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Okie State

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  1. You do you, but smelling shit in my bathroom at all times would be enough for her to not be my girlfriend anymore.
  2. Well, yeah. Not ideal, but easiest solution at the time. Now I don't really give a shit so I'll just go without. I hate aftermarket wheels so the only real option is CTS-V wheels.
  3. I can't remember if I bitched about this on here before, but I had these 15mm Eibach wheel spacers on my SS because the stock wheels don't have great offsets. These brought them flush and I really liked the look. Fast forward to brake maintenance time and I go to remove them so I can change out the rotors. 5 of the 20 nuts holding them on seized in place and turned to butter as I tried to remove them. Hours of f-bombs and an angle grinder was needed to get them off. I guess I'm back to stock offsets because only one spacer survived. Nothing can ever be easy.
  4. 4 year 50K mile warranty so it's long gone. Nothing broke until about 4.5 years old. As per usual.
  5. Nice. I'd almost bet the AC will fuck up again a few years from now. We had a check engine light for some emissions bullshit, but it was under warranty. Can't remember the exact cause. On top of the AC, our active headlights also stopped working giving an error code everytime we start the car. Both door lock actuators went out on the driver's side. There's some motor mount that is cracked. I also need to do regular maintenance to change all the brakes and battery. All of it added up is just really difficult to justify. 60K miles. Fucking absurd. That was almost a new car when I was a kid. I'd love to just go buy a 4Runner. MPG be damned. Wife will probably want a Highlander which I'm also fine with. I shy away from hybrids after a bad experience with a Lexus RX450h although I don't really know what the cause was for sure.
  6. I think we had talked about them before, but just wanted to chime in and say fuck Volvo. 2018 XC90 with 60K miles. Both front and rear evap cores are cracked. Bullshit by itself, but what is insane is the entire interior needs to be disassembled to replace them at a cost of $6,400. That's from an independent Volvo specialist too. I imagine the dealer is closer to $10K. That along with some other issues and the guy suggested I just dump the car and move on. Coming from a guy who loves Volvos that was surprising to hear. I guess I'll see what I can get for it and push my wife to get a Toyota this time.
  7. Not sure if it's been said, but the house is in Oklahoma. So it sucks.
  8. Not my personal style, but I'm a big fan of personalizing your house however you want to. Fuck the idea that everything needs to be done so some boring couple can buy it from you 10 years from now.
  9. Ha, my Dad installed ours himself and we had no coins. Definitely didn't have a glass backboard though.
  10. Mountain Dew, Hamburglar, Ranch Doritos
  11. Why would anyone pick an 850 credit score in this scenario? That's hilarious if people think that's some kind of flex.
  12. The wind was blowing like crazy yesterday, right? Surely that was a factor with that ridiculous bullshit score.
  13. Ha, fuck no. I'm going to strip it down and see if I can get it flat. If not, I'll have it planed I guess. Doing a huge coffee table for our living room with it.
  14. I need to build some kind of bench with storage for shoes in our mud room. That might be the first project. Also something for toy storage in the kids area upstairs. Plywood boxes with poplar face frames. Maybe some drawers if I get confident. We'll see. I need that track saw before I attempt any of this though.
  15. Nice. I've never built any cabinets, but may try to in some of our closets for practice. I watched the guy build ours for the kitchen and he made it look easy, but I'm sure it takes a while to learn the tricks.
  16. Long overdue project nearly finished. My original design for the island had these legs and skirting. I messed up and let the first walnut top I ordered sit unfinished for too long and it cupped. Just got this new one so I could finally finish all the details. It's a mix of poplar and soft maple so I'll be painting it. In hindsight I would have done it in walnut or white oak. Oh well, glad to be on the last few steps of this one.
  17. On the early calls topic, my office phone is forwarded to my cell phone for when I work remotely. I don't get a lot of calls so usually not a problem. Occasionally one particular person calls me at 6:30 AM. It's never urgent and I never answer. I'm always up around 5:30 AM so it's not waking me up, but why would anyone ever call anybody at that hour unless it was a medical emergency?
  18. That's right. I was at the game I think. Everything 10 years ago or older blends together into one blur.
  19. Was that during the KSU Kirk Herbstreit game?
  20. I was in my office on the 12th floor when one hit in Oklahoma years ago. It was a surreal experience that I'm okay with never experiencing again.
  21. 77450. Houston 'burbs. Lots of roof replacements lately and also all of what has already been said regarding weather risk and skyrocketing rebuild costs.
  22. Looks like ours went down in Harris County. I'll take it.
  23. Rates are absurd in my neighborhood and from what I've been told it's just going to get worse. I don't see how any of this is sustainable.
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