In reply to fasted58: Damn dude, I don't even need such a thing and I'd happily pay $300 for that sort of item. I think you underpriced yourself on the front end. Ask a grand and look cool for accepting half that. Win for you and buy will think he was a rock star negotiator.
You'd be suprised. The same guys that shun a $300 generator, with fight over the same one priced at $1,000. Precivved quality. Try it.
So many berkeleyups at work today. Why make me go through the effort of putting tracking codes into our QR code URLs if you're just going to reuse one made for a hotel lobby flyer in a magazine without even telling me? It takes me like 2 minutes to make a new one. Enjoy your messed up analytics data.
Appleseed wrote: You'd be suprised. The same guys that shun a $300 generator, with fight over the same one priced at $1,000. Precivved quality. Try it.
When I was working retail, if we had something that wasn't selling, we'd raise the price 10% and more often than not we'd get rid of that inventory in short order.
Kids were up all berking night last night. WTF, it's Thanksgiving not Christmas!
The current Mazda ad voiceover guy, I'd very much like to punch him in the face.
KyAllroad wrote: In reply to fasted58: Damn dude, I don't even need such a thing and I'd happily pay $300 for that sort of item. I think you underpriced yourself on the front end. Ask a grand and look cool for accepting half that. Win for you and buy will think he was a rock star negotiator.
Maybe my bad, when I wanna move something fast I price it dirt cheap. Dirt cheap guys are the pickiest PITA's ever tho. I'll cut 'em a break then charge 'em $25 to load it... it's a berkeleyin' lump. 
I just want it outta here.
My mom is berking crazy! In the past, we've had things 'disappear' when my parents are visiting. One year, ALL the wooden spoons vanished at Thanksgiving 
. We called her on it, lots of hysterical drama, but the spoons miraculously reappeared at Christmas time.
Last night, I was trying to find the remote for the TV in my bedroom, which has been on my nightstand for, oh, the last 15 years. Gone. Tossed my side of the room, but never found it.
Now, as I waited for my 15 year old NiCd drill batteries to charge, I wanted to begin imbibing Christmas Ale. My good bottle opener has also disappeared. WTF? WHY? GAH!!!
No, I don't have a corded 3/8 drill anymore. I used to have a nice restored 50's Craftsman with aluminum body from my grandfather, but made the mistake of loaning it to someone.
Good news is, we have other means to open beer bottles, so I'm still able to get lit tonight on my only day not on call this weekend 
.
All my hobbies make me feel like a piece of E36 M3.
Occasionally autocross doesn't, then I remember that my car isn't competitive in the dry... and in the wet everyone gives all the credit to the AWD.
Foxtrot Mike Lima.
In reply to SnowMongoose:
Even the Jiu Jitsu? When everything else gets old I always find myself falling back on Martial Arts and/or weight lifting.
In reply to The_Jed:
Had to quit the Jits and rugby when I destroyed my neck two years ago.
Hence the reliance on hobbies I haven't dedicated a decade to getting not-E36 M3ty at.
Turns out ol' Snow is really bad at learning new things.
In reply to SnowMongoose:
I'd be happy to send you a model kit to try out.
Problem: Charging system doesn't work well on a Mazda 13B because of severe underdrive crank pulley required for cooling system to work. Also want a crank sensor solution that isn't cobbled together or subject to gear rattle.
Solution: Bolt on RX-8 front cover, water pump, alternator, and crank pulley with attendant crank wheel/sensor. Bonus: Multirib belt instead of cruddy V belt. (My planned winter ugpgrade for the RX-7 - ditch the distributor, make cooling system better)
Problem: Hard to find these parts as a set on eBay, it's all cover here pulley there a different pulley over here.
Solution: Found an entire core engine for sale not too far away for about what all the individual parts would be.
Problem: Wonder what it would take to get the 13B-MSP running and just use the whole engine...
My sister-in-law and her husband have been staying with us over Thanksgiving, which has been cool.
