Ruff day,,,
Fact: I blew up on Da today towards the end. TOTALLY uncalled for, but it was that sort of day leading to the blow up. (and yes, I DID apologiize once I had a moment to chill my jets.)
I’m frazzled peeple,,, running on edges not designed to be load bearing.
And yet, somehow, I manage to hold this machine together and keep it running even at near red-line, a quart low and with an unbalanced cooling fan drawing through a bug-encrusted radiator.
Don’t ask me,,, I haven’t a clue how, but that “there is no other Choice”, the mantra of my lifetime, seems to be that guiding principle.
I may have galled a bearing or two in todays blow up,,, Still running, and still upright n breathin’.
Word at J.O.B. is that Son of is considering shutting the doors. Now, I have not heard this from Son’s mouth, but thats what Rumor Intel has been passing around.
do I believe it? no
Possible? Oh Hell to the YES its possible. and I would not be surprised if/when, but until such day as that: Charlie Mike Continue Mission! And that mission is NOT just J.O.B. but my efforts towards the escape pod Bloo, and independent business efforts.
I’m gonna call it a day, turn the bloody phone off, and has a drink (and already started on that at Da’s,,,)
More tomorrow, hopefully with a sunnier outlook on my part.
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Rained out Bloo Project
was dilly-dallying last night and it was late, sun droppin’ over horizon, gettin’ dark, and I realized “I don’t have any brake lights! OhSheeit!”
Well, anyone that has owned/worked on a late 90’s early Aughts GM anything knows about that screwy brakelight switch buried behind the column and underneath the dash, where you can just barely see it, almost touch it, and can JUST get a screwdriver in there to pop things loose,,,
Yeah, THat thing!!!
At least this one is ‘feild servicable’. Had one or two (other makes, not GM) that weren’t, R&R was your only option.
The Guts
The Offending problem child!
Now, some of y’uns might say “Dio,,, thats a $20 part, WTF? Just replace it!”
Sorry, not sorrry, If’n I can fix it, I FIX IT! Replacement will be bought but I could just as easily repair/add to that contact with a dab of silver solder (and I need to buy some more.) but at this stage, a little super fine sandpaper and polish the contact: good to go. I even used some sil-glide to make sure the little bits and peices slide on each other and not gall on each other.
I has brakelights again.
More laters,,,
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(, ‘)
PSR: check your TP
tire pressure not toilet paper. (Public service recommendation)
last week, 12mpg in Bloo. Was looking her over and realized something was off. Check tire pressure (recall, all 4 are Brand new, less than 500miles on ’em) rears at 35psi. Grrrk!! I didnt check them, assuming the boys at the tire shop could read,,, says right on the tire, recommended pressure is 60psi. 35 doesn’t look ‘low’ unless you really look close. (Note: I replaced the tires in pairs while doing the initial work on Twuck. Front, then rears. Both rears were sitting dead at 35. So its NOT a leak.)
alright, fill em up, check em all (front 2 were dead on 60, so someone did it right)
filled up again today, 2 days and almost 200miles of driving since I corrected pressure. 18mpg!!! Thats HUGE in a V8! Sure, she rides a little stiffer, but she’s a TWUCK! I dont expect Cadillac rides in work trucks.
With Regular Fuel breaking the $4/gal here locally (I know, I know, some of y’uns are seeing closer to $5,,, this is Appalachistan, most everything is cheaper here for some reason, including payrates; its a give and take thing.) keeping the fuel usage to maximum efficiency is a priority. Been hearing the Bosses cussing about fuel bills recently. (I have opine, but keep my lip buttoned)
Truth: this shit is only gonna get worse, and we may never see it return to this
the political commentary can be rewritten as “remember that promise?, ya know, the ‘energy independence’ thing?“
eyah,,, not gonna go any further there,,,,
Happier than a pig in a slop heap with what Bloo is showing on efficiency. That 18mpg is better than what Buffalo gets,,, I guess the gearbox vs slushbox thing helps.
,,,, anybobanobberboozzits,,,, I’s Sonday, Domestics day, domestics out of the ways,,,Middle Sis is coming into town for the week. Supposed to help Da sort out his basement. Most of it will be coming up here into the storage building, but there is a bunch of stuff that Da and I are looking at and side-eyeing as “scrap heap”,,,
But Stuff like Table saw, drill press, benchtop sanders, shapers, My Machine tools, welder, SandCrab Bench (where I make the casting molds) etc etc,,, Yah,,, thats gotta have a place to go, ( and will soon.) Closing on his place is soon-ish, and I need to find that outbuilding soon as well. Then get it delivered (and for those asking ‘why not build one?’ yah,,, priced out both directions and purchasing actually comes out cheaper by a small margin,,,, And doesn’t account the time I would need to actually build the damned thing.)
And here I thought things were gonna slow up a bit in the crazy world of Dio’s Da,,,, ROFL Yah,, RIGHT!
And I still need to address my address issues,,, and make a paycheck in the betweens,,,
while gas prices and food prices creep into the stratosphere,,, And thank the small gods I foresaw tight times acoming and got away from grid utiiliites. No way would I be able to make it right now, making what I make, if I had monthly utilities to tie me up. My two monthly bills that aren’t debt related are Phone and Car Insurance,,, The rest is all debt related and those are bad enough righht now.(thanks Bloo and my bad choices in repair efforts.)
But By GOD ALMIGHTY/UNIVERSE/THE ALL/IS (your choice in higher power here) I has a pair of trucks, one of which is sporting THREE engines right now, a mess of tooling, and skills/means to make them productive, and I own my place outright and could easily revert my efforts back a hundred years to more agrian type living. I could even convert one of the Trucks to run Wood Gas if need be. And as for battery ‘power tools’, if things go all pear shaped, and batteries start to fail, I could convert them to ‘corded’ type tools and keep rolling with them. I have a couple hundred yards of lamp cord that would suffice for that. Just have to adapt a battery casing to do it. The other tools, I have means to make them functional as well. The original designs were all belt driven way back when,, can’t see how I couldn’t adapt same now.
I don’t see things goin’ all Civil war like, and I pray we don’t, but even there, preps in place. The only thing that’s hanging me up is this economy shit and I know I am far from alone on that. I don’t see total societal collapse happening either. Downturns, yes, rough times and violence? more than likely. But full out ‘Return of the Dark Ages”, not so much,,, but I sure as heck studied for such: its that preperation thing.
And then again, there may be some Divine Intervention thing that happens and we are all reduced to ‘banging the rocks together ‘ again,,, who knows,,,
Love y’all. HAppy Mudders Daze to the Mudders out there: t’ain’t a one of us would be here without MOM,,,,
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Whoa,,, where’d the day get to?
Not productive, not lazy, just here, there, and nowhere and
PRESENT,,,
I can’t even tell ya what all I have done, but I can tell ya, I wasn’t perturbed, disturbed, or off-kilter in the brainium,,, Just,, Dunno, Being Alive?
put the phone down this morning, and didn’t pick it up again to look at anything but respond to comments coming in here. Days flown by like a bird with a tailwind,,,
So have some Meme’s, mostly stolen, but I like ’em.
this is called COMMON SENSE or usedta be,,,
My whole outlook on the future of American Politics these days.
More tomorrow after I re-connect,,,
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My spirit animal!!!
if’t’weren’t crap luck,,,,
Wouldn’t have no Luck at all.
Ok,,, let me clarfify this little bit: what follows is NOT Fiction,,,, Make of it as you will.
Payday of the J.O.B. not bad, not great, so-so actually, Stop at bossmans bank to cash the check so i can deposit cash in the ATM for my bank. (otherwise, the check takes till mid-week next week to clear.) Head to Fuel up as its twenty cents cheaper here in town vs where I do my banking. $57 fillup, 14 gallons, 171 miles since last (come us just shy of 12mpg)
Aw, the heck with it,,, buy a damned Ticket Saul,,, (old joke reference, if ya wanna here it, tell me in comments.) Do a quickpick, one drawing,, Throw the dice.
The numbers had a good spread, even came back with 2 drawings (one main drawing and ‘second chance’ drawing) $5,,, Means I don’t get a happy meal,,,,(LOL Like i would eat that crap,,,)
Feelin’ good. Joking with self ‘this’uns the winner’,,, Put in my overhead with all of my twuck paperwork, registration, insurance, etc. I put it behind them ‘out of sight, out of mind’ till tomorrow (drawing is tonight)
Head to bank in next local town. Getting ready to cross bridge near J.O.B. and hear this fluttering noize, and about the time I react to it, I HEAR AND SEE that Lottery ticket take wing, and I see it in the side mirror,,,, Can’t stop,,, Gotta get across bridge to turn around and there is some heavy (for this area) traffic.
Head back,,,
I walked both sides of that highway,, looking in culverts, weeds, bushes, rockpiles, on both sides of gaurdrail, That thing is likely wedged tight to someones grill, and they’ll find it and,,,,
This is typical luck of my family,,, You KNOW, because that thing blew out of my Twuck, it was the Big winner. We don’t have bad luck, we don’t have good luck, We have crap luck that keeps us afloat, but never gives up the “good stuff”
Or, I could say, because that it was tucked in TIGHT behind the twuck paperwork, THAT DID NOT BLOW OUT,,, Universe sent a Gremlin to monkey with it so it could blow out becasue “Now is not his time for reprieve “” I dunno for certain, but I’m gonna take it that there is a purpose to my being near destitute at this time in life. NEAR, can’t say I am destitute, as I have property, two hicles and tools that are equal or in excess of value to both trucks. My ‘destitute’ status is self inflicted by being up to my schnoz in debt for the chance to turn this thing around.
Whutchatado? Me, I’m gonna laugh about it. Its just the luck of the family: same as it’s always been. And I pray, that if someone finds it, WINS BIG, that they recall how they came about such, and pass some of it along to others in need. There are plenty of Give-send-Go’s out there.or other charities. Heck, they could give half of it away and clear their tax burden for quite awhile.
I can’t say I had any plans for it,,, Fact is, I do have an idea of the first things to do: get a lawyer, an accountant, and a block of Insurance. Other than that, tentative strategies that would be to make it a working investment. I have no desire for the latest and greatest whatevers,,, I like beater trucks and my little hovel. I might make the effort to find a better location, but my home would NOT be some mulilevel McMansion.
But that shit ain’t gonna happen when Universe sends the winning ticket packing into a maelstrom of highway winds. ROFLMAO.
Anywhhoos,,,, Its freeday, the weekend is as yet unplanned (other than domestics Sonday mornin’) More laters
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Satyrday updated: I don’t recall all of the numbers on said flyaway ticket, but I do recall a 02, 54, 63, and that it was a triple multiplier. just curious, went and checked online and NOPES,,, not a winner. Of the numbers I recall, not one hit. And looking at the ‘wins’ file, Not one person hit this round (over 10k that is,,, they don’t list the small wins) I can let this go now: LOL It didn’t keep me up, but there was a nigglin’ imp on my shoulder,,,,,
thursday mehs
did get some time in at the J.O.B. today. couple of gates, and a custom ‘dog kennel’ frame that the customer is going to hang chicken wire on. Not for dawgs, but for YardBirds. Had to build it from liteweight stuff as they essentially wanted a chicken tractor they can move around.
The things I do to make ends meet,,, LOL
Got a lot on my mind, but not sure how to go about presenting it without runnin’ all y’un off screaming “krazee person!!!”
You see through the lies and you can’t unsee it. UnlIke that dood in the matrix,
And I don’t want to go on an evangelistic bender either.
anywhoos,,,, this too shall pass and I’ll have other stuff up, maybe stuff on the day to day, or world events and my take on such, or nothing in particular,
Or pictures of kittehs and pupper,,, Speaking of whom, Cozz has a new playmate in the neighborhood. I’ll get a picture of the pair tomorrow. Little fella’s name is “Socks” and you’ll see why when I post that pic. Probably about the same age as Cozzie was when I found him. Good little pupper, even though I dislike the guy that claims him. I don’t think the pup likes him much either as he doesn’t stay up there much.
more tomorrow,,,
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