subconjunctival hemorrhage. Not my eye, just for example.
About 8:30 am yesterday I suffered in my left eye, a severe vitreous hemorrhage which built pressure in the eye causing it to rupture yesterday. I experienced an vitreous hemorrhage and developed subconjunctival hemorrhage(white tissue of the eye) resulting a bleeding tear on the conjunctivae(external). I was rushed to the hospital by the paramedics and then transferred by an ambulance to Portland OHSU hospital for more extensive exam and treatment. The internal bleeding was cauterized and the tear sutured. There might be retinal involvement but it will take some time for all the blood to dissipate for a clearer image. I can still see shapes and large writing, so I have that going for me. I am now wear an eye patch and will for a while. I have been having problems for awhile in my left eye with the vitreous fluid in it from sluffing and causing wispy shapes and large black floaters. That is why I was absent for a couple of days. I can see out of my right eye and it will just slow me down a little more…
I’m serious, while this guy lays out a litany of the illegal shit the democrats have done over the last ten years, there is still enough left unsaid to fill a fucking novel.
Chapter after chapter after chapter.
And not one of these dirty motherfuckers has seen the inside of a jail cell yet.
It’s funny how the government is shut down and for the first time in recent memory there isn’t a Chemtrail in the sky. Very unusual for around here.
Portland International airport is only about five miles from here, if that. Usually the sky is hazy and full of long white clouds criss crossing the entire sky with shit drifting down out of them.
The Wifely Unit had to take a road trip today that we knew about well in advance.
Almost a month agao I made an appointment to have all of the coolant hoses replaced on her 2004 Ford Focus because I instinctively knew I wanted nothing to do with that.
We took it up there last Monday, they called Tuesday and said because it’s so old, some of the hoses are now obsolete and they couldn’t find them locally.
The lady was nice enough to do some homework and found a complete kit, made out of Silicone, on Ebay.
Chinesium of course but the whole kit was only $225 with free shipping on a slow, leaking boat from China.
That was cheaper that just the ones she could find locally.
They will be here either late this month or sometime around Mid November. The lady said that the ones on there were still in remarkably decent shape and that the Wife shouldn’t have any problems until they get here.
That amazed me. 21 year old heater hoses?!
I have NEVER seen such a thing!
The second I saw this kit on Ebay, I knew I had made the right call on not doing these fuckers myself.
Take a gander at this shit,
ELEVEN FUCKING HOSES!!
Every single one of them is a molded hose too.
There is also some plastic tube in there somewhere she says that likes to break when they take everything apart but no word on that yet.
Some of those hoses are absolutely BURIED down in that engine bay and pretty much have to be replaced from the bottom.
I am expecting at least 8 hours of labor.
In the mean time, the lady also said the thing needs a battery, I know it’s at least 3 years old but I told her I would take care of that plus the wiper blades.
Um, yeah, about that.
Because I have been using the same little auto parts store for years that is just down the road from this repair shop, I get a pretty hefty discount, normally.
Except tis time.
That dinky assed little battery cost me almost exactly $200 with a trade in.
Because chattering wiper blades are a huge personal pet peeve of mine and the cheap ones always wind up chatterng, I have been getting the Silicone wiper blades for her car the last several years.
Of course they are two different lengths, because fucking Ford.
One is 19 inches long and the other is 22.
Those were $32.99 EACH.
So the total between one battery and two fucking wiper blades was $266!
My achin’ ASS!
Then I spent almost 45 minutes cleaning out the battery tray and battery cable ends.
Once I got that and the wipers done I started in cleaning the windshield and other windows. They have been filthy for months but the old lady says it doesn’t bother her.
She doesn’t drive at night.
The last time I had to drive that thing at night, the windshield would turn into one giant halo every time someone would come at me with those damn modern headlights, I couldn’t see a damn thing.
So i cleaned all those, vacuumed the little pig out and then started cleaning all the plastic interior parts. That’s when I remembered the dinky little light for the gear shifter indicator had been out for a long time so I got some tools out, got on Youtube and watched a quick video on changing that little light bulb.
Oh yeah, Ford strikes again, I had to take the arm rest off and remove the entire damned center console from the car to get to it. Then it was literally a dinky little bulb.
Since I am a pack rat and I worked for Ford back in the 90’s, yer damn right I still actually had some of those little bulbs and I also actually knew right where they were at. I had to use a pair of pliers to twist the socket out and put it back in and while I had that filthy console out I did a DEEP clean on that sumbitch.
After I got halfway done with the console, she came running out saying she had to go somewhere NOW, so I picked up the loose stuff and let her go. She comes back about 45 minutes later and the first thing she says is that the drivers window is grinding. She opens it and when she closes it, I can hear a grinding noise.
