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Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: jendf on May 10, 2008, 12:57:43 PM
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
If you feel the need to power clean, just drive on over to my house. :-)
I'm spoiled by working at a dealership. I just ask one of the guys to do something and it magically gets done...like replacing my windshield wipers.
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
If you feel the need to power clean, just drive on over to my house. :-)
I'm spoiled by working at a dealership. I just ask one of the guys to do something and it magically gets done...like replacing my windshield wipers.
That's a nice perk to have!
I have my father and my brother-in-law to help out. I have a nice neighbor who can help me. But I always feel like I'm a burden on them. So I try to do at least the "little stuff" when I can. It generally takes me twice as long but I eventually get it.
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I have my father and my brother-in-law to help out. I have a nice neighbor who can help me. But I always feel like I'm a burden on them. So I try to do at least the "little stuff" when I can. It generally takes me twice as long but I eventually get it.
Oh Hell, you should have seen it last summer, when franksolich decided to install some new venetian blinds on the windows here.
It took me more than a week to get circa 5% of the job done.
And then the ancient elderly gentleman who mows the lawn here came in and finished it, in like twenty minutes.
It's nothing about incompetence; probably I'm just as competent as everybody else; but being a mellow, laid-back, relaxed sort of person, sometimes if one waits long enough, somebody else'll do the job.
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
I'm a little surprised that none of your male neighbors offered to help. you must live in a liberal apartment complex. :-)
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
I'm a little surprised that none of your male neighbors offered to help. you must live in a liberal apartment complex. :-)
They must have all been sleeping in. I mean I was out there early, like 9 a.m.
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
If you feel the need to power clean, just drive on over to my house. :-)
I'm spoiled by working at a dealership. I just ask one of the guys to do something and it magically gets done...like replacing my windshield wipers.
the guys in repairs must not be as big a jerks as the sales guys. :wink:
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
If you feel the need to power clean, just drive on over to my house. :-)
I'm spoiled by working at a dealership. I just ask one of the guys to do something and it magically gets done...like replacing my windshield wipers.
the guys in repairs must not be as big a jerks as the sales guys. :wink:
It's only a finance manager that's a jerk. And he no longer acknowledges my existence. :-)
Actually, I ask this one sales guy, Luis, to "please Luis can you check my tire pressure" or "Please Luis, if you have time can you please put my new windshield wipers on my car" and he takes it to Make Ready and has them do it. :)
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
If you feel the need to power clean, just drive on over to my house. :-)
I'm spoiled by working at a dealership. I just ask one of the guys to do something and it magically gets done...like replacing my windshield wipers.
the guys in repairs must not be as big a jerks as the sales guys. :wink:
It's only a finance manager that's a jerk. And he no longer acknowledges my existence. :-)
Actually, I ask this one sales guy, Luis, to "please Luis can you check my tire pressure" or "Please Luis, if you have time can you please put my new windshield wipers on my car" and he takes it to Make Ready and has them do it. :)
we need to do something evil to the finance manager. gimme a minute. :-)
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we need to do something evil to the finance manager. gimme a minute. :-)
:jacked:
I can't do anything right now. I got a talking to this week...apparently someone (Douche or bitch co-worker) complained that I was "being mean." I think it was bitch-ass co-worker. She's always trying to stab people in the back or throw them under the bus. Anything so no one pays attention that she's actually on Myspace all day and not really doing any work. I've only been mean to Douche, but she knew about it. He's a douche, but I don't think he's a bitch enough to actually complain to the GM.
Anywho, I must be extra nice. So like yesterday, when bitch co-worker was talking about who's going to work what nights to train the new girl, and she said she'd do Wednesday (when she doesn't know the basic program that the receptionist must learn, so she'd actually just be sitting there and not really doing any training) and bitch said "well I know that the day girl isn't going to want to work all day Wednesday b/c she has to work her other job Tuesday night" I just said "fine, whatever you decide."
As of today, I have plans for Wednesday night, so I'm going to try and get out of it. And I definitely have plans for Thursday, so I can't do it then. :-)
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we need to do something evil to the finance manager. gimme a minute. :-)
I can't do anything right now. I got a talking to this week...apparently someone (Douche or bitch co-worker) complained that I was "being mean." I think it was bitch-ass co-worker. She's always trying to stab people in the back or throw them under the bus. Anything so no one pays attention that she's actually on Myspace all day and not really doing any work. I've only been mean to Douche, but she knew about it. He's a douche, but I don't think he's a bitch enough to actually complain to the GM.
Anywho, I must be extra nice. So like yesterday, when bitch co-worker was talking about who's going to work what nights to train the new girl, and she said she'd do Wednesday (when she doesn't know the basic program that the receptionist must learn, so she'd actually just be sitting there and not really doing any training) and bitch said "well I know that the day girl isn't going to want to work all day Wednesday b/c she has to work her other job Tuesday night" I just said "fine, whatever you decide."
