PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Happy Sunday

 

Looks like he is making a little progress on them.

 

Painted will look better than that chrome.

 

They're gonna be gunmetal gray!

 

Nice!

 

I fired up the Mustang today for the first time since December 18th, it started right up as if it had only sat overnight!

 

I guess I definitely don't have anything to worry about with the Tacoma when I get back from Ireland!

 

Yeah you will be fine

 

I try to give my truck a break in the Summer so it sits for a week or 2 with no issues.

 

Mine sat from 11/19/19 to 02/13/20 and it started up fine

 

Saw this on an SUV in the movie theater parking lot last night...

 

Here's a flashback story...

I was first introduced to Harry Potter in 1998 or 1999; My Grandma bought me Chamber of Secrets first, and then my mom said that was second book and bought me Sorcerer's Stone. I probably could have read the books myself, but they were bigger than any book I'd ever read in my entire life (I was 9), so my mom read me the first three. She would always read the books to me at night right before bed. The last one she read me was The Prisoner of Azkaban. My parents did not like to overindulge me, so they didn't buy me toys and video games whenever; However, they were always happy to buy me books...

The fourth Harry Potter book, The Goblet of Fire, was released four days after we moved to Oak Harbor, Washington; I took a trip with my mom to see family in California not long after we moved there, and I saw the fourth book at a store in Sea-Tac Airport if I remember correctly. I immediately wanted it to read on the plane, but it was hardcover and my mom refused to buy it because like just about everything else in an airport it was overpriced. She bought me a whole slew of car magazines that came in cheaper than the HP book, and I eventually did get The Goblet of Fire later that summer. This was the very first HP book that I read by myself!

 

Sorcerer's Stone was released in 1997, Chamber of Secrets was released in 1998, Prisoner of Azkaban was released in 1999, and Goblet of Fire was released in 2000; So, the first two books were already out by the time I developed an interest in the series, and the third one came out that same year. The first four books were released at a rate of a book per year, with the fourth being released about two months before I started sixth grade, so I was a bit pissed when the fifth book (Order of the Phoenix) was not released until almost three years after the fourth one! I hadn't even started sixth grade when the fourth book came out, and I was just a summer vacation away from starting high school when the fifth book came out! That's a long-ass time to wait! We were living in North Virginia at the time The Order of Phoenix was released in July 2003. The fifth book was released in July 2005, right around the time we moved back to Pennsylvania. My parents bought me both books!

 

The sixth book was The Half-Blood Prince, and like I said my mom would put up a fuss when I asked for Grand Theft Auto for Christmas or tried to buy any M-rated video game with my own money, but she had no problem buying me books.

The final book in the series, The Deathly Hallows, was released in the summer of 2007; I read it about halfway through before growing bored with it for some reason. The movie adaptation of Order of the Phoenix came out that same year, and I know I saw it in theaters but I forget who with...

In 2014-2015, I developed a renewed interest in Harry Potter, but unfortunately most of my books were packed away. Luckily, my aunt was an avid Harry Potter fan too and let me borrow hers. It may have been 2013-2014; All I know is that we were still living in the Furlong townhouse at the time, but it was after I got my driver's license, which would put it anywhere between May 2011 and March 2016...

I still had The Deathly Hallows in my immediate possession, and thus did not have to borrow it from my aunt; I may have read the final book before rereading the first six!

 

From probably 5th grade through 8th grade, I loved reading Hardy Boys mysteries, and the I kinda grew out of those. Before that, it was The Boxcar Children, which I started reading in 2nd grade and read all the way through 5th grade. I am also a fan of Stephen King, John Grisham, and Michael Crichton, all three of which I started reading in 10th or 11th grade and still read to this day.

 

We were living in Oak Harbor when it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe would be play Harry Potter; I'd never heard of him, nor had I heard of the boy and girl chosen to play Ron and Hermione, respectively (Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the latter of which I had a crush on for quite some time)...

Harry Potter was immensely popular in my middle school, and all of the 7th grade classes got to go on a field trip to see the film adaptation of The Sorcerer's Stone at the local 3-screen movie theater! It was so close that we actually walked from school to the movie theater! One of my friends got driven by a teacher because he had sprained his ankle fairly recently. The mighty internet says that the first movie was released on November 16th, 2001; That would have been about two weeks before Thanksgiving, and I highly doubt we saw it on opening day...

I do remember for sure seeing it in November, but I'm pretty sure it was in the middle of the week, so we probably saw it right before Thanksgiving Break started. I forget whether students paid for the tickets or not, but either way, this was not just a free trip to the movies; I forget exactly what the assignment was, but everyone who went to see the movie had to complete an assignment after seeing it.

 

Oak Harbor was one of my least favorite places to live as a kid; Being on an island, it was quite isolated!

There was a Wal-Mart, a really nice Albertsons grocery store, a Starbucks, a Blockbuster Video, four car dealers (Chevy, Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep, and Ford, plus a Buy Here Pay Here place), numerous restaurants, a YMCA, and even a drive-in movie theater with an arcade and go-karts (in addition to the 3-screen place), but you had to drive off the island to Mount Vernon if you wanted to go to the mall or a Best Buy! Most of the time, we were lucky enough see the movies we liked at the 3-screen place in Oak Harbor; The only movie I ever saw at the drive-in was that awful Rocky and Bullwinkle movie. Unfortunately, the small local theater did not always play the movies I wanted to see, and we had to drive forty minutes to Mount Vernon. There was also a single-screen theater on the Navy base where I saw at least two movies (102 Dalmatians and Dinosaur) with my mom. As I mentioned last weekend, we also had to drive two hours to Seattle for the car show!

On top of that, it rarely got above 75 degrees in Oak Harbor during the summer and the school system wasn't that great...