Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

You will need to wear dark (CHEAP) sunglasses all the time as well. And die your beard blonde!

Ah haw haw haw.

I figure ZZ Top made lots off money of me and the album Tres Homberes. When it first came out I bought a Quadraphonic 8 Track tape and wore it out until it wadded up into a mess. I could not find another Quadraphonic tape so I bough it on regular Stereo 8 Track and it broke. By then Cassettes had finally caught up to the quality (crappy) of 8 tracks so I bought it on cassette. It wadded up and died. So I finally figured out to buy the album and stare at the great spread of Mexican food in the center fold. I made my own mix tapes and life was good.
Then the CDs came out and I could walk through my house in a normal fashion and not make them skip, so I bought the CD. Then I bought the 6 Pack and it is part of the ZZ Top six pack as well.

I bought Tres Hombres 6 times. And I have the rest of their albums up to the late 90s and all the CD albums.

[RKDinOKC]

Oh man, I like my Porsche ball caps. Well and the pith helmet I wear to keep my ears from sunburning.

Newest ZZTop I have is 2013 La Futura, 1999 XXX and 1996 Rhythmeen. It's about time they came out with another new one that is not a greatest hits compilation thing.

[GH85Carrera]

I forgot to tell about the typical for me trip to the plumbing store.

The builders grade toilets that were in the house were lousy. I would say crappy, but they did not work very well for that. You could almost stop them up by blowing your nose into a tissue and throwing it in the toilet. I was tasked with replacement. So I did the research and came up with the American Standard Champion Elongated bowl, with the "Select Right Height" so you don't feel like your knees are in your ears if you are 6 foot tall. They are basically un-stoppable-uppable, so the plunger was banished to the garage.

The one in our master bathroom had a bad flush valve, and they are not available at the local big box store. The tank has to come off, and it has a HUGE plastic nut to remove and the new valve comes with a wrench.

Off I went to the real professional supply store. Normally it is the typical work counter and several helpers and one or two other customers. Today it looked like they were handing out free beer and hot dogs. I bet there were 15 different professional plumbers there before me. They called all the help from the phone salesmen up front and after 30 minutes I got to the counter. I got my parts, and of course there was not one other customer in the place. Typical of my luck.

I bought a second valve for the other toilet and have it on hand for the day it is needed. The toilet in the garage is still the original builder grade one, but I am too cheap and lazy to change it out.

[Porsche-poor]

don't get me started on toilet issues. We have one of those builder grade ones downstairs. The problem is that the builder also put in a custom shelf be hind it. Looks great works well for holding stuff till you have to work on the toilet. Then even the neighbors can hear me cussing up a storm. There is not enough room between the shelf and the top of the tank even with the lid removed to get your arm in to work on things. One of these days I may pay someone to move the shelf up about 6-12".

[RKDinOKC]

Can have brother Bob test your un-stopupable toilet.

He stops up the un-stopupable toilet in my guest bathrrom every time he comes to visit. I've got one that their add shows flushing a bowl full of ping pong balls. Have never seen a toilet bowl completely full of crap before. I mean full up to where the water comes out around the rim! I tell him it is okay to flush before you have actually filled the toilet bowl. He says he has a problem, I say his problem is he needs to learn how to use a toilet or start using the toilet somewhere else. I have to go thru a couple of times a day and flush my guest bathroom toilet for at least a week after he leaves just to make sure the pipes are cleared. Can easily understand why my other brother and his wife don't want him staying in their home.

Besides that he turns on all the lights to go to the bathroom, the hallway, the vanity, shower, and the main bathroom ceiling light. Then when done he leaves all the lights on. Don't understand I have LED lights on the receptacles in the hallway and in the guest bathroom. You really don't need to turn a light on at all. Set it up for Mom. Have also let Pepper out late at night and can see he is alseep in the guest bedroom with all the lights on, Ceiling, on each beside table, and two on the low dresser. Checked the guest bedroom in the middle of the day and all those lights are on then too. Makes me want to automate my house just to turn off all the lights he leaves on. He must be either going blind or afraid of the dark.

Isn't it nice to have family members stay with you for the holidays?

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Do I need to get and wear a knit beanie?

Yes, and you'll need a Fender Telecaster for a prop.

[GH85Carrera]

Hey it’s Saturday for all of us, not just Jim.

It is a gonna be a nice day weather wise. Gonna hafta play in the garage.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang, for a Saturday I have been busy. The bosses wife pressured me into mowing the back yard to pick up a bunch of leaves and trim down the winter rye and fescue shade grass. Then I decided to do a brake job on the Company El Camino. Actually, it is the bosses Elky but he made me do a brake job on it since the new pads have been on the shelf for months. There was still a 1/4 to 3/16th inch of pad left so it could have gone another 5,000 to 10,000 miles. Mostly once again it was the bosses wife saying the brakes are squealing. It must be at a tone that my tinnitus is at because I could not hear it at all.

