What Irked You Today?

[Tim W. SoCal]

  Working with "professional mechanics" who  neglect or refuse to test drive and qualify their driveability repairs, causing "repaired" vehicle to break down and die with no restart in the middle of the I-15 freeway during "rush hour" VERY heavy traffic less than 8 miles into the return trip to its assigned post office.(35 miles away) CHP pushed me off of the freeway onto the shoulder, tow truck carried the vehicle and me back to the Vehicle Maintenance Facility. I'm just glad this happened to ME during a vehicle shuttle and not to another less experienced driver or the mail route carrier...

[Tim W. SoCal]

I was at the grocery store after work today, they were out of Hostess Ho-Hos and I forget to pick up some ice cream... Oh, the HORROR!...

[Volzfan59]

7 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Today and every day...   

yup

[stavanzer]

On 9/30/2025 at 3:24 PM, Tim W. SoCal said:

  Working with "professional mechanics" who  neglect or refuse to test drive and qualify their driveability repairs, causing "repaired" vehicle to break down and die with no restart in the middle of the I-15 freeway during "rush hour" VERY heavy traffic less than 8 miles into the return trip to its assigned post office.(35 miles away) CHP pushed me off of the freeway onto the shoulder, tow truck carried the vehicle and me back to the Vehicle Maintenance Facility. I'm just glad this happened to ME during a vehicle shuttle and not to another less experienced driver or the mail route carrier...

 

On 9/30/2025 at 3:28 PM, Tim W. SoCal said:

I was at the grocery store after work today, they were out of Hostess Ho-Hos and I forget to pick up some ice cream... Oh, the HORROR!...

I can see why the lack of Ho-Ho's was an issue.

 

[Dragline]

2 1/2 ton floor jack was dropped on my left big toe today. Like dropping a brick on a tomato. It sorta split and bled.

Just wanted to share...

[Ace-Garageguy]

Only gripe today was an inability to connect the laptop to the internet first thing this AM.

Not the ISP-supplied "gateway" or the cables, 'cause the ancient Win7 computer worked fine. Finally found the thing had somehow reconfigured itself overnight.

Weird, weird.    

Anyway, as TinyLimp gets closer to ending Win10 support on the 14th, I kinda think they're throwing glitches in the updates so older folks will panic and buy 11.

BECAUSE...Win10 works just dandy and does everything I need it to do, and forced obsolescence really chaps my backside.

I've had multiple glitches in the past few months that have never occurred previously, all fixable within the computer, but just plain odd...and every one having to do with setting changes not initiated by me.

Yeah, I know, it's complicated. 

Edited Thursday at 02:33 AM by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[JollySipper]

Napster is a shadow of it's formally awesome self here lately...... The name of the company has changed hands a bunch of times in the last few years, each company kinda making it their own. It's most recently been rejoined with it's parent company, but it's being sued for royalties right now........ I was wondering why my listening history showed the correct songs, but not them being from the correct album. It would show the album being some compilation of sorts, like "90s Hits!" or "Classic Rock!" or some sort of album name. I guess they were using a legal loophole to skip out on a bunch of royalties.....

It's funny, they have all of Metallica's albums, it seems...........

[johnyrotten]

10 hours ago, JollySipper said:

It's funny, they have all of Metallica's albums, it seems...........

Don't tell Lars.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Up at 05:30, just walking out the door now, 4 hours later.

Some days are rougher than others. 

[Bugatti Fan]

Not a lot!

[TonyK]

Oil refinery fire near Los Angeles. Glad to read no one was hurt but this will be another excuse to keep the gas prices high on the west coast. We've been paying over $4.00 a gallon for quite some time. The excuses for that are laughable but then again it's really not funny.

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 9/30/2025 at 6:28 PM, Tim W. SoCal said:

I was at the grocery store after work today, they were out of Hostess Ho-Hos and I forget to pick up some ice cream... Oh, the HORROR!...

                                              

[John M.]

With the popularity of E bikes and scooters taking off, it was only a matter of time before their riders started to flaunt traffic laws and just plain common sense. They are fast and one ignored a stop sign as it zipped out of a side street that I was passing with a school bus full of kids this afternoon. I jammed on the breaks and thankfully, the bus stopped and the scooter rider just smiled at me and rode away like it was no big deal. I could have turned him into roadkill and he never cared about it. That carefree attitude will come back and bite him in his hiney sooner or later. 

Edited 12 hours ago by John M.

