Long-roof Alpina for your time.

Hope everyone's still doing good during these unprecedented times(tm).

Things aren't bad, just got paid my year-end incentives (yay), but the promotion I asked for a few months back as a counter-offer didn't go through yet. They said they are aiming for next month "pending a market research by HR to try to get me a better rate". They did however made me a team lead now since our team is expanding, now I'm leading a few guys.

Only problem here now is I'm having a serious case of impostor's syndrome here, getting a bit fearful on what might come. Looking back, it felt like a flash. It wasn't that long ago I was still on Kinja writing a post venting about getting let go, and in just 2 years I've switched disciplines and leading some projects now. Not exactly small ones either, we're talking datacenter migration type of projects. Deep down though I still have a voice telling me I'm not quite cut for it yet. i just gotta find a way to deal with it, I guess, but it just feels like I'm about to lose control of things violently.

Really hope that promotion gets through though, at least it gives me a bit more comfort that my income is back to where it used to be. Part of me is still beating myself over wasting 10 years at my previous job and letting myself go stale, it feels a bit like redemption.

Should we call ours Bids and Cars?

Or better yet, just stay home.

Started like this:

And now like this:

... and I have summer-only tires. Guess I'm not going anywhere today.

Bottle of C4 Corvette cologne in the 70s.

Today it's like 18C... I miss my convertible.

But next week...

I was going to get Kristin back from the storage next week and get on with the needed repairs. Now I don't know, my rule of thumb is 4C overnight consistent before I let the summer tires touch the road.

Oh and did I mention I miss my convertible?

... just a simple pan-fried rib-eye, had it Japanese Teppanyaki style. Nothing too fancy.

And back to the cruel world of working for a living tomorrow.

... that just messages you with "Hi (your name)" and won't tell you what it is about until you message them back, like as if they are fishing for your attention.

I started ignoring them. I get way too many messages a day, so if you aren't telling me what it is about, it's not urgent.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/01/25/toronto-expecting-the-most-snow-since-christmas-day/

...so I drove out to McDicks to get lunch. Totally worth it.

• Junior Chicken (McChicken to you Americans) + Burger + Free fries, $5
• Engaging SPORT+ on my car, 2 presses on the drive mode button
• Fishtailing and downshifting through corners while putting a smile on my face... priceless.

@texturedsoyprotein That's what I meant by crayons.

I'm sure my F30 will do the same thing. Now here's where GM got it right... there's no butt joke that it will become creaky, when it's creaky from day 1. Points finger at brain

@saracen That nose tho...

Yeah, I'll take the E90, thanks. Though I do wonder if in another few years will there be a strong crayon smell.

Oh, and they call it Oxide Gray on the new one, it looks like the same beige Sandrift Metallic as my old Cavalier.

@facw I only remember it still had those overhead CRT monitors. Thankfully those days are gone and they started using 777-200 like everyone else. But then I also haven't took United for a long time, Air Canada started offering direct flights from Toronto by then and didn't cost too much more. Only reason I flew them was they were significantly cheaper.

The only thing I remember about United's 747 were how disgusting they were. The toilets were almost always barely cleaned and has this nauseating smell through the plane. Now picture that flying 18 hours between Chicago and Hong Kong.

Does this slant of a tailgate make it classified as a "S Hatchback-ified I T" ?

Started like this:

And now like this:

... and I have summer-only tires. Guess I'm not going anywhere today.

@fintail Most forces here in Ontario also made statement saying they won't enforce the searches, it's just bad optics for them. But the real problem with these is that the wording in the law opens a can of worms.

@musashi66 said in How bad is the new Silverado doing? Edit - some CT-4 news as well:

Edit - this is turning to be an interesting website. Here are some cool news about the new CT4-V Blackwing. They will have titanium rods for manual cars, but steel connecting rods for automatic equipped cars. Someone calculated that it would be cheaper to produce a new car part for the vehicle that will sell at probably 80% automatic to 20% manual ratio, than to keep the existing titanium part on all engines.
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/04/only-some-cadillac-ct4-v-blackwing-engines-have-titanium-rods/

After watching the SavageGeese video, I'm more interested in the shift linkage they will be using. If it's still cable and rubbery, they missed the plot.

@carbon-fiber-sasquatch I'm getting some Audi/Lambo Urus vibes from it.