for today got 2 meeting to go to and then getting gas on the way home in the GTI.


i think later this week i'm going to swap the GK's wheels to snows.
i should be getting the air filter for the GK today..

happy halloween everyone!

 

Happy Halloween everyone!

Of course this weekend forecast is 50-60% chance of rain for both days. Was gonna try and do the vinyl on the miata/fog lights and/or detail the cars. ><

 

hey there shinjari! hope you're enjoying ur halloween. i know my kids are.. older kid's been handing out candy to all the trick or treaters. ive been monitoring the cameras outside to make sure kids dont mess with my GTI. lol not really.

sorry to hear about the weather. 50% chance sounds more like a toss up, might be cloudy and no rain! actually if ure planning on using soap solution a little rain is not really an issue unless you dont like getting wet or something. id just make sure i have a tack solution with like higher content alcohol than usual. if its pouring then different story..

 

got gas on the way home in my GTI... i just let it auto click and to my surprise, stopped exactly at 10.00 gallons. haha. silly me, kinda excited i accidentally hit "no" when the pump asked if i wanted a receipt.. oops. just took a snap with my iphone.

got home, did a few chores and now relaxing.

the GK's air filter came in so ill swap it out tomorrow. not bad, $15 for the oem one delivered.

 

on the menu today... going to work and back in my GTI then swap the GK's air filter, bring up the snows from the basement storage. will give them about 34psi and let them adjust to the ambient air until maybe tomorrow or Friday whichever is not raining and swap them.

 

rain today.. no air filter swap on the GK but my kid helped me bring up the snows to the garage. pumped them up high in anticipation the psi will drop a couple of psi as its quite cooler in the garage vs basement.

then went through my drawer that has all sorts of DIY's and manuals and dumped all the old car stuff in my recycling bin... had like a stack of paper for the different cars i had the last decade. haha

older kids making us mapo tofu tonight.

 

alright, only 2 confcalls today and i am pretty much done for the day.

if weather holds i'm going to swap the GK to snows and let my kid swap the intake air filter later on this evening.

have a good thursday everyone. almost the weekend!

 

Appointment to have fiber optic installed at my house today. Whoohoo! Can't wait to ditch this slow DSL and move into modern society. Sounds basic to you city dwellers, but it's a big thing for us out in the country.

 

My 110mb/s internet was lagging while streaming music on Tidal last night.

The world is insane.

 

oh wow i'm still on cable cause our town is not cool enough.

my pops house has fiber and thing is SUPER fast!!

 

I now have fiber! Biggest thing for me for changing was the upload. DSL is restricted thanks to government bs and I have to send files every day, all day to customers.

Speed test through wi-fi fiber:
93.3 Mbps down
85.4 Mbps up

Speed test through wi-fi DSL:
3.5 Mbps down
.62 Mbps up

 

Wow thats quite the improvement

I have cable still but its 150mbps...which is decent. I can download p2p files as fast as 10mb/sec.

Unfortunately despite being in a big city not all areas have fiber access. They are still laying out the infrastructure for it. 150mbps is plenty though...granted I wish it wasnt $90/month. But to next lower tier is 50mbps for $75....so not really saving a ton but losing some bandwidth.

Vinyl came in.

Not sure if any of you are amazon prime members but I am and hate when I want something "same day" but need to get to $35...and my cart is at $33...where are my $5 and under prime items?

Plan tomorrow is to do oil change on GF's elantra. Restore headlights on elantra and miata. Pull Foglights on miata to restore them as well as vinyl wrap them yellow. Maybe vinyl wrap the windshield frame.

If I have the energy/time I'll pull and vinyl the civic fogs as well.

Hopefully watch Thor sometime this Saturday.

 

$5 Prime items are fake news. I've not seen any.

I pay $45-50 (I can't recall exactly) for my 100+ mb/s.

Not fiber, just quick for cable.

 

oh yah i'm a prime member and know wat ure talking about. plus their local amazon delivery sucks so bad they deliver like after 8pm and leave it on my driveway..so it's like next day i find it. same day should be before 3pm on the porch!

plus some of them place it in odd spots around the house!! like a faking treasure hunt.

 

My only choice before today was DSL through Windstream. Fastest offered was 6 Mbps for $50/mo +++ came to like $65/mo. Rarely actually got 6. Was closer to 3 and that's only download. Up was never over .65.

My two new added choices as of today through my power company are:
$70 for 1 Gbps up/down
$50 for 100 Mbps up/down

The 100 is such a leap forward for me that I didn't sign up for the 1 Gbps. May upgrade in the future.

The service light on the new modem finally stopped blinking. My speed is now testing at:
96.43 down
96.22 up

I'm a happy customer!

 

UPS often drops my packages at my roll up garage door on the side of the house. I'll get a notice that package delivered and then start the hunt. Front porch...nope. Mailbox...nope. Side of house....yup. Guess they don't see that the car I drive is parked in the driveway next to the front steps. We don't go in and out of the garage door. Garage just holds toys these days.

 

yah, kinda like that. in my case why would amazon delivery put my package on the driveway though. its like visible from the street screaming 'free to new home!' so stupid.

 

alright, my kid swapped the air filter on the GK and swapped 2 of the 4 wheels to snows.

but while teaching and helping my kid install one of the wheels i pulled my back. fak held the wheel at a weird angle and..

 

Ken I hope your back eases up for you soon. As a long time bad back sufferer I'll tell you to take care of your back. Let Jr do all the wheel changes. Supervised of course.

 

thanks. yah, its funny i never hurt my back while carrying heavy things.. only when i least expect it..

he did well for this first time. i checked his work afterwards and retorqued all the lugs to be sure. will do another retorque after my wife takes it out for a quick errand close by..

errrr... back is killing..