Went out yesterday to try and get an exhaust gasket (the 'metal donut' type) for the Patriot to be able to put the replacement manifold/converter in. Tried the 4 larger chain stores with no avail before hitting the KOA- and them saying, "Well, that's a valid part number but we don't carry it- which means nobody else in town likely does either." So now instead of having it back together I have to wait until next week when Amazon can get it to me- when it will be about 30 degrees colder outside. 
Don't you just love it when someone who has no berking clue about how to do a certain task asks for your help, then criticizes your patient explanation and ignores you anyway?
This is frustrating enough in the workplace, I can't imagine raising a kid. 
Just found out my wife may be getting late off. berkeley, there goes this weekend, holiday season, year......
Just found out my wife may be getting layed off. berkeley, there goes this weekend, holiday season, year......
In reply to nepa03focus:
Wow. Ill keep you in my prayers.
My rant is awfully minor: i have a cold and a lot to do. It sucks.
Streetwiseguy wrote: Common sense, or logic. More so, the lack thereof. V8 Toyota pickup in the shop for a timing belt service. Toyota makes a kit, designed for this specific situation. It includes a belt, both idlers, the tensioner, the waterpump with all seals and gaskets, and two cam seals. And no berkeleying crank seal.
Crank seal is probably serviced as an oil pump assembly, would be my guess.
I wonder if it's at all like the Ford CVH crank seal where you can destroy the oil pump by driving the seal on too far. (Oops.)
(Or the Mopar 2.4 seal where its leaking just means you need to replace the thrust bearings and crankshaft...)
berkeley you Apple Configurator.
Tactical Penguin wrote: Don't you just love it when someone who has no berking clue about how to do a certain task asks for your help, then criticizes your patient explanation and ignores you anyway? This is frustrating enough in the workplace, I can't imagine raising a kid.
They aren't asking for help, they want you to validate their train of thought.
In reply to Appleseed:
It wasn't even that, he absolutely had NO idea about how to use this program and mocked me when I pulled out the printed procedures and tried to help him and then completely blew me off and ignored what I was saying.
I'm contracting for the feds, I can't really reason with them for the most part. 
In reply to Tactical Penguin:
Ah. You're JABCO (Just Another berkeleying Contractor), yeah you're screwed. Shut up and do your job and theirs and whatever else they throw at you untill you break or leave. :)
A sheet screw appears in the sidewall of a tire I have had for 63,000 miles. One $.10 screw means a new set of tires that I was hoping to get after my vacation.
I need to get a dashcam. I wish I could have videoed the young boy trying to ride his bike down the middle of the street while texting. He literally did not hear me behind him, was weaving so much I did not dare pass, and because he was not pedaling (He was that engrossed in his text) he almost fell over when he ran out of forward momentum and had to put his foot down before his face became one with the pavement
also like to note: My Amazon order for Stainless Steel Quick links arrived. I ordered 4 all from the same vendor and shipped by amazon--in 4 separate shipping envelopes!?!
We had our last day in our current warehouse today, new one opens tomorrow.
Tonight we had a 'small party, mostly employees and their family, some bigwigs from corporate, with catered dinner'
Off the clock.
Of course, I get there and the place is packed, they invited 1500 people, they're letting in random people off the street, and catered dinner turns out to be food from the food court.
berkeley off management, this is why nobody likes you.
So I attempted to get the salvage certificate for the Camaro this afternoon. Attempted.
First, Google maps directed me to the wrong building, which wouldn't have been such a big deal were half the streets in Harrisburg not closed for some sort of holiday parade. Traffic was funneled onto a couple streets, causing a complete clusterberkeley. As I'm creeping along at .5mph, I start smelling coolant. berkeley, nowhere to stop so I figure I'll check it out once I get to PennDOT.
Finally make my way to the right building after taking an hour plus to go about 3 miles, only to find out they close at noon. This in spite of me calling yesterday to confirm they are indeed open 8-4:30 on Saturday.
