high school I met a man who was without his front teeth. He explained that he was under a car, putting leaf springs on it. Next thing he knew it was dark outside and he was under the car in a pool of his own blood and teeth. 

My Tacoma has just hit 190k miles. I don't think I have changed the oil in 10k.

I'm a bad person.

After catching my wife making extremely pleased noises when she didn't think I was around to hear them, I am apparently not able to satisfy her the way chocolate pudding does.

She was mortified that I heard.

Karacticus said:

After catching my wife making extremely pleased noises when she didn't think I was around to hear them, I am apparently not able to satisfy her the way chocolate pudding does.

She was mortified that I heard.

I recently obtained and improved upon my dad's homemade chocolate pudding recipe. HMU if you want it

Somebody is going to be in a good mood this weekend.
 

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :

ditto

Bastards.

Now I want pudding.

Pistachio.

In reply to Appleseed :

11GTCS said:

I might possibly be the luckiest SwOB on earth, well at least in the greater Boston area. 

No details for now for now (just in case!) but yesterday morning a door closed on the past and another opened almost immediately to an opportunity to what I consider a more than minor win after nearly 6 months of having to sit on my hands waiting for closure. 

All would have worked out regardless but let's just say I'm taking the win and savoring it.  In less than 24 hours I've gone from "it's done" to reaching out to a former coworker to "welcome, we're happy to have you".  It's been a process but it seems that personal reputation and good contacts in the industry still mean something.  I'm humbled and far more excited than someone my age should be to be jumping back into the game.

Update to this now 3 weeks in (I started the new gig on 1/6):  Holy E36 M3, I guess I sort of realized it at the time but now I can confirm that the previous employer did me a favor.  

Within the next week or so I'll be taking over management of their largest service account.  I'll be working with one of the younger guys who's been doing project management for this customer for the past couple of years.  He's a good guy, went to the same school I did and seems genuinely excited to work with me.  He'll handle most of the day to day stuff, I'll help with meetings, technical expertise and make sure there's good communication.  The long term goal is for me to "polish" him up so he can take over the account when I decide to call it a career.  Did I mention I've been here 3 weeks?  I'm humbled all over again and grateful to be in an industry where reputation matters and we all know each other.  

To add to the above, several of my customers from the previous gig reached out when I updated my profile on that "book of faces for professionals" site.  Apparently they were told that I'd "retired" and were pretty happy to find that wasn't the case and also about the new employer.  How's that go?  Don't get mad, get even?  Yeah, it's berkeleying on...

In reply to Karacticus :

I can only hope for the blur. I've been up since 3am. Dad needs sleep.

So there I was leaving McDonalds after my quarterly  1/4lber with cheese meal (kinda my fave) an a Subaru pulled in crackling and popping like a tuner guy that does not like his piston ring lands...as I passed him I put my 2.7l 4cyl with a Magna Flow exh Tacoma on the chip to show my displeasure.

I was amused.

I confess I was wondering if the Prettiest  B*tthole Contest in Lansing, Michigan in a few months was a fake meme. 

No, it's a real event. 😳

There's a package available that involves a Meet & Greet with the winner. 

In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :

You thinking of entering?

In reply to Stampie :

😬

maybe these plugs were a little overdue.