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oh god you sound like the amazon vans now.

I think I'm having a stroke til I can visually see their vans.
I might as well, I get more packages in a day than they carry! =D
 

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Oh yeah, installed a backup alarm - super easy and one of those white noise ones.

first had to use the nut buster to mod the floor jack =)
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put on a jack extension, matching pad (of course)
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what bed rake?!? =p
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first time using Posi-Taps - not too sure of them
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lots of electrical tape - didn't have looming so put oversized shrink-wrap on the rest
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tie-wrapped for now until I find if that's an okay spot - should point it back but this seems to be effective ... in the driveway anyhow - hmm, need to take the stress off that wiring into the alarm=)
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Def not a mod for most folks, but one I've wanted to put on for a while - A Safe Dump is a Good Dump! =p

sound dissipates fairly quickly - warning: fat man panting! =D
Nice !
 

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To day I installed mud flaps, side marker lights, and embarrassed my poor ranger for half the day.. that’s what I did to my ranger today.. long post apology.

Welp it took me all day to do it but I got my rock blokz mud flaps installed ? (yes there’s a reason why.).. and side maker lights…(which I’m mildly disappointed with because the flashing function isn’t working. Dognabbit… that’ll be a tomorrow thing now.)
IMG_0456.jpeg
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and now the explanation..
So last night our kitten got scared from a loud noise, caused by me accidentally knocking over a folded up TotalGym (the Chuck Norris little home gym thing… which really rocks imo.)..
Little Mochi got scared out of his wits.. and attempted to escape under the couch when he was half the size if not smaller than he is now..
In doing so he (since I don’t have a better word for it) partially De-gloved his lower jaw… big sad, wife freaked out, we got him out from under the couch (since he was now stuck. I checked him out tended to his wounds as best I could. (Basically just flushed out his wound, tried to feed him a little food to see if his jaw was possibly broken… he ate and drank so thankfully his jaw was not broken..
The next morning woke up coddled the little guy, took my step daughter to school, got home and started prepping the flaps (thinking I got about a hour before I leave to take little mochi to get stitches.).. got as far as the front driver side flap mounted.? and my mom shows up..(she heard about the injury to our littlest furry family member and rushed out from Hollister to oakland.).. so I stopped put on a fresh pot of coffee.. made a little snack since she drove all the way out here.. caught up talking and my mom checking up on the baby of the family.. my dreaded alarm to leave goes off?. Off we go to the vet stopping to pick up my father in law along the way ? (he’s a old guy and having a rough time since the loss of his wife, so figured it would be nice to bring him along and get him out of his house for a bit.). Got to the vet signed in and found our wait time is 45 minutes.. awesome got my mom and father in law some breakfast from the doughnut shop across the street from the veterinary office.. I have a few minutes and I brought the flaps with me and the appointment won’t start for 25 mins..
Got the rear passenger side done in 7 mins yay plenty of time left too fin…… our name is called to come in with little Mochi..(good but also crap I thought I still had a little more time.. anyway love this animal doctor he a great dude. Checks the little one out and as suspected.. he’s gonna get some stitches… bill slides over…(legit first thought ? dang it there goes gettin the transmission pan and rear diff cover next week, I’m so selfish in my head sometimes.) so he’s off to his mending… the op will be about 2 hours.. sweet got a little time to.. continue the install… nope.. father in law needs a ride back to his place.. no biggie take him home close by my place anyhow. So mom and I head home to wait the remainder… back in business. Get the driver rear passenger 90% done… phone rings and my step daughter now needs to be picked up early from school…gawleeeee.. wrap it up. Hop in and take off down the road.. with three mud flaps two finished one scary loose but it’s still not far and all slow speed zones.. pick up the kid and back home still 50 mins before o gotta leave to pick up Mochi from the vet.. get home get through the door set everything down and go back outside and finish.. or so I thought… phone rings and good news the little procedure went much better than expected and the sutures went in nice tight easy and fast… everyone back in the truck.. ? tighten up the flap so i don’t lose it.. and head out.. we get the little one pay his medical ransom (seriously I am very happy he’s all fixed up and getting better.).. now I can finally finish what I was doing….. nope so much time has past now I must go meet up with my sons mother and pick him up at our meeting place (which is in Tracy.).. so on the road I go with a fresh outta surgery kitten, my mom, and cranky step daughter who got in trouble writhing the first two days of school..?… get to the spot and as soon as I get out of the truck a young guy (I’m pretty sure had good intentions.) runs over and tells me ā€œhey bro I think you lost a mud flap.ā€ā€¦ replied with a generic ā€œoh yeah I know, but thanks for the concern.ā€
Ex shows up with my son, ex makes a mention that my truck looks kinda dumb with only three mud flaps on it.. snapped back with not as dumb as I looked buying that bmw for you…(yup still feel dumb about that one.)… now everyone is hungry.. so to Panera bread we go. Here’s where I make my move.. ā€œmom get me pick two bacon Mac n cheese and the chicken bacon ranch half sandwich and ice tea… here’s $100 get yourself and the kids some food as well, I’m going to stay with mochi in the truck. Finally gonna finish.. got set up, and my dang phone rings again!!! It’s wifey, ask if she wants me to get her something Panera bread, she says idk maybe ? …figures.. i told her don’t get food o got you… run over to my mom to add to the order, got there in time ordered wifey food, ran back to the truck and finally for real for real finished.. and i am happy with how they look, i understand some of the gripes that people have with them, my opinion is they’re better looking than most of the competition at equal price points.. phone died before i could take pictures so had to charge it on the way home from Tracy… got home snapped the three pictures and getting up my back decided it doesn’t like me anymore today so now im laid out posting on 5g from the floor.

