Stijn!!

[flipper35]

My current boss is not a coffee drinker so I am good there. When I did commercial flooring my boss (read: dad) was not a coffee drinker and I wasn't at the time. We went through a lot of Golden Guernsey milk back in the day. On side jobs he would buy us custard filled maple iced donuts for breakfast so fresh they couldn't fill them the traditional way. The bakery would slice them for us and spread the custard like icing in a layer cake in the middle so there was custard in every bite and still warm. We would wash them down with a 16oz chocolate malt flavored milk.

The bosses I had in CA would go through 4-5 pots per day. They bought 20# bags of Dancing Goats from Batdorf and Bronson who happened to be a client of theirs.

[GH85Carrera]

Back in the days when we first go into computer graphics, 1990 or so my boss only provided me with old slow computers. At one point I had one computer feeding data slowly to a film recorder, one was churning on a Photoshop image to rotate it 90 degrees, one computer was scanning in image and that took 30 minutes. I had every computer busy at a task and I just put my feet up on the desk and leaned back. Right then the owner came in and said what is going on? I pointed out my SLOW computers were all maxed out at the same time and I was waiting on any one of them to finish so I could do the next step. Then I told him I have to have a new bigger hard drive as I am out of space and can't even do one project.

He would pay me a percentage of the profit on a project if I took it home and did it on my computer in the evenings above and beyond my salary.

I can remember dreaming a computer with 16 megs of memory and a Pentium CPU was just a far off goal. I do love my computer now. I would like more cores but until we have some more monster projects to need that, I will get by with the 16 cores and 32 logical processors.

[Porsche-poor]

I think its al fixed. We shall see if it really is later today.

[flipper35]

I can help you break it again with some command line stuff if you want the rest of the day off.

[Porsche-poor]

Nah that might make it an extended stay at home. Oh wait I'm already there. 3/21 will make a year.

[flipper35]

I have a dr appointment next week and they called today to see if I have COVID or if I have traveled out of state. I thought, well I live in WI and work in IA sooo...

[GH85Carrera]

I am back from Richard's sorta funeral. It was just a graveside service, and the preacher droned on a bit, but it is done. Three Porsche club people including me. Which was perfect, all were friends of Richard. I went back to his brother's house afterwards to tell a couple of stories of Richard to the family members.

He is buried next to his mom 1/4 mile from the Porsche dealership.

[Porsche-poor]

Tilt a cold one in his memory. And tell the boss your friends said it was ok.

[GH85Carrera]

Back in 2012 Parade was in Salt Lake City, UT. One of the regular Sitjn'ers was Niner. He brewed beer at home. I met him at his house and he cooked dinner for my wife and I and he sent me home with a growler of home brew beer.

I made sure to save some for Richard, and even Sidney. I have a photo of Sid and I enjoying a cold one as well.

Niner drives a Corvette now and I see him on Facebook on occasion.

I will send a link to the post I started about Richard and they can read the condolences.

[Noah930]

I know you didn't do it "for us" here on PPOT, but thanks for representing the brethren here on Pelican in terms of condolences to his family.

[Porsche-poor]

I let Rick know as he is not on here or on FB anymore.

[GH85Carrera]

Thanks David, I miss Rick's funny posts.

[GH85Carrera]

Wow, what a wild party. Nothing better than a Baptists' 88 year old's lady's party. Wild, simply does not describe it for sure. Comatose is closer to accurate.

We got to my MIL's house and a I sat down. Seconds later my wife pointed to the HIVAC air filter in the hall. So I got that changed. The the MIL mentioned she had some computer problems. Two hours later that was fixed. Then we went to lunch, at a steak joint, and they let me pay!

We went from the restaurant right to a Lowe's and bought a new doorbell system. The hearing for my MIL is not good at all. So we have a new doorbell that is wireless, and the ringer is sitting on the table next to her chair. It flashes color lights, and has a full LOUD Westminster chime. Of course if I knew I was going to install that, I would have brought some tools, like my electric drill driver to ram screws through the aluminum siding in to the wood under it. Instead I had a stubby Phillips screwdriver with no way to really apply any torque. Had it not been for my pocket knife (Victorinox Swiss officers knife) the project would be impossible.

Two hours later with my hand cramping from gripping a stupid stubby screwdriver and applying 100 foot pounds of torque to drive the screws through aluminum and aged wood I was done.

Golly it was fun.

Disclaimer: I honestly love my MIL. She is wonderful, and a great lady. I would happily do whatever is needed to make her life easier. I am a VERY lucky man to have a great MIL and a great wife. Right now I am a bit upset at my wife for not warning me that I should have brought some basic tools. I need a beer, maybe two.

[GH85Carrera]

I am starting the "Glen's pace" oil change, valve adjustment, and brake fluid change. No doubt it could all be done in an afternoon, but I am gonna do it slow and steady.

Yesterday I got the 911 on the lift, and drained the oil from the oil tank and the engine case. I let them drip out overnight and I will plug them up this afternoon. I will do the brake fluid change this afternoon and call it a day. Them Tuesday afternoon I will pull off all 4 of the valve covers. On Wednesday my buddy that is a recently retired master factory trained Porsche mechanic will arrive and he will show me his process for the valve adjustment. He worked at the dealership back in the days when the air cooled 911s were new. He used to average three valve adjustment per day. He has a little (Massive) amount of practice doing it.

Then just replace the valve covers, fill it up with oil and done! Just like Jiffy Lube.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. long day ahead. lots grand kid sitting while his mom gets her wisdom teeth out.

[GH85Carrera]

Gack.

The piece of junk plastic part of the Seatbelt Release gizmo broke after just 374,000 miles and 35 years.




The black plastic part just snapped off last week in the cold weather. It is GM PN# 20020379, and I can find pictures of it on-line, and a story about how GM remade them.

https://gm-efi.com/news/gbodyparts-announces-a-reproduction-drivers-seatbelt-release/

But no one anywhere has one in the parts catalog. I found one new one on EBAY, but they were sold out. I had to buy a used one from Ebay.

It was used in almost all the G body cars, Buick, GM, Chevy. Pontiac and so on. Just too old of a car for that part to be available new. I found one article that said: We’d say that on 90% of the G-Body’s out there, this is broken or extremely worn out. On every parts vehicle that we have had, these have been removed and sold.

One would think there is a need for it, make it available. Oh well.

[GH85Carrera]

I received a fairly authentic "government style" letter and form to fill out for the aircraft registration. It was from C.P.S. Registration services. I just happen to know I am really supposed to file with the state for our annual certificate for the airplane. The FAA takes care of that.

I searched the name and there are several warning about them. Just pure scammers. The only want $125 to file the forms. And that is just their fee, not the actual taxes due which is way less money.

Expletives deleted scammers!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Made it thru the night. Hoping today is better for the little guy.

[GH85Carrera]

I hope your daughter did OK with the wisdom tooth extraction. Once again, I am weird. I only had three wisdom teeth. They each erupted one at a time, and I could just get them pulled with no surgery. The first one came in when i was still in high school. I went to my dentist first thing in the morning, he yanked it, and I went on to school. The 4th one never did come in and I expect it never will.

[Porsche-poor]

Time will tell. Yesterday was rough on everyone. We all went to bed early and I for one wish I had slept in.