News first: after 48(!) posts (including this one, but not the countless posts lost to Kinja), the unnecessary Jeep shopping with JJ tag can be retired indefinitely.

Although, I suppose, I'll still share classic Jeeps that catch my eye. So, maybe I'll just set it aside for a couple of weeks.

I haven't yet found a good photo of the factory order I just placed, but if you mentally merge this soft top Sport with the hard top Rubicon, you'll have my soft top Rubicon.

Thanks for everyone who contributed to the 2-door vs 4-door thread earlier; I finally decided to go with my heart instead of my head.

Jeep starts manufacturing 2022 Wranglers in early December, so I'm sure I'll get mine the next week! Or the next year. Definitely next year. Hopefully. In this crazy world, though...

Anyway, pics from my drive today and some identification requests below.

IDs?

How did we end up calling this season "Fall"? Oh, yeah, that's right.

Calvin’s dad approves.

Big anniversaries coming up.

• Tomorrow, November 6th, 10:45pm Eastern: 1 year since the first post on Hyphen
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/1/welcome-to-your-nodebb
• Tuesday, November 16th, noon Eastern: 1 year since the abrupt termination of Kinja/Oppo
  • @hooker was the first of several to report its demise: https://opposite-lock.com/topic/599/oppo-dead-long-live-the-hyphen
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/600/it-s-dead
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/601/kinjoppo-gone
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/602/shit
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/603/oppo-finally-nuked
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/604/she-dead
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/605/kinja-actually-killed-it
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/606/well-whaddaya-know-they-reneged-on-their-word
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/607/it-happened
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/608/high-noon-and-oppo-is-dead
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/609/oh-wow-its-really-gone
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/611/the-end-has-come
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/613/kinja-is-dead-post-custom-plates
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/614/and-just-like-that-she-was-gone
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/615/and-like-that-1000-s-of-shitposts-cried-out-at-once-and-were-silenced
  • https://opposite-lock.com/topic/617/can-t-say-i-m-surprised-it-ended-this-way

Thanks to the @Curators for this wonderful, quirky, addictive life raft.

Had a pleasant evening with @ItalianJobR53, @Chariotoflove, and @DSM_OR_DIE in Indianapolis.

First, on the way there this teal XJ called out to me.

We had dinner at a local auto-themed diner.

And appreciated the fine automotive scenery. Not pictured: a classic blue and white Chevy Monza that kept buzzing by.

Just found and rescued two big boys (or girls, didn’t inspect) on a busy road at night. Remarkably calm dogs.

Thank goodness for 4-door Jeeps and friendly police who will try to find their owners.

Please, please make sure your dogs carry identification.

(Sorry for the crummy photos.)

(I know, some of you celebrate this on a different date, or not at all, but as usual only the U.S. matters.)

I’m grateful for this community, which embraced me despite my perpetual ignorance of anything automotive that doesn’t have the name Jeep (and most things that do).

I’m grateful for the @Curators who made, and make, this website possible.

I’m grateful for @pip-bip keeping the lights on while most of us (try to) sleep (yes, today is another day where I’ve awoken at 3am and can’t fall back asleep).

I’m grateful to @Snuze, @boredalways, @BrokenMostWeeks, @Rusty-Vandura, @kiltedpadre, @DSM_OR_DIE, @Highlander, @onlytwowheels, @Chariotoflove, @Shop-Teacher, @JMKarstetter and everyone I’m forgetting for helping me with my Jeep hunt last year. (I’m quite annoyed I can’t remember who initially spotted the WJ I bought; probably @boredalways.)

And while I was shopping, @Jb-boin gave us these stellar lyrics:

Just virtual-Jeepin ’

They see you Jeepin’

They rustin’

Trolling and tryin’ to catch you Jeepin’ dirty

Trolling and tryin’ to catch you Jeepin’ dirty

Trolling and tryin’ to catch you Jeepin’ dirty

Trolling and tryin’ to catch you Jeepin’ dirty

Your diff’s so loud

You’re swerving’

They hopin that they gonna catch you corrodin’ dirty

They hopin that they gonna catch you corrodin’ dirty

They hopin that they gonna catch you corrodin’ dirty

They hopin that they gonna catch you corrodin’ dirty

I’m grateful to @cb, @CarsOfFortLangley, @beefchips, @Mark-Tucker, @kiltedpadre, and everyone else who blesses us with furry friends to d’awww over. (And I miss Sylvie and Toby.)

And most of all, thanks to Willys-Overland-Kaiser-AMC-Renault-Chrysler-FCA-Stellantis for just Jeeping.

Enjoy this Willys spotted in Turkey.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/322429654561146307/

What will I do without tiny b&w photos with no surrounding visual context??

But, all biases aside, I think the Gladiator is a fine-looking truck.

(Ok, I can’t possibly set aside my Jeep favoritism, so my opinion is horseshit. I still like it.)

I discovered something tonight: driving doorless and stylish is dangerous.

Not for me so much as the drivers around me.

I was waiting to turn left, with a crossover headed my way in the other lane, when a minivan started turning right out of the road I wanted. He was apparently too distracted by my shirt and eager to tell me how much he liked it to pay any attention to what he was doing, because the crossover had to brake sharply.

It’s a heavy burden, being this cool.

There’s some symmetry in that the first time I drove down a sketchy dirt road was in a Honda roadster, my old del Sol.

Michigan is quite lovely already. Such a shame about that 3 hour drive through northern Indiana.

Added: I really wish my Jeep’s top came down this easily.

@bbg2d I got on a brief cooking kick, but I didn't have a functional dishwasher at the time, and spending 2 hours on cooking, and 2 hours on cleanup, for a 20 minute meal was a strong disincentive.

@facw said in New password requirements are getting crazy:

@bicyclebuck said in New password requirements are getting crazy:

I'm hit by this in a couple of ways. I have work accounts, personal accounts, bank accounts, multiple websites that I have to log into, multiple e-mail accounts.... and all of them have slightly different password requirements. I probably have 30 different passwords I have to remember.

That's probably for the best. Using the same password for multiple sites is a pretty bad practice. This is where password vaults are useful.

Heck yeah. I have several hundred passwords, but I only need to remember two. One for my password vault, one for my primary work account that I don't keep in my vault.

@huzer Leasing a Wrangler for the interim would definitely make a direct comparison more interesting when you finally get a Bronco.

@drvantraveler No wonder Yoopers are so strange. It's like the Australia of the U.S.

Something I used to do: take a poem that I have mostly memorized and pick a new passphrase from it each time.

• s3Parate dy!ng ember
• Wrought,it$ ghost

etc

Placing all of the "here's what it could look like" photos up front is a good marketing decision.

@trivet If it finally works, yep, should be great.

I wish we could do it without top and doors but I hear scary stories about man-eating mosquitos that far north…

@vondon302 In an ideal world I’d save up my vacation time and spend a few weeks wandering the UP. Unfortunately I’m contracting at a company that gives its employees two weeks off each year as special breaks, so 2/3rds of my vacation time is spent complying with their downtime.

@vondon302 It happens over Father’s Day weekend each year, so I’m hopeful I’ll already have an older gentleman accompanying me.

Last time I had to cancel on dad because my front differential failed, so I’m going to wait for a few months to let him know about this year.

@milky you never know until you try!