Installed the side markers right after I parked and kicked everyone out of the truck.. which upset me a little since they are not flagging when indicators are engaged. (Bad pair? Or? Didn’t plug the wire in the correct way idk.?) disappointing. But not enough to ruin the fancy new mud flaps… thanks for reading.
Rock Blokz is buy again.. suparee led side markers currently I cannot recommend..

I was going to post a picture of little mochi but I didn’t want to gross anyone out..so I just post a mid vet visit of him in his travel kennel.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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Soupie's got back!

Oh yeah, installed a backup alarm - super easy and one of those white noise ones.

first had to use the nut buster to mod the floor jack =)
20240816_131636.jpg


put on a jack extension, matching pad (of course)
20240816_132214.jpg


what bed rake?!? =p
20240816_132438.jpg


first time using Posi-Taps - not too sure of them
20240816_142554.jpg


lots of electrical tape - didn't have looming so put oversized shrink-wrap on the rest
20240816_142915.jpg


tie-wrapped for now until I find if that's an okay spot - should point it back but this seems to be effective ... in the driveway anyhow - hmm, need to take the stress off that wiring into the alarm=)
20240816_144934.jpg


Def not a mod for most folks, but one I've wanted to put on for a while - A Safe Dump is a Good Dump! =p

sound dissipates fairly quickly - warning: fat man panting! =D
If that doesn't impress the dump people, nothing will.
I clicked the video and my wife said what's that awful noise. I told her a backup alarm. She said don't even think about putting one on your truck ?. Makes me want one even more ?. Will it work with LED taillights?
 

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To day I installed mud flaps, side marker lights, and embarrassed my poor ranger for half the day.. that’s what I did to my ranger today.. long post apology.

Welp it took me all day to do it but I got my rock blokz mud flaps installed ? (yes there’s a reason why.).. and side maker lights…(which I’m mildly disappointed with because the flashing function isn’t working. Dognabbit… that’ll be a tomorrow thing now.)
IMG_0456.jpeg
IMG_0454.jpeg
IMG_0457.jpeg

