What Pleased You Today!

[Ace-Garageguy]

6 oz. box of raspberries for 99 cents, which is $3 off the regular price...and they're not even moldy.

In other news, I found and restored the 1/4 inch of clearance I mysteriously lost under the dash of the '66 Chevelle, between the HVAC box and the relocated OEM control head.

I'm happy.  

[Russell C]

My 39 year-old 1:1 daily driver VW GTI runs again! Last weekend, while swapping in new plugs / wires, I broke the coil wire connector part on the distributor cap (don't ask; it's embarrassing) which of course then let the sparks run wild inside the cap instead of going exactly where they are supposed to go. New cap & rotor arrived in the mail today, Best to put those in no matter what, because when took out the old ones, both really had been in the car too long and looked to be close to the end of their usable lifespan. Engine fires right up again and purrs like a kitten.

Edited October 18 by Russell C
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[Ace-Garageguy]

Got sets of takeoff tires with great tread for the 911 and the blue XJ6. Free. 

Not exactly the right size for either of 'em, but they're each sitting on four totally rotten flats right now.

Just need to be able to roll them under cover to get 'em running again.

[89AKurt]

Finished more of the backyard remodel.  Blue Cloud helped out.

Edited October 19 by 89AKurt

[A modeler named mike]

Two pleased moments..

Finally, after a very long hiatus, this week I'm back to fiddling with styrene at my new, temporary model bench. I have a couple of stalled projects sitting but I decided to start something else to get back into the swing of things. I'll be using a previously built not so bad gluebomb that I picked up from ebay. An AMT '61 Buick wagon which will be mated to a Model King Boss Nova wagon kit.🤞

The other moment was when I walked into our local Walmart and discovered that they had ordered in a display box of model kits and priced @ $19.97 ea. No, nothing followed me home,but that could change today when I go back today..

Edited October 19 by A modeler named mike
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[James2]

I'm pleased to have had 10 wonderful days in Daytona for Biketoberfest, saw many friends and visited many favorite spots. Got home without incident and now it's off to Chicago for work again. Thank GOD we live in a great country with great people!

[espo]

Had a problem with the hot water heater tank leaking and everyone I called wanted $1500 to $1900 to replace it. I called the builder, since our place is four years old, and got the info on the plumber who did all their new construction plumbing. He replaced the hot water heater under the 6-year warranty, and I only had to pay for his labor for the installation. Savings of over $1000 isn't hard to take. 

[A modeler named mike]

2 minutes ago, espo said:

Had a problem with the hot water heater tank leaking and everyone I called wanted $1500 to $1900 to replace it. I called the builder, since our place is four years old, and got the info on the plumber who did all their new construction plumbing. He replaced the hot water heater under the 6-year warranty, and I only had to pay for his labor for the installation. Savings of over $1000 isn't hard to take. 

That's great news Dave. 

[dragstk]

Did pretty well at the Syrcon IPMS show this weekend. These were in the Street Machine class

[89AKurt]

Harvested some Mesquite in the Verde Valley, so this should last a couple years.  Depends on fire ban time.  It's like the model stash, looks like it would take 300 years to build all of them. 

Pleased that we finally got rain, it's very green now (everyone back East is laughing), hardly any bugs, been seeing more Fall color.  Pleased I live here, where I can get out in a reasonable time.  Pleased I found a bunch of cool rocks!

Last pic of the day.  Pleased the County paved a stretch of dirt road, and recently graded the last bit of dirt road.  It's a way around a town with a bunch of traffic lights along the highway, I could jump out and take this picture, before anyone came along.

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 10/23/2025 at 12:05 AM, 89AKurt said:

...Pleased I live here...

 

Yessir, that photo right there is one of the main reasons I love AZ.

I haven't given up on the dream yet, but it's gonna take a while...

[ModWrench]

Want to give a big shout out to the folks at Scale Hobbyist for outstanding customer service. I purchased a 1/35^th scale British Scammell Pioneer kit manufactured by Thunder Models from them in April 2024. I took the kit with me on a family vacation last month and started to assemble the truck. Barely got started and discovered that the entire sprue “D” was not included in the kit. Without this set of parts, the kit is basically unbuildable. I reviewed the Return & Refund Policy on their website. I am way outside the 30-day return window, and since I started to build some subassemblies of the kit before realizing the sprue was missing, had two strikes against me. I figured it was a long shot at best but threw a Hail Mary request to their customer service team asking for their thoughts on any potential resolution. It took them the better part a month (they even apologized for the delay!!), but I received the missing sprue in the mail yesterday! I will definitely be sending more business their way soon.

