Where my truck used to be.

I’m really going to miss that old sonofabitch too.

It was a good truck.

The short story, several years ago, The Kid went and got a new job doing something I can’t remember right now. He had graduated from working at several different pizza joints and had finally found something decent.

He hadn’t been there very long when all of a sudden one day he shows up in a brand new Hyunday coupe.

Didn’t bother to consult with Momma, just went and did it himself.

I was horrified and impressed at the same time.

I think he was about 20 at the time.

His Mother was fucking livid.

I stayed the hell out of that whole conversation.

I’m not completely stupid.

So as the years go by there are the usual hiccups.

Late payments, car trouble, etc., etc.

When I got the Big Red Dodge, Momma immediately started making noises about giving the old Chevy to The Kid.

I cringed every time she brought it up.

Horrific visions filled my head.

Anyways, here yesterday The Kid shows up with the girlfriend and The Wifely Unit started asking me what all the crap in the back of it was and saying I needed to clean it out.

The Kid is having car trouble again but is down to the next to the last payment on his little Hoopty and doesn’t want to throw any money at it.

After six years of semi neglect and abuse, he just wants it to go away.

So I cleaned out the truck and handed her the keys.

Ain’t no point in saying one word.

Ten minutes later as I’m sitting here pondering fate, The Kid sticks his head in the front door and asks me how to start it.

Huh?

He has borrowed it before and should know how.

I said put the key in it and turn. Duh.

The entire time I owned that truck, it never once failed to crank right over and fire right up.

I even drove it just last weekend.

So I go out there, turn the key and…… nothing.

The battery is deader than a door nail.

So I get in behind the seat of the Dodge and get the brand new jump start / air compressor I bought at the beach a couple weeks ago and hook it up.

It labored a bit and then fired right up.

So while I am sitting there telling them that I have never had a problem with this thing, I let it run for a while.

After about ten minutes I shut it off and tried to start it again.

It cranked over two full revolutions and the battery shit the bed.

Normally it doesn’t even get one full turn almost, it fires right up almost instantly.

So bigger than shit, it’s now ten minutes to seven in the evening and I gotta go buy a battery.

I always carry a six inch crescent wrench in my back pocket so I whipped it out and yanked the battery.

I told The Kid to throw it in the back of the Dodge and let’s go.

I was thinking at this point I was going to wind up at Wally World and dreading every second of that.

It is a huge ordeal to buy batteries from those fuckers these days.

Just because, I called my local parts house and was surprised that they were still open. They are like 2 blocks from Wally World so I told them what rig and what year and told them to set one out.

In and out in less than ten minutes and my bank account is lighter $165, even with the discount I get from having been a loyal customer for so many years.

I looked at the receipt real quick as I was coming home and the list price for Joe Blow was $240.

Gotta love that place.

Got home, threw the new battery in, turned the key and it fired right up.

So not only did I lose my spare truck, I had to buy a battery to make it go away.

It’s almost like it knew what was happening and didn’t want to go either.

I already miss the thing. It did what I needed it to do, every time and the thing hauled ass when I wanted it to also.

Compared to this 3/4 ton 4WD Dodge, it was a freakin’ Hot Rod.

I will always remember my trip to South Eastern Oregon last year when I opened that thing up out in the middle of nowhere and just held it to the floor for miles and miles with the engine screaming and the speedometer completely buried.

I loved every minute of that.

This is one reason I am so concerned about The Kid having it.

Trucks are completely nose heavy .

When it rains, the back tires on that thing will break loose at forty five miles an hour if you stomp on it.

It also means it don’t wanna stop if you slam on the brakes. Rear wheel ABS or no.

It is what it is at this point. He is family and needed a rig. The Chevy was just sitting there most of the time and at least it will get some use.

That still doesn’t mean that I am not going to miss it.

Why did I have to find this?

WHY?

I’m getting too old for this crap.

Oh my God.

The Sprite needs to go, asap…….

Workin’ his moves!

I’m tellin’ ya, it’s like Ballet!

Everybody with two functioning brain synapses to rub together needs to stand the fuck up this time and tell these rat fuckers that we ain’t playing their game again.

 Public Elementary School in Wealthy DC Suburb Forcing Third-Grade Children to Wear Masks Again

By Cullen Linebarger Sep. 5, 2023

Montgomery County, Maryland – The mandates and potentially lockdowns are gradually coming back into American life. Children are among the first victims of this travesty.

Conservative radio talk show host Clay Travis posted a letter o X (formerly Twitter) which was sent to all parents at Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Montgomery County, which is a tony DC suburb. The letter, which was from the school’s principal, Rebecca Irwin Kennedy, said that because “3 or more” students had recently tested positive for COVID 19, all third-grade students must mask up for the next ten days.

Moreover, the masks must be N95s despite little evidence such masks (or any for that matter) are actually effective at stopping the spread of the virus.

Despite the absolute fact that N95 masks are worse than useless for stopping virii in any way shape or form.

“The New Variant” and a corresponding and “oh how convenient” Jab are coming very soon.

I can tell you as a fact that the Commie Governor of the State of Washington is already dribbling in his underwear at the prospects of invoking another Emergency for 900 plus days so he can order everything locked down again and the useless face masks being mandated again.

