Which Paradigm?

CadillacLuke24 · January 1, 2019

20 hours ago, diyer2 said:

Most of the younger generation just do not have respect for the value of money or the will it takes to earn it.

One of my coworkers is a 21yo dizzy broad, a readhead who's way to damn chipper and wants to be everybody's friend. Said she spent $3000 on Xmas gifts last year. Works as a nurses aid. She will routinely lament that she is broke.

diyer2 · January 1, 2019

Recycling.

Been doing it for a lot of years.

Where we used to live before moving to the mountains it was free.

30% of the neighborhood recycled even though it was free and there was no sorting like years ago.

Here in the mountains at first we were paying $3 -$4 a bag to recycle and would drop it off on our way into the bigger town near us. 60 miles round trip.

Now we have free recycle as long as the idiots don't ruin it. This is 24 miles round trip.

The problem is people dump trash into the recycle dumpsters and if it doesn't stop they say they will stop the free recycle.

They put up cameras to stop the trash dumpers.

Money value.

My first job was a paper route.

Then at a fruit market, .75 cents an hour.

Moved out of the parents house at 16 also.

I was provided the basics at home.

Anything I wanted ( bicycle, mini- bike, car) I bought it.

No regrets.

KARNUT · January 1, 2019

I grew up in New Jersey in the farm belt. From 12-16 I worked on a farm mostly hay, I didn’t get messed with in school. The desire to make money and save for my first car was my motivation. I’m the oldest so I watched my father build his business to become well off. He provided the basics anything else I worked for. My first car was new I bought it same with my second a year later. I was hell on wheels till I saw my future wife in high school. I ended up working as a fueler and greaser at my fathers job sites. Silver spoon, hardly. My fathers idea of character building was hard work low pay. A few years later in Texas after going on my own building and selling my own business I ended up joining in a new family business as a partner. Twenty years of building, twenty years of reaping the benefits of hard work and good reputation I sit retired. Hard work and the desire to succeed is what it takes. Most important a happy home life makes the nonsense of the work world bearable.

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Grumpy Bear · January 1, 2019

31 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

I grew up in New Jersey in the farm belt. From 12-16 I worked on a farm mostly hay, I didn’t get messed with in school. The desire to make money and save for my first car was my motivation. I’m the oldest so I watched my father build his business to become well off. He provided the basics anything else I worked for. My first car was new I bought it same with my second a year later. I was hell on wheels till I saw my future wife in high school. I ended up working as a fueler and greaser at my fathers job sites. Silver spoon, hardly. My fathers idea of character building was hard work low pay. A few years later in Texas after going on my own building and selling my own business I ended up joining in a new family business as a partner. Twenty years of building, twenty years of reaping the benefits of hard work and good reputation I sit retired. Hard work and the desire to succeed is what it takes. Most important a happy home life makes the nonsense of the work world bearable.

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Can I get an AMEN!

CadillacLuke24 · January 2, 2019

I remember my freshman year Mom and Dad said if I wanted a car (or anything else for that matter) I was to get a job. A week after school ended I had one. Two years later I had saved $9k (Gillette WY is a great job market for teenagers when the boom is in) and got a 1996 Cadillac Sedan DeVille

Dad made it VERY clear that if I was to live at home, I was to be pursuing a meaningful career (i.e. college). After I graduated high school rent was $350. I thought that was bad until I got my first place

Grumpy Bear · January 11, 2019

May 13 2018 I quit posting to Yes Dear. Even though that post has slipped to page five it continues to collect more hits than all but my built thread over that same period. Voyeurs!

Grumpy Bear · January 17, 2019

Cujo

When we apply for a driver’s license we’re requesting to be included in an existing and long standing social contract. A contract we all agree to abide by when we sign our license. We bind ourselves to the rule of law and agree to accept its guidance and its punishments. We do this to avoid chaos and improve our chances of surviving the experience. When we abide it becomes an enjoyable and relatively safe endeavor, a predictable environment.

Some who sign this contract never intend to ‘play by the rules’ and abhor civil/social law and its contractual obligations. I can’t think, off the top of my head, a plausible scenario where one who has such a view would not also disregard Godly law with equal fervor as man’s laws are rooted inseparably in God’s law.

When questioned or challenged such people offer personal philosophies that are based on what then? On their singular desire to do as they wish? Yes, to do as they wish. That is to say to set their own standards for what is right and wrong apart from and in conflict with humanity in general and God specifically.

Could we then not say that such a person, one who abhors God, law and his fellow man a person who lacks a working conscience?

If he/she were incapable of such we would call them sociopaths but as it is willfulness and not ability it’s just called evil.

It’s a dog that has turned not only on its owner but its kind.

That's one Paradigm. And the other would be........