Come back out to check out the Jeep and find a puddle of coolant beneath it. Appears to be coming from the upper radiator hose where it meets the thermostat, or possibly from the thermostat gasket. Now I've got an hour to ride the bike, my only working vehicle now, to AutoZone before this cold front hits and it starts raining. Bully for me 
Put the POS Altima in the garage last night, today I'm off and ready to tackle that last motor mount (middle rear). Got the car jacked up, tools assembled, positive attitude in place......no berkeleying way. This thing isn't coming out without major surgery and likely removing parts of the delicate/patched/rusty/crusty exhaust system. I'm sure there is a neat trick to doing this and from a lift with big air tools and dropping the fire-and-aft member under the engine, it can probably be done. Not by me, not on this car.
So in true redneck fashion I took a trip to vatozone for a tube of the heaviest, meanest, most nasty sealant they sell. 3M window weld. I filled the voids of the old motor mount and will let that set up for a day.
I'd really like to get the Passat running again soon.....
Well I made it in the nick of time. Temperature dropped substantially for the return trip and it has started sleeting. Jeep seems happy, there was a puncture in the hose. Glad that's all it was.
Crappy airbnb. Stuck in a crappy place.
I went to swap the snowtires onto the CRX of Doom tonight. Which meant I had to pull the Wrangler out of the garage. The battery in the Jeep is dead - 2.6V across the terminals. berkeley. Throw my battery charger on it. It charges for about 5 minutes and then beeps with a fault code. Dead cell. Double berkeley. The last time I tried to revive a dead battery, I got the same fault code and had to replace the battery. It's my fault since I should of thought to start it up every few days. Hopefully I wont have to replace the battery since its an X2 Power expensive as berkeley battery.
I really don't feel like laying on the cold ground outside tonight so I'll try to get it to the auto shop tomorrow morning so I can use their lift.
Good thing I waited the night before I'm driving the CRX of Doom on a 7 hour road trip to swap the tires over
Procrastination: eleventy billion stanger_missle: 0
In reply to Dusterbd13:
Thanks we will find out this week.
Crappy airbnb. No hot water in the kitchen (cooking on Thursday) and no hot water in one bathroom and the light fixtures quit giving light after 5 minutes.
We go out this morning and get back at 2 to find out the handyman is here with the kitchen and bathroom shower torn apart and the water is shut off but the dude guy might be at Home Depot?
So it begins. Last year MGM exercised their option to buy out Boyd Gaming on the Borgata. Two days ago our CEO and COO left to join Hard Rock. It cannot be too long until management trickledown sees most of the department Directors and managers replaced.
Set my alarm for 12:00am in case I fell asleep. I did. I freak out because I woke up at XX:30, a half hour late. Rush like a maniac.
Now I get to freeze my nuts off sleeping in a parking lot waiting for work to begin because it was the wrong alarm.
As expected, the temperature dropped like a rock over the weekend- and I still don't have the exhaust gasket needed to get the Jeep mobile again. Of course, I also don't have the coolant distro hub I need as well, but at least that will show up today. The gasket though, that's not supposed to show up until Wednesday at the earliest- meaning I'm stuck riding the scooter in sub-freezing weather today and tomorrow until I can hopefully get the Jeep mobile on Sunday after we get back from our Thanksgiving trip.
Speaking of which, I'm more wary of said trip than usual this year due to the political climate- most of the relatives we'll be visiting are on the opposite side of the aisle from SWMBO and I, and my Grandmother and Uncle have a habit of not knowing when it's best to leave certain topics alone. I'm hoping we have a good, enjoyable Thanksgiving- but it could also be a complete disaster...
Well the wife wrecked the CR-V on Friday. She is OK and it is just sheet metal damage.
She said that another car was coming at her and she had to pull to the right and she clipped the concrete support the parking garage.
She said the car was on her side. Our apartment has a video camera above the incident spot.
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