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jmonroe1 · August 2020

Michaell said:

stickguy said:
there is absolutely no chance I would ever convince my wife to do tent camping like that. even an RV would be a tough sell.
Wife and I did some tent camping with the kids a few times after we got married. Then we got smart.

I’ve always been smart, at least since I dropped out of Boy Scouts when I was 13.

jmonroe

suydam · August 2020

My idea of camping is the Hilton.

sb55 · August 2020

stickguy said:
there is absolutely no chance I would ever convince my wife to do tent camping like that. even an RV would be a tough sell.

My wife too. She said "I don't want an RV, but if we do get one, I like the looks of an Airstream" Bingo! We got a used Airstream and tried camping. We like it. Sleeping in your own bed, using your own bathroom and taking the little dog are easy. We liked it so much that we skipped the "2 foot-itis" and sold our 25' and got a 30' model. The extra room is nice.

ab348 · August 2020

Airstreams are cool and I suppose both it and RVs are considered "camping" but to me they seem quite different from sleeping in a pop-up trailer camper or a tent on the ground. Not the least of which because the former at least protects you from nocturnal visits by bugs and wildlife.

I have a mental bias against Airstreams only due to traumatic events in my youth on our family road vacations in the '60s as a little kid. In those days there were few expressways up here and in Northern New England as main highways and we would dread getting stuck behind a Wally Byam caravan of Airstreams on a 2-lane highway. "*&!@%! peanut trailers!" my mom would complain from her front-seat passenger position as my dad struggled to find a place to pass them all. Lots of white-knuckle overtaking.

driver100 · August 2020

roadburner said:

driver100 said:

Kia looks nice from the back. Looks like a Lincoln!
That certainly tempers my enthusiasm for a Stinger...

qbrozen · August 2020

driver100 said:

roadburner said:

driver100 said:

Kia looks nice from the back. Looks like a Lincoln!
That certainly tempers my enthusiasm for a Stinger...

I don’t see it.

driver100 · August 2020

I don't get camping....why would I not want to sleep where there is a real mattress, a TV, radio, reading lamp, air conditioning, heating, a real roof, a bathroom nearby, a kitchen where I can make breakfast in the morning or get a snack?

tjc78 · August 2020

A day in the life of TJC. Three lessons learned.

Friday was hell at the new job. We onboarded a ton of employees on my projects and payroll was overwhelmed. There was data all over the place and getting payroll sorted was a nightmare. Vlookups into several sheets, etc etc. Well I made my first mistake at the new job. Forgot to reapply a filter in Excel and uploaded some junk data which made accounting freak. Nothing could have happened as the amounts had no-one to pay ... but made a few people wonder what was up.

So lesson 1 - watch your filters in Excel

Lesson 2 - If you are cheating cooking ribs in the slow cooker, don’t forget about them or you will have pulled pork

Lesson 3 - (this one from Mrs TJC). I’m sitting at the pool with my son as it wasn’t a great beach day. Wife headed back on the golf cart to get my daughter a snack. No less than ten minutes later my neighbor comes to the pool and says your wife needs you she is cut up really bad.

I leave all my stuff there, grab my son and my neighbor drives me back to my house. I walk in and take one look at her leg and knew we had to get the hospital.

She stepped on the stool and the crappy particle board seat broke and leg went through catching a screw. 30 stitches and a T-dap shot.

Not quite the relaxing Saturday at the shore we hoped for. Luckily she is doing fine and the wonderful doctor at the urgent care did a wonderful job of closing it up.

tjc78 · August 2020

Oh and a shout out to our friends here. Parents of a boy my son plays with here brought all our gear back to our house.

My neighbor cleaned up the blood so our dog wouldn’t track it all over the house.

We are lucky to have a lot of great people here in the community.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

driver100 said:
I don't get camping....why would I not want to sleep where there is a real mattress, a TV, radio, reading lamp, air conditioning, heating, a real roof, a bathroom nearby, a kitchen where I can make breakfast in the morning or get a snack?

