When I started dating My Wife I picked her up in a 76, brown 280Z. One popped up close by on BAT last week. I went higher than I expected, but we now own a 76, brown 280Z.
When I started dating My Wife I picked her up in a 76, brown 280Z. One popped up close by on BAT last week. I went higher than I expected, but we now own a 76, brown 280Z.
I cleaned up the shop, unburied the woodstove, assembled a new shelving unit and piled stuff off the wood stove on the new shelves. Rehomed some other stuff and filled a giant hefty bag of trash.
More floorspace and use of the woodstove= minor wins.
stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:The job I interviewed for on Monday sent me an offer letter. Which I just signed and sent back. Welp, I guess this means that it's happening.
Now I just gotta figure out how to move a household and 3 vehicles 1500 miles
Dude congrats!!! Hoping the move and new job gets you in a better place since I know Florida has been a little too much Florida since you got there. Your complaints (and many, many others) about the state have really made me reconsider moving there one day.
In reply to Steve_Jones :
As awesome as Stranger's news is, I think you're leading the minor wins thread right now. That car looks like a great driver. Hope you enjoy it!
So I was on the SCCA website seeing when my renewal is due and you know the random pics that come up at the bottom..... this was there....I was just talking about him in another thread.
I removed about 150 LinkedIn recruiters from my connections. There's only about 3 left and they are the ones who actually did their job and interacted with some a degree of professionalism.
The next step is to delete the app and forget about the platform. It's done nothing for me.
The furnace in my shop quit working. A quick investigation uncovered that the fan shaft had sheared at the pulley. It turns out the bearing had seized.
Once I got the fan housing out of the furnace and on the work bench I discovered that the fan shaft was just a 3/4" tube. I rummaged through my metal collection and found a length of tube that had the right OD. It also turns out I had a 3/4" bearing that had the right OD to fit in the fan housing. Had the furnace back up and running in under an hour at zero cost.
I have roughly 1 year left (bit less actually) of a loan left to pay off then I will have greatly increased financial freedoms. I need to get my car going so I can roadtrip to celebrate.
At about 2 PM on 12/26 I decided to tackle the fan R&R in the upstairs bath. It kinda sucked working in the short space below the 5/12 pitch roof:
but within about an hour it looked like this:
and a couple hours later, like this:
By 6PM, I was done cleaning up the mess and putting the tools away. It was definitely leg day, as I made several trips from basement to attic, and I got plenty of core work working outstretched while balancing on the trusses.
AW said she didn't need separate control for fan and light, so I didn't have to buy a new switch. I joined them at the fan. My only regret is that I didn't go ahead and drop a run of 14/3 from fan to switch box, then join them in the switch box. Now, when AW says she wants the controls separated, I will have to go back up to the attic. :-(
AW is happy with result, which means I can also be happy with the result.
After 12 days of back and forth and around and around online, everyone has the documents they are supposed to have and the money is where it's supposed to be and everyone is all happy. Our new to us 2016 Prius V is in Corinth TX at the Subaru Dealership and our trade-in 2012 Prius V is sitting in the shop here in Hickory Valley Tennessee. The dealer is bringing the 2016 and picking up the 2012. I hope I didn't just jinx this.
CorvAero kit
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Some of the wealthiest folks I know are scrap merchants....
Choosing to post as wins:
The piece of 1/4" steel angle/scrap we hit on the interstate at 3AM missed the oil pan and radiator in our borrowed car
It came loose easily, and the very next exit was a truck stop that had zip ties and a pocket knife to fix the broken underbody plastic panels.
Kids were okay, car got us the remaining 9 hours home
We can afford to have the ruptured AC lines replaced before we give the van back to the family member we borrowed it from.
I bought my wife a green dress.
...but not a real green dress, that's cruel.
I got a game-changing suggestion for celebrating the New Year for those of us who don't like to stay up late:
Celebrate midnight Greenwich Mean Time.
In reply to Beer Baron :
Does the green dress have anything to do with the Greenwich celebration?
