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272k on the Forester but the engine and transmission only have around 120k on them. Celica has 205k on it, Volvo 245 has around 185k same as the 855. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Mat_Drinks posted:Ahhh ok. I'm lucky in that I'm not a support monkey but a senior analyst so I'm mostly working on projects, upgrades, etc and I can basically just take more and more responsibility on until I'm basically doing the job of two to three people (I'm actually at about two people right now). If I'm going into management though I want to manage analysts before support. My wife is an analyst now and is on track to be in a position to be my boss in only a few years, it's fascinating. Luckily, we work at different companies. I don't have an MBA, I'm still paying off my bachelors, but I also have no real expectation if getting to a C level position or directorship, I'd much rather just be a manager of a helpdesk department. I'm looking into lead and supervisor opportunities right now, something is bound to pop up. It's annoying because I have a great job that pays well with a major university and there is literally no movement here for positions. It's so nice that nobody ever leaves, so there's no opportunity for internal advancement.
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Jun 4, 2014 16:06
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I had a 93 accord with over 300k miles on it when I delivered pizza. Both rear windows didn't work, the passenger window fell out of the track if it went down more than half way, reverse was a pipe dream at best, and it burned oil faster than I could put it in. So I quit putting oil in it. It lasted around 20k miles before I traded it for a set of tires for the civic I replaced it with. It was still running when I got rid of it too. Not a bit of rust either. Final mileage was 303xxx
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Jun 4, 2014 16:13
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The odometer on my E30 stopped at 218,939 at least 4 years ago since the same mileage is listed on the sticker for the last timing belt replacement. Who knows how many miles it's up to by now.
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Jun 4, 2014 16:16
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The odometer fix isn't too hard to do, garagistic.com sells kits to replace the broken gears.
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Jun 4, 2014 16:20
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245,000mi on the mint condition 87 Mazda 323 wagon, 225,500mi on the Saturn (burns 3qt/1000mi drat DOHC), and my 92 Daihatsu Rocky is at 212,000mi. My 78 Subaru has something like 50,500 on it. Or 150,500, or 850,500. Not sure. 1973 Case 350D tractor has 1168 hours, that is pretty low hours!
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Jun 4, 2014 16:23
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CharlesM posted:Why can't you get Warcraft 2 anymore? I just chucked my discs for that game last week because I haven't played it in years. 
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Jun 4, 2014 17:14
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The best part about doing service work as opposed to being on a big job is that if we finish early we can hide and drive around the rest of the day. Eating lunch at the hospital cafeteria right now. So many god drat sexy rear end nurses here.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:23
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Super Aggro Crag posted:The best part about doing service work as opposed to being on a big job is that if we finish early we can hide and drive around the rest of the day. Eating lunch at the hospital cafeteria right now. So many god drat sexy rear end nurses here. During the summer I would say a good 50-75% of my day is just tooling around campus or chilling out in one of the half dozen empty buildings. Nothing gets broken when the students aren't here.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:25
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I was just terminating some CAT5e on a bunch of patch panels from 2001. The plastic pieces crumbled in my hands like toilet paper. All while I'm standing on top of a UPS battery behind the rack on obe foot because its 8 inches off the wall.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:29
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BraveUlysses posted:The odometer fix isn't too hard to do, garagistic.com sells kits to replace the broken gears. Yeah it's about number 10 on my list of things to fix at this point
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Jun 4, 2014 17:31
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2000 4Runner has 232k miles, 91 Corolla has 219k. The 6 only has 62k, but we put 1800 miles on it just last week driving to Missouri and back.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:14
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My E30 had 260,000 miles... When the odo broke ~3 years ago.
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Jun 4, 2014 19:06
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sold my 460k volvo 245, so now I just have a 257k 244 and a 220k 245
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Jun 4, 2014 20:38
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Miata just turned over like 211k. Doesn't count because the only thing that is original is the tub, half of the doors, the carpet, the fuel system, most of the brake hardlines, and like the diff bushings. Also, I told some idiot on miata.net today to stop being a moron, and now I'm a ghost. What I originally posted: quote:Who gives a poo poo? You've (note: the OP) done nothing but whine and complain about the ND. You're not going to buy one, so stop concern trolling all of the time and like pick up woodworking or something. And then he started to PM me: 
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Jun 4, 2014 20:44
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some texas redneck posted:I know of 3 friends that are still in my home town. It must be depressing for you to go back there. It feels weird being the only one left here. In one hand, I'm happy for them. For the most part, they're all doctors, lawyers, or engineers and they're off doing better things. It's not like I'm doing badly myself, I work at a software company. I don't know how to describe it. I also never thought I'd come back here after college but who does? In unrelated notes, I took my girlfriends car into the shop. It's a 1997 grand am. We were scared taking it in and they called me back this afternoon. It needs almost $2000 worth of work. She doesn't have the money for that, not that the car is really worth fixing to begin with, nor the money to get a new car. Any suggestions? I can't remember the specifics but it needs a new water pump, some suspension work, and something with the steering wheel.
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Jun 4, 2014 21:04
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Phone posted:And then he started to PM me: Cue complete and utter meltdown of impotent rage. Your technique is quite correct, just keep prodding them until they totally lose their poo poo. mariooncrack posted:Any suggestions? I can't remember the specifics but it needs a new water pump, some suspension work, and something with the steering wheel.  . Could be either. Can you dig out their actual quote and list everything they've said?
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Jun 4, 2014 21:16
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Most of the kids I hung out with in middle school and the first half of high school still live in town. In fact, I live with 3 of them. Most of my friends from the later part of high school settled in Colorado or North Carolina.
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Jun 4, 2014 21:25
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The guy who runs FocalJet lives here in town. He now drives an Abarth and upon being called out for he made the same "I could beat your rear end" comment and even invited the guy to come see him. FJ dude got his loving rear end kicked.
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Jun 4, 2014 21:43
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I used to browse FocalJet all the time when I had my Focus and that's loving hilarious. Are there any screencaps or anything like that I can laugh at?
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Jun 4, 2014 21:52
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I loving love it when fraud protection shuts my rear end off when I try to buy gas at a full service station and leavings me looking like a dick! Love it! Who would ever dare to buy gas at a few stations in a few days?! the nerve. Must be fraud.  If I have to leave my license at this middle of nowhere gas station and drive an extra 120 miles to get it back tomorrow my next action is switching banks. gently caress this.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:01
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Sup AI, today I got to learn how to operate heavy machinery. Granted it's only a backhoe, but still. One more skill to add to the list of random useful things I know how to do!
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Jun 4, 2014 22:09
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After a couple years of fence-sitting, I'm finally buying a set of PDR tools tomorrow. Complete wild-rear end guess as to whether I'll be able to learn to do it or not, but I've wanted to learn for a long time. 
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Jun 4, 2014 22:15
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T1g4h posted:Sup AI, today I got to learn how to operate heavy machinery.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:34
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Suddenly I don't feel so bad about the 173k on the e46. I still want to swap it for something with more character though.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:49
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meatpimp posted:After a couple years of fence-sitting, I'm finally buying a set of PDR tools tomorrow. Complete wild-rear end guess as to whether I'll be able to learn to do it or not, but I've wanted to learn for a long time. From what I've seen of your paint skills, I figured you already had that in your repertoire. Good luck!
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Jun 4, 2014 22:49
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InitialDave posted:Don't knock it. Sometimes when life goes to poo poo, being the guy who can do random stuff like this will get you back into employment over someone else. May not matter when talking about "career" level stuff, but "laid off and need something in order to eat and pay the mortgage"? It gives you options. Oh, don't get me wrong, i'm not knocking it. It's just one of those things I find amusing because I really do have a strange skillset. Photography, graphic design, marksmanship, trained firefighter, and now I know how to operate a backhoe. I feel like a Jack of all trades some days 
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Jun 4, 2014 23:04
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SlimManFat posted:I used to browse FocalJet all the time when I had my Focus and that's loving hilarious. Are there any screencaps or anything like that I can laugh at? No, all the threats were via PMs. He hasn't been to a Cars & Coffee meet since it happened so I can't mock him. I mean, he was a bigger dude but that doesn't count for poo poo.
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Jun 4, 2014 23:12
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InitialDave posted:Don't knock it. Sometimes when life goes to poo poo, being the guy who can do random stuff like this will get you back into employment over someone else. May not matter when talking about "career" level stuff, but "laid off and need something in order to eat and pay the mortgage"? It gives you options. There's a reason I list auto repair, welding, roofing, plumbing, home electrical, and masonry on my resume as well as being an embedded systems engineer
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Jun 4, 2014 23:34
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Well, sometimes they're very embedded systems. 
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Jun 4, 2014 23:38
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InitialDave posted:Well, sometimes they're very embedded systems. He doesnt work on German stuff.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:11
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Reminder that if you like Snatch, In Bruges, or just enjoy Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle as actors, you should watch The Guard. edit: opening scene may be upsetting to the ITR owners here.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:59
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kastein posted:There's a reason I list auto repair, welding, roofing, plumbing, home electrical, and masonry on my resume as well as being an embedded systems engineer I am very interested in details on this. I have tried to hide my other skills in interviews and I'm not sure if that is a good idea anymore.
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Jun 5, 2014 01:08
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CountOfNowhere posted:I am very interested in details on this. I have tried to hide my other skills in interviews and I'm not sure if that is a good idea anymore. Same. Unless I think my special skills specifically apply to the job I'm trying to get I keep them to myself. Maybe we've been screwing ourselves all along.
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Jun 5, 2014 01:14
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Our shop is next to a highway. (Like our parking lot shares a fence with it) I come back from a test drive to find two squad cars parked up behind mine which was closest parked to the fence. Daunted I run to my manager and ask what the gently caress!? He replies with, "I was down on the alignment rack and turn around to find a deer with its guts hanging out staring at me" Apparently he got hit right by our shop, jumped the fence, guts dangling and all, found his way into the corner of our lot where DNR promptly came and shot him in the eyeball. The hosed up part was that they left him there and he is now the owners responsibility to clean him up. Another great day at the shop.
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Jun 5, 2014 01:45
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InitialDave posted:Find $2k somewhere. Or fix it yourself for Here's everything they said: Water Pump - It's leaking coolant and in order to change this it takes 7 hours because you have to pull about half of the engine apart. - $800. Steering rod tie end - $250 Suspension Control Arm and Ball Joint Assembly x2, Suspension Stabilizer Bar Link, Wheel alignment - $800 I hope that made sense to you guys. KBB says it's worth about $1500.
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Jun 5, 2014 03:23
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goatse guy posted:I just chucked my discs for that game last week because I haven't played it in years. 
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Jun 5, 2014 03:28
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I've still got my disk, although I'm not sure where my copy of the xpac is.
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Jun 5, 2014 03:42
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I wonder why they don't sell the battle.net edition for $5. Or just let you play for free. I bet because they haven't updated it for battle.net / anti-cheats but at least a single player / direct TCP-IP version would be fun.
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Maybe they don't want everyone to remember how much better Warcraft II was than every other Warcraft thing they have done since  e: contents of the War II disk: 113MB
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