Because...just because.

jmonroe

stickguy · August 2020

sorry to hear T. when it rains it pours? But as long as everyone is OK, really all that matters. Plus, pulled pork is really good!

roadburner · August 2020

tjc78 said:
A day in the life of TJC. Three lessons learned.

Friday was hell at the new job. We onboarded a ton of employees on my projects and payroll was overwhelmed. There was data all over the place and getting payroll sorted was a nightmare. Vlookups into several sheets, etc etc. Well I made my first mistake at the new job. Forgot to reapply a filter in Excel and uploaded some junk data which made accounting freak. Nothing could have happened as the amounts had no-one to pay ... but made a few people wonder what was up.

So lesson 1 - watch your filters in Excel

Lesson 2 - If you are cheating cooking ribs in the slow cooker, don’t forget about them or you will have pulled pork

Lesson 3 - (this one from Mrs TJC). I’m sitting at the pool with my son as it wasn’t a great beach day. Wife headed back on the golf cart to get my daughter a snack. No less than ten minutes later my neighbor comes to the pool and says your wife needs you she is cut up really bad.

I leave all my stuff there, grab my son and my neighbor drives me back to my house. I walk in and take one look at her leg and knew we had to get the hospital.

She stepped on the stool and the crappy particle board seat broke and leg went through catching a screw. 30 stitches and a T-dap shot.

Not quite the relaxing Saturday at the shore we hoped for. Luckily she is doing fine and the wonderful doctor at the urgent care did a wonderful job of closing it up.

I’m glad things weren’t any worse.

graphicguy · August 2020

roadburner said:

tjc78 said:
A day in the life of TJC. Three lessons learned.

Friday was hell at the new job. We onboarded a ton of employees on my projects and payroll was overwhelmed. There was data all over the place and getting payroll sorted was a nightmare. Vlookups into several sheets, etc etc. Well I made my first mistake at the new job. Forgot to reapply a filter in Excel and uploaded some junk data which made accounting freak. Nothing could have happened as the amounts had no-one to pay ... but made a few people wonder what was up.

So lesson 1 - watch your filters in Excel

Lesson 2 - If you are cheating cooking ribs in the slow cooker, don’t forget about them or you will have pulled pork

Lesson 3 - (this one from Mrs TJC). I’m sitting at the pool with my son as it wasn’t a great beach day. Wife headed back on the golf cart to get my daughter a snack. No less than ten minutes later my neighbor comes to the pool and says your wife needs you she is cut up really bad.

I leave all my stuff there, grab my son and my neighbor drives me back to my house. I walk in and take one look at her leg and knew we had to get the hospital.

She stepped on the stool and the crappy particle board seat broke and leg went through catching a screw. 30 stitches and a T-dap shot.

Not quite the relaxing Saturday at the shore we hoped for. Luckily she is doing fine and the wonderful doctor at the urgent care did a wonderful job of closing it up.
I’m glad things weren’t any worse.

+1. Glad she’s on the mend!

graphicguy · August 2020

kyfdx said:
@graphicguy
Buffalo to Cincinnati
1st Wednesday in September
$79 one way, with one stop, on American or United.

25 miles to the airport from center of Niagara Falls, NY

Thanks....

Just an update, and hopefully the last you’ll hear me whine about this....

Not the wife, but the Husband called me last night telling me they couldn’t get a mechanic to sign off on the car’s travel worthiness in the time frame I requested but they would pay for a meal for me to transport the car, anyway.

I politely declined the transport. He wanted to argue with me some more. Finally I told him...”thanks for thinking of me, but my decision is final”. Husband said he was going to tell all of his friends what a poor business person I was. I hung up. I was relaying this scenario to my son. He suggested that in certain cultures, this sort of “negotiation” is common. As I said, “it’s not common with me”.

For a few hundred dollars in profit, this isn’t worth the hassle. I blocked his phone number.

