Whenever we travel, we usually take The Dancer's Colorado because it's the newest, most comfortable, and most efficient (but not most fun in most situations). It does however have one very annoying feature: the hood closest to the windshield has a lip that dips down toward the windshield and is angled just right so when the sun is mostly overhead it reflects right into your eyes and there's nothing the sunshades can do about it.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to eastsideTim :
Does that mean the GTI is for sale?
It and the Mustang are probably on the chopping block if she buys something. I'll keep you apprised, since despite it being a daily driver, it's probably not as rusty as what you'd find in the northern half of the state.
In reply to eastsideTim :
We all need to know the details on this GTI.....
Datsun240ZGuy said:In reply to eastsideTim :
We all need to know the details on this GTI.....
2015 MK7 GTI, base model(tartan cloth seats) with DSG, red 4 door, clear coat on the front bumper is shot, ~112K miles. Completely stock.
EDIT: Forgot, not completely stock - it has Oz Rally wheels (I think), with some low mileage Continental tires. Need to dig them out of the garage and reinstall them, now that winter is over.
My Mom spent two months in a physical rehab facility so she could get strong enough to walk again. At the facility she had a good diet, exercise, and was actually taking her meds for once. I juggled managing the facility/insurance paperwork since United Healthcare tried to kick her out on a weekly basis. She was home for less than two hours before rolling her wheelchair to the front porch for a cigarette. I predict all the old habits will be back by this weekend. Why do I even berkeleying bother?
slefain said:My Mom spent two months in a physical rehab facility so she could get strong enough to walk again. At the facility she had a good diet, exercise, and was actually taking her meds for once. I juggled managing the facility/insurance paperwork since United Healthcare tried to kick her out on a weekly basis. She was home for less than two hours before rolling her wheelchair to the front porch for a cigarette. I predict all the old habits will be back by this weekend. Why do I even berkeleying bother?
I'm sorry you have to go through this... It sucks, I've experienced it firsthand.
There's a commercial for Ethos life insurance where a husband figure is sipping coffee in the morning and a wife figure comes out of nowhere and immediately says...
"I just had a terrible dream where you were in an accident and the kids and I had the mortgage and the..."
I always talk over her playing the husband's role saying "what, accident, I'm dead, berk, was it over quick, did I suffer, was there a fire..."
Man, she just goes from his tragedy to how she is effected in 0.000001 seconds...where's that "Don't Want Dog" meme when you need it?
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Can you put some flat black vinyl wrap on it?
I looked, on and off while waiting for parts, two days for the hairpin from the clutch master cylinder pin.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
I feel your pain. I stripped a torx bolt this afternoon in a very tight spot. I think the solution will be to try to grind off the rest. Might be able to fit a Dremel in there. I have some time to figure out an attack as it's going to rain the next three days.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
I've had a few lost things hitch rides on something magnetic. So now that's my first look. Glad you found it!
In reply to Peabody :
That's something I was thinking as well- easier than taping off an spraying matte black Plastidip...
Appleseed said:I'm not at work today because we're out of parts to build ZF transmissions. Because...reasons.
And now we're on 8 hour shifts instead of 10 hour shifts. Because of parts availability.
Because...reasons.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
I have a magnetic tray on my box, and on my bench. Any little parts like that go straight on otherwise I'll lose them.
One of the main things that I do in my job as a sheet metal shop owner is to take customer chicken scratch and turn it into working drawings. Policy is that unless the drawings come to us good (About 20 percent of the time) we redraw them and have the customer sign off on it before we begin production.
And this week I've had three sizable jobs come back to me because measurements were wrong. Every time it was the customers fault for not checking the dimensions carefully enough, so we didn't get stuck paying for it, but there's no pleasure in fixing screw-ups, regardless of where they originate.
And it just occurred to me (don't know why it's taken so long) that if a customer is incapable of creating legible drawings, they probably don't read drawings that well either. That actually makes me feel a bit better, because it isn't always just laziness on their part. They may have trouble processing information in that matter. Everyone processes information differently. Thus you hear about "visual learners" and such. But it's remarkable how many building contractors can't draw their way out of a paper bag. One semester of mechanical drawing is all that's needed for this level of interaction. Not Solidworks, not FLA, just the ability to understand orthographic projection would go so far with these guys!
How is FedEx Ground still in business? We're back to almost no pick-ups here. I think someone came Tuesday. That's it. And yesterday someone dropped off a package and said he wasn't authorized to pick up any packages.
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
That sounds like an opportunity for more value-added services that can further differentiate you from the competition and/or provide additional revenue.
We've had a very clear no soliciting sign at the front door for many, many years. Usually, it works. Today is the first time I've had anyone look me in the eye and ask, "what's that mean?"
Really, "Travis from Houston, Texas"? Are you asking me to believe that you came thousands of miles to knock on people's doors all day, and you somehow don't know what soliciting is? Riiiiiight.
Apparently this is SOP for a certain pest control chain that rhymes with Schmaptive. GTFO, and take your e-scooter with you.
My old manager quit back in October last year. Up to that point , I was primarily working from home with a once per week in office presence. It was a pretty good gig. The only downside was that it seemed like I was the last to know about new procedures and other changes... or that other folks were getting different direction... After he quit, I realized he was a disaster of disorganization. He was treating everyone like "mushrooms" aka keeping everyone in the dark and shoveling different bullE36 M3 to different people. There were projects falling behind, tasks completely off the radar, and no updates on multiple projects.
I was asked to lead the team at this point. So for the past few months, I have been working on procedures, getting everyone aligned, juggling projects, and reassigning personnel to get the work done. Needless to say this has been challenging and a lot of extra hours.
In the meantime, we had an opening for another senior engineer. We brought in several good candidates, and the upper management did not act on any of them. If they had hired one of these people that would have taken the pressure off and would have allowed me to focus on leading rather than bouncing back and forth. Now that we are stable, they have completely canceled the opening for another engineer and are going after a manager for the team.
TLDR... I am pretty sure the last 6 months of effort was wasted.
Federal taxes just got sent. Blech. Please do something useful with them for me and not the bullE36 M3 your normally do.
In reply to DarkMonohue :
In the Chicago 'burbs we get those guys on scooters too. They tell me all my neighbors signed up - oh yeah, which one?
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
I would lay odds that none of them are scootering around their own hometown, either. Door-to-door people are always from some faraway place. This is not an accident.
Breaker bar to the left cheekbone 1/2 inch under my eye. Bleeding quite a bit.
Fender to the back of the head on the way out, followed by a nice soft landing on the floor jack behind me with my mid back.
berkeley me this hurts more than it used to.
Tomorrow I will have to drive again for the first time in two weeks. Not looking forward to it at all.
Dusterbd13 said:Breaker bar to the left cheekbone 1/2 inch under my eye. Bleeding quite a bit.
Fender to the back of the head on the way out, followed by a nice soft landing on the floor jack behind me with my mid back.
berkeley me this hurts more than it used to.
I've done that dance; hope you're doing better.
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