1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Stay in Portland proper while you are there...if you spend anytime in the surrounding country side you will hate every minute you are back east!

Do not go to Hood River/ MT. Hood/Ecola State Park...to name a few...

 

@Darkness I Own and have used the Hobart 140 with gas for the last three years. It is AWESOME for 1/4” and less. Double pass on the 1/4” for structural but otherwise you are throwing down dimes every time. The MillerMatic is definitely a more versatile machine for twice the price and if you can afford it go MillerMatic. A chicken in every pot and a Hobart 140 in every garage.

 

Aaaand this happened today. Its hemorrhaging oil from somewhere. Gotta love 29 year old cars!

 

FIFY

 

I’m pretty sure in the state of Indiana there are less than 3 of those still running.

 

Did anyone else quarantine their tundra this weekend?

 

I wouldn't doubt it. I somehow managed to find the one for sale here. My other 91 is from Indianapolis, and my 92 is from Cali. Every one for sale on FB is either on the E or W coast. I dont need another, but I need another. Like pokemon, I gotta collect em all!

 

Kinda like Toyota trucks and SUVs. I want so many. I'd like a gen1 taco, gen 1 4r, gen2 4r 2 door with a 5vz swap or gen3 4r, gen4 4r v8, gen1 tundra dc, gen2 tundra 5.7, gen2 taco xrunner, t100 5vz, Land cruiser with I6 supercharged, gx470, fj40, gen1 Sequoia, pre-taco with a 2jz swap, pre-taco with a 1uz swap, and
of course my current tundra. Lol

 

Starting on my first cup of Dark Italian Roast. This Virus thing really is messing up the entire business world. Do you guys think the Virus is manmade or from eating batmeat in the Wuhan?

 

finishing my first cup about to start on my 2nd!

For the virus, I don't buy the bat meat story but outside of that not sure. China is very secretive and if it wasn't for the Wuhan Dr. coming out, not sure we would even know what was going on right now!

 

I read that doctor was Arkancided, a young man who supposed died from the virus while treating some afflicted elderly. Not sure if true or not.

I remember the Swine Flu in 2009-10. I was slated to be in Mexico at the time and in the supposed ‘epicenter’ of the contagion. Ended up detouring the area due to blocked flights and going into a Centro American country.

Came back to that Mexican area 2 months later and all the locals were saying nobody got sick there. They were wondering what the heck?

 

When China is deflecting and trying to blame the US then I'm guessing they made it (or stole it from the Canada lab) or they were so complacent early on and don't want the world to see to what extent.
China loses some people when their economy was already slipping and now they can blame the US and the kungflu. That's my take for what it's worth. Oh, and I'm still on cup #1 of French roast.

 

I'm about to brew another pot of coffee using fresh ground Ethiopian Super Natural beans... this coronavirus has revealed just how under prepared for the smallest bump in the road of life most people are. Turn off your TV, drink some coffee, turn on some good music and tinker with your truck, guns and other toys... this soon shall pass.

 

I didn't make my 2nd cup immediately but I did jump outside, painted my stock skid plate because it looked horrendous next to my steel bumper and then I painted the white spots that were exposed from using the steel bumper. I am working on drinking the 2nd cup now though!

I think I got a little impatient on painting the white "wings" as I washed, dried, sanded, cleaned then painted and may have missed some water I'm not trying to make it look new just clean it up a little bit.

For China, yes, I see this being something similar to Chernobyl where something bad happened and they reacted poorly and instead, they are going to cover up/blame someone else.

 

No pics man!?! Come on...

China should know by now that the initial action or reaction can be bad, but the cover-up is always worse. If I could drill one thing into everyone's head at work it is exactly that. You can screw up horribly and admit it. I might be upset, but we will work the problem together. If you hide it or lie about it I will do my best to fix the problem and then expose you.

