Pretty sure that I have been in the office for at least 2 hours every day since the 22nd of July. Well except the days that I went to Vegas to keep a bachelorete party under control.
Pretty sure that I have been in the office for at least 2 hours every day since the 22nd of July. Well except the days that I went to Vegas to keep a bachelorete party under control.
wearymicrobe wrote: I went to Vegas to keep a bachelorete party under control.
That's impossible to do I was told. Anyway, details man...details there is always a bad girl or 2 in the group. 
Inspection sticker ran out on the S197 last month...oops, my bad. Scheduled inspection first thing this morning at a shop a couple blocks away so I wouldn't get caught out on the road. Might as well have the new front lower chassis brace installed while it's on the lift.
Mechanic left the hood up and almost ran it into the berkeleying ceiling, prolly woulda if I hadn't yelled STOP cause he wasn't berkeleying watching. Car passed inspection, on to the chassis brace. Boss asked what he was doin'... 'installing a Chastity Brace'... I kid not, he repeated it several times. Installation instructions were pretty straight forward. Still, glad I stuck around cause who knows how this coulda ended up.
Tough livin' in this county but I did learn some of the fine art of building demolition derby cars while talkin' w/ the mechanic, that's motorsports 'round here. Also found that I only put 800 miles on the car since last inspection.
Jesus woman. I know you're stressed with this wedding. I know you're upset with me and my parents that the maid of honor can't come to the rehearsal dinner because of where it is. But seriously, her allergy is beyond what can be reasonably accommodated. If you can't be in the same room as something... Sorry, because at that point we've eliminated just about every restaurant in Chicago.
It sucks. We're sorry. Get over it.
Get over it.
One more time: GET. OVER. IT. Don't get in a fight with me about it 4 berkeleying times.
In reply to Wally:
Coolest thing is when they flip up the wiper arms, remove the blades, tape flags on the ends, and turn on the intermittent.
mtn wrote: Jesus woman. I know you're stressed with this wedding. I know you're upset with me and my parents that the maid of honor can't come to the rehearsal dinner because of where it is. But seriously, her allergy is beyond what can be reasonably accommodated. If you can't be in the same room as something... Sorry, because at that point we've eliminated just about every restaurant in Chicago. It sucks. We're sorry. Get over it. Get over it. One more time: GET. OVER. IT. Don't get in a fight with me about it 4 berkeleying times.
Dude, you have a penis, right? That means that [it] is your fault. Your family issues. Her family issues. Women's rights. Men's rights. World hunger. Parking at the local movie theater. It's all on you.
tuna55 wrote:mtn wrote: Jesus woman. I know you're stressed with this wedding. I know you're upset with me and my parents that the maid of honor can't come to the rehearsal dinner because of where it is. But seriously, her allergy is beyond what can be reasonably accommodated. If you can't be in the same room as something... Sorry, because at that point we've eliminated just about every restaurant in Chicago. It sucks. We're sorry. Get over it. Get over it. One more time: GET. OVER. IT. Don't get in a fight with me about it 4 berkeleying times.Dude, you have a penis, right? That means that [it] is your fault. Your family issues. Her family issues. Women's rights. Men's rights. World hunger. Parking at the local movie theater. It's all on you.
Don't forget traffic this morning, or the fact that the only soap we have here is manly smelling soap that apparently dries out her skin (she stayed with me last night for the first time in the new place, she's not done moving in yet). That's my fault too.
Oh, and it is also my fault that the (2 day old) router has stupidly bright blue LED's.
In reply to mtn:
You sure this whole wedding thing is a good idea?
Cotton wrote: In reply to mtn: You sure this whole wedding thing is a good idea?
The whole Marriage thing? Yes. The whole Wedding thing? berkeley no. But I didn't make that decision. Her mom did.
But any time that you throw the word wedding into anything, you have to tread carefully since you're walking through an armed minefield. Throw MS (and all that it does to the brain), PTSD (and all that goes with PTSD), cancer, a death, allergies, and strained family relationships into the field, and there is no way that you can get through it without a major explosion or four.
I lost my pocketknife at the junkyard yesterday.
Again.
Fortunately, it was a $5 Harbor Freight special, not one of my good ones.
So I'm off to HF today to get a new one.
I will buy 4 other things besides the knife. Guaranteed.
Cotton wrote: In reply to mtn: You sure this whole wedding thing is a good idea?
Cotton beat me to it …
What goofy motherberkeleyer decided to make a "6203" bearing with a 5/8" bore? A 6203 is 17x40x12, not 5/8x40x12! Why the hell would you spec some semi custom piece in a craftsman lawnmower deck? I figured the inch bearing on one end a metric on the other was the extent of the berkeleyery in this thing. My all ball bearing 1945 Craftsman drill press is all standard metric bearings, all 6 of them, why the hell is a 90s lawnmower not?
Come on, it's time to clean those windshields folks! Outside AND inside.
