Volkswagen,
It's business day numbering 20.
berkeleying unacceptable.
Volkswagen,
It's business day numbering 20.
berkeleying unacceptable.
How is it that there are not enough hours in the day?
Or am i just too damn busy?
Dear co-worker,
If you don’t want the safety guy to remind you of the company tobacco-use policy, don’t have a cigarette in your mouth while walking around the non-smoking shop.
Safety Guy
Streetwiseguy wrote: Buy a scope. There's really only three things that go wrong with a canbus. The most common is you have a module that draws the comm line down to 0 volts. Second is you have an open in a line, third is you have 12 volts coming into the line. Really, the toughest thing is finding good, reliable service information. I berkeleying hate them, but its becoming a critical part of life. I once had a charging problem in a Volvo causes by a wee bit of corrosion in the connector into the drivers door, and a security no-start by a green connector on the diff module on a XC70...
Yeah, the 'critical part of life' is why I'm trying to learn about it. A scope would certainly be good to have, but here's the thing - the shop is union, and I am not. So I'm not supposed to be troubleshooting it at all, but the techs don't know anything about it either, so we're in this fuzzy grey area where they'll let me do it if I don't have to use their equipment. Which means I'm basically limited to a DMM, or verbally telling them what to look for with the scope.
Hopefully I can find some good service info when I have time to look. And wow, I had no idea they were that sensitive to corrosion, though I guess it makes sense since they are very sensitive to bus resistance.
Knurled wrote:Appleseed wrote: Most of the time someone mentions that they bought a new car on the forum, everyone congratulates them, yet in car loan threads people are basically called dumb for buying a new car. Every - single - time.It's almost as if the GRM community isn't a monolithic bloc of conformithink!
nah, we are all just cheap asses..
BabyRev has an ear infection that turned into a sinus infection over the weekend. I've magically acquired a sinus infection(i blame her). All either of us wants to do is sleep, and neither of us can breathe well enough to do it.
She's a special kind of demon when she's sick it turns out, so with her 18 month checkup tomorrow I'm sure we'll have a blast.
In reply to RevRico:
Heat is yous guys freind. Warm pack for mini-Rev, hot as you can stand it for you.
alfadriver wrote: The concert was great, but one minor rant. When I buy tickets to see and hear someone, I don't want to hear just the audience. I'm fine with everyone singing, as long as the act is more.
Interesting that I missed some posts- as the band that I love to hear more than any other is hated here with a passion.
One more reason I don't share much with anyone.
In reply to alfadriver:
Nickelback huh
just a wild guess
In reply to fasted58:
Not exactly. Not that it matters. given the posts about music on this board- I don't like much of what others listen to anyway. Most if it seems to be loud and angry for the sake of being loud and angry.
MORE RANTING about health insurance shopping. ARGHAPSLKDJFLKJDpoalkhjsdpfrolakihe;rl,anmsdv2408912!!)@#)pllkbajsdfjioj
This is without a doubt one of the most frustrating things I've done this year. And I have a 2 year old at home.
All of the locally available health insurance plans have reworked their networks and partnered up with hospitals and divvied up service providers. I'm not sure there's a single plan available at any price that covers all three of our doctors and they're within blocks of each other and have admitting privileges at the same hospital. Why would the insurance companies do this? Why would the hospitals do this?
It's hard to resist just falling back to the days of self pay but then we're expecting a child so the out of pocket expense would be breathtaking. Ugh. Which is another rant: the insurance company pays pennies for what we would be charge dollars. A recent test was billed at $1200 and the insurance company's negotiated rate was $475. Why not just bill everyone $475? That's ridiculous.
dculberson wrote: MORE RANTING about health insurance shopping. ARGHAPSLKDJFLKJDpoalkhjsdpfrolakihe;rl,anmsdv2408912!!)*@#)*pllkbajsdfjioj Which is another rant: the insurance company pays pennies for what we would be charge dollars. A recent test was billed at $1200 and the insurance company's negotiated rate was $475. Why not just bill everyone $475? That's ridiculous.