 

Coffee-

Anybody ever try to mix a very fine espresso roast in hot water like it's hot cocoa? I have this espresso roast I use in my espresso machine and I really think it could be a decent instant coffee if needs must. Oh and it's vac packed in nice space saving bricks!

$23 Cafe La Llave Espresso Dark Roast Coffee, 10 Ounce (Pack of 4)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07NGX56ZV

 

Posted them in the "what have you done today thread..."

Totally agree on let it be known immediately and lets work to resolve it.

 

So it turns out people are f-ing stupid about this virus. I went shopping and knew the TP and hand soap would be out, but a lot of other shit was gone too! Pasta, canned goods, soup, ramens. Other stuff too. But how the f is a bachelor supposed to survive with no ramens?! I'm pretty pissed not at the people, but at their stupidity and sheep-like behavior. This happens every damn time some "super virus" comes out. It always turns out to be nothing. I blame the media for fear mongering. Assholes.

Also I dont drink coffee and I'm a tad hung over so its straight up water for me.

 

Hung over you say? Don't drink coffee you say? I think I found your problem.

 

I'd take my chances at an Orange and White game before I visit an airport to fly.

 

Man, I already got the ADD. I cant add on to that with coffee, and I know what they say about decaf drinkers.

 

On coffee....this is all you need to know... you're welcome....

http://www.costco.com/whole-bean-coffee.html?refine=ads_fbrand_ntk_cs%3A%22Ruta+Maya%22|&dept=All

On Covid-19:

Something does not compute. China, a place with 1.4 billion people living in high density is reporting they are over the worse of the coronavirus pandemic and recovering with only 3200 deaths and yet the rest of the world is being sent into hysteria. Meanwhile, India, a country of 1.2 billion people living in a country less than 1/3 the size of China (that it shares a border with), much more densely populated than China, bad sanitary conditions and they are not even mentioned when coronavirus is discussed.

But they are going to crash the world economy over it? Someone is lying about something...more than likely every side is lying about something. Make no mistake, no matter what China says, TPTB in the US govt know exactly what the situation is over there. This is not 1800...you can't hide something like that from spy satellites that can identify the species of fly on a piece of dog shit.

Either it's much worse than we've been lead to believe at this point, or someone wants economic chaos because the "official" numbers and the official reaction simply do not gel...



https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

 

Man-made.

 

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Either it's much worse than we've been lead to believe at this point, or someone wants economic chaos because the "official" numbers and the official reaction simply do not gel...

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Didn’t click on any of your websites so can’t comment on those. I believe IMO the worst is over in China based on Apple keeping its stores open there and closing them here in USA. The numbers of deaths in China? Who knows? Hoping very light.

I agree on everything being traceable now. No reason to doubt that. I think you are right on about the money changers causing chaos. Too many had their world turned upside down with their China investment strategy being upturned.

When we get through the other side of this virus there will be many questions that need answering. This whole incident has created the environment for the largest reset in US economic history. Looking forward to it.

Guessing we have about 3 weeks till the virus washes through and then we get back to work. Lessons learned on this entire mess.

 

You ripped FB ‘brake boy’ a new one at 1:30am this morning.

 

Yeah that's what I get for drunk spending. I cancelled my flight. I'm not gonna risk getting stuck out there if they decide to ground flights which they are apparently discussing.

 

I didn't mean to. I'm just not a big fan of the FB group.

 

Herd mentality. I’d blame it on millennials, but might come across as been a bitch.

I removed myself from the facebutt madness about 8 years ago once the socialist commie teachings started to blossom into reality in the USA.

FB is basically a place for others to spy on you at this point. It went from, ‘hey lets be FB friends’ a decade ago to ‘let me spy on this bitch and see what they are about’ today. I hear this just from listening to others talk.

 

You can't blame us because it was made for us by us

 

4Runner on call(due to the tundra being in quarantine, she’s doing great by the way!) another world famous leak repair by yours truly. I thought it was going to be asbestos, but it looked like cardboard wrapped around the pipe then sealed in the white encapsulate. Easy money