Yesterday

It’s already running again. Vice Grip mode on the ignition…

If I could send Sandy an apple, I would.

Thank you for understanding.

This is sadly for real.

We had a ~40 acre horse ranch at the time, I was only 7 years old…

Parents arrange a party under a tarp and a few pine trees with many of their friends.

I’m only 7 at the time, parents waking me up in the rain, basically saying get out of the rain…

Later that evening, I learned we lost Sissy…

Share and share alike. Share that info, and if you can, archive it…

You caught an opportunity that I missed.

Sissy got struck by lightning…

Well that’s awkward, but I refilled the oil jugs while you were hugging your nugs…

96 Sonoma here, smells like hell, but still runs great!

Sissy was bigger than Sandy, but that’s how I learned to ride a horse, completely bareback.

My parents aren’t normal, maybe they shouldn’t have sent me out riding Sissy at age 7 with no gear, but I learned to ride a horse bareback before I learned to ride a bicycle…

I know it’s an automatic, I don’t think it’s a 4wd though.

Still things to learn about this vehicle at this point, I haven’t been underneath yet. More research to be done…

https://charm.li/

I do have a lot of things to think about before making any definitive decisions… I dunno yet, I’m just at the point of fixing the bare minimum to get it properly road-worthy…

Yay Sandy, the Fediverse Horse!

All jokes aside, have you or anyone else ever been able to ride her bareback, like no gear at all?

Our late Sissy did, and she was awesome at that, very gentle.

They actually do, and thank you for the reminder.

Family loves me too, so don’t forget to appreciate and hug the people you love when you can…

Damn. I actually want to keep this truck for myself, but I can’t. It feels like sleeping on a dead man’s couch/bed.

I want a smaller truck like this, hell I need it. But it’ll just drive me crazy knowing I’m sitting in a dead man’s seat.

I’m doing good enough to even work on it and test drive it every now and then. It’s haunted though…

Oof, I’ve seen that happen twice, but as a driving spectator, not the person to actually have their own hood fly up on them.

Once their hood flies off like 50 feet in the air, the spectator/driver (me) had to observe said flying hood and prepare to drive off in the ditch to avoid it.

I successfully avoided the flying hood, but damn, you remind me that I need to check that hood latch…

There’s a nifty simple FOSS app called SOS Flashlight, that translates your text into Morse Code, to be flashed via flashlight, the screen, and/or emitted as beeps.

It would be neat if it could actually detect and decode the flashing codes from another device though.

I currently have the SOS Flashlight app set to emit Morse Code for this message from our sponsors…

“We have been trying to reach you regarding your vehicle’s extended warranty.”

What the fuck did I just watch?

Goddamn insects…

The real WTF here is you reminded me to turn on sound…

Why would you do that?

Thanks I Hate It Thursday™

What, no tapioca? No mayonnaise?

Amateur

Disclaimer: I dunno fuckall about this, and I’m no medical expert by far…

But if I may speculate, I think the burping action, although awkward and often embarrassing, still also causes a pleasant sensation, as if you were scratching an internal itch, so to speak…

🤷