One more quick point on my wagon rant. So update your listing if your in talks or awaiting the title. Just looked again and see the end.
"***If the listing is still up, it is still available."
Well the listing was still up and it's not available or else I'd be there by now with cash...
eastsideTim said:914Driver said:Looks like the one in my garage, also 20+. Today I learned my hot water heater is from 2009, fix now or wait for the explosion?
My hot water heater from 2000 finally started leaking late last year.
The one in the house where I live was there in 1995 when my aunt bought the place. It stopped working a couple years ago, they were thinking it was new heater time. I replaced the $7 thermocouple and we were back in business.
The one in the house I'm buying was installed in 2016. There are leaking pipes around it but the water heater SEEMS okay, but I'm going to be prepared to replace sooner than later...
Water heater life is remarkably varied, it seems. I think a bunch of it is initial quality of the part, but the mineral content and acidity of the water is a big factor too. My brother in Regina had a lease deal, got a new one whenever they started leaking. 5 years or so, each. Mine, in a city with different water, is about 25 years old.
Took the snow tires off the truck today. A liesurely hour swapping the wheels. An hour so far fighting with the TPMS to get it to relearn.
Have pants just like just gone super downhill or is it just me?
For years I would just buy Wranglers for work pants, usually the carpenter style , they'd last like a year or 2 and then I'd buy more. Sure they look like crap by the end of life but concrete makes all work wear look like crap pretty fast, I just go for functional. Recently they last about 2-3 months specifically the pants pocket gets destroyed by hooking a tape measure to it but they are ripping to hell. I know they aren't fancy but they work fine
I buy Levi Signatures for when I'm not working and they used to be great, last 2 pair have lasted not very long at all either.
Went to a local thrift store and bought them out of my size so hopefully I can find a pair I like well enough. Got some Key's, and a pair of Haggar cargo pants that are super comfortable.......that apparently are the "old style" with buttons that they don't make anymore so that's awesome.
Duluth makes some nice pants but they are really thick and I'll die in summer, I've never had great luck with Carhartt or Rustler ( the fit sucks, bluntly no junk room), standard Levi's are ok and I don't give a flying berkeley about clothes and fashion so I don't know any other brands to try .
In reply to Antihero :
It's not just you. Levis seem to start coming apart almost immediately which sucks because they fit me.
Carhartt pants seem to last, but I have to try on their stuff. They either run huge or I can't zip them up. I have one pair that fit decent, but it took trying on three pair to get one made to size.
I had some old Columbia brand carpenter pants that outlasted everything else I have tried, but I haven't seen that style in years. They make something that looks sort of the same, but the material on the new ones is flimsy.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
That makes me feel better, as the house I am buying is in the same neighborhood.
"House I'm buying" is a weird and scary phrase.
tester (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Antihero :
It's not just you. Levis seem to start coming apart almost immediately which sucks because they fit me.
Carhartt pants seem to last, but I have to try on their stuff. They either run huge or I can't zip them up. I have one pair that fit decent, but it took trying on three pair to get one made to size.
I had some old Columbia brand carpenter pants that outlasted everything else I have tried, but I haven't seen that style in years. They make something that looks sort of the same, but the material on the new ones is flimsy.
These Key pants are like that too, they had 4 pairs of the same size and they were all a bit different, had to go up a size too which is great for the ol ego lol.
It's not like I'm super tall, super heavy or super ripped either so you'd assume that it wouldn't be too hard, I like them a bit loose too so there's a margin for error here even. Still it seems like the new fashion is very flat front and I like my junk uncompacted, I can't believe that I'm the only one either.
Why do I feel like I am in another situation where a dealer is not taking my money. If we come to a price and I agree to pay I will. I don't need financing it was just to make the deal easier so you could ship me a car.
In reply to Antihero :
I wore Wrangler rip-stop cargo pants for years until their quality went to E36 M3.
I went through quite a few brands, and I'm now wearing Lee Extreme Motion cargo pants. They have been durable and flex enough to let me move without cutting off circulation to important parts.
They are about $25 on Amazon.
eastsideTim said:914Driver said:Looks like the one in my garage, also 20+. Today I learned my hot water heater is from 2009, fix now or wait for the explosion?
My hot water heater from 2000 finally started leaking late last year.
I'd wait. They usually fail by springing a slow leak, so it's not really catastrophic. The downside is then there's a scramble to get a new one before you need a shower.
PMRacing said:Who the berkeley sends out an all hands meeting notice at 3:40 p.m. on a Saturday when the rumor mill at the office is already running loose like a crack smoking wild horse and when half the office is out for spring break? I need a break from everything. Just need to go disappear for a month. I can feel my hair turning gray.
Is your company CEO named Elon? 
:sigh:
7 out of 24 of one type of collar is useable due to tolerance (barely.) 10 out of 24 of another is usable.
Precision is great. Spread of maybe 3-thou difference across. Accuracy is E36 M3, though.
Well, my new lead is already at it, screwing everything up.
I spent months putting together To-Do lists for the department so we could stay ontop of what was coming and going. I had to cross reference 5 different sources of information to do this. Everthing from the room block app, the raw BEOs, emails from departments I made friends with, and Av's quotes, and the calender. I had gotten it down pretty good and was within 95% of being totally accurate.
