Excellent article and excellent /useful replies! Can only add that - once again- after solemn vows and time wasting small parts sacrifices I once again find myself wrenching in my dirt driveway.... ugggggghhhh!!!! But I have at least learned to use tarps & plywood as temp flooring. Also. I am old. A spare…

me n Carl...sigh. Her name wasn’t Christine- but she was sure she wanted to move in and her Pathfinder was sputtering and I live in the deep recesses of the Rockies and she worked in the nearest town 45 miles away and she had a friend with an 04 Cavalier that got like 35mpg so “we” [read “I”] bought it for $1800. …

Been in grief/acceptance that we tilted over the warming edge a while back. [and zero data to refute that ] This election is likely one of the biggest nails in the climate coffin Still, I am in the existential /zen place of perseverance . I think there was a Ghandi quote: “Almost everything we do is insignificant…

this guy, because he had the most accurate predictions of Obama’s 2012 victory and the GOPs 2014 senate victories: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/4/1591276/-No-I-don-t-think-Donald-Trump-will-win-because-the-polls-show-he-s-losing

yep-a decent impact- my dewalt 18v is still good after 8yrs- [altho now epoxy/dirt covered after 100's of screws in my home made 30' wharram catamaran] for the lug nuts i have a second hand dewalt 110v impact. my 1/4 and 3/8 drive bits are painted bright so i can find them in the socket box...

lots of good points in the comments- interesting that the NFL seems to be grasping at its own anecdotal straws- like everything else they blindly assume that we “want” this overexposed, over commercialized, blatantly disingenuous product shoved down our throat.

Living in the boonies [100 mi round trip to a tire shop] a plug kit is a must have.... drag it out 3 or 4 times a year. I usually forego the crappy reamer, grab my dewalt cordless and drill out the hole... also VERY useful when you pick up sharp objects in way-th-fuck Northern Ontario- [obviously packing a Slime 12v…

Umm- just for the record....Dude. I NEVER was laughing at you- I was like, feeling your pain Dude- can I get ya some coffee or WD-40 or something? we cool? .....

My first reaction was to get all smug about you gnashing about a cute lil ol 5x8 trailer as I regularly pulled a 16' flatbed loaded with cement siding etc up and over Independence Pass [look it up - some ppl have to stop and throw up a bit before pressing on] behind my 78 Ford Sidewinder.... but then I remembered a…

As my friend talked about his relative’s home in La. now only accessible via boat , I said one of the tragic consequences of being “right” about climate change is having to witness the damage to those we care about....

nah- the apocalypse began about the time that primate family - the one’s who get the huge dopamine hit over new and shiny stuff- when that family started burning prehistoric shit to stay warm and move around and make new and shiny stuff... oh yeah - and kept on fucking and babymaking . All this weather is naught but…