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Old Dec 30, 2023 | 10:06 PM
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It was completely full, right out of the box. I wonder why we don't have Motorcraft AGM batteries. Maybe they make them, but I've never seen one.




 
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Old Dec 31, 2023 | 08:01 PM
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Happy early new year all! I am not staying up all night to wait for it, although, I am sure I will be awakened by all the illegal fireworks and gunshots anyway...

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Old Dec 31, 2023 | 10:59 PM
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Happy early new year all! I am not staying up all night to wait for it, although, I am sure I will be awakened by all the illegal fireworks and gunshots anyway...

Jim
Stay safe Jim, fools will be foolish.

Happy New Years NorCal FTE!
 
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Old Jan 1, 2024 | 10:28 AM
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Happy New Year gang. Best wishes for 2024!

We managed to make it to midnight. Barely. We kissed good night/Happy ew Year, and promptly crashed into sleep.
 
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Old Jan 1, 2024 | 11:39 AM
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I survived! Woke up at 12:05am due to loud bangs but went back to sleep until 4am. by that time it was all quiet.
Tomorrow the repair shop said they will start working on my truck. I will go down and encourage them to start.

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Old Jan 1, 2024 | 01:28 PM
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Happy New Year NorCal

My wife and I stay up until maybe 0130, partied at home!
 
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Old Jan 1, 2024 | 04:20 PM
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Fast food workers will now make more than health care workers. You have to love the priority placed on fast food.



 
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Old Jan 2, 2024 | 02:40 PM
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No reason to go to college to be a health care provider when you can work at Micky D's for more money! Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me.

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Old Jan 3, 2024 | 01:48 PM
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Going to ask my caregiver if she has any plans to switch jobs and go work at Mc Donald's. If they would hire me I would work there. Got to pay more than SSDI. Have no clue what I would do as there isn't much room behind the counter for the scooter. Maybe I can work the parking lots picking up trash with my grabber.

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Old Jan 3, 2024 | 02:36 PM
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Jim you could make a whole lot more than that doing remote tech work if you wanted to.
 
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Old Jan 3, 2024 | 11:23 PM
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Jim you could make a whole lot more than that doing remote tech work if you wanted to.



Or sell your baby making machine. You can make a living getting other guys' wives pregnant.



 
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 01:06 AM
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I have reusable filters. I don't know if they are good or not. My Dad & Uncles used them and taught me to use them. Weird childhood experience of cleaning air filters and oiling them. I have both the oiled K&N type, and the dry flow AEM type. From what I can see, they're identical. Identical to my naked eye. Except that one is oiled, and the dry one says, "DO NOT OIL". I have them in different sizes that I can swap out between the cars and motorcycle. Because once you remove it for service, it takes a few days for the filter to dry, then you add oil, and wait for the oil to settle. So what I can tell from using oiled and dry filters is nothing. No difference. Both are about the same to me. I only use them because they last longer, and are cheaper in the long run, than throwing away disposable filters.

Today was one of those days where I cleaned the oil filters. I don't believe what K&N says about cleaning them every 50,000 miles, 75,000 miles, or 100,000 miles. I just clean them when they start looking dirty. The only rules I follow are my eyes looking at a dirty filter. And it's always amusing to see what the filters are catching. They really do work in the sense that you see the stuff that it has kept out of your engine.












 
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 01:55 AM
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I'm going to say that this is clean enough. I can still see some debris trapped in the metal wires. And that's always the case. I've never gotten everything completely out of the wire cage around the filter media. Now I just have to wait until it's absolutely dry, oil it, and then wait for the oil to saturate and soak in.








I would say that I've already gotten my money's worth. People change their air filters at different intervals. Once a year. Every oil change. Every other oil change. This filter has already saved me 5 years worth of disposable filters.









 
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Old Jan 4, 2024 | 11:59 AM
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Caregiver says no to working at Mc Donalds. My baby making machine doesn't work and hasn't worked since I was 54.. Remote tech work might be a good idea. However, I have not worked in the computer field for almost two decades. Would need to brush up on some stuff but any additional income would be better than none. Never owned any oil type filters. Maybe I will do that when it comes time to replace the air filter in my truck.

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