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Insurance suggested I add flood damage. I replied I am 200m above sea level. If my house floods it would be the end of days.Truck insurance went up 41%...it's 14 years old. Effing EVs.
Insurance suggested I add flood damage. I replied I am 200m above sea level. If my house floods it would be the end of days.Truck insurance went up 41%...it's 14 years old. Effing EVs.
Time to raise pet rocksTwo weeks ago I was sitting and thinking how there's nothing I want to buy. Well not in my price range. There used to always be something on my list, but it's been empty for a few months. And I haven't been able to come up with anything to add to it. I thought I had procured everything in my budget I wanted.
I was on YT and in my video suggestion was a sim racing setup. I watched it, and it got me watching more videos and Googling. And I went deep down that rabit hole. And now I have a new "hobby" not surprisingly can get pretty pricey if you do it even half right. I've never even owned a wheel controller, but now I need a whole setup with the cockpit and all this other shit I didn't even know existed before last week. Fanatec sell's an actual steering wheel from a BMW M4 GT3. I can't pretend race people online using a Logitech or whatever wheel. And you can't F1 sim with a regular steering wheel. If you're gonna pretend you gotta go all the way in. There's also authentic Mcclarean wheels, which are a bargin at $1100 compared to $1500 for the BMW one. Although, I don't think my woman will find either to be a particularly "good deal" And I don't think she'll support my new passion of becoming a world class online race car driver.
When I show her the list of what I'm planning to buy, she's either going to strangle me, or castrate me. The ironic part is 2 months ago, on a sure of the momeht thing, I bought 7 pairs of BMW M4, Mercedes AMG-Petronas F1 and Ferrari Scuderia driving shoes and a bunch of outfits from Puma. Because they looked cool as shit. She was not happy about that (at all lol) Well she was happy that I had some nice looking new clothes, but was upset for some reason that I ordered 27 things. Can't say I blame her I guess.
This is a 1stworldproblem because if I lived in a 3rd world country, there's no way I could do anything but dream about a full sim rig. I'm sure in a 3rd world country a $25 Logitech wheel from 1998 would be GOAT status. But God bless America, I can pretend race people around the world in a racing rig fit for a king - VROOM VROOM!
But seriously, holy shit the sim racing scene is mind blowing, some of the setups I'm seeing are fucking nuts. And these simgeeks take this shit serious like it's real life racing.
Why can I never discover a hobby that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
Did you let your mouse taste the packaging? Might be shit food. Recycled depends or something.Batteries from the Dollar Tree are terrible, 8 AAs for $1.25 I don't expect Duracell Optimum quality, but even for $1.25 these are still bad. My mouse should have around 4 months of battery life with how I use it. I get a week with 1 of these if I'm lucky. And they have the nerve to put "super heavy duty" on the package.
err, did you buy alkaline or zinc-carbon?Batteries from the Dollar Tree are terrible, 8 AAs for $1.25 I don't expect Duracell Optimum quality, but even for $1.25 these are still bad. My mouse should have around 4 months of battery life with how I use it. I get a week with 1 of these if I'm lucky. And they have the nerve to put "super heavy duty" on the package.
Yeah, learned, after 30 years, collect all my policies and shop them every time the rate goes up. eff state farm, those cunts, after the same 30 years. But the new costs have skyrocketed after covid. I don't blame insurance companies but I sure don't like it. Company truck went from $1230 to $1730 this year, 14 yo. Shopped saved me $50, not. Per another thread, new average vehicle cost is $48K. Insurance companies aren't going to lose $. state farm told most of cali to suck it, iirc.switching insurance company is going to save me 1630 bux... why didn't I do this sooner?
err, did you buy alkaline or zinc-carbon?
It's called the ring of power.My wife insists on going to home improvement stores to look at things while I like to look online first, narrow down what she wants then decide if it is worth my time to go to the store.
It's her reno, why am I looking at bathroom hardware?
My cat keeps jumping on my desk, where my mouse is, and there's just not much room so he often ends up banging into my $500+ monitor. This time, he kind of missed, and took out my hand. Owe. Mouse pad has a bunch of gashes in it too.
I really need to figure out a way to stop him from doing that.
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My sling wall by my front door is getting a bit crowded. Which one do I grab? First-world problem. May have to add another hook. Actually what I should do is sell a few
Every sling there has the following basic carry stuff in it at all times: 10,000mAh battery pack, cable, eye drops, sunglasses case, reading glasses, spare set of one day contact lenses, glasses cleaning cloth. So I don't have to think about the basics when I grab. The couple bigger bags have a few more things in them at all times too. If it's warm weather i have some face stick sunscreen for my tattoos in each bag.
Depending upon what size bag I need, and what style for what I'm wearing, I just grab what I need, add whatever I need for that trip, usually earbuds, maybe a microfiber cloth, a hat or packable rain jacket, or umbrella, or whatever it is, and go hit the train or the bus or just walk. I can do a simple overnight trip with the one bag that is 10L big.
Two helmets depending on the weather mostly. The best u-lock in the business, the Hiplok D1000, the first real anti angle grinder lock in the business - would take a bunch of angle grinder discs, battery charges, and time to get through it, tests show it works. Way more angle grinder gear than the vast majority of thieves have with them. It's a graphene/metal blend. Heavy but it's actual peace of mind.
This is mostly true🙂 but I had just posted that photo in my online forum of bag nerds, and posed it as more of a first world problem, So there was a little bit of that there too