z31maniac said:1. I wish people would park their cars in the damn driveway instead of the street.
I knew we can't. One small driveway, It has her car and my boat on it. My Landy and Abarth are parked on the street. Sometimes, if I am going to work first thing in the morning, I will park one on the driveway behind her car, but that's rare.
If you're too dumb to know how a sticker works, and you attach said STICKER with STAPLES to the dunnage, you should not be allowed anywhere near a transmission, let alone the containers they come in.
The continuing saga of my dad taking the family domain off of Google and my rants about it. This started in earnest months ago, and I said what a massive PITA this was going to be for my brother and me. Neither he nor my brother fully appreciated how significant shutting down our Google accounts would be.
He shut down my brother's a day or two ago, and now my brother is freaking out because he realized how many accounts he'd been using his Google as his login for, and he just lost all of them.
My brother is freaking out. Ranted at my dad, "Why can't I just own my Google account? I can pay for it and manage it myself."
Dad responded with a, "Well, if you'd brought this up sooner."
I did! It was literally the first thing I suggested to solve everyone's respective issues.
Ugh... there are so many details with this situation I could rant about.
mad_machine said:z31maniac said:1. I wish people would park their cars in the damn driveway instead of the street.
I knew we can't. One small driveway, It has her car and my boat on it. My Landy and Abarth are parked on the street. Sometimes, if I am going to work first thing in the morning, I will park one on the driveway behind her car, but that's rare.
Is your street designated for parking? I have (n) number of vehicles. I can park (n) vehicles legally on my property. Most streets here are for vehicles that are moving, known as 'traffic'. I don't have (n+1).
2024 is off to an absolute E36 M3 start. See my post about my DD. Other things I can't go into yet but will soon. Berk me.
Well shoot. The good news is that the furnace is not short cycling. The bad news is that when I went to check on the furnace, I stepped in a giant puddle caused by the water heater deciding that today is a good day to die. But, I guess the good news is that it didn't happen while we were gone for 5 days.
In reply to wae :
Ah, correction to my previous rant. Yes, the furnace is actually short cycling. There appears to be some sort of error with the flame or limit sensor.
In reply to wae :
I've had good luck by lightly sanding the thermocouple to remove soot buildup.
mad_machine said:z31maniac said:1. I wish people would park their cars in the damn driveway instead of the street.
I knew we can't. One small driveway, It has her car and my boat on it. My Landy and Abarth are parked on the street. Sometimes, if I am going to work first thing in the morning, I will park one on the driveway behind her car, but that's rare.
I specifically bought a house in a neighborhood with 2-3 car garages and the accompanying 2-3 car wide, 2-3 car deep driveways. I can comfortably park 4 cars in my driveway and so can everyone else.
Aside from the traffic issues, there is also a school nearby and few sidewalks. So kids pop in and out from behind vehicles. They very strictly enforce the ordinance about parking on your property on any surface not paved.
I understand during the holidays when you have friends/family visiting, but this is a year-round issue.
In reply to z31maniac :
That is a rant about my neighborhood. It is was first developed in the late 1800's, with most of the lots having houses first built in the 1910s. The streets are narrow and the lots with original houses - like mine - have single wide driveways. Can't park overnight on the street but from 5am to 2am there are always cars parked. I hope to never again have a house with a single width driveway.
mtn said:In reply to z31maniac :
That is a rant about my neighborhood. It is was first developed in the late 1800's, with most of the lots having houses first built in the 1910s. The streets are narrow and the lots with original houses - like mine - have single wide driveways. Can't park overnight on the street but from 5am to 2am there are always cars parked. I hope to never again have a house with a single width driveway.
Yep. There are a couple of up-and-coming neighborhoods we've thought about buying in to renovate.........but I'm not dealing with a single-width driveway even if there is a 2-car garage in the backyard. And many also have steep driveways.
