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Baxter's ride report
Baxter's ride report
Let's see, on Sunday I rolled the street bike into the driveway and
washed it. Afterwards, I fired it up and rode it back into the
garage.
Exciting huh!
I followed up by washing the car and truck and then rode my sofa for
the rest of the day. After my annoying battery search on saturday, I
needed to do nothing and I enjoyed it.
Mike Baxter
Let's see, on Sunday I rolled the street bike into the driveway and
washed it. Afterwards, I fired it up and rode it back into the
garage.
Exciting huh!
I followed up by washing the car and truck and then rode my sofa for
the rest of the day. After my annoying battery search on saturday, I
needed to do nothing and I enjoyed it.
Mike Baxter
Re: Baxter's ride report
On Apr 14, 12:37 pm, Mike Baxter <mgb...@comcast,net > wrote:
> Let's see, on Sunday I rolled the street bike into the driveway and
> washed it. Afterwards, I fired it up and rode it back into the
> garage.
>
> Exciting huh!
>
> I followed up by washing the car and truck and then rode my sofa for
> the rest of the day. After my annoying battery search on saturday, I
> needed to do nothing and I enjoyed it.
>
> Mike Baxter
Shopping for anything has that same effect on me.
You had me on the edge of my seat there, Mike. Getting there wore me
out, so I want to take a nap now.
Tim H
On Apr 14, 12:37 pm, Mike Baxter <mgb...@comcast,net > wrote:
> Let's see, on Sunday I rolled the street bike into the driveway and
> washed it. Afterwards, I fired it up and rode it back into the
> garage.
>
> Exciting huh!
>
> I followed up by washing the car and truck and then rode my sofa for
> the rest of the day. After my annoying battery search on saturday, I
> needed to do nothing and I enjoyed it.
>
> Mike Baxter
Shopping for anything has that same effect on me.
You had me on the edge of my seat there, Mike. Getting there wore me
out, so I want to take a nap now.
Tim H
Re: Baxter's ride report
> I followed up by washing the car and truck and then rode my sofa for
> the rest of the day. After my annoying battery search on saturday, I
> needed to do nothing and I enjoyed it.
Speaking of your battery search - I've been trying to get my
daughter's car back on the road for better than a month. New struts,
axle, valve cover gasket, exhaust manifold work, sway bar links, misc
body work, engine flush, new oil pan, tune up, wipers, etc... It was
supposed to be FINALLY wrapped up today with an intermediate exhaust
pipe and O2 sensor replacement (shop installing my parts for free -
long and ugly story). It was supposed to be done on Monday, but I
couldn't get the exhaust part fast enough. I got the pipe yesterday
and this morning, I decided to hold the new pipe up against the old
one, just to make sure before driving over to the shop. Sure
enough...wrong f'in pipe. Throughout this single car project, I
bought over $500 worth of parts THAT I HAD TO RETURN! I've dealt with
3 parts shops so far, and they are all the same. I swear, it must a
prerequisite for working in the auto parts industry that you are
retarded or something. I don't know how mechanics can stand it.
JayC
> I followed up by washing the car and truck and then rode my sofa for
> the rest of the day. After my annoying battery search on saturday, I
> needed to do nothing and I enjoyed it.
Speaking of your battery search - I've been trying to get my
daughter's car back on the road for better than a month. New struts,
axle, valve cover gasket, exhaust manifold work, sway bar links, misc
body work, engine flush, new oil pan, tune up, wipers, etc... It was
supposed to be FINALLY wrapped up today with an intermediate exhaust
pipe and O2 sensor replacement (shop installing my parts for free -
long and ugly story). It was supposed to be done on Monday, but I
couldn't get the exhaust part fast enough. I got the pipe yesterday
and this morning, I decided to hold the new pipe up against the old
one, just to make sure before driving over to the shop. Sure
enough...wrong f'in pipe. Throughout this single car project, I
bought over $500 worth of parts THAT I HAD TO RETURN! I've dealt with
3 parts shops so far, and they are all the same. I swear, it must a
prerequisite for working in the auto parts industry that you are
retarded or something. I don't know how mechanics can stand it.
JayC
Re: Baxter's ride report
On Apr 16, 11:59 am, JayC <j...@sysmatrix,net > wrote:
> I don't know how mechanics can stand it.
easy question! They know where to buy. I was talking with my brother
about exactly this subject yesterday, but it was why restaurants have
always the best macaxeira and the one I bought yesterday was horribly
bad, yellow and hard, instead of white and soft, even though I let the
thing 40 minutes on the pressure cooker. I buy this stuff regularly
and more than often I get bad. I've never been on a restaurant that it
was bad. If I buy bad so often and they get always good, that could
have three meanings:
a) I don't know how to buy it
b) I don't know where to buy it
c) I don't know how to properly cook it.
I strongly suspect that the answer is "b"... It is hard to tell a good
one from a bad one when they're raw, so, "a" is excluded. There's no
secret about cooking, it is just water, salt and 20 minutes of
boiling, so, "c" is also out.
hmmm, lunch time now.
good luck with your parts dealer! :-)
-- Tiago
On Apr 16, 11:59 am, JayC <j...@sysmatrix,net > wrote:
> I don't know how mechanics can stand it.
easy question! They know where to buy. I was talking with my brother
about exactly this subject yesterday, but it was why restaurants have
always the best macaxeira and the one I bought yesterday was horribly
bad, yellow and hard, instead of white and soft, even though I let the
thing 40 minutes on the pressure cooker. I buy this stuff regularly
and more than often I get bad. I've never been on a restaurant that it
was bad. If I buy bad so often and they get always good, that could
have three meanings:
a) I don't know how to buy it
b) I don't know where to buy it
c) I don't know how to properly cook it.
I strongly suspect that the answer is "b"... It is hard to tell a good
one from a bad one when they're raw, so, "a" is excluded. There's no
secret about cooking, it is just water, salt and 20 minutes of
boiling, so, "c" is also out.
hmmm, lunch time now.
good luck with your parts dealer! :-)
-- Tiago