Why does any entity give or get a volume discount on anything? Same reason.
alfadriver wrote: In reply to fasted58: Not exactly. Not that it matters. given the posts about music on this board- I don't like much of what others listen to anyway. Most if it seems to be loud and angry for the sake of being loud and angry.
Guilty as charged:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBOSkT-7jBE
(NSFW language)
Dusterbd13 wrote: How is it that there are not enough hours in the day? Or am i just too damn busy?
I'm not busy at all and there are not enough hours in the day.
Nick (Bo) Comstock wrote:Dusterbd13 wrote: How is it that there are not enough hours in the day? Or am i just too damn busy?I'm not busy at all and there are not enough hours in the day.
I bought a house, so, no, there are never enough hours in the day.
Well, I suppose I would have gotten another hour of sleep last night if I didn't feel the need to buy a train to go around the tree off of craigslist. But I did. And for that, I am happy.
Most of it was spent constructing a kitchen island I got off of amazon. Holy hell do I hate styrafoam packing.
Duke wrote:dculberson wrote: MORE RANTING about health insurance shopping. ARGHAPSLKDJFLKJDpoalkhjsdpfrolakihe;rl,anmsdv2408912!!)*@#)*pllkbajsdfjioj Which is another rant: the insurance company pays pennies for what we would be charge dollars. A recent test was billed at $1200 and the insurance company's negotiated rate was $475. Why not just bill everyone $475? That's ridiculous.Why does *any* entity give or get a volume discount on anything? Same reason.
There is no "volume" to discount when it's all one at a time health care. It's not like the insurance company lines up people for them to MRI all in a row. The insurance companies don't set up the MRI or go around looking for people that need MRIs and signing them up to insurance and then send them to the hospital all at once. The MRI process is the same either way, insured or not, and takes the hospital the same amount of time and costs them the same except billing is easier without insurance in the way. So no, not the same reason at all.
[note that MRI was just used as a generic example of a test that's enormously discounted when billed through insurance vs self-pay.]
In reply to dculberson:
...except that putting a given provider "in network" guarantees a much larger volume of patients than keeping that provider out of the network.
Duke wrote: In reply to dculberson: ...except that putting a given provider "in network" guarantees a much larger volume of patients than keeping that provider out of the network.
I have no interest in logic in my rant! 
dculberson wrote:Duke wrote: In reply to dculberson: ...except that putting a given provider "in network" guarantees a much larger volume of patients than keeping that provider out of the network.I have no interest in logic in my rant!
Still a worthy rant even without the logic.
dculberson wrote:Duke wrote: In reply to dculberson: ...except that putting a given provider "in network" guarantees a much larger volume of patients than keeping that provider out of the network.I have no interest in logic in my rant!
Pesky, ain't it? I will agree that some of the "discounts" are just plain silly. But at the risk of floundering, that's what happens when you have the worst of corporatism combined with the worst of government participation. I'll leave it at that.
Short staffed again this fall, the weather is miserable cold rain and were busy as hell. Boss keeps claiming shes looking for a part time employee yet this is the second month were im the only guy in a 3 bay shop 2 days a week. I like my job most days but this has me considering a job change.
alfadriver wrote: In reply to fasted58: Not exactly. Not that it matters. given the posts about music on this board- I don't like much of what others listen to anyway. Most if it seems to be loud and angry for the sake of being loud and angry.
If it makes you feel better, there isn't a genre of music that I haven't found at least one song I like. That includes opera, acapella, and dubstep.
In reply to Appleseed:
doesn't make me feel any different. You like what you like, I like what I like. Same, different, doesn't matter.
Knurled wrote:Appleseed wrote: Most of the time someone mentions that they bought a new car on the forum, everyone congratulates them, yet in car loan threads people are basically called dumb for buying a new car. Every - single - time.It's almost as if the GRM community isn't a monolithic bloc of conformithink!
New car thread = new to your driveway! Congrats.
New car loan = You are the first owner of a car from the manufacturer and bought at a dealer and therefore a sucker.
holy berkeley theres a lot of E36 M3 that has to come out to properly sound deaden and insulate a mazda5. not looking good to finish by Monday.
and my wifes job is sucking the life out of her, but shes unwilling to change.
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