In reply to Duke :
And hitting a deer
GameboyRMH you can opt out of comp in Ontario, but why would you?
In reply to Duke :
And hitting a deer
GameboyRMH you can opt out of comp in Ontario, but why would you?
In reply to Peabody :
Interesting, researching more carefully I could scale back from full-comprehensive to DCPD. I already outlined the reasons I might opt out, the best reason I can see to stick with it might be hail/storm damage coverage, since that's a danger that could wreck the car regardless of my driving patterns or skill...I'd have to see what the price difference would be. The family beater van which probably sees more miles and actually gets driven in the winter costs less than half as much to insure even with a full-fat policy.
My wife, sister, and daughter left about 2 hours ago with another friend of ours to go to Dragoncon. They were up in the air as to if they were going to take der Scheißwagen or not, and they finally decided that they'd take our friend's 4 or 5-ish year old Honda Pilot. I was a little relieved because I figured that even if it was a little more cramped in the Pilot, the Merc had a better chance of leaving them stranded.
They got gas at the Buc-cee's in Richmond, KY and now the Pilot is refusing to start.
I don't know what took them so long, but they finally found a kind soul to give them a jump. It took a little while, but the car did finally start. Fortunately there are a couple FLAPS nearby with the right battery showing in-stock, so this should be the end of the drama for the trip. I hope.
Here's a hint, boss:
Maybe if you didn't have emails dating back to when you founded the company in 2006 still sitting in your inbox, including just about every file attachment you've ever received or sent, your email would be working right now and you wouldn't be freaking out on this critical communication day.
Used to get a little bonus for doing all the certification training courses. Not a big one, but something. $250/year. Last year it dropped by 20%, and this year was replaced by a loyalty point program that converts to about .25:1 and I can only use the points for company branded garbage. To top it off, the list of tests I need to complete to be certified has expanded by 500%. Literally. 6 times as many tests, and nothing to show for it. I don't need a cheap hoodie for $87 (not that I even have enough points!), nor do I want yet another thermos for $32. I get my choice of $50 worth of company branded garbage. Sweet.
In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :
Way back in high school, I worked at a Carl's Jr. and they had a similar reward program for branded merchandise. I bought one thing as a "gift." I still had almost $40 to spend and all they had that would be amusing was superballs at 25 cents each, so...
In reply to matthewmcl :
Pure genius. Unfortunately there are no super balls on the list. And what I'd do with them wouldn't get back to corporate where the real problem is. Eh. Life goes on. Got to keep up the certs in case I need to relocate... or something.
Really?! You schedule a meeting for 8:30a on the morning after a long holiday weekend?
berkeleying soccer moms in their Suburban/Tahoe/Denali/F-350/Ram3500.
"Uh-oh, there's a corner, I'd better slow down to 0.02 mph to make it! Don't want to tip over!!!"
GTFOMW AND LEARN HOW TO BERKELYING DRIVE!!!!
Rant over, for now.
In reply to Recon1342 :
I don't know which group annoys me more, the ones you mention, or the people in Smart cars, minis, and other toys that swing into a turn like they're a semi with double trailers. There's no reason to tie up our lame, the next lane, and oncoming traffic for you to turn, you aren't that berkeleying big!!
In reply to RevRico :
Right? If I'm in something that small, I'm aiming for gutters and taking corners at speed. Amateurs.
Getting old sucks.
I seem to have done my left knee no favour by riding a sporty-ish motorcycle for a couple of hundred miles, and my knee's been complaining about this for several weeks now. The 4-5h trip last weekend on my Triumph seems to have finalized a number on the knee despite the much more favourable ergonomics, to the extend that I nearly got stuck in my Elise this morning.
Yay me.
Guess I need to have a chat with my doc before this gets any worse. OK, before I make it any worse, that is. The knee specialist I saw in Reno about a decade back mumbled something about me being an eventual candidate for a knee replacement but was adamant to wait as long as I can.
Looks like one of the early steps I need to take is start looking at motorcycles of a more American touring bent, and sports cars that are more suitable for old folks.
In reply to Recon1342 :
Point and shoot drivers. Drop 15 mph in a curve because they think they'll drag a door handle and then is yeeting up your ass on the straights even though your cruising 10 over. Yeah, I met those shiny happy people.
In reply to Recon1342 :
The road leading up to my subdivision is a fairly curvy and steep road that's posted as a 45. The roads in our subdivision are the standard wide, straight affairs with a 25mph limit. Almost without fail, if the car in front of me is basically creeping up the main road at 30, they will turn in to the subdivision and proceed to do about 40. And then blow the stop sign.
In reply to all the posts about drivers :
Don't forget the folks that slow to a stop in the traffic lane before entering the turn lane even though they have 100 yards in the turn lane to slow down. Or the variant: creep along in the traffic lane and then dive into the turn lane at the last possible second without signaling.
In reply to Rodan :
Here the trick with turn lanes is to start moving over fairly soon, but only move over at about a 1:50 ratio so that you never completely vacate the travel lane until the intersection.
Slowing all the way, of course.
I fix broken stuff. If it's broken, I can figure it out.
Stuff that is only broken sometimes sucks donkey balls. 12 F150 that will randomly shut off the cluster and center stack, then turn back on. Dealer has tossed parts at it, no fix. I drove it for 3 days, and never had a failure. A couple of voltage codes, a couple of communication codes, but certainly no clear direction. Having both voltage and comm codes might make it worse...
Then there's the Caravan with the tipm failure that worked just fine for 4 days. Followed by the $1200 dealer replacement being a month out, so I have one from the junkyard coming, which will have other, different problems...
I have been listening to the history of Stars and Galaxy discoveries for about 6 months. All different authors and Physis. They have all blah blah blahed about this mysterious "dark matter". They wrote about Rogue Planets that are drifting aimlessly through out the galaxy. But they still are puzzled about this matter that they cannot see?? What comes to mind about this is... Not all solar systems in our Galaxy are nessasarily orbiting Stars. Why would all Gas Giants become Stars? Is it possible that this invisible matter is just that, Planets orbiting huge Gas Giants that just have the wrong combination of elements that do not turn to fission reactors?? They call all these items black or dark, oh it has to be evil or menacing. >:op
I'll get almost three hours of sleep and then I have to go back to work. The only good thing about this new schedule is that I'm too tired to care about how much worse it's gotten.
Biannual monsoon rains are here, and never fear, the traditional basement flood at the in-laws is well underway. I love them dearly, but they have what I'll call "stuff" issues. As in, they have too much and keep bringing more. Currently, they are a couple hours north working on the other house to try and sell it. Meanwhile, the place here has two houses worth of stuff. More, really. Mostly crammed in the large basement. Which floods. Rain is forecast to continue through tomorrow, and there's too much stuff around the place to even attempt to dig drainage. My shoulder is on the fritz anyway. So the three children that live here are over trying to haul anything they can from the basement upstairs. My day I had planned tomorrow is shot, holiday weekend is shot. I know this isn't anyone's fault, but last time this happened it should have been a sign to get rid of the junk. I'm talking shelves worth of old recipe magazines "I want to try someday", stacks of stuff from yard sales and goodwill. Old furniture that should be tossed but "I'm gonna fix that" or "The kids used to love eating in that chair" or any number of things.
My Outback has decided that now is the perfect time to begin leaking coolant. :/
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