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

RevRico said:

No, I don't know what I want. I just know I don't want any of the options I have. 

This dinner every night thing is by far the most annoying part of being a grown-up. 

100% agree- and it gets 100x worse when it's not just you deciding but you have 2 people who must agree. The Dancer occasionally teases me for the fact that before we were together I had the same thing each week on like 3-4 days of the week, because it made shopping easier and I knew what I liked. But every few months she gets fed up with the whole 'deciding what to have for dinner' debate and decides that we need to plan the week's meals out ahead of time- but it unfortunately doesn't usually last for very long.

The weather was nice this morning so I decided to drive the Miata to work. Halfway there on the highway it starts running terribly. Limp it to the parking lot and went out after a couple hours to see what's wrong. It seems that one of the coils is dead, hopefully I can make it the 6 miles back home on two cylinders. 

Lotus Europa with TS/Cross-Flow head.
Had to go with Billet from Belgium as original cores no longer exist.
I did have my old one reground but the grind I got back is not what I wanted and is too radical to use.
Over $700 for a 4-Cyl cam is crazy.
At least it is the last stupidly expensive part I will have to buy.
Until I get to paint. 

EvanB said:

The weather was nice this morning so I decided to drive the Miata to work. Halfway there on the highway it starts running terribly. Limp it to the parking lot and went out after a couple hours to see what's wrong. It seems that one of the coils is dead, hopefully I can make it the 6 miles back home on two cylinders. 

I didn't do it this time

RichardSIA said:

Lotus Europa with TS/Cross-Flow head.
Had to go with Billet from Belgium as original cores no longer exist.
I did have my old one reground but the grind I got back is not what I wanted and is too radical to use.
Over $700 for a 4-Cyl cam is crazy.
At least it is the last stupidly expensive part I will have to buy.
Until I get to paint. 

That is about what they run for new engines, too, except you have to buy two or four of them.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I blame the traffic, if I could have been going faster and not 25-30 the Miata would have been happier and not rebelled. 

Somehow despite it being midnight, The Bat managed to find, try to eat, and subsequently get stung on the lip by a honey bee last night. Cue a tense hour or so of us keeping an eye on her to make sure she didn't have any kind of reaction to it- thankfully (once I pulled out the stinger) she didn't seem to even know that anything had happened, but given that we know how bad allergic reactions to bee stings can be we wanted to be as certain as we could that we weren't going to go to sleep miss her having a reaction and not being able to get her to the emergency vet.

This was compounded an order of magnitude due to the fact that IIRC last night was the 1-year anniversary of when The Dog had his first cardiac incident from the condition that was most certainly what he passed from at the beginning of this year.

I think we are starting to see the downfall, or the "Mumford Effect", of whatever we want to call the Americana/Country/TylerChilders/Appalachia/Red Dirt/ZachBryan/Folk/Roots stuff.

That is obviously the natural way of things, and I know that my tastes will change and that I'll still be able to find and enjoy whatever I want, but it is still sad for me to acknowledge. 

Partially in response to this chilling event the Midget may not only reuse the old cam but the pistons too.
I've never done just hone, rings, bearings, and timing before.

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

RevRico said:

No, I don't know what I want. I just know I don't want any of the options I have. 

This dinner every night thing is by far the most annoying part of being a grown-up. 

100% agree- and it gets 100x worse when it's not just you deciding but you have 2 people who must agree. The Dancer occasionally teases me for the fact that before we were together I had the same thing each week on like 3-4 days of the week, because it made shopping easier and I knew what I liked. But every few months she gets fed up with the whole 'deciding what to have for dinner' debate and decides that we need to plan the week's meals out ahead of time- but it unfortunately doesn't usually last for very long.

There's 4 of us, including an 8 and a 15 year old. Pleasing everybody never made it to the conversation to begin with. 

I run a 2 week menu that everybody is  supposed to contribute to, as it aligns with trips to the grocery store and lets us cycle through the stuff in the freezer.  