I knew the mileage was not racking up as much as before. In the last 3 months I just barely rolled 1K miles. And that includes one round trip to Enid.

[Jim Richards]

Nice lazy afternoon sailing. Unfortunately, no hot mermaids.

[RKDinOKC]

Not putting many miles on my vehicles has been a perk of working from home. With the grocery store less than 2 miles away road trips are so short noticed I had to keep an eye on the battery and trickle it up. Now that the grocery store is more than 2 miles away it hasn't been an issue. Have had to mentally think of the oil change interval in months instead of miles. And fill up the gas tank right after payday whether the light comes on or not. Dad always impressed on me it was just as easy to keep the top half of the gas tank full as the bottom half.

On grandma's 65 Ford Galaxie 500 with the a 352 and dual exhausts her trips were so short in the small town she lived in (not even a full mile round trip for groceries, church, the 5 and dime, even Walmart) the car never got the exhaust hot enough to burn the condensate out. Every 2 years had to replace the exhaust because it kept rusting out.

I never really thought about it then but Grandma had some weird stuff in her car. She had a compass that was glued to the dash. Her pets were cats but on her dash was a bobble head pit pull. She also had a dancing hula girl on the dash and had never been to Hawaii. Hanging from the rear view mirror was a little man wearing a top hat all made from necklace beads. The weirdest thing was a fuzzy plush toy green dragon 2 ft long on the rear deck that it's eyes lit up red with the brake lights.

Come to think of it Grandma gave me a taxidermy stuffed baby alligator a little over a foot long when I was 4. Don't remember Grandparents taking a trip to anywhere for it to be a souvenir and never saw it at their house. Just remember her giving it to me and it wasn't wrapped or anything. Like most kids about that time I liked dinosaurs. Knew it was a baby alligator and not a dinosaur or dragon. Grew up with it, it survived going to college with me and I still have it today. Have just always had it on my dresser, desk, or bedside table or lampstand.

[GH85Carrera]

Morning all.

We did the breakfast run the grocery store trip. Living life on the edge.

At the job I had for over 25 years I lived a mile from work. I drove the 914 and when I sold it after 20 years the exhaust system was own original except the copper exhaust gaskets at the heads. It was good steel.
My mom had a Delta 88 they ate mufflers every other year. She had a lifetime Midas muffler so it was free year after year.

[RKDinOKC]

When I got my 914 it had a Monza free flow exhaust. The 4 tips pointed up at a slight angle. Looked cool but invited water ingress. Rusted out. Replaced with a Bursht tuned exhaust. Didn't look as cool, tuned made a teeny bit more power than free flow, and never had any rust issues. The only issue with the Bursht was it got the left rear valves hot and had to re-adjust them every couple of months.

When it was all tuned well it would go 0-60 in 9.5 seconds. Otherwise it took over 10. Don't know what it was but after Dumont's tuned it I always had to reset the dwell with my Sears timing light to get the 0-60 under 10.

[GH85Carrera]

My 911 has all original exhaust as well. Except somehow the cat fell off and is in the attic and a bypass pipe is in place. Again, the gaskets have been changed, but the rest is OEM from the heads to the tail pipe. It was weird, the cat fell off when I took the muffler off to get to the A/C bracket and I could not find it anywhere but fortunately I just happed to have a bypass pipe laying around. When I finally found the cat, I just put it up in the attic to keep it safe.
Yea, that’s the ticket, sure, it was misplaced for a while.

[RKDinOKC]

To get the power increase of an X-pipe I had to take the cat off my 928. The cats were part of the stock H-pipe. I did however put sport cats on behind the x-pipe. They actually make the exhaust cleaner than the original cats without reducing the HP over test pipes. I think the sport cats make it sound better than test pipes and help bring the exhaust volume down to legal loudness.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Monday morning all.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Except Jim, his weekend is all week long.

[flipper35]

My mother in law's stuff arrived in a short semi-trailer Friday so my wife and youngest started unloading it in the morning and then EM, dad and I helped after work. (Em volunteers where I work so she was actually working too). Since the boy worked so hard we did no real work on the weekend.

We had rain with a bit of thunder this morning. Could be worse, north of us is supposed to get two feet of crystalline precipitation instead of the liquid stuff we got. In the 60s today and 30 tomorrow. Welcome to the midwest.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. back to work where at least I get paid.

[flipper35]

David, you are such the optimist to find the good, redeeming features of a situation.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Monday Afternoon!

Maybe if I post it really small it won't notice me.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by flipper35

David, you are such the optimist to find the good, redeeming features of a situation.

I spent all weekend working at home, hauling dad places and I didn't get paid.