and now the explanation..
So last night our kitten got scared from a loud noise, caused by me accidentally knocking over a folded up TotalGym (the Chuck Norris little home gym thing… which really rocks imo.)..
Little Mochi got scared out of his wits.. and attempted to escape under the couch when he was half the size if not smaller than he is now..
In doing so he (since I don’t have a better word for it) partially De-gloved his lower jaw… big sad, wife freaked out, we got him out from under the couch (since he was now stuck. I checked him out tended to his wounds as best I could. (Basically just flushed out his wound, tried to feed him a little food to see if his jaw was possibly broken… he ate and drank so thankfully his jaw was not broken..
The next morning woke up coddled the little guy, took my step daughter to school, got home and started prepping the flaps (thinking I got about a hour before I leave to take little mochi to get stitches.).. got as far as the front driver side flap mounted.? and my mom shows up..(she heard about the injury to our littlest furry family member and rushed out from Hollister to oakland.).. so I stopped put on a fresh pot of coffee.. made a little snack since she drove all the way out here.. caught up talking and my mom checking up on the baby of the family.. my dreaded alarm to leave goes off?. Off we go to the vet stopping to pick up my father in law along the way ? (he’s a old guy and having a rough time since the loss of his wife, so figured it would be nice to bring him along and get him out of his house for a bit.). Got to the vet signed in and found our wait time is 45 minutes.. awesome got my mom and father in law some breakfast from the doughnut shop across the street from the veterinary office.. I have a few minutes and I brought the flaps with me and the appointment won’t start for 25 mins..
Got the rear passenger side done in 7 mins yay plenty of time left too fin…… our name is called to come in with little Mochi..(good but also crap I thought I still had a little more time.. anyway love this animal doctor he a great dude. Checks the little one out and as suspected.. he’s gonna get some stitches… bill slides over…(legit first thought ? dang it there goes gettin the transmission pan and rear diff cover next week, I’m so selfish in my head sometimes.) so he’s off to his mending… the op will be about 2 hours.. sweet got a little time to.. continue the install… nope.. father in law needs a ride back to his place.. no biggie take him home close by my place anyhow. So mom and I head home to wait the remainder… back in business. Get the driver rear passenger 90% done… phone rings and my step daughter now needs to be picked up early from school…gawleeeee.. wrap it up. Hop in and take off down the road.. with three mud flaps two finished one scary loose but it’s still not far and all slow speed zones.. pick up the kid and back home still 50 mins before o gotta leave to pick up Mochi from the vet.. get home get through the door set everything down and go back outside and finish.. or so I thought… phone rings and good news the little procedure went much better than expected and the sutures went in nice tight easy and fast… everyone back in the truck.. ? tighten up the flap so i don’t lose it.. and head out.. we get the little one pay his medical ransom (seriously I am very happy he’s all fixed up and getting better.).. now I can finally finish what I was doing….. nope so much time has past now I must go meet up with my sons mother and pick him up at our meeting place (which is in Tracy.).. so on the road I go with a fresh outta surgery kitten, my mom, and cranky step daughter who got in trouble writhing the first two days of school..?… get to the spot and as soon as I get out of the truck a young guy (I’m pretty sure had good intentions.) runs over and tells me ā€œhey bro I think you lost a mud flap.ā€ā€¦ replied with a generic ā€œoh yeah I know, but thanks for the concern.ā€
Ex shows up with my son, ex makes a mention that my truck looks kinda dumb with only three mud flaps on it.. snapped back with not as dumb as I looked buying that bmw for you…(yup still feel dumb about that one.)… now everyone is hungry.. so to Panera bread we go. Here’s where I make my move.. ā€œmom get me pick two bacon Mac n cheese and the chicken bacon ranch half sandwich and ice tea… here’s $100 get yourself and the kids some food as well, I’m going to stay with mochi in the truck. Finally gonna finish.. got set up, and my dang phone rings again!!! It’s wifey, ask if she wants me to get her something Panera bread, she says idk maybe ? …figures.. i told her don’t get food o got you… run over to my mom to add to the order, got there in time ordered wifey food, ran back to the truck and finally for real for real finished.. and i am happy with how they look, i understand some of the gripes that people have with them, my opinion is they’re better looking than most of the competition at equal price points.. phone died before i could take pictures so had to charge it on the way home from Tracy… got home snapped the three pictures and getting up my back decided it doesn’t like me anymore today so now im laid out posting on 5g from the floor.

Installed the side markers right after I parked and kicked everyone out of the truck.. which upset me a little since they are not flagging when indicators are engaged. (Bad pair? Or? Didn’t plug the wire in the correct way idk.?) disappointing. But not enough to ruin the fancy new mud flaps… thanks for reading.
Rock Blokz is buy again.. suparee led side markers currently I cannot recommend..

I was going to post a picture of little mochi but I didn’t want to gross anyone out..so I just post a mid vet visit of him in his travel kennel.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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You had quite a day. Hope Mochi is doing well after his stitches.
 
