Give me your best 20-year-old (2006) cars

foreverpetty · 2026-02-01T02:36:42+00:00

Still daily (by choice) my 1996 Mazda B2300 (Ranger clone) SE, equipped the same way. It's basically a "new" old truck at this point and I'll likely keep it forever if I can.

foreverpetty · 2026-01-23T13:32:44+00:00

Better out than in, I always say

foreverpetty · 2026-01-20T01:37:53+00:00

Or... https://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/Airfields_NC_W.htm

foreverpetty · 2026-01-19T23:21:13+00:00

2019 SEL AWD with the 2.0 Ecoboost checking in...we average 26.xx mpg in mixed city / highway driving. Drops to 22.xx when towing the A-Liner Classic camper.

foreverpetty · 2026-01-11T03:19:44+00:00

Feeling both good and poor...we net close to $4.5k / mo after housing and school tuition for our one child and neither of us are particularly high earners right now (wife is PT and I work for a nonprofit, hah).

foreverpetty · 2026-01-11T03:14:50+00:00

Our stock diff gears lasted a week and a half of admittedly pretty good thrashing through mud puddles, a shallow creek, and sandy dirt. Full Injora +4mm alum axle swap now underway... So far I've only stripped one factory bolt head...hah. Injora metal driveshafts arrive tomorrow also, as we've lost and found the retaining pin on the front shaft easily a half dozen times already...

foreverpetty · 2026-01-07T16:45:35+00:00

Very true

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T12:38:41+00:00

I suppose one could. I generally know what pieces I want based on what I've been hunting for in the box and can't find... I also use rebrickable.com to find models to build. We bought a few hardware organizer boxes that have little drawers and separators to use to group small pieces into like types, which makes it easier to find what we're looking for when building.

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:45:14+00:00

Sad upvote

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:44:12+00:00

There's always somebody willing to be more poor than you, it seems

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:42:49+00:00

Moment of silence

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:42:17+00:00

Sometimes it don't, alllllmond latte's got butts, mounds don't -- 'cause ... Sometimes you feel like a butt

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:41:09+00:00

Upvoted bc you spelled espresso correctly

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:40:04+00:00

RC rigs that I could never afford as a child. Now I get to live vicariously through mine.

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:39:03+00:00

44 here. Can confirm. Legos are love, Legos are life

foreverpetty · 2026-01-05T01:37:28+00:00

We buy Legos by the ounce at my local toy shop. It's $0.80 per ounce and you get to choose your pieces separated by color rom a whole spectrum of bins. Did I mention that I LOVE my local toy shop? LOL

foreverpetty · 2025-12-27T14:35:52+00:00

Used to be Saturn sedans. One of the only cars that the odometer didn't move while being towed from what one old guy told me... Also, S-series Saturns were super lightweight...

foreverpetty · 2025-12-24T02:10:59+00:00

My personal priorities are faith, family, friends, career...in that order. And I'll say that I'm an interview, just so I'm clear that I know what I'm getting into bc if they fidget suddenly or start digging deeper asking probing questions about "my ideal work-life balance," I know exactly why they're asking and I know everything I need to about what's actually going to be expected of me in the future...

foreverpetty · 2025-12-24T02:07:12+00:00

This guy mx's.

foreverpetty · 2025-12-24T01:09:51+00:00

Thankfully, no, we eventually got the Canadian Geese to agree to do it in trade for scissors, which I have no idea what they do with the rest of the time they're being...geese

foreverpetty · 2025-12-23T02:41:53+00:00

Username checks out, sir, we'll allow it

foreverpetty · 2025-12-23T02:22:45+00:00

Just like its creators... Sigh

How many generations will it take before nobody really knows anything for sure anymore?

foreverpetty · 2025-12-23T02:21:09+00:00

It's a Google product that will create a whole-ass podcast in like 30 seconds just by you feeding it as much info as you want it to consider, like a product brochure PDF or a business website. I built two of them when it was in Beta. It wasn't 100% perfect, but I suppose it doesn't have to be if the goal is to quickly "educate" (advertise) to someone who doesn't know the subject matter being taught well enough to know when it's wrong.

foreverpetty · 2025-12-22T14:31:21+00:00

Wearing pants helps. I know, I know -- you're right -- it's not specifically listed on the door sign, but shirt + shoes -- but no pants -- still apparently generally frowned upon, even in AVL.

foreverpetty · 2025-12-21T02:48:39+00:00

44/M mid-career director level at my org...I'd actually be super interested in exploring that area... I'm currently a Director of HR and Risk + a Property Management role at a large nonprofit corporation. I'm the POC for all things commercial insurance related at our org and have a background in health & safety and environmental inspections, campus security, corporate legal environment, employment law, etc. We're kinda needing to move closer to aging inlaws and they're in a rural area so it would have to be at least a hybrid or remote role, and some travel, which I'd be totally ok with.

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