Geez-Louise!

graphicguy · August 2020

qbrozen said:

driver100 said:

roadburner said:

driver100 said:

Kia looks nice from the back. Looks like a Lincoln!
That certainly tempers my enthusiasm for a Stinger...

I don’t see it.

Stared at that for a while. Not seeing much in common, with the possible exception that both have tail lights and reflectors that cover the entire back of the car.

driver100 · August 2020

graphicguy said:

qbrozen said:

driver100 said:

roadburner said:

driver100 said:

Kia looks nice from the back. Looks like a Lincoln!
That certainly tempers my enthusiasm for a Stinger...

I don’t see it.
Stared at that for a while. Not seeing much in common, with the possible exception that both have tail lights and reflectors that cover the entire back of the car.

They are both red!
Light bar across the back....Lincolns actual lights are at the top....Stingers on the bottom.
Both have trunks blending into a spoiler effect.
Similar exhaust outlets.
Both have black trim along the bottom.
I guess you have to have a strong interest in design to catch the similarities.........

driver100 · August 2020

tjc....things can only go uphill from here......that is a lot to deal with all at once. Hope it all works out!

Sandman6472 · August 2020

I was retired and home for a couple of years and was quite happy doing almost nothing. Luckily my pension paid for all our bills and then some, mortgage was retired about 15 years earlier. My wife who only worked part time got jealous and said I should get a job, which I did the next day. Luckily I found one in my passion, automobiles. Now, over 7 years later, still loving the part time work and having some extra income is just the icing on the cake.
Graphic, like OF and me, think you're going to love this new facet of your life. Think not working every day or 40 hours is the key, a least for me. Look forward to those days that I'm scheduled to work and am very happy when I'm on an n/s one. Knowing that I can do what I want when I want is key here...having the choice to either work or not work is just the best! So, enjoy this new phase of your life like OF and I both do and in time, you'll look back like I did and not know where the years went as they literally just flew by!

imidazol97 · August 2020

Long, long ago the old CBS has a European guy on who analyzed or studied designs for cars. He looked at them from the way the visual impacted the reptilian brain deep in each of us. That's the way I see the persona of the Stinger rear.

The Kia has a rear with eyes that are slits looking back at me following it and has a snarl on its upper lip along with canine teeth that could bite down at the bottom/ Aggressive without being off putting.

The other car, while having a similar oval outline to the rear, has a Meh blank face looking back at me following it.

They are both red, however.

IIRC the story on the old CBS, he studied cars for US car companies and made a lot of money doing it because of his expertise in understanding how the vehicle would impress people.

omarman · August 2020

"Husband said he was going to tell all of his friends what a poor business person I was."

Well that would amount to his wife and a white rabbit. Six feet three and a half inches tall. Also invisible.

fintail · August 2020

Also be careful with your decimal places and rounding, or you'll end up with an Office Space/Superman III scenario, and you might not have Milton Waddams to burn the place down after receiving the last straw.

tjc78 said:
A day in the life of TJC. Three lessons learned.

Friday was hell at the new job. We onboarded a ton of employees on my projects and payroll was overwhelmed. There was data all over the place and getting payroll sorted was a nightmare. Vlookups into several sheets, etc etc. Well I made my first mistake at the new job. Forgot to reapply a filter in Excel and uploaded some junk data which made accounting freak. Nothing could have happened as the amounts had no-one to pay ... but made a few people wonder what was up.

driver100 · August 2020

There are even articles comparing the two;

Note the slope of the rear window, position of gas tank door.......
More similarities than I thought when I got into this mess - from one article;

What is the main difference between Stinger and MKZ?
Two Sedans with more similarities, such as the body structure, fuel economy, ground shadow size, and maximum occupancy, than differences, like the starting price, horsepower, and height. First of all, the 2018 Kia Stinger is priced $3,270 lower compared to the base MSRP of the 2017 Lincoln MKZ. Also, the 2018 Stinger pulls more horsepower than the 2017 MKZ. And finally, the roofline of the Stinger is lower than the MKZ's. Among similarities are the body structure, fuel economy, ground shadow size, and maximum occupancy.

