What did YOU do today?

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Bought my first bottle of tums.

Does this mean im officially old now?

Or did that start with the receding hairline, back pain, ear hair, and general discontent towards the younger generations?

Tums are great though.. really... They enable my terrible diet SPECTACULARLY!

Wait until you find out about fruit flavors! And tropical flavors too!

 

[JoshT]

Most important things first:

What does one really say to that? "I'm sorry for your loss" doesn't seem to cover it.

We'll try our best to be there for you as much as an online group can be. Aside from private messaging, we also have a section for talking about mental health and dealing with issues. That may or may not be an option that interests you.

@mikkelstuff He said what I'm thinking better than I'd ever be able to.

I hear rumors of those things. My truck has only visited a shop 3 times in it's life. Twice for alignment and once to get fuel pressure checked cause I didn't have a tester and neither did the 2 parts stores in town. I take my wheels in for tire changes these days. It's just safer. I've heard a couple co-workers say they've been told that anything over 10 years or 200K is off limits. Every shop in town can afford to be kinda picky these days. Most have work lined up for at least a month.

Hope no one around here ever decides to jump on that band wagon. Almost everything I have meets those checks those boxes or will soon. They're all over 10 years old, but the car hasn't broken 200k yet.

I can take any of them anywhere for basic stuff to the extent that those people know what they are doing. I'll still take them to get the tires done at the tire shop with no fuss, even on the '68. Anyone will do alignments on any of them if they have the knowledge, but it's very lacking in some places even for the newer stuff.

The only problem I've had is oil changes on the '10 Forte. They refuse to pull the drain plug and will only do vacuum extraction, which is unacceptable for me. They claim that it has a composite oil pan and it might disentegrate if they remove it, all allegedly company policy. I've changed the oil on that car myself, just ake it in because of how close to the ground it is, and can say for certain that it is a steel oil pan with a steel drain plug. Only reason the oil drain plug in it is getting messed up is because they cross thread it. Needless to say, I'm doing my own oil changes in it now too.

I have two perfectly good printers and I’m going to look for a printer tomorrow. I need one that will do 11 x 17 for my engineering.

You say that, but your story suggests otherwise. There may be some issued with getting them to communicate, but it also sounds like the printers themselves have issues.

 

[Rick W]

Most important things first:




@mikkelstuff He said what I'm thinking better than I'd ever be able to.



Hope no one around here ever decides to jump on that band wagon. Almost everything I have meets those checks those boxes or will soon. They're all over 10 years old, but the car hasn't broken 200k yet.

I can take any of them anywhere for basic stuff to the extent that those people know what they are doing. I'll still take them to get the tires done at the tire shop with no fuss, even on the '68. Anyone will do alignments on any of them if they have the knowledge, but it's very lacking in some places even for the newer stuff.

The only problem I've had is oil changes on the '10 Forte. They refuse to pull the drain plug and will only do vacuum extraction, which is unacceptable for me. They claim that it has a composite oil pan and it might disentegrate if they remove it, all allegedly company policy. I've changed the oil on that car myself, just ake it in because of how close to the ground it is, and can say for certain that it is a steel oil pan with a steel drain plug. Only reason the oil drain plug in it is getting messed up is because they cross thread it. Needless to say, I'm doing my own oil changes in it now too.



You say that, but your story suggests otherwise. There may be some issued with getting them to communicate, but it also sounds like the printers themselves have issues.

not issues, they have the mothership “attitude.“

 

[Rick W]

Don't overdo the Tums. That can screw you up in other ways.
You're "old" when you give in and start thinking you're old. It's all mental. I'm 60, but not old.

Alka seltzer, the Kroger or the Walmart brand is fine and half the price. The old stuff, not the extra strength or cold stuff

But not more than three times a day!

 

[scotts90ranger]

For heartburn I've been on Omeprazole for a few years now, the two week thing doesn't work for me, was on prescription for a while but that means maintaining a doctor which is difficult anymore and super annoying so I'm back to over the counter ($15 for a 18 weeks if you do the math, not bad), I've tried weaning myself off but down to one pill every 3 days... that stuff apparently has long term side effects too which is why I'm trying to get off it but don't think that's going to be possible...

Anywho, tonight I'm going to try to paint the outside walls of my loft area in the shop so I can move stuff over there finally, gotta wire a pair of outlets first so I can put that piece of sheeting up for paint.

 

[Brain75]

yall might laugh at this, but the biggest thing I found to fixing the ole heartburn was putting the fork down early... instead of eating till you feel full and happy, stop 3 bites before that and just let it sit for 5 minutes, enjoy an "after dinner cup of tea" or such... after 5 minutes resting you will find you don't really care 1 way or the other about those last 3 bites and feel fine... no heartburn 20 minutes later either..

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Yes, if I don't do the late night snack I don't get heartburn... Imagine that!.. Lol. And sugar isn't good either.

 

[Rick W]

yall might laugh at this, but the biggest thing I found to fixing the ole heartburn was putting the fork down early... instead of eating till you feel full and happy, stop 3 bites before that and just let it sit for 5 minutes, enjoy an "after dinner cup of tea" or such... after 5 minutes resting you will find you don't really care 1 way or the other about those last 3 bites and feel fine... no heartburn 20 minutes later either..

did you mean three bites or three servings?

 

[JoshT]

I'm going to clean my plate. I probably shouldn't have gone back for a second helping though... or third.

 

[scotts90ranger]

In my case I don't think the whiskey helps anything, but it helps me in other ways

Tonight I did get the painting of the loft office done and a couple more electrical boxes mounted and some other things figured out... I need to sling some wire tomorrow, probably go to Lowes and pick up some lumber to make some shelves to hold HDX bins in the loft... gotta do that before I get too far and bury myself in a serious mess...

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Stress is usually a big driving factor for heartburn and stomach ulcers. I think the best way to handle that is a mindset change, but that isn’t easy.

Foods and how much you eat can be contributing factors plus how soon you are active or lay down. Ideally sitting upright for awhile after you eat is best.

 

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Trying out a new graphics program so I decided to make a calendar. Uploaded it to Vistaprint and a few days later we had a 16"X24" version come in the mail

 

[Roert42]

Around Christmas my kitchen pipes burst again. Got fed up and ripped the kitchen up. Moved the sink from an exterior wall to the interior wall so I can run the pipes in the wall instead of under the uninsulated floor.

Been slowly rebuilding the kitchen. Didn’t want to buy pre fab cabinets for a variety of reasons, so I decided to build my own.

Solid 3/4” plywood instead of 1/2” particle boards, ect.

It’s going slower then it could because we still need to be able to use the kitchen, so I can only do a small part at a time.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Around Christmas my kitchen pipes burst again. Got fed up and ripped the kitchen up. Moved the sink from an exterior wall to the interior wall so I can run the pipes in the wall instead of under the uninsulated floor.

Been slowly rebuilding the kitchen. Didn’t want to buy pre fab cabinets for a variety of reasons, so I decided to build my own.

Solid 3/4” plywood instead of 1/2” particle boards, ect.

It’s going slower then it could because we still need to be able to use the kitchen, so I can only do a small part at a time.

I always enjoy destr.... Err... Renovation pics.

 

[racsan]

Dog was going crazy earlier, found out I have another possum visiting. Bigger one than last weekend, maybe the momma. Set out a trap, will relocate it. Normally Id let them be but need to look out for my chickens. Which by the way are starting to lay again. Have 15 but have only getting 3 eggs at best. started getting 4 and today got 6. Ive heard eggs are going up again, no time to be losing egg layers.