Which is something else I avoided buying my last house and this one. I drive lowered (or low) cars. In this house I've had ('15 BRZ, '13 135i, '06 Miata, '23 BRZ). All but the 135 were/are LOW. So even with a gentle slope, I still have to be mindful pulling into the driveway.
A lot of the older neighborhoods where we could buy something that needs work and build more equity have either really steep driveways, or the weird kinda steep entry, flat sidewalk, kinda steep driveway up to the side/back of the house exacerbating the issue.
In reply to z31maniac :
I'm ok with most steep driveways. Never had an issue with either lowered Miata in my parents.
Another rant about my house, the garage is in the back. With the dog and the fence it means that it is a pain to use the garage for car storage. Gotta make sure the dog is inside, gotta get out to open and close the gate... The ideal setup is obviously a 2-4 car garage in the back and a 2-3 car attached garage in the front, but space and money make that a pipe dream for me at the moment.
mtn said:In reply to z31maniac :
The ideal setup is obviously a 2-4 car garage in the back and a 2-3 car attached garage in the front, but space and money make that a pipe dream for me at the moment.
This is my setup. Traditional 2 car attached to the house with an oversized 2 car behind the house.
The only problem is the amount of crap you have always exceeds the amount of space you have. With 4+ bays you can collect a lot of crap.
I only have room for 2 cars inside. Everything else sits on the driveway or behind the shop.
My 2024 project is to get the Bentley out of my shop and into the front garage as well as get the Abomination out of the front garage and get Touareg in there instead.
FINALLY got my Model 3 back from the body shop after a visitor to my hospital showed to me that modern trucks are absolutely far too large for the average person to own or use. A 15 minute pickup transformed into a 4-5 hour wait because:
Man just, berkeley the shops. Your's might be nice, but I had to keep going back and doing basic things like walkthroughs and just, opening and closing doors to see if they had berkeleying done anything right. I'm now super paranoid too, because if I find anything else is wrong I don't want them to touch the vehicle whatsoever and instead just pay Tesla to do it for them, which I know for a fact they won't ever agree to. Guess i'll have to learn bodywork in the future so I never have to deal with this E36 M3 again.
Toyman! said:mtn said:In reply to z31maniac :
The ideal setup is obviously a 2-4 car garage in the back and a 2-3 car attached garage in the front, but space and money make that a pipe dream for me at the moment.
This is my setup. Traditional 2 car attached to the house with an oversized 2 car behind the house.
The only problem is the amount of crap you have always exceeds the amount of space you have. With 4+ bays you can collect a lot of crap.
I only have room for 2 cars inside. Everything else sits on the driveway or behind the shop.
My 2024 project is to get the Bentley out of my shop and into the front garage as well as get the Abomination out of the front garage and get Touareg in there instead.
Agree that this is my ideal setup.
I feel like I need a "fake garage" that my wife and kids can absolutely trash with amazon boxes, bikes, gardening supplies, decorations, sports equipment, snow sleds, shoes, extra food, etc. Then, I need a garage to myself. But I can already hear my wife saying "we'll just put this in your garage" when she brings home a furniture project.
Toyman! said:mtn said:In reply to z31maniac :
The ideal setup is obviously a 2-4 car garage in the back and a 2-3 car attached garage in the front, but space and money make that a pipe dream for me at the moment.
This is my setup. Traditional 2 car attached to the house with an oversized 2 car behind the house.
The only problem is the amount of crap you have always exceeds the amount of space you have. With 4+ bays you can collect a lot of crap.
I only have room for 2 cars inside. Everything else sits on the driveway or behind the shop.
My 2024 project is to get the Bentley out of my shop and into the front garage as well as get the Abomination out of the front garage and get Touareg in there instead.
That is one thing about having "my own" house now. The amount of stuff I have collected the last 6+ years, that in reality is completely not necessary, is ridiculous.
Scotty Con Queso said:Toyman! said:mtn said:In reply to z31maniac :
The ideal setup is obviously a 2-4 car garage in the back and a 2-3 car attached garage in the front, but space and money make that a pipe dream for me at the moment.
