What did you do today?

[high plains drifter]

Hat tip to you good sir. Time is valuable and you helped a friend get into a reliable vehicle and she wasn't upsold any bells and whistles them dealers offer.

Thanks. She's up there in age... early 70's and although she's occasionally aggravating due to being a bit of a scatter-brain, she's proven to be a true friend over the years. She's a good egg and she's had her fair share of tough times so being there for her today wasn't much of an inconvenience. The older I get, the more I appreciate the support of a reliable companion.

 

[diezel666]

Good on ya mate. As a retired mechanic (dealer and independent), I too offer to my friends purchase help as well (negotiating, and pre-purchase inspection). So many shady sellers out there.

 

[high plains drifter]

Good on ya mate. As a retired mechanic (dealer and independent), I too offer to my friends purchase help as well (negotiating, and pre-purchase inspection). So many shady sellers out there.

Appreciate it. Lot of upfront as well as hidden things to steer clear of in the car-buying game. I'm glad I went because there were a good number of things that she needed clarified as well as to avoid. Plus I was able to talk to the mgr and get another $400 off. I think he enjoyed flexing his authority he seemed to enjoy the dialogue. I just made sure to keep the banter upbeat and lively lol.

FWIW The car is just over 100k but like I told her... I really only generally trust Toyota and Honda regarding affordable higer mileage vehicles that well-kept can go another 100 or more. I like a lot of Subaru models as well but there not easy to find around here.

Another fwiw... She's coming out of a 2010 Prius Hybrid with over 200k miles that's been plagued with issues past few years... one of which was the battery/ system which cost $5000 and now it's needing a water pump and may have a cracked head. They gave her all of $500 for it and I told her she should be happy to just get that salvage value... despite the battery job that wasn't even a year old. I told her back then that she should get rid of that thing while she could and not put another dime into it but she didn't listen. She could've at least got $2-3k for it back then.

 

[Goro Majima]

Yeah I've got a fine example of Toyota reliability. My dad bought a '07 FJC new and right now it has 479k miles with no major repairs and maintenance has been upkept. Would be awesome to hit 500k on original drivetrain but this thing doesn't see commuting anymore since I took it over. The actual distant driving it sees actually is mostly from RC meets! It'll see a 3hr drive early tomorrow morning.

 

[high plains drifter]

Wow... no reason you couldn't get her to the 500k club. May take a few longer trips but that's fantastic. I was well over 250k when I sold my 4 runner. I could've justified the work needed to have kept her going but not the cost so I finally let her go.

 

[Gula]

Cleaned/cleared up some stuff in my garage. Gathered all the angle iron, other material/scrap Ill never use in my lifetime and dropped it off with a couple hundred pounds of aluminum and brass, etc at my old job that Ive been gathering for a smelting forge that will never happen.

 

[lonleycreeper]

My dad (age70) and I rode McGruder Corridor together over the last three days, averaging 90 ish miles a day for a total of 284, on our motorcycles. (TW200 for me KLX140 for my dad) Elk City ID, to Darby MT, total of 122 miles one way. Also we threw some fishing in there and each caught some trout all really small so no trout for dinner on this trip. Pics in 3...2...1...

McGruder Ranger Station about the halfway mark. My dad ran out of fuel 70 miles in, soon after leaving the ranger station.

First night's rest.

Entering Darby.

Some signs, lol notice most remote location in the lower 48...

Second night, letting sleeping bags dry out...

One fishing spot.

Trail back...

Ready to finish the ride.

Mountains to climb.

On top of Burnt Knob Lookout. the trail up was pretty nasty, vids don't do it justice.

Next rest stop, about 20 miles from the truck.

And that all the pictures I took, absolutely epic ride!

 

[Gula]

Gutted my 1990 lolvo station wagon doors for all the goods, to save for the 1995 sedan. No pics, so that may or may not have happened, lol.

RZR rey came in and immediately was partially disassembled and went under the beetle body for test fitting. Fits really, really welk width wise. Jusy needs a strech.

 

[Timmahh]

Took 1/2 a day off yesterday so I could get some things done at my cousins house.
Blew a brake line on my way home.
So today was installing a new line, bleeding the brakes, and tomorrow am I am fixing the exhaust on my other vehicle, then hopefully going to do some crawling. Then off to my cousins for the rest of the day.
Busy busy.

 

[Goro Majima]

I was super stoked to hike around a whole lake (one person said it's 5 miles, another said 8 lol). I was overstocked on lipos. Unfortunately we only did maybe 2 miles and some people had to turn back so that ended the group outing basically. It was still a fun time and seeing some people I've met before.

