What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Exhuminator]

I'm never going to understand people bringing their electronic devices into the toilet with them. Yes, I shall sit here on a hard uncomfortable seat, basking in the fecal particle impregnated air, smelling what my guts concocted out of yesterday's meal. I shall do this for fifteen minutes, reading braindead clickbait top ten lists about nothing really. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm lucky in that when I go down to brown town it's always a tactical strike and the mission is over in less than sixty seconds. But even if this was a protracted process, I still wouldn't bring my delicate electronics into the stinkzone with me. That's just gross.

[Ack]

"Top ____ List" articles have a tendency to be lazy and shoddy.

They also have a tendency to get boat loads of hits.

... I should start crapping some out myself.

We should do a Racketboy 10 Top 10 list, similar to the AFI.

In fact, we should form the video game equivalent of the AFI.

[prfsnl_gmr]

In fact, we should form the video game equivalent of the AFI.

Agreed. I will help with this.

[Luke]

wear the funky funky eyepatch

I rethinking the Dread Pirate Roberts thing due to the white shirt.

Could be a butt pirate, but that offend some in our demo.

Could be a Pittsburgh pirate, but like being an ECU pirate, it's an easy way out.

Could be a data pirate, but that would be lost on about everyone.

Maybe a modern day Dread Pirate Roberts?

song of the day

[TSTR]

song of the day

hot jamz

[Luke]

song of the day

hot jamz

It could use more Slick Mahoney, but yeah, tummy scratch beats.

edit* Sorry dudes. The Pirate stuff just isn't working. I'll be wearing a suit with an ECU Pirate tie, as I can't get the cloth on my head to lay flat. You know the "Hide your kids hide your wife" dude. That's the best I can get to, and hell if I'm going out in public with that.

[Fragems]

: Okay I'm quite pissed right now. Just got a call back from the garage and they are fucking me over quite royally. So basically we are at $630 right now they still have no clue what the issue is. So they are installing a new alternator(hopefully included in that $630 estimate calling in the morning to confirm), but they have to order one so it won't be done until late next week. Really getting fed up with these guys was expecting it to be a tricky job so I wanted to take it to an "official" service center, but I would have probably been better off just going to one of the local guys around here who actually gives a shit about their customers.

Needless to say my Post Master is going to flip on me in the morning for not being able to run two weekends in a row. God knows I have the money to spend on a back up vehicle on the 8 hours a week he gives me.

[Luke]

: Okay I'm quite pissed right now.

Find a mechanic you can trust, supply your own parts. Even "Yelp" if you need to.

Smile:

Entering the GMOA's Jolly Arghtini:



Pretty neat huh?

Besides live music, tons of food, beer, wine, martinis, shots of rum. a shaved ice machine in an art museum, we also had a caricature artist who also reads your penmanship. He's worked with the police in the past and deciphers your personality by your style of writing.

It is a parlor trick and very much a series of cold readings, but it's fun and as and you can see created a lot of attention.

The crew at the Greenville Museum of Art put a LOT of work into this event, and in return this was the most attended event we've ever had. So awesome when hard work (and marketing) pay off.

Being the chair of the marketing committee, I'm more than ecstatic for the success of this event. Plus my wife and I were able to enjoy drinks while volunteering, so win win.




...and only a few people out of 140+ dressed like pirates, so I was fine with wearing a suit with an ECU necktie.

[CRTGAMER]

I do not know of any licensed Automotive shop that will use parts that a customer would bring in. Their stance is due to the risk of the outside supplied replacement part is defective plus not mentioning they lose out on profit from their own parts counter.

: Okay I'm quite pissed right now. Just got a call back from the garage and they are fucking me over quite royally. So basically we are at $630 right now they still have no clue what the issue is. So they are installing a new alternator(hopefully included in that $630 estimate calling in the morning to confirm), but they have to order one so it won't be done until late next week. Really getting fed up with these guys was expecting it to be a tricky job so I wanted to take it to an "official" service center, but I would have probably been better off just going to one of the local guys around here who actually gives a shit about their customers.

Needless to say my Post Master is going to flip on me in the morning for not being able to run two weekends in a row. God knows I have the money to spend on a back up vehicle on the 8 hours a week he gives me.

You reeeally should have slapped that volt meter on the battery before you took it in. I do not get why diagnostics are so expensive, 12 volt engine off 14 volt engine on confirms an alternator is working. If that is the only problem, Autozone would have been so much cheaper with lifetime free replacement of their Duralast products.

Too late to check the older alternator, all a shady mechanic has to do is short out the positive lead to ground to instantly burn out the diodes inside. This is why I do not allow anyone else hooking up jumper cables when I am helping a stranded motorist.

Hopefully the alternator change out will solve the problem, I suspect they will get you on the computer replacement as well. It is strange you had intermediate problems that would work off and on again which does lead to that battery discharge.

BE SURE TO REQUEST ALL THE OLD PARTS BACK
Ask the old parts be placed in the replacement parts box to confirm what went in as well. You can then verify on your own if they were in fact replaced, especially if that overpriced computer board pulled is matched to your vehicle.

I'm never going to understand people bringing their electronic devices into the toilet with them. Yes, I shall sit here on a hard uncomfortable seat, basking in the fecal particle impregnated air, smelling what my guts concocted out of yesterday's meal. I shall do this for fifteen minutes, reading braindead clickbait top ten lists about nothing really. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm lucky in that when I go down to brown town it's always a tactical strike and the mission is over in less than sixty seconds. But even if this was a protracted process, I still wouldn't bring my delicate electronics into the stinkzone with me. That's just gross.

Smart move, a quick unload and get out before the smoke!

[BogusMeatFactory]

Smile:

Entering the GMOA's Jolly Arghtini:



Pretty neat huh?

Besides live music, tons of food, beer, wine, martinis, shots of rum. a shaved ice machine in an art museum, we also had a caricature artist who also reads your penmanship. He's worked with the police in the past and deciphers your personality by your style of writing.

It is a parlor trick and very much a series of cold readings, but it's fun and as and you can see created a lot of attention.

The crew at the Greenville Museum of Art put a LOT of work into this event, and in return this was the most attended event we've ever had. So awesome when hard work (and marketing) pay off.

Being the chair of the marketing committee, I'm more than ecstatic for the success of this event. Plus my wife and I were able to enjoy drinks while volunteering, so win win.




...and only a few people out of 140+ dressed like pirates, so I was fine with wearing a suit with an ECU necktie.

What an awesome sounding party! I always love people who do cold readings. I myself am really good at it and it always disturbs people when I do it. I always immediately tell them that it is a scam and they should never trust psychics, mentalists and the like. It still is really fun to do though, because people FREAK out. Glad you got away with a suit, because we all knew that most people attending a fund raiser like this aren't going to dress goofy.