In reply to Peabody :
Selling E36 M3 we can't sell, because we don't have the E36 M3.
In reply to Peabody :
Selling E36 M3 we can't sell, because we don't have the E36 M3.
stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:My sister is expecting and will be replacing her forlorn 2011 Sonata with something a bit more family friendly. She has been texting me cars her and her husband are looking at. So far the list has included:
2020 Ford Edge ST
2020 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring Reserve
2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio
2021 Audi Q5 Quatro
They all have similar mileage and prices. She drove the Audi today and really liked it but they live in a small town in Kansas. Neither her or her husband are car people. They need reliability and serviceability. Which is the opposite of the Alfa and Audi lol.
Her husband, my BIL, is a great dude but makes horrible automotive decisions. To say I'm nervous is an understatement lol.
Aaaaaand guess what they purchased yesterday? Yep, the Audi. At least they purchased a decent aftermarket warranty. The nearest Audi dealer is 2.5 hours away. We'll see how this plays out. I sincerely hope it a great vehicle for them but I'll keep my "I told you so" in the chamber for when they are faced with either an expensive repair or multi-week wait for parts.
There is a fairly friendly stray cat hanging out at my office.
My admin isn't going to get anything done until the cat is gone or she takes it home.
stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:My sister is expecting and will be replacing her forlorn 2011 Sonata with something a bit more family friendly. She has been texting me cars her and her husband are looking at. So far the list has included:
2020 Ford Edge ST
2020 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring Reserve
2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio
2021 Audi Q5 Quatro
They all have similar mileage and prices. She drove the Audi today and really liked it but they live in a small town in Kansas. Neither her or her husband are car people. They need reliability and serviceability. Which is the opposite of the Alfa and Audi lol.
Her husband, my BIL, is a great dude but makes horrible automotive decisions. To say I'm nervous is an understatement lol.
Aaaaaand guess what they purchased yesterday? Yep, the Audi. At least they purchased a decent aftermarket warranty. The nearest Audi dealer is 2.5 hours away. We'll see how this plays out. I sincerely hope it a great vehicle for them but I'll keep my "I told you so" in the chamber for when they are faced with either an expensive repair or multi-week wait for parts.
Living in a small town in Kansas, the correct answer for them would be something with a blue oval or a bowtie on the grille.
Or, if they're really baller, a Lincoln or Buick.
"Cheap, out-of-factory-warranty German car? How can I go wrong?"
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
That fact that a one year newer Audi depreciated harder than an Edge should have been a clue.
They made good ones and bad ones, let's hope they got a good one. Or that they don't freak out at how much an oil change costs. (Should be $200ish, and yes every 5000 miles)
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
That fact that a one year newer Audi depreciated harder than an Edge should have been a clue.
They made good ones and bad ones, let's hope they got a good one. Or that they don't freak out at how much an oil change costs. (Should be $200ish, and yes every 5000 miles)
I mean, it could be worse. They could've bought the Alfa. *shudder*
In that group they had, my own pick would have been the CX-5, but again, dealer support where they are could be non-existent.
I cringe when I hear co-workers discussing their car maintenance costs. An oil change on a simple Mazda6 is $80 now. I do my own changes on my 3 and the filter, plug washer, and 4-1/2 quarts of Castrol run me about $35.
wae said:Engage pedantic mode...
An IV, by its definition, is liquid. So liquid IV is stupidly redundant. And to make it even dumber, it isn't a liquid? It's a powder?
Words mean things, people. Quit that E36 M3.
I get it at least- the name sounds cool, but I suppose 'Powdered IV' or 'Drinkable IV' would have been more accurate (relatively speaking) but they don't have the same ring to them.
I'd heard that same product advertised and since they carry it prominently at CostCo looked at the packaging one trip there to see whether it was worth getting. Looked like it might be worthwhile until I got about a third of the way down the nurtition label...
I mean... I generally understand that 'electrolytes' is going to mean 'salt' (even if I weren't an engineer, I have seen Idiocracy...), but DAAAAMN! Almost a quarter of a day's recommended limit of Sodium (and that is, presumably, not for someone like me with mild hypertension...) in one bottle? Nope.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
The small bottles of V8 are what shocked me. Little 8oz or whatever bottle, 800+mg of sodium.
Daaaaang
One of my kids just cut open their toe pretty well in the yard walking around wearing flip flops.
I have repeatedly asked both kids to wear actual shoes when walking around the yard.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It's been foreeeeever since I last had a V8, but I do seem to remember them being pretty salty. I imagine the Liquid IV doesn't taste nearly as salty (owing to the 11g of added sugars, which makes the packet like 2/3 sugar) but still packs nearly as much Sodium.
volvoclearinghouse said:stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:My sister is expecting and will be replacing her forlorn 2011 Sonata with something a bit more family friendly. She has been texting me cars her and her husband are looking at. So far the list has included:
2020 Ford Edge ST
2020 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring Reserve
2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio
2021 Audi Q5 Quatro
They all have similar mileage and prices. She drove the Audi today and really liked it but they live in a small town in Kansas. Neither her or her husband are car people. They need reliability and serviceability. Which is the opposite of the Alfa and Audi lol.
Her husband, my BIL, is a great dude but makes horrible automotive decisions. To say I'm nervous is an understatement lol.
