Minor Win thread - Life is good!

10 to 12 foot swells in the Delaware bay as we crossed using the ferry.. it's fun to watch people turn green and run for the nearest place to barf

As further proof that we GRMer's are a well rounded group, I sang the National Anthem all 3 days at the Runoffs.

Busted dryer is back together and running strong. $43 heating element delivered to my door from Amazon in 3 days. Yay for modern frugality!

Also the recumbent bike (NordicTrack) I picked up from a yard sale for $20 needed a battery pack rebuild to be perfect. $23 at local battery shop and will be the same bike as a new one. Not too shabby.

mad_machine wrote: 10 to 12 foot swells in the Delaware bay as we crossed using the ferry.. it's fun to watch people turn green and run for the nearest place to barf

If I had been there, you would have seen me clinging to some sturdy support, crying and sitting in a puddle of every type of fluid that can exit a human body. No running. Just blithering.

Me no like boats.

My phone magically succumbed to the bootloop issue a month ago. Took it to sprint, they ordered a replacement, and I never heard from them, assuming the phone was backordered. Nope, it came in, they never call me, and it got sent back. Sounds like a rant, right?

Well, I went back today to clarify things in person and coax them into paying the lease payment for the month I didn't have the phone(I wouldn't pay a lease payment on a car with a blown motor, why pay for a phone with a fried motherboard?) and I'm getting upgraded to the G5 instead of a replacement G4. Don't have to pay the $400 early upgrade(lease balance) fee, monthly payment stays the same, but a better camera and accessories.

On top of that, the Vic only needs an upper left front balljoint for safety inspection. Shop wanted $200 to do it today, $40 to Rockauto later, and a control arm with balljoint should be here in time to be installed right after saturdays autocross.

Good Monday.

The gal who shares a cube with me at work recently had surgery on her foot and has to wear an enormous boot for a few weeks. I offered to give her a ride home after work and she wouldn't let me go get the car and pick her up at the doorway, she wanted to walk to the car. She is hobbling along so I start doing my own funny walk, imagining that John Cleese would be very proud of me. We both laughed like loons the whole way to my car, it was a great way to wrap up the workday.

Park, nature hiking trail, and a milkshake with my 7 year old for dinner. It's awesome. Damn good way to start the week after a rough weekend.

Excellent session at the skate park today. Nailed several tricks I wanted to get.

Best part was this probably 8y.o. kid on a cheapo $10 Aldi board. He was there with his dad, and he was seriously working hard at the park. Another skater and I gave him a few tips, and the kid listened and made serious progress over the course of his session. He was doing beginner stuff, but he picked a trick he didn't quite have and worked it and worked it and worked it until he got it. At the end, his grandparents came to pick them up and commented that they were going to need to get him a proper skateboard. The $10 board did it's job of seeing if the kid was going to be into skating or not. He proved he meant it that he wanted to learn to skateboard.

Replaced the broken end link (well, both end links and the sway bar bushings) on the beater Altima. Cheap and easy fix and it appears to have made a world of difference in the way the poor, tired old thing feels. It even helped the clutch take-up shudder.

I was RIF'd ("position eliminated") today and it feels like a giant burden has been lifted from my shoulders.

Time to take some vacation and relax for a week or two.

Okay, so, so sick I had to take another day off work because I was so stiff and sore that it felt like my blood was on fire and there was the whole thing with my face and teeth being numb, but on the bright side, I did lose another 10 pounds! Down to 195.

I'm sure I'll start eating this "food" thing someday soon. Not the way I'd have preferred to drop the padding, but you take the victories as they come to you.

My Snap-O credit account for my toolbox is now below $500. Once that sucker hits $300, I'm paying it off in one fell swoop. Getting that toolbox was a win in itself though. It was an $8500 box, that through rebates and being a tough sell (literally, over 9 months time I had a Matco, Mac and Snap-On dealers fighting to sell me a new toolbox and I kept refusing to budge), I weaseled down to $3600 new at $25 a week for 4 years. And then I went and paid $50 a week instead and burned through it.

I didn't change the preset on my radio when Yacht Rock was replaced by Barbra Streisand. My patience was rewarded and now it's the Billy Joel channel.

Headlight out on the truck, BUT, it's the drivers side which is a two minute job instead of the passenger side which requires removing the air box. Small victories.

Me and the little one got happy meals from Wendy's the other day for lunch. I'm not proud, I was hungry and it's not fun taking her grocery shopping. Anyway, hers came with a toy car,and that she wanted immediately. "No Harleigh, you can have the car AFTER you eat". In response, she threw her entire lunch to the dog to play with the car.

I wasn't even mad, she has her priorities figured out already. Cars before food.

We adopted a new team member on the challenge car last night. He brings way more to the team than he's getting, but the guy can build freaking cages!!!!

And he's a long time grm Guy. So even better.

We stopped for dinner at a roadside dive. No cover, live music that don't suck, and free coffee refills. Pretty cool.

KyAllroad wrote: Replaced the broken end link (well, both end links and the sway bar bushings) on the beater Altima. Cheap and easy fix and it appears to have made a world of difference in the way the poor, tired old thing feels. It even helped the clutch take-up shudder.

Just want to thank you for this tidbit. I'd been putting off changing the sway bar links on #2 Daughter's Saturn for a while now. $29 and twenty minutes later I can't get over the transformation.

In reply to Wayslow:

Cool, glad to hear that something I've mentioned helped out another.

I got offered a new job today, doing what I already do at a 50% pay raise. I start on the 16th.

Dusterbd13 wrote: I got offered a new job today, doing what I already do at a 50% pay raise. I start on the 16th.

Holy crap! That's awesome! What is your new project car going to be?

I now have a lift. Still have to install it. Kind of a big day.

In reply to mazdeuce:

Finish the duster, awsome challenge car that is driver limited from being top 3rd.

mazdeuce wrote: I now have a lift. Still have to install it. Kind of a big day.

Congrats! I'll have to check into that brand. Let me know what you think of it!

I made an omelet today. One of the eggs had 2 yolks...2 for the price of one.