Saw this guy last night.

Saw this on Reddit

I like the thought of “one station wagon” being a unit of measure...

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So, I’m trying to not be so fat about it. Did low carb but recently shifted to attempting self control and not eating everything like a maniac. Using Loseit to track calories by entering the foods I eat. It approves of my cheese consumption.

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We all got COVID at the end of January. Fortunately it was mild to moderate symptoms. Daughter and GF are mostly recovered, but I have some lingering lung issues (which I attribute to having asthma as a child and current sufferer of allergies). Sense of taste is partially back, as is a little bit of smell, but what I smell mostly is cigarette smoke (GF smelt wood smoke when she experienced it). But what’s kicking my ass is fatigue. I felt decent last weekend and had about 8 light chores that I wanted to do, and last week, like the prior 4 was goddamn insane, work wise, so I bonked Friday afternoon. All weekend has been very little (put some stuff away at the garage and headed to the apple store to sort daughters phone...but that’s it. Nothing strenuous. Just got up from a nap and am still wiped. I realize I’m still very fortunate that I’m not in ICU, but goddamn, I want to get back to doing shit.

Russian Aerosled K30. No more fucking around!

The current ride

The former ride

@highlander Honestly, I only posted to get this response. Award yourself a 6 pack and some chocolate chip cookies!

They let us all go! So, now I'm back home...working. Which beats the alternatives, truth be told.

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Called for jury duty. As I am in a society and generally believe this is a good thing, I’m here. Sitting on the ground. At the San Mateo county fairgrounds. Waiting. Last time I actually got sat was in 2003 the trial was 6 weeks long and I needed to come in to work before and after jury duty (company paid me but there was no one to do my work; if there was, they wouldn’t have needed me). So 6 weeks of 14 hour days so that a guy that already got $2.2MM from his insurance company (house burned down) could get $80K more. Again, an obligation, but that ain’t right. Mind, in retrospect I should have told work to fuck off and deal with my absence but I was a company man back then.

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GF and I did a big mail/file clean out/shred/recycle thing last weekend. One thing I noted was 2 notices from DMV stating that the registration on one of the cars was overdue. Went downstairs to look, and the tags were fine: Jan 21. I figure it was a glitch and surely I had already paid this, so I shredded them. I got a third notice in the mail today. I checked the registration in the car: Expires 31JAN21. Then I realized: The tags should read Jan 22. Of course, because it's so far overdue, I can't renew on line because...reasons. So they're getting their check and the BMW doesn't go out for a week until I get the new tags...and don't call me 'Shirley'

UPDATE: OK, so for reference to the CA folks, I sent the check on 14APR21 and I saw it cleared the bank on 28APR21 - so assume 2 weeks, at least if you're having to renew your reg the old fashioned way. I figure another week-ish to get the actual tags. Again, this whole exercise was pointless and stupid because of a) my inattention, and b) DMV's dumb rule that late registrations can't be done online...I mean, I'll pay whatever, I'll get things smogged, just don't make me wait - that's just mean and weird. That said, I was worried I was looking at 6 weeks or so, so I'm not doing all that bad.

@jordan trunk.

…or at least that’s what they want you to think…

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Over at The Drive, there's an article about the new ('new') GMC Denali, price as tested: $71,000.

Seventy One Grand. I mean, I know trucks are expensive and that the Denali is like the luxury truck version, but son of a bean dip - $71K?

Geeezus!

@houstonrunner Outback is 6, BMW is 21, so...carry the 3, uh...13.5

@carsoffortlangley naw...feminine hygiene product got accidentally flushed.

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Had to buy a toilet auger this evening for the obvious reason. Big, nasty looking fucker. Also got a gallon of bleach to clean it with, afterward. As I’m walking out if Home Depot with these, I thought I should have been grumbling to myself “I’m gonna make that fucker talk...”

@bandit I used to work at a chem plant in NJ and when the plant closed my process engineer went to work for Church & Dwight...the parent company of Trojan Condoms.

@shop-teacher you are providing a valuable service to the opponauts!

@streetsofperth said in Some Things I Don't Understand:

@shop-teacher Don't start me about Harleys. They have probably one of the worst-sounding engines on the face of the Earth and the first thing most owners seem to do is make them louder, because "lOuD pIpEs SaVe LiVes, hur-dur". Add shitty music into that mix and it's even worse.

I saw a guy riding an Indian FTR the other night. It's a really cool-looking bike, but what struck me most was how polite it sounded. It sounded good, but it wasn't shouting about it.

“Loud pipes save lives” yelled the man wearing a brain bucket and no protective clothing, while riding like an asshole...

@shop-teacher ah! That makes sense. I figure he just went straight.