[Dragline]

Electric and gas powered bikes are everywhere here. They flaunt lights, signs and decorum. Wheelies abound as they travel in packs. At 61 I'm no spring chicken, yet I can skate as well as anyone. I skated pro for 12 years and got my first skateboard in 1974. I am competent. A few days ago and blew through a pack of em, skating through and around them. And with speed

 They all stopped and were baffled as this greying man flew past em and around traffic that was stopped. I then took a corner and was gone. I was off to get my order and no one stands between me and a burrito made by No Problemo. Absolutely fantastic.

I find them annoying in the extreme. I follow traffic laws on my board. If I don't, I can die. Whether it's my fault or another's, dead is dead. So I skate with my head on a swivel. But these kids have no regard for anything. Apparently they are going to live forever. Some of em....

This is my Turner Summer Ski outside No Problemo. It's small, highly maneuverable, and costs more than any several E-Bikes. I call her Red Rocket.

Edited 12 hours ago by Dragline

[Tim W. SoCal]

18 minutes ago, Dragline said:

Apparently they are going to live forever. Some of em....

We've had 4 of these e-bike riders killed in the last 5 weeks in my neck of Southern California, ALL under the age of 14. IMNSHO, e-bikes SHOULD be designated as motor-driven cycles and you 'd need at least a State Learner's Permit to operate them on public streets.

[stavanzer]

1 hour ago, Dragline said:

Electric and gas powered bikes are everywhere here. They flaunt lights, signs and decorum. Wheelies abound as they travel in packs. At 61 I'm no spring chicken, yet I can skate as well as anyone. I skated pro for 12 years and got my first skateboard in 1974. I am competent. A few days ago and blew through a pack of em, skating through and around them. And with speed

 They all stopped and were baffled as this greying man flew past em and around traffic that was stopped. I then took a corner and was gone. I was off to get my order and no one stands between me and a burrito made by No Problemo. Absolutely fantastic.

I find them annoying in the extreme. I follow traffic laws on my board. If I don't, I can die. Whether it's my fault or another's, dead is dead. So I skate with my head on a swivel. But these kids have no regard for anything. Apparently they are going to live forever. Some of em....

This is my Turner Summer Ski outside No Problemo. It's small, highly maneuverable, and costs more than any several E-Bikes. I call her Red Rocket.

Bob, I see that the Rocket has large tires, and not those tiny Wheels that were the "Latest Thing" a while back.

You don't have as much problem with pavement joints and cracks, as those smaller wheels looked to have.

Nice Board. I could never ride them, as I have Inner Ear Balance Issues.

[Dragline]

You are correct, the wheels are 70mm 78a hardness. In other words they are big and rather soft in comparison to modern wheel sets. They roll over most obstacles rather easily. Larger cracks and such are handled by angling attack. These wheels are fast and grippy in direct contrast to park or street type riding wheels. Those are meant to slide with only minimal grip, while these are meant to bite when a side load is brought to bear. They get their speed by rolling over the surface and giving in to it thereby attaining speed which seems counterintuitive. I also have very expensive bearing made by SKF and precision ground 8mm titanium axles which gives positive bearing and wheel placement. Aiding in the speed/traction formula. The other factors are the trucks which are wedged. 

[stavanzer]

Thanks, Bob!

I was into skateboards in a very minor way in the early '80's, until I figured out that I could not balance on them

I'm glad you still can!

[Dragline]

I plan on skating until I cannot. It keeps me in relatively good shape and feeds that young guy in my brain who never really left. I tend to think I am still 20 until something happens or something is said, then the rather sad realization that I am not comes crashing in. Thinking young and staying active seem key to my also looking younger than I am. Either that or I am completely deluded.

 

[stitchdup]

40 minutes ago, Dragline said:

I plan on skating until I cannot. It keeps me in relatively good shape and feeds that young guy in my brain who never really left. I tend to think I am still 20 until something happens or something is said, then the rather sad realization that I am not comes crashing in. Thinking young and staying active seem key to my also looking younger than I am. Either that or I am completely deluded.

 

I miss skating but my health prevents it now. It used to be that i worked all winter so i could skate the dry months. I still walk around puddles even now and see lots of places i'd love to skate. For me it was all about big tricks at high speed, even during the flippy days i still went hard and fast and i had a 7 mile skate to just get to town. I used to watch the vids of guys doing tricks over picnic benches so spent nearly a year bringing my pop up enough to do it myself but they did it off banks, i did it from the flat