Without fail, I'm the only that gets to fill it in because I'm the only one that knows how to cook, and not wanting ramen, burgers, tacos, or chicken nuggets for every single meal is apparently "weird". And god forbid anyone use their electronics they're always on or flip through the dozen or so cookbooks we have to find ideas. 

But this time it's more a mood thing. There's nothing that stands out anywhere I want. Grocery store might as well be empty, go through a dozen menus before leaving the house then still wind up hitting different restaurants because nothing looks good once we get there. I love to cook, I like to eat (obviously), but I just want like a month away from thinking about food entirely. Don't want to see it, smell it, cook it, or eat it. 

In reply to mtn :

It could be the end of a trend, or it could be over-saturation and simply too hard to find the 1% that is palatable. Or possibly overexposure. Either way, the answer is to jump ship and come swim in the swamp that is all things metal. The water is too warm and there's some really gross stuff just under the surface, but it's good for your immune system. 

RevRico said:

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

RevRico said:

No, I don't know what I want. I just know I don't want any of the options I have. 

This dinner every night thing is by far the most annoying part of being a grown-up. 

100% agree- and it gets 100x worse when it's not just you deciding but you have 2 people who must agree. The Dancer occasionally teases me for the fact that before we were together I had the same thing each week on like 3-4 days of the week, because it made shopping easier and I knew what I liked. But every few months she gets fed up with the whole 'deciding what to have for dinner' debate and decides that we need to plan the week's meals out ahead of time- but it unfortunately doesn't usually last for very long.

There's 4 of us, including an 8 and a 15 year old. Pleasing everybody never made it to the conversation to begin with. 

I run a 2 week menu that everybody is  supposed to contribute to, as it aligns with trips to the grocery store and lets us cycle through the stuff in the freezer.  

Without fail, I'm the only that gets to fill it in because I'm the only one that knows how to cook, and not wanting ramen, burgers, tacos, or chicken nuggets for every single meal is apparently "weird". And god forbid anyone use their electronics they're always on or flip through the dozen or so cookbooks we have to find ideas. 

But this time it's more a mood thing. There's nothing that stands out anywhere I want. Grocery store might as well be empty, go through a dozen menus before leaving the house then still wind up hitting different restaurants because nothing looks good once we get there. I love to cook, I like to eat (obviously), but I just want like a month away from thinking about food entirely. Don't want to see it, smell it, cook it, or eat it. 

There are 4 members in my house. My wife, the youngest son that just turned 20, the next to the youngest son at 23, and me. Anyone that want's a specific dish is welcome to add it to the menu as long as they are willing to cook it. If you aren't willing to cook, you have little to zero input. 

My wife is stay-at-home. She does 90% of the cooking and while she will ask what people like, the decision on what to cook is hers. You can deal with it or feed yourself. 

My youngest loves food, which is probably why he is an outstanding cook. He does the research, makes up the grocery list, and does all the prep work and cooking. I've known him to spend 5 hours in the kitchen basting a pork roast every 15 minutes because that's what the recipe called for. He has yet to make a meal that wasn't delicious. 

The 23 yo would burn water. He eats what's served and is happy about it. 

Regarding meals:

Years ago the greenhouse where PW worked a couple days a week got really busy and asked her if she could work five days a week. I was also working five days a week at the time.  We both got home about the same time, tired, so you can imagine what dinner time/meal preparation was like. So I devised a plan. We agreed on a bunch of meals we liked, less than ten, and I put them on a Monday to Friday schedule. She hated the idea right from the start because we would be having the same meals all the time, and fought it every step of the way.  When you start with more meals than the days of the week, it spreads them out and it never feels like that. It's not like you're having the same meal on the same day every week. I got her to agree to a trial, and it worked beautifully. It worked so well, she even agreed it was a good idea.  We don't need to do anything like that now, but I keep a list of meals on my phone and when we can't think of something to make I consult the list. We almost always find something we weren't thinking of.