As of today, I have plans for Wednesday night, so I'm going to try and get out of it. And I definitely have plans for Thursday, so I can't do it then. :-)
your place of employment should be a sitcom. :-)
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your place of employment should be a sitcom. :-)
Well honestly, I knew I would have to work Tuesday night. But seriously, I don't care that the day receptionist has a night job at a bar. She's known for two+ weeks that there was going to be a new night girl and that she'd have to be trained. She should do it Wednesday night. Anywho, so I think I'm going to go to this deal Wednesday night (I just found out about it last night) and Thursday there's a meeting about the mineral rights for my neighborhood. Actually there's a mineral rights meeting Tuesday, but obviously I can't go to that one, so I have to go to the one Thursday. I gots to find out how much money I'm getting. :-)
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I'm a little surprised that none of your male neighbors offered to help. you must live in a liberal apartment complex. :-)
They must have all been sleeping in. I mean I was out there early, like 9 a.m.
Way too early. Try again at 1 or 2.
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your place of employment should be a sitcom. :-)
Well honestly, I knew I would have to work Tuesday night. But seriously, I don't care that the day receptionist has a night job at a bar. She's known for two+ weeks that there was going to be a new night girl and that she'd have to be trained. She should do it Wednesday night. Anywho, so I think I'm going to go to this deal Wednesday night (I just found out about it last night) and Thursday there's a meeting about the mineral rights for my neighborhood. Actually there's a mineral rights meeting Tuesday, but obviously I can't go to that one, so I have to go to the one Thursday. I gots to find out how much money I'm getting. :-)
what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
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your place of employment should be a sitcom. :-)
Well honestly, I knew I would have to work Tuesday night. But seriously, I don't care that the day receptionist has a night job at a bar. She's known for two+ weeks that there was going to be a new night girl and that she'd have to be trained. She should do it Wednesday night. Anywho, so I think I'm going to go to this deal Wednesday night (I just found out about it last night) and Thursday there's a meeting about the mineral rights for my neighborhood. Actually there's a mineral rights meeting Tuesday, but obviously I can't go to that one, so I have to go to the one Thursday. I gots to find out how much money I'm getting. :-)
what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
I live on top of the Barnett Shale. :) They already settled with the gas company, so this is an informational meeting. That kind of stuff, I really have to be there.
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your place of employment should be a sitcom. :-)
Well honestly, I knew I would have to work Tuesday night. But seriously, I don't care that the day receptionist has a night job at a bar. She's known for two+ weeks that there was going to be a new night girl and that she'd have to be trained. She should do it Wednesday night. Anywho, so I think I'm going to go to this deal Wednesday night (I just found out about it last night) and Thursday there's a meeting about the mineral rights for my neighborhood. Actually there's a mineral rights meeting Tuesday, but obviously I can't go to that one, so I have to go to the one Thursday. I gots to find out how much money I'm getting. :-)
what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
I live on top of the Barnett Shale. :) They already settled with the gas company, so this is an informational meeting. That kind of stuff, I really have to be there.
Beverly Hillbillies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRwSn5gokE)
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what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
I live on top of the Barnett Shale. :) They already settled with the gas company, so this is an informational meeting. That kind of stuff, I really have to be there.
Beverly Hillbillies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRwSn5gokE)
I know the Beverly Hillbillies silly. I should be getting around $4300-$4600 for my mineral rights bonus. :)
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what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
I live on top of the Barnett Shale. :) They already settled with the gas company, so this is an informational meeting. That kind of stuff, I really have to be there.
Beverly Hillbillies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRwSn5gokE)
I know the Beverly Hillbillies silly. I should be getting around $4300-$4600 for my mineral rights bonus. :)
I'm not sure how this works. do you own the property?
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my...... :-)
Every time I have to do that I am constipated for two days.
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what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
I live on top of the Barnett Shale. :) They already settled with the gas company, so this is an informational meeting. That kind of stuff, I really have to be there.
Beverly Hillbillies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRwSn5gokE)
I know the Beverly Hillbillies silly. I should be getting around $4300-$4600 for my mineral rights bonus. :)
I'm not sure how this works. do you own the property?
Yes, and I own the mineral rights to it. So they want to get the gas from under all our houses. So there's a signing bonus. Then there's monthly royalties.
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what, you gots oil in yore land, ellie may? :-)
I live on top of the Barnett Shale. :) They already settled with the gas company, so this is an informational meeting. That kind of stuff, I really have to be there.
Beverly Hillbillies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRwSn5gokE)
I know the Beverly Hillbillies silly. I should be getting around $4300-$4600 for my mineral rights bonus. :)
I'm not sure how this works. do you own the property?
Yes, and I own the mineral rights to it. So they want to get the gas from under all our houses. So there's a signing bonus. Then there's monthly royalties.
wow. :bow:
heh. hold out.
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wow. :bow:
heh. hold out.
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Good job Jen!
Things that seem like they should be simple, never turn out that way.
I remember helping a friend change a headlamp bulb on an Escort....it felt like we had to take half the motor out to get to it....now I know why the dealership wanted $45 labor to change it....should of let them!
