Joe Handley

Didn't need to worry about speed traps tonight after work, plenty of sunday drivers got out of the house tonight and were clogging up traffic flow., especially when you got one who might be doing speedlimit in the passing lane while the one in the passed lane was running close enough to the other car that you can pass either one of them.........got a dirty look the latter tonight......

Where was that at, it looked vaugly familiar?

I try not to add things up, especially where my R/C stuff is involved, I just don't want to know the numbers........... In the last year, my spending had been nearly non existant due to lack of un-spoken for funds. My store had been seeing declining sales and all of our hours declined in kind until the store changed hands in March, some of the "legacy" employees left on their own, a few were not asked to stay, and I was one of 3 that was asked to stay on. Since then the new owners heavily changed how things were done and our sales are better than I've seen in a long time.........and sometimes only during Christmas.... So far things have gone well enough that not only are my hours better than they have been in a long time, but we have hired one of the guys who lost his job when a particular, long standing hobby shop closed it's doors a couple months back.

It has been a while, mine might have moved!

Been there too Pete, I one time had somebody bring back an R/C Battery charger that wasn't working when plugged in, the guy returning it claimed to be an electrical engineer, had tested it and found it wasn't working. So I plugged it in and found that it worked perfectly fine. He insisted he knew what he was doing and it was defective, I go back and try to charge a battery, and of course, it works perfectly fine doing that too. He was pissed, especially after I asked him if he might have plugged it into a light switch outlet by accident, and insisted it was broken, didn't work, and wanted his money back or a different one. I think I exchanged it for a different, more expensive one and out it back on the shelf since it worked fine. I also had an issue with a customer who is an automotive mechanic that bought a Reciever Pack that happened to have the wrong plug. When he noticed it, instead of calling us and saying what happened, he started to cut and chop wiring then splice it together with stuff from Home Depot.......then decided to return it.....no go there.

Lol, been there, people like that were the reason I hated working at the service desk at Toys "R" Us and made janitorial a more desirable job there!

That would be aggrevating!

They are a bit of a gimick, like fins, 500lbs, massive engines in small cars, etc, all stuff a car doesn't need to get you to and from the self checkout at the grocery store, but gives the car some individuality. One thing I do like us that they can work as DRL's when bright enough or when the weather is a bit grey, then since most cars use their own LED layout, they're easier to tell which is which and coming at you at night. Audi's are pretty blinding, but usually a dead giveaway, Kia's are kinda bizzare and very telling, the lights on my 200 make it easier to tell if it is one at night than during the day, the new Cherokee's make the thing as easy to spot at night as the headlight and turn signal layout on my XJ does for those, and so on. I'm not as big of a fan of the LED strip vs light tube though, most of the time the light strips tend to leave dark spots between the bulbs while the tube will give off more of a softer, neon tube or flourecent bulb appearance.

It wasn't so bad since most of where I drove before realizing my mistake is Rt. 64 between West Chicago and St. Charles and now is very well lit as well as very familiar to me. I didn't catch it until turning onto Southbound Rt. 59 when Dad noticed the difference in light was what he thought it was and said something about it.

What irked me today...........ME! Dad and I ran over to a local Culver's to get dinner to go tonight and they handed us the drinks, had us pull up a little ways, and wait for the food to get finished. When I did that I turned the 200 off and turned off the headlights, but left the turn signals, tail lights, and eyebrows lit. The kid brings us the food and I start the car up and we leave...........and about half way home I pull off of a well lit 4 lane highway onto another 4 lane, but not so well lit and Dad asks me if my lights were on, sure enough, I was running without headlights. The brows and all the other lights were on, but don't do much at 9pm for night driving.............

Geez, that reminds me of my Traxxas Stampede on a 3s LiPo, IF it goes in a straight line, the front tires are off the ground, otherwise, it crashes!

One that's been bugging me are the people that make left turns on red, even though we aren't allowed to do that here.

Sad part is, that dummy may be close to being in his 30's!!!!

I'm kinda surprised it's even meat sometimes.

Cool looking for the most part, but the gold paint and the drive compartment materials just scream tacky..............and I consider most US made $1m+ motorhomes to be fairly tacky looking!

Um, I kinda have to question the quality of work in that kitchen if it only took 50 hours. Seems way too fast unless all he had to do was remove the old and bolt in the new without painting, flooring, dealing with wall paper, ect.

When it comes to just paint and bodywork, it can take a lot of work to make it look right before the first coat of paint goes on, no matter if it's lexan, styrene, or sheet metal. I don't even want to think about what time and effort had been put into those Chevy Lowriders on Leno's Garsge last night before the final coats of primer went down to make them look that good, let alone what it took to make the final product look just that fantastic!

I decided to trim my beard today while getting ready for work since was starting to get a bit too long and I had the time.........ended up screwing it up and had to shave the whole dang thing off and will have to restart from scratch! Luckily, with how I grow facial hair, it should be pretty close to what I wanted by August 1st

Watched that last night and.I'm not sure what impressed me more, how straight that '66 now is or the level of detail and the full width grill on the '63.

But at leaat if lives on in GIF form!

Home Owners Association, the intent is to make sure things are clean and uniform around the neighborhood or sub division. Problem is that you'll get wanna be Napolions in these Associations that can get very demanding of their neighbors over things like house color, grass depth, size, location, and types of any flags and poles, ect. I think they can be far worse that any real "government" that you'd run into.

Well IIRC, Federal powers supercedes state, then state supercedes county, county supercedes local, I would think that if the state tells you not to water your lawn to save water, local governments would have no choice but to follow suit and any acting judge should throw the fine out if you have to appear before one. However, get somebody who thinks that their word is THE WORD, no matter what higher ranking officals say, and that could be a whole mess. Wonder what these cities would do if you tore out your lawn and replaces it with gravel and a rock garden with the occasional desert dwelling plant because of these conditions...............

LOL!

Sadly, that even dead on for something like Lexan R/C car bodies. I painted this body up to sell after I found it wasn't really going to work like I wanted for something else. I had a customer who does plastic models say he wanted to try the now defunct Pactra R/C Candy Purple over their 2 Stage Galactic Purple on a customized car or show rod model at some point, so I gave it a shot with that '49-'53 Chevy Truck body. I bought everything with my employee discount which amounted to around $45 or so and was asking $60 for it, which was a out what the body and paint cost at full retail plus a few bucks. I actually had several people tell me I was asking too much and that they could do it for less, even though they had never shot a body before and didn't have the tools made for cutting those bodys out either.