Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

cmcgregor said:

UPS is taking my stuff for a cross country ride - I ordered some things from Flyin Miata on Tuesday, paid extra for 3 day delivery, and they're apparently touring the South and Midwest before making a turn toward me in California. So far they've hit Louisville KY and Rockford IL, and the delivery day is now Monday instead of Friday. Where will they go next? Noone knows!

Apparently the answer to "where will they go next" was onto a plane to CA. Out for delivery today after all!

I guess this is why I'm not a logistics expert...

Did a bunch of gyrations last night to load a Focus transmission into my B.U.T.T.  Drove an hour-fifteen up to Dayton to deliver it.  Waited for about an hour for the guy to show up even though I arrived at the time we had agreed upon and even texted him as I was on my way to keep him apprised of the ETA.  I noticed that the car that this was supposed to be going in to didn't look like an 05-07 Focus.  When he showed up, before I let him give me any money I asked him what year his car was.  "06".  I asked him to go inside and check with his mechanic to be absolutely sure that this transmission was going to work.  He came out after a while and said it would but he agreed to go look at the transmission in his car to verify.  While he was trying to look under the battery and intake, I found the EPA sticker on the hood.  Yeah, it's an '08.  So, I just drove a transmission around for about 130 miles for pretty much nothing.

At least I didn't get murderraped.

And I'm really glad that I didn't leave the poor guy in a situation where in order to get his money back (that he would need to buy the right transmission) he had to find some way to get this transmission all the way back down to me, because I sure as heck wouldn't have come back up to pick it up...

In reply to wae :

08-11 Focus is a rebodied Gen 1 Focus (in the US).  Might have still worked?

In reply to eastsideTim :

Ford says it doesn't interchange.  It may just be a different TCM or they changed a plug on the harness or something.  Another weird thing is that the 2.0 that I have out of that car is a 2005-only engine.  Not sure what's so different about that either.  Parts interchange can be weird.

Tryed to take my kids too there first highschool football game tonight without checking the forecast and of course it was delayed for lightning then started raining. Maybe next week

Maneuvering a crew cab long bed and a 6x12 trailer in numerous small spaces around Bowling Green today made me wish my short bed was running. Especially when the power steering pump on the crew cab decides to take a break right when I'm trying to back the trailer into a suburban neighborhood driveway. But then again the drop shackles and suspicious leaf spring situation on the short bed probably wouldn't have been happy with the trailer so I suppose it's a wash.

Ford Probe fog light assemblies are seemingly hard to find and I don't want to wire a new connector, so I need something that will take an 881 bulb.

I think I found some that will work and have the correct 90s rectangular look, might have to fabricate mounting brackets but ok sure.

the problem is

they're supposed to be CHEVY fog lights 

So the rear cover seal on my 5.3 didn't leak. But the gasket around the edge did. But I elected to replace the seal anyway. Now I have a mangled seal that definitely will leak but won't come out of the cover. I should just let myself be lazy sometimes.

Editing large spread sheets in sharepoint/online excel is like trying to thread a needle whilst wearing artic rated mittens.

Why does senior managment think this is more efficient? 

Conversations about fuel economy that go something like-

"Oh, my XXXXX gets great mileage!  I only have to fill my gas tank once a month"

 

It's snowing. Heavily. In September

Son of beech. Sheet. 
 

I cannot keep the wheels on DW's S60 nice. 
 

A few months after we got it, I curbed the RF. Got that fixed at the first service. Then she bent the 2 passenger side wheels on a pot hole. Called the mobile wheel repair place and got them straightened. Then she cubed the RR. Got that fixed at its second service, maybe a month ago. 
 

Now today I just curbed the RF again. Bob dammit. 

In reply to Duke :

Antihero said:

It's snowing. Heavily. In September

Its hot. And humid. 94. In September.

Dusterbd13-michael said:

Antihero said:

It's snowing. Heavily. In September

Its hot. And humid. 94. In September.

91 and dry, in September.

Daylan C said:

Dusterbd13-michael said:

Antihero said:

It's snowing. Heavily. In September

Its hot. And humid. 94. In September.

91 and dry, in September.

Same here. And not just September, the END of September.

Only reason I'm not actually complaining about it is that if it stays hot and the leaves don't change until later October we might actually have the cabin done by then and leaf changing season is one of the highest-traffic times where it's located...

Dusterbd13-michael said:

Antihero said:

It's snowing. Heavily. In September

Its hot. And humid. 94. In September.

its 76 and has rained off and on all day on the other side of the state here.

Jacked up ribs are jacked up. 

I sneezed hard this afternoon, doubled over, and nearly puked. I'm pretty sure my Corsican brother was stabbed in the heart.

I just broke my dipstick 

no literally

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

Oh jeez. It didn't even occur to me that those could break like that. 

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

I broke a dipstick today too,  but mine was for the transmission fluid.

I’ve never had this happen to me before in my 20 years of wrenchin’.

Side note I once owned a manual car that had a dipstick for the trans,  well was suppose to. I tried to source one for a year before I gave up because “your’re stupid manual cars don’t have that”

1,000,000 internet points if you can guess that car.....

Antihero said:

It's snowing. Heavily. In September

The weather was perfect here. Of course I got stuck in the office most of the day.

My old leather Converse have see through soles, so I bought new Converse a few months ago.  Never actually WORE them, because the old ones were still so comfortable, and I wear boots at work anyway.  But it was rallycross time, and rallycross with holey shoes sucks, so I wore the new Converse.

Contact with wet grass early in the morning made the canvas shrink.  By the time I got home twelve hours after this first developed as a problem,  I could only hobble around because my shoes are now about two sizes too small.

Now I gotta buy another pair of shoes.

12 hours.. last night a small squall ran across southern NJ and in a straight line, knocked out power from one end of the state to the other. no high winds, just lots of powerful lightning. Power just came back on.