In reply to John Welsh :
Sadly not. Separate events.
Dress won't arrive until sometime next week. I just ordered it because... she is going to look totally hot in it.
And lest anyone be concerned, I absolutely reciprocate putting on fun and nice outfits for her that she likes to see me wearing.
Put my truck on MP last night to almost instant responses. I woke up to over 50 messages, most of which were is this available, which I responded to with a thumbs up. You never know.
The truck just left the building at full asking price.
Covid seems to be taking the edge off of Dry January.
Peabody said:The truck just left the building at full asking price.
As I was deleting that ad I saw that there were almost 4000 hits on the ad over night. That's nuts.
I have an extended holiday because it's so slow at work, and quickly fell into the get polluted at night, sleep in, and get nothing done mode.
But at the beginning of the week I somehow got into gear and started to make E36 M3 happen. The truck was the first, I soon gathered up all the spares I'd accumulated, selling almost everything on MP, and continued cleaning and organizing. I got a bin for garbage, and threw whatever steel scrap I had in my trailer to leave at the end of the driveway. It became enough of a pile I thought I'd take it in myself, expecting maybe $25.
I got $132
The pension people I've been fighting on my Mom's behalf for a year finally paid up. That's something I honestly thought we might never happen.
Win #1 - I sucessfully replaced my water heater! Yesterday I noticed that the furnace was short cycling. When I went to check on it, I discovered that the floor was all wet because the water heater had failed. Prioritizing the water leak, my first quote to replace the water heater was about $2,800. I pinged a friend of mine and asked him if he had ever installed a gas water heater before and if so how tough of a job that was. His response was pretty simple: "Sure have. What time should I be there?". I picked up a new unit for about $1400 after tax, spent the $20 to rent the truck from Home Depot instead of bothering with the trailer, and we got it swapped out. While we were working on that, my daughter came home and said the Saab was running poorly, but I wasn't about to deal with that in the dark.
Win #2 - After troubleshooting the wrong thing for a while on the furnace this morning I realized that the trouble codes are short blinks as the first digit and long blinks as the second digit. So I didn't have a code 13, I had a code 31. Turns out the condensate trap was 100% clogged so after cleaning that out, the furnace is back to operational status for the cost of zero dollars.
Win #3 - The physical plant of the household being fully operational, I pulled the Saab into the garage. One of the injector connectors had popped off causing a dead miss on #2. I clicked it back in to place and it went back to purring like a Swedish Chef.
Win #4 - While I was under the hood of the Saab, I went ahead and put the new PVC stuff in. I was able to use a little bit of vacuum line that I had put on the shelf because it was a little too big to just throw away and "I might need this some day". Well, past Bill, today was that day. Cross-temporal fist bump from present Bill to past Bill!
Ron White thinks I'm funny.
Our oven died right after Christmas, but we were able to limp along with the big convection toaster oven with no real issues. Ok, we had some mediocre cornbread on New Year's Day, but overall, no harm came of it. Win part 1.
The oven element arrived today, and I installed it with no problems. The oven came up to temperature faster than it has in months.
Shout out to Whirlpool for making the inner panel, outer panel, and heating element come apart with only 6 screws, all the same size.
Bonus, I cleaned in and around the oven.
Money was saved. I am happy. The wife is happy. Goodwill and peace on earth. God bless us, everyone!
Another multi-win day! The toilet in the master bath that was reported to me as leaking from the base was actually leaking from the tank-to-bowl connection. One of the bolts was loose and tightening it up fixed the leak!
The second win was being able to drill out and re-tap a chair belonging to my neighbor's daughter. I don't know how the bolts for the arms got so stuck that they snapped off, but I was able to apply some violence to them so that new bolts could be threaded in.
Stopped lying on my backside and spent the day roaming around town. Last CTA L line, yellow, finally completed. Just an awesome day of keeping my Ventra card active. Got home in time to change for the gym, got that done. Checked calories, and being on trains and busses all day meant I had caloric headroom for dessert and beer. Life is good.
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