Ever cook a dinner so bad that you look at your SO and say, fuck it, let's just get a pizza?

It was an anticlimactic end to a rousing day in which I got my cheap-ass track car and Mrs. Chips took it for a long drive and ADORED it. She says she wants to use it for her new DD, replacing her Escape hybrid, and I don't blame her. VTEC yo!!

'06 Civic SI in burnt orange, 194k miles, slathered in armorall. $5300. Needs new or machined rotors, driver's sun visor and antisocial exhaust. Pics tomorrow as it's dark out now.

I have been seeking advice and weighing up potential money pits track cars and I just want to brag on my wife a bit.

She is actively encouraging me to go to the track. She told me without my ever saying it that since running the DD isn't ideal, I should just buy a dedicated track car. And, when I pointed out a Celica on the freeway today saying "That's a contender," she told me "Awesome, it looks fast! If you get one I want to drive it too."

I love her to bits. That is all.


Registered for my first ever autocross! Portland oppos, join in! It's gonna be wet, almost guaranteed. But at least we shouldn't have snow

As you may recall from the deep mists of time (kinja), this summer I moved into a new house with my very own dedicated underground garage! I was so excited to park inside that I immediately installed a garage door opener

and I even rushed out to trade my hardtop for a beautiful convertible roadster

Well, it's Oregon and it started raining. Turns out the garage leaks like a fucking colander!

I exercised my back pretty good digging all the soil off the top and coating it with some of that paint-on silicone sealer stuff (which smells truly awful, BTW). Next rainstorm? Wet. GODDAMMIT!!!

What to do? Follow Xzibit's sage advice and pimp my garage. Yes, I build a carport inside. At least until I can come up with a better solution!

@orneryduck OK I know you said "car" and I know you also said "Hollywood"... but I still gotta go with the catbus from My Neighbor Totoro.

You thought I meant Chevy? Nah:

Planted 50 trees at my MIL's place. It was burned in Oregon's Labor Day fires and she lost all her shade and privacy trees. We got a hell of a deal on 50 6' tall Willows and 50 6' tall Leyland Cypress, delivered. Not planted though... that was for us to do So we're halfway done.

Here's the building site looking clean. It's actually not ready for a new house in this photo cause the old foundation is still there... as of today that's gone and there's just dirt, ready for a new foundation. Plans are complete, just need to be signed off, and then permits should take only one to two weeks since the county is expediting the burn-downs.

[[Also, in case you were wondering, FUCK FEMA. Those illiterate neanderthals can't get their heads out of their own asses. Have promised all kinds of help all up and down the valley and haven't done a single thing. We have done it all ourselves and so has every neighbor.]]

Anyhoo now it's fire time and beer time. Yeah we still have Christmas decorations up, deal with it! What are you drinking tonight oppo?

@ttyymmnn

@highlander

@aremmes dang man guess I'm still a n00b

@aestheticsinmotion politics huh... so cheddar on pizza, are you some kind of communist?? J/k... My gramma loooved papa murphy's, back before she passed we used bring a couple over every Sunday for dinner. That or a rotisserie chicken and some fixin's. Good stuff!

@flatisflat said in Guess the Estimate x2!:

XTerra (if it were mine): $200 to a detailer. Maybe add $60 for a new foglight housing and mount.

battle scars!

@glemon rimz with "z"

@mr-ontop I'm still hung up on @Long_Voyager94's recommendation of The Midnight. So. Fucking. Good.

@4kc said in "The most dependable, longest lasting trucks on the road":

all Land Cruisers

BATTLE cruisers

@pg said in "The most dependable, longest lasting trucks on the road":

@4kc the bottom left is a tacoma i'm fairly sure

You ought to talk to @ttyymmnn about being “technical”

@ttyymmnn said in "The most dependable, longest lasting trucks on the road":

@beefchips

You're just being technical.

Buh dum tssssss

@taylor-martin said in "The most dependable, longest lasting trucks on the road":

@beefchips This isn't real... right?

It looks kinda real...

Ask the air to ground rocket pod gunner lol

You thought I meant Chevy? Nah: