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Sappo569 posted:
If you decide to look into investing in stocks, i'd recommend Walgreens, Sam Adams, or Toyota. Got me a cheap, yet decent watch for outdoor stuff: 
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^ drat i'm jealous. Both are great cities to check out.
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Toast Museum posted:drat. There's no way I could justify buying these, but with the right outfit I'd wear the poo poo out of them. The trouble is there is no right outfit. This trend of weird color soles and flat out sneaker soles on dress shoes really needs to go away. Cole Haan started all this crap after Nike bought them. Edit: I take that back, clowns need to dress up once in a while.
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Reverse Centaur posted:Two nights at Westin Portland Check out powell's city of books, if you're a reader. If you have a huge rear end, Voodoo Doughnuts. http://groundkontrol.com/ Ground Kontrol bar and arcade, if you like classic arcade games. Deschutes Brewery, because I missed it and you better loving like beer. I also missed the Vegan Strip club, but really, what's the point? The people are very friendly, the town is walkable, it's a good time. I have to go back, when I have more than a day and am not sick. Oh and BTW, go to the Mark Spencer hotel and punch the loving staff in the face for me.
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rockcity posted:Yeah, I'll never go back to not doing my own oil. I'd recommend Rhino Ramps personally. You can get them on sale for like $40 and they're a lot faster to use. Once you have the tools oil changes are about $20 for traditional oil and $30 for synthetic. Ramps are definitely easier but both my car and my girlfriends sit fairly low and have long front bumpers. Unless there's some sort of longer and less steep ramps I'm stuck with the jack stands. Buying a Subaru Forester is by far the easiest solution though. The drain plug is pretty much right behind the bumper and the filter is right on top of the engine. You don't even have to lift the car at all. Its a 10 minute job on one of those and that includes waiting for the last of the old oil to drip out.
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Reverse Centaur posted:Two nights at Westin Portland  God drat!
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:You can get a jack, some jack stands and the tools to do an oil change for under $100. It takes less than an hour to do on most cars, costs about half of what a shop would charge and its immensely satisfying to do your own work on your car. I don't have a garage, so I'd have to get on my back on our incredibly uneven and lumpy gravel parking spot, which might do in the summer, but I'm not doing in canadian winters.I also have absolutely no space left in my tiny house to store poo poo. I know how to change my own oil, it's just not very practical for me right now. I keep trying to convince my husband we should build a garage, but he just isn't buying it. I could also put a jewelry work bench out there and not have to worry about the cats getting into gem stone and drill bits.
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Mar 27, 2015 05:13
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Changing oil I will gladly pay for as if you value your time at all, you don't really save any money. Stuff like replacing brake pads is totally worth doing yourself as you can really save a ton.
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Mar 27, 2015 05:16
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bunnielab posted:Changing oil I will gladly pay for as if you value your time at all, you don't really save any money. Stuff like replacing brake pads is totally worth doing yourself as you can really save a ton. It takes like 10 minutes though
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Thanks for all the Portland tips, friends. I don't plan to make much of a plan - just wander north and east until I hit river.Rageaholic Monkey posted:I've always heard Portland is rad but I've never seen it look like that If you can't get a volcano in your shot in a Pacific Northwest town you aren't doing it right. Here's the view from my area of Vancouver (volcano is in Washington) 
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rockcity posted:The trouble is there is no right outfit. This trend of weird color soles and flat out sneaker soles on dress shoes really needs to go away. Cole Haan started all this crap after Nike bought them. We'll have to agree to disagree. I wouldn't wear them in a situation that required a more formal shoe, but in a casual setting, sure. There's not a huge range of outfits I'd prefer that sole for, which is why I couldn't justify buying a pair like that, but it could be a fine pop of color. It's a brighter yellow than I usually wear, so I'd have to think about what exactly to do with it, but off the top I think it could work well with dark denim or navy. Edit: I'm with you on the sneaker soles, though. Those do nothing for me. Toast Museum has a new favorite as of 10:15 on Mar 27, 2015 |
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Echeveria posted:I don't have a garage, so I'd have to get on my back on our incredibly uneven and lumpy gravel parking spot, which might do in the summer, but I'm not doing in canadian winters.I also have absolutely no space left in my tiny house to store poo poo. I know how to change my own oil, it's just not very practical for me right now. I keep trying to convince my husband we should build a garage, but he just isn't buying it. I could also put a jewelry work bench out there and not have to worry about the cats getting into gem stone and drill bits. I have a lumpy lovely parking lot too. I have some chunks of wood to steady the jack stands and a big thick piece of cardboard to lay on. I try to do it inside the in-laws garage when I can too. I understand why some folks would rather pay to have it done. It is a dirty job and it only saves a couple dozen bucks. I genuinely enjoy working on cars though. I get a nice sense of satisfaction from getting a little grimy and then standing back to admire a job well done. Even if it is just something simple like an oil change.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:both my car and my girlfriends sit fairly low I thought this was a fat joke when I first read it.
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Digital version of this: But dumbass me, my PS4 is on "completely off" mode and not "standby" so I can't even start to download it until I get home from work. 
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Reverse Centaur posted:Two nights at Westin Portland You're coming in at the perfect time, as the "rain season" is over (honestly this year was alarmingly dry). VendaGoat posted:Check out powell's city of books, if you're a reader. Voodoo Donuts is very touristy if that's your thing; if you want a legitimately better donut but without the kitsch check out Blue Star Donuts . Deschutes Brewery is pretty nice. I prefer 10 Barrel Barrel Brewing Co. & they just opened a new location downtown too. Casa Diablo is the vegan strip club, but it's kind of far walk-wise from downtown. Mary's Club is the one in the heart of downtown, but honestly it's just a strip club with some history. If there's one thing worth checking out it's the Portland Underground Shanghai Tunnels tour. Discover Portland's pirate history!
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 2x Dell MSA14 monitor arms. They're kind of S-shaped so it's hard to line the stand bases with monitor midpoints. And now when the monitors are hanging on a long arm, my unstable desk's movements exacberate the display's movement. They move around noticeably when I hammer my keyboard. Guess it's time to post a "bought a new desk" picture later  Edit: of course my desk is never that clean. But without stands it's hopefully easier to keep it tidier in future. Also still adjusting the arm positions.. the wall prevents them from moving too much so I need to kind of move the baseplates around the desk's edge!
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 My first non-used vehicle. A 2015 Colorado LT. Well, I ordered it. The supply to demand ratio is staggering, and dealerships only either have extended cab LTs with no options or loaded out Z71s out of my price range, and they're lucky to get any at all. Now for some first world bitching (unchecked privilege trigger warning): My 2005 Accord I'm trading in is, apparently, highly desirable. I've had people wanting to buy it since I got it. I went ahead and gave it to the dealership to sell while there's still some tax money floating around and so I'd have that money ready to go when my truck came in. The GM (my father  ) assured me it wouldn't be long before my truck came in, and they'd give me a loaner vehicle to drive in until then, only a week or so.The loaner vehicle is the grossest Altima in the world. It was just traded in and they hadn't even cleaned it or serviced it in, just gave me the keys. The woman who owned it beforehand apparently lived in a great big dirt pile and just poured perfume all over it all the time forever. This was probably to cover up the smell of some long-dead animal. I can't get the smell out. Also the radio doesn't work. But it's only for a week or so, right? I checked with the salesman handling my order, and they haven't even started building the damned thing yet. It's still in pre-production, so I've got AT LEAST a month in this shitmobile. Wah wah, I know.
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Just bitch at them. They will give you another vehicle. There's no reason you should be in a disgusting vehicle for a month. If you complain enough, they WILL give you something else. (especially if you are buying a new car)
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RCarr posted:Just bitch at them. They will give you another vehicle. There's no reason you should be in a disgusting vehicle for a month. If you complain enough, they WILL give you something else. (especially if you are buying a new car) E/N as poo poo, but long story short, there's a lot of daddy issues involved. We hate each other, basically, and if he ever has to "help me out" he does the absolute bare minimum and acts like he's breaking his loving back to do it. Bitching won't do anything but probably end up with me getting financially screwed like any other customer. Right now I'm getting employee pricing and 0% interest forever if I buy, or straight residual if I lease and keep, so I'd rather not risk losing those. However, I've managed to grow something resembling balls in the past few years, so I demanded they take the thing in to get a deep cleaning. If it still stinks, I'll bitch for something that at least has a working radio. If not, I don't actually HAVE to drive the thing. I've still got my wife's GXT
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Android Bicyclist posted:Voodoo Donuts is very touristy if that's your thing; if you want a legitimately better donut but without the kitsch check out Blue Star Donuts . Ooooooo. drat the locals for sending me to Voodoo, those look so much better. 
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Ihmemies posted:
I like your Salvador Dali inspired keyboard.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I like your Salvador Dali inspired keyboard. The keyboard is pretty great though: 
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Four tickets to see with my wife and kids.
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I bought a pair of beat up Allen Edmonds Park Avenues at the thrift store for $16 and had them repaired at the local cobblers for $55.  Thus getting a pair of ~$400 shoes for $75ish.
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TheMadMilkman posted:Four tickets to see This was good. Shocking amount of 3DSs being played in the theater.
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:I bought a pair of beat up Allen Edmonds Park Avenues at the thrift store for $16 That's awesome. I really need to head to the local good will sometime since I'm smack dab in the middle of a super wealthy area surrounding me
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Ihmemies posted:
What's that box sitting in the middle, it looks like the keyboard and mouse are plugged into it, but might just be holding the wires flat
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larchesdanrew posted:
Manual or automatic? 
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SaltLick posted:That's awesome. I really need to head to the local good will sometime since I'm smack dab in the middle of a super wealthy area surrounding me Doesn't even need to be a good neighborhood necessarily. I bought these in a Goodwill just outside of Oakland.
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:Doesn't even need to be a good neighborhood necessarily. I bought these in a Goodwill just outside of Oakland. Goodwills in nicer areas do tend to have better stuff in general though.
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:Goodwills in nicer areas do tend to have better stuff in general though. Definitely. Though for me so far it's been frequency > location.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:
*grabs you by the nose with my foot* Get me this poster.
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David Copperfield posted:*grabs you by the nose with my foot* Get me this poster. That's an interesting way to get someone's attention
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bunnielab posted:Changing oil I will gladly pay for as if you value your time at all, you don't really save any money. Stuff like replacing brake pads is totally worth doing yourself as you can really save a ton. I agree with this, except I don't trust oil places to not gently caress something up resulting in higher maintenance/repair expenses down the road.
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Totally TWISTED posted:I agree with this, except I don't trust oil places to not gently caress something up resulting in higher maintenance/repair expenses down the road. I just hate it when they try to sell me an air filter for $25 or a cabin air filter for $20, Transmission flush, engine cleaning, etc.,
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Go to Union Jack's if you want to go to a decent strip club in Portland, go to Voodoo Donuts if you want a donut coated with stale cereal.
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Found this at the same thrift store today. Stoked to have it since I'm missing their show in my area. 
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Trillest Parrot posted:Go to Union Jack's if you want to go to a decent strip club in Portland, go to Voodoo Donuts if you want a donut coated with stale cereal. The bacon was lovely on the bacon maple. The locals....THE LOCALS TOLD ME TO GO!!!
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