Minor Win thread - Life is good!

Knurled wrote:

Duke wrote:

logdog wrote:

Streetwiseguy wrote: Grilled cheese and lobster salad sandwich on sourdough bread. Happy now.

Do people debate making lobster salad with mayo vs Miracle Whip like they do tuna salad?

There IS no debate about mayo and Miracle Whip:

Rant: What the hell is a "moist sandwich flavor"?? I'll tell you, in just a moment. I did just now create and consume a sandwich. It tasted like a sandwich. It consisted of two slices of wheat bread, two slices of Swiss cheese, and a small grabful of shaved ham. It contained no condiment whatsoever and yet it tasted like a sandwich. So what equates mayo with "sandwich flavor"? Spreading that crap on every sandwich you make. You are deceiving your brain into thinking that rancid egg and whipped God-knows-what is what a sandwich should taste like, indeed (by the very words in the comic) a sandwich is DEFINED as something that tastes like that. It's conditioning, it's training, it is Stockholm Syndrome. You only think that a sandwich so infected is what a sandwich should taste like because *you simply haven't ever experienced a sandwich that does not*, until years later, after the brainwashing has been complete, and then you firmly believe that such a sandwich is *wrong* because to think beyond your self-imposed mental prison is tantamount to rebelling against your upbringing. Mayo sucks. Deal with it.

I find buttah to be bettah.

I have been married today for 11 years!!!

You believe someone has put up with me for that long???

I thought I was out of Miracle Whip for my sandwich, but luckily I was able to scrape enough out of the bottle. Mmmm...sandwichey taste.

SWMBO said, "I wish you would just go ahead and order those tires, so we don't have it hanging over our heads." Done.

Flight Service wrote: I have been married today for 11 years!!! You believe someone has put up with me for that long???

Besides your Mom? ...

Congrats!

Won my class today. Forget I'm the only car in it, my times are at least getting consistent. Within .2 seconds, after the first run.

Sold off two sets of wheels for the Miata today. Up $750 dollars and down to a mear three sets of wheels.

Been dragging my butt on finishing the intercooler install and battery relocation on the MX6. Finally got the last terminal I needed and installed the battery. Turned the key on to acc and there was power! and no smoke, fire or warm wires! Turned trunk installed kill switch and it killed power! Didn't have the nerve to try starting yet, I have to double check my work in the engine bay. Maybe today.

Scored a dozen duck eggs, cheap.

WTF is "Miracle Whip"?

I don't eat mayonaisse often but once in a blue moon I'll make my own (olive oil, egg yolks, lemon juice, maybe some vinegar or mustard, spices.) My usual "bread moistener" is just a bit of olive oil though.

BrokenYugo wrote: Scored a dozen duck eggs, cheap.

Time for balute?

In reply to KyAllroad:

No, I just like to fry them.

The baroness dropped in on a skate ramp for the first time yesterday.

She wants to go back to the park again today, if the weather holds out.

Whoever designed the front drive Mopar unitized clutch needs to be given a medal and memorialized in statue form at prestigious engineering schools.

Why don't ALL cars use this setup? It is brilliant. It's easy to service, AND cuts down on parts inventorying on the assembly line level - only one engine for the assembly line, auto and manual trans bolt right up to the same engine in the same way.

In reply to Knurled:

Patented maybe?

I got a letter from the city a while back that said they needed to get into my basement to replace the reading device on my water meter. So, we set up an appointment for today, between 4 and 6pm. Amazingly, the service tech showed up at the stroke of 4pm, and was done in ten minutes.

I have an old (2008) MacBook that I mostly use for web stuff while traveling. It's perfectly functional for that, and maybe some light word processing and PhotoShop, but that's about it. I wanted something a little better.

Then we had an overhire who fixes Macs on the side. He offered me a MacBook Pro from 2012 that's a whole lot nicer, for $550.

Coworker overheard the conversation and he was looking for a cheap MacBook for his GF. In one swift move, I sold the old MacBook for $200 and bought the nicer one for $550. Easy deal, and it netted me a much nicer MacBook for $350.

Win!

New not-GoPro camera showed up late this morning, and I got the training I had to run this afternoon done early enough to get it mounted on my helmet so I'll have it for all the riding I need to do this afternoon. Will be interesting to see what the recordings look like- and more interesting to see how much it picks up of the Tunebug Shake's audio that's going into the helmet... I may have pre-made techno-music moped-riding videos!

stuart in mn wrote: I got a letter from the city a while back that said they needed to get into my basement to replace the reading device on my water meter. So, we set up an appointment for today, between 4 and 6pm. Amazingly, the service tech showed up at the stroke of 4pm, and was done in ten minutes.

