Raise a Frank & Stein to the season.

Congratulations <8>.[ram27bat]

Damn ya Fuggers are fast, missed it again... I'm geetin Old... 🇨🇮

Thank you, Ram-a-Lamb.

Congrats Disco!!!

Man, I don't know if it's a good thing or bad, the Mrs. and I have 4 vehicles that plates renew at the end of September, property taxes are do at the end of September... September & October are like Pay Uncle Sam Months!!! 🤦

Congrats 8.

So far the beater's been alright. Failed emissions yesterday but only because an oxygen sensor was "not ready" not a true fail, so I still got plates but only till April.

Ordered belts, shocks, brakes, and on the fence about the windshield. Might do it might not. I think I should wait a few months and make sure this is gonna be a 2-3 year car before I spend $400 for a replacement.

Waiting for the rain to stop, and then I'm going to go to a couple junkyards and see if I can find a new hood for it. That was from the 2nd total loss accident, he drove under the bumper of a pickup truck. T bar/rad support is untouched but the hood is held on with a ratchet strap and all wrinkled up. If I can throw a new hood on it'll look 10x nicer and make me less of a target for the police. That's the biggest downside of driving a beater around here, you get pulled over all the time. I haven't been stopped yet but I've been followed several times. One of my old beaters I logged 50 police stops in a year. No tickets. Usually it's about once a month I get stopped when driving a beater.

It has an exhaust leak too that I should probably fix. He said it's cracked behind the cat. I should be able to just weld that back together without taking it off.

Congrats 8!

Happy Friday fellas.

Wife had two days off so I forgot tgif!

^Dang Layabouts! You probably have time to smoke churchills, too!

Ya know... that title... it just works. Good job, brotherman.

Walked the dog 3 miles. Then got on the treadmill and ran 3 more.

My Friday is over... time to relax, but they're still finishing up the yard and I don't want to breathe that "sigh of relief" and plop my ass into that deck chair with a glass of hooch and a cigar until they're done and everything is cleaned up.

My little buddy Tank is itchin' to play out there.

Nah... it didn't rain enough, here.

They connected hoses to my gutter downspouts and ran them through a small trench to the back of my yard on each side, under the granite/limestone and turf. They reinforced all sides of the yard/fence area with composite material and concrete. Then they put 4 inches of crushed granite with a crushed limestone top above the weed barrier. The yard has a slight slope to the back where the "preserve" is.

I'm guessing that drainage isn't going to be a problem unless the storm is really bad.

Sprayed the foundation around the house yesterday to keep the critters and bugs out with it being Fall, they all wanna place to refuge like an Illegal Alian... Now the SOB's went high and setting off the security camera's around the place... [ram27bat]

I got pulled over in an old beater truck in an upscale town one time for no reason. Cop asked if I "knew why he pulled me over". I said "Because you think I'm poor?" He didn't like that..lol. He was doing a "safety check." Truck was fine...just an old beater that I actually maintained pretty well. F*ck da police

You'da been OK if you had a truckful of lawnmowers and yard equipment.

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Oh, Good Friday Afternoon! It's 83° on the way to 85° today. Just got back from the metropolis of Pelzer, SC.

https://www.mpa-sc.com 

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I always answer "I have no idea" and then they have some BS reason. One was "your license plate is mounted crooked." Another was "your headlights aren't aimed level" One was "i thought your windows were tinted too dark" That one was at night, and I had no window tints. Several were "safety checks" But most were you didn't use your turn signal. Those were always the cop coming up behind me on a straight road and I'd made no turns for 5 miles. One was "you didn't put your hazards on when I pulled you over" Never a valid reason

I can't tell you how many times I've blown in the breathalyzer. Zero times when I've actually been drinking. All the times when I've been driving a poormobile. I've even been stopped after two beers and a burger at 3 Floyds for turning right on red on a no right on red intersection, told the cop where I was coming from and where I was going and still didn't make me blow into the straw. But if I wasn't driving a new car you'd be damn certain I'd be getting a field test.

I went up to the hood to dig around a couple junkyards this morning. Found a 2010 Hyundai Accent hatchback in one of them and a little crosscheck of part numbers on my phone said the hood and grille would fit my 07. Hood was $60 and the grille was $55. Riddle me that. They had a core charge for the hood, so I swapped it out in the parking lot and got $5 back. Hood and grille were both dented/beaten/broken, but I made em work. If it stops raining I'm gonna put a chain around the top radiator support and around a tree and put the car in reverse. Hood almost fits, but the latch is about a quarter inch off from the catch pin. Donor car didn't have a front bumper, so I gotta live with what I got. But I'd like to get the hood to properly latch. Right now it's held shut with a ratchet strap.

I've had mostly good experiences with cops pulling me over. I'm polite, if it's dark I turn off my exterior and turn on my interior lights, I have my info ready, I say yes sir and no sir... and I have very rarely gotten a ticket.

CHP pulled me over once for my "window tint", but I know it was because I didn't move out of his way. He was not running lights or sirens, which he is required to if he speeds... so I was like, screw you, go around.

He wrote me a fix-it ticket for the window tint.

When pulled over and asked, "Do you know why I pulled you over?"

Answer: "I really don't know, trust issues?"

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