We were born to the Fletcher family, rich and famous for our specialized pinpoint weapons. The family owned a few ‘roids, and we made a nice life there, but our base was on Mars, Big Red. My little brother and I have different Moms but we didn’t care, Dad ran the show anyway, so we didn’t know any better, we didn’t even know until prep school, ha!. Cat always rubbed Dad the wrong way, but he was subtle enough that Dad gave him a great starting purse and sent him off, better to not embarrass the Family you see, and then you should have seen him take off.
He learned everything from logistics to armaments, negotiations, and was soon making bank, that’s when Da approached him. All of a sudden, his Black sheep boy showed promise! Riches and control of the the belt possibly, Da went all in, and ever since, we have gained much of the Belters loyalty, so we ended up with a great little society, free of Earth constraints, which of course pissed off Earth, Never! Piss off Earth.
The Cat developed close mining and dedicated mining wherever he could, and all of a sudden, we Didn’t need earth anymore, My Brother did that….
Once our mining tech was developed, anyone could make a claim, and the Belt became rich,
Our colonies grew into Cities, and our influence grew into an Empire, one that could challenge Earth’s hegemony, but we had no true leader, until Cat. He is willing to risk it all for the sake of Human advancement, and the kid loves to make money, he is on a mining run as we speak, two billion tons of Diamond dust, let’s see how it plays out.
rich and famous for our specialized pinpoint weapons.
How much?
My Time traveler is back in order, lemme check,
I’ve been through the system on a ship with no name
It feels good to be out of the belt
In space you can’t remember your name
’cause there ain’t no one for to hear you scream
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala[ANOMALY DETECTED]
Oh, the Ship’s name is Leopard
Space Mormons!
OK, sounds fun, They were MORMONS IN SPAAAAACE!
The story is ratcheding up?
They have “roids”. Story needs more fiber.
God Damn Peasant, stay on Earth, grow food or something,
/JK
Yes, it is, and the Tales will continue, hopefully
Sigh nobody got my “Luis” Fletcher joke. Or it wasn’t funny.
Ah, damn! you got my reference and I missed your response, yep, very funny,
sorry,
I was trying to come up with a witty Kai Winn response but I couldn’t make it work.
But yeah, I love her. Great choice.
Well played, she was Evil in DS9
And sooo good at it.
Space Opera rounding out my Monday. This place cheered me up and I am ready to hear what the school needs my son to do for bringing da paaaht to school tomorrow. Thanks Yusef!
My Pleasure,
Bobbies got a Quck hand,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ&list=RDluJJBeCFeM0&index=3
I read that as “Boobies got a quick hand”.
😉
You would….
🙂
🙂
I also…apparently we just have an innate drive towards something. Just wish I could get a quick hand on it…
We need to nip it in the bud!
We need an accurate weight of the melons at hand.
This is why I am an Elon fanboi, he makes my Tales come true! and Buck Amazon,
https://www.sciencealert.com/spacex-thinks-it-can-return-humanity-to-the-moon-before-2024
Buck? Try Fuck…
What, you got something against Bezos’ dick shaped rocket?
Didn’t he just lose a bunch of his team cause they lost the contract?
When your Rocket sucks….
OK. So I’ve been away from here for a while. I missed all the vaccine discussions. Serious question; should I get the jab, and if so, which one?
If it matters, I am middle aged, 30lbs overweight, and have mild asthma.
No idea, dude. I’m middle-aged and 30 pounds overweight but no other health issues that I am aware of.
I’m not getting it.
But I also live alone and don’t have prolonged exposure to anyone else. YMMV.
“But I also live alone and don’t have prolonged exposure to anyone else.”
So much small town this,
Talk to your doctor….ok laughter out of the way, because apparently, my wife has the only doctor in the world that laid it out straight to her.
Honestly though, you are probably good but weigh your risks and benefits. I also carry a bit of extra weight but don’t suffer from asthma. No history of pneumonia in my family or previous illnesses.
I guess I’m unsure of my risks from the vaccine. I’ve tried to go looking for good info, but every site I’ve found seems to have an agenda.
On top of it all, I have suspicion that I may have already had it early on. Isn’t it interesting that the vaccine is free, but antibody tests you have to pay for? And why is natural immunity after surviving the disease the best thing ever for every disease known to man except for COVID?
It’s endemic, like influenza. There will be a booster every year just like the flu. Only because it has a 0.01% chance of killing you instead of a 0.005% chance, it will be mandatory and you cannot participate in society without getting it.
I guess, ultimately, this is what I am looking at. Early on I thought I would never get it. But as more and more rules start coming down, I am trying to decide how hard I should fight.
If you donate blood they will tell you if you had covid. FWIW, I’m 56 with no comorbidities. I decided to get it because I’m creeping into the bracket with some (IMO) risk. I chose J&j because it appears to do well minimizing symptoms.
Were I drawing a line, it’d be mid-50s with a substantial comorbidity. Younger folks with many more substantial comorbidities may want to go for it. Older folks with fewer comorbidities may also want to go for it, but I don’t think your average 45 year old should be getting the shot, and I don’t think your average 85 year old should worry too much about the shot.
/just my $.02
worry too much about *side effects from* the shot.
My thinking has been along the same lines, Trashy. Since my mild asthma is not a major comorbidity, I’ve been in the “no thanks” crowd. But with all the bullshit about mandates lately, I guess I’m wondering if this is a hill I want to die on (literally?). My questions are more towards the safety of the various vaccines, rather than my need to get one.
I will say that if I were to get the vaccine, there’s no fucking way I’m going to wear a mask anywhere anymore.
Masks are IMHO useless. Always were.
The only reason I wear it in certain places* is because I don’t want to rock the boat. My big concern is that rocking the boat is going to become necessary in the near future and I’m not sure I’m ready for that.
*Right now, the only one is liquor stores. They’re all run by Koreans who are touchy about this stuff. If I go back to the office, that’s another one.
Yeah, the mask thing it complete theater. Maybe…see my comment about viral load theory below. If that is true, then masks should (could) lessen the severity of your sickness. In which case, masks might serve much the same job as the “vaccine”. With far fewer side-effects.
I’d love to see some people with sound data and no agendas politely debate these topics.
That would be refreshing. From what I can tell, anything short of a properly worn N95 mask is theater.
The -or one of the- funniest things is seeing men with full beards wearing homemade cloth masks and everyone around them thinking they are doing their part to “stop the spread”. ??
I’m with trashy with a caveat.
If you’ve recovered from the ‘Rona, there is no need for the vaccine at all.
I’m not getting the vax, I may be old but in good health. I’m not too worried about the ‘rona killing me, the doctors are doing their best (one way or the other) to solve that problem.
I’m having an allergic reaction now, I think its the meds. I see the family doc tomorrow and tell him the problem. One way or another the problem has to be resolved. Sure don’t need the vax now or ever.
“…and if so, which one?”
ALL OF THEM!
Followed by a ketamine chaser.
Then one scotch, one bourbon, and one beer.
Nick, you really need to come a day early to HH.
I* had the coof and didn’t even know it. I even went to work the next Monday. Then my boss called and said he lost his sense of smell and that I should get tested. How bad is it if a lard-ass like me catches it and didn’t even know it?
*100 lbs. overweight, slight asthma, high blood pressure, pre-diabetic, but strong like bull and ornery as a mule.
I’m glad I grew up in an Asteroid,
/6′ 125 lb.
Early on I heard an interview with a virologist who had done some early stage testing and thought she was seeing that viral load (great band name) was important with COVID. Meaning, your sickness level was dependent on how many virus cells made it into your body. It was quite interesting, she didn’t seem to have an agenda, and I’ve not heard a peep about it for over a year.
That is unfortunately one of the things that they used to underpin masks and the dumb plexiglass shields, back when they were still saying it was droplet spread. If there are droplets and you block them, then fewer viruses can colonize you. I’ve heard it more recently in the context that Delta requires less load to infect (why it’s more ‘infectious’).
I have asthma and spinal issues that make me a bad candidate for pneumonia in general, so I got the vaxx. I would say if you’re sure you had it (and not flu or something else – I still suspect there was another virus traveling around winter 2019-2020) then you don’t need it, but if you’re not sure? and esp if you get asthmatic easily or are prone to lung infections, you probably should take it because it will colonize whatever’s weakest.
Thank you, OTA. I have been of a similar mind, but get these feelings of “fuck you” when people start trying to push it on me. If the general consensus in a room full of skeptics is that I should consider it, then I start listening.
Things still not known
How much viral matter it takes to trigger an infection. There are animal analog studies and it’s more than something like measles but that’s about it.
Why it causes mild symptoms in some and death in others. Comorbidities are a correlation but the understanding of the relationship and cause is not there yet.
There’s more but these are just off the top of my ? head.
MikeS’s invitation needs to weighed carefully, Nick. You’ve seen him on an HH Sunday morning, you decide.
Sunday afternoon, thank you very much.
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I made the mistake of scheduling my second* knee replacement the week before Honey Harvest. I will still be hopped up on Hydrocodone so I probably shouldn’t drive myself to HH. I’m working on the logistics of getting there.
*Third leg still works wonderfully, but doesn’t get much exercise anymore.
Hope this helps!
https://www.snohd.org/DocumentCenter/View/7295/How-Adenovector-Vaccine-Works__Japanese
https://www.snohd.org/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=6074
Kidding. The mRNA is brand new, the adenovirus almost brand new. If I were a younger woman I’d avoid the J&J. Otherwise J&J seemed to tick the same boxes with one less trip.
That said it doesn’t seem to have quite as strong protection, but to the dismay of the snobs it seems to actually work the same across variants better than mRNA versions.
Wait…if look hard enough, I think I get it…
An oldy, but goody!
Best comment: This should be the official song of the Japanese Olympics.
With the little info I have, I was leaning towards J&J as well. I just don’t know.
Plus everybody here in NJ/NYC (aka all the hypochondriacs) looks at you like you are crazy for not choosing the one of the mRNA vaccines.
Which I should be clear I consider a win.
That’s a huge win.
I have no idea what people around here think. I have not had one single conversation about this stuff with anyone.
I’m mostly kidding, but…
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/pfizer-gang-pfinished/619738/
BTW – Google stalked the author would you care to guess where she lives?
It starts with a B and ends in n.
If you leave people alone, they’ll be anti-vaccine. Does he ever stop to think that, if the disease was as bad as they say and the vax as good as they say, people would all be down at the CVS begging for it? Careful and thorough moderation just means publishing what you want to say. Write a fucking article and post that. Mr. all fucking knowing.
Feh. “The Atlantic writer” is a very specific sub-species of New Yorker in my experience.
There is nobody like that in my corner of B-n. We outnumber the assholes that infest Park Slope and Williamsburg by 10-1 but of course that is not reflected in the media.
I’m sure you knew I was being tongue in cheek!
I take that back. I’ve had a couple conversations with my favorite bodega proprietor and we agreed that what is going on is a whole lot of bullshit.
I did the math last week:
1) Elderly with comorbidities: 7 to 8 times more likely to die from COVID that a car accident over the last year. ==> get the shot
2) Middle-age or younger without comorbidities: 10 times more likely to die from a car accident than COVID over the last year. ==> fuck the shot
3) 50ish to 60ish with health problems ==> toss up. Decide for yourself.
58 on Wednesday, I’m good
I need to travel to put food on the table.
I also like to see different parts of the world.
I’m starting to feel like we have lost, big time. We are such a small minority.
The Black Pill looms large.
Yes. Even posting my original question came with an amount of defeatism. I do not have positive feelings for the future, freedom-wise.
I won’t get it. Full stop.
I’m not you. You need to weigh your own circumstances versus a shot that has a non zero chance to kill you short term or have long term complications.
I will never get it. Their credibility is shot to hell due to lying for a year and a half. I do not believe them and I think this has been nothing but a money grab by big pharma pushed by their government arm known as the CDC. They actively hid and continue to hide treatments to push their vaccines. Who knows how many people they needlessly murdered. Fuck them and fuck anybody who supports them. The taxpayer funded their research and they get to keep all profits with no liability for a vaccine that is going to require six month boosters. It has been a con. The boosters are not like the yearly flu shot which is a different strain of flu expected that season. The vid boosters are needed because the vax does not work.
There is lots of info out there about these but it is being censored. I would search out vaxx detractors. They are hard to find but they are out there. Start with Del Bigtree. I first heard him on The Freeman Beyond the Wall podcast.
Just like their fake battle against ObamaCare, legislatures across the various states had an opportunity over the past 7 months to pass legislation that would have protected against COVID vaccinations becoming mandatory* but instead, we operate on a continuous cycle of campaign sound bites.
*Well at least would have tied it up in courts for a bit.
I don’t see how any of these tyrants’ edicts are legal. Not a one of them came out of a legislature.
The NH legislature, specifically the House, tried to pass legislation that would ban use of vaccine passports in the both the private and public sector.
Many of the actions, not just this one, of the NH House of Representatives displeased His Excellency (*) the Governor, so His Excellency used his family’s influence over the state Republican party to threaten to withhold party support for state senators that went along with what the House was doing. All of a sudden, no one in the Senate is interested in reining in the governor.
On this specific issue, the Senate President somewhat bucked the trend. He announced that there would be no vaccine passports in NH.
The Senate amended the House passed legislation so that the NH state government, towns and cities, counties, and any entity owned by the state could not require vaccine passports or proof of Lil Rona vaccination. The legislation is silent on the private sector. This version ended up passing and being signed by the governor.
(*) You might think this is a joke, but the NH Constitution actually states the NH Governor will be addressed as “His/Her Excellency”.
This whole governmenting thing you describe is so confusing. It’s so much easier when the Top. Man. just says jump and everyone asks how high.
This entire Series is based on my Favorite Sci fi, Privateers.Bova, Niven and Pournelle, and others made me happy for the future, so When I see Elon iterating, and Bezos staggering, I only see our future, if we don’t kill ourselves,
SPACE!
Wife already knows…I am going if it opens up. I will be a space roughneck
I’m too old, for now….
Mecha Yusef!
I really need to catch up on the Niven and Pournelle novels I haven’t read. Just so much on my wish list.
Man Kzin wars are great as well, tons of that universe to read,
Also The Burning City, very Glib,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burning_City
Yes.
Well the lead up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is going to be bang-on.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9920895/House-Intel-Chair-says-unlikely-able-evacuate-citizens-Kabul-Aug-31.html
I keep telling my wife i want to move further into the country. Our population of 1900 is too crowded.
I hear the Afghani outlands are nice.
It’s a long way home from the Field of Mars.
Thanks, Yusef!
I don’t know why y’all are all so skeptical about the space alien reports. Hell, we already have a full documentary on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqtjHWlM4lQ
What the hell are you doing up?
Cant sleep so I gave up trying.
Must be those Russian hackers…
Data breach exposes Cal State Chico students who requested religious exemptions from COVID vaccine
JFC. That’s infuriating.
Karens assemble!
Think it would be difficult to figure out which employee leaked that? Or would htere be too many suspects?
In other Covid news; my office mate had to go pick up his daughters from daycare at 3pm today because it was getting (voluntarily by the owner) shut down. Why? Because one of the kids tested positive. None of the kids can come back for 10 days unless they get a negative Covid test.
This daycare only has kids 5 and under.
?
Why do you hate SCIENCE!
It seems like this Vid thing will never get dropped. How long can they keep it going for? The Dems (and a fair number of are pubs) are playing a very dangerous game here. People only stay scared of something until they don’t. We need a pendulum swing in the culture badly. It’s utterly depressing how bad it has gotten for individual liberty in a short time. I often fear if we will ever get it back.
fair number of Repubs (feckin autocorrect)
I couldn’t agree more.
Because he hasn’t embarrassed himself enough.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/08/23/president-biden-declares-that-megan-rapinoe-and-sue-bird-represent-the-best-of-what-america-stands-for/
It’s remarkable how he’ll jump on anything his radical handlers feed him. It’s like he’s not all there or something.
I don’t think he’s all there but I also don’t think that’s the reason. Biden has always accommodated himself to the center of his party. Unfortunately, that center has moved far left.
Maybe we are learning.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/poll-no-trump-or-biden-in-2024
Between Harris or Buttigieg for the Dems? I’m not sure that is learning.
They are rejecting Biden. Baby steps.
What do you think the chances of us getting rid of Gav are? My brother wanted to bet me on it a few weeks ago and I wanted +120 but he balked at that and wanted it even. I give the Dem machine at least a 60% chance of pulling it off. Which is actually amazing as on just about every issue he has been utterly terrible. I realize the rot is deep, but it would be a lovely jolt of optimism that he get sent packing. I’m pretty sure I am going to be disappointed on Sept 15th though. If he does, I think the chance we get more lockdowns is very high indeed.
I agree with everything you wrote. The X factors between now and voting day are the fire, electricity, and Biden. If there is a big fire near a population center it’s going to bring unfavorable news coverage. If we have a days long blackout, he’s got a problem. If Biden makes another blunder people are going to keep feeling bad in general. Biden isn’t on the ballot but Newsom is.
I want to be my dog. Then I can lay on the couch firing off on SBD after another and people tell me how wonderful I am.
The Aussie govt is killing all the rescue dogs in an attempt to fix their trade imbalance with Korea.
Now that’s a hot take.
Man, I wish I could laugh.
Too close to the truth!!
Bob, I heart this story series so much I can’t express it adequately.
I love the multi-pronged point of view and even multi-timelines. Fucking Tarantino should take note.
MOAR!!
There is more, Glad you like it Fellow Fanboi!
Meanwhile, below the fold.
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2021/08/street-racing-shuts-down-southbound-1-405-on-fremont-bridge-sunday-night.html
Lawlessness begets lawlessness. Note that in all the ink about street takeovers, zero about BLM and antifa terrorists doing that very thing for the past several years.
Erfff.
Yeah, they have to side step that Antifa stuff pretty hard, and you can tell some journalists don’t like to do it.
But greater good and all that.
Get out!
This fucking “trend” needs to die in a fire.
Only anarchocommunist road shutdowns will be tolerated.
Ladies and gentlepeople:
I have an announcement. I will soon be giving up my career as a mercenary using electrical engineering to break things for profit.
Instead, I will be working directly for the government in the “mines” 1000ft underground in Nevada mixing high voltage, high explosives, and plutonium in order to ensure that America’s Nuke stockpile is in tip-top shape.
I might have to say bye to you all.
But seriously this is my dream job, dirty as it is.
https://www.nnss.gov/pages/facilities/U1aComplex.html
For selfish reasons I will be sad to see you go. For your sake I am happy that you are getting your dream job. Congratulations!
Wow. Best wishes to you.
Though I hope we don’t lose you.
Congrats on the job and welcome to the nuke industry. You can always assume a nom de plume and reveal a bit less, a lot less actually, personal information (you’re worried about clearance issues I assume?).
Nukes are evil and so your dream job should have nothing to do with them
Best of luck!
Keep my contact info in case you want to expand your harem.
Ha!
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/08/23/delaware-county-suspect-shot-at-officers-and-crashed-in-philadelphia-before-taking-police-suv/
One dude causes much havoc. Got away. LOL.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/08/murphy-orders-vaccination-requirement-for-all-nj-state-workers-including-at-public-colleges.html
There are more jobs now than job seekers. I hope this backfires spectacularly.
There’ll be a core that hold out but I’ll be surprised if it’s more than a quarter of people that haven’t already gotten it. I just hope the people who are forced don’t succumb to “they did it to me, you deserve the same” syndrome like people are wont to do.
These edicts have to backfire. I keep hearing estimates that like a third of folks just refuse to get it.
OTOH, this could be the biggest reduction in government in the history of the nation.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-arrested-lewd-jail-visit-inmate
That should not be a crime. Sad!
Greetings! i’m sitting in Rose’s right now having a cuppa Joe, I think maybe I should head back to 21c. and find that svelte little lady and take her out,
Enjoy the Morning, or whatever time it is over there,
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/08/23/poll-americans-oppose-mass-migration-afghanistan/
Correct. They can’t fight for their own country? GTFO.
Why fight for your own shitty country when you can get moved (for free) to a place with lush entitlements ?
Is ti already Wednesday? Or Tuesday? Honestly they need to stop giving me time off in Jugsy’s absence.
Id like in entered into the record, however, tjat Fricker’s BLT pizza is da baum. No Sean, Ill peeled the toppings off the crust.
G_d damn, I need a drink
It’s Wednesday where I am, Tuesday in your time, get a Tall Can and sit down before you fall into something…..
Speaking of such joints, RIP Rooster’s Dayton. ? Not that I ever went there – I just hate to see another place go under and the area go (further) downhill.
It sounds like no you don’t.
Yeah, I’m wondering if I need to go over & do a welfare check. I almost know where he lives – I’m pretty sure I remember the street. I guess I could just look for the Tall Cans…
or a broken TV in the yard….
Also look for the tall grass he said he wasn’t going to cut yet.
water and electrolytes are always needed
Morning, Glibs.
I need a vacation.
Good morning, U! You have a vacation coming up next month – not soon enough, I gather? Wassamatter?
A lot. Most recently, while handing out work assignments, one of the consultants argued with me because he didn’t believe the guy a task was given to was capable of doing it. Mind you it’s not the consultants’ jobs to make that determination, it’s mine and my supervisor’s. There’s some kind of behind the scenes interpersonal disagreement between the two I’m not directly privvy to, but this is the first time it intruded into work so blatantly.
My supervisor is on vacation, so I had to settle the guy down and make sure the behaviour wasn’t rewarded while maintaining the calm and even-keeled facade for everyone else in that meeting.
Fun.
I would have loved to lose my professionalism, but that would have just undermined me in the long run.
And the guy we assigned the task to is perfectly capable of doing it.
I’m sorry you had to get involved in others’ personal animosities, but I’m glad – and not at all surprised – that you were able to maintain your professional demeanor. (Stuff like that is part of why I’ve never really had the desire to become a supervisor.) Sounds to me as if you did exactly the right thing.
So how many days until you get to leave on your big trip?
Next week. I start driving on friday the 3rd.
Honestly even if I believed X is not capable of the task I would probably not say anything about it to my manager. But you handled it well it seems.
Yeah, I don’t get people either.
Sorry.
Our consultants do what they’re told and don’t talk back.
the problem in my line of work is consultants sometimes don’t know how to do it and pester you but it is not their fault really…
Honestly this annoys me about the impossible to fire laws in much of Europe, companies compensate with consultants which are payed a lot and don;t know the particulars
I don’t have to wield my authoritah often, but if I do I will make sure there is no room for misunderstanding that I’m in charge.
Who doesn’t?
The fucked up thing is I did little work this month but did have to spend most time on my work computer. I still have 15 days left this year after taking days off to bridge Christmas to new years, so I will take some time off by the end of it I assume but have no idea where to go. I should use my ryan air voucher…
Ryanair goes to all those little hick towns in the UK like Edinburgh, right?
Well it goes to a lot of places, the question is where from Bucharest. Yes it does go to Edinburgh but I assume the place is locked down.
I was thinking Palma de Mallorca but accommodation is kind of pricey. Or Malta somewhere in October/November when it gets cold here.
There are flight to Dublin, Tel Aviv, Madrid Cyrpus, Jordan, Berlin and a few more but I am unsure of what the pandemic is doing.
The pandemic isn’t doing a whole lot.
The Governments, however, are putting the boot to the proles.
Same difference for travel plans. But yes, the pandemic is a euphemism for the slavers in charge. I would go for some more whisky tastings in Scotland but the Scots are well and truly cucked
Hope you’re kidding about Edinburgh, NA. One of the most beautiful places in the world.
are you suggesting little hick towns cannot be beautiful?
Never knew you had a thing for Indiana
It was a wee poke incorporating the fact that Tulsa is larger than Edinburgh.
And a Good Mornin’ to all the Glibs that are out or about. The old bones were creakin’ this morning when I waked up (’cause I’m not woke) and the sound of thunder was music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnwOwz6OvQ
Hope you don’t have this problem, 4(20)!
GT, I had a 50 year metal roof installed last year, I’m either an optimist or stupid, you decide.
Well, when you’re Sixscore, you’ll be complaining how they aren’t honoring their fifty year promise.
Thanks, Fourscore.
I haven’t heard that song in a while. My family used to play Hearts on Friday nights and listen to the oldies station from Minneapolis. That song was on regularly.
We could use some raindrops falling from the sky-ie here. Smells like a room full of cigar smokers.
We’re going away soon. I’ll probably post some pics.
Mornin’ Glibbies! Ugh, what a shit last couple of days that turned into. Replaced the brakes on the truck and pretty much everything that could go wrong did. Kept running into problems and of course the thing is up on stands so I can’t just nip out for parts. Lost a day’s wages on Sunday and my relief didn’t do much of anything. Had to use a wee grinder to cut the steel pins that hold the pads in the calipers and then drill out the remainder. Misplaced my cheater bar and lost most of Saturday afternoon. All that kneeling, crouching and rolling around in the driveway means that I’ll be paying for it for a few days. I’m sure all the drinking didn’t help matters much. I’ve done this chore a couple dozen times and never had problems like those. Ah well, new pads and rotors are installed and I made it to work on Monday night.
I would never trust myself fixing stuff on my vehicle, let alone breaks so good job
Pie, at least when I do my own brakes I know they are done correctly, it’s not rocket science,
Maybe if you have an idea of what you are doing, I am not that handy and I have no tools for it. I will continue to pay the good people at Toma Autotehnic
*googles*
Really? That’s some full service right there.
I have no idea where you get that from
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Automotive–Aircraft—Boat/TOMA-AUTOTEHNIC-221809294509446/
Here.
lol never saw the facebook page
They only work on amphibious flying cars.
Those are called spaceships,
That sucks, Brakes are usually pretty simple, glad you got it done though,
Thanks. The old parts were factory-issue. The corrosion was unreal. Should have been a two-hour task.
Good that ALL the wheels are rolling again, my boy
My wheels weren’t moving so well, too long sleeping without moving but once I was up, got a cuppa joe and my little piece of the Glibs my personal sun was shining again. Another great day!
/In my Tiger voice
It takes at least 4 hours to get my back in shape to walk out the door nowadays, right now I’m hobbled, sitting at my desk.
Thanks 4×20! I was near tears at one point just from sheer frustration and tiredness. When my little scheme with the bit extender finally worked I was a happy man. Hard to work on calipers when they are bolted in place.
Speaking of edicts, they are coming fast and furious up here. Vax passport for anything deemed non-essential. Canada Post is going mandate. My union soon to follow suit, to be sure. I’ve got some decisions to make.
Are you a postal worker? Your avatar does look kind of like the mailman in Mister Rodger’s Neighborhood to me.
Postal adjacent. I clean up after them.
He’s the janitor at a postal facility.
Much more important person.
*puffs out chest, loses wind quickly*
Happy birthday Ukraine.
I not say Ukraine is weak!
Steyn tells the truth,
https://www.steynonline.com/11628/meltdown-of-a-superpower
Steyn’s pretty good! Potemptagon!
Yep, a Stand up Guy!