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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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ursus said:
It has felt like three Mondays already, and it's not even 11:00 a.m. yet for me. Also, I don't own an F-150, so that's not going my way either!!!
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Despite me having my trash out the night before, the city didn't pick up my trash for the second week in a row. So life isn't all rainbows and unicorns for me.
 
dw914er said:
To be honest, that's the ideal scenario. Nothing more aggravating than trying to start the car on a cold day/night and hearing the click click click because of a dead battery.
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I had this happen just last week with a battery less than a month old. I've apparently have something small draining my battery and the car sitting for a week and a half over the break was not productive.
 
Big Owl said:
Despite me having my trash out the night before, the city didn't pick up my trash for the second week in a row. So life isn't all rainbows and unicorns for me.
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The Monday holidays threw off a lot of people the past two weeks. No more holidays for the trash men until 4th July, so it should all be good for a while.
 
Big Owl said:
Despite me having my trash out the night before, the city didn't pick up my trash for the second week in a row. So life isn't all rainbows and unicorns for me.
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Don't you know someone at the city you can call about this? I mean you do work for the city...or are they mad at you for some reason.
 
michaelskis said:
I only have the 6 speed and it is in silver, so I am ok with it.

It is funny you bring up the entertainment system issue. On occasion, my touch screen will not respond. No big deal unless it is in Apple Car Play Mode. I found out that if you hold down the power and the forward advance button at the same time for 5 seconds, it resets the system. Boom, everything works perfectly after that. I almost ripped out my system and went with an after market until I learned about the reset hack.
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Yep, I do that too when it freezes, but it doesnt bring it back to normal. There's a way to manually download the update from Ford, put it on a thumb drive, and then upload it to to one of the USB ports in the truck. But there's a sequence for the files and I havent had time to go through it yet.
 
dandy_warhol said:
Get yourself a Disney Princess dress and you might have a better chance of it happening.
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The Girl had a few but she has cleaned out her closet and those are long gone unless Mrs. P snagged one for 'nostalgic purposes' - I'll have to ask her.
 
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It is a newly renovated Sandman Signature (high end) Hotel. The hotel opened in September.
 
zman said:
I too have a 2019 with the 3.5 ecoboost and the same transmission. My BIL bought the same truck (although in white) one week before me.
HE had had to replace the transmission under warranty due to a shifting issue with 4th gear. Mine kind of does the same every now and then.

My biggest issue is the entertainment system. It needs an update, it no longer auto updates and sometimes it flat out doesnt work. The weird thing is my rearview camera will come on while I am driving down the road. In general, I came from a Ford family and like the truck.... buuut the idea of a Toyota Tundra creeps into my head every now and then.

Also, I will never own another vehicle with black paint.
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I love my Tundra and it loves gasoline. I bought a 2021 SR5 Trail Edition in Cement a few years ago, specifically because I didn't want the new twin turbo V6 and I think the new front end looks like Hulk Hogan. The 5.7 V8 and Aisin 6 speed is utterly bulletproof. I wish they'd have just bolted the new transmission to the V8. I get around 13 mpg for regular driving, which I don't do much (that's what the 40 mpg VW diesel is for) and around 9-10 towing. That being said, I didn't buy it as a daily or for gas mileage, I bought it to do truck stuff with.
 
estromberg said:
You can still get studded tires, but most snow tires don't have them.
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Funny thing when I went up to Montreal recently- snow tires are required in Quebec in the winter, but some of the parking garages prohibit studded snows.. We were in a friend's car with all-seasons, but at least we got to park in the first garage we saw...

As long as I live in NNE and have to be places on a schedule that may or may not align with the plow, I'm going to pay up for the studs. Especially as more of our winter weather events tend to result in ice.

Sunday's storm was fun- it was kind of like driving in slippery peanut butter and I got to demonstrate a few principles of physics to my son going to and from the ski area.
 
It's really wild that the iPhone that was sucked out of a passenger's hands when that Alaskan Airlines emergency door blew off was found & it's working. Whatever case they had on it should really capitalize on marketing.

Now they have found other 737Max with loose bolts. Boeing is not having fun right now.
 
I like a nice, dark line of clouds on the horizon in the winter. I like how it fades to white and then blurs into the mountain tops here. I like how the trees punctuate the horizon with bony fingers, reaching for a sky they can't discern from the dead white ground around them, reaching as from a grave...

Sigh I try, but I just don't like winter very much.
 
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the sigh of relief when the manager says I'm concerned and pauses, let me just say, a bit too long while I am hyperventilating, to say she's concerned that I have too many projects and what else can we shelve

car crash close call GIF
 
Big Owl said:
Despite me having my trash out the night before, the city didn't pick up my trash for the second week in a row. So life isn't all rainbows and unicorns for me.
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Aside from the obvious life and death scenarios I may get from Police and Fire, calls about missed garbage pick up are the calls I dread the most.
 
ursus said:
I like a nice, dark line of clouds on the horizon in the winter. I like how it fades to white and then blurs into the mountain tops here. I like how the trees punctuate the horizon with bony fingers, reaching for a sky they can't discern from the dead white ground around them, reaching as from a grave...

Sigh I try, but I just don't like winter very much.
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I enjoy the cool nights that happen with fall, which really seems to occur with Halloween (in SoCal), the first frost, and the first snow event for the area. After that happens, I am ready for spring.
 