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

tjc78 said:
A day in the life of TJC. Three lessons learned.

Friday was hell at the new job. We onboarded a ton of employees on my projects and payroll was overwhelmed. There was data all over the place and getting payroll sorted was a nightmare. Vlookups into several sheets, etc etc. Well I made my first mistake at the new job. Forgot to reapply a filter in Excel and uploaded some junk data which made accounting freak. Nothing could have happened as the amounts had no-one to pay ... but made a few people wonder what was up.

So lesson 1 - watch your filters in Excel

Lesson 2 - If you are cheating cooking ribs in the slow cooker, don’t forget about them or you will have pulled pork

Lesson 3 - (this one from Mrs TJC). I’m sitting at the pool with my son as it wasn’t a great beach day. Wife headed back on the golf cart to get my daughter a snack. No less than ten minutes later my neighbor comes to the pool and says your wife needs you she is cut up really bad.

I leave all my stuff there, grab my son and my neighbor drives me back to my house. I walk in and take one look at her leg and knew we had to get the hospital.

She stepped on the stool and the crappy particle board seat broke and leg went through catching a screw. 30 stitches and a T-dap shot.

Not quite the relaxing Saturday at the shore we hoped for. Luckily she is doing fine and the wonderful doctor at the urgent care did a wonderful job of closing it up.

Ouch! I felt that all the way down here. Hope she mends well.

abacomike · August 2020

tjc78 said:
A day in the life of TJC. Three lessons learned.

Friday was hell at the new job. We onboarded a ton of employees on my projects and payroll was overwhelmed. There was data all over the place and getting payroll sorted was a nightmare. Vlookups into several sheets, etc etc. Well I made my first mistake at the new job. Forgot to reapply a filter in Excel and uploaded some junk data which made accounting freak. Nothing could have happened as the amounts had no-one to pay ... but made a few people wonder what was up.

So lesson 1 - watch your filters in Excel

Lesson 2 - If you are cheating cooking ribs in the slow cooker, don’t forget about them or you will have pulled pork

Lesson 3 - (this one from Mrs TJC). I’m sitting at the pool with my son as it wasn’t a great beach day. Wife headed back on the golf cart to get my daughter a snack. No less than ten minutes later my neighbor comes to the pool and says your wife needs you she is cut up really bad.

I leave all my stuff there, grab my son and my neighbor drives me back to my house. I walk in and take one look at her leg and knew we had to get the hospital.

She stepped on the stool and the crappy particle board seat broke and leg went through catching a screw. 30 stitches and a T-dap shot.

Not quite the relaxing Saturday at the shore we hoped for. Luckily she is doing fine and the wonderful doctor at the urgent care did a wonderful job of closing it up.

How awful! Thank God it wasn't any worse. My prayers for a speedy recovery and healing to your wife!

28firefighter · August 2020

Hang in there @tjc78 - sounds like a rough week.

ab348 · August 2020

driver100 said:
There are even articles comparing the two;

Well they both have 4 wheels and 4 doors. Other than that they are not much alike at all. Any article claiming they are is utterly absurd.

imidazol97 · August 2020

I was going to post a profile of my '14 Malibu to compare with the two, but....

stickguy · August 2020

I read that as they are both larger mid-sized 4 door sedans. and happen to have the gas lid in roughly the same spot, along with many other cars. Other than that they don't look any more alike than most any other comparably sized car. And not all that similar given that.

tjc78 · August 2020

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. She is just sore now, and feels like it was a stupid thing to do.

