Mopar1973Man has been with me a long time. The name goes back to at least 2004, when I hand-coded a little HTML4 website during the Cloud 10 Computers years. On October 4, 2007, it became Mopar1973Man.Com, which started as nothing more than my own notes for fixing Dodge Ram Cummins diesels. I never planned for it to grow. People found those notes, and they kept coming back. Folks have called me from as far away as Poland, Australia and Germany for help with their trucks.

Mopar1973Man was the guy with the answers. He was in the shop at all hours, up to his elbows in a diesel, and happy to explain it to anyone who asked.

Mopar1973Man was the guy who sat up at night with a lost soul on a highway in the middle of an Alaska winter, at -44°F, after he'd lost his throttle. I was up at the computer, trying to explain what to do to get him going. I stayed with him until he got home safely.

Mopar1973Man was also the guy who saved lives over in the Middle East. For that, I was rewarded with a U.S. flag from their military camp there.

Yes, it's tough. I can't do these things any longer. But this is who I am.

So why the change?

The honest answer is that I'm not the same person I was. Life took some hard turns. The landslide came off the hill behind the house. The shop was lost. The site sat quiet for months while I dug out and kept the trucks running. When I came back to it, I looked at the name and realized it no longer described me.

It also doesn't describe the site anymore. Mopar1973Man is a diesel and Dodge name. That's still a big part of this place, but it isn't all of it now. The site covers Cummins diesel repair, Cloud 10 Computers (helping people learn Linux and move off Windows), and my own corner of it, Titanium. My wife Suzanna is putting up some of her handmade jewelry too. One name for the diesel guy can't carry all that.

The hard part

I'm not going to pretend this is easy. It's hard, and it's the truth. Saying goodbye to Mopar1973Man feels like a part of me is dying. That name was who I was for a very long time.

It started with the cancer. Then came the news that was even harder to hear: my bladder had to come out, and I would have a stoma. Learning to live with it was a whole other fight. There was a long learning curve with the ostomy bags. They leaked. At night the tubing would come apart, and I'd wake up in the middle of the night with the bed soaked in my own urine. That's heartbreaking, and it's frustrating. I'm not going to dress it up. It wore me down, and it took a long time to get the hang of it. It's one more piece of the old me that I had to let go of.

I'm so thankful for an understanding wife like Suzanna, my Tweety Bird. She has always been there to help me, even with the mess of the leaks and doing laundry in the wee hours of the morning.

Suzanna knows what this is like, maybe better than anyone. I met her on July 25, 2024, and we were married on November 25, 2025. She broke her ankle when she was 16, and it changed her life. She still misses out on the things she loves, like jogging and running. She understands what it is to lose a piece of who you were and keep going anyway.

Why Titanium

I don't want to be pinned to a label. Not a scene, not a category, not a box someone else built. I'm not the same person anymore, and the name had to change with me.

But the real reason I carry this name is cancer. I've fought it twice, at Christmas 2018 and again at Christmas 2023. It was bladder cancer. The cancer was fully involved in my bladder, and nobody was sure whether it had moved on to other parts of my body. My doctor told me I would not make it. I'm still here.

It left its mark. I live with an ostomy bag now, and I'm disabled. I have a 40 pound weight limit because of my stoma. The stoma is an opening in my belly, and lifting anything heavier could give me a hernia. The chemo took a big toll too, and my energy is much lower than it used to be. The L3 and L4 in my back are in bad shape. I've lost a lot of muscle tone and strength.

I've been wrenching since I was 14 years old, and for the last 23 years I was a field mechanic. I did clutch jobs flat on the floor of my shop with no lift. I did transmission work on the shoulder of a road in the middle of nowhere. When a transfer case had to come out, I'd lay it right on my belly and move it myself. That was just how I worked. Now I've lost the majority of my tools, and with my body the way it is, I can't work that way anymore. That part is over. But I'm not done. I'm still trying to do as much as I can with this broken body.

A good friend gave me the name Titanium and told me to go listen to the song. It's by David Guetta featuring Sia, released in 2011 on his album Nothing but the Beat. It's a big, powerful dance track, and under the beat is a simple message: you can be knocked down, hit again and again, and still not break.

The song is about someone who has been shot at and pushed around by words, by people, and by life, and who still hasn't gone down. The metal in the title stands for strength that doesn't give way. When I heard it, I saw myself. Cancer had hit me twice, and I was still standing, even after a doctor told me I wouldn't make it. That's where the name came from, and that's why I'm keeping it. Give the song a listen: Titanium by David Guetta ft. Sia.

