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

@exage03040 Gotta go with the scrambler. I'm a sucker for the vintage-ish look, and even though it's not as fast it's plenty fast for me

@dtg11 well yes, only up to the allowed 50mph speed limit, officer

@farscythe dang, you'd thing red would be the spiciest color, but what is that chicken breathing out? Is black even hotter??

@limitedtimeonly 4 cylinders can hog fuel just ad effectively as 8 I guess! The STI is a completely different character from the mustang GT or the GTI... if you haven't driven one it could be worth a few minutes behind the wheel

@huzer said in Handguards acquired:

@alfalfa You people and your motorcycle temptations. March is usually when the bug bites.

oh man, i saw so many motos out this afternoon while I was driving around.

Such a gorgeous afternoon here I had to go for a drive. I found a road I have never been down! And I got a shot of a topless hottie in need of a little soap and water.

Niiiice! Cosmetically amazing, which is great 'cause (for me anyway) that's the hardest thing to fix.

@vondon302 said in Quick over view of the new toy.:

Not sure if this is a spark arrestor on the exhaust

isn't that a heat shield so you don't burn your leg? or maybe I'm looking at the wrong part.

@dr-zoidberg avocado bacon chicken? Looks brilliant. We had bacon, chile, mushroom, and arugula scramble over here, good stuff!

@mark-tucker so nice out today! I’m supposed to be WFH so I kicked off a bunch of simulations this morning and have been taking a looooong lunch break LOL. Let the servers do the work eh?

Also I found a squirrel nest in the disused chicken coop in our back yard, so I just went to Ace and got some peanuts to try to befriend any little ones that come.

@manwich good news, glad it was easy-ish.