Grumpy Bear · January 28, 2019

Wilson Building. Built beginning 1912. Dentist office on the fourth floor. It had this beautiful black asphalt tile floor in the reception area and I had the pleasure of its upkeep. A stunning white six story Tera Cota that is on the National Registry.

Cleaning and maintaining is done off hours naturally. Meaning that no one outside yourself and the business owner ever really knew what sort of job you did and that suited me just fine. I’ve never been one to need much in the way of exterior validation to maintain a healthy self-image. But then I’ve always been like that.

Polishing a floor, doing piece work or solving Trig. equations. The joy, for me, doesn’t come from the praise a job might or might not bring from someone else but rather in the reflection after the act where I can see I’ve done better this time than last. Better still where I haven’t done better but realized what it was that prevented that result that will lead to a better future result.

And in that lies the rub, as they say. A future result. The future is less likely to be each day you are alive and yet that future is the driving force of any healthy self-awareness. If you need praise from someone outside yourself you’re in trouble early and often.

What you really need, and more so as you grow older, is the assurance OF a tomorrow.

Eccl 3:11 …Even time indefinite he has put in their heart, that mankind may never find out the work that the [true] God has made from the start to the finish.

Looks like a promise to me….also an explanation of our nature.

He’s got an enduring plan and it is ours to discover.

That's one Paradigm. And the other would be........

Grumpy Bear · February 8, 2019

There is a Quality Choice.

I want to talk about your everyday underwear. Do you care what they are made of? How about surgical stainless chainmail? Perhaps wool? How about burlap or tent weight canvas? Fiberglass? Oh wait, Polyester!

I’ll bet none of these choices are on your list. What do they lack? Besides comfort? How about quality?

Quality in any part starts with a choice of materials. I’ll bet cotton would be on most people’s list of quality choices.

How is it then that when we speak of quality of a truck part the material it is made of is last on the list of considerations that indicate to us a QUALITY part?

You can look at a dash made of PVC or polycarbonate and if it looks of decent proportion and geometrically pleasing we call it a quality piece knowing for a fact that in a short time it will pop, crack, peel, fade and the list continues.

Faux vinyl wood grain? Plastic stainless finished trims. Pebbled surface emulating leather. Plastic snaps. Shall I continue?

This is the trade for electronic wizardry? I trade my wood grain dash for Bluetooth? A Smiths jeweled tach for a thousand dollar replica of the digital clock on my night stand I bought at Wally World for a fin? Faux cloth coverings that never saw a plant or insect? Carbon Fiber for PVC and some vinyl wrap of carbon fiber.

Now let’s talk about your next Prime Rib dinner. Tofu anyone?

That's one Paradigm. And the other would be........

Grumpy Bear · August 7, 2021

Oil Detergent

A properly formulated oil will have enough detergent to prevent sludge/varnish for the planned length of the oil change interval for the expected conditions that oil would be subject to.

Do they?

And the word games begin. PROPERLY. Oxford says about properly: (adverb) correctly or satisfactorily.

Well which is it? Correct or Satisfactory? Depends on your paradigm. For many formulators it means satisfying a government or regulating agency regulation. But for the end user it means the correct amount/type for the service/situation/goal and the goal is a sludge/varnish free motor.

Correct use to be the meaning for everyone and everyone knew it. Sludge/vanish prevention! But we can't seem to discuss a ham sandwich anymore without being political and that is sad because your motor doesn't care about anyone's poly-tick's.

In the former world, where everyone meant the same thing, I would have never considered using a detergent booster to reach my goal OCI. I am still leery and yet necessity is forcing my hand in some applications.

So how much detergent is enough? The amount that prevents sludge/varnish for the planned length of oil change interval for the expected conditions that the oil will be subject to.

Everything else in that sentence are just qualifiers.

1.) OCI length
2.) Operating conditions
3.) Motor's base health
4.) Oils VOA detergent load

Sludge and varnish are not usually instant or catastrophic. They are like peeling an onion and have a finite point, that last layer, where yesterday they are causing no issue and today they are. That simple fact is the leverage OEM's, Blenders, UOA labs, SAE, Government use to boil that frog ever so slowly.

The SAE test designs include, are designed to contain, an 'acceptable' degree of deposits. But what is an acceptable degree of sludge/varnish in your motor? Yea...that information you don't have access to but give it some thought. Common sense says it is pegged to an expected 'service life'. What might that be? Who is determining that for you?

Each player has an agenda, a goal. Go back to the list and identify each player goal. (OEM's, Blenders, UOA labs, SAE, Government) It's really easy under the greed microscope. Then when you finish that list ask this simple question.

Why am I not on that list?

Ya done? Good then you realized that YOU are not on that list because YOU keep giving that responsibility to someone else.

Ya know, for a bunch of people who like to CONTROL everything you sure give up easy enough.

That's one Paradigm. And the other would be........ :lurk: