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FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:40 pm I know you'll all be glad to know that when I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago, I treated myself to some new office chairs.


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The aluminum parts look like they were made from sprint car wing kits! Which btw for some reason look very cool to me.

...and Happy Birthday you young whipper-snapper!

5chn3ll wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:15 pm Glad you're OK. What a shitty way to end a fantastic event for a city.
I like the new chairs (but I'll delete this later and deny saying it). I dig the steampunk/Pagani vibe.

Thanks, Dallas. And yes, it was time for new furniture.

32wildbilly wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:32 pm You were the first person I thought of when I heard about incident. Glad you are ok.

Not a political statement just a personal opinion: Too many guns available to too many people who should not have them...

Thanks, Billy. Looks like it was basically two groups of dumbass 15 to 22 year olds popping off at each other. Two of the perps were injured and were charged Monday afternoon while still in the hospital. I think everybody agrees with your sentiment - it's figuring out the "how" that's the problem (and I certainly don't have the answer).

02TX996Cab wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:36 am Frunky -- like others have said, I'm glad you and those you care about were not physically injured. Hopefully the mental trauma I imagine many have suffered will heal quickly.

I look forward to meeting you, Doc and anyone else joining us at Outrun 2024 in person.

Thanks, 02. Yeah, I'm really jazzed that you and Doc are heading into town. Hopefully we can get at least one more (cough, cough Billy) and maybe several more to come in.

Cuda911 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:10 pm

FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:40 pm I know you'll all be glad to know that when I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago, I treated myself to some new office chairs.

What did you do with that ugly multi-colored one?

Well, there were actually two of them . . .

32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:57 am The aluminum parts look like they were made from sprint car wing kits! Which btw for some reason look very cool to me.

...and Happy Birthday you young whipper-snapper!

Thanks, Billy. I was actually going for a vintage aviation vibe, but I suppose sprint car wing kits works, too.
And thanks for the birthday wishes. I got my first Navy retirement paycheck last week, and have paid my last $2,200 per month family health insurance premium as of this month.

Wow man you can pretty much literally get a brand new 992 with that freed up $2,200 per month. (Which was nuts, another topic. That is for 5 persons?)

FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:29 am Thanks, Billy. I was actually going for a vintage aviation vibe, but I suppose sprint car wing kits works, too.
And thanks for the birthday wishes. I got my first Navy retirement paycheck last week, and have paid my last $2,200 per month family health insurance premium as of this month.

Now that you mention it, the chairs would look appropriate next to a Spyker C8's interior which IMHO is one of the most eye-catching (in a good way) automobile interiors I've seen in the last 20 years. (For those who don't know, Spyker made WWI airplanes and went out of business just after the war. When they revived the name back in the mid 2000's they leveraged their aircraft heritage in many design details in their cars.)

Spyker was what I was trying to remember when I first saw the new chairs - reminded me of the sliding shifter.

FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:29 am Thanks, Billy. I was actually going for a vintage aviation vibe, but I suppose sprint car wing kits works, too.

I can see "vintage aviation" now that you mention it.

02TX996Cab wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:18 pm Now that you mention it, the chairs would look appropriate next to a Spyker C8's interior which IMHO is one of the most eye-catching (in a good way) automobile interiors I've seen in the last 20 years. (For those who don't know, Spyker made WWI airplanes and went out of business just after the war. When they revived the name back in the mid 2000's they leveraged their aircraft heritage in many design details in their cars.)

I bought my 911 from a consignment dealer in San Francisco and they had a Spyker C8 completely covered in plastic. I asked if I could "peek and not touch" and they obliged. While lifting the plastic I asked "The owner?" and the salesman said "No, actually, the buyer. He can't take it yet but whenever he comes in here to look at it he mumbles about the interior for 30 minutes, covers it up and goes home. We are charging him $80 a day to keep it here."

Funny little anecdote from the past...

Dr_Strangelove (whew!) wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:31 pm Wow man you can pretty much literally get a brand new 992 with that freed up $2,200 per month. (Which was nuts, another topic. That is for 5 persons?)

Yeah, I know. But my wife has some crazy notion that we should spend it fixing the front porch steps that are about to fall off the house.

FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:29 am

Cuda911 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:10 pm

What did you do with that ugly multi-colored one?

Well, there were actually two of them . . .

32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:57 am The aluminum parts look like they were made from sprint car wing kits! Which btw for some reason look very cool to me.

...and Happy Birthday you young whipper-snapper!

Thanks, Billy. I was actually going for a vintage aviation vibe, but I suppose sprint car wing kits works, too.
And thanks for the birthday wishes. I got my first Navy retirement paycheck last week, and have paid my last $2,200 per month family health insurance premium as of this month.

Thanks for cheering me up! I pay over $900/mo, and have used it zero times in the past 5 years or more. Hopefully you had some serious injuries and illnesses so that you could use some of yours .