Half and Half

Half a day at the J.O.B. half a day on BLooTWuck.

Took Bloo to work after the fact and used the Plasma torch to cut a space for a top box in one of her side boxes. Sadly, I had to take the top box apart some to get it to fit still. it was NOT going in any other way. It still works for my needs, its just not as nice as it was when I bought it. 😦

Son of Bossman finally got to see and hear her today. He seemed rather impressed, and I think now, he sees exactly what I saw in her when she was sitting in that feild. And yes, I am sure he has addressed the fact that this is ‘ultimately’ my escape route, but knows that I will use BlooTWuck just as much as I use the rest of my tools to accomplish the current mission at the J.O.B. I don’t ask for compensation for my tools: I may ask for gas money when/if,,, That can be worked out then though. (for the record, there have been jobs where I took Buffalo for the simple fact, “thats where ALL of my tools are”.)(note this though, not ALL of my tools are will be on TWuck: I won’t have my machining tools or shop press etc. But I HAVE proven, that there isn’t much I can’t handle with what I do carry on the regular)

Found a nice surprise though. When I was cutting out the shelving in that side box, I found someone had already cut a hole to access the fuel pump without needing to drop the tank. And its a BIG cutout. I used part of the cut shelving to make a coverplate and four tek-screws to hold it in place. No need to have stuff falling out onto the road. Yes, the hole was that big.

I did take her to the gas station as well. She’s gonna be thirsty pig, I can already tell. I only put in $20 of high-test and it broke off the “E” but only ‘just’. 5 gallons of fuel doesn’t even get you to 1/8th tank. She’s a one-ton: I should’uv expected that.

AND, She is FULLY insured now. Not liability, FULL coverage. ($500 deductible but,,,) Unfortunately, while I was at the insurance agents place, that 4pm rolled around so I wasn’t able to make it to the Clerks office and get her registered and plated. Thats tomorrow when I do my bank run (the clerks office is right across from my ATM access point. My bank is actually in Sinsin-nasty still. Been with them since 2001, don’t wanna fuck up a good relationship by changing to local, not yet anyhoos.)(it a credit union, so I get better rates than some corporate bank ”institution”)

And with the long weekend forthcoming, I will get all the little piddlin’ details addressed. Gotta deal with the fams on Turkeyday, but that leaves me Freeday on, and I can start loading all the tools from Buffalo and get organized after all the greasy-grimey stuff is done.

She’ll be rolling legal and legit REAL SOON!!! (not like my sneaking up the road to the gas station this afternoon. LOL)

And Buffalo gets a vakay/semi-retirement. Gonna be after all the holidays before I go ordering the parts I need to fix her, and I am in no rush so long as ONE of the trucks is road worthy. TWuck is “IT!” for the time being. After her sitting for the last 12 years, I can almost hear her saying ‘thankyouthankyouthankyou’ for being back into living mode.

And that brings me around to my “pat myself on the back” point. I picked up TWuck on HallowsEve. Today is the 25th. She was lock-wheeled when she came home, and now she is running around on her own power. 25 days from junkyard lump to working WORK truck. Not too shabby if I do say so meself. (and to be frank about it, I KNEW when I saw her, that she was salvagible, with lots of potential. I’ve seen far worse, and some better, but,,,she was ‘in-reach’: I had to jump.)

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