Oh, sorry. After 3 months and a staggering death count of 22, my county opened up so I went to the bar for a proper drink served to me by a waitress with her tits spilling out of her shirt. Side note: I'm a kitchen appliance-aholic. I rarely even eat toast and I'm jealous of your new gadget.
Covid, protests (small ones), and now a Tropical Storm? Why the fuck not. The current track is taking the poorly developed eye of the storm JUST to the west of me. Meaning we're in line catch the worst of it. We're hoping for minimal strengthening, but treating it like a trial run for getting prepped for a bigger storm. Of course, I'll be grilling burgers later and toasting buns like a neanderthal - on the grill, sans $370 toaster. Oh, look at that, it's after noon - officially "not too early for a drink."
I'm sad that my permissions do not outrank Nett's and I cannot rename his tag under his username to Mr Toast.
I am so glad I can now occasionally ignore that little, drunken voice in my head that makes me think things like a Jaguar are a good idea. Bad, stupid, drunk voice.
I thought those 2000-2008 Jags are all horrid cars with nothing but issues with them? Maybe it was just the base model, but I seem to remember looking into getting a Jag convertible around those years and just about everything I looked at said they are just a dumpster fire of a car? My dad used to do yard work for this rich old lady in New Canaan, CT. When I say rich, she used to hang out with the Vanderbilts at their garden parties. Insane property, had her own gas pump for her 1960something Jaguar E-type convertible. Thing was all original with like 4500 miles in 1995. It was just a beautiful car.
at least 80% of people who own trucks do not use them (except accidentally) in the manner in which they were intended, eg they'd be just fine with an suv, or a minivan perhaps. Change my mind.
I've often thought the same thing. Meanwhile here I am hauling feed, tools, sometimes livestock, in a Ford Escape because pick up trucks are so frigging expensive anymore.
I was living here in Vegas twenty years ago when the whole SUV craze started and I remember thing "Damn, in a few years the used car market is going to be flooded with four wheel drives that have never been off pavement." In this town at least, 95% of the people with 4x4's only have them as some sort of status symbol. Hell, I had my 4x4 Durango for 5 years and the only time I put it in 4wd was on the test drive...and I'm a fucking redneck.
yeah I got laughed at when I got my f250. People saying oh you'll never need a truck that big/bed that size. You'll never use 4 wheel drive. What's the point of diesel? Well first, I was laughing really hard when the fake "gas crisis" hit a while back and people were waiting in line for hours at the pump, meanwhile I just rolled right up to the diesel pump because no one drove one. I've also lost track of the number of vehicles I've gotten un-stuck with it. It's a great hunting platform that goes anywhere, and it's the dedicated beach vehicle when we drive down there. 4x4 low and it never gets stuck in sand. Use the bed constantly, and the toolbox is basically a mobile workshop for me at this point.
you know anyone who can install a generator converter switch at a house, who is willing to Work for coors light and strawberry moonshine, and can do so in the next hour (asking for a friend)? i’d go check for one at the local target, but I don’t have a car/bomb proof vest. Ponchatoula terrorists are the wooooooorst (Jean ralphio, ya heard)
I actually have a cousin in Shreveport who could probably check all of those boxes (including the bomb vest), but I don't have a good way to contact him quickly.
No, and at this point I'm sure the Tractor Supply around the corner has been picked clean. I live right around the corner from the Denham Springs Police Dept., Fire Dept., and Entergy. We're on the same grid and I think the longest we've ever been without power (besides the flood) was 4 hours. I'd invest in a whole home generator (and I don't need a very large one) but I'm not sure I'll ever need it.