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If that doesn't impress the dump people, nothing will.
I clicked the video and my wife said what's that awful noise. I told her a backup alarm. She said don't even think about putting one on your truck ?. Makes me want one even more ?. Will it work with LED taillights?
lol Annie was right next to me too when I clicked on it. She’s said ā€œ what the heck was thatā€? ? I told her it was just Soupie’s new back up alarm. I got the typical look ? and she said ā€œplease tell me you’re not getting one tooā€? I said of course not I’m getting you one for Christmas. ?
 

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To day I installed mud flaps, side marker lights, and embarrassed my poor ranger for half the day.. that’s what I did to my ranger today.. long post apology.

Welp it took me all day to do it but I got my rock blokz mud flaps installed ? (yes there’s a reason why.).. and side maker lights…(which I’m mildly disappointed with because the flashing function isn’t working. Dognabbit… that’ll be a tomorrow thing now.)
IMG_0456.jpeg
IMG_0454.jpeg
IMG_0457.jpeg

and now the explanation..
So last night our kitten got scared from a loud noise, caused by me accidentally knocking over a folded up TotalGym (the Chuck Norris little home gym thing… which really rocks imo.)..
Little Mochi got scared out of his wits.. and attempted to escape under the couch when he was half the size if not smaller than he is now..
In doing so he (since I don’t have a better word for it) partially De-gloved his lower jaw… big sad, wife freaked out, we got him out from under the couch (since he was now stuck. I checked him out tended to his wounds as best I could. (Basically just flushed out his wound, tried to feed him a little food to see if his jaw was possibly broken… he ate and drank so thankfully his jaw was not broken..
The next morning woke up coddled the little guy, took my step daughter to school, got home and started prepping the flaps (thinking I got about a hour before I leave to take little mochi to get stitches.).. got as far as the front driver side flap mounted.? and my mom shows up..(she heard about the injury to our littlest furry family member and rushed out from Hollister to oakland.).. so I stopped put on a fresh pot of coffee.. made a little snack since she drove all the way out here.. caught up talking and my mom checking up on the baby of the family.. my dreaded alarm to leave goes off?. Off we go to the vet stopping to pick up my father in law along the way ? (he’s a old guy and having a rough time since the loss of his wife, so figured it would be nice to bring him along and get him out of his house for a bit.). Got to the vet signed in and found our wait time is 45 minutes.. awesome got my mom and father in law some breakfast from the doughnut shop across the street from the veterinary office.. I have a few minutes and I brought the flaps with me and the appointment won’t start for 25 mins..
Got the rear passenger side done in 7 mins yay plenty of time left too fin…… our name is called to come in with little Mochi..(good but also crap I thought I still had a little more time.. anyway love this animal doctor he a great dude. Checks the little one out and as suspected.. he’s gonna get some stitches… bill slides over…(legit first thought ? dang it there goes gettin the transmission pan and rear diff cover next week, I’m so selfish in my head sometimes.) so he’s off to his mending… the op will be about 2 hours.. sweet got a little time to.. continue the install… nope.. father in law needs a ride back to his place.. no biggie take him home close by my place anyhow. So mom and I head home to wait the remainder… back in business. Get the driver rear passenger 90% done… phone rings and my step daughter now needs to be picked up early from school…gawleeeee.. wrap it up. Hop in and take off down the road.. with three mud flaps two finished one scary loose but it’s still not far and all slow speed zones.. pick up the kid and back home still 50 mins before o gotta leave to pick up Mochi from the vet.. get home get through the door set everything down and go back outside and finish.. or so I thought… phone rings and good news the little procedure went much better than expected and the sutures went in nice tight easy and fast… everyone back in the truck.. ? tighten up the flap so i don’t lose it.. and head out.. we get the little one pay his medical ransom (seriously I am very happy he’s all fixed up and getting better.).. now I can finally finish what I was doing….. nope so much time has past now I must go meet up with my sons mother and pick him up at our meeting place (which is in Tracy.).. so on the road I go with a fresh outta surgery kitten, my mom, and cranky step daughter who got in trouble writhing the first two days of school..?… get to the spot and as soon as I get out of the truck a young guy (I’m pretty sure had good intentions.) runs over and tells me ā€œhey bro I think you lost a mud flap.ā€ā€¦ replied with a generic ā€œoh yeah I know, but thanks for the concern.ā€
Ex shows up with my son, ex makes a mention that my truck looks kinda dumb with only three mud flaps on it.. snapped back with not as dumb as I looked buying that bmw for you…(yup still feel dumb about that one.)… now everyone is hungry.. so to Panera bread we go. Here’s where I make my move.. ā€œmom get me pick two bacon Mac n cheese and the chicken bacon ranch half sandwich and ice tea… here’s $100 get yourself and the kids some food as well, I’m going to stay with mochi in the truck. Finally gonna finish.. got set up, and my dang phone rings again!!! It’s wifey, ask if she wants me to get her something Panera bread, she says idk maybe ? …figures.. i told her don’t get food o got you… run over to my mom to add to the order, got there in time ordered wifey food, ran back to the truck and finally for real for real finished.. and i am happy with how they look, i understand some of the gripes that people have with them, my opinion is they’re better looking than most of the competition at equal price points.. phone died before i could take pictures so had to charge it on the way home from Tracy… got home snapped the three pictures and getting up my back decided it doesn’t like me anymore today so now im laid out posting on 5g from the floor.

