Rick from Torche is doing it, and I am confident that he will absolutely crush it.

But I also am having a bit of a sad.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:45 am Rick from Torche is doing it, and I am confident that he will absolutely crush it.

But I also am having a bit of a sad.

Totally understandable! The must-be-in-office approach is nonsense and ridiculously rigid. Though...that tour has no Pittsburgh stop.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:45 am Rick from Torche is doing it, and I am confident that he will absolutely crush it.

But I also am having a bit of a sad.

Oh man, I fucking knew it! I saw them a couple months ago, so good.
Really like that new record.

I'm sorry it's not your turn, but you would've nailed it!

Went out to lunch for a team meeting, someone ordered grilled octopus. Someone brought up that stupid My Octopus Teacher movie. "You know how smart these things are?" [Chomp] "Yeah, they're like as smart as cats." [Chomp]. Can't eat octopus anymore without someone mentioning that stupid film and how "smart" they are.

Also! Last night was the second time in a week that someone I gave a bottle of perfume that I made to told me they wanted more.

Oh, to be a park ranger on a holiday weekend. Serenity now!

Our wifi went out last night. I reset the router which is the fix every couple months. No deal. I unplugged the modem and powered it up. No dice.

Then we figured out our network suddenly had a new name. We couldn't sign into it, change the password etc.

My wife is starting to panic about her work and school work as I'm "in line to chat with a tech support". The kind and unhelpful woman half way around the world with a flowchart in front of her is incapable of understanding the nuances of our problem (after a 45 minute wait to type with her). She ultimately schedules a technician to come repair our line in spite of my overtures. The technician will arrive in two weeks.

I'd shared with her that our rebirthed wifi network oddly has 5g in its name. One curious Google search leads to a reddit thread about dual band modems and 2.4 ghz vs 5 ghz networks. I reset the modem again.

It works. We're back in 2.4 mode.

The 2 hour affair should have been narrated by Werner Herzog.

Little detail from yesterday. The Tercels are both gone.

The 82 rusted out ages ago and had become a parts car, but the 81 was and is still running. The problem is the engine has had catastrophic lower end damage from when my brother decided that oil was optional while he was driving it for an extended period (a story in and of itself).

With me needing to seriously cut down on expenses, sell the house, move in with fam, and save up to get out of the upper midwest, I just didn't have the time, energy, or heart to replace the engine again. Seeing both cars ready to be picked up with all the boxes of spares was weird. Just a summary of all the things that go into keeping a pair of older cars on the road. I think, also, a visual representation of the care and joy that went into those cars.

Anyway, I gave 'em away to a guy who likes to fix up old cars. I hope that he gets all the time and enjoyment out of them that he can.

The 82's shifter knob ended up in my Yaris, and I kept all the cheesy 1980s Toyota apparel ads and stuff from the 81.

Lots of mixed emotions this week.

ErickC wrote: Sun Sep 01, 2024 2:31 pm
The 82 rusted out ages ago and had become a parts car, but the 81 was and is still running. The problem is the engine has had catastrophic lower end damage from when my brother decided that oil was optional while he was driving it for an extended period (a story in and of itself).

How many miles did you leave on the odometer for each of those?

122,174 on the 81, 138,003 on the 82. The 81 had 55,000 on it when I got it, and I think the 82 had 112,000. They both saw heavy use on frequent short trips. Obviously, both cars dealt with some brutal winters.

The 82 would have probably gotten lots more miles on it if the rear control arms didn't rust out, which is the Achilles' heel for the first-generation Tercel. Moisture collects in the spring pocket, so the edges of the pocket corrode and the coil spring punches right through. The same thing happened to the 81 later on, but we were able to temporarily weld on a metal plate to keep it all together while I continued the nearly futile search for replacements, something I hadn't thought of when it happened the first time (and the 82 was so rusted out at that point that you couldn't even jack it up without crunchy noises). I ended up finding replacement parts by searching for doors, reasoning that any car with its doors still attached was probably complete enough to still have rear control arms.

School shooting 15 minutes from the house this morning.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winde ... index.html

Details are still trickling in, looks like four dead, 40 wounded.

I realize it's a long shot, but if you're living somewhere outside the blood and poverty drenched Great United States and need a theatre professor or a drummer/IT Professional, now would be a great time to hit us up.