So I gotta clean oil off of the concrete slab  in front of the garage.

See, MC’s car was due for an oil change.

No big deal, right?

I had her drive over (10 minutes), put out the Rhino Ramps (highly recommended), put the oil drain pan under the car, (making sure to pull the plug in the center of the drain area) and pulled the drain plug from the oil pan…which was, of course, hot after 10 minutes of driving. (I could have waited 15 minutes, but why?). Dropped the plug into the oil catch pan, and damned if it didn’t go DIRECTLY into the hole that drains the oil from the catch area to the inside…and fit tightly enough that the hole was essentially plugged. . Now, the car holds 4.7(ish) quarts and the oil catch area in the pan holds maybe 2.5……and the level of the catchment area was rising fast. Tried stirring the hot pool of oil with the wrench to dislodge the plug, but no joy.

FuckIt. Put my hand into the 200 degree oil and pulled the bolt out of the drain hole in the pan. Damn, that is hot. Not burnt skin, , but scorched. Like putting your hand into boiling water that sticks…..

I’ve done hundred of oil changes over the years. Never had a drain plug from the car hit the hole in the pan dead center and essentially plug it up perfectly like that. But some oil did escape from the catch pan as it tried to overflow.

The rest of the oil change went as expected. (I expect that Imp that is designated to screw with me got bored at that point, and left to make other mayhem elsewhere) Simple and clean. Quality oil and a quality filter. Checked the air filter and logged the date. Simple.

Of course, now I gotta get out the Dawn and scrub the concrete.

At least I know that the oil change is done right, not half-assed by some untrained minimum wage shop monkey who doesn’t care and who may or may not have used an impact to overtighten the drain plug or the (cheap) oil filter and may or may not have put the right amount of the correct oil in.

But damn, that oil is hot.

And I was at  O’reilley’s auto  and they had THIS oil drain pan on sale. The drain bolt won’t be an issue with this pan. and it will hold enogh to let me change the 3 gallon oil pan in my 6.7 cummins.

I mean, if gay men just stopped for a few weeks, it would likely greatly reduce the spread of the MonkeyPox.

Why is it that the health departments won’t just say “Stop having sex with other men for a while”?

Why do the Gay Men never get admonished for their behavior?

Last night at the Range: (normal Thursday meeting)

“I know  lot of folks who regret getting the Covid shot.

I don’t know anyone who regrets not getting one”

I had nothing to add to that.

First bussload of illegal border crossers dropped off in NYC….soon to be soaking up all those Social Services that the city boasts about.

A couple thousand more and lets see if the city can keep up tat level of Social Safety Net….

I think it is great that they are getting a taste of what the southern states have to deal with.

That the news media is using the term “What the Democrats call the “Inflation Reduction Act”
And that they point out that one of the main holdups is the Climate Change provision.

(Not that we didn’t already know it, but that they are admitting it)

And I bet that Hunter Biden had a hand in the transfer of the licensing.

The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China

Funny how that works. 15 million dollars of taxpayer money to do the development.

Then it went to a company here in the US to build.

Who then went to China.

Who now owns the license. And it ain’t being built nor developed here in the US anymore.

So the US taxpayer funded the development and government officials gave it to China in 2021.

Is there ever gonna be a time when these people won’t shoot or stab or otherwise damage each other over trivial stuff?

Mom of 20-year-old who shot NYC McDonald’s worker in the neck over HER cold fries claims it was self-defense after worker ‘went looking’ for her son, says she doesn’t know why he had a gun on him

Over his mom’s cold french fries.

Civilized people don’t do this.

Whaddya wanna bet they are welfare bums also?

And lest you think that the above behavior is an aberration:

Here

I mean, when it comes right down to it, the choice of satisfying the Green movement, or huddling in the cold and dark come next winter, then the choice is kinda obvious…..

Screw the Greens.

Germany Could Keep Nuclear Power Plants Operating After All

They need the power and right now have a choice to make. Use natural gas that they need for heating to operate their power plants, or keep those reactors cookin’ to produce electricity.

And, proving that pragmatism beats out idealism when the rubber meets the road, they are gonna keep those nukes operating.

With the DNC

Whistleblowers Detail FBI, DOJ Effort to Discredit Negative Info on Hunter Biden Starting Before 2020 Election

It isn’t like ny of us are surprised. I mean, the press did their level best to hide the information about Hunter, even when the Laptop was revealed.

But if this can be proven, then every person at the FBI involved need to be prosecuted. Every. Single. One.

Of course, at this point, I am not so sure that the FBI is worth keeping.

Fidelity. Bravery. Integrity. None of these are true anymore.

Seems that the FBI has come up with a list of symbols that “May” demonstrate that you are a “Militia Violent Extremist”. 

Such terms as “Molon Labe”, Gadsen flag, any reference to the Second Amendment, the “Liberty Tree”, etc. may mark you (to the FBI) as a “Militia Violent Extremist”…

So, how many of the symbols have you used in emails, postings, Facebook messages, etc?

Yeah, yer in good company, I think.

Jesus, if this is what the FBI is using to identify Violent Militia Extremists then we are screwed….because their incompetence is such that they will never catch the real ones. No wonder they can’t do anything about Antica (if they are even trying),,,,if this is an example of their best efforts, then their best is None Too Good.