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I am not a robot. I am a clock.

  • Yeah that's definitely not engine oil.

  • The red box post is where it's supposed to be.

    It's getting dark right now and my camera sucks, so no more photos, at least not today.

  • I'm already 2 pages deep with 0 sanity left. Note this site for your own references, and of course backtrack to their home page..

    https://charm.li/GMC/1996/

  • And that's the mystery of the day, where do pour oil?

  • Yes, that's exactly where it should be, but we've been investigating this thing for about a half hour now. We simply can't find it, and the one half obvious thing top side is for power steering fluid, not engine oil..

    It's getting dark right now here, no more investigating tonight.

    The video link I found seems to be the same exact engine though.. 🤷

  • Can't find. Should be obvious right? But we can't even find it ☹️

  • That's power steering fluid..

  • There's not even a glovebox, that was cut out and replaced with duct tape. It's a wonder the title was still around.

    Previous owner deceased, and the truck runs and all, but it's a headache..

  • LOL, you'd like to think I'd leave it that easy..

  • Oh, and of course they won't let us view the security cameras, that's reserved for the main office in Gulfport MS, supposedly..

    Like fuck, I used to work on security camera systems, it's not exactly rocket science to rewind to whatever day and time over the past month to review the footage, locally..

  • Fire department declared.. "No Cause Obvious"

    Police are being douchebags about it and they don't seem to give a flying fuck ☹️

  • No, wrong vehicle. 96 GMC Sonoma now.

    Check my profile and recent comment/post history, I have nothing to hide.

  • You wouldn't want the truck anyways, quit looking. It's a piece of shit. It's a free piece of shit, but at least it runs..

  • I know, your username is all the shit you need to smear.

    Carry on Mr. Mayor! 💩

  • This sounds like useful advice, thank you 👍

    'So yesterday, my penis fell off as I approached a volcano of boiling uranium and mercury, in Minecraft'

  • Just chiming in to say I read your detailed comment here, thanks for the response, so you don't have to copy/paste/parrot the same response to my lengthy comment I left you..

  • I'm glad your surgery worked out for you, that's awesome 👍

    May I ask, similar to the other commenter, like what type of surgery did you have and how's the anesthesia part work out, are you conscious or fully knocked out for it? What was the recovery time like and what's the risks of something going wrong?

    You can pause right here if you care to comment on my questions, beyond this point is a TL;DR of my own experiences, read further if you want..

    I originally got glasses at age 8, in 1990. In the past, I have had issues with glasses not sitting comfortably on my face, but I've also come to respect glasses not only for focus, but also as eye protection.

    For the past couple years though, I've been wearing stupid thick bifocals that were donated to me by an old fella, that happen to be a perfect match for my vision, but they were made around 1988, so yeah coke bottle glasses. My left lens is ~7mm thick at the thickest spot, the right lens is ~9mm thick, so yeah they're a bit heavy, but crystal clear.

    What I've come to learn about such heavy glasses on my face, is that when I got them as a donation made in 1988, is that initially they gave me headaches. Not from the lenses though, but from the earpieces, they needed to be bent to match my skull shape over and behind my ears. They also needed new earpiece tips as well, the originals were totally dryrotted and crumbling apart.

    So, I spent like 3 hours per side, carefully bending and readjusting both earpieces very carefully, to fit properly over and behind my ears, and to conform comfortably to the shape of my skull. Then I replaced the earpiece tips with a few layers of heatshrink/Thermalfit out of my electronics kit, and covered those buffer layers with proper silicone replacement earpiece tips.

    I was extremely careful to match up the ends of the earpiece tips to my skull, as that's not only where they caused headaches, but also why they kept slipping down my nose. So as I fit them to my skull and ears, I curled the earpiece tips in much further than you usually see glasses generically made. I adjusted these things to fit me perfectly, no more headaches, no more nose slippage, and crystal clear vision.

    Somehow they survive me working on vehicles and such, and still don't have a single friggin scratch! I guess they just made stuff to actually last back in 1988, they just needed basically minor maintenance and major skull/ear fitting. It's not about style for me anymore, it's about what just works.

    If you've made it this far, I'm always glad to share stories of people's journeys towards better vision and learn along the way...

    Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk