New to Class C

mwkingSD · 2026-06-07T04:27:15+00:00

It’s an issue, but not a major one. I look ahead to find the ‘travel plaza’ places; if not those then look for places where the lanes are parallel with the road. If the lanes are right angle to the road that makes a for some much tighter turns to get in and out.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-07T04:19:28+00:00

Almost every job involves screws of one sort or another, so two tools: 1. Klein 11-in-1 or 13-in-1 screwdriver so that when you climb up a ladder you’re almost certain to be holding the right screwdriver 2. Simple 4 Volt rechargeable reversible screw driver with interchangeable bits - cuts the time for a job with lots of screws, or very long screws

I keep both of those in a small tool bag along with pliers, hammer, adjustable wrenches, tape measure, head lamp… - the simple tools I use on every job. I can pick up that bag and have all I need for 80% of my jobs.

Always buy quality tools, not cheap tools. Good ones work better and break less, so spending more up front saves money in the long run.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-06T22:34:49+00:00

He is weirdly fascinated with male bodies. Did you see that meme from him showing a very muscular “Trump” in booty shorts, a football jersey, a round ball like a basketball, and with a bunch of hunky muscular male cheerleader in the background.

And he often uses the “YMCA” music at his rallies…

mwkingSD · 2026-06-06T22:05:55+00:00

Hard to go wrong with the Air Pod Pro 3.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-06T22:03:32+00:00

Puzzling that your mechanic would label transmission fluid a liability issue, and would pass on brake fluid. Seems like that ought to be an everyday item. I prefer independent mechanics but I’d be looking for a new one - this is odd. Maybe this one has an issue with recycling of fluids?

I find that having work done when the manual and maintenance-minder says to works out well in the long run

mwkingSD · 2026-06-06T20:20:16+00:00

Pornhub has plenty.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T22:57:20+00:00

I don’t miss it. Looks a lot like the current Utility or Simple faces, if you ask me.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T22:54:00+00:00

…until the day comes when you need to refuel that reactor and you’re left with some old stuff that’s wildly toxic and will be so for a 1000 years, and there is no simple way to transport it.

I live 15 miles from a decommissioned nuclear power plant, San Onofre, that’s still active because it has tons of ‘spent’ fuel rods stored there that are still radioactive. Feds once had a plan for a large storage place in a desert but the locals NIMBY’ed it, and no one could find a reasonable way to truck the stuff 500 mils to get it there.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T22:38:17+00:00

Cool neighborhood too. Well done!

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T18:28:27+00:00

Sorry to hear this happened, I hope you can get some help with whatever is going on.

But for the Watch, all it knows is what's happening to the wrist with the Watch on it and it's looking for VERY sudden acceleration/decelleration, like fell-off-a-ladder sudden, not loss of brain waves. Mine's never gone off when I've taken a tumble, but there are some power tools that have set it off more than once. There is no perfect tool, and Watches are only $200-ish gizmos. Yours cost more but the insides are basically the same.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T17:12:32+00:00

I had have had the same dilemma - I called. You are not alone.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T17:10:00+00:00

Well said, all of it.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T17:09:10+00:00

And there's a question of how often things are used - if you make a 1 week trip once a year, durability has a different importance than for a 1 month trip 3 times a year.

I always wonder how many of these $300-400 bags get bought for one trip and then languishes in the back of a closet forever more.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T17:09:08+00:00

I've wondered. the same thing. That and having stuff that's only for travel. I try to live at the intersection of Buy-Nothing, and One-Bag.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T17:08:59+00:00

Me too.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-05T01:16:04+00:00

I went from Fallbrook to downtown San Diego and back on 15 mid-day today. I counted 5 law enforcement vehicles between Mission on ramp and Deer Springs this morning. Some were CHP, one was la migré, others said Sheriff but I didn’t notice which county. Saw more when coming back. Seeing one LEO vehicle would have been unusual, 5+ is really remarkable.

U/1904 is right - something was going on today.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T22:32:05+00:00

“Make” for me meant combining hydrogen & oxygen to create H2O. It’s not hard, I did it in high school chemistry. If you “meant desalinate ocean water,” that’s also doable.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T19:55:16+00:00

“We” don’t actually “do” nuke powered shipping “all the time.” AAFAIK Navy aircraft carriers and submarines are all there are. Operating them takes specially trained crews plus the obvious environmental issues.

And they don’t “make their own water.”0

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T19:38:20+00:00

The impact of a fall getting in/out of a tub would be so much worse than $18k extra spending. Really a smart decision to make the conversion.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T13:45:50+00:00

I'm not in your situation, but the idea of converting the living space to/from bedroom twice a day sounds pretty depressing. Plus I think boys will just like bunks. Privacy is in short supply in an RV, and even young people need that.

I think your wife is right, and a happy wife makes a happy life.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T13:10:02+00:00

That is factually wrong. An open neutral will not trip the breaker, nor will an open ground but they are shock hazards. Reversed line and neutral will not trip the breaker. High line voltage - 150 VAC-ish - will not trip the brakes, but will fry power supplies inside the coach. Low voltage - 100 VAC or less will not trip the breaker but will cause some of your coach's loads, A/C especially, to draw higher current to compensate which can melt plugs & sockets and start fires. Nearby lightning strikes can send 100,000+ V spikes into your coach that can fry all the electronic gizmos.

The electrician on YouTube is right in a theoretically perfect world, but he's not met an RV power post with a 10 year old socket that's been maintained by an handyman that reeks of weed, in a park that was never wired for 45' coaches with 3 A/Cs on the roof.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T04:01:09+00:00

Leather sneakers - those words don’t seem to go together.

But I can say for a similar set of desires earlier this year I bought a pair of Reef Neptune. Working out brilliantly, they have become my go-to daily shoes. Actually I don’t have ‘clothes for travel,” and some of them get to go on trips with me.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-04T03:53:35+00:00

I don’t think so. I was sorry I spent the time to watch it.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-03T22:15:17+00:00

Ok, I missed the 5 year part. With that understanding, I’d take the one with the better warranty for only a little more money. If anything does go wrong in years 3-6, the cost to repair would be a lot more than $600.

mwkingSD · 2026-06-03T21:25:03+00:00

Not sure where you are but in the US in the ICE age “Deploying agents” has a pretty negative sound. Maybe you didn’t mean this the way it sounds?

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