It's that time of year were the sun is low enough at morning rush to cause windshield blindness. Yesterday the freeway was backed at every bend that faced the sun. Today I had a woman just stop in the middle of the street when she came over a rise. I could see her windshield (not through) and it was filthy. I saw this coming weeks ago and cleaned accordingly!
Speaking of windshields. I can't stand to have anything on the windshield, it drives me crazy. No GPS, no cell phone mounts and absolutely no stickers. But stupid Texas wants to put stupid registration stickers in the drivers side windshield. Drives me up a wall. It was worse because they used to have an inspection sticker too. You have two license plates that are perfectly good places to put registration stickers, like all the other states that aren't stupid do. I know Texas isn't the only state to do this, but it's the only one I've ever lived in that did. They need to pull that ten gallon hat out of their ten gallon ass and get the berkeleying stickers off the windshield. Stupid.
mtn wrote: Sorry, because at that point we've eliminated just about every restaurant in Chicago.
I disagree......Patio Chicken and Ribs - get the BBQ chicken.
Datsun310Guy wrote:mtn wrote: Sorry, because at that point we've eliminated just about every restaurant in Chicago.I disagree......Patio Chicken and Ribs - get the BBQ chicken.
Nope. They gots shrimp.
Cinderella did not need to be remade. The Wife loves Cinderella. I assume because it pretty much mirrors her life where a loveable if somewhat husky civil servant in a white Escort takes her out of the dreary barren wasteland that is Albany and moves her a bit south to a lovely cottage in the country closer to civilization where she lives happily ever after but anyway about 2-3 times a year she watches Cinderella. The proper animated one the way Frozen Walt Disney intended. Today an eagerly awaited by one of us New Cinderella showed up on our door step. She very excitedly popped it in the DVD player and we sat through it. I found it unwatchable. I like cartoons. I like live action movies. Live people with unnecessary GCI backgrounds make me dizzy. Am I supposed to believe that a big budget movie with famous actors could not rent a proper castle or even a team of actual horses? I understand using the computer trickery for things like the mice turning into horses and back or the goose becoming a teamster but to use the animated critters the whole time? Are mice in some sort of union that makes them unaffordable? You can buy them outright for $5 a piece in PetSmart. Of course this lead to me making idiotic comments such as wondering if there were enough accurate timepieces back then to know when midnight actually was would she just have to guess at when the wagon team was going to go to E36 M3 on her, and suggesting the lizard was only given a coachman job to save them 15% on carriage insurance. Even worse than the animals though was the castle. All the scenes that took place in the animated castle and gardens looked bizarre and distracting. It's not like Disney can't find a proper castle. I've sat through both Princess Diaries movies enough times to know there is a perfectly lovely castle somewhere between Spain and Portugal. The way my wife raved about this movie I was expecting much better. Then again her friends said the same after meeting me.
Whoever decided that an M8 fastener could have a 12, 13 or 14mm head is seriously urinating me off right now.
EvanR wrote: Whoever decided that an M8 fastener could have a 12, 13 or 14mm head is seriously urinating me off right now.
KYAllroad and I were grumbling about this while hunting for the right size wrench for a number of fasteners on the Blazer. Is it really necessary to have 10 different-sized fastener heads? Mazda did almost everything on the FC with 10mm and a handful of larger ones. You could work on the thing with like 3 wrenches in your toolbox.
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EvanR wrote: Whoever decided that an M8 fastener could have a 12, 13 or 14mm head is seriously urinating me off right now.
In my shop we denote that as Japanese (12), German (13) and Italian (14)
I keep a pack of JIS M8X1.25 nuts in my toolbox just for weber carb mounting bases on Fiats. Usually you cannot get a 14mm wrench on them, so when you finally fight them off a 12mm JIS nut makes reassembly ridiculously easier
Ashyukun wrote:EvanR wrote: Whoever decided that an M8 fastener could have a 12, 13 or 14mm head is seriously urinating me off right now.KYAllroad and I were grumbling about this while hunting for the right size wrench for a number of fasteners on the Blazer. Is it *really* necessary to have 10 different-sized fastener heads? Mazda did almost everything on the FC with 10mm and a handful of larger ones. You could work on the thing with like 3 wrenches in your toolbox.
I think VW only had access to 13mm nuts and bolts back in the 60s and 70s.. it seemed like that was all that was used to assemble a beetle
Ashyukun wrote:EvanR wrote: Whoever decided that an M8 fastener could have a 12, 13 or 14mm head is seriously urinating me off right now.KYAllroad and I were grumbling about this while hunting for the right size wrench for a number of fasteners on the Blazer. Is it *really* necessary to have 10 different-sized fastener heads? Mazda did almost everything on the FC with 10mm and a handful of larger ones. You could work on the thing with like 3 wrenches in your toolbox.
It's a GM, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18mm. Ford is the same way except the 18 can be either 17 or 19.
I need a bigger Hobie Cat. My girlfriend and I are taking my Hobie 16 out today and we have two other young ladies that want to go. We only have room for one of them. Does anyone have a Hobie 18 for sale or trade?
Sorry, mine's a 16 too. Any of them named Amy?
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