So a week ago Sunday, driving my older Suburban, I get home, get out (I still had it running), and notice a definite strong scent of fuel. Shut it off, pop the hood and start looking. Nothing, look under it, and sure as shit, the frame and one of the crossmembers is dripping with fuel. Crawl under, only to find that the feed line had rotted through. It's Sunday, 8pm, I'll deal with it next weekend...

So I did that this past Saturday. Determined that I wasn't going to replace the whole line from after the filter, up to the fuel rail because it snakes up/over the transmission then up the firewall, then to the fuel rail. Major twisting and turning to snake a new line through through there. So I decided to cut out the bad section and just run rubber fuel line there... Of course, as I mentioned it was rotted out at a point above a cross-member in the frame rail, so cutting it out was no fun. The forward cut I was able to get my sawzall on it. The back cut was an absolute PITA. Nonetheless, I got it, rubber lined it, and no more leaks.

Headed to Orlando for a week for our yearly business conference. Should be interesting. Usually don’t need to get there until mid week but with new job title I get the full experience. Car service picking me up at 4:15 this morning and then picking up a co-worker so I guess that will make things slightly easier than long term parking at ohare. Anyway it’s 4 days of show set up then three days of selling. Not sure what the mask policy will be but I’m expecting the worst and hoping for the best.

My wife has worked for McDonalds for 16 years, 15 of those as a manager. Their store was bought out by another group that owns some other McDonalds in the area. All of her seniority is gone. So for the next year any vacation time she takes will be unpaid. So fucking stupid.

The Palm and Magnolia courses are right near the Grand Floridian.

Reminds me of my new favorite show that I just found.

Iron Resurrection. On MotorTrend channel.

They take absolute rust buckets of classic cars and restore them. I love it.

I have 1980 Mercedes 450SLC all original, runs well but could use a bit of care to repair the amenities.

Do you remember Wheeler Dealers (the Brit guys)? The early seasons with Mike Brewer and Edd China. They'd do shit like this. Go find older cars that were in decent shape, but needed small amounts of attention or had one thing that broke and the owner said "F'it" and put it up for sale. They'd buy it, fix it generally on a tight budget which lead to them trying to find used parts, rehabbing things, etc, then flip it.

I think all these vitamins the doc suggested when I came down with COVID have made me constipated. You don’t want me to go into details but I had a helluva day.

In the other thread we discussed colonoscopy. Today I’m suffering from the effects of the other old man necessity. The shingles shot. Got my second one yesterday and I feel shitty and hardly any sleep last night. First one was fine.

At any rate it’s supposed to be nothing compared to shingles.

I haven't taken a single pill in four days and feel worlds better. Getting old means always making adjustments.

What were your taking before?