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I did some heavy lifting yesterday, picked up a butterfly. Made my weekend, if not the month!

Try finding anything not Made In CHYna. Apple pie and Chevrolet Small Block starter from AutoZone, label will wear off "REMANUFACTURED IN CHINA". That body mount was just put in 2 months ago, we can't make decent rubber anymore due to our EPA, because pregnant women only in California get cancer from every part.

to the Titanic

Arctic ice-free sailing cruises is a going to be a new venture.

were inhaling smoke

This is nuts, basically two independent engines but one drive-by-wire gas pedal. Imagine the two engines running differently down the track.

I feel your pain! It was a couple days ago that it was really bad, I'm in northern Arizona. This is going to be the norm from now on, everywhere for everyone. For example, how much does everyone love making up new passwords? Gotta love being a computer tech. At least it hasn't reached Flickr levels, about a decade ago they did a major revamp of their website, and it was a huge mess. *edit*. Took some time for this screenshot to upload.

Just have to trigger me, don't you? ? It's like how 3D printing everything is going to save the world. Don't get me going about our "smart" traffic lights, everyone in the neighborhood hates them. On Fakebook, accounts (fake people, fake profiles) are posting beautiful nature pictures, and giving the impression they took the "picture" and there is usually no description of location. So most people speed scroll down to make a comment like "How beautiful!" Among the comments are people picking it apart, saying part is a real location, time of day, shadows wrong, whatever is wrong, so now every freaking cool picture "is that real or A.I.?" Won't be surprised if someone starts posting renderings claiming it's a real model, that are so good, all of us will be going "is that real or A.I.?" Question to the Admins, if someone gets caught doing that...... is that an automatic boot?

to find their

Thank you. Aiming for people such as me. Amazon somehow got a monthly withdrawl going, so I try to avoid using that for anything (among political reasons).

Ignoring that I did not receive it today (or this month come to think of it) the Pontiac GTO, and got the resin Vivant model some time ago...... the one-off has a Pontiac engine, reason it's now in the stash. The real car has one carb, so that's the first fork in the road. My plan is to cut up the chassis to fit, hollowing out the body some, I can't have another curbside. ?

their nose, mining

"Ago" v. Any vehicle that goes faster than running pace.

You could say I'm a happy camper. Only I haven't left home. ? The tarp set-up took some refining, lucky to have tools and a shop. Last trip to Home DeepHole, my primary item to find was not successful, then I thought while wandering around aimlessly, "what are you doing? Hello, you have a shop!" Designed angle iron into cord rigging, while walking around. Then I saw the window tape, and what do you know, just for pickup camper shells. My dad had one on a '72 Dodge pickup. It rained a little, found the front needed more tarp, once that was moved forward another 2 inches, golden. Broke down this morning, made several connectors, a 'Vans' shoe box holds everything except tools. Feels good. The 'analog dynamic stability' is 92 pounds of weight in back (instead of sandbags). Will take out for camping trip. Very pleased today. It's been like building a full scale model. ? Now what I going to do?

infused with diesel

I will splurge and get some thick foam gasket tape! I have a suspicion that the cab creates a low pressure zone over the plywood, that's why it was trampolining. Even before, when I had a load of sand, gravel, firewood or anything dirty, the open back window sucked debris into the cab. Going at speed exacerbates that pressure difference. The bottom of the tailgate is right where the worst dust is kicked up, acted like a vacuum. Guess I should go about 15 MPH on dirt roads. ? On Fakebook, saw a picture of someone who glued together white drain pipe together into a duct, with a 4" tube sticking out the window, to bring air into the cab. Making me think about doing that, a snorkel by the spare, to pressurize the cargo space, like a high altitude airplane. Got the tarp figured out (already want to modify something). The only thing I bought is the tarp, had just enough electrical conduit, another tube salvaged from something, and hardware to call it good enough. If I never solve the dust issue, this is the main reason I built this contraption, so I'm pleased like a happy camper.

stuck up it's

Tamale down in the shade.

If.... if I was not *this close* to being retired, this would tick me off. The evils of technology, and the curse of CV-19 that implemented the 'portal' that everyone has to use now to get a building permit. Don't you love having to come up with a password? Now they "accidentally" allowed their webmaster to "fix" something that is forcing people to change their password.

set on broil

Thank you. I was hoping that would be a benefit. Today I drove some dirt roads, and have to admit that it must be like a vacuum, because lots of dirt and dust got inside. Driving kind of fast might have been a factor. ? So the main reason is a fail. Also lost one of the wing adjusters, so have to come up with a new design.

rubber oven mitts

Visualized a hot woman dressed in coveralls.

Instead of building models, I've been building full scale things. I've been preparing my pickup for camping, such as mechanical stuff, it's running sweet now. This week I made the bed cover, painted today, this was a stop on the shake down run which showed I need a few more wing nuts. The 1/2" CCX plywood was $33.40 a sheet ? but almost everything else was scavenged or repurposed from something. Bed frame angle was used extensively. The NASTRUCK spoiler has a cool pin that I saved from a hospital bed that I took to the recycler, the plate came from on old vehicle, clear Redwood from a picnic table, steel plate adjuster pin from the rusty iron stash. The real reason I made that was for when I go camping, and it looks like rain, a tarp will be tied down, and that should keep water from running over the tailgate; the curve was to mimic the roof profile but it should also not tear up the tarp. I also hope the cover reduces the dust, but only going on a dirt road will tell. Tomorrow after attending a model swap meet in Prescott Valley, I will add a few things to stop the plywood from looking like a trampoline. So I'm very pleased.

Tonight's Prescott Antique Auto Club cruise night. This car has always lived in Arizona. All original, no modifications. Owner says it drives over dirt roads like a dream. Straight 8 flathead, looks like it came from a tank. I know for a fact that swamp cooler is useless, unless you are going a constant highway speed. He can cruise at 80 MPH, people look at it like it's a UFO.