Long random, but made my day:

I went to the club early this morning and when I was walking back into my house after my workout and shower, I realized I left my wedding ring sitting on the upper shelf of the locker. I don't normally even bother putting it on that early in the morning but I did for some reason today.

I had to drive my youngest daughter to school so I couldn't just turn around and go straight back to look for it so it had been about an hour by the time I made it back in there. I strolled into the club and into the locker room and, though it was not busy at all, I noticed that the locker I had used was wide open and my ring was nowhere to be found. I start to get a little anxious as I check on the floor and in the adjoining lockers but no dice. An older gentleman who I see in there most mornings is sitting on the bench getting dressed and notices my search and asks what I lost so I told him. He says he hadn't seen anything but hopes I find it for my own sake.

I go up to the front desk and ask about it and they mention that one of the staff was checking lockers just a few minutes earlier and turned it in and I am relieved. The manager overhears from her office and she comes out and says I was the calmest member she's ever seen looking for a wedding ring and I laugh as I tell her that that was only because my wife hadn't yet noticed!

The old guy in the locker room seemed genuinely concerned so I thought about going back in to tell him I found it, but was in a hurry to get home before my wife started questioning why it was taking so long to get to the school and back, so I decided against it.

Phew! No harm, no foul... or so I think...

...Fast forward another half hour or so and my wife, my oldest daughter, and I are walking into the Catholic church in our downtown for my wife's uncle's funeral. We're walking through the back part of the church from the parking lot when I hear somebody say, "Did you find that wedding ring?" and I look up and the old guy from the gym is coming over to me! Turns out he knew the uncle from church and a golf league. I could see the surprised/questioning look on my wife's face. She normally gets upset if I go so far as a walk around the block without the ring on so I could begin to see how this would not end well. Thankfully, I was able to play it off as if I had left the ring AND my wallet AND my phone all sitting on the shelf and hadn't even made it out of the gym before I noticed and came back to look (somehow I knew that forgetting all three items would be less bad than forgetting just the ring for some reason).

It's always nice to inject a bit of levity into a funeral. :up: :rofl: :up:
 
DVD said:
Who schedules a meeting at noon?
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Ha! So here's a fun story about when I was the facilities planning manager for a school system. Pretty big system, pushing about 25,000 pupils. Anyway, the deputy superintendent would schedule meetings for like 11:30 all the time. We'd sit in his office and they'd go on for a while, frequently for a couple of hours. When HE got hungry he would spin his chair around and make himself a bowl of oatmeal with the microwave behind his desk. I get hangry after about 1:30 if I haven't eaten. After this happened about 3 or 4 times I was prepared for the next meeting. He starts making his oatmeal and I pull out a sandwich and chips and cracked open a soda can. He glares at me and said "what are you doing?" I said eating lunch just like you. He was beyond pissed off. At that point I knew my days were limited and a few months later I was laid off when my position was eliminated. Far and away the boss who was consistently the biggest asshole in my entire career. I'm not much of a grudge holder but for him I've made an exception. If I ever hit the Powerball for stupid money I'll freely admit that I would have no problem spending a lot of money doing everything within legal means to make his now retired life a living hell. Yeah. I'm that guy. :grimace:
 
DVD said:
Who schedules a meeting at noon?
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Old West gunslingers preferred scheduling gunfights at high noon. You might want to bring a sandwich, a black or white cowboy hat, boots, and a side iron in the caliber of your choosing.
 
I am down for the count today. Throat tickle started yesterday morning. By last night I sounded like my throat had been sand papered.

Today I have a low fever and deep cough, along with a lovely headache. COVID test negative, so I'm betting it's the flu.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
It's always nice to inject a bit of levity into a funeral. :up: :rofl: :up:
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At my mother's funeral, one of her friends asked me what time mom passed. I was taken aback slightly and stammered "five a.m." She looked at me and said "I'm surprised. She never did anything in the morning!" I stood there with my mouth agape as she walked away.

Now I get a chuckle out of it, because the friend was right - mom was anything but a morning person.
 
What is the big deal about the Valentine Stanley Tumbler ?
 
Big Owl said:
Despite me having my trash out the night before, the city didn't pick up my trash for the second week in a row. So life isn't all rainbows and unicorns for me.
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MD Planner said:
Aside from the obvious life and death scenarios I may get from Police and Fire, calls about missed garbage pick up are the calls I dread the most.
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In our fair city there's an app for that kind of stuff. Reminds me about trash day, lets me know when it's bulk trash week, and if they miss my pickup there's a way to let them know and they generally pick it up within a day.

On the minus side, the city just announced that there will be surcharges on trash and recycling cans that are overflowing, even if the top isn't quite closed. I guess they get dinged in their contract with Waste Management so now they're passing it along. :(
 
DVD said:
Who schedules a meeting at noon?
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My employer has offices in lots of time zones. I can get a meeting invite for anywhere from 7 am to 6 pm. If it's early I don't mind so much, but if it's after 5 pm I usually decline the invite.
 
Big Owl said:
Old West gunslingers preferred scheduling gunfights at high noon. You might want to bring a sandwich, a black or white cowboy hat, boots, and a side iron in the caliber of your choosing.
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This town ain't big 'nuff for the two of us. We've got a growth moratorium.

Season 9 Hbo GIF by Curb Your Enthusiasm
 
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