True! Lol

.. rant of sorts. ... watching various 'reality' trucking shows this evening. .. I've been driving various trucks 25+ years so I like them for seeing what guys are doing and what sort of countryside they travel in...  but the producers/directors/editors!!!

Talk about setting up melodrama! ! Danger music!, the voiceover guy! .. carefully timed scene cuts! ... farken! .. they hype the ordinary and glaze past the real tricky things!... add in a few created/scripted scenes and you have the plebs on the edge of their seats!

I alternate between nods to well handled rigs, exclamations at nonsense and laughs at bullshit!

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Trying to get moving this morning, go outside and some pigeons took a huge mayonnaise dump on my windshield overnight. I walk around the side of the house, grab the hose and start walking back to spray the windshield.  Of course the hose wont reach.  I yank it and it kinks up.  I rage whip the hose and the water pressure comes through as I arc a nice stream onto the windshield, making a white runny bird poop mess.  Thinking I'll get a towel and wipe it off, I drop the hose which lands on the ground perfectly to keep the handle pressed, water spewing towards the middle of the road in a stream.  After retrieving a towel from the garage a neighbor drives into the fountain saying 'wth man!' as he passes by.  I ignore him and start wiping off the fowl mayonnaise excrement from my windshield.  Walk back to the hose and my wife comes out and compassionately asks if im ok.  As I bend over to pick up the spraying hose, my foot bumps it and (insert expletives) it turns just right to blast me in the forehead.  Holee sh-- I'm murderous by this point as my wife howls, laughing like she's never seen anything funnier.   

Dang! .. I'm laughing hard at the mental imagery! .. that could be made into a funny short film!

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Arrrr! A pirate Jim off the port bow!

Quote from: Janx101 on August 12, 2016, 11:18:36 PM
Arrrr! A pirate Jim off the port bow!

Did a o/t shift yesterday. . Traffic control for a chemical and e-waste collection event.... which collects all the bad bloody drivers over a 20km sq area and pushes them into a large parking lot area!.... lucky my official 'serious face' and pointing finger combine with the stop/slow sign to keep most under control! ... still had to use my emergency exit path 4 times though!

I picked-up an engine (not literally) for my sister's 07 Impreza non-turbo 2.5i down in Santa Cruz. When I arrived at the pick-up location, the seller is a very nice, down-to-earth fella that was swapped out the engine for an upgrade of some sort and the motor was in good condition and drained of oil. Whatever, I need the short block. I tie it down sorta and drive up the street. After some bumps I decided I make the long drive home, I'll check my handy work of tying things down.

HOLY CRAP THERE'S OLD DARK ENGINE OIL EVERYWHERE! 

Okay, so it was on the trunk liner but it did get into the spare tire space.

So, I got it home and got my housemate to help me move it to the backyard. I open up the valve covers and oil comes gushing out. Perfect. At least when I bring it to the mechanic I won't have a repeat. Problem is, I need just the short block and I can't get the heads off with my hand tools. I buy a impact wrench, borrow some sockets and I get a total 2 of 24 bolts I need to take off. 

I give up, I was hoping to take the heads off myself so I could lift the damn thing into my trunk on my own and save a little on labor but done with this project. I'll leave the rest to my mechanic named Bong. 

With the missus at ENT specialist.... only 2 hours late!

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Welcome back Yama 

Quote from: ShowBizWolf on July 21, 2016, 12:54:08 PM
oh gosh no that wasn't what I had in mind lol !!!

lol might work hmmmm need to find a smilie for jim. something along the likes  of an atomic explosion. heh hmm brb
Aaron

hmm will find better methinnks
Aaron

Or this one too

Aaron

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Okay, now I'm in a hospital till next week, maybe Tuesday, can someone pick up the slack on keeping these threads alive for a while?
Please?
Thanks.

Jim

Dib Dib Dib ... Dob Dob Dob. .. we'll do our best!!

About the only thing I remember from Scouts

Bloody dog darts while having lunch at parents house.. (pruning some trees also) .. dammit dog! You been catching rats and burying them till they juicy and ripe and then eating them? !...

Bring tears to a glass eye it would!