But.
There's always a but.
In addition to my wife and children, there are now two more people in this house that have never been taught that light switches can be used to turn lights OFF as well as on. And that doors, cabinets, and drawers that have been opened can almost always also be closed immediately afterward.
Going. Nucking. Futs.
(But it really is a minor rant. I actually do love having them stay with us)
berkeley you bose stereo. berkeley you right in the electrons.
My sister and my nieces go home tomorrow! My Nieces I love. My sister, I care for because she is my sister, I could do without. Too unpredictable with her OCD and BiPolarness. Too much pain between us from growing up. She's still batE36 M3 crazy. It's costing me $200 to put her on a train from Atlantic City to Harrisburg. Money I find well spent
I'm berkeleying tired of everything.
Got my wife her first ever new car last monday...7 days ago. I bring it with me to work, as have a buddy up here to mount new snow tires, on new aftermarket rims. It's going to look great. I figure I'll take it through the car wash as it is already quite dirty living in the sticks. I have a look around to see just how poor of a job the car wash did and notice a healthy sized white mark on the painted rear bumper and a huge scrape on the plastic bumper lip. ARGGGG, what did I do? Turns out the wife hit a stake over the weekend and neglected to mention it to me. Well, at least it wasn't me. So I go to my buddies shop to put on the wheels and make the tpms play nice with the car. First wheel up, ....uhoh, bolt pattern is wrong....WTF? I look, and the other three wheels are correct. All four boxes the wheels came in are labeled with the correct bolt pattern. So one was miss boxed. Awesome. A replacement is on it's way....but it's a bit of an inconvenience.
My father in law gave us a crib for the baby. It's the one he used for my wife and her brother, but it's perfectly safe and serviceable, and we got a new mattress for it at our baby shower. When we tried to assemble it, we found that it was missing a few pieces, but he was able to order them online and had them sent to the house. So far so good. We haven't gotten around to putting it together, because the little guy is still sleeping in our room in a cosleeper and will be for a while.
Friday, my mother in law sends my wife a text - "hey, are you home? I want to stop by and drop something off". Uhhhh, sure.....
My sister and her husband are visiting, so my brother in law and I go out to unload the car. She says "I'm solving a problem that's been bugging me for a while". There's a giant 70 pound box from Pottery Barn Kids in the car, containing a new crib. So now, we have an unassembled old crib that we were planning on using, and a new crib in a giant box taking up space in the guest bedroom/office/future baby room. She then says "Oh, I'll just take the old one to my house".
Well, from my perspective, you're creating a problem, not solving one. I don't want you to take the old one, I want to only have one in the first place. Now we have to decide which of her parents (they're divorced and both remarried) are going to be more offended when we offload the crib that they gave us. We're actively trying to downsize our furniture, and don't have the space for both. She asked my wife weeks ago if we wanted a new crib and we both specifically told her not to buy one.
Families are fun. I can't wait to see what happens this Christmas.
Give her the new one. Tell her that the new one doesn't go with the decor, and isn't as easy to use.
Hell, just tell her you told her not to get one.
Tell her to set it up at her house for when you bring the baby over.
Hopefully that's where we end up. She and my wife have a little bit of an odd relationship, and she's pretty touchy about gifts, so we'll see.
There are worse things than having too many people that want to take care of and be involved with the baby, so we'll survive.
I don't know where they've gone, but it seems I'm all out of berkeleys....I just can't find any left to give
Furious_E wrote: I don't know where they've gone, but it seems I'm all out of berkeleys....I just can't find any left to give
Lotta that goin' around lately.
OTOH, how did I ever miss Double Stuff Oreos.
cmcgregor wrote: Now we have to decide which of her parents (they're divorced and both remarried) are going to be more offended when we offload the crib that they gave us. [...] She asked my wife weeks ago if we wanted a new crib and we both specifically told her not to buy one.
Sounds like you've got your answer.
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