Garage floor poured!

Also basement floor, but thats not car related and somewhat less exciting.

Framing starts Thursday, hopefully.

My work promotion finally went through! Im now a supervisory engineering Team Lead. This has been a while coming, and is a big step in how I'm classified (and paid) where i work.

Also, the town signed off on the permits for our house! We still need the county to rubber stamp them, and our builder thinks we need some FEMA signatures, so unfortunately we still might not break ground until September 1, but the town had been the biggest sticking point.

All good things, oppo. All good things.

@houstonrunner not Russian, man. Hear me out.

Cows.

Smart ones, like in the Far Side cartoons. Getting blamed for global warming with methane pollution, so they knock out a gas pipeline. Getting killed for meat, so they knock out a meatpacking plant. Leather is next, my friend, you saw it here first

Been having a rough few days. Our builder was supposed to break ground last week, but hit a snag with the town. So set for this week, but we got Ida's leftovers coming through tomorrow. So maybe next week. Or, you know, never.

This was a major downer for me and the Mrs. So today when she got her first haircut in a year and a half, i met her with flowers. Then we went to lunch for burgers, fries, root beer, and a milkshake. After the kids came back home i went for ride in the miata, then took each of the kids for a ride, too. Smiles all around today. Maybe we'll make it through after all.

Sounded great

Saw a 2005 Cooper S for sale for market value. 90k miles. Ok. Clean car fax. Go on. One owner dealer maintained Maryland car. Gets in car to check it out

Get there and am looking it over. I just rained so the cars wet. Check the trunk, hatch struts shot, ok. No big deal. Go inside. See water in the back seat. Fuck. Check the headliner. Wet. With rust colored stains. Fuck. Pass. Tell the guy I'm not interested, point out leak. Say it's probably the sunroof. This motherfucker tells me it's because I opened the rear hatch. Like water leaking through the headliner is an acceptable fucking thing to happen when you pop the boot (it's a mini, yo). Goddamn it. Didn't think shady motherfuckers like this existed, but here we are.

The search will continue, with me properly armed with more knowledge.

Hey @i86hotdogs !
https://jalopnik.com/what-is-the-most-underrated-car-on-sale-today-1847249550

Man, modern drive thrus are just not taking 20 year old lowered Miatas into account

Managed to get my coffee though, and the car was holding idle well, so i didn't have to keep revving the engine like an asshole. So, success!

Just found out this this guy here is owned by a dad of kids in both my children's classes. My daughter has been in classes with the older son since they were two, and my youngest and his youngest are in the same kindergarten class and soccer team (im the coach).

I know the guy is into cars, has traveled to texas for F1 races. He seems like the "i buy fast Audis" kind of guy, but has shown interest in the Miata. I give him a ton of credit for not being all "well that Miata is nice, but my Ferrari..."

It's just created an odd sort of economic angst. Not jealous, exactly. I'm sure he makes more than me, but I could easily close that gap if i wanted to (I'm a federal regulator. Switching sides would double my salary in my industry). My wife and i spend conservatively. We have no car payment at all, and spent less than 7 grand on the truck and Miata combined as fun splurges. We're currently building a house that will be worth more than theirs by approximately the value of their combined cars (Ferrari, rsq8, s7). It wouldn't be wise for me to own that car, but it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to find a higher paying job, drastically reprioritize spending, and make a really stupid decision. And that might not land me in Ferrari territory, it would certainly get me to Porsche.

But I'm happy where i am. Do i want a Porsche? Hell yes. Am i willing to make the lifestyle and work sacrifices to achieve that? No. Am i ok with that? Yes. But it's a little odd to see someone take so drastically different an approach to life's priorities.

We've both driven our kids to soccer games in loud, red, fast (ok, maybe not the miata) sports cars. I don't think anyone was any happier than anybody else, kids or parents, and that's the important thing.

@aremmes "I am not accepting Miata as an answer."

MX-5!

@silentbutnotreallydeadly seconded on Subarus, my first car was a 95 Legacy that did this

@dr-zoidberg sesame or gtfac

@rallywrench oh man, TBAL. That was a fun ride

@exage03040 those infinity's were everywhere when i was a kid

@notsomethingstructural you're in Jersey, right? That last line is a requirement.
-a former new yorker

@notsomethingstructural what, was he a jerk to you or something?
"Hey, fuck you!"
"Oh yeah? Why don't you go buy a R63? "
"Why doesn't your mom go buy an R63? "
-someone gets stabbed
-NSS gets an S3

@musashi66 booo!

@aremmes "I am not accepting Miata as an answer."

MX-5!

@racinbob Never Lift

@qaaaaa one car rear ended, one car hit in front.... I think we may have solved the mystery here!