Today's Happenings

[Snuze]

Some kind folks came by to meet our foster pup Blizzy. They really, really like her, she liked them, and they have another shepherd mix and have a lot of doggo experience so we think they would be a perfect furever for her. We let the adoption coordinator know and are standing by to hear what's next.

These are the winter wheels and tires to go on the Camaro. They are actually quite nice and in good shape. I decided to plastidip them to help preserve them. The car is still in the shop waiting for the clutch to show up, so it gives me time to do this. I got 2 coats of black on as a base, but its getting too cold in the garage. Tomorrow I'll go back at it, I think 1 more coat of black will be good and then I can put a color on them.

How was everyone else's day?

[RallyDarkstrike]

I booked an appointment for an oil change next Tuesday and also one at a local place who is going to help me disassemble the interior of my car enough to take the rear speakers out to spray INTO the rear wheel arches (as that is apparently the easiest way to do it on my car without drilling)....so hopefully that'll help keep things from rusting out again on the rear quarter I had that little accident damage on for awhile longer...

[Rusty Vandura]

@snuze They look like vicious beasts, those two, especially the one on the left.

I just ordered "Thunder Below," by Admiral Fluckey. I'm currently reading "Such Men As These," by David Sears. I am planning on writing an Opposite-Lock Book-Review.

[MisterButtercup]

Cute doggos! Worked late today, last day of work (at main job) until Monday after Christmas. Going to have a beer and pretend our stuff will pack itself before tomorrow/sunday/next week when I have to move it all.
Good overall.

[LimitedTimeOnly]

@snuze Happy to hear that Blizzy is close to her Gotcha Day.

Work kind of fizzled out today, which was good because there was a chance of unpleasant fireworks, but bad because even though I should be on vacation now, I'll have to do some work on Monday.

Just watched the livestream holiday jazz concert for the local organization that is trying to support musicians. It's tough with no live music.

Good luck with the plastidip project!

[Snuze]

@RallyDarkstrike That sounds like a bit of a hassle but I hope it fixes your rust issues.

@Rusty-Vandura The one of the left is a wild animal! Ha! And Thunder Below is a great book. The tradition on my boat was when someone earned their fish, they would present them in a ceremony and read a passage from that book. Mine was the one where the broke the beer out of the shower after they sunk a Japanese ship (though I think they do that multiple times in the book).

[TexturedSoyProtein]

This is yet another reminder I need to post the winter wheels & tires from my 335xi for sale. I cleaned them up and took pics of them but every time I think of the potential onslaught of ¿Hola, sigue disponible? messages from FB marketplace, I get shy.

[Snuze]

@MisterButtercup Thanks! They are good doggos (mostly). Enjoy the beer and good luck with the move!

@LimitedTimeOnly I was off today and am supposed to be off the rest of the year. But I have a major report that's supposed to go out Monday. The sponsor is going to review it over the weekend and if there's issues I'll probably go back in Monday morning to fix it. Or he will just ninja edit it and not tell us. At this point I'm not sure what is worse

I hope the Jazz concert was good. I miss live music. And thanks!

[Snuze]

@texturedsoyprotein You made me legitimately LOL. I feel your pain, FB marketplace can be good but can also be a colossal pain. My favorite was a man trying to argue with me that in broken spanglish that I should sell him a drum kit for half my asking price (which was almost half of the new price) because it was his son's birthday and I would make his son really sad.

[gmporschenut also a fan of hondas]

@snuze Ran a bunch of errands. tested out the nokians and happy with how they performed.. suprised how many places still haven't dug out since Wed night.

[TexturedSoyProtein]

@snuze I sold a compact (for what it is) treadmill back when I was still in my walking boot. I told the guy he needed to bring someone to get it out of my house. He swore up and down he and someone else would be able to handle it.

Turned out he was tiny and he brought his even tinier wife to "help." They tried moving it and got as far as the door from my basement to the garage, but they got all hung up trying to get it through the door.

So here I was in my damn boot and only within the past day or two prior had gone down from 2 crutches to 1. I ended up having to figure out how to flip it up and around to go through the door and down to the garage, providing the main labor for said flipping, and then again being the main labor for lifting it up into the back of their car, which thankfully was a current gen crossover-y Pathfinder that they had at the very least already flipped the seats down in.

[Snuze]

@texturedsoyprotein Sounds like a fun time! i'm just glad you didn't re-injure your foot.

Back in the spring I gave away something like 2000 flower bulbs, in bags of 50 per, that we dug up in our overgrown yard. Bulbs retail for $1-2 each, so I tried to sell them at $5 for 50 but no takers, so then I listed them for free just to get rid of them and people went apeshit trying to get them (how typical). One woman took 6 bags, and got mad that I didn't have more for her. Lady, I'm giving you like $600 worth of flowers for free. Chill.

@gmporschenut-also-a-fan-of-hondas I had Nokians on my 850. I had never heard of them till I got the wheels and tires, but they were awesome. I'm glad they are working out for you.

[Rusty Vandura]

@snuze I'd be proud of those fish if I earned them. I have nothing at all similar to that achievement to show for my years in the Army. Closest thing, and it's not very close at all, would be my sergeant's stripes. And I finished Sergeants' School on the commandant's list, above 90 or 95%. Still, not even close. And the fish? Your life literally depends upon them. You and your crew mates.

[Snuze]

@rusty-vandura Putting on Sergeant is a pretty big deal in the Army though, is it not? I know each service is a little different as far as ranks that "matter". For the Navy it's definitely E-4 (becoming a Petty Officer) and E-7 (becoming a Chief).

[Rusty Vandura]

@texturedsoyprotein at least you get a Spanish lesson in the deal.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@snuze said in Today's Happenings:

@RallyDarkstrike That sounds like a bit of a hassle but I hope it fixes your rust issues.

Probably not, but if it can stop that one spot from rusting out often again for awhile, I'm all for the required effort!

[xsnowpig]

@rusty-vandura great book, read it earlier this year. but now all i think of is those insurance commercials about people who turn into their fathers after buying a house--"you know who else reads books about subnmarines? my dad? your dad"

[Rusty Vandura]

@snuze The grass is always greener over the septic tank, right? I often wonder how different things would have gone for me if I'd joined the Navy or the Marine Corps. (I'd not have met my wife, so bad plan...) So spending a year as a sergeant was my pinnacle experience, my pinnacle accomplishment, and the year I worked the hardest. In that year, I only ever once pulled rank on someone, a friend of mine who later came back and apologized for being stubborn.

[Rusty Vandura]

@xsnowpig Also, check out "Such Men as These," David Sears, and also "The Hunters," James Salter. The former, naval aviators, the latter, Air Force aviators, both in the Korean War. As wars go, that one really sucked.

[Snuze]

@rusty-vandura Like you, I only ever pulled rank once, and it was on a boot Marine private. The look on his face was priceless.