[JollySipper]

Never mind, sorry............. I was gonna share a new to me song, but I couldn't get the link to work............

Edited October 26 by JollySipper

[Tim W. SoCal]

14 hours ago, JollySipper said:

Never mind, sorry............. I was gonna share a new to me song, but I couldn't get the link to work............

Give us the song title and artist and we should be able to check it out...

[JollySipper]

1 hour ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

Give us the song title and artist and we should be able to check it out...

Foreigner made an album called 'The Hits Unplugged'....... I was trying to post up the song 'Long, Long Way From Home'. It sounds pretty good acoustic........

The album has a black guitar on the cover.

 

Edited October 26 by JollySipper

[Tim W. SoCal]

5 hours ago, JollySipper said:

I was trying to post up the song 'Long, Long Way From Home'. It sounds pretty good acoustic........

Let's see if THIS works...

 

[89AKurt]

Pleased I can still motorvate and get rocks for the yard.   Pleased I found this spot, that has tons of purple-red rocks, but found other cool rocks elsewhere.  Pleased about the nice weather, if the forecast can be believed, it's going to be "bad" this Winter.

[A modeler named mike]

8 minutes ago, 89AKurt said:

Pleased about the nice weather, if the forecast can be believed, it's going to be "bad" this Winter.
 

I've been telling my wife that I believe this winter will be harsh. Going by the vast amount of acorns and walnuts dropping from the trees recently. We've been lucky here in Md. the last few years.

[Engine 51]

Friend of 40+ years is getting a very much needed double lung transplant today.

[mcs1056]

On 10/27/2025 at 2:05 PM, A modeler named mike said:

I've been telling my wife that I believe this winter will be harsh. Going by the vast amount of acorns and walnuts dropping from the trees recently. We've been lucky here in Md. the last few years.

For my 60th birthday, <<cough>> years ago, my wife threw a big party. My birthday is Sept. 11, and on this particular year, the acorns in the fifteen oaks we have were especially abundant. 

We added a game wherein, should you be hit on the head by a falling acorn, you had to do a shot with the birthday boy. 

I was the loser of said game. 

[TonyK]

I found the little decal sheet I was looking for yesterday (see the irked section) and my annual wellness checkup at the doctor today earned me an "A". He said nobody gets that score so I'm doing something right. I try so I'm happy that it's all working.

[John M.]

My building's laundry room was quiet when I got home from work so I threw in three loads of laundry so I wouldn't have to worry about them over the weekend. It'll be busy the next two days and I have clean clothes on hand for over the next week and a half. Now the fun part which is folding them. 

Edited Friday at 10:28 PM by John M.

[NYLIBUD]

Finally got the old Cherokee off-roading in the woods by my house today.It had poured all day yesterday,so I knew it would be slick and muddy.Ah it was great.

 

Edited Saturday at 06:34 PM by NYLIBUD

[Russell C]

A positive development today resulting from my Oct 28th irk where the county emissions tester had (inadvertently) trirf to let my car run away off the dynanometer rollers — I definitely have the attention of the subcontractor administrator running the facility for the county today. I politely worded a letter to the country supervisor a few days ago to only ask if the guy testing my car was qualified to drive a stick shift .... and if the cable restraints were hooked onto the front of my GTI to prevent excessive side-to-side drift on the rollers. The subcontractor administrator replied this morning to say the tester guy was qualified, and that in some cases, cars that don't have front tow hooks or other means of putting on the cable restraints don't get the cable restraints. His mistake was to say if mine only came with one in the spare tire tool kit, a single hook can't be used with one front cable restraint. I replied right away with the photo below to say mine most certainly has two hooks welded to the frame, they are quite obvious to see when anyone bends down to look for them, and that the reason why I really don't remember roller drift happening with my car is that diagonal cable restraints were put on those two hooks in so much of a regular routine way over the last 20 years that I never gave much thought to it.

In the subcontractor administrator's reply after lunch, he basically all but admitted outright that the first tester guy never bothered to look for the hooks, and the station manager who had to take over for him didn't either. I gather that the subcontractor administrator reminded the work staff - there's a more obscene way to describe such a scolding - that cable restraints are absolutely to be used on front-wheel drive manual shift cars when there are tow hooks / tow holes available. And if testers don't undertake that safety effort, they're in a wee spot of trouble.

[johnyrotten]

Finished up with the "paint apocalypse " I acquired, cleaned the bench and hit a toy show with my wife where I found a couple wishlist kits. Also found a revell 70 roadrunner at Michael's on clearance for $15. Too good to pass that up.