This is my setup. Traditional 2 car attached to the house with an oversized 2 car behind the house.
The only problem is the amount of crap you have always exceeds the amount of space you have. With 4+ bays you can collect a lot of crap.
I only have room for 2 cars inside. Everything else sits on the driveway or behind the shop.
My 2024 project is to get the Bentley out of my shop and into the front garage as well as get the Abomination out of the front garage and get Touareg in there instead.
Agree that this is my ideal setup.
I feel like I need a "fake garage" that my wife and kids can absolutely trash with amazon boxes, bikes, gardening supplies, decorations, sports equipment, snow sleds, shoes, extra food, etc. Then, I need a garage to myself. But I can already hear my wife saying "we'll just put this in your garage" when she brings home a furniture project.
Our problem is the front garage has become a dumping ground for everyone. We are all terrible about getting rid of stuff. My wife was a military brat and with every move, she had to throw out stuff. Now she wants to save everything. She has boxes of knickknacks, furniture, books, and junk in there. I have camping gear, the Abomination, assorted yard tools, a log splitter, and some of my other junk in there. My kids have bikes, and toys they haven't used in years. It's a complete disaster, even with shelving on all the walls and down the middle.
Maybe the worst part is the back garage is off-limits to them so the only person I can blame is myself. It's just as much of a disaster and by the time the Bentley is in there, it's unusable as a shop.
Scotty Con Queso said:I can already hear my wife saying "we'll just put this in your garage" when she brings home a furniture project.
sure baby, the day after you ride it to work.
In reply to Toyman! :
I built a small 3' wide workbench in my garage for small projects as my bigger WB is in the basement. Since I built it next to the entry door it becomes the catch all from my wife.
What's this empty detergent bottle doing on my workbench? (Thought you might want to use it for your used oil)
What are these empty boxes for? (Thought you might need them in case you need to ship something)
What are these tulip bulbs for? (Thought we should plant them next fall)
I smacked the bumper on my my mother's Buick hard yesterday. Took it out to give it a good run as she only ever uses it a mile at time. Pulled into the phone store to see about an upgrade and "crunch" as I pulled too close to the parking stop. Back up, get out, take a look. The stop is only 4 inches high.. but the dent in the parking lot where everyone parks is 6 inches deep, making it a 10 inch high stop.
thankfully no damage, but if it had been my Abarth, it would have ripped the bumper off.
AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) said:mad_machine said:z31maniac said:1. I wish people would park their cars in the damn driveway instead of the street.
I knew we can't. One small driveway, It has her car and my boat on it. My Landy and Abarth are parked on the street. Sometimes, if I am going to work first thing in the morning, I will park one on the driveway behind her car, but that's rare.
Is your street designated for parking? I have (n) number of vehicles. I can park (n) vehicles legally on my property. Most streets here are for vehicles that are moving, known as 'traffic'. I don't have (n+1).
the only streets around here that are not designated for public parking are the three major thoroughfares that run through town. One is route 9, another is a county road, and the third is a stroad that runs through the commercial sector. All the others allow street parking.
Got a call from a potential customer looking for manual doors. That's always great news.
They need 155 of them installed in 2 months or less. Even if I had the manpower to do the job, which I don't, I don't have the finances to buy the materials and wait months to be paid.
Super frustrating. Slow and steady might win the race, but I hate telling people I'm not big enough to do the job.
You're never going to get that many doors delivered in 2 months, let alone installed.
Tundra had been sitting at my local CarMax awaiting post shipment inspection for like 3 days. Hopefully it's just backed up and not damaged during shipping or something
In reply to Toyman! :
Sucks to have to say it but the having the wisdom to say it speaks volumes from where I sit.
Turning your business plan inside out to accommodate someone else's problem could just as easily turn into a disaster for your business. Besides, I'll bet you get a call in a few months to fix all the screw ups from whoever they find and you'll make more money fixing the mistakes than if you'd done the job in the first place.
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