In reply to dean1484:
Yeah, that'd work too. I'm also not entirely sure it absolutely needed a radiator (though it was gettign ugly and the fins were coming apart) to begin with after finding the lower hose spring clamp had been broken for some time, I've never seen that happen.
In reply to loosecannon:
Yeah, being forced to watch the news must really suck. Another option would be to turn the crap off and avoid it at all possible. Aside from Facebook, I've mostly avoided quite a lot of it, it's still irritating though, so I can't imagine if I had to sit through the nightly news or worse a News network :/
BTW, we get all of your media coverage about your PM's, etc but we don't complain. I mean we certainly enjoyed the dumpster fire that was Rob Ford and he was just a lowly Mayor!
That said, whomever ends up President should be important for our neighbors to the North (and to the South) since we tend to drag you guys into E36 M3 quite often.
Either way, I'd remove the parts about the specific candidates in your post; it's pretty political and will likely result in much arguing and gnashing of teeth. That often leads to locking threads or worse, banning people.
after a hellish weekend with a day of normalcy in-between, I now start the next three days of hell.
today is just noon till 8.. but I am back in tomorrow at 5am.. so I get to come home, take a shower, try to get to bed, and get up at 3:30 in the morning.
Tomorrow is a 5am till 5pm day, so I will come home completely exhausted, jump in the shower, and crash, only to get up again at 3:30 am for another 12 hour day.
I would like to add I am not a morning person. I don't get up at noon or anything like that, but anything before 8 or 9 am is uncivilized
Flying.
Oh yeah, and airports, too.
I don't want to get into politics. I just want to say... berkeley everyone involved who got us to this point where I feel like a dirty whore just thinking about the choices available. I have never been this miserable leading up to an election.
mapper wrote: I don't want to get into politics. I just want to say... berkeley everyone involved who got us to this point where I feel like a dirty whore just thinking about the choices available. I have never been this miserable leading up to an election.
All I will say on the topic is that if you have signatures enabled, read mine.
In reply to Duke:
Yep. "I have met the enemy and he is us." (Paraphrased from Pogo)
I can't even begin to describe my level of loathing for the "scan-it-yourself-berkeleyer" trend. Just stop it stores.
I actively avoid using them. When I break down and try there is always a "problem" and the attendant has to come scurrying. I just want to drop my E36 M3 on a conveyor belt and let the professional cashier do his/her job. How about you give me a 10% discount on my crap since you berkeleyers get to hire one fewer employee now??
In reply to KyAllroad:
The self checkouts always make me think of Bill Burr.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/c4DXYevaZHs
I LOVE self checkouts. Berk off cashiers! I don't want to discuss my purchases with you. I just want my crap and to leave. The first time I laid eyes on a self checkout I immediately thought of an interaction I had a decade ago. Cashier dude says "I take these aren't for you hehe" as he bags the tampons I picked up for the wife, then proceeds to go "WOW that is a lot of toilet paper!" as he scans the 12 pack that happened to be on sale. I just said "Yeah, I keep it clean" and thought about what he might have said loudly if I actually had been purchasing embarrassing things
Self checkouts let me exercise my antisocial half if I want to and move four times as fast as a regular line. What is there to not like?
Jumper K. Balls wrote: Self checkouts let me exercise my antisocial half if I want to and move four times as fast as a regular line. What is there to not like?
You must live someplace where the populace is competent. Every time I try to use one, something requires clerical intervention and I have to wait for the ONE checker who is assigned to cover 19 self-checks. Invariably, it's a 5-minute wait, because everyone else also has a problem requiring help.
Using self checkout will eventually cost someone a job.
Wife and I also love the self checkouts at the grocery store. Makes the checkout so much faster.
Since we are retired we shop during the day when all the "older folks" do their shopping. Because of that there are long lines for cashier lines and nobody using the self checkouts.
I scan while the wife bags which is faster than a cashier can get it done. Also, I have memorized the codes for most of the produce we buy so I don't even have to use the machine to look it up.
Self checkout blows chunks. Hate it with a passion. If you have more than ten things the bags won't fit on the table thing. Try and make room and the system freaks out.
I agree they should give us a ten percent discount for using it.