What happens next

Mopar1973Man is being retired. The website will remain the same, with all of my knowledge on Cummins diesels still here. I'm going to work on freshening up the information as much as I can. Titanium will be the name running the show, and the old posts under Mopar1973Man will always remain.

I'm still able to help with Cummins issues. All communication will be handled here on the website. If there's a special need, we can arrange a time for a phone call or a video call.

Here's the plain truth about the new articles. Without the shop, I have nowhere safe to work on even my own trucks. The yard is turning to mud from the rain, and snow is on the way. So I'll keep building articles, but slowly. They'll come when the weather is good and when there's money for repairs and upgrades on Thor. I'd rather give you real, finished work than a pile of rushed posts.

You'll hear more from me too: stories, projects, and what I'm really up to, from the trucks to the computers to the music.

So raise a wrench, pour one out for the old name, and I'll see you on the other side.

Rest easy, Mopar1973Man. 2004–2026.

— Titanium

Why the change

The most common reply to a question on this site used to be "what truck do you have?" or "what are you running?" Now that information can sit right in your profile, so the answers you get back can be better and faster.

My Truck

For the Dodge Cummins side of the site, you can add:

• Generation, year and model

• Engine and transmission

• 4WD and axle ratio

• Mods and goals, in your own words

My Tech

For the Cloud 10 Computers side, you can add:

• Which Linux distro you run, or "still on Windows"

• Your experience level, from brand new to power user

• Your interests, such as servers and security, networking, solar and power monitoring, PC builds, local AI, and gaming on Linux

• Any hardware you'd like to share

Please fill it in

None of it is required to join or to post, but I highly suggest you fill it in. The more I know about your truck or your setup, the better I can handle your issues. A question about a hard start means something very different on a 12 valve than on a Common Rail, and I can't help as well if I'm guessing. It takes a couple of minutes, and it can save a lot of back-and-forth.

I do ask for your real name and phone number. Both are only visible to me and the staff, never to other members or the public. If we need to talk, whether it's about your truck or help with your subscription, I'd much rather say "Hello Billy, how's the Dodge doing today?" than "I'm calling from the website." I'll never ask for your home address, and please don't post it in your profile.

How to update your profile

Sign in, click your name in the top corner, and choose Edit Profile. The new fields are grouped under My Truck and My Tech.

What do you think?

How do the new profiles look so far? Is there a field you'd like to see that isn't there, or something that doesn't work for you? Tell me in the comments. I read every one, and your feedback will shape what I change next.

The landslide on May 29, 2025 took my shop, and it took over my life for much of the year since. Nearly all my time went to cleanup and keeping the vehicles running, and the website got left behind. Thanks to everyone who stuck around and kept checking in, including the guys who called nearly every day. You know who you are.

A New Name

Mopar1973Man is retiring, and you'll know me as Titanium from here on. I explained why in Mopar1973Man Is Retiring: Meet Titanium. The site keeps its address and everything on it.

Getting the Foundation Back in Order

I got control of the mopar1973man.com domain back after my old registrar was bought out, which was a bigger headache than it sounds. The forum software is current, and I'm reorganizing the site so things are easier to find.

Security

With the site untended for so long, the first job was a security check-up, and most of it is done. I wrote it up in Cloud 10 Is Back: Getting the Servers in Shape. If you're a member, it's a good time to update your own password, especially if you reuse it on other sites. If anything on the site looks off, like strange links or odd emails, send me a message.

One Site, Four Sides

• Diesel (Mopar1973Man.Com): This is where it all started in 2007, when I was just writing down how to fix my own Dodge Ram Cummins. Repair notes, how-tos and downloads for Cummins and Dodge owners will stay the core of the site.

• Cloud 10 Computers: I built custom PCs for years, and now I want to help people make the jump from Windows to Linux. Servers, networking and security live in The Server Room.

• Titanium: The more personal, creative side of the site. Meet the character at the Titanium blog.

• Suzanna's Jewelry: My wife Suzanna is making jewelry and will have a small corner of the site to show it off. Coming soon.

Beast and Thor

I can't do the heavy lifting or the under-the-truck work anymore, so some jobs will be hired out or done with a helping hand. I'll document each one either way. Here's what's on the list for Thor, my 2006 Ram 