A day in the life...

schwim wrote:

Wow, that's incredible! I don't have any cds left but I remember those that I kept in the car would end up in bad shape, I'm assuming from the UV light.

I am basically finished with the filter system for the well. Added the settlement tank(far left) back into the system and added a pre-prefilter ahead of everything to try to keep the more expensive filters safe from debris. I also bumped the pressure switch up to shut off at 75 lbs of pressure.

Oh, and added a 119 gallon pressure tank under the house.

yeah, i still think you should have just moved :lol:

alright so there's this RC car forum i got "shadow banned" from. do to absolutely crappy inconstant make it up as they go along moderation and snitch ass kindergarten tattle tales i got belligerent after a "vacation" (temporary banning) and set out to get parentally banned. well i surpassed my expectations! i was "shadow banned'. 100% of my posts were deleted. i can log in, i can make posts. the posts i think initially show up for me, if i leave the thread i shows me as being the last one to post in the thread, but when i re-enter the thread my post is gone. but i still have full access to my account so i can mess with my profile and photo gallery (which, out of boredom, iv been doing every now and then)

so anyway i log in yesterday and find the thread of general chit chat has been hit by a mod. apparently someone said something that turned up the heat and a snowflake started to melt. a job formerly reserved for me. idk what the topic of discussion was about, it had been like 3 days sense i had bothered to log in. so being bored and knowing my posts won't be seen by users, i "make a post" giving the users an "attaboy" using some profanity.

well today i log in and iv got a privet message. from a mod. letting me know that iv received an infection. so somehow im even more banned than i already was until the June 21st :? so im busted for a post nobody could read, and the punishment is completely irrelevant because i already can't post LMAO! iv been laughing at this for almost an hour :lol:

so that's the cherry on top of my otherwise crappy Monday

pretty sure iv got high score 8-)

A few impressions of yesterday's hailstorm...

No damage on our car's windows fortunately but the roofs are dented quite a bit... :(

Maddel wrote:

A few impressions of yesterday's hailstorm...

No damage on our car's windows fortunately but the roofs are dented quite a bit... :(

Oh my, that's pretty terrible! Did you escape the flooding? Does your insurance cover the damage to the cars or is that a sort of "act of God not covered" type of thing?

We've had torrential rains for the last week or so. It's nothing damaging but it's gotten to be quite a drag.

Yep, my car insurance should cover hail damage.
Not sure about my wife's car insurance terms and conditions.
We will talk to the agents tomorrow.

No flooding at our home fortunately but most of the neighbors had water ingress at their basements.
The sewers capacity could not handle this downpour.
Down the road a Lady's souterrain apartment is actually uninhabitable now due to water damage.

At our home three shutters clone the moon surface and the roof panel of the little shed is sort of perforated.
Aside from that the garden almost looks like invaded by a swarm of grasshoppers.
So in a sense we were lucky and to got off lightly compared to other areas of the city.

got home from vacation (in schwims hood, well kinda, i was up in Harrisonburg) to a slightly leaky hot water heater (it was like 18 years old). so me and my dad had to replace it. well the old heater was hooked up with nothing but copper hard lined. and the inlet/outlet on top of the new heater was like an inch different (cause of course it would be) so i had to sweat some pipe and put an extension in to make the lines line up, and then shorten an existing line. so i took a cold shower last night. and finished the job today.

top of old heater after removing it.

new heater with my kick ass pipe mods

18 years is a pretty good run for a water heater, that pipe had had enough.

i really don't care for July. 88 degrees with 50% humidity. im standing in garage looking at a couple old 5 horse Briggs engines just sweating.

saw something today that never would have flown when i was a kid.
3 boys (roughly 11-13 years old) riding on one e-bike. that butts to nuts stuff never would have flown with anyone i knew when i was that age. it was bad enough when someone's bike was down and they had to hitch a ride on someone's pegs. it was understood, you stand on the pegs, hands go on the riders shoulders and you maintained a gap. if any part of the monkey made contact with the riders back the monkey took a tumble. skin was lost, but it was understood and no feelings were hurt. and then the monkey had to walk the rest of the way. but you never left a man behind, so you rode in circles around him doing tricks and jumping off the curb while ridiculing him for not having a bike.
what the hell is wrong with kids today?

Well, I've been slowly getting back up to speed after a ton of medical stuff. Progress on anything is exacerbated by the fact that out of the 3 vehicles I own(Zippy, Bog the Super Bronco and El Mullet) all have been out of commission for over 4 months now so I've been unable to get building materials or go for a bike ride. My world has gotten quite small as of late.

But! After two years of the kids showering at our house, I finally got their shower installed and usable. The curtain is temporary, we've got a slider door for it.

schwim wrote:

Well, I've been slowly getting back up to speed after a ton of medical stuff.

