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nighthawk285

Discussion Starter · Jul 20, 2016

Alright, since nobody else has done it yet, I guess it's up to me to start this one. That way we can get back to "on topic" in the "what did you do" thread :lol: No topics in particular required.........if it doesn't take off I'll kill it, otherwise I figure it may help wrangle in a couple of the other threads. Up to you guys though.

So there's the awkward start haha.....

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G8orFord

· #18 · Jul 20, 2016

FOMO post and not 6.0 related.

I just ran down a parasitic draw on my '07 Expedition. It was the subwoofer/amp circuit and the third fuse I pulled. :woot:
My lazy azz has been screwing around for the past month or two just sticking a 2 amp charger on it overnight instead of taking 15 minutes to find it. Of course, it could have taken a lot longer and it's still not truly fixed. I'm not even sure at this point where the amp is or what it's going to take to get to it. Even then, will it be the amp itself or will I have to chase a harness. For now, my "still lazy" azz is just going to leave the fuse out.

#chatthreadmembersince13:30_072016

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G8orFord

· #20 · Jul 20, 2016

nighthawk285 said:
Did you really just hashtag that post? smdh lol.....

You noticed.

LOL, I thought it would probably get someone's attention. I didn't really have anything to add to the current line of discussion, so I thought it might get a :hehe: or a :doh:. Turns out maybe it will be more of a

ointlaugh:

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G8orFord

· #22 · Jul 20, 2016

nighthawk285 said:
You had to have known going into it that it would have been a ointlaugh: lol

Yeah, but I figured it would be @Heavy_GD leading the bashing.

unish2:

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G8orFord

· #139 · Jul 21, 2016

Scooter99 said:
G8or, is that an oem amp/sub or aftermarket? Wondering how it qould draw any power if it wasn't on. Oem I guess I could see. But aftermarket is power/ground/remote wire and the remote wire is the only thing that should have any signal to tell the amp to turn on.

Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk

11 pages, 6 hours and well over 100 posts later...
Yeah, it's OEM.

I guess folks are taking to the new thread pretty well. At least the CCR guys anyway.

G8orFord

· #396 · Jul 25, 2016

3054tony said:
If I could make it to 2mpg I would be happy hnoes:

You just can't please some people. I mean really, you're asking to almost triple your MPG. That's just unrealistic. :look:

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G8orFord

· #450 · Jul 26, 2016

waggonerj said:
A stoplight!? Now that's fancy, we didn't (and still don't) have any of those! :hehe:

Does a caution light count?

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G8orFord

· #469 · Jul 26, 2016

junior125 said:
the caution light is probably only there to let snow plow drivers know where the center of the road is

Maybe the mosquito sprayer truck drivers. :dunno:

If I saw a plow truck on the road here, I'd think the Apocalypse had come and Mel Gibson was driving some kind of war wagon. :hehe:

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G8orFord

· #472 · Jul 26, 2016

thebierguy said:
@G8orFord, I see you did another oil cooler back flush huh? What made you do that?

Just PM, I had some time to kill and I was planning on a little pull up into Alabama. I wanted to check and clean my IPR filter anyway, so I just decided to drop the all of the coolant and do a flush. I really should get some valves for the filter. I did get a little more crud out of the block drains. Can't say for sure if it came from the cooler or was just in the block. Wasn't very much, there may have been a 1/2 teaspoon full in the bottom of the bucket, but probably not even that much. It didn't really affect my deltas much though. They've been running 8-9° in the heat of the summer and are still pretty much holding there.

G8orFord

· #537 · Jul 27, 2016 (Edited)

kafleming19 said:
Ok if I ever build a building with a flat roof I would so do this!!!!
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Going with your theme. This is a marina and dry storage I drive by every day going to work. I have done surveying on it and the surrounding development for the last 20+ years. They hired Wyland to paint it when it was first built and I think he did a pretty good job.

He just recently came back to repaint the whole wall mural and update the roof mural due to some additional storage that had been added.

This is one of my crew guys taking some measurements on top of the building for the proofing required by the Guinness World record folks.

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G8orFord

· #620 · Jul 29, 2016

Smoking pole? :dunno:

I must be out of touch. Seems like they come up with something new everyday.

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G8orFord

· #683 · Aug 1, 2016

portcity_gt said:
They carry a few diseases, rabies typically isn't one.....this particular one was eating our cats food when it met it's demise.....worthless a$s cat was just watching it eat.

Surely some of them Cajuns over that way can figure out a way to make that into a meal.

BTW, are you sure it's dead? Them things can be sneaky. The term "playing possum" didn't happen by accident. :hehe:

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G8orFord

· #688 · Aug 1, 2016

portcity_gt said:
Yeah people eat them.....one thing to remember if you visit south Louisiana you will eat the best food you have ever had.....just don't ask what it is!

And pretty sure it was dead lol

Yep, I know 'dats rite. I'm not above driving to Slidell just to eat some good ettoufe. We've got a friend that comes over here to our mud races and almost always feeds everyone that will have it in the pits. He runs a meat processing business so we get sine of everything. Always good. Leblanc's Processing - Game Meat Processing, Alligator Processing, Crawfish Wholesale

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G8orFord

· #724 · Aug 2, 2016

I've never considered being rich and being wealthy to be the same thing. I'll never be wealthy, nor do I really want to be, but I'm rich because I've got the things I need and great people to live my life with. Corny, I know, but I really believe it. My parents were the same way. I am blessed.

