Ace-Garageguy

Thanks. All I'm trying to do is get several intersecting roof planes tarped well enough to last a few more months. I've patched it previously, it lasts for a while, deteriorates, starts leaking worse when it finally rains hard, then I'll tarp an area, that works a while, it deteriorates from UV...anyway, I've got a few hundred bucks worth of heavy silver tarps to put up, overlapping like shingles where all the odd roof planes come together...but it's still raining and who knows when the danged thing will be dry enough to get back up there. Even more annoying is that I have to be HERE to empty buckets and mop every few minutes, so I'm not making any money or getting any closer to getting the h. outta here.

About time the man who posted above runs for a high public office, doncha think?

Thanks. It's not. Every time the radar shows a storm is blowing through, another one pops up right behind it. I got just enough done so the problem is worse than when I started, have already taken out 3 five-gallon buckets, no end in sight, and now it's running under the below-grade back wall. Whoever did the additions on this rental POS was a drooling moron, the absentee owner is no help, and I've let the patches wait way too long. Oh well. I should have been out of here 2 years ago, at least. Procrastination sometimes jumps up and bites you in the face.

Cleaning anything mechanical before I work on it has always been my SOP, and when some customers complained about "unnecessary work", I'd tell 'em to go elsewhere next time.

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Working on my roof again today, and there's a pop-up thunderstorm less than a mile away. Guess I'm done for a while. My roof is considerably more sloped than is thought to be "safe" recently (anyone who follows the news will likely know what I mean), and working up there is kinda thrilling under the best of conditions, but it's just suicidal if it's wet. Problem is that the forecast for the next several days is heavy rain off and on, and I pretty much HAVE to get some areas tarped TODAY.

Just about everywhere you go today, common-sense and follow-through are lacking. Thing is though, these deficiencies have always been there, but the web makes it more visible because more stupid clueless people get to show their stuff to the world. For instance, I have a collection of old model RR mags going back to the mid-1930s, and it's not at all uncommon for advertising copywriters to omit little things like scale or contact info for the company or distributor, and sometimes even the name of the company selling whateveritis. One thing that bugs me mightily today though is the plethora of supposed "journalists" who use words just flat wrong and have little understanding of basic English sentence construction, and a recent trend to scramble verb tenses...constructions like "I didn't unloaded it".

"Wench with a Wrench" would be a great name for an independent chick hot-rod shop.

Merit is the only basis any hire should ever be made on by a company that wants to stay in business and deliver consistently high-quality goods or services.

Socks are afraid to get lost when I do the laundry.

Imbibing alcohol doesn't seem to be as popular as it used to was.

Work is a four letter word.

Diseases that affect the most people, and therefore have the potential to generate the most profits from drugs, get top priority.

Fire the incompetent and hire only on ability and experience, no matter what other baloney HR criteria may be in play.

Sake, the Japanese rice wine, can be very comforting served warm in the winter.

I was in a parking lot in front of a small mall earlier today, and a FedEx driver was so aggressively on-and-off the throttle, it seemed like he was intentionally trying to destroy the transmission. I don't know if it was a technical fault with the vehicle, gross incompetence, or something else.

Ohhhh baby...that is PRETTY!!

"Scolded" is something I'm loath to tolerate from those for whom I have little respect.

Bottom line: any AI, or any tech really, is only as good as its makers / programmers / caretakers. GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.

Market prices keep climbing, and it's no joke.

Yup, the Connie is one of the most beautiful machines ever built by man. I had a friend who flew some of the last of the commercial Constellations as they were being replaced by jets, told a story about how, at the end when the big radials were getting tired and overhaul wasn't considered economically feasible, they'd just cover the oil pressure gauges and cross their fingers. I was familiar with the EC-121 AWACS aircraft, but never knew of the specific "BATCAT" variant until just now.

Community colleges probably prepare many students better for the reality of working for a living these days than most of the snooty ivy-league schools.

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Nope. You could take one of the well-proportioned Revell kits and swap in the best of the available interior and undercarriage guts, and mashup a correct engine from all the flathead bits out there, but that's your only option. The lack of availability of a correct stock '32 Ford anything has been a long time gripe in the model car community. One of the most important, most iconic cars of the '30s, or among hot-rods, and no good stock kit. Oh well. Everyone who gives a rat's rump will be pushin' up pansies in not too long anyway, right?

Future was a floor finish, a breath freshener, or a dessert topping depending on the packaging it was sold in.