Covid Lockdown Activities

[Boomerang]

meditated

[Sapphireho]

I'm going to plant tomatoes today.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Kiske

Well Saturdays activities went a bust. Planned to spend the day getting finances in order and see about refinancing my home and a car loan. Almost every place I tried in person and online isn't financing anything at the moment.

I've hit around 50k in home renovations/rmodel last year and am ready to get PMI off the home loan.

I'm also ready to ditch the truck as my variable loan's apr is almost at 9% these days...

Guess it is day drinking time, might clean out the garage.

Yeah, there was a lot of refinancing just before they shut everything down so there is apparently a whole lot of supply in the secondary loan market that no one is buying, leaving most lenders short on cash to make new loans happen.

I think the current owner of your loan would be technically able to do it since they would be paying themselves. Not sure if there is any incentive for them though.

[bcj]

Went for a bicycle ride yesterday. The pollen sandpapered my eyes.
Think I'll wait a couple more weeks to try that again.

[Opie]

Spent 8 hours on the car, removed the entire stereo system; headunit, amp, all speakers and some of the wiring, removed all the remaining airbags; side curtain and passenger dash, removed the airbag controller and a bunch of miscellaneous trim. All to the tune of 30lbs removed.

#becausetrackcar

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Opie

Spent 8 hours on the car, removed the entire stereo system; headunit, amp, all speakers and some of the wiring, removed all the remaining airbags; side curtain and passenger dash, removed the airbag controller and a bunch of miscellaneous trim. All to the tune of 30lbs removed.

#becausetrackcar

You know you can drop 30lb just with removing the rear seats right?

[Opie]

Originally Posted by Spuds

You know you can drop 30lb just with removing the rear seats right?

Rear seats, all trunk trim & gear were already gone. Now the only OEM interior parts remaining are the carpet, door panels, center console and dash parts...and A/C because Florida. LOL

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

We called our dump to see if it was open. They are open, but are asking people not to come if possible. Since everyone is home doing projects, they are swamped.

Right now I can go to the grocery store, the motorcycle shop, pretty much most places I normally go and apart from people standing apart farther than you typically see everything is pretty normal. about 1/3 of people are wearing masks and about 1/10 don't give a shit about social distancing at all.

I get up to the dump and pull onto the scales and the scale house has all it's windows completely covered with plexiglass with these small holes in the bottom of the window. They need to look in the back of my box van to see what I have so they wait while I get out, and open the back door. They then have to shuffle around in their little office to make sure they all stay 6 ft away from each other so one of them can get out the door to look in the van. Then they make me get back into the box van and roll up my windows so it is "safe" for them to get out and look in the back. After they take a look they gesture to me that it is "safe" to roll down the windows. Then they attach a sticky note onto a broomstick and poke it out the tiny hole for me to show when I go to the exit scale. The whole time wearing gloves and masks. The guys directing people are doing no such thing and are wearing normal clothes.

I go through the exit scale and I have to show the lady in her protected plexiglass box the number on my sticky note. She then uses a claw to grab my credit card, process it, and give it back out of this little slot in the bottom of the window.

WTF

[spike021]

Waiting for the special delivery from fedex today with a new desk to put together.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

She then uses a claw to grab my credit card, process it, and give it back out of this little slot in the bottom of the window.

WTF

did you ask her how many times she's cleaned the claw? all the distancing doesn't mean sh!t if she's not ever cleaning it!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Right now I can go to the grocery store, the motorcycle shop, pretty much most places I normally go and apart from people standing apart farther than you typically see everything is pretty normal. about 1/3 of people are wearing masks and about 1/10 don't give a shit about social distancing at all.

I get up to the dump and pull onto the scales and the scale house has all it's windows completely covered with plexiglass with these small holes in the bottom of the window. They need to look in the back of my box van to see what I have so they wait while I get out, and open the back door. They then have to shuffle around in their little office to make sure they all stay 6 ft away from each other so one of them can get out the door to look in the van. Then they make me get back into the box van and roll up my windows so it is "safe" for them to get out and look in the back. After they take a look they gesture to me that it is "safe" to roll down the windows. Then they attach a sticky note onto a broomstick and poke it out the tiny hole for me to show when I go to the exit scale. The whole time wearing gloves and masks. The guys directing people are doing no such thing and are wearing normal clothes.

I go through the exit scale and I have to show the lady in her protected plexiglass box the number on my sticky note. She then uses a claw to grab my credit card, process it, and give it back out of this little slot in the bottom of the window.

WTF

Lol first paragraph about sums it up here too. Other than certain types of businesses being closed, it's life as usual. Well, there was a line in front of Lowe's because they are only letting so many people in at once. Which basically means people who would probably never come in contact with each other are now waiting in line next to each other... I went to Ace instead.

Is the dump privately run, or run by the government?

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by soundman98

did you ask her how many times she's cleaned the claw? all the distancing doesn't mean sh!t if she's not ever cleaning it!

Or replacing her gloves. She's just transferring virus from one credit card to the next otherwise.

[humfrz]

I hid the Easter eggs in the back yard -

[Spuds]

My jack no longer fits under the front of my car...

Choices for what is wrong:
-New garage floor has a non-constant gradient making it more difficult to fit
-Old garage floor had a non-constant gradient making it easier to fit
-My car is F'ed up due to some cause
-I let the tread get too thin on my front tires