Glad you're doing well again!

schwim wrote:

Progress on anything is exacerbated by the fact that out of the 3 vehicles I own(Zippy, Bog the Super Bronco and El Mullet) all have been out of commission for over 4 months now so I've been unable to get building materials or go for a bike ride. My world has gotten quite small as of late.

That's a bummer... Zippy, well ok, but what's the trouble with the others? :(

schwim wrote:

But! After two years of the kids showering at our house, I finally got their shower installed and usable. The curtain is temporary, we've got a slider door for it.

The shower cubicle turned out great, I like the black fittings. 8-)

Maddel wrote:

That's a bummer... Zippy, well ok, but what's the trouble with the others? :(

aint got no gas in it :lol:

Maddel wrote:

That's a bummer... Zippy, well ok, but what's the trouble with the others? :(

Bog had some kind of catastrophic timing event and is behaving like he jumped time(regular backfires through carb). Towing to two shops, one didn't want the job and the other charged me for a distributor, coil and labor and gave it back non-running still. They said it needs an engine but didn't have anything to prove that point. I think I'm looking at a timing chain, broken cam or cam gear type thing but don't have the time to look at it at the moment. The El Camino has had a ton of issues, largest of which is a bad transmission and has just decimated my bank account. I got it back and within the first 24 hours, the steering pump blew and the thermostat housing blew a leak(corroded aluminum). Both bolts broke when trying to replace the housing, so the shop is drilling them out now.

So, no bike riding as I can't get a bike anywhere, all construction stuff has to be delivered, I have Chloe's old Altima to get places but I'm about 4-5 months into not having a vehicle to get anything done.

I'm trying to keep up with permit time limits for the garage so I haven't gotten the time to even look at Bog, I just parked him at the house. I'm looking for local trades to get a truck or something to haul stuff but if nothing happens in that department, I'll pull the timing cover off and see if that's the issue.

this years frivolous birthday gift to myself 8-) if you can't ID at least 3 of these we can't be friends.

They're all Cali tags? I'm just wondering about the Hazzard one, shouldn't that have been a GA tag?

Took red down to the bridge to see the sunset a couple nights ago. She loves hanging out near the water.

schwim wrote:

They're all Cali tags? I'm just wondering about the Hazzard one, shouldn't that have been a GA tag?

they're all from TV and movie cars. i noticed they were all from CA as well. wondered wtf, then remembered the state used to (still does?) pay studios and record labels to highlight CA in TV, film, and music because it was considered advertising for tourism or something along those lines. there are probably another 12 plates i still want to get (not all CA plates ether)

the General Lee didn't have the state on the plate. the show was supposed to take place in "hazzard county Georgia" but the state never appeared on the license plate.

this is the website i got them from, they've got a bunch of cool plates if you're into that kinda thing.
https://celebritymachines.com/
and if you watch vinwiki on youtube, Travis Bell who's been on telling stories a hand full of times owns it

so in a wtf is going on here moment.  So Cal is getting hit with a tropical storm (couldn't tell you the last time it rained anywhere near this much in August.  come to think of it i couldn't tell you the last time it rained in August period) and to top it off, there was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake up in Ojai (about 70 miles from me i think)

We're not getting anything in the way of rain but the heat has just been crazy.

In other news, I ate another derailleur.

schwim wrote:

In other news, I ate another derailleur.

must have been bland, i can see you "seasoned" it with a little ketchup :P

Super_Randy wrote:

must have been bland, i can see you "seasoned" it with a little ketchup :P

I've reached that age where any small cut bleeds like I'm a hemophiliac. I left my DNA all over that spot and it was just a tiny cut from the shattered carbon cage on the derailleur.

between the 12 year old fucktards and oblivious middle age narcists im going to start running over people on e-bikes. people can't decide if they're a motor scooter or a bicycle. they also don't think laws apply to them, or are unaware that there are laws they should be obeying. and that you should just be watching out for them.
i got stuck behind this no shit guy had to be 60 on an e-bike this morning doing probably 20 - 25mph on a 45mph street, fucker couldn't decide if he wanted to be in the bike lane or right lane in traffic. he was straddling the line and kept coming into the right lane a good 18 inches. people in the right lane are having to swerve, even intruding into the left lane to get around this fuckstick. it's majorly slowing the flow of traffic. i catch up to him approaching an intersection where i turn right. iv got a good 75 to 100 yards, plenty of time for me to safely pass him, hit my blinker, slow down and make my turn before he gets to me. at worst he would have to straddle the line to get around me as i was turning, and maybe roll off the throttle as he did it. this human buttplug cuts me off! he comes so far into the right lane i can't pass. im now going 20 mutherfucking mph in a 45. light changes. he blows through the red!

I don't feel comfortable riding any bike on the road, e- or not, that's why I ride in the woods. There's so much hostility between autos and bikes, it doesn't matter whether you're not in your space, drivers are apt to fuck with you. I know most people are dicks but I'd rather not be around dicks in tanks.