wally509

Useless update here...
So the car is still setting in my garage nearly a month later still with a bad driveshaft.  I have been waiting for my mechanic, SJM Autowerks in IL, for over three weeks now to get the parts in.  I check in with them weekly and the last two times they have completely blown me off, meaning they said they were going to check with their parts supplier to find out where the hell the driveshaft is and call me back, then never called me back.  This is really getting irritating.

Useless update here...
So the car is still setting in my garage nearly a month later still with a bad driveshaft.  I have been waiting for my mechanic, SJM Autowerks in IL, for over three weeks now to get the parts in.  I check in with them weekly and the last two times they have completely blown me off, meaning they said they were going to check with their parts supplier to find out where the hell the driveshaft is and call me back, then never called me back.  This is really getting irritating.

Hi guys,
I know I haven't been around here much and this is probably frowned upon to make these sorts of posts but...
I need to get a new(er) car with automatic for a variety of reasons.  Therefore this thing has to go.  The edmunds true car won't give me a value for it for whatever reason so I have no way to know if I'm getting hosed by the dealer (if I trade it in) or what to ask for it if I try to sell it outright.  I know it's not worth a whole lot.  I was looking at a 528i automatic several years ago and that dealer didn't want it because it was manual trans.
It's an '07 328i sport package with manual transmission, rear wheel drive.  Space gray with saddle leather (obviously).  178,500 miles.  The car is cosmetically clean with just the normal chips in the front bumper cover.
It needs a driveshaft, which is kind of prompting this.  It is currently drivable but it's on the way out, there is the "rust colored powder of death" coming out of the rear u-joint.  There are some other minor nits, but the major stuff like the a/c works.  If it ends up going for sale here I will disclose all said nits as I'm one of those dreaded completely honest type guys.
It had shocks, struts, water pump/thermostat at ~150k, and within the last 3k front control arms, two front tires plus I just had the oil pan gasket done.
Any thoughts?
Wally

Hi guys,
I know I haven't been around here much and this is probably frowned upon to make these sorts of posts but...
I need to get a new(er) car with automatic for a variety of reasons.  Therefore this thing has to go.  The edmunds true car won't give me a value for it for whatever reason so I have no way to know if I'm getting hosed by the dealer (if I trade it in) or what to ask for it if I try to sell it outright.  I know it's not worth a whole lot.  I was looking at a 528i automatic several years ago and that dealer didn't want it because it was manual trans.
It's an '07 328i sport package with manual transmission, rear wheel drive.  Space gray with saddle leather (obviously).  178,500 miles.  The car is cosmetically clean with just the normal chips in the front bumper cover.
It needs a driveshaft, which is kind of prompting this.  It is currently drivable but it's on the way out, there is the "rust colored powder of death" coming out of the rear u-joint.  There are some other minor nits, but the major stuff like the a/c works.  If it ends up going for sale here I will disclose all said nits as I'm one of those dreaded completely honest type guys.
It had shocks, struts, water pump/thermostat at ~150k, and within the last 3k front control arms, two front tires plus I just had the oil pan gasket done.
Any thoughts?
Wally

Hi guys,
I know I haven't been around here much and this is probably frowned upon to make these sorts of posts but...
I need to get a new(er) car with automatic for a variety of reasons.  Therefore this thing has to go.  The edmunds true car won't give me a value for it for whatever reason so I have no way to know if I'm getting hosed by the dealer (if I trade it in) or what to ask for it if I try to sell it outright.  I know it's not worth a whole lot.  I was looking at a 528i automatic several years ago and that dealer didn't want it because it was manual trans.
It's an '07 328i sport package with manual transmission, rear wheel drive.  Space gray with saddle leather (obviously).  178,500 miles.  The car is cosmetically clean with just the normal chips in the front bumper cover.
It needs a driveshaft, which is kind of prompting this.  It is currently drivable but it's on the way out, there is the "rust colored powder of death" coming out of the rear u-joint.  There are some other minor nits, but the major stuff like the a/c works.  If it ends up going for sale here I will disclose all said nits as I'm one of those dreaded completely honest type guys.
It had shocks, struts, water pump/thermostat at ~150k, and within the last 3k front control arms, two front tires plus I just had the oil pan gasket done.
Any thoughts?
Wally

It's a numbers game.  A virus/plague/whatever has a lifespan.  The safer at home order SLOWED it's spread, not stop it.  The flattening of the curve simply spread the cases out over a longer period of time so the hospitals could keep up.  So, yes, I supposed # of deaths could be reduced because we wouldn't run out of ventilators.  
Well....short answer, yes.  Most things a government does is under the guise of protecting you.  They say it's for the best.  Granted it's not a james-bondish as you are insinuating, but a great political statement is 'never let a tragedy go to waste'  both sides use events to further their agenda to further their political careers, etc.  If something does help the public, it's by chance.
Why did Evers extend to the end of May?  To protect us, right?  Ha, no.  That is what he tells the news for sound bites, but it's this:  He's a Democrat, and both houses of the state govt are controlled by Repubs.  So, he only has authority to keep us locked down for 60 days.  This expires on May 11th.  By extending to the 26th, he forces the repubs to vote on enforcing it or repealing it.  If they enforce it, he gets to blame the repubs for the failing economy, if they repeal it, he gets to blame them for any deaths after the 11th.  It's truely a genius political move.  If the roles were reversed the repubs would have done the same thing.  All politicians are disgusting and the one thing they have in common is that none of them have your best interest in mind.