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G8orFord

· #767 · Aug 3, 2016

nighthawk285 said:
Maybe.......left or right, something has to happen. The universe likes balance......we'll drift back the other way eventually, and if we push too hard and swing hard right, I'm sure we right wing folks are going to screw some things up just as hard too....but that doesn't mean that we ONLY whine about it on the interwebs. Unfortunately, present company excluded, that's what A LOT of people do, and IMO a major part of the problem.....all talk no action (again, present company excluded in these generalizations)

Freedom takes effort
It took effort and sacrifice to break off from England
It took effort to bring us out of the Civil War the first time
It took effort to bring us out of the Great Depression
It took effort to bring the races together back in the 60s/70s

Now it seems everybody wants something for nothing, and in a society with a populous as such and minimal effort put forth
Freedoms are condemned
The powerful will take advantage of the weak
Unity turns to division
The now smaller group of folks who WILL put forth that effort will be easier to strike down (either politically, or actually)
Taxation without representation starts coming back (who's going to act out against it anyways)

My first question to ANYBODY who comes to me or into my house and starts b!t$hing about politics is "did you vote?". If they say no, they don't get the right to [email protected] about it in my house. If you're not going to be part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Fight for what you believe in, make your voice heard in a manner that it counts (revolt, vote, protest) and things will change. LOL great, now you got me wound up in it :lol:.

Without effort the world (well, society) will end, but until then it's going to keep spinning, so get others together and try to inspire them to get off their azzes and do something about it....that's the only way we win.

I agree with most of what you wrote here, but there is one big difference between the Revolution, the War of Northern Aggression, the Depression and even the race problems of the 60s and 70s. The moral fabric of the country has almost completely evaporated and the liberal movement is much larger than it has ever been in U.S. history. When nearly half of the population is dependent on the government and the other half of the population for their existence there is a major meltdown coming. Either the dependent half is going to have to step up or the productive half is going to join them and the whole thing blows apart. We conservatives have given in, went to work, hoped our representatives would watch our back, etc. to the point that we've all but given away most of what made this country great. Self responsibility, work ethic, common sense, morals, the Bible, prayer in schools, etc. It's our conservatuve nature to give in and compromise to keep the peace and try to make everyone happy. That gene is not available in the liberal mind. If you give them an inch, they smile and take a mile. Say what you want about the Christian faith, any of the variations and denominations, but you cannot argue that the morals and teachings are exactly what is needed to right our ship and keep our Country on the path it started.

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G8orFord

· #781 · Aug 3, 2016

nighthawk285 said:
Right, so how do we get the moral fiber as you call it built back up? Effort. IMO saying that "it doesn't work/won't work because it doesn't work in their brain" (paraphrasing) and then not trying, or "giving in" as you say is the easy way out and again requires minimal effort. Don't want then to take a mile? Then smash on their damn toes and hold them to the inch that you gave....no its not ready, and people get butt hurt in the process. It is NOT in my nature (and I consider myself a hard conservative) to give in. Yes it will take compromise, on each side....but I won't let others take advantage of me.

Time for a beer, an oil change, and to unwrap my 4 link.....

Maybe I wasn't clear or didn't take it far enough. I was commenting on where we are now and why we got here. I was in no way saying that we should give up or give in, but the proof of conservatives giving in and allowing the liberals to get their way is pretty obvious to me. I'm not saying all conservatives are weak or don't stand up for themselves. Quite the contrary, but as a whole, we have slipped up on standing firm.

Right, so how do we get the moral fiber as you call it built back up? Effort.

100% agree.

Don't want then to take a mile? Then smash on their damn toes and hold them to the inch that you gave....no its not ready, and people get butt hurt in the process.

100% agree. I only wish this was the case for the last 100 years or so.

It is NOT in my nature (and I consider myself a hard conservative) to give in. Yes it will take compromise, on each side....but I won't let others take advantage of me.

Are you my brother from another mother?

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G8orFord

· #907 · Aug 7, 2016

anschutz1913 said:
Yup, I save every step. I learned that from my days of using AutoCAD. Lost 3 hours of work one time, I was jacked!

You did know that Autocad has an autosave feature. It usually defaults to 20 minutes unless someone changed it.

G8orFord

· #910 · Aug 7, 2016

IIRC, @anschutz1913 is a relatively young chap, so I assumed he had used a relatively recent version. I've been using AutoCAD since the late '80s. I'm not sure which version I started with, but the first version I specifically remember was Ver.9. and I've used most every version since then. I also do not remember exactly in which version the autosave function was added, but it's been there for quite a while. I don't think it was originally enabled on the install, but I believe it has been in the last several versions.

To put it another way, I think my first Acad install was from two (?) 5-1/4" floppy disks on a 12mhz 286 PC with 640K of RAM. My last one was a 30 gigabyte download on a 3.6 ghz 8 core processor with 16 gigabytes of RAM, 8mb of cache and 4 gigabytes of video memory.

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G8orFord

· #926 · Aug 7, 2016

anschutz1913 said:
The version I started on was 2005 which didn't have the autosave, just became habit after that even though the autosave feature was added.

Pretty sure it goes back to at least the 2004 version, but I'm not going to argue about it. I was just giving you crap to start with, didn't mean to start a discussion about it.

anschutz1913 said:
Well you certainly have me beat in terms of how long you've been using it and how old of a version. I'm 27 and I've been using it since 2007. I started in Version 2005 and used that for quite a while, that's where I cut my teeth. IIRC they had a significant UI update as well as added a ton of new features in the 2006 edition, including autosave.

LOL, makes me feel older than I already do. I've been using it since before you were born. Damn!

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G8orFord

· #927 · Aug 7, 2016

@portcity_gt saw this on FB and thought of you.

You meanie! LOL
:hehe:

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G8orFord

· #937 · Aug 7, 2016

nitrogen said:
You know if you two are just gonna yack about Autocad maybe you need to."get a room" ;-)

Oops, did we get off topic in the "chat" thread? :look:

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