Installed the side markers right after I parked and kicked everyone out of the truck.. which upset me a little since they are not flagging when indicators are engaged. (Bad pair? Or? Didn’t plug the wire in the correct way idk.?) disappointing. But not enough to ruin the fancy new mud flaps… thanks for reading.
Rock Blokz is buy again.. suparee led side markers currently I cannot recommend..

I was going to post a picture of little mochi but I didn’t want to gross anyone out..so I just post a mid vet visit of him in his travel kennel.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
IMG_0449.jpeg
You're a busy guy and an awesome family guy. You get lots of bonus points in my book, looking after eveyone so thoughtfully.

And nice work on your Ranger! Can't wait to see your pan install pics!

And good luck to little Mochi! =)
 

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If that doesn't impress the dump people, nothing will.
I clicked the video and my wife said what's that awful noise. I told her a backup alarm. She said don't even think about putting one on your truck ?. Makes me want one even more ?. Will it work with LED taillights?
LOL, better listen to her! =D

And they will work with LEDs:

 

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Put on McGard lug nuts. Got them from Autozone for $85 shipped. Best price I could find right now.
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Slightly longer than stock so they stick out a bit more, but not bad once they are on.
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My factory ones were not in bad shape for 88,000mi, only one of them gave any resistance coming out of the socket and even so, one tap on the ground it came right out. I attribute that to always using a 6 point socket and a torque wrench for installing them. The solid nuts are nice piece of mind though.
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To day I installed mud flaps, side marker lights, and embarrassed my poor ranger for half the day.. that’s what I did to my ranger today.. long post apology.

Welp it took me all day to do it but I got my rock blokz mud flaps installed ? (yes there’s a reason why.).. and side maker lights…(which I’m mildly disappointed with because the flashing function isn’t working. Dognabbit… that’ll be a tomorrow thing now.)
IMG_0456.jpeg
IMG_0454.jpeg
IMG_0457.jpeg