New Lead gets made, looks at what I am trying to teach him, and goes "berkeley that E36 M3" (actual quote) and just decides to thumbtack raw BEOs to our cork board and make us look at the calender to figure out what needs doing. So far I have picked up almost a full day of OT because he doesn't know when things are ending and doesn't schedule anybody to be here to take them down.
Yes, I am petty, that position should have been mine as I was doing it already, but I am not going out of my way to help him any further than I have to. Our director owns this E36 M3.
I was excited to win a box of 10 reams of paper for about half price from one of the local auctions since we were just about out of the last box that I got since The Dancer goes through a fair amount of it for her nonprofit. It wasn't until I was unloading the box at home (meaning I'd already loaded it into the car after getting it from the auction place...) that I realized it was a box of 10 reams of Legal size paper (8 1/2 by 14) and not standard 8 1/2 x 11. -_-; I don't think our printer even has a tray for Legal (though it can use it I'm sure, but only a few sheets at a time).
So now I get to figure out what to do with 5,000 sheets of Legal-size printer paper...
How the hell do you get ahold of a person at LKQ junkyards?
800 number goes to a call center god-knows-where, and they are damned sure unhelpful.
The clowns have started to pull every wheel from cars and are trying to sell them alone.
WTF.
Ashyukun (Robert) said:I was excited to win a box of 10 reams of paper for about half price from one of the local auctions since we were just about out of the last box that I got since The Dancer goes through a fair amount of it for her nonprofit. It wasn't until I was unloading the box at home (meaning I'd already loaded it into the car after getting it from the auction place...) that I realized it was a box of 10 reams of Legal size paper (8 1/2 by 14) and not standard 8 1/2 x 11. -_-; I don't think our printer even has a tray for Legal (though it can use it I'm sure, but only a few sheets at a time).
So now I get to figure out what to do with 5,000 sheets of Legal-size printer paper...
Find your local print shop and ask them to cut them to size for you. They have heavy duty shear cutters that can cut multiple reams at once. It might take them 5 minutes, most of that setup. Or maybe they'll just trade you for reams of 8 1/2 x 11.
Screwing in some support boards under the tables for the bar patio. My earbuds keep falling out of my ears while I'm lying on the ground. This is frustrating.
ShawneeCreek said:Ashyukun (Robert) said:I was excited to win a box of 10 reams of paper for about half price from one of the local auctions since we were just about out of the last box that I got since The Dancer goes through a fair amount of it for her nonprofit. It wasn't until I was unloading the box at home (meaning I'd already loaded it into the car after getting it from the auction place...) that I realized it was a box of 10 reams of Legal size paper (8 1/2 by 14) and not standard 8 1/2 x 11. -_-; I don't think our printer even has a tray for Legal (though it can use it I'm sure, but only a few sheets at a time).
So now I get to figure out what to do with 5,000 sheets of Legal-size printer paper...
Find your local print shop and ask them to cut them to size for you. They have heavy duty shear cutters that can cut multiple reams at once. It might take them 5 minutes, most of that setup. Or maybe they'll just trade you for reams of 8 1/2 x 11.
^this or if you know someone who has one of these, cut it yourself
ShawneeCreek said:Ashyukun (Robert) said:I was excited to win a box of 10 reams of paper for about half price from one of the local auctions since we were just about out of the last box that I got since The Dancer goes through a fair amount of it for her nonprofit. It wasn't until I was unloading the box at home (meaning I'd already loaded it into the car after getting it from the auction place...) that I realized it was a box of 10 reams of Legal size paper (8 1/2 by 14) and not standard 8 1/2 x 11. -_-; I don't think our printer even has a tray for Legal (though it can use it I'm sure, but only a few sheets at a time).
So now I get to figure out what to do with 5,000 sheets of Legal-size printer paper...
Find your local print shop and ask them to cut them to size for you. They have heavy duty shear cutters that can cut multiple reams at once. It might take them 5 minutes, most of that setup. Or maybe they'll just trade you for reams of 8 1/2 x 11.
This is grm. Sandwich it between two boards of plywood and clamp it down real good and run it through your bandsaw with a fine tooth blade
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
Alas I have only on up-vote to give, so I'll use smileys instead 
Toyman! said:In reply to Antihero :
I wore Wrangler rip-stop cargo pants for years until their quality went to E36 M3.
I went through quite a few brands, and I'm now wearing Lee Extreme Motion cargo pants. They have been durable and flex enough to let me move without cutting off circulation to important parts.
They are about $25 on Amazon.
Hell yes, I'll buy some. Thanks!
'Here's the additional pictures you asked for. And by the way, we've got a lot of interest in this car, so we're raising the price by 2 grand' -dealership I was hoping to buy a car from.
I know it's their car and they can do what they want, but man, it still leaves a bad taste.
Second day of Spring an it snows n my Summer car...
Apparently my passenger side bearing is failing, had a vibration , checked it and it was hot as hell.
Of course it happened on Monday, 25 miles from home do I drove slowly, pulled over every few miles and doused it with snow and water which maybe helped.
I did get home though so less of a rant
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