In reply to Old_Town :
DWI/DUI pushes the ol' rage button like absolutely nothing else can. Saw way too much when I worked on the ambulance.
It's honestly simple-
Grow the berkeley up, turn in your keys, and call yourself a berkeleying ride, or go jump off a berkeleying bridge with a cinderblock tied to your foot.
Save us all the trouble of dealing with your stupidity.
My Caddy 346 engine had the mechanical oil pressure gauge screwed into a blind hole on the block. After rebuild, I put it in the correct spot, but the fitting was 7/16-14 and the hole was 1/4" NPT. NAPA moved 3 miles away so I went to O'Reilly's a few blocks away. Showed the counter guy the fittings, explained what I needed and we walked over to the fitting display. He took my 7-16 thread and screwed it into an M-12 female, then hands me a bag of five. I said "That doesn't fit". Yeah it does; and he screws it in again. I backed it out a few turns and wiggled the thing in the hole. "Doesn't fit, gonna leak. It's an 82 year old Cadillac, nothing Metric about it." But when you put it in all the way, the head will seal it. "OK, thanks for your time."
OK. lemme look. Click - click, What year? "1942" Series 60, 62, 65 or 70? "70, but it's not in there." Click - click, yeah, we don't have a listing for that. "I knew that".
Is there anything else I can do for you today?
AARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH !
Went to NAPA and had to wait two days for the guy that knew how to read the books came in. WTF?
In reply to 914Driver :
Did he take you to the spin racks? What's frustrating about that is they probably have an AGS( they previously used Edelman) branded assortment bin in the back with way more adapters.
I had something similar recently when I walked in holding two v belts from my Defender. They asked what vehicle they were for. Uh, '90 Land Rover Defender but it won't be in the catalog. That's why I brought the belts. He came back with the constant torque lawn mower belts.
barefootcyborg5000 said:
Moving. I don't know how/when/why we acquired so much stuff.
When DW and I first moved in together, we shared a 20 foot truck with a friend who was also moving nearby in the same city.
We lived in that 2 bedroom apartment for 3 years. When we moved back east, DW and I needed a 20 foot truck to ourselves and we abandoned some of the crappier furniture out there.
We moved into our current 4-bedroom house 3 years after the move back east. We needed a 26 foot truck, plus a number of minivan trips. That was 31 years ago.
I joke with DW that if we ever move again, we're buying all new stuff in the new location, and burning this house down.
I'm only half joking.
Last time we moved, 25 years ago, we did it all on a single hay wagon, probably 4 trips. The house we moved out of is our closest neighbour.
We are never moving again
Duke said:barefootcyborg5000 said:
Moving. I don't know how/when/why we acquired so much stuff.When DW and I first moved in together, we shared a 20 foot truck with a friend who was also moving nearby in the same city.
We lived in a 2 bedroom apartment for 3 years. When we moved back east, DW and I needed a 20 foot truck to ourselves and we abandoned some of the crappier furniture out there.
We moved into our current 4-bedroom house 3 years after the move back east. We needed a 26 foot truck, plus a number of minivan trips. That was 31 years ago.
I joke with DW that if we ever move again, we're buying all new stuff in the new location, and burning this house down.
I'm only half joking.
When my wife and I moved into our first place, everything we owned fit it a pickup.
6 months later we bought a house and it took 7 truckloads.
25 years later it took a POD plus 10+ trips with my 20' enclosed trailer and countless other carloads.
Now, 15 years after that, I wouldn't know where to start. Just moving the vehicles would be a PITA, not to mention the shop.
I've been alternating between my s10 and the Mazda 5, trying to do 1-2 loads a day in the evenings. Off work early today and going to see how much I can tackle this weekend, possibly renting a box truck next week should I deem it necessary. I'm optimistic I can get it done without. Eating an elephant out here.
Antihero said:Insomnia sucks
Agreed it is 95+ here tonight and I slept about three hours, then I spilled gas down my leg and into my boot on the way to work on the bike. Went home showered and came in to at least 20 emails that need immediate responses.
In reply to Duke :
LOL, when I bought our house nearly 34 years ago it was a couple of my buddies pick up trucks and what I could fit in my work van. When we did the kitchen renovation / family room addition in 2018 my line was "you'll take me out of this house feet first" and I'm going to stick with that.
It's amazing how much we accumulate over the years but then we've also cleaned out my grandparent's, my wife's great aunt's and her parent's houses in that time. Some of the cool stuff made it's way to the island house and a couple of my grandfather's legit antiques found a "permanent" home in our family room. It all seemed like a great idea at the time.
In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :
It's even more fun when the old house and new house are 300 miles apart...
When we moved in here The Dancer was adamant that we weren't going anywhere for a good while, and when we did move again it would be the last time. That move took several trips with a medium-sized UHaul since it involved getting things from storage from my old house and moving everything we had at the smaller 2-bedroom house we were renting at the time (plus a UHaul car hauler since I still had the Elky then). Moving now... would likely require at least two trips with largest non-CDL UHaul, with the garage alone likely taking up the better part of one.
Going through a backlog of rants from the trip: Google Maps (and/or Apple Maps) badly needs an option when getting directions for whether it's daytime or nighttime, especially when you're getting walking directions. The one night we spent in London after our cruise before our flight home the next day, we walked from our hotel to Big Ben/Westminster and then up one of the main roads and eventually had dinner at a nice pub near Trafalgar Square. Since the pub had WiFi, The Dancer pulled up walking directions to try and get a shorter route back to our hotel than just backtracking. Unfortunately it tried to have us go through the Horse Guards Parade which it was not possible to pass through (perhaps the gates are open during the day, they weren't at either time we walked by) so the directions were berked from the start, but more worrisome was that the route wanted us to both go through a park and down a number of smaller, not-the-best-lit streets to shave a small portion of distance off (what we ended up doing) just backtracking along the major roads.