If you check the Tundra bed, I have a full set of 5 spoke Pro Builds with Dick Cepek 4.19 tires. After this picture, I drive it straight and attempt a descent off this boulder. It was going to tip sideways so I prevented it, and bye bye went one of the wheels from the bed, rolling and bouncing it's way down to what we assume was the lake (trees in the way and we couldn't watch it completely). I wasn't too worried about it because I wouldn't have put them in the bed if I was but still kinda sucked haha. I do want to have this set complete still and cool thing about Pro Builds is you can just buy a single how you want it.

 

[diezel666]

Today... Well... I was kind of all over the place.

First I started getting parts in, to replace old crappy parts on my 2004 Toyota Tacoma. So.. Here's the first beautiful bit.


And then, I had a box with a 915Mhz Cavity filter for my Meshtastic rig show up. So now I have the Transceiver, Cavity Filter, Amplifier/ Receive pre-amp online and hooked up to LMR400 Coax running to a 8dB gain antenna.


It's been a busy week.

Now to wait for the rest of the Tacoma parts to show up (waiting on Upper Control Arms, Rear Shocks). Already have new lower ball joints to swap in. Then it'll be off for new tires and an alignment.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Not just today, but this week has been a busy RC week for me. I think I have the RC addiction again! Also, I 3D printed a lot of stuff for my girlfriend's son. He keeps buying 3D printed trinkets at fairs and I told him I can do that and he has been asking me ever since to get my 3D printer running again. Thankfully he did that because I'm loving that hobby again!

Monday: Bought Traxxas 4-Tec Drift Mustang, soldered on an XT60 connector (first time soldering in 4 years) and then ran it.

Tuesday: Drove the 4-Tec Drift Mustang and fried the stock servo so then came home and soldered a new XT60 connector and NSDRC servo power lead to my Fusion Pro on my VRD Carbon kit. NSDRC horn shown in the photo is sadly too long to use as it causes the drag link rod end to bind on the tierod. That truck is finally complete minus paint and probably a gearing change.

Wednesday: The 4-Tec Drift gave me the drift itch again so I got out my Sakura D4 AWD and started fixing that. I was going to order parts, but found that I already had them at my house. Too much RC stuff! I thought it was an RWD car, but it is not so I am researching what all needs to be done to convert it to RWD other than just cutting the belt to the front diff. Also brought up my partially finished Tamiya DT-03 Neo Fighter kit that I started in 2021. I have buggy fever right now so I want to finish that. And lastly, I received my Kyosho Dirt Master kit.

I found so many RC electronics in my search for 3D printing stuff and the Sakura D4 parts. I have 4 NIB motors, at least 4 NIB ESCs including a HobbyWing Justock and a Castle Mamba Micro X. No idea why I would have bought that last one. Did I say I have way too much RC stuff?

 

[Gula]

I installed 2x insinkerator 9k disposals yesterday. One for my neighbor, one for my daughter's friends mom. The "mom's" was almost plug and play, per say. Not really, and my neighbor required some fittings, and cement.

Bought a playpen/daysleeper for my recently partially disabled paralyzed cat.

Disassembled the RZR rey and marked both chassis for "milling" reference.

Bought some med ABS cement today and will head over to finish my neighbors disposal install.

 

[Goro Majima]

Treated my poison ivy rash from this weekend. Sucks because A Crawl For Hope is this Saturday and I don't think it will be healed enough.

 

[Reezo]

Had another solid argument with my wife who is really depressed and oppressed by our relationship, for years she's seeing nobody and doing nothing, not even driving, we've paved ourselves in a corner and we're really lonely but she's suffering a lot from this, so we're planning to move from here and get back close to her mom and sister, in order for her to at least go see them and start from there.

I know I have a lot of faults but she's not making it easier to be around her. But she says it's my fault, oh well it is for sure too.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I felt a bit better seeing the thread pop up in the 'what's new'.

I mean to say also that when you are out there crawling or trailing and it's all nature and you just drive your truck slow and see it articulate gently over stuff... It's a simple, yet good thing in life. Keep treasuring the small big things like these and thanks for the great community.

 

[JimrC]

I mean to say also that when you are out there crawling or trailing and it's all nature and you just drive your truck slow and see it articulate gently over stuff... It's a simple, yet good thing in life. Keep treasuring the small big things like these and thanks for the great community.

Oh, I finally cleaned me rig today lol

 

[Gula]

Cleaned up the house, went grocery shopping, ran errands and am about to pick up my family from the airport.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Bought a playpen/daysleeper for my recently partially disabled paralyzed cat.

Ugh sorry to hear about your cat!

Had another solid argument with my wife who is really depressed and oppressed by our relationship, for years she's seeing nobody and doing nothing, not even driving, we've paved ourselves in a corner and we're really lonely but she's suffering a lot from this, so we're planning to move from here and get back close to her mom and sister, in order for her to at least go see them and start from there.

I know I have a lot of faults but she's not making it easier to be around her. But she says it's my fault, oh well it is for sure too.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I felt a bit better seeing the thread pop up in the 'what's new'.

I mean to say also that when you are out there crawling or trailing and it's all nature and you just drive your truck slow and see it articulate gently over stuff... It's a simple, yet good thing in life. Keep treasuring the small big things like these and thanks for the great community.

That sucks! Sorry to hear that. Relationships are tough. And they take work. The hardest part is they take work from both parties or they will never work out. Hopefully you can get it straightened out. Be careful about the move though. Make sure the move will make you happy. If you move and then she gets rid of you, which hopefully doesn't happen, then you may be miserable in a miserable location.

 

[Reezo]

That sucks! Sorry to hear that. Relationships are tough. And they take work. The hardest part is they take work from both parties or they will never work out. Hopefully you can get it straightened out. Be careful about the move though. Make sure the move will make you happy. If you move and then she gets rid of you, which hopefully doesn't happen, then you may be miserable in a miserable location.

Thank you, Jato, I appreciate the good vibes and the tip. You are right, this is something I have to consider, as well. Generally, we have been completely isolating ourselves for the last, I would say, 3-4 years, and I mean really isolating. Having no kids, working all online as freelancers, having parents very far away in other countries, nobody we know, a local language we don't speak well, and a general introvert-asocial (not antisocial) behavior... it all summed up and it's harder to see a purpose.

Luckily there have not been cases that make me say my wife or I are suicidal but we see things in a very dark way, sometimes. I have been trying to get therapy for the both of us but there was no way to get an appointment, for various reasons (including understaff, 'not a drastic case', 'living in the countryside', 'not speaking the language well enough etc.').

I don't want to bring the whole thread down but wow am I pooping on the party or what If anything, I want to reinforce that we should never give anything for granted: even being able to drive a little toy car around is such a privilege in life, and I am thankful for it. Thanks for the great community that is this forum, as well, because the knowledge in here kept me inspired to have fun in this hobby.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Yesterday at lunch, I ran to my house and picked up a bunch of packages. Some were mine for my Tamiya Neo Fighter DT-03 buggy build that I started in 2021 as I was losing the RC bug. Some were birthday presents for my girlfriend's soon to be 10-year-old son. I haven't figured out how to pass my RC bug onto him. I also grabbed the partially built DT-03 kit and a bunch of tools to take to my girlfriend's house. The softer tires from my Traxxas 4-Tec Drift Mustang and my Vanquish Fordyce RTR were also loaded in the truck. I'm hoping it doesn't rain all weekend and I can drift and finally run the Fordyce RTR that I bought months ago. I will also be trying to finish the Neo Fighter build. My girlfriend and her son are going away to NY for vacation for about a week and I am staying back to watch her dog. I don't have as many vacation days as my girlfriend so I can't go along on this trip. I am saving mine for the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen in September and SEMA/Vegas in October and November. But I will have fun with Zombie. Her name came from my girlfriend's son when he was about 4-years-old. Zombie blew apart my stereotypical thinking of pit bulls. She's as sweet as can be! I'm not a huge dog lover, but Zombie stole my heart!

Thank you, Jato, I appreciate the good vibes and the tip. You are right, this is something I have to consider, as well. Generally, we have been completely isolating ourselves for the last, I would say, 3-4 years, and I mean really isolating. Having no kids, working all online as freelancers, having parents very far away in other countries, nobody we know, a local language we don't speak well, and a general introvert-asocial (not antisocial) behavior... it all summed up and it's harder to see a purpose.

Luckily there have not been cases that make me say my wife or I are suicidal but we see things in a very dark way, sometimes. I have been trying to get therapy for the both of us but there was no way to get an appointment, for various reasons (including understaff, 'not a drastic case', 'living in the countryside', 'not speaking the language well enough etc.').

I don't want to bring the whole thread down but wow am I pooping on the party or what If anything, I want to reinforce that we should never give anything for granted: even being able to drive a little toy car around is such a privilege in life, and I am thankful for it. Thanks for the great community that is this forum, as well, because the knowledge in here kept me inspired to have fun in this hobby.

Life isn't always peachy, unfortunately, so don't feel bad about bringing the mood of the thread or forum down. This is reality.

I always thought therapy was a joke, but when my healthy girlfriend unexpectedly passed away in 2021 from COVID, I didn't know how to cope with life. First time that has ever happened for me and I've been through some rough crap that the average person will never have to go through. Losing Sherri was just too much to take. Anyway, I eventually tried therapy and it really helped for me. So it definitely works, at least for some people. At that time it was super hard to get into see a therapist as well because so many people were dying from COVID despite what the retarded deniers say. Therapy may be a good option for you and your wire.