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kleinbl00  ·  3715 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 1, 2014

Francesca is a kick in the pants. The new fuel map gets over 150 miles to the tank, which is spectacular, because my daily commute is now 34 miles one way and it sucks hitting the gas station every.damn.day. I have replaced the tygon reservoir lines with EPDM, which means they are no longer sweating brake fluid, but my $20 "lie-zoma" brake reservoirs that I bought from China to save $250 on the real thing are steadily turning into cottage cheese because surprise! Chinese scammers don't use brake-fluid-proof plastic in their products. So that's a drag.

I switched from AT&T to T-mobile last week so my iMessages aren't working, but that's okay because I switched from an iPhone 4S in Otterbox to a Oneplus One in leather about an hour ago. The new iPhone is stupid large, there are none smaller, so fukkit we'll go large. And T-mobile was willing to sell me a 6plus for $40 a month... which I checked the same day that Nissan offered to lease me a Versa for $59 a month, thereby putting "phone" and "FUCKING CAR" in the same budget category and banishing all thoughts of crazy-fucking-expensive phones from my life forever. Because you know what? A fucking phone shouldn't cost more than a goddamn Mac Mini. And you know what else? After two years, the iPhone 6plus and the lease on the Versa will both be worth exactly $0 so fuck that shit.

And I switched my phone, and I'm switching out my wallet, and I'm switching out my keys, and I wondered why the fuck I feel the need to fuck with every single one of my accessories all of a sudden and then I realized I'm turning fucking 40 in three weeks.

So. Earning that weather station one day at a time, I guess.

40 is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age.

- Voltaire





_refugee_  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wasn't very responsive yesterday, but that was a picture of "my bar" that I sent. My friend and I decided to go drinking directly after I got off work. I've decided pretty firmly to never do that again. It ensures that you get literally nothing done for the rest of the day - unless you opt to have, like, two beers, I guess.

kleinbl00  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yup. I figured. And yeah - it fries you pretty good.

ironpotato  ·  3715 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love Voltaire

coffeesp00ns  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    but my $20 "lie-zoma" brake reservoirs that I bought from China to save $250 on the real thing are steadily turning into cottage cheese because surprise! Chinese scammers don't use brake-fluid-proof plastic in their products. So that's a drag.

KB, why would you do this to yourself? There are some things you should not cheap out on, and the things that are between you and the ground (Beds, shoes, and motorcycles for example) are some of those things.

kleinbl00  ·  3714 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be fair, the brake fluid reservoirs are not critical components. They're not under pressure, they just provide extra fluid in the event of a leak, which are extremely uncommon.

Unless you buy Chinese reservoirs.