I’m thinking I can’ t be the only one around here this time who is going to tell him to pound sand in his fucking ass over that.

But I for one sure as fuck is going to do just that.

You can shove that “Vaccine” right in your eyeball too.

Been sick.

No idea with what.

Started feeling shitty Monday afternoon and had a slight headache.

Then I started feeling queasy so I didn’t eat dinner.

Got up and went to work yesterday and stopped and got a couple of biscuits and gravy.

Two hours later I had to run and find a garbage can because I thought I was gonna puke my guts out but I only retched real hard .Still had the headache too.

I said Fuck This and came home.

Got here, took my shoes off and grabbed a throw blanket, didn’t even take my jacket off.

Kicked back in my recliner and was asleep in minutes.

Slept 4 hours, got up to pee and went to bed. Except for bathroom breaks I slept all day and all night. The alarm woke me up so I called in and went back to sleep again this morning.

Now my lower back aches from sleeping so much and I am weaker than a newborn kitten.

Still don’t feel very good and may just go back to bed again.

I did finally eat a small peanut butter cracker bar.

I do have a package I need to send off but I’m in no rush to do anything.

It’s gonna be up to CederQ to keep the joint open.

Looks like another brother from a different mother.

Heh.

The Wifely Unit got me this as a late Anniversary gift. It was the 21st of last month but the hat showed up yesterday afternoon.

I see triggered Libtards in my future.

I was out in Phil’s Temple of Tools all day trying to get a little project done that turned into a nightmare.

As usual.

I finally had to abandon the material I was trying to use for it.

I found a piece of Mystery Metal that was in a bucket of crap I scavenged from Old Chuck after he passed away.

It was the closest to the specifications needed that I could find right away.

Turns out it is harder than the hubs of hell.

After struggling with this stuff for days, I was talking to my Friend Irish and he asked me if the stuff was magnetic.

After I discovered it wasn’t, I abandoned the stuff.

Chinesium Mini Lathes No Likey Stainless Steel, period.

No wonder I was having so much trouble.

So I found a hunk of 1 1/2 Aluminium round stock my brain kept telling me I had and spent the whole day redoing what I had already done.

I’m almost done except I had to hit up Amazon for some Needle Dick Bug Fucker Tiny Assed 4 X 40 set screws.

I have the drill bits and the tiny taps thanks to a very generous reader a few years back who sent me several sets of tiny taps and dies I had been looking for.

They go all the way down to 2 X 56.

I have seen Upholstery Needles bigger than that.

I had some tiny set screws also but no 1/8 X 40 tap that was required..

The 4 X 40 tap was pretty close but I stripped the inside of the set screw trying to get it to fit in a test piece, so no dice.

I’m damn glad I decided to test it on some scrap first!

So anyways, The end is in sight.

I’m just waiting for Amazon to show up.

I still have a bunch of work to do on the Big Red Dodge,

The plastic bushings for the wiper transmission arms let go in the dark and pouring rain on the way to work Thursday.

The rest of the plastic bushings showed up early this morning.

That is a Must Do this weekend.

One of the things that is amazing to me is the gamble the people in charge of the money supply system are taking. They are deliberately killing the dollar as they have run it as far as it will go before it becomes completely worthless, while thinking that they have it all figured out with this Electronic system they are rolling out. They have all of their eggs in that basket and the handle is loose.

The rest of the world has had enough of being beaten about the head and shoulders with the constant economic warfare that has been going on since Bretton-Woods and now they have just dealt a severe body blow with the addition of six new countries to their alternate BRICS system.

The way I see it, this Digital Dollar scheme is going to be dead before it gets completely unveiled.

There are way too many things that can and will go wrong with it but the number one reason I think it is going to die in it’s crib is the unreliability of the electrical grid and the ability for Billions of people to have reliable access to it.

I have written about it before and I still thing the following graphics say all that needs to be said about it.,

So the entire world is about to get thrown into complete chaos and all of us are doing all we can do just to survive right now before it all comes unglued as it is.

So there is that.

This is an Open Thread post so I strongly encourage anyone who would like to chime in to talk about just about anything that is on their mind. Politics, the economy, crime, survival topics, all y’all have carte blanche and the floor is open.

What’s on your mind?

I tried it once.

My oldest and bestest friend Steve texted me last night with a picture of something he ran across while surfing Facebook Marketplace.

I don’t do Facebook so these kind of deals go by unnoticed.

I have been wanting one of these For Years and I couldn’t believe how cheap it was.

Not only did he find it, he even went and picked it up and delivered it!!

Those kinds of friends are few and far between.

I think we have known each other for over thirty years now.

So anyway, he sends me a couple more pictures and there is even stuff in it!

Double Score.

A Double Decker Drill Index cabinet.

For fifty bucks.

And it even has a bunch of Metric drill bits in it!

Holy Smokes what a score.

Another friend named Steve gave me a whole bunch of drill bits in a plastic tub last year that will fit right in there.

Plus another bunch I have in a drawer.

Hot Damn what a deal.

So here’s to my friends named Steve, you know who you are.

Thank You Very Much!!

Damn that turned out pretty.