and now the explanation..
So last night our kitten got scared from a loud noise, caused by me accidentally knocking over a folded up TotalGym (the Chuck Norris little home gym thing… which really rocks imo.)..
Little Mochi got scared out of his wits.. and attempted to escape under the couch when he was half the size if not smaller than he is now..
In doing so he (since I don’t have a better word for it) partially De-gloved his lower jaw… big sad, wife freaked out, we got him out from under the couch (since he was now stuck. I checked him out tended to his wounds as best I could. (Basically just flushed out his wound, tried to feed him a little food to see if his jaw was possibly broken… he ate and drank so thankfully his jaw was not broken..
The next morning woke up coddled the little guy, took my step daughter to school, got home and started prepping the flaps (thinking I got about a hour before I leave to take little mochi to get stitches.).. got as far as the front driver side flap mounted.? and my mom shows up..(she heard about the injury to our littlest furry family member and rushed out from Hollister to oakland.).. so I stopped put on a fresh pot of coffee.. made a little snack since she drove all the way out here.. caught up talking and my mom checking up on the baby of the family.. my dreaded alarm to leave goes off?. Off we go to the vet stopping to pick up my father in law along the way ? (he’s a old guy and having a rough time since the loss of his wife, so figured it would be nice to bring him along and get him out of his house for a bit.). Got to the vet signed in and found our wait time is 45 minutes.. awesome got my mom and father in law some breakfast from the doughnut shop across the street from the veterinary office.. I have a few minutes and I brought the flaps with me and the appointment won’t start for 25 mins..
Got the rear passenger side done in 7 mins yay plenty of time left too fin…… our name is called to come in with little Mochi..(good but also crap I thought I still had a little more time.. anyway love this animal doctor he a great dude. Checks the little one out and as suspected.. he’s gonna get some stitches… bill slides over…(legit first thought ? dang it there goes gettin the transmission pan and rear diff cover next week, I’m so selfish in my head sometimes.) so he’s off to his mending… the op will be about 2 hours.. sweet got a little time to.. continue the install… nope.. father in law needs a ride back to his place.. no biggie take him home close by my place anyhow. So mom and I head home to wait the remainder… back in business. Get the driver rear passenger 90% done… phone rings and my step daughter now needs to be picked up early from school…gawleeeee.. wrap it up. Hop in and take off down the road.. with three mud flaps two finished one scary loose but it’s still not far and all slow speed zones.. pick up the kid and back home still 50 mins before o gotta leave to pick up Mochi from the vet.. get home get through the door set everything down and go back outside and finish.. or so I thought… phone rings and good news the little procedure went much better than expected and the sutures went in nice tight easy and fast… everyone back in the truck.. ? tighten up the flap so i don’t lose it.. and head out.. we get the little one pay his medical ransom (seriously I am very happy he’s all fixed up and getting better.).. now I can finally finish what I was doing….. nope so much time has past now I must go meet up with my sons mother and pick him up at our meeting place (which is in Tracy.).. so on the road I go with a fresh outta surgery kitten, my mom, and cranky step daughter who got in trouble writhing the first two days of school..?… get to the spot and as soon as I get out of the truck a young guy (I’m pretty sure had good intentions.) runs over and tells me ā€œhey bro I think you lost a mud flap.ā€ā€¦ replied with a generic ā€œoh yeah I know, but thanks for the concern.ā€
Ex shows up with my son, ex makes a mention that my truck looks kinda dumb with only three mud flaps on it.. snapped back with not as dumb as I looked buying that bmw for you…(yup still feel dumb about that one.)… now everyone is hungry.. so to Panera bread we go. Here’s where I make my move.. ā€œmom get me pick two bacon Mac n cheese and the chicken bacon ranch half sandwich and ice tea… here’s $100 get yourself and the kids some food as well, I’m going to stay with mochi in the truck. Finally gonna finish.. got set up, and my dang phone rings again!!! It’s wifey, ask if she wants me to get her something Panera bread, she says idk maybe ? …figures.. i told her don’t get food o got you… run over to my mom to add to the order, got there in time ordered wifey food, ran back to the truck and finally for real for real finished.. and i am happy with how they look, i understand some of the gripes that people have with them, my opinion is they’re better looking than most of the competition at equal price points.. phone died before i could take pictures so had to charge it on the way home from Tracy… got home snapped the three pictures and getting up my back decided it doesn’t like me anymore today so now im laid out posting on 5g from the floor.

Installed the side markers right after I parked and kicked everyone out of the truck.. which upset me a little since they are not flagging when indicators are engaged. (Bad pair? Or? Didn’t plug the wire in the correct way idk.?) disappointing. But not enough to ruin the fancy new mud flaps… thanks for reading.
Rock Blokz is buy again.. suparee led side markers currently I cannot recommend..

I was going to post a picture of little mochi but I didn’t want to gross anyone out..so I just post a mid vet visit of him in his travel kennel.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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Not NOT NOT laughing at da poor widdle kitty. So glad he'll be ok. The things we do for our furry family members.

But LOL I am! Love your write up. Honestly, it's a great post. You wonderfully captured just how crazy, frustrating, and somewhat begrudingly humorous this thing called routine daily life can be.

BMW comment hit home and really made me LOL! Well LOL followed by a bit of a grimace. Ah memories.... 'nuff said about those memories. :facepalm:

All the best to Mouchi.
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