alfadriver said:If you snore, perhaps consider a hard side trailer vs a tent. Quiet hours start at 10pm afterall.
i snore, and i've never been eaten by a bear. coincidence?
alfadriver said:If you snore, perhaps consider a hard side trailer vs a tent. Quiet hours start at 10pm afterall.
i snore, and i've never been eaten by a bear. coincidence?
logdog (Forum Supporter) said:Million dollar idea..... Start a company that actually supplies functional starters and alternators instead of electrical lottery tickets.... grrrr.....
I feel your pain. Is there a local small business who rebuilds them? If the guy's name is on the sign, you have a much better chance of getting a good product the first time.
Maybe you can repair them yourself. Nine times out of ten, my alternator failures have been worn brushes, and my starter failures have been worn solenoid contacts. On the stuff I drive those are usually cheap and easily replaceable. Prevents throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak.
Spent all of Saturday driving to Portland in an attempt at helping my father diagnose a no-start on his '04 cummins ram. He's getting no high fuel pressure and he buys an engine wiring harness thinking that the network wires are borked.
Wut.
Dad. Come on.
I try to humor him by laying it over the engine and hooking up enough things and it still won't start. He says because the a/c pressure switch isn't hooked up. You've had discharged A/C for years!
Still not exactly sure what the issue is.
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:alfadriver said:If you snore, perhaps consider a hard side trailer vs a tent. Quiet hours start at 10pm afterall.
i snore, and i've never been eaten by a bear. coincidence?
Seems that it could be a calling card for a snack.
In reply to alfadriver :
Bears scare easier than I thought. Last week my girlfriend's ring camera went off showing the neighborhood bear was getting her trash. She ran outside yelling at it about being respectful of people's property and he scurried off to the woods.
In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
Most critters are that way... except for badgers. Badgers will berkeley you up because you looked in their general direction.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to alfadriver :
Bears scare easier than I thought. Last week my girlfriend's ring camera went off showing the neighborhood bear was getting her trash. She ran outside yelling at it about being respectful of people's property and he scurried off to the woods.
Some bears do scare easily but the bigger bears realize they are too of the food chain in their vicinity and do not scare
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to alfadriver :
Bears scare easier than I thought. Last week my girlfriend's ring camera went off showing the neighborhood bear was getting her trash. She ran outside yelling at it about being respectful of people's property and he scurried off to the woods.
Unlike the raccoons near me. A whole gang of them silently snuck into my garage with me while I was working on my bike at night a couple months ago. I yelled at them and they just calmly backed up to a respectful distance and stared at me. One thought it was hiding from me behind a tree, I popped around the tree and yelled at it, it didn't flinch. They clearly have too much experience of being yelled at in the suburbs and not enough of being used for target practice in the countryside...
logdog (Forum Supporter) said:Million dollar idea..... Start a company that actually supplies functional starters and alternators instead of electrical lottery tickets.... grrrr.....
There's no money in it.
Some rebuilders expect that a lot of times the cores they get back were not actually bad, so they just bead blast them, paint them, and send them out. If they have 50% returns they still make a lot of money, considering all of the other cores they get from salvage yards that were also not bad.
I figure this is the real reason that remans get worse as a platform ages... fewer good used parts in the salvage inventory.
My favorite are the reman A/C compressors from the mid 90s that still had glass bead in the compressor. You know they were not taking anything apart.
Me and my GF just returned from a 4 day/3 night vacation in Key West, FL. What an amazing place. She lived there for about 3 years while she worked for the TSA so I had my own personal tour guide. That's not the rant though.
The rant is that it made me realize how miserable I am with this job and living here. This occurred to me on my hour plus commute this morning. We both have a long commute because we cannot afford to live closer to our jobs. My job is very unfulfilling but pays decent. She likes her job but its part time and doesn't pay worth a E36 M3. We both HATE it where we live in Florida (central west coast). I'm beginning to question why I even have this job. I'm able to live comfortably but not extravagantly. I don't have nice stuff. Our house is tiny and old. I'm beginning to feel like its not worth it.
Then I started thinking about moving down to Key West. Everything is so relaxed down there. I started looking for jobs there. I could work at the Post Office. I wouldn't make nearly what I do here but if it is enough to pay the bills, who gives a E36 M3? The problem is that everything is super expensive. The cheapest apartment I found is 3x as much as our mortgage. The cheapest house was 6x what our house is worth. While we were there, we walked everywhere as our B&B was right off of Duval St in Old Town. We could get away with having one vehicle and maybe a scooter or golf cart.
I guess I'm just burned out of the rat race. Everyone wants to make as much money as possible. I just want to be happy. Working here is poisoning my soul.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Always chose happiness over everything else. I hate working so I shoot for 4 6 hour days a week. I could earn more money if I worked more but I wouldn't be happy.
I want to be happy above all else, it should be everyone's goal
In reply to Antihero :
I don't disagree.
But...money can't buy happiness.
Being broke can't buy E36 M3.
My neighbors who are nice have a young child that basically does what ever they want. One of nuisances that he does is that he walks into our house wether we are in it or not and takes things (minor things like snacks or toys). He has been told by my wife (nicely) and that he has to ask, which he never does, fast forward almost 2 years of telling him no, I finally got pissed off and yelled at him to stop and leave. His parent was right there and grabs him, he cries about it. The parent sends a text that I should not yell at them. Other then lock the doors and garage, which I normally do,however Its a pain because I want my kids to be able to move in out of our house.
In reply to trigun7469 :
Send a text right back that you'll stop yelling as soon as they teach their uncontrolled brat some manners and respect for other people.
In reply to Duke :
That is lighter than what I would have done. I'd threaten calling the police. You can't just walk into someone's house.
In reply to Duke :
My wife got the text and is a people pleaser so I am sure her reply was the opposite. She is trying to keep the peace given that our oldest is good friends with the daughter and yards are open to each other and close. Typically in the winter and fall we don't see them. Culturally in todays society my reply would come off as a micro-aggresion and would stir the hen house in the neighborhood, however if she chooses to be confrontational I am happy to state the facts. Having been a teacher in the past this kids attitude would indicate some squad car visits as he gets older. The grandfather even told me the kid is out of control and they need to stop being laissez-faire. Not my problem I just don't want a liability in my house. Them being so protective of his bad behavior is concerning. However he is only 4 years old...but he is in school, and has to follow some rules.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Just be sure to consider what a location is like throughout the year, and living there, not just visiting.
A lot of 'destinations' are idyllic if you're there for a few days to a week, but very different if you're working and living there full time. Especially when it comes to supporting and participating in hobbies like motorsports...
mtn said:In reply to Duke :
That is lighter than what I would have done. I'd threaten calling the police. You can't just walk into someone's house.
Well, you can. But that has to be agreed upon. BY EVERYONE INVOLVED.
New York State rolled out a new inspection machine for vehicle inspections that prints it's own inspection stickers. The rollout has been delayed almost the entire year because they can't get the damn things to work right, and they finally told us it's ready for prime time.
The first step is that you have to scan the VIN. You go to scan it using the NY DMV-issued registration stickers, and it doesn't read the barcode right and it chops the first digit off the VIN. So you have to manually enter the VIN, and it screeches at you wanting to know why you're manually entering the VIN.
Then it has to take a photo of you. It won't take the photo if you're wearing a hat, and even you wear glasses, it won't take the photo unless you remove them also.
You have to plug it into the car with the car running for it to read the OBD data. About 75% of the time, you plug it in, and it sits there and says that while it made the connection, it doesn't detect RPM. You then have to unhook the OBD cable, wait 30 seconds and try again. Repeat if it doesn't detect RPM the second time.
Then it prints the sticker and it wants you to scan a QR code on the sticker to log the number into the system. You scan the QR code, and it says it doesn't recognize the sticker number that it just printed. So then you have to manually type in the sticker number, and again it screeches at you wanting to know why you're manually entering the number.
I swear, this state could berkeley up an anvil with a feather.
My dad manages the domain I use for e-mail. We've used Google for hosting and services for a long time. Now he has decided he wants to shift to another service, but I want to remain in the Google ecosystem. We use the Google suite and Google drive as an inherent part of shared work at the brewery. I need a Google account to access that.
Creating a new Google account and transitioning over to that is ultimately what is going to be least frustrating in the long run.
But the process of transitioning everything over to a new account and new e-mail address is going to suck for a while.
Related rant: Don't ask me "If I do this, is that going to work for you?" if you do not want to hear the answer.
In reply to NickD :
Put the team that designed it into a round padded room with two large ball bearings. In five minute's time, they'll have lost one and broken the other. I hate bureaucracy.
In reply to NickD :
Insert patio-skirting anti-bureaucracy comment here.
In defense of the NYS in, inspection system. The last system was really good, it was very hard to defeat, it caught emissions issues and safety issues, which is the point. When I go to non inspection states, like Florida or South Carolina I see tons of cars that have no business being on the road. I hope they sort this sytem out quickly.
trigun7469 said:
My neighbors who are nice ...
Your neighbours are not nice.
NY Nick said:In defense of the NYS in, inspection system. The last system was really good, it was very hard to defeat, it caught emissions issues and safety issues, which is the point. When I go to non inspection states, like Florida or South Carolina I see tons of cars that have no business being on the road. I hope they sort this sytem out quickly.
I'd rather deal with unsafe cars than the bureaucracy. One of them is avoidable if you are paying attention.
SC used to have a state safety inspection. A study 25 years ago determined that it did very little to make cars safer but was a great source of corruption so they abolished it. Unsurprisingly, there wasn't a huge increase in safety-related car crashes. As of last year, it wasn't even on the list of common causes of car crashes in the state. Speed still tops that list, followed by failure to yield. I'm surprised to see distracted driving is 5th on the list. I would have thought that it would be much closer to #1.
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