I had a great plan for how to put two offices, a bathroom, and a living room in the basement. But the reality of where the builder put the drains and the lally column for the I-beam isn't cooperating.
I had a great plan for how to put two offices, a bathroom, and a living room in the basement. But the reality of where the builder put the drains and the lally column for the I-beam isn't cooperating.
RX Reven' said:Apple TV+ needs to get a rock in their trick-or-treat bag...they bought the rights to all the Peanuts cartoons so no more public airings of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".
You can stream it on the Apple TV app for free from this Friday through Monday.
Noticed Gmail has built up over 30,000 e-mails in my "Promotions" box. Tried to mass purge them.
In the process, it moved everything from my inbox since February into the trash.
I know have to manually go through 24,000 e-mails and undelete the ones I actually want to keep. There is no shortcut.
I had an appointment to have new tires installed on my track wheels at 8AM this morning. The local shop that was affiliated with Tire Rack closed up so I had to drive 20 miles over the pass to the nearest shop. When I arrived the manager was pretty gruff. Then he told me that I shouldn't wait there because it was going to be a while. There was only one tech on hand but they didn't have any vehicles in the bays. I had a couple errands to run and stretched them out but when I came back an hour and twenty minutes later they were still working on the last tire. The local independent shop would have had it done in about 20 minutes tops. I won't be using them again.
Dear Sunbelt Rentals: Why not have some sort of sanity check in the online reservation process that makes ANY attempt to determine whether a location has a piece of equipment.
Failing that, how about alerting employees that they have an upcoming reservation they can't fulfill when it happens, instead of waiting two weeks 'til the day before the reservation so they have to call and make a customer very unhappy because the reservation's only effect was to prevent them from actually booking the needed equipment for two weeks.
In the end, it's going to be fine because by sheer dumb luck they have a suitable alternative on hand. If they didn't, a month of coordinating four people's schedules would be out the window.
CAinCA said:I had an appointment to have new tires installed on my track wheels at 8AM this morning. The local shop that was affiliated with Tire Rack closed up so I had to drive 20 miles over the pass to the nearest shop. When I arrived the manager was pretty gruff. Then he told me that I shouldn't wait there because it was going to be a while. There was only one tech on hand but they didn't have any vehicles in the bays. I had a couple errands to run and stretched them out but when I came back an hour and twenty minutes later they were still working on the last tire. The local independent shop would have had it done in about 20 minutes tops. I won't be using them again.
I once dropped off a set of tires/wheels (not the car, just the wheels) for balancing at a shop. I dropped them off when they opened at 8 and told them I'd pick them up after work at 5. I roll in at 5 and the wheels are still sitting stacked where I left them. I was pissed. The guy gave me some excuse about how since they weren't on a car they kept getting pushed down the list. He tried to tell me it was a complicated job but I called his bluff because I grew up in a tire shop. All I wanted was a static balance and had to remind him twice to put it on the ticket, then I had to yell at the tire guy when I saw him reach for the outer lip to bang on a weight. I miss having a tire machine and balancer at my disposal.
KyAllroad said:Found another of those little fearmongering booklets in my hospital yesterday. If you haven't seen them consider yourself lucky but they are small cartoon booklets that are designed to scare people into believing in Jeebus by threatening them with an eternal lake o' fire.
I'm happy enough to throw them away but I'm older and crankier now so I think my next move will be to collect a couple dozen booklets and drive to the cult headquarters (a particular church) and nailing them to the door Martin Luther style.
Chick tracts are hilariously awful. I've seen some redone to be even more amusing.
May take up to 30 BUSINESS DAYS for your refund to process? Holy berkeley PayPal. If you can take my money as soon as I hit send, why would it remotely take 6 weeks to return it?
Seriously? I have to eVerify my own son? I am 100% positive he is a US citizen and has the right to work here. I'm the guy that took him to the SS office with 57 forms of ID to get a social security card. I was standing in the room when he was born. Why are you wasting my time?
The seller of the Miata I bought has stopped responding to my texts to please make an appt with the DMV to transfer the title to me. It's been 11 berking months since I bought the damn car. 11 months of me making payments and paying insurance premiums for it to sit in my garage. I've been the one putting in all the effort to make it easier for them, and they can't even put out a modicum of effort to do their part.
I'm so berkeleying tired of dealing with humanity.
