While not "exactly" a newbie, hello!
- Thread starter Kamakiri
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Hey Tim!
We'll catch you in Army's listening room at the Fest!
I think he's going to have an HPM 100 vs Infinity RS 2.5 challenge.
Retro
We'll catch you in Army's listening room at the Fest!
I think he's going to have an HPM 100 vs Infinity RS 2.5 challenge.
Retro
clydeselsor
Lunatic Member
Welcome back!
Hi Tim, GLAD to see ya!! Remember ... pick me ups are FREE around here...
(This'll teach me to not keep my nose to the grindstone in the Pioneer forum, and to look around a bit... took me almost a WEEK to notice...:nono
(This'll teach me to not keep my nose to the grindstone in the Pioneer forum, and to look around a bit... took me almost a WEEK to notice...:nono
Welcome back, my friend.
Tom
Tom
draftingmonkey
AK Monkey
A delayed welcome back to you Sir.
Kamakiri
The New Dynamic
Sometimes things happen that you just can't explain......
I was going to post this here on Monday:
I had some money set aside to buy a go-cart for my son, $300 to be exact, that I had to end up using on Friday for the survey and appraisal on the house so I can move in once again to the home that I knew for more than a decade. It was either that, or it get listed for sale. Not a huge deal, as I'm working on a couple trades, but.....
I had the boys this weekend, and as we were coming home back here last night the timing chain on my old van gave way. Towed it home with the tractor, fortunately it died right by my mail stop near my house, and the kids and I were able to hoof it a couple blocks back to my place. I've been holding that old thing together the best I can. Just did brakes, calipers, universal joints, and rebuilt the carburetor on it. I've put over 13,000 miles on it since November, and I think the strain of moving and several hundred miles per week was just too much for the old girl. With how tired the motor is, investing the cash in ripping the front of the engine apart to do the job, even if I had it, wouldn't make much sense. I'm a week away from getting the mortgage on the house, and my credit is now good enough that I could just take out a loan and get something, but I can't just get something and get approved, because that will jeopardize my mortgage.
That's if I can even afford it after paying child support, I'm left with crumbs.
I also have a school tuition payment coming up this week, and my little one is going in for oral surgery at Childrens Hospital tomorrow, and that's on my mind as well as a big co-pay there......I was on the phone with my little boy until 10:30 last night, I think he's scared, and I wish I could be there with him.
For the next couple days, my parents loaned me their Jeep Grand Cherokee. I'm not used to my dad's jeep, and I clocked myself in the face anad gave myself a bad bloody nose with the door when I dropped the kids off yesterday. Damn thing still hurts. Beyond that, all I've got is the motorcycle, and it's still cold around these parts. I can tough through that, but I can't pick up my kids for my visitation on the back of the bike.
My work is ramping up as well......I'm working on big projects for work, they're dropping $170,000 in advertising on a website that I have just over a week to complete, plus a new vehicle inventory management system that I'm developing that's been given the full push.
My shipping manager cant get a release to come back to work after his surgery so I'm doing the work of two for the 3rd week, PLUS all this. I was here at work until 8:30 yesterday, Sunday......but it was at least better than being alone.
Bonus check was the second lowest I've ever had, so the common denominator is that I can't afford any of the above. Have fun at the Fest, guys.....looks like I'll miss you this year.......
And on the way in this morning, I found out that the radio pastor that I listened to every morning, whose message helped me get through quite a bit in my recent trials, passed away over the weekend. I was moved to tears as I drove in to work this morning, before the sun was even on the horizon.
I pulled into the dusty parking lot here at work, looked up, looked down, shook my head, and began my day here at the dealership.
****************
Then Tuesday:
Well, I talked to the mortgage company, and they okayed me if I wanted to buy a car, so since all my bills are rolled into the mortgage and I'll be paying a lot less monthly than even I am now, I thought, why not look.
No sooner do I come in than do I see this '04 with only 26,000 miles on it. And, with my now excellent credit, got financed at 6.5%
I close on my house in less than three weeks, and when I'm back in, I'll spend a lazy weekend tearing the front end off the van and doing the timing chain. The old girl's been too good to me to put out to pasture.....besides, can't tow a camper with the new ride
Ain't she purty? They're getting her cleaned up now, this is the way it looked after it just came in from trade. I can't wait for the kids to see this!
Talk about a comeuppance......oh, and I'm back on for the Fest
Then YESTERDAY.....
So I get into the van last night, because I left the ignition key in the door pocket in case I was going to have it towed, and for the heck of it I hit the key, and sure enough, motor's spinning with no compression. But this time, it's spinning fast as if the battery regained a charge somehow. Hm. And I about killed the battery trying to start it before.
Spin spin spin spin spin.....and that's about it. Okay. Then, something happened in the motor, like something caught. Now I know what no compression and a bad timing chain sounds like, and that was it 100%. But then something happened that I can't explain.
You know that old son of a gun started? Belching smoke, sounding like it was on 7 cylinders, but it was running. Absolutely amazing. It's as if she was saying, "don't count me out yet, I'm not dead!"
So, before the move, it looks like I have some work to do on her, and she'll pull into the driveway under her own power .
