Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Just put a few 5 gallon buckets in the tub. Say they are for the Zombie Apocolips. And you can use them to fill the toilet because the water needs to be rotated to keep it fresh.

[GH85Carrera]

It is the guest bathroom. I am pretty sure Mrs Carrera ain't gonna go for buckets in there.

[porsche4life]

Leave the buckets and you won't have to deal with guests.

[Jim Richards]

Thanks Sid.

[porsche4life]

Jim, what kind of food do you guys like? We will likely have the little monsters with us. I'll bring electronics to entertain them though!

[RKDinOKC]

Mucha Lucha Taco Shop?

[GH85Carrera]

Good Morning all. Jim, I hope you and crew are doing well with your journey.

Say howdy to Sid for me. He was but a puppy when he first showed up at a local PCA meeting. We raised him and taught him the wisdom of the War Bonnet Region. I guess his parents helped a little.

We found out he was not lazy and we set out to let him help, and we put him work to slaving away for the club. Then the bastard went and grew up and and followed his heart (and certain other body parts) to AZ and let some nurse steal him from us. He claims to be happy but we all know he really wants to hang off of a bucket truck over the interstate in 107 degree heat again. Few thing are more fun than working on a crane in sub zero temps with 45 MPH winds.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Jim, what kind of food do you guys like? We will likely have the little monsters with us. I'll bring electronics to entertain them though!

A variety of things work, although my wife does have some food allergies. What works for the munchkins? Maybe we'll arrive at a serendipitous solution.

[Jim Richards]

Glen, if we were doing a return trip back east, I'd try to wedge Sid into the trailer and bring him back to OK and to his charmed life in a bucket truck.

[GH85Carrera]

Jim, I suspect the boys, and the Tweze will fight ya to keep him. They are greedy and needy!

[Jim Richards]

Well, since I'm retired I just need to go with the flow.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, even Sid's dog has Sid all trained and would fight to keep him.

[flipper35]

Mornin' all. We took the 911 up to have it checked out and my wife was browsing through the thread and saw the picture from lunch. I started out with "Jim is the good looking one" and she said that didn't help. Take that however you please.

The owner called as we were heading up to tell us he was running a bit late and we said no problem we could grab lunch when we got up there. We got there and talked with one of the guys for a bit and said we could get lunch while we waited and the guy said check if the keys are in the silver Mercedes and take that to lunch instead of hauling the trailer. It was a late model E320 4-Matic. I told my wife they had good customer service at least.

He was restoring a right hand drive 1965 356 they got for a client in California. Said there were 5 made and this one was a basket case. There were two other 356 there, one was complete and the other was just starting.

[GH85Carrera]

Brent, tell you wife I am the one that looks just like George Clooney.

I just finished a short webinar that was a demo of some software that can do the photogrammetry in a more modern easier than the software package we have been using for the last 15 years. It looks great and seems like it was powerful. All for a meager 45 grand for the first year and 9 grand per year for just one seat. Ouch!

[flipper35]

Glen I would, but she doesn't like him so...

For that money you could hire a part time high schooler to do it the old way. Too bad Sid wasn't still around!

We have a guy coming tomorrow to show us how to use a feature in our document management system to archive older files. A nice girl tried to help over the phone, but the documents were 3x larger than before processing. I told her that was not helping.

[GH85Carrera]

The old software we have used for years was over $30K for the initial purchase and $3K per year to stay current. They would send a real nice box of fancy chocolates every Christmas. Their interface is horrible and it is almost comical how everything is bodged together and kludgy.

That new software is the difference from my old 911 and the new 2016 911. Either will get the job done, but one of them is 100% the driver and the other is 90% the vehicle doing the work.

[flipper35]

I guess if you are still paying yearly for the other it doesn't sound quite as bad.

The only thing I disagree with in your analogy is the driver involvement is more rewarding in the old, light, 911. The new ones are more capable, but with electric power steering, electronic nannys and so on, you are right that the newer ones are the car.

[GH85Carrera]

Actually is is a fairy close analogy. The driver in an old 911 makes all the driving decisions and the car only does what you tell it to do in very specific ways. When you get to done you are satisfied you drove the car.

A new 911 is point and shoot. It will make a lap of a track WAY faster than the very best driver can do in the old 911. It will use less fuel, make less pollution, and be easier to make the faster lap. It decides what gear to use and changes gear faster literary faster than you can blink an eye. It will add braking to a specific wheel and change the rear wheels steering angle to make a corner and the car does much of the work to make a corner quickly.

The old software has no hand holding and a lot of strange and unique quirky ways to do the task that you want. The new software is almost file open, go. A minute of telling what you want to do, sit back and relax as it takes off and runs. The final product is done many times faster with less input. The final accuracy of a map is the same but one was done real quick and easy and the other one was a lot of human work and tedium. The new software is get it started and go surf the internet and relax while the computer works.

The final product is the same to the customer but only one was "man made" and the other was computer made.

[flipper35]

Ah, I get it. I was thinking about the old, clunky software and got lost that direction. I never thought of the old ones as clunky. Quirky maybe.

[GH85Carrera]

Compared to a 2016 911 my 85 is clunky. I love it for that. I would not take 40 grand for it.

Today is the debut of the new 911 by the local dealer. If I can get on the list of drives without a real long wait I will test drive the new one. If not I will east some free finger food and maybe have a free beer.