41 and I’m surprised I’m not more crazy spending as much time alone as I do

It is and it isn’t. To use the onboard control to actuate the parking brake, yes, you have to use the paywalled software. But it’s a simple motor. Positive and negative. If you disconnect the connector at the parking brake and use fused jumper leads to a 12v battery, you can cause the actuator to go forward or backwards. Make sure the parking brake isn’t applied before doing anything, disconnect the cars battery, disconnect the p brake connector, jump the terminals once you figure out which polarity causes the retraction. Manually compress the caliper piston, replace the pads (and hopefully the rotors too). Pump the brake pedal as you would normally once everything is replaced, reconnect everything, and you’re good to go. in my experience this doesn’t work on ford but there’s a service procedure that doesn’t use a scanner to force the park brake into service mode. There’s always a way around dumb stuff like this

If you substitute *rich people’s yacht money" for economy, then his statement becomes correct

Piece work. Typically make $130k. Hcol (literally anywhere in Canada now) and I am poor. I have my own house, can’t really afford to fix it and it needs work. It’s small and the taxes are $6k/yr. I have all my bills paid, money set aside for school and retirement, not enough for either thing by the time they will be needed. I haven’t bought clothing for myself in 10 years. It’s what I ask for when getting gifts. Everyday the same worries, the same stresses and nothing seems to get better. Just letting the timer run out at this point. Not going to date again most likely so I’ll remain alone until my body breaks down from being an ast, then probably die from the all the unknown cancer ravaging my body because I can’t get medical care. At least I should be done before climate change gets really bad. Might live to see the water wars though.

Your momius

Come with me now by Kongos. The song drives me nuts because the lyrics are just awful. And starting them with a scream and then saying come with me now.

I have a 1973 Gibson ripper bass and a 1971 ampeg svt v9 with a late 70s 8x10 ampeg cabinet. I don’t use them daily but more than twice a week, they both still work perfectly. Just regular maintenance

Do you know that if you say “beer can” in a British accent, you’re also saying bacon in a Jamaican accent?

Similar story here. 21 years and there’s a child involved. Even similar 2 instances of dating that involved not being allowed to express my feelings without risking the relationship. So I did and ended both relationships. It would be nice if there was a choice that isn’t hard. The only choice we seem to have is which hard we want. Both of which isn’t a great ending. I’ve since given up dating altogether. Resigned to the fact that that part of my life is over. Just being a good and present parent, being nice and helpful to everyone in my life. I don’t want to go through life alone but I don’t seem to have a choice in that without being a doormat for someone else, which I refuse to do because if I did, I’d be showing my child to put up with never getting what you need from a relationship and that it’s normal. I can’t do that.

Good luck on both. My 2017 bolt has 321,000kms on it, driven in very rough winters and charged every day in cold weather, every other day in summer. Still gets 450kms in the summer. Still doesn’t have rust anywhere on it. No repairs, just maintenance (minus one front spring). My daughter’s likely taking it once she gets her license in 2 years.

My great grandfather was bestowed with this. My father, when asked to say papa (this was when he was months old) responded with “Gug” so he started to be called Gug. This gentleman had a habit of calling everybody ‘buster’. He did this with my older sister when she was like 4-5. So she called him “Buster Gug” and from that day on, that became his name to the entire family. I actually don’t even know what his real name was. He died when I was young but he had a name given to him from 2 different generations.