What did YOU do today?

[SenorNoob]

You probably know this, but I've found the absolute cheapest carbs on Amazon/Ebay usually aren't quite right. If I step up to the second cheapest ones I rarely have problems.

 

[sgtsandman]

Yesterday was pretty much a miscellaneous things day.

I messed with the programming on the ham radios in the 2011, since they weren't hitting the repeaters. I got the quad band radio working but the DMR is still not doing it. I'm going to have to start hitting forums to see what setting I'm missing.

I found some room on the loft in the garage to store the saw horses and racks for the trailer when the RTT or bed cap needs to be stored on the trailer. There was some stuff up there that was just collecting dust and has no potential future use. So, they got trashed.

And I got the front and side panels back on the trailer before it started to rain. It was dark by then anyway. So I just closed up the garage and just called it for the evening.

Once all the stuff is back on the trailer, that will free up more room in the garage to start building another shelf unit or two for the shed. Which will free up room to get the trailer in the garage for winter storage and upgrade the suspension on the trailer.

I do need to figure out how I'm going to stash all the parts for the suspension and the new tires so that the trailer will fit. In some ways, the trailer takes up more room than either of the Rangers do. I might just put all of it in the trailer. I mean, it is 32 square feet of space that otherwise isn't going to be used while the trailer is in there. And the old suspension and tires will need to go somewhere until I can scrap them.

 

[superj]

i went to work and then drove hte wife to her doctor's offices so she could request all her records be sent to her lawyer. opm denied her medical retirement and the when she called and asked 4 or 5 lawyers and asked questions trying to find a representative, each one said they cannot believe she was denied and they all thinks its from the gov shutdown because all of them say they have met a bunch of people who have been medically retired for the same thing my wife has, epilepsy with grand mal seizures and anxiety that makes it worse since certain types of lights cause her to seize. and stress causes her to seize also, and being a girl building turbine engines means she always has some jackass dude that wants to make comments to her about where she should be working, or a supervisor that thinks girls should be in a different shop


and after dropping off that stuff, we ate at lubys and on the way home watched a white kia try to cut across two lanes of traffic and get t-boned by a crew cab full size pick up. it looked terrible when the pickup threw the car around like nothing so me and another guy jumped out to check on the car. the truck driver jumped out and was yelling it wasn't his fault and stomping all over. the kia driver front door was crunched in and all the air bags deployed, and the truck lost the grill and all his air bags deployed.

i ran to the kia and pulled up the driver airbag (window was smashed out) and asked if the two people were ok. they said they were, just shaken up. i let them know we already called 911 and to sit tight and relax.

some other people ran up and were trying to break the door open and get them out, which is not good but no one was listening and the cars stopped on the road because of the accident were honking and yelling for everyone to get out of the road.

the white kia was blocking the center turn lane and a grey honda had also tapped the white truck when the truck was rolling slowly across the two lanes of opposite traffic and that girl was just sitting in her car. there was only the oncoming lanes and the one lane between the grey and white cars so i cleared the car parts out and was directing traffic through because a lady in a ram and a guy in a honda civic had floored it between the wrecked cars yelling and honking and the rest of the cars were trying to force their way through and i was worried someone was going to get hit.

so we got traffic moving safely and the truck guy seemed ok as he was just walking around grumbling that it wasn't his fault. the other people in the kia were on the side of the road sitting in the grass and seemed ok but i still think they should have not been taken out of their car.

the ambulance and fire truck showed up first. the ambulance pulled through and parked just past the grey car and, thankfully, the fire truck pulled across the lanes just in front of the accident, so cars had to go around now. the police showed up last and parked behind the white destroyed kia.

after the paramedics and fire guys checked on everyone and we told them what happened, they let me and the other guy go through because they had the scene covered now.

i don't know the outcome but i hope those two kids in the white kia are ok. they got hit really hard. their car got spun completely around and the door frame and driver front door are completely destroyed so i know they got bounced around all over inside. the truck driver will be ok, for sure, and the grey car girl was fine too. she didn't try to stop when the truck crossed into our lanes and hit him behind his passenger front tire but at a very slow roll so i think it just tore her license plate and mount off.

either way, that was my day yesterday

 

[sgtsandman]

i went to work and then drove hte wife to her doctor's offices so she could request all her records be sent to her lawyer. opm denied her medical retirement and the when she called and asked 4 or 5 lawyers and asked questions trying to find a representative, each one said they cannot believe she was denied and they all thinks its from the gov shutdown because all of them say they have met a bunch of people who have been medically retired for the same thing my wife has, epilepsy with grand mal seizures and anxiety that makes it worse since certain types of lights cause her to seize. and stress causes her to seize also, and being a girl building turbine engines means she always has some jackass dude that wants to make comments to her about where she should be working, or a supervisor that thinks girls should be in a different shop


and after dropping off that stuff, we ate at lubys and on the way home watched a white kia try to cut across two lanes of traffic and get t-boned by a crew cab full size pick up. it looked terrible when the pickup threw the car around like nothing so me and another guy jumped out to check on the car. the truck driver jumped out and was yelling it wasn't his fault and stomping all over. the kia driver front door was crunched in and all the air bags deployed, and the truck lost the grill and all his air bags deployed.

i ran to the kia and pulled up the driver airbag (window was smashed out) and asked if the two people were ok. they said they were, just shaken up. i let them know we already called 911 and to sit tight and relax.

some other people ran up and were trying to break the door open and get them out, which is not good but no one was listening and the cars stopped on the road because of the accident were honking and yelling for everyone to get out of the road.

the white kia was blocking the center turn lane and a grey honda had also tapped the white truck when the truck was rolling slowly across the two lanes of opposite traffic and that girl was just sitting in her car. there was only the oncoming lanes and the one lane between the grey and white cars so i cleared the car parts out and was directing traffic through because a lady in a ram and a guy in a honda civic had floored it between the wrecked cars yelling and honking and the rest of the cars were trying to force their way through and i was worried someone was going to get hit.

so we got traffic moving safely and the truck guy seemed ok as he was just walking around grumbling that it wasn't his fault. the other people in the kia were on the side of the road sitting in the grass and seemed ok but i still think they should have not been taken out of their car.

the ambulance and fire truck showed up first. the ambulance pulled through and parked just past the grey car and, thankfully, the fire truck pulled across the lanes just in front of the accident, so cars had to go around now. the police showed up last and parked behind the white destroyed kia.

after the paramedics and fire guys checked on everyone and we told them what happened, they let me and the other guy go through because they had the scene covered now.

i don't know the outcome but i hope those two kids in the white kia are ok. they got hit really hard. their car got spun completely around and the door frame and driver front door are completely destroyed so i know they got bounced around all over inside. the truck driver will be ok, for sure, and the grey car girl was fine too. she didn't try to stop when the truck crossed into our lanes and hit him behind his passenger front tire but at a very slow roll so i think it just tore her license plate and mount off.

either way, that was my day yesterday

Gotta love the road ragers... a major accident just happened and they are pissed because people are in their way...