My Dad sold his Corvette last night. Sad to see it go. The two guys are paying....a lot... in cash, no test drive, which is suspicious but whatever. My dad has his heart set on replacing it with a Mercedes Sprinter overlanding van. That should be interesting.

Also last night, I became a dad. You can't see it, but he's actually wearing the same little blue jumper that I wore home from the hospital in 1992.

OK, I had posted this once before, but deleted it. Personal life stuff still remains.... complex, but improving.

Here is my new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Willys edition (Rubicon Suspension, offroad tires, rims, limited slip diff). Pentastar engine with the Etorque mild hybrid option, 8 speed auto, all the options.

I bought this without ever going to the dealership other than to pick it up. I met the sales lady once and the whole process was seamless and great. Total dealership time: 1 hour.

I've not really driven it much yet, but stay tuned. Taking some friends (hopefully) for a campfire this weekend in the mountains.

I really am incredibly happy so far.

Pretty happy

Sold the ST to someone off Facebook. Turns out, he works in insurance as well and sits literally next to one of the girls I've been off-roading with lately. Crazy small world.

I couldn't be happier with the buyer, 21 years old, really into cars and very excited that it was in such great shape.

Overall bittersweet, I already miss it. So many fantastic memories of great drives and Oppo meets

I told the girl about who bought it and she said "great I'll still have to hear about your car even though you don't own it anymore"

Life is....complex these days and I find myself with much less Oppo time than I'd like.

Lots of personal dark spots, but one of the brightest spots for me got a little brighter today. My wife is pregnant (2nd trimester now) and today we recieved confirmation that the genetic test came back clear and we learned that it's going to be a baby boy.

Cheers Oppo.

Got my new couch and finally got my art up, at least in my living room.

Major shoutout to @Longtime-Lurker who's Secret Senna gift of a Slant 6 head gasket in my truck's paint colour got the rockstar spot.

Also put an old Dodge D100 quater panel badge in my lamp (designed to hold art/whatever) and put my model cars (of which I need to buy more) on a nearby shelf.

Today was my first offroad trip in the new Jeep. Everything went pretty smoothly! Nicked my finger with an axe and hit a rock and damaged my crappy plastic skidplate but that happens.

Got some decent photos though. 100% not a mall crawler.

Nature:

Bonus video, I set up a gopro on a relatively steep little hill. Kinda fun to watch the two jeeps go over it.

Got "ducked" at the grocery store tonight. Jeeps are weird.

Shortest drive of my life if you count an A to B commute as a drive. I live across the street, but was buying a lot as I just moved. It took more time to get to my car in the parkade from my apartment than to actually arrive at the grocery store.

Mostly moved into my new place. It's small, but I feel good and Targa is happy. My apartment is slightly larger than my garage used to be.... I still need a couch and to put up my art, but it's nice to have a home base. At 29, I've never actually lived alone before since at 19 I moved out of my parents in with my girlfriend who I then married at 21, so brave new world there.

@e90m3 don't let your career define you.

@forsweden

@dr-zoidberg We call it the #1 douchebag news site

@ranwhenparked

Journalists:

@st80mnd This would be solidly within @gmctavish's wheelhouse (and it's in BC), but I think he's got his hands full with rescue projects right now

@bandit Or Canada

@pip-bip

@davesaddiction beggin for a motivational remix track that I play everytime I want ice cream.

@exage03040 Oh yeah, I have a process for clothing for sure. Basically, once it isn't acceptable to wear in public anymore, it gets to serve around 5 years as PJ's lol

@classicdatsundebate yes, pretty much. The sorting takes place here, the processing does not

@snuze That's one thing. I never wear a suit. I only wear jeans to work, even corporate meetings. nice dark wash jeans and a dress shirt.

Ever wonder where clothing goes when you pop it in one of these bins? (not these bins, generic google image).

More often than not, it doesn't go to a thrift shop to be sold and the money donated. Often these bins are owned by one or two large textile processors and the clothing goes back to a central factory where it is sorted by material and color. Then it's shredded or pulled into fibres. Once shredded, it's cleaned and either recycled into new yarn to use or used as compressed filling for mattresses/jackets etc.

I dunno, I thought it was pretty wild, sometimes you just don't think about where stuff goes after you're done with it.

I was taken aback at the sheer volume of textiles and the manpower needed to physically sort everything. We really generate metric shittons of waste and it's sad.
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