Now sit back and wait for your higher water bills.

Making caliper brackets for my rearend. Rotors are four lug Volvo S40, calipers are A4-chassis New Beetle. Bought a set of Allstar brand Wilwood caliper mounting plates as a starting point.

The calipers bolt straight onto them and the notch in the bracket clears the caliper piston.

Stuck a rotor on one of the axles, stuck the bearing housing on the axle, bolted a pad hanger to the bracket, and saw where it fit.

If I used about an inch of spacer between the bracket and hanger, the unusual combination of Wilwood-specific Allstar bracket, German caliper, and Japanese-Swedish rotor would have worked perfectly.

But, I don't like the idea of a massively overhung caliper bracket, so I marked the bracket to where I eyeballed a cut line to be so it would fit on the bearing housing instead of the axle tube. After much head scratching, decided to just hack away at it nearish the line and then trim with an angle grinder.

By utter and completely unexpected happenstance, the hackjob turned out to be a perfect fit. Exactly the depth I wanted, and evenly spaced front and back to boot. I duplicated the hackjob exactly for the other bracket.

Mocking it up further, I saw that I did NOT need to line the caliper up with the flats in the bearing housing, there was juuust enough room to set it anywhere. So, I lined it up with the narrow part of the bolt pattern so that two of the axle retainer T-bolts would go through it. Sure, it was all welded up, but there's no kill like overkill.

What a long string of unlikely coincidences!

Mounting them rotated should allow the RX-7 cables to plug right in to the VW calipers, but this isn't a coincidence, it is why I chose those calipers.

Autocross sunday, by the end of a very long day I was pretty well cooked. (won my class ) Monday holiday I slept in and lounged nearly the entire day away.

I think that's going to be my new policy. I get a metric ton of leave from work anyway and have a hard time using it all so the Monday after AX day is my new sunday. Wheee

Got my insurance quote today for my new company and it is 1/3 of what I was paying the old company.

Maybe I will splurge tonight and have mac and cheese instead of Raman.

My shop fridge is full of cream soda that is ice cold, I got air conditioning in there, and my wife and daughter won't be home until two hours after me. So I can crank the stereo and enjoy.

My in laws are visiting this weekend. No, hear me out. They share a phone plan with my wife still, and on this rare togetherness occasion, they went to the phone place to do something. I got stuck babysitting. By 'got stuck' I mean it was as awesome as when I got stuck babysitting during Black Friday. Like tasering crowds of rabid shoppers to get to the one barely discounted bottom end appliance, I'd rather change a million diapers than go to a phone place.

Instead of hearing all the reasons why this plan costs less and I need a new phone at X cost per month over the course of the next who cares how many months, I got to play with a plastic gun that shoots a million bubbles a minute, surrounding a toddler in a magical cloud. She shrieked with glee until the bubble tank ran out.

Then we played with sidewalk chalk. I wrote her name and tried to get her to write a letter "E" (her name begins with E). She would instead draw a line, look at it, and proclaim "I!" She can't draw an E, but she certainly knows what an "I" looks like.

Following that, we went for a walk in her covered wagon thingy, met some new neighbors, caught up with some old ones, and hit up a garage sale up the street. Most of the time was spent pointing at things and saying what they are. Lots of "birdies!" and "doggies!"

I'm happy it took them so long, I hardly ever get one on one time.

Rufledt wrote: My in laws are visiting this weekend. No, hear me out. They share a phone plan with my wife still, and on this rare togetherness occasion, they went to the phone place to do something. I got stuck babysitting. By 'got stuck' I mean it was as awesome as when I got stuck babysitting during Black Friday. Like tasering crowds of rabid shoppers to get to the one barely discounted bottom end appliance, I'd rather change a million diapers than go to a phone place. Instead of hearing all the reasons why this plan costs less and I need a new phone at X cost per month over the course of the next who cares how many months, I got to play with a plastic gun that shoots a million bubbles a minute, surrounding a toddler in a magical cloud. She shrieked with glee until the bubble tank ran out. Then we played with sidewalk chalk. I wrote her name and tried to get her to write a letter "E" (her name begins with E). She would instead draw a line, look at it, and proclaim "I!" She can't draw an E, but she certainly knows what an "I" looks like. Following that, we went for a walk in her covered wagon thingy, met some new neighbors, caught up with some old ones, and hit up a garage sale up the street. Most of the time was spent pointing at things and saying what they are. Lots of "birdies!" and "doggies!" I'm happy it took them so long, I hardly ever get one on one time.

+1000000000

That's what it's all about

I slept all night for the first time in almost 2 years.