Yeah- I'm not particularly inclined to walk through a large park and down smaller streets/alleys in any major city in the dark- especially in a foreign country (though at least one that we, for the most part, speak the language of) and am even less thrilled with that idea with my wife, her younger sister, and wife's pre-teen nephew along.
In reply to Rodan :
I can't decide if I feel lucky that my move is 9 miles or not. In the one hand, I don't have to load a giant truck, but on the other hand I'm making a ton of trips across town...
three loads down today, stopping for eats, then as many more as I can manage before bed. Rinse and repeat tomorrow.
914Driver said:My Caddy 346 engine had the mechanical oil pressure gauge screwed into a blind hole on the block. After rebuild, I put it in the correct spot, but the fitting was 7/16-14 and the hole was 1/4" NPT. NAPA moved 3 miles away so I went to O'Reilly's a few blocks away. Showed the counter guy the fittings, explained what I needed and we walked over to the fitting display. He took my 7-16 thread and screwed it into an M-12 female, then hands me a bag of five. I said "That doesn't fit". Yeah it does; and he screws it in again. I backed it out a few turns and wiggled the thing in the hole. "Doesn't fit, gonna leak. It's an 82 year old Cadillac, nothing Metric about it." But when you put it in all the way, the head will seal it. "OK, thanks for your time."
OK. lemme look. Click - click, What year? "1942" Series 60, 62, 65 or 70? "70, but it's not in there." Click - click, yeah, we don't have a listing for that. "I knew that".
Is there anything else I can do for you today?
AARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH !
Went to NAPA and had to wait two days for the guy that knew how to read the books came in. WTF?
So, NAPA has all of their paper catalogs electronical-like, now, with hypertexted PDFs.
I always thought you needed to log in to the NAPA professional website to see them.
Nope. I won't post a link (mostly because I don't have it handy) BUT do a Google search for "NAPA e-catalog rack" and you will find it.
Blow their minds by walking in with a Balkamp number 
Automotive ADD: You need a W201 Mercedes in your life.
Me: No.
Automotive ADD: hey look, there's an AMG C43 that you can afford
Me: Curse you
A rant as old as time...
Kids (3&6)... Every weekday I just about have to set a bomb off to get them out of bed at 6:45am to get them dressed, fed, and ready for school. Come Saturday morning, they are up of their own accord at 5:45am playing and making all kinds of noise. I miss sleeping in...
The GF is working a big adoption event today with the animal rescue she is a part of. We are hoping the doggo we have been fostering for the past month, Sasha, will get adopted today. We would keep her but she has small prey drive and tries to get at the two cats we have. We have been keeping her on the leash when in the living room or in the bedroom with us with the door closed. She is such a sweet dog though. She loves sleeping on the bed between us or curled up on the couch with us.
I really hope she gets adopted out today but I'm kinda sad because I started getting attached to her 
Open ceiling architecture.
It looks interesting, and makes the room seem bigger with the extra height. But, good lord, does it make a room uncomfortably loud. I know I posted this complaint many years ago of a fastish food restaurant near work, this time it is a hotel lobby/bar/restaurant. You can "hear" every conversation in the entire area all the time, and kids.... very terrible to sit there and try to enjoy a drink and some food. .
I'm not sure if this is really a rant, but it's kind of one... My homework is due at 2359 tonight. I have to look at the 22 sources that I found for my research paper and write a short paragraph about each author and publisher describing their credibility. That's not the rant.
To complete that assignment, I have to dig in to these sources and find out a lot about them. Some of these authors are somewhat obscure so finding things about them, like where they got their PhD, is a bit of a journey. Some of them are organizations that existed in the late 1800s and stopped existing around Prohibition. Some of the publishers have very common and non-descriptive names that are difficult to search and went out of business over a century ago. But that's not the rant.
This research should have only taken a few hours, but I'm coming down to the wire right now because as I do my research, the stupid library keeps showing me all these things that have nothing to do with the subject that I'm looking for, but are intensely interesting, so I wind up diving down all these irrelevant rabbit holes! I spent about 4 hours reading through newspapers from 1877 to get as much detail as I could on the three Beluga whales, even though that will be very hard to try to tie into my project. And last night I spent a couple hours trying to find more details about this poisoned cake that was mailed to someone. So I guess my rant is: Why does all this stuff have to be so damned interesting!?!?
In reply to wae :
In reply to alfadriver :
The thing is, if you go that route, there are a whole bunch of other moves you're supposed to make that help reduce reverberation. You can't just delete the lay-in ceiling, paint the structure, and call it a day.
In reply to Duke :
Yes, and it's not a difficult problem to solve.
In reply to alfadriver :
I'll happily pile onto that rant. Depending on the space and the reason for the lack of ceilings, it can also be a real headache to coordinate all the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems because they're now visible elements.
One of our big projects right now is being built of cross laminated timber, and the architect is sparing no expense (it's the taxpayers' money, after all, and don't they deserve the best?) to show off all that beautiful, sustainable, regional, eminently buzzword-able CLT. Instead of giving us ceilings to hide our stuff behind, we get little chases and niches and hidey-holes to stuff everything into. It's a royal PITA. The architects get to fondle themselves over their use of trendy materials, the city gets to congratulate itself on some contrived sustainability and regional-fit-in-ism goals, the few employees who notice will probably not give a rip, and the taxpayers will never even see it.
We haven't even mentioned Cor-Ten yet...
Man, I wish I could figure out why running a chainsaw for more than 15 min destroys my back
In reply to P3PPY :
In reply to wae :
That was one of the best and worst aspects of working in the stacks of a library when I was in high school.
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