GREAT!
All I did was clean the fucking thing!
But I has a secret weapon for sticky windows and I go dig out a spray can of clear Silicone and spray the shit out of the guides.
It keeps doing it until I did the one right on top of the inner door panel and it finally shut up.
After that, I finished putting it back together and finished cleaning the inside up.
All in all, I spent damn near six hours on that stupid Hoopty but she was really tickled when I got done so it was worth it.
The moral of this story is for any of you that does some of their own repairs is to find a small local auto parts store.
Start using them exclusively and be really nice to those people. It took about a year for them to start giving me a discount but since then I have literally saved hundreds of dollars because of it.
Some things I don’t get a discount on but the ones I do add up fast!
We may see a ‘mixed transition’ in the US economy soon. If so, it will be a series of failures in financial markets, government capabilities, the food system, and social cohesion. #economy#politics#government#shutdown
Radical anarchists reportedly firebombed the tour bus of rapper Ice Cube, apparently confusing it for an ICE deportation vehicle.
The fire occurred early Tuesday morning, September 23, 2025, shortly after Ice Cube’s performance at the Moda Center on his “Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude Tour.”
Video footage showed the tour bus with its front passenger tire on fire and heavy smoke rising from the vehicle parked near Southwest Broadway and Oak Street, according to KPTV.
Portland Fire & Rescue crews responded quickly, extinguishing the flames and ventilating the smoke. The incident left the bus with a shattered driver’s side window and visible scorch damage along its exterior.
I’m sorry but I literally cannot wrap my head around the level of ignorance and ferality that has taken over parts of Portland at this point.
Thankfully and finally, President Trump is sending Military forces in to protect the FEDERAL ICE building and other Federal properies over in NW Portland and hopefully the retarded motherfuckers will step up to the plate, take that bait and we will finally see some righteous head busting and bodies being dragged into custody.
I cannot wait to see that shit being broadcast all over the world in living color.
My youngest daughter called me last night asking if she could come over so I could look at her little hoopty, saying it was making a noise when she made turns. I said of course, come over about 11:00 in the morning to give me time to get woke up and have some coffee.
So she shows up a little past 11 this morning. I get in and have her ride shotgun and go to back out of the driveway. Right off the get go I hear some squeal/grinding shit going on in the right front.
We get out on the street and I start zig zagging listening for bad bearings or some other shit and it goes away. As soon as I tapped the brakes, there it is again. I didn’t even get half way down one block. Back into the driveway and I go open the garage door.
I told her it sounds like brakes and she starts protesting that she will take it to some guy she knows who works cheap.
So I give her a glare and start jacking the thing up.
I went and stretched out an air hose, got a big screwdriver for the hub caps and grabbed my 1/2 drive impact and flip socket for lug nuts.
Lemme tell ya, I ain’t moving real fast and every time I go to do something grunting noises escape.
Before I could jack hers up I had to pick up the ass of the Sprite so I could grab a couple of jack stands. Pretty soon I have hers up in the air and get the tire off.
Bigger than shit the brake pads are looking mighty slim.
She is still making noises about taking it to this other guy so I shut that down and told her I was putting brakes on it, period.
I called up and got some brake pads set out, $80 sounded pretty high to me and should have been a clue but off we go and pick them up.
I get a pretty hefty discount at this place so it actually came out to $50 something. We get back and open the box and sure as shit they aren’t right. We go back up there, find out the guy thought I said rear pads and get the right ones.
$30 something, 3 cans of Brake Clean for my fee and back we come.
Of course The Wifely Unit is out there now so I give her a good glare to make sure she ain’t piping up about shit she knows nothing about and I tear into it. I had the girl pull up a folding chair and I start showing and explaining how to do this and why we are doing various parts of the chore. I also gave her a brief explanation of how the hydraulics work in a brake system. When I took the inside pad out, I showed her the little Squealer tab sticking out and explained what it does and how that was what was making the noise she was hearing, letting her know she needed new brakes.
I finally got the passenger side done, we dragged everything over to the other side and then I sat down in the folding chair and started pointing.
I’m not kidding, she knocked it right out!
We wrapped it up, put most of the tools away and I had her get in, start it and hit the brakes. Naturally the pedal went to the floor on the first try so I had her pump them up until she had a good pedal and off we went. I had her drive. No noise when we backed out, I explained how to burnish the new pads and break them in and then we took off on a little test drive.
No noise, no vibration, a good pedal and a job well done. I was just as proud of her as she was of herself.
She is a good girl, all of my kids turned out to be great people and I was glad I could help her save a bunch of money.
At one point she tells me that she remembered standing on my floor jack when she was little, pumping it up and then riding it down when she turned the handle. Of course she had to show me.
