The "Whatever" Thread

Had a visitor this morning.

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Jeff
 
So cute, Jeff! Wow - up close and personal with the baby.
Did you see Mama?
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mqqn
 
Maggie finally retired from Walmart - Friday was her last day after 30 years.
I made her a pasta dinner, drove up to Julias Bakery in Murfreesboro to get her a cherry pie, got her some M&Ms - and we had a great meal and watched TV.
I had a new ac compressor put in the vette - that and fixing a broken window regulator set me bac $2,717 and change. I guess that is ok on a car that we have not made a payment on for 15 years.
Now my truck is in the hoosegow- when I got back from buying the pie one of the front brakes was hot, it's been dragging as I noticed the mileage had gone down.
I don't drive it much anymore, but it is leaking somewhere when it rains and the carpet stinks of mildew, and now I am smelling gas fumes around the back of the cab.
Might be getting time for a replacement truck - mine is a 2006 with 185K miles on it - and this move deal was really hard on it with all the trailer trips all loaded down.
Anyway - Tennessee is back open and you would not even know the liberals had a pandemic here except for the odd person with a wooshoo mask on -
Hope all of y'all are doing well! (see my TN accent? )
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mqqn
 
mqqn said:
Maggie finally retired from Walmart - Friday was her last day after 30 years.
I made her a pasta dinner, drove up to Julias Bakery in Murfreesboro to get her a cherry pie, got her some M&Ms - and we had a great meal and watched TV.
I had a new ac compressor put in the vette - that and fixing a broken window regulator set me bac $2,717 and change. I guess that is ok on a car that we have not made a payment on for 15 years.
Now my truck is in the hoosegow- when I got back from buying the pie one of the front brakes was hot, it's been dragging as I noticed the mileage had gone down.
I don't drive it much anymore, but it is leaking somewhere when it rains and the carpet stinks of mildew, and now I am smelling gas fumes around the back of the cab.
Might be getting time for a replacement truck - mine is a 2006 with 185K miles on it - and this move deal was really hard on it with all the trailer trips all loaded down.
Anyway - Tennessee is back open and you would not even know the liberals had a pandemic here except for the odd person with a wooshoo mask on -
Hope all of y'all are doing well! (see my TN accent? )
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mqqn
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Congrats to Maggie, Trish will be joining her shortly! :thumbsup:

Jeff
 
Glad to hear everyone is doing OK. Work for me has been pretty stressful lately (computer stuff). I spent the first few weeks scrambling to get clients set up to work remotely, (CDW even ran out of laptops and wireless network cards) and the last few weeks handling frantic calls from the users when something didn't work perfectly. I'd rather go onsite than work remotely and even when I do, people are driving like morons. I'm usual pretty good at holding 70-75 on I-88 and it's become Nascar lately. I don't think I've seen anyone driving slower that 85.
 
greatscoot said:
Glad to hear everyone is doing OK. Work for me has been pretty stressful lately (computer stuff). I spent the first few weeks scrambling to get clients set up to work remotely, (CDW even ran out of laptops and wireless network cards) and the last few weeks handling frantic calls from the users when something didn't work perfectly. I'd rather go onsite than work remotely and even when I do, people are driving like morons. I'm usual pretty good at holding 70-75 on I-88 and it's become Nascar lately. I don't think I've seen anyone driving slower that 85.
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The driving is something that surprised the jeepers out of me recently. We have a little less traffic and some people are really pushing their cars like it's a race track. Even better when it's a piece of junk. Not as surprisingly then, there are more cars along the side of the road for extended periods. It's getting a little better recently as the past 2 weeks the police have setup speed traps all over the place. One spot had 3 patrol cars on the off-ramp with an officer hitting people with the radar from the overpass. They were pulling cars over left and right, pretty sure they pre-wrote the tickets at that point so they could knock them out faster. I thought it was grand because some of the speeders don't know how to look ahead at all and run right up to the bumper before switching lanes.

I suppose it could be because I drive on off-hours now, but I think it's just idiots taking advantage of the reduced traffic.
 
Speaking of broken-down cars....

A couple months ago we took Maggies 2013 Malibu in for something trivial, and they said it needed a new timing chain. I did a little research and found out, yes, they go around 125K miles - exactly what we had on the car at that time.
That was $1300 give or take - but it did make the car run smoother and quieter.

Then the 99 Corvette needed AC service - and fix a window regulator - that turned out to be a $2700 bill for a new AC compressor, water pump and the window regulator install.

Finally, my 2006 Colorado had a hot brake on the day I was to go pick up the vette.
Turns out it needs new hubs, a fuel line and the rear window-glass is leaking. That is going to be around $1800 total.

It is starting to not pay to drive old jalopies.

I would usually do a lot of this work, but I just don't have anywhere to work on them - I have to get my garages all squared away. I also am never buying the el-cheapo hubs off of Amazon anymore - the last two pairs have not lasted long at all - not worth the hassle.

Hope everyone is doing well - and enjoy your weekend.

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mqqn
 
In a way it’s good we are too poor to take vacation or go on any trips, our cars will last a while. Connie’s 2015 Jeep only has 23k miles on it, we use my 2016 Chevy more, it’s got 26k miles. We were going to sell my car, but thought we would keep it in case I go back to a real job soon.
 
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