Friday, May 30, 2025

Help Me If You Can

 I have an auto repair question. Maybe you guys can help.

My daughter has a 2015 ford escape. When she starts it, it runs normal with no unauthorized noises.

Put it in reverse, same thing no problem. Neutral is good. 

But when it goes into drive it has a grumbling rumbling sound. I stood outside and listened to it, but it does not sound like the noise is coming from the transmission area. It's a sideways motor, trans is on driver side.

Couldn't tell for sure where the noise is coming from, except when I'm in the driver seat and put it in drive, it sounds to me like it's coming from directly under the gear shift.

If you have any good info please put it in the comments or email me at fredhorn37@ gmail.com

Thanks a bunch.

Gettin Hot Here, Boss

 My grandson called me a few minutes ago. He was on his way home from work.

It's getting hot here, gonna be 100+ here in a bit. The warehouse he works in he said had to be over a 100 already. He said they had started to bring in some big fans to help out.

Then he said there were ceiling fans installed at the ceiling. The brand name is Big Ass Fans. He said the blades were 20 feet long or so.

I said bs and looked them up. Get a load of this:  Big Ass HVLS Fan, Basic 6 24 ft. Ceiling Fan - 1.5 kW, F-PF62-2402S34S65X2

That sucker has 24 foot blades. Per side. $6000+ for that puppy.

Holy smokes can you imagine the boom lift going up that high to install that thing?

Damnation.



Friday Memes

 





Monday, May 26, 2025

I Agree Whole Heartedly

 I worked on boilers for 15 years, and then in the boiler water treatment industry for 30 years. And in that time I came to the conclusion that 99.9% of my customers should not be allowed to operate boilers. Or themselves or a car for that matter.



Thursday, May 22, 2025

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Saturday Memes

 





Ho Lee Shit

 I borrowed this from Bacon Time


If these blints won the whole shebang I'd hate to see who was the dumbest.

These two are the future of the blm movement.

Click on the tweet and watch it. Don't be eating or drinking anything. You're mouth is gonna be hangin open. 

Thursday, May 15, 2025

To Expand on My Previous Post, Here is This

 

Former fbi director comey wants to 86 47.

 Trump administration officials say Secret Service is investigating Comey's '86 47' social media post

Did you know former fbi director james comey is now a crime fiction writer? I did not know, nor do I give a shit.

At the bottome of the article it says this: He is now a crime fiction writer and is promoting his latest book, “FDR Drive,” which is being released on Tuesday.

Which is being released on Tuesday. Now his social media post begins to make sense. He needs to increase sales so he gins up some shit on social media and wham bam thank you maam he's got all the free advertising you can wish for.




Good Morning

 




Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Have Some Jokes

 I borrowed these jokes from Wired Right.

I was on the subway, sitting on a newspaper, and a guy comes over and asks ‘Are you reading that?'

I didn’t know what to say. So I said yes. I stood up, turned the page, and sat down again.

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At a local coffee bar, a young woman was expounding on her idea of the perfect mate to some of her friends.

"The man I marry must be a shining light amongst company. He must be musical. Tell jokes. Sing. Entertain. And stay home at night!"

An old granny overheard and spoke up, "Girl, if that's all you want, get a TV!"

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Children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, "Take only one, God is watching." At the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. Moving through the line a boy wrote another note to leave by the cookies, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples."

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A woman calls her boss one morning and tells him that she is staying home because she is not feeling well.

What's the matter?" he asks.

"I have a case of anal glaucoma," she says in a weak voice.

He says,"What the hell is anal glaucoma?"

She replies,"I can't see my ass coming into work today."

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Mother decided that 10-year-old Cathy should get something 'practical' for her birthday.

"Suppose we open a savings account for you?" mother suggested. Cathy was delighted.

"It's your account, Darling," mother said as they arrived at the bank, "so you fill out the application."

Cathy was doing fine until she came to the space for 'Name of your former bank.' After a slight hesitation, she put down, 'Piggy.'

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Morning Memes

 











Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Refrigerator Problems

 A little over a week ago I noticed my fridge was at 60°F, but the freezer was at normal temp. (I had a bunch of frozen water bottles in there.)I just figured I left the door open too long. 

I bought these thermometers a few years back: Fridge Thermometer


That was in the afternoon on friday. I could hear the fans running. Then about 3 am saturday morning I'm up to pee, again, and I hear the fridge fans running. Kind of odd I thought. So I opened the fridge door and the thermometer still said 60°F. I checked the freezer and the thermometer in there said 60°F.

Well, you can just imagine how blue the air turned about then. To say I was angrified would be an understatement. Obviously everything was toast. And I was up anyway so I started throwing unfrozen stuff away. And a bunch of crap in the fridge went away. But things like pickles I kept.

Anyway I've been using the fridge in the garage for now. Today I finally decided to see what's wrong. Plugged it in and I hear fans running but no compressor. So I dig out my multimeter and check voltage at the compressor, it was good. The start relay and capacitor are right there on the side of the compressor so I pulled them off and called my local appliance parts place I buy from. $199 for the start relay only, capacitor extra. 

I went online to a couple places and found the lowest price at a place called Part Select. $166 for both parts including tax and shipping. Hopefully be here by Friday.

I was trying to make small talk with the lady, hoping to get a sympathy pricing discount. Didn't work. 

And they had a video about replacing the parts:

And My Patient Still Doesn't Have Their Meds...

 Killing Patients! American Doctor doesn’t know what else to do…

I detest insurance, of all kinds. If I could go back in time to kill the first person to come up with this bullshit I would do exactly that.

The lady doctor in the video is tired of dealing with it and I can't disagree with her. When she says the part about you can't see your doctor, I have to stop and think. She is right, I can't see my doctor without waiting 6 to 8 weeks for a damn appointment. But I can see his nurse practitioner or physician's assistant the very same day I call in most cases.

And home insurance? What a joke. My daughter fought for over a year to get state farm to pay up for her patio cover that got damaged in a major storm. And then they only paid up about 10% of the cost to get replaced. And then the stupid insurance company told her to just get a handyman to do the work at reduced cost from what a professional contractor would charge.

And my own home insurance keeps going up every damn year, just went up about 20% for this year.

And yesterday I got a notice my pickup truck insurance went up. Where I live it's a goddamn LAW I gotta have auto insurance.

I tell you what I got your damn insurance hangin. Between my legs. And up yours. BFYTW.

What's Up Bro??

 

Good Morning