CadillacMatt

Anybody know anything 'bout plating? In the future, I want to take the inside (everything but the lip) of my chrome alloy wheels and have it plated in black chrome... or possibly even painted black with a very durable clear? Anybody know if this is possible at all, and how much it might cost? Thanks

Just need to vent. This city has so many damn potholes. And they either neglect to fix them, or do such a half-ass job that they pop up with one day of rainfall. I'm blessed to be on the NE outskirts of town, in another city's jurisdiction, where they actually give a damn about the roads and I don't have to drive looking 3 feet in front of the car the whole time. I was navigating highway 35 (literally, I was doing a pretty good job of avoiding the potholes for a while), I'm cautiously doing about 55-60 when all of a sudden I look forward and see a 4" deep , 2ft x 2ft crater in the ground directly in front of me. *BOOM* me and my passengers all had ghostly white looks on our faces, it felt like I hit a brick wall going 30MPH. I'm silently putting curses on the city planners and I can feel the front driver's side wheel is now completely out of balance. Got out to check it, don't *see* any apparent damage but I won't know until I pull it off and have it re-balanced. On the way home, came across a row of smaller potholes in TWO adjacent lanes, I had to quickly check my mirrors and attempt to straddle the dividing line but I managed to hit half of them anyway. And don't get me started on the downtown area, which I avoid for good reason. Drainage covers sit randomly up from the asphalt about 4"-5", the edges of the roads are in pieces, and besides that everyone drives like maniacs on Mountain Dew. You might as well be crossing a minefield. I'm so pissed off. If there's any damage to my vehicle other than the tires needing rotation I'm calling the city. Probably have to take a number behind thousands of other people in my boat. Anyone else's city streets as wonderful and glorious as ours? //sarcasm

Good Lord man! My air shocks are out in the back so I know how that must have felt lol

Got under the car today... back lip of rim definitely bent. Wondering if it's safe to drive like this... got a slight wobble but no air leaks. Gonna fill out a claim form on the city's website.

Ok sorry thanks for clearing that up it makes sense now! I used to letting TurboTax handle all the details

Hey all Reported a few days ago that I was doing contracting work for a remodeling/furniture company, well since I'm kind of a green horn to all this, I found out that even though I'm working for a company, it's considered self-employment. When I got paid yesterday, there were no taxes taken out... so I was a little worried, I asked one of the guys if I would end up having to pay in a massive amount at the end of the year... and he told me to save all of my receipts for food, gas, tools... he says he even counts beer. Apparently he takes everything to a tax lady he knows at the end of the year and pays her about $250 for her services, and comes out scott-free without paying taxes. Is this a good example to follow? I mean, I know it's good to save your receipts and all but would it be safer to put aside a percentage of my paychecks every week? Thanks

Thanks for the insights, all. And Impious - I believe I will definitely put aside some scratch to cover my tail, I pulled out the calc and figured my tax bracket, so I will start setting a certain amount aside every week. Hell, if anything, I'll have extra money at the end of the year! One thing I'm trying to understand... when you save receipts for purchases and whatnot, when you file your taxes you are given a choice to either itemize or accept the Standard Deduction. If the Standard Deduction for my tax bracket is say $7500, and my itemized total is anything less than that, is there any point to itemizing in the first place? Or do I just not understand this right? I am going to find a tax person to ask, but I figured some of you guys probably have experience with it

Hmm... been doing a little reading on the internets, it seems people have had mixed success with painting them... like simply roughing up the chrome surface and applying a heavy build urethane primer, then spraying over it.

That ain't too bad dude road trips are the shit. The only part I hate about the Texas-Arizona trip is the sprawling hell of a desert they call New Mexico. lol

Ohhhh I got a flyer for that at the last car meet I went to lol I think my car club wanted to go to that

They have apps for everything now... remotely operating your house lights, buying tickets... sooner or later we're going to have to run an app to flush the damn toilet Cool idea though

Basically it comes down to the frame rate of the camera. If it's a higher end device, there will be options for increasing the frame rate of the recording. If it's a more basic camera, or a cell phone, there's not much you can do.

Do you think it's kosher if we post up there? I mean, to set up shop with a lot of people and grill and all that? Screw them dude, Meade is a tool and so are the other limpdicks over there at those forums. Are they hot, single, and over 18?

Hmm... don't follow you... new set of emblems?

I'll bring some beer! But of course half yall already knew that

A friend of the family got me started contracting for a construction company, he saw I had some experience in aviation and decided to give me a shot. It's something for now at least until I can go back to school and get my A&P degrees. We worked on the AFB today, completely tearing out a floor of an old office building. Feels really good to be working again... at first the guys I was with gave me shit for being a greenhorn, but I busted ass and surprised them I think lol! Seriously screwed up my thumb today though.... before I started working... I went to get out of the truck too fast, put all my weight on my left hand and heard a *POP* dislocated my once-before-injured thumb pretty bad (FAIL!!) it popped back into place but I feel like a tool for that. Oh well hazards of life I guess? They started me off pretty low on the pay, but seeing as I have no experience in this field I'm not sweating it. Gonna keep bustin' ass, I gotta prove myself to 'em. Now I gotta run up to Lowe's and get the few remaining tools that I need!

Wow... I've heard of this happening but never had anyone confirm it... was it a threat of legal action or just a cease-and-desist letter? And what I've heard about PeerBlock TBH is that it's really false security, the only tried and true way to stay completely anonymous is to go through a proxy, and even then I would still have my doubts.

Thanks guys and you nailed it right there UpGradde. Some people look at me strangely when I tell them it feels GREAT to come home exhausted and covered in drywall.

I like the look of well done Japanese lettering, I guess you would call it.... but it seems nowadays it's as cliche as barbed wire, tribals, and black panthers

Plan on coming to the meet?

x2 -- Props on that man

Sounds good to me! Thanks for the pin Mark, any way we could add the date & time to the topic title? Now all that's left is is location, location, location!

Unrelated mr. sagat that avatar cracks me up every time I see it

Oh haha maaaaan I wasn't sure if that was yours or just a pic you got online that's pretty cool Crown Royal room sounds pretty cool like a bar/lounge area?