Aaaaaand guess what they purchased yesterday? Yep, the Audi. At least they purchased a decent aftermarket warranty. The nearest Audi dealer is 2.5 hours away. We'll see how this plays out. I sincerely hope it a great vehicle for them but I'll keep my "I told you so" in the chamber for when they are faced with either an expensive repair or multi-week wait for parts.
Living in a small town in Kansas, the correct answer for them would be something with a blue oval or a bowtie on the grille.
Or, if they're really baller, a Lincoln or Buick.
"Cheap, out-of-factory-warranty German car? How can I go wrong?"
See, you get it. That is what I was trying to imply to them but emotion won out.
And you are right; at least it wasn't the Alfa. I basically told them it would be better to just light $26k on fire than to buy it.
Just for E36 M3s and giggles, I looked up what a new headlight assembly would cost on the Q5. It was over $3,500 
. It also requires premium fuel. I'm sure it's nice but it just seems like a bad idea.
But hey, I tried ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Making CSRs juggle several chats at the same time is not making for a better world.
Almost $1k in batteries for vehicles in the last couple of months. What happened to batteries that last more than 3 years??
In reply to Rodan :
Battery quality seems to very much be a "you get what you pay for" thing. An eye opener is putting a battery tester (supplied by Interstate) on a brand new Costco battery (also supplied by Interstate). They always fail.
They also cost half as much as an Interstate battery from an Interstate dealer, but those will go six to eight years before they test as a failure.
Another fun learning experience is that if a vehicle was engineered for an AGM battery, you really need to replace it with an AGM battery. A flooded battery gets cooked, or not charged properly, or something, and they won't last long.
An Interstate AGM battery for, say, a Genesis sedan, might run $1000 installed. Oooooof
Seriously, Mozilla? No way to close a hijacked tab without interacting with it other than to uninstall the entire app?
This could totally be user error (I mean, apart from holding out hope that calculatorstupidnamesite.com would get me kg*m/s to Watts), but allowing an alert to block access to switching/closing tabs seems insane. I spent more time than was reasonable trying to find a better answer.
After changing oil in the pickup I backed over my Mac Tools trouble light and squished it. End of an era. I had that thing for over 20 years. It wasnt until I saw it smashed on the floor did I realize how much I liked it. That thing has been there for a LOT of projects and never let me down.
Jesse Ransom said:Seriously, Mozilla? No way to close a hijacked tab without interacting with it other than to uninstall the entire app?
This could totally be user error (I mean, apart from holding out hope that calculatorstupidnamesite.com would get me kg*m/s to Watts), but allowing an alert to block access to switching/closing tabs seems insane. I spent more time than was reasonable trying to find a better answer.
Middle-click on the tab? Esc should also close any popups. Also if you crash Firefox it should allow you to select which tabs to restore.
Not really a rant, just an observation. My driveway and yard are crawling. And crunchy.
Poor lighting, but there are about 30 cicadas in this picture.
Followup... between 150 and 300 on this thing. Big range because I may have counted some 2 or 3 times, depending on if they moved or I accidentally counted a shell. And I got bored and stopped approximately halfway through.
Every time a car drives by, you hear a disturbingly satisfying little pop. A nice little bit of percussion that was much needed in the Song of the Cicadas.
In reply to mtn :
The Dancer and I laughed pretty hard at this over the weekend, and it seems apropos: Two Cicadas on Weekend Update
I haven't seen (or more importantly, heard) any yet around here other than one shell, but I'm not looking forward to them showing up. I imagine The Bat will be far more excited- she loves chasing large bugs around the yard. I just hope that I don't have a repeat of the incident a few years back where one flew into the lid of the grill and fell onto the grill while I was cooking- that was quite unpleasant.
Cicadae are wonderful...with Tabasco.
The lantern fly nymphs are now making their appearance. Despite me whacking down the gigantic berkeleying Tree of Heaven that they supposedly love (and that I took to calling the "Tree of Hell"). I think they seem to like grape vines; ours are getting all eaten TF up. berkeley the lantern fly.
I a new automotive job that I hope to never have to do again. Tyler and I are working through some stuff on his $500 SAAB 900 and I never want to have to replace the DS motor mount again, it is a stupid and infuriating design.
Cicadas haven't made their appearance around here yet.
What is the difference between this year and a couple years ago where we had the really loud constant noise? I thought that was a double cicada year too, but the math doesn't work.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
The electrolyte mix things seem to be the newest thing. Mrs. VCH got me a bag of Morning Routine and they're pretty decent. Cleaner ingredients than most of the other junk out there. The little powder vials are pretty convenient for mixing up on the go. At home, I started mixing up a quart of my own homemade concentrate and add a tablespoon or so of it to my water bottle at every fill up. The recipe I use is:
Dissolve the honey and salt first in ~ 1/4 c warm water, then mix it all together in a 1 qt. mason jar, and refrigerate.
"Switchel" drinks used to be pretty popular back in the day; this is my interpretation of it. You can add a little unsweetened cranberry juice or whatever other juice you like to it, too. I'd really like to add ginger to my next batch.
Sitting in a big medical building waiting to have fluid sucked out of my knee.
🥹. Lights go out, AC shuts down, gets real quiet. At least the windows open.
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