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I'm looking at buying a '93 BMW 325i. Why do I have a feeling I'm in for a world of pain? :rotf:
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I'm looking at buying a '93 BMW 325i. Why do I have a feeling I'm in for a world of pain? :rotf:
Expensive parts?
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They don't look any more expensive than my new Kia. Maybe the people who complain about expensive BMW parts are used to buying parts for old rustbucket Fords?
Besides, we have plenty of junkyards around here.
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If you feel the need to power clean, just drive on over to my house. :-)
Not until she's done with replacing some fencing at my house! :-)
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I'm seeing $200-$300 for an AC compressor, $15-30 for a fuel filter, and $50 for a serpentine belt.
The E36 chassis has been around for 20 years. I hope the price of parts has come down some.
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I'm seeing $200-$300 for an AC compressor, $15-30 for a fuel filter, and $50 for a serpentine belt.
The E36 chassis has been around for 20 years. I hope the price of parts has come down some.
Those are not bad prices...a little high...but not bad.
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It took me roughly two hours, a few choice curse words, a chipped fingernail, and a silent plea with the Almighty, but I somehow managed to replace my right rear tail light in my Ford Focus.
May I just say...what a pain in the @#$!
But I feel very accomplished now and I think I might run with this enthusiasm and do some more fix-it projects around the apartment. I usually wait for a kind male friend to help me with such tasks, but who needs men, really? :-)
I'm a little surprised that none of your male neighbors offered to help. you must live in a liberal apartment complex. :-)
They must have all been sleeping in. I mean I was out there early, like 9 a.m.
Speaking of neighbors. Yessterday I bought a new office chair, I took it outside today to get it out of the way, and it had to be put together...being a nice day, I thought I would assemble it outside.
Had some indoor things to do first....went outside and it was already done....a neighbor seen it sitting there and assembled it!
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I thought you were going to say somebody stole it! :rotf:
That would probably happen to me.
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I thought you were going to say somebody stole it! :rotf:
That would probably happen to me.
LOL
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I checked out that 325. It was f**king trash. :censored:
The leather wasn't even leather anymore... it was crust. And it was all torn up. The windshield had a dozen big cracks in it, and the engine has 200,000 miles on it. It's not even worth $1000. I suppose if you had another 325 with a nice interior, it would be worth it but I don't have a spare one lying around at the moment.
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I thought you were going to say somebody stole it! :rotf:
That would probably happen to me.
Me too.
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I drove that 733i today. The damn thing had no brakes. It had 200,000+ miles on it but drove great until it ran out of gas on me. I ended up walking back to this girl's house. Wouldn't you know it, they were doing construction on the road and I ended up walking back through the mud.
The outside of the car was in great shape. A small bit of surface rust on the bottom of the doors, but other than that, it was okay. The interior was relatively decent but messy. It needs a good cleaning and some leather treatment. The whole car needs to be cleaned inside and out and it would look ten times better. Couple of small problems... fuel gauge doesn't read right (probably why I ran out of gas) and something is draining the battery. And brakes. Definitely needs brakes.
Had a mechanic look at the car today. He said it was in good shape. The steering felt heavy, though, especially compared to my current car. This damn thing has a ton of idiot lights. There's a light for everything. At least the Germans organized them into a convenient block on the left side of the dashboard.
If it will pass an emissions test, I may buy it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_E23
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I drove that 733i today. The damn thing had no brakes. It had 200,000+ miles on it but drove great until it ran out of gas on me. I ended up walking back to this girl's house. Wouldn't you know it, they were doing construction on the road and I ended up walking back through the mud.
The outside of the car was in great shape. A small bit of surface rust on the bottom of the doors, but other than that, it was okay. The interior was relatively decent but messy. It needs a good cleaning and some leather treatment. The whole car needs to be cleaned inside and out and it would look ten times better. Couple of small problems... fuel gauge doesn't read right (probably why I ran out of gas) and something is draining the battery. And brakes. Definitely needs brakes.
Had a mechanic look at the car today. He said it was in good shape. The steering felt heavy, though, especially compared to my current car. This damn thing has a ton of idiot lights. There's a light for everything. At least the Germans organized them into a convenient block on the left side of the dashboard.
If it will pass an emissions test, I may buy it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_E23
It sounds like you had quite the test drive.
Sorry, but I had to laugh about the mud thing....that had to suck.
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That damn thing's got more lights and buttons on it than I know what to do with. Doesn't help that most of the ink has come off them. I turned the windshield wipers on and it took me five minutes to figure out how to turn them off.
On the upside, it has a bitchin' horn. Loud as God.
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That damn thing's got more lights and buttons on it than I know what to do with. Doesn't help that most of the ink has come off them. I turned the windshield wipers on and it took me five minutes to figure out how to turn them off.
On the upside, it has a bitchin' horn. Loud as God.
:lmao:
The horn will come in handy the next time you run out of gas!
Signal for help.