Pete M

not my tree, not my house, not my wood. just my family.

that driveshaft will be about 6" too short. the 12" difference between long and short beds is broken up into 6" in front and 6" behind the rear axle.

enough of the conspiracy theories. If someone has some verifiable news they'd like to share about current events, please do so. otherwise, knock it off.

3 times if you include the heat pad I need

Been really digging this guy's channel lately. lots of good tech explanations https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q/videos

everyone should read Hitchhikers guide! probably my favorite book. (but admittedly my condition makes is very hard to get anything out of a book so I'm way behind in anything new)

I like to mix it up the current video is about the mechanics of a jukebox. I gotta add this guy to the youtube thread.

not sure I thought I'd ever hear those particular words today I split all that lumber. My back is killin' me, but it's waaaaaaaay better than if I had tried to do it with a maul. I forgot to snap a pic, but I go back in the morning to return the splitter so I've got another chance.

I still haven't seen a single thing that hasn't occurred before in previous disaster areas, it's just on a grander scale because this fight is on a grander scale. They are expecting a LOT of sick people in the coming weeks. War is hell. and we are at war with a pathogen. I cannot change anything that is occurring so I choose to be optimistic and have faith in the country to eventually bounce back. Everyone is free to choose any other emotion as they deem fit. I've spent 18 and 3/4 years now fighting my illness and it took years to train my brain to focus on the silver linings of life rather than the struggle that was my daily existence. I see no reason to stop now. now if you'll excuse me, My uncle dropped off a six pack and I'm going to crack open a beer and watch some youtube vids about fun sciency things

you can bookmark any thread to your browser. you can also click on the dots in the upper right of any post and save that thread's address as a link on your desktop.

be sure to start a build thread to document the adventure!

holy huge projects batman! this is an impressive undertaking

you can always scale back your plans to stick with 31" tires so you won't have to trim anything. But that depends entirely on what kind of offroading you plan to do.

oooooo... that's going to be niiiiiice!

would if I could, but my MJ is now in georgia.

if the bumper is rust free, it's totally fixable.

works for me too. love that place! I'm hoping to drive through this fall on the Cali trip.

is that holding the control arm mount together?

and? not the first time the airlines have suffered yet we still have planes flying. I never said that there isn't a struggle coming. I said that it's not the end of the world. sorry, but I don't have your level of pessimism. now if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to have a couple beers, play some vid games for a while and then maybe watch Frozen 2. Doing my part.

"beyond repair"? "starving to death"? good use of Hyperbole. but doesn't make it true. even through the great Depression people got food. Americans are kind and Americans are innovative. We'll see this through. My father had his columbarium meeting with church council via one of the vid chat programs. it was hard for him to figure out but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. in the end it was a productive meeting and he even learned a thing about technology. Tomorrow's service will be via internet too. I keep hearing from friends that either they are making more money than before, or enjoying being able to work from home in their PJs, or they are super enthused that they have some time to hang with their kids. Not everyone is that happy of course, but even the self-employed ones are finding ways to make ends meet.

but enough of the negatives. how about some positives? what has made you smile lately? I heard that a few of Michigan's breweries have switched over to producing hand sanitizer and at least one is donating everything to like the red cross or something. and several local manufacturing companies have started production of ventilator parts. god knows the toilet paper plants have tried hard to step it up.

It is the hands of the citizens and it would appear that a huge chunk of them are currently being reckless and endangering a lot of other peoples' lives. now what do you do? nothing? do we just give up and sacrifice the predicted 2% of americans? This is a war we are fighting and the government and the people and the market all need to chip in. It's a group effort. Only the big G has the money to throw around, only the people can do their part, and only the companies can move fast enough to try and keep up with demand.

that assumes that the stock market wouldn't have also crashed after the entire country was sick and 8 million people died. not to mention the world's economy after another 150 million died and other countries closed their borders and shut down trade. There may have been nothing that could have prevented a drastic downturn.

holy added weight, batman!

humans are panicky idiots. And it appears that the more the government tries to tell them to knock it off, the more panicky they become. Happens with every hurricane and snowstorm. Heck, the mere threat of ice causes the stores in Atlanta to sell out and the worst snowstorm in the last decade down there was 5 whole inches and the snow disappeared within 4 days. Most snowfalls are gone without a trace within 24 hrs. Do they really not have food to last another 24 hrs? There's a reason why northerners laugh at them. I'm curious as to how you guys would differently combat this pandemic if you were in charge. How would you keep the population safe?