All we have to do is keep up on the dressing and stitches out in a week.

roadburner · August 2020

The V6 Stingers are definitely aimed at a much more performance-oriented enthusiast demographic. They are also available in RWD and the AWD system is RWD biased. I’m not saying the Lincoln is bad at what it’s designed to do, because it isn’t, but I honestly cannot imagine anyone with more than half a brain cross-shopping the two. I’d say the closest car to the Stinger V6 models is the 440i Gran Coupe- and in that case the Stinger is extremely competitive- especially considering its price.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

tjc78 said:
Thanks for the well wishes everyone. She is just sore now, and feels like it was a stupid thing to do.

All we have to do is keep up on the dressing and stitches out in a week.

Add me to the list. I was at the flip house all day and just saw this. Even thinking of what that screw did is chilling. Pass on my hopes for a full recovery to your wife.

jmonroe

qbrozen · August 2020

driver100 said:

graphicguy said:

qbrozen said:

driver100 said:

roadburner said:

driver100 said:

Kia looks nice from the back. Looks like a Lincoln!
That certainly tempers my enthusiasm for a Stinger...

I don’t see it.
Stared at that for a while. Not seeing much in common, with the possible exception that both have tail lights and reflectors that cover the entire back of the car.
They are both red!
Light bar across the back....Lincolns actual lights are at the top....Stingers on the bottom.
Both have trunks blending into a spoiler effect.
Similar exhaust outlets.
Both have black trim along the bottom.
I guess you have to have a strong interest in design to catch the similarities.........

This is some first-class reaching here.
Hey, how about this? Must look exactly the same, too, right? lol.
Heck, if anything, the Stinger looks more like the Civic than it does the Lincoln.

snakeweasel · August 2020

Michaell said:

stickguy said:
there is absolutely no chance I would ever convince my wife to do tent camping like that. even an RV would be a tough sell.
Wife and I did some tent camping with the kids a few times after we got married. Then we got smart.

I used to go camping about two dozen times a year, Sometimes three or four weekends in a row.

imidazol97 · August 2020

suydam said:
My idea of camping is the Hilton.

And for me "roughing it" is a Holiday Inn Express.

snakeweasel · August 2020

driver100 said:
I don't get camping....why would I not want to sleep where there is a real mattress, a TV, radio, reading lamp, air conditioning, heating, a real roof, a bathroom nearby, a kitchen where I can make breakfast in the morning or get a snack?

For me it's getting away from it all. I totally disconnect from the real world and everything else might as well be in another galaxy. It was cheap therapy.

snakeweasel · August 2020

Well here is the picture I tried to post yesterday.

snakeweasel · August 2020

Ok that Sonata lied to me, as we were leaving for the weekend the onboard computer said there was 371 miles worth of gas in the tank. We drove 376 miles without putting any gas in the car and it said we still have 136 miles worth of gas in the tank.

Along the way driving through a small town we went by a restaurant that had at least a half dozen Fiat X 1/9's in their lot.

stickguy · August 2020

the Fiat was probably one guy, with his 5 parts cars to make sure he would get home.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

snakeweasel said:
Well here is the picture I tried to post yesterday.

That tent looks like it went a couple rounds with moss and the moss won.

jmonroe

nyccarguy · August 2020

roadburner said:
The V6 Stingers are definitely aimed at a much more performance-oriented enthusiast demographic. They are also available in RWD and the AWD system is RWD biased. I’m not saying the Lincoln is bad at what it’s designed to do, because it isn’t, but I honestly cannot imagine anyone with more than half a brain cross-shopping the two. I’d say the closest car to the Stinger V6 models is the 440i Gran Coupe- and in that case the Stinger is extremely competitive- especially considering its price.

Speaking of the Stinger, I saw an Orange (must be) Stinger GTS either Friday or Saturday AM on my way to work. It looks fantastic in that color!

Michaell · August 2020

snakeweasel said:
Ok that Sonata lied to me, as we were leaving for the weekend the onboard computer said there was 371 miles worth of gas in the tank. We drove 376 miles without putting any gas in the car and it said we still have 136 miles worth of gas in the tank.

