2023: What are you doing today?

[chimp koose]

IDJ sorry to hear of your uncles passing .

[idrivejunk]

Thanks CK.    He was a good guy.

My post was too vague. He was OK with God and with cremation and just wanted "somebody to go out there (to his plot) with a post hole digger"(which he supplied). My cousin made the effort to find out if that was OK and it was. Only parameter given was there has to be a foot of dirt over the top. It was about a 6" square box. Dirt was hard as rocks though and wind was like 20 mph steady with mid 50s temp. Old lady hairdos all were spoiled but with some youth pitching in we made the depth of hole. Missed the high noon mark we were shooting for but not by much. Site was out by Rosalia, for the Kansas locals. Yep I zipped straight through Joplin but with no time to spare. The phone took me two different ways coming and going through there.

I do miss Kansas flat. Once I got past Fredonia the scenery really took me back to being a kid staring out a Tempest qtr window at the blur.

On a personal personal level, it was kind of a thing for me just making the trip due to stuff I been through. I had not been outside a 20 mile area in many, many years. It just so happened to come at a time when me and my car could muster the courage. The world seems a little larger again.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Do things happen in 3s?  I guess I am due one more parking follow ?  We parked away from others as usual. Came out from McD's  to this.

This situation did not require any fancy movements by me.  I just backed up and left.  There was plenty of empty parking to the left of our daily Honda drive car.     

[58 Yeoman]

Matt, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle also.  I know about being cremated, as my brother was in April this year, and he wanted to be dumped in the Illinois river, which is what we did.  Would've been better with a boat so we could get to the middle, but he always fished off the shore, so that's okay.

Tony, it must be you.  Everyone wants to be with/near you.

Bill, your paint is looking great, I really like that color.

I DA'd the sides of the Corvair today.  It had been done before I bought it, but the previous owner missed a lot of places.  Still have all the horizontal surfaces to do, glad it's a small car. That 58 Chevy wagon was huge.  We're supposed to be getting colder weather for a while, so that may slow me down.  Today was warm enough to have the big door open with a couple fans running to blow the dust outside.

[WZ JUNK]

Recently I noticed the paint peeling on the roof of my daily driver Chevrolet Suburban.{that's a big roof}  I have spent the last 3 days with a razor blade scraper stripping as much of the paint as possible off of the roof, while standing on scaffolding.   The remainder I will remove with a D A sander. Not much fun for an old guy but I wanted to get it done while it was still warm enough to work outside.  At times the paint comes right off and then you come to an area where it will not budge. I am trying to maintain this vehicle to make it last.  A couple of weeks ago I drove to Utah and back.  I looks new inside and not bad outside for nearly 200,000 miles.

[58 Yeoman]

WZ JUNK, ya gotta love big vehicles.  This car was originally white, and someone repainted it red. The red would flake off in a small place here and there, but in others, like under the hood near the weatherstrip, it kind of turns mushy when I use the small 3M rolo loks on it.  There are three removeable panels with vents, front, rear and under the rear bumper. The two rears I was able to finangle into my sand blast cabinet and blast them clean. The front one was a different story.

Sandblasting wouldn't touch it, so I tried paint remover. Bad move. It took off some of the red paint and just made a huge mess. The vent has red and white paint in most places, and it's a bear to get in between the slots.  I might try putting it in the cabinet again later.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Well,  here we are again , 3rd little parking thing in recent weeks.  Nobody was parked in this area when we parked the daily Honda Civic car and then there were more.. THere is a 3rd car in fron of our Civic that can not be seen.  I am a popular guy. 

I could tell the tale of inside the home depot store and ppl gather around me as we looked at a few items. THe isle goes from empty to busy after we arrived there.  Its just weird. Maybe they were all store security?

Odd item on the Honda CRV next us. He came out with a cart and 9 bags of concrete mix.  Seems like parking closer would have been easier for him?  Weird.

oh, btway , It was 105*F here today.
      

[58 Yeoman]

Quit looking so shady, Tony.  My wife says it's a human thing, that people want to be part of a group.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Quit looking so shady, Tony.  My wife says it's a human thing, that people want to be part of a group.

Must be something like that..

 We were in the storage solutions isle this morning , not a person came down the isle. Same thing with picking up some rain gutter parts...  LOL  Maybe its not me?

Walked over to the fastener isle since we found some wall mount shelving we wanted. 45 seconds in that isle one guy walks up eggzackly where we were. 2nd guy comes down the isle doing the same thing.  Its just weird.  My wife laughed at me about this till I proved to  her years ago that it was happening.

  

[58 Yeoman]

Tony, you're not carrying a tape player and playing "Close To You" by the Carpenters, are you? J/K.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Tony, you're not carrying a tape player and playing "Close To You" by the Carpenters, are you? J/K.

Tape player? Like reel to reel?  Showing yur age Phil. LOL

   

This is just weird stuff I have noticed over the decades that happens around me.  For several yrs I kept it inside me , thinking I was imagining what was happening.  And since  sharing is caring, I now share this useless shat with everybody.

[58 Yeoman]

Tony, I bought a reel to reel while I was in Vietnam and recorded hours of music when I returned home.  Never used it, as it was too much trouble. I finally sold it in the last ten years as I was getting sick of seeing taking up space.  When my brother died this year, we had to give his away, as no one wanted one.  Compare dragging one of those around to an Ipod which is as big as your thumb. LOL.

[enjenjo]

I still have mine that I bought when I was in Japan. And two gigantic speakers that took up all my hold baggage when I came back to the states. They were the only things I owned at the time that I couldn't break down into a 60" mail package. 54 of them to be exact.

[idrivejunk]

WZ, when I was in Dallas selling Sikkens (90s) there was a painter with five helpers doing almost nothing but peeling Suburban roofs and hoods. Said he was pulling in 125K a year just swinging the gun.

As a painter later, I ran across one the newer style (a Yukon) that had this... I kid you not... spot that looked like half a marble under the paint. Maybe a half inch around and a quarter tall! It was solid primer. Wierd.

Below is a pic of the spot on my current work project that must have had a gallon of kitty hair on it. Fill was over an inch thick. Just look at it. Wow.

Here is something worthwhile for you guys with wonder, speaking of overseas stuff. Brand new noggin fodder. How the great pyramid was indeed built. At least the casing stones.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=43V9RTpnxbk&pp=ygUTaGlzdG9yeSBmb3IgZ3Jhbml0ZQ%3D%3D

[jaybee]

@IDJ, I also offer my condolences on the loss of your uncle. We feel the loss so intensely because they added so much to our lives.