Found out that my mother was in a head-on with a truck, both doing 50MPH, on a two lane country road in a 90s Dakota, and survived without any injuries.

I don't know how that's possible. Maneur spreader had no lights on the back, and the driver served into the incoming traffic to avoid it.

I was told there was no breaking on their part. Maybe the other truck had a second or two.

How there were no injuries is truly a mystery.

Can anyone vouch for https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv?

This one I'll call "teenager who found the ebrake and wasn't afraid to use it"

Some people may find this triggering.

Sometimes I don't know why I make mistakes like this. I knew it sounded funny. It felt horrible. That terrible sensation every mechanic knows. Undoing it didn't feel much better.

Unfortunately, I will make this mistake again. Sometime my brain doesn't fire until it's too late!

In retrospect, 8nm plus 90 degrees is /aggressive/ for an M6 bolt into aluminum.

Yeah, I'll admit it, I followed a bad aftermarket instruction without confirming it in the service manual. I know M6 is 10nm. Sometimes 9, sometimes 11, but it's in that ball park.

In my head I was like "90 degrees isn't too much" thinking it might be a way to get to 12-14nm. 27nm at 60 degrees was a surprise.

The T8 bolts (Toyota weirdness, ~8.8) stretched but the threads remain. I got away with it. *phew*

Not to hop on the gripe train but I really want to play GTA VI, but I definitely don't want to support media-free gaming on locked down systems. Having all the good music dropped from old GTA games is just awful, but at least it can be patched back in on PC.

I really need to do some soul searching here. I could stick to my guns and not play it until PC. FOMO tho.

YanYan fox.

TIL orcas can't drink sea water. They have weak mammal kidneys that can't process so much salt.

They get their water by eating seals.

That's giving me great ideas for a new sports drink line...

It's sneptember 7th and I haven't seen a single one yet!

I want my money back.

I haven't slept for 3 days straight because that would be too long.

But yeah, there's no explaining it. There's nothing unusual going on. Maybe I'm too boring to sleep.

can 3d print stainless when?

Custom parts are lovely until they fail and need to be remade.

I even had to call someone on the phone today. *shudders*

I have been vibrating about this one for a week now! Super amazing job by @leggy2fast!! Thank you so much, this Janus art is incredible!

What a marathon long weekend. I'm utterly exhausted to my core. But the car is ready for a track inspection.

I will need to change out the break in oil after, and I might not have licked the over boost problem. I certainly haven't reviewed the data logs.

With a little luck, nothing will try to occupy space with other solid matter at the same time. And I will be good to go... remember the next thing I forgot to do.

Okay, I couldn't sleep tonight so I marathoned pulling everything back out, including the bell housing which was the hardest part. Everything hurts, but at least it's moving forward from here.

Somehow I have M10 1.25 EZ locs but not M10 1.25 timeserts (or equiv). Let's see if Amazon can rescue me...

Some days, it do be like that.

Anything clutch related on the 944 means dropping the transaxle in the rear. It's hours and hours, and I just finished installing it.

Only for the last two bolts from the torque tube to the bellhousing to not take 31ftlb.

So I've just added 14-16 hours of work back. Not counting the time needed to install the timecerts.

Oof I need a moment.

my feet are cold and i refuse to generate code until my feet are improved

I've worked with many dozens of folks over my engineering career. Just casually looking through LinkedIn to see where people landed many years later.

The best, most qualified, and talented people I'm aware of did not go into management. Not long term anyway.

The least qualified people I've known became management, even up to the C-suite level in a few cases.

I don't know how to feel about that. I suppose management attracts management.

The first rule of janus club is that you do not call janus.

The second rule of janus club is that you do NOT call janus.