Bonus round: I'm trying to get it registered so I can trade it in on my new Bronco. The dealership is losing their patience and I'm at risk of them selling it to someone else. I've waited 2+ years for it to be produced.
I swear to FSM that if I lose the Bronco because of the Miata sellers berkeleyery, I'll burn that SOB down in my driveway out of spite (ala the DusterBD treatment).
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Can you trade the Miata to the Ford dealer and let them deal with it? Even if you take a substantial hit, it may be worth it...
Just once I'd like to be able to get a tie rod or ball joint off without destroying the stupid boot.
wae said:Just once I'd like to be able to get a tie rod or ball joint off without destroying the stupid boot.
I'm pretty much only successful with that if I am taking apart something I assembled less than a week before.
I love my little car. I berkeleying love it.
But I swear to all that is holy, if one more of these clownshoe wearing motherberkeleyers cuts across THREE GOD DAMNED LANES OR MORE in order to cut me off I will not slow down. I will drive under the side of your god damned car and flip your ass. Then I will drag your broken body from your burning car and beat the E36 M3 out of you so that I might laugh as I dance in your blood.
This happened two separate times on today's drive.
BERKELEY
2 lane drive-thru; what's the custom? I'm in the outside lane and finished my order right after the guy also in the outside lane so I merge in behind the guy in line ahead. My window is down and I hear the inside lane guy finishing his order. His total is $15 something (and I'm deaf with hearing aids). He noses up like he'd __very much__ like to be in front of me in line. I shake my head no. He uses two fingers to show me how many brain cells he has. He's wrong, right?
I pull to the first window to pay and am presented with his total. "No I had the brownie sundae, sorry" and I get my total.
Mr. Middle Finger thought he was next in line and the cashier thought he was next in line. I think, because I ordered first, I'm next in line. Is there an unwritten rule saying we zipper merge here despite the order of our ordering?
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
We attended a small church that had these in a rack in the lobby. (Gospel tract rack) Interested in learning more? Go ahead and take one.
We had two brothers that didn't want to be members that occasionally attended.
Without us knowing they grabbed a huge amount and blanketed a Catholic Church on Sunday Mass. Everyone got one under their wiper blade.
Because there is usually a spot to stamp the church name and contact information a dozen people called and jumped on our Pastor. He was like.......uh, uh, uh...knowing we wouldn't bother another church.
Later the two brothers asked the Pastor for a few hundred more to find out it was them.
I can write a book about church shenanigans- hey, we're all human or should I say sinners?
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Who are you making payments to on a car not in your name? If it's a bank loan on the car, it's the banks problem not yours.
Berking rock chip spread. Now I get to buy a windshield.
Rant 2.0: Local band is apparently doing a gig at my complex. Not an issue, except they're out of tune!
SWMBO has discovered some sort of Instagram chatroom thing. And has been glued to it all week. I'm met with fragmented answers to questions I didn't ask or open hostility if I I interrupt. It blows.
Press-in wheel bearings. 'Nuff said.
In reply to NickD :
Sledgehammers are your friends. I disassemble them with a nice 20lb, clean everything up, and reassemble in a press. Rigging to assemble is waaaay easier than rigging in the press to disassemble.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It's not just the actual bearing part. It's taking everything else off surrounding it, on a 12 year old car that's lived in New York all it's life. Fight to get the tie rod free, fight to get the lower ball joint out of the knuckle, try not to break the ABS sensor off in the knuckle, break it off anyway. I've used the torches more than I've used a wrench.
In reply to NickD :
And? 
We like to watch videos from people in the SW and laugh at how easy they have it and they think they have it tough because you have to unbolt things.
I pulled the rear head from a '15 Odyssey yesterday, and because I knew I would end up removing the pistons, step 1 was pulling the Y pipe. The cat nuts used to be 14mm, now an 11mm was a loose fit. With heat and an air hammer I was able to remove them although three of them split in the process. But I saved all nine studs.
And my service manager doesn't quite get when I get grumbly when he gives quotes for straight book time with no allowances for rust complications. Book time on Y pipe removal is not an hour, because they make those estimates on new vehicles.
Or I could say fark it, break everything off, then say "oh BTW we need to eat both converters". His call.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Which is why I chuckled at Toyman and his Bentley's "rust."
wae said:Just once I'd like to be able to get a tie rod or ball joint off without destroying the stupid boot.
There are some cool and not expensive tools that work well. Harbor freight has a hd ball joint remover that won't hurt the boot
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