I mean, did you really ever have any rights to begin with? Local governments control your life already - where you put your shed, how tall your fences are, your zoning which controls how big you can make your garage, your own house. I mean, technically they don't even allow you to install a light switch without asking for permission, charging you a fee, and then having someone come out to take a look at it. 
We're working on a breathing permit right now to make sure people are only breathing through their noses so we can get rid of all the mouth-breathers. 

Yep.  This is mega suckage.  Lord Evers.  Bleh.

@wally509 that's great news!  I'm happy to hear!  I have an eerily similar story.  I have a customer that I have gotten to know very well between him and his family.  Well, I called last week to check in on them and his son told me his dad (80 something Korean war vet) had been in the hospital for 2 weeks and was stable but not getting out soon.  They seemed optimistic about his recovery.

Thanks for sharing, my father and mother in law both had it a couple weeks ago and are doing fine now as well, they are in their 60's and he at least is not the healthiest.
 
I realize this may be controversial but I think my family all had it around Christmas.  All of the symptoms match and we were down for about a week, fever, headache, exhausted, lingering cough, etc.  I think it has been going around here way before it was publicized but was not being diagnosed properly.  An older guy at our church was sick for about a month around the same time and was told he had double pneumonia.  It took him a long time but he is better now.  Looking back I feel it is quite likely that he had it as well, there are reports from doctors around the country of odd pneumonia cases before the COVID-19 was documented properly.  Being an instructor at a Technical school I am around a lot of people daily so I would assume that is where I got it.  Maybe I am crazy but I'm not the only one who thinks it has been going around for a while.
This would actually be a positive thing because it means more people have had it and now have antibodies.

I got some good news last week Thursday, and I think we all need some good news about this.
I only know one person who had this disease, a friend of my Dad's/acquaintance of mine.  Heard from my Dad that last Thursday he has fully recovered.
He went into the hospital on or around April 30th and tested positive for coronavirus.  He went home.
The guy is a friend of my Dad's from the VFW, a Korean War veteran who is 90 years old.  When my Dad forwarded me the e-mail that Mr. B had contracted the disease, I thought he was for sure a goner given his age.
Unfortunately I don't know a lot of details about how bad it was and such.  My Dad is pretty freaked out about this so I didn't drill him for a whole lot of answers.
I hesitated to even type this given the only other person I told immediately slapped me down with "WELL PEOPLE HALF HIS AGE ARE DROPPING DEAD LEFT AND RIGHT!".  But whatever, I understand some people are really concerned this is the end of the human race.  With the talk here of hundreds of millions of people dying from this, I decided to take the chance and put out a positive note.

I got some good news last week Thursday, and I think we all need some good news about this.
I only know one person who had this disease, a friend of my Dad's/acquaintance of mine.  Heard from my Dad that last Thursday he has fully recovered.
He went into the hospital on or around April 30th and tested positive for coronavirus.  He went home.
The guy is a friend of my Dad's from the VFW, a Korean War veteran who is 90 years old.  When my Dad forwarded me the e-mail that Mr. B had contracted the disease, I thought he was for sure a goner given his age.
Unfortunately I don't know a lot of details about how bad it was and such.  My Dad is pretty freaked out about this so I didn't drill him for a whole lot of answers.
I hesitated to even type this given the only other person I told immediately slapped me down with "WELL PEOPLE HALF HIS AGE ARE DROPPING DEAD LEFT AND RIGHT!".  But whatever, I understand some people are really concerned this is the end of the human race.  With the talk here of hundreds of millions of people dying from this, I decided to take the chance and put out a positive note.

I got some good news last week Thursday, and I think we all need some good news about this.
I only know one person who had this disease, a friend of my Dad's/acquaintance of mine.  Heard from my Dad that last Thursday he has fully recovered.
He went into the hospital on or around April 30th and tested positive for coronavirus.  He went home.
The guy is a friend of my Dad's from the VFW, a Korean War veteran who is 90 years old.  When my Dad forwarded me the e-mail that Mr. B had contracted the disease, I thought he was for sure a goner given his age.
Unfortunately I don't know a lot of details about how bad it was and such.  My Dad is pretty freaked out about this so I didn't drill him for a whole lot of answers.
I hesitated to even type this given the only other person I told immediately slapped me down with "WELL PEOPLE HALF HIS AGE ARE DROPPING DEAD LEFT AND RIGHT!".  But whatever, I understand some people are really concerned this is the end of the human race.  With the talk here of hundreds of millions of people dying from this, I decided to take the chance and put out a positive note.

I got some good news last week Thursday, and I think we all need some good news about this.
I only know one person who had this disease, a friend of my Dad's/acquaintance of mine.  Heard from my Dad that last Thursday he has fully recovered.
He went into the hospital on or around April 30th and tested positive for coronavirus.  He went home.
The guy is a friend of my Dad's from the VFW, a Korean War veteran who is 90 years old.  When my Dad forwarded me the e-mail that Mr. B had contracted the disease, I thought he was for sure a goner given his age.
Unfortunately I don't know a lot of details about how bad it was and such.  My Dad is pretty freaked out about this so I didn't drill him for a whole lot of answers.
I hesitated to even type this given the only other person I told immediately slapped me down with "WELL PEOPLE HALF HIS AGE ARE DROPPING DEAD LEFT AND RIGHT!".  But whatever, I understand some people are really concerned this is the end of the human race.  With the talk here of hundreds of millions of people dying from this, I decided to take the chance and put out a positive note.

Update...
They sold the car a few weeks ago and ended up netting me $500 more than the last time they "sold" it and things fell through.  Yes, I actually got paid for it and everything.  Somewhat unbelievable given we are in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown but they did it.  I don't know where it's going.
I still have the MT 328i e92 so y'all won't be getting rid of me that easy.
Later,
Wally

Update...
They sold the car a few weeks ago and ended up netting me $500 more than the last time they "sold" it and things fell through.  Yes, I actually got paid for it and everything.  Somewhat unbelievable given we are in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown but they did it.  I don't know where it's going.
I still have the MT 328i e92 so y'all won't be getting rid of me that easy.
Later,
Wally

Those are the people that are in for a real wild time once they graduate! 

Bidet installation surge in 3....2....1...
 

Funny if you do an online search you get everyone from new pundits to economists and physcologists laying out the assorted theories and explanations.
I summarize a few of them here and add some of my own interpretations. 
The "herd mentality" explanation: I need to do it because everyone else is doing it and they know something I don't. This of course leads back to who is the TP hoarder "zero" and why are/did they start buying. 
The "control mentality" explanation: The world is spiraling downhill and buying stuff is an attempt at control. Yet this is too broad and still begs the question of why buy TP versus hoard something else..
The "basic needs mentality" explanation: if I need to stock up on food and water for a period of shut-in/dislocation then I also need to stock up on TP because in the most basic biological terms what goes "in" sometime later comes "out." Since we are not a land of bidet users (and the WI sub corollary: since it's winter and no leaves on the trees as a fallback option) TP is the answer.  This argument has merit and is intensified by an array of family shut-in corollaries. 
-Basic needs Corollary 1: all the bathroom "business" I used to do at work, mall, etc I now will be doing at home, so my TP buying needs increase.
-Basic needs Corollary 2: the kid(s) are home and not doing their daily "business" at school or at the neighbors or mall, so my buying needs increase.
-Basic needs Corollary 3: at the risk of giving offense stop thinking like a "guy" and consider what may be gendered differences in consumption patterns in your household (be it female spouse/SO and or kids). Somewhat re the latter I remember my younger teenage sister and her friend visiting me in college at my off-campus apartment and after leaving them alone for the day I came home to find that they had gone through 4-6 rolls of TP.   The point is given the potential "gender disparity in use" corollary to the basic needs mentality explanation, my buying needs increase. 
Individually or in concert, these explanations result in empty shelves. 

I got some good news this morning that two of the three active jobs I am working on will not be cancelled, the customers are willing to wait until my source in Illinois opens back up again on April 7th.  Haven't heard from the third guy yet.
Bad news is my wife works at my daughter's school and she was furloughed without pay when this whole "shut everything down" thing started.  So far they haven't said when they will open back up again.
I wish someone could explain to me this fixation on hoarding toilet paper.  Are people thinking it's going to be the post-apocalyptic currency?  Maybe where the single ply Scott's will be like $1's, Angel Soft $5's and the Charmin Ultra-Soft will be like $20's?  I've heard stories of black Friday style fights in Costco over cases of TP.  WTF??

I realize how they are doing it and small businesses have no way to resist.  Notice large companies and factories aren't shutting down, they have money to contest.
Great some assistance packages!  Oh wait where did that money come from in the first place?  It's just money we all gave them in the first place.
Since it isn't publicized here is the actual Official executive order https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/COVID19/UPDATEDOrder10People.pdf
It references Wis Statute 252.02(3) as allowing it to enforce the order.  https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/252/02
What that says is "(3) The department may close schools and forbid public gatherings in schools, churches, and other places to control outbreaks and epidemics."
Apparently "other places" is broad enough to fit just about everything.  Wouldn't large industrial plants be an issue where several hundred people are working together all day every day?  They can't target that because it would get contested and thrown out so fast.  Instead they will go after small businesses.  Massive abuse of power in my opinion.
Also apparently it is forgotten that the first amendment of the constitution says that the government shall make no law restricting religious gatherings so that makes the Wisconsin statute in conflict with the constitution.
Rant over.
 

So how is it allowable under the constitution to force private business closure?  Of course the government can decide to close public things like schools etc and make recommendations that gatherings be limited.  However they have no grounds to shut down private restaurants, bars etc.  This is getting out of hand.

i made a meme
 

If Gov. Evers places a ban on gatherings larger than 10 people then you are probably still good 👍🏼