In reply to Duke :

The one local grocer has the deli closed from 5:15 to 6:15 for the employee to go for their 'lunch' which I totally understand they need to have their breaks, but 99% of this city gets off work at 5pm, can't *someone* be at the deli so I don't have to prolong my drive home for an hour? The sad thing is higher ups will see a drop off of Deli sales after that time and continue the lunch breaks *or* shut the deli early because 'There's no money in being open during those times'

I now shop at a different grocer and they always have two people on staff in the deli at those times to help people. 

1,800 pages of whining.

I keep seeing videos pop up on Facebook and YouTube about " car camping"

We are glorifying homelessness, I can't be the only one that finds this very alarming???

In reply to Antihero :

I'm trying to talk my wife into being homeless in the next 10 years or so. It's not going to be in a van down by the river though. It's going to be more like this. 

In reply to Peabody :

I'm traveling three days next week and my wife is mainly happy that she doesn't have to think about meals.  

Antihero said:

I keep seeing videos pop up on Facebook and YouTube about " car camping"

 

We are glorifying homelessness, I can't be the only one that finds this very alarming???

You're not, but everybody says houses are just as affordable as they've always been when you adjust for inflation and ignore the fact wages have been essentially stagnant for 50 years, so there must not be anything to worry about. 

Really, if you don't have or want kids, car camping would be a great way to go for a while, as long as you can figure out things like gas, insurance, and repairs. 

In reply to RevRico :

I knew some folks who were voluntarily homeless back in the mid-aughts. They did not have kids. They did seem to have very little stress in their lives. 

I think selling a used porsche on marketplace is my personal hell. If this is what the real deal is like i might start going to church and cutting back on my drinking

In reply to Toyman! :

My wife wanted to go full-time in the RV, but I just can't give up 40 years of accumulated tools and having a basecamp where I can use them to work on our stuff.

Daily rant... I'm now working on the logistics of moving said accumulation of stuff to the new basecamp.  Fun... 

I have a hand full of things to get done at work today, and all I have been doing is planning out what my son and I are going to work on for his project car.

This is a rant that is generalizing a lot of people, it isn't all of them but the direction is true.

I work with a lot of morons, but they do ok at work because they work for morons who work for morons and everyone seems to know so little about what they are supposed to do that they all stand in a circle and drool on themselves. It's shocking, it is like being in a real life Idiocracy. I sweat to god there are ME's that don't know how to make parts, like not at all. I ask a basic question about fixturing and one literally said I don't know much about making parts. Holy berkeley we make parts for a living, we should probably have ME's that know a little about making parts. I am the PM, I am not supposed to tell them how to make the parts but damn, someone has to. 

Maybe i'm a dick, and I'm bitter. Maybe.

It's been established I grew up in a...less than ideal household after the death of my biological parents. Some of you may even know some of the better stories from that era. 

It's FURTHER been established that the only reason I was there is social security pays very nicely if you're taking care of a poor orphan. Nicely enough that you can afford things like the second mortgage you took out because you were an idiot.

It goes without saying that as time goes by and I see things like the 440 cuda and the nice house and the Addams pinball machine (which triggered this particular rant) I am aware of where a lot of those things came from, and I know it wasn't from your astute investment skills. 

I could be bitter about the appt I have in 7 days to tell me the results of some testing to see whether or not I need a lawyer because my life could potentially be cut short because of actions taken while in your care. I could. 

You know what really got me? Your kid, your biological golden child, flexing a stupid E36 M3ty trophy he won for being excellent at pinball extolling the virtues of all the hours he had available to him on his fathers pinball machine, that I know good and goddamn well (because this is a market I follow) would not have been possible were it not for the mismanagement and mistreatment I endured.  

Maybe this isn't a minor rant. Maybe i'm bitter over a E36 M3ty trophy. Maybe I'm jealous that someone is better at something that I really enjoy. Who knows?