Along the way driving through a small town we went by a restaurant that had at least a half dozen Fiat X 1/9's in their lot.

No lie; typical DTE behavior.

If you do a lot of highway miles, the DTE will recompute. I've seen the one on the outback go up on a road trip.

roadburner · August 2020

Michaell said:

No lie; typical DTE behavior.

If you do a lot of highway miles, the DTE will recompute. I've seen the one on the outback go up on a road trip.

Exactly; DTE is computed based on the last xx miles driven.

explorerx4 · August 2020

My DTE's never go up, but they can drop at a slower rate.

Michaell · August 2020

explorerx4 said:
My DTE's never go up, but they can drop at a slower rate.

I guess my foot is lighter than yours.

I've filled my car up before a road trip and it will show something like 390 miles. Get on I-25 going south and the number will climb to 450-460 miles at a steady 75-80 MPH.

driver100 · August 2020

snakeweasel said:
Well here is the picture I tried to post yesterday.

Looks kind of like a Stinger or a Lincoln MKZ!

driver100 · August 2020

qbrozen said:

driver100 said:

graphicguy said:

qbrozen said:

driver100 said:

roadburner said:

driver100 said:

Kia looks nice from the back. Looks like a Lincoln!
That certainly tempers my enthusiasm for a Stinger...

I don’t see it.
Stared at that for a while. Not seeing much in common, with the possible exception that both have tail lights and reflectors that cover the entire back of the car.
They are both red!
Light bar across the back....Lincolns actual lights are at the top....Stingers on the bottom.
Both have trunks blending into a spoiler effect.
Similar exhaust outlets.
Both have black trim along the bottom.
I guess you have to have a strong interest in design to catch the similarities.........
This is some first-class reaching here.
Hey, how about this? Must look exactly the same, too, right? lol.
Heck, if anything, the Stinger looks more like the Civic than it does the Lincoln.

Now that's not even close. No built in channels for the exhaust pipes, different slope to the rear window, no gas door on the back flank, no built in spoiler....they are both red though!

driver100 · August 2020

roadburner said:
The V6 Stingers are definitely aimed at a much more performance-oriented enthusiast demographic. They are also available in RWD and the AWD system is RWD biased. I’m not saying the Lincoln is bad at what it’s designed to do, because it isn’t, but I honestly cannot imagine anyone with more than half a brain cross-shopping the two. I’d say the closest car to the Stinger V6 models is the 440i Gran Coupe- and in that case the Stinger is extremely competitive- especially considering its price.

A very fair comparison. If I had nothing better to do and needed a new car, I would consider cross shopping the two. I like the Lincoln as a luxury car for a fair price....they are pretty large, comfortable, solid, high content and look pretty sleek. I like the Stinger for it's high performance per dollar. If i am not sure whether performance or comfort is more important I would possibly compare the two.

imidazol97 said:
I was going to post a profile of my '14 Malibu to compare with the two, but....

No way, Malibu has different tail lights...........and a round gas cap door........not even close....

but it does kind of look like that Civic........

tjc78 · August 2020

explorerx4 said:
My DTE's never go up, but they can drop at a slower rate.

That is what the DTE in the Enclave does. After filling the tank it usually hovers around 390 miles. If I do a straight highway run of 60 miles or so it will only drop about 40 miles. The DTE is simple math in the Enclave based on tank capacity and the recorded average MPG.

abacomike · August 2020

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:
Well here is the picture I tried to post yesterday.

Looks kind of like a Stinger or a Lincoln MKZ!

Driver, I think you have Lincolns and Stingers on the brain or something. It looks nothing like those cars.😜🤪🤓

driver100 · August 2020

abacomike said:

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:
Well here is the picture I tried to post yesterday.

Looks kind of like a Stinger or a Lincoln MKZ!
Driver, I think you have Lincolns and Stingers on the brain or something. It looks nothing like those cars.😜🤪🤓

Mike, it is just that I have an extremely creative mind and can see things others don't

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