Let's wrap this 500 up 👆 or I will change title to ☪ Turkey 🦃 Day 500.:-k

Or, I'm Sick of Halloween Candy 500

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Spam post for Ram for getting closer to the end.

Or, Only Candy Corn Left from Halloween, Time to Move On 500

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Nothing but sticky green suckers until this 500 is done.

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Keep up the good work. =d>

We need to pause this to add the latest BB Video in the Californians Move to Texas series.

Californians Move to Texas | Episode 4: The Gun Range




Funny thing, in most neophyte gun couples, the women do better than the men.

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If we run out of the gooey green suckers, there are frozen individually wrapped peppermint disks waiting.

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Or some semi-petrified door-stop fruitcake loaded with tons of that funky green and yellow citron bits that come from an EPA Superfund site number NINE!

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We can procrastinate and finish it tomorrow. Gives us something to do tomorrow and we can just chill tonight, no pressure.

Me too. The cost of changing it with Synthetic oil was the same as doing it myself.
In the new "covid" world, they changed me $100 to change it.

I'll go back to doing it myself...

Bought 12 quarts of Mobil 1, a Wix and a Toyota filter, and a wix air filter for the truck... grand total $140 to change the oil/filter in both vehicles and the air filter in the truck.

Haven't done the wife's car yet... just got it at 9150 miles and they said they already did the 10k. Checked the air filter and it was brand new... so when she hits 15k I'll change the oil.

9.5 hours of work with 20,000 steps.

G’night.

Proud of you Eight. =d>

Not at our house. Mrs. Beach is a candy corn fiend. I keep trying to tell her it's the most despicable form of sugar intake right after Necco Wafers

Agree with this 100%. Necco Wafers are (or were) made our here in the Boston area. I think they went under a few years back and someone else bought them out to keep making these tasteless chalky things.

Similar to Smarties and Sweet Tarts but without the required sugar and flavors. Neccos are like chewing on a piece of chalk.

I'd add the Easter peeps marshmallow things to the despicable candy list list too.

Yes! Peeps are also awful. And another favorite of the wife. Luckily, she's consistent though. She's got incredibly poor taste in spousal partners as well.

didn't you used to be a thing here?

On another topic.... my fist endeavor on the e-bike thing. I first bought a conversion kit to convert my peddle bike into an e-bike (about $500 of stuff). Problem was the battery pack didn't fit in the main triangle of my trail bike (a rear shock absorber got in the way). I tried to get it to fit. I cut up the battery mounting kit and so forth but ended up punting. Then I bought an "all in one" bike one which I continue to use (I love this thing).

But I still had the Frankenstein set of stuff for converting over a regular bike to an e-bike. The bits and pieces from the conversion kit has been sitting in my closet for a year or so.

Neighbor kid (13 yrs old) knew I had the conversion parts and kept bugging me to give it/sell it to to him.

Me: "Dimitri, there's about $500 of parts here and I don't have all the owner's/install manuals. I can't in honest faith sell you of parts for something that you probably can't get to work on your bike" The kid was persistent. So I gave him all the stuff to get him off my back "if you can install it on your bike, then we'll discuss terms of sale later. If not then no big deal."

A week later, the kid had it installed and running on his bike, working on it after school and watching YouTube vids. He's "on the autistic spectrum" and is pretty good working with mechanical stuff. Once he got it running, we agreed to $200, with a $20/week payment plan as long as he does his chores around the house at home.

I can't take money from the kid. I'll probably just hold the money and give it back to him though his parents for Christmas or something.

In all my life I've never been exposed to kids with autism until the past couple of years. I have had the opportunity to work with a few and they amaze me. Like all of us, they have a special skill. But unlike me, their special skills seem to be amplified while other life skills that we take as normal are not and rank lower on the "spectrum."

I would love to to a Vulcan mind meld with a functional autistic person and be able to read what is going on within their brain.

I had one of those fitbit thingies years ago. May need to invest in another. Just to see how many steps I'm getting in. What with the dog walks and such, I bet a lot.