In reply to mad_machine:
I get up between 5:00am to 5:30am. I'm a morning person that likes to go to bed early.
I'm always angry and mean at 5:00am.
Finally threw in the towel with Racecapture/Podium.
Bit the bullet and ordered SoloStorm.
I have had really good luck with the self checkouts. As a business owner, I understand why more and more places put them in. IMO it's because staffing costs are going up rapidly and it's cheaper to have a robot. Locally, the government has doubled minimum wage in the last few years and I have had to cut staff on weekends from 6 to 3 because of it.
AWSX1686 wrote: Looking at internet for my apartment that I'll be moving into next month. CenturyLink or Comcast are my only two options. CenturyLink maxes out at 25Mbps, Comcast starts at 25Mbps. 25Mbps with Comcast is $30/month. FOR THE FIRST 12 MONTHS... Then its $70/month or 25Mbps, or their 100Mbps service is only $80/month. Well, I guess if things go well, I'll be moving on to the next apartment in a year, so it's no that bad. I'll just have to have Comcast. :/ Have to find my own modem too, because there's no way I'm paying for one of theirs or renting one of theirs!
Just keep in mind that you're stuck with them for the full term, or paying early termination. You can probably move the account elsewhere when you move - but don't get sucked in by the teaser rate.
Appleseed wrote: Using self checkout will eventually cost someone a job.
Already has.
Though I don't mind them at Sam's Club. One of the few places that does it well - wireless barcode scanner, so if I put everything in the cart barcode up, shoot each one without removing from cart, pay and go.
Anywhere else I've been, it's just a hassle.
Went for sleep study. Found out still have sleep apnea, (biggest well no E36 M3 of the year). Can't get replacement equipment due to insurance company only covering dr for sleep studies and not equipment sales.
Equipment supplier is worst ranked of anyone in the area and wont get back to me for two weeks.
Stayed up too late and got up too soon.
Appleseed wrote: Using self checkout will eventually cost someone a job.
Of course, not counting the people who design and build the machines, who tend to be skilled and well paid.
In reply to Flight Service:
Can your doctor calibrate other people's equipment? I've seen sleep apnea machines for sale cheap on Craigslist. Like super cheap. I have no idea if it's a good idea but it seems like some cleaning and new mask and tubes and your doctor could set it up for you.
Flight Service wrote: Went for sleep study. Found out still have sleep apnea, (biggest well no E36 M3 of the year). Can't get replacement equipment due to insurance company only covering dr for sleep studies and not equipment sales. Equipment supplier is worst ranked of anyone in the area and wont get back to me for two weeks.
Have had sleep apnea for over 15 years, still on original CPAP machine. Thought it was well over time for a new machine and pressure prescription which my insurance will cover. Easy huh?
No berkeleying way.
Gotta see new doc. Scheduling sleep study, had to wait because I work midnight and they don't get a lot of people who sleep daylight. Instead of a split study (diagnosis/ pressure test) it was diagnosis only... no E36 M3, I still have sleep apnea. Worst 5+ hours of my life w/o my machine. Wait, wait, wait again for the pressure test. OK, we're good. No, wait for doc appt. Now we're good huh. Order sent to new supplier. No wait, they sent to a supplier not covered by insurance, lost almost two weeks there. Order resent to my new supplier, got headgear and nasal mask only, no machine although specified. Reordered over a week ago... and nothing.
I'm calling today and raising hell. Shoulda had this new machine over three months ago (being generous there).
Don't get me started on equipment suppliers. 
As an alumnus of the Purdue Baja SAE program, I met up with the team last night for a design review. That went well, and was great seeing everyone again. Drove 2 hours home in an (unreliable) Jetta rental, drop off my colleagues, drop off the rental, and pick up my (reliable) Chevy wagon. Make it within 2 miles of my house at roughly 2 am, and the engine starts making a horrible noise at valvetrain speed, probably only on one cylinder.
Only a few possibilities, on my freshly rebuilt ~400hp sbc: dropped a valve, broke a rocker/rocker stud, or lost a rocker nut. None of these sound fun to fix, and the car is stranded in an unknown parking lot. I walked home.
Yay, another thing to fix. Good thing I just bought that truck, I guess.
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