Sometimes things happen for a reason, I guess. God's looking out for me
I was going to post this here on Monday:
I had some money set aside to buy a go-cart for my son, $300 to be exact, that I had to end up using on Friday for the survey and appraisal on the house so I can move in once again to the home that I knew for more than a decade. It was either that, or it get listed for sale. Not a huge deal, as I'm working on a couple trades, but.....
I had the boys this weekend, and as we were coming home back here last night the timing chain on my old van gave way. Towed it home with the tractor, fortunately it died right by my mail stop near my house, and the kids and I were able to hoof it a couple blocks back to my place. I've been holding that old thing together the best I can. Just did brakes, calipers, universal joints, and rebuilt the carburetor on it. I've put over 13,000 miles on it since November, and I think the strain of moving and several hundred miles per week was just too much for the old girl. With how tired the motor is, investing the cash in ripping the front of the engine apart to do the job, even if I had it, wouldn't make much sense. I'm a week away from getting the mortgage on the house, and my credit is now good enough that I could just take out a loan and get something, but I can't just get something and get approved, because that will jeopardize my mortgage.
That's if I can even afford it after paying child support, I'm left with crumbs.
I also have a school tuition payment coming up this week, and my little one is going in for oral surgery at Childrens Hospital tomorrow, and that's on my mind as well as a big co-pay there......I was on the phone with my little boy until 10:30 last night, I think he's scared, and I wish I could be there with him.
For the next couple days, my parents loaned me their Jeep Grand Cherokee. I'm not used to my dad's jeep, and I clocked myself in the face anad gave myself a bad bloody nose with the door when I dropped the kids off yesterday. Damn thing still hurts. Beyond that, all I've got is the motorcycle, and it's still cold around these parts. I can tough through that, but I can't pick up my kids for my visitation on the back of the bike.
My work is ramping up as well......I'm working on big projects for work, they're dropping $170,000 in advertising on a website that I have just over a week to complete, plus a new vehicle inventory management system that I'm developing that's been given the full push.
My shipping manager cant get a release to come back to work after his surgery so I'm doing the work of two for the 3rd week, PLUS all this. I was here at work until 8:30 yesterday, Sunday......but it was at least better than being alone.
Bonus check was the second lowest I've ever had, so the common denominator is that I can't afford any of the above. Have fun at the Fest, guys.....looks like I'll miss you this year.......
And on the way in this morning, I found out that the radio pastor that I listened to every morning, whose message helped me get through quite a bit in my recent trials, passed away over the weekend. I was moved to tears as I drove in to work this morning, before the sun was even on the horizon.
I pulled into the dusty parking lot here at work, looked up, looked down, shook my head, and began my day here at the dealership.
****************
Then Tuesday:
Well, I talked to the mortgage company, and they okayed me if I wanted to buy a car, so since all my bills are rolled into the mortgage and I'll be paying a lot less monthly than even I am now, I thought, why not look.
No sooner do I come in than do I see this '04 with only 26,000 miles on it. And, with my now excellent credit, got financed at 6.5%
I close on my house in less than three weeks, and when I'm back in, I'll spend a lazy weekend tearing the front end off the van and doing the timing chain. The old girl's been too good to me to put out to pasture.....besides, can't tow a camper with the new ride
Ain't she purty? They're getting her cleaned up now, this is the way it looked after it just came in from trade. I can't wait for the kids to see this!
Talk about a comeuppance......oh, and I'm back on for the Fest
Then YESTERDAY.....
So I get into the van last night, because I left the ignition key in the door pocket in case I was going to have it towed, and for the heck of it I hit the key, and sure enough, motor's spinning with no compression. But this time, it's spinning fast as if the battery regained a charge somehow. Hm. And I about killed the battery trying to start it before.
Spin spin spin spin spin.....and that's about it. Okay. Then, something happened in the motor, like something caught. Now I know what no compression and a bad timing chain sounds like, and that was it 100%. But then something happened that I can't explain.
You know that old son of a gun started? Belching smoke, sounding like it was on 7 cylinders, but it was running. Absolutely amazing. It's as if she was saying, "don't count me out yet, I'm not dead!"
So, before the move, it looks like I have some work to do on her, and she'll pull into the driveway under her own power
.Sometimes things happen for a reason, I guess. God's looking out for me
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pmsummer
simul justus et peccator
Sometimes things happen that you just can't explain......
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Sometimes things happen for a reason, I guess. God's looking out for me
Yes indeed. Thanks for the witness! :yes:
john_w
Miscreant
I just saw this thread for the 1st time. Not too surprising, as I've been as much off-and-on as always.
Anyways, great to hear from you again Tim! To say you've been missed would be just really redundant by now, so I won't bother.
Glad to hear things are looking up! It's good for me to hear since I've been going through my own complicated mess involving major life changes lately, about which I'll try to post some time when the dust settles. I'm confident that faith will bring things through for me as well. But right now it's just great to see you back online!
- jw
Anyways, great to hear from you again Tim! To say you've been missed would be just really redundant by now, so I won't bother.
Glad to hear things are looking up! It's good for me to hear since I've been going through my own complicated mess involving major life changes lately, about which I'll try to post some time when the dust settles. I'm confident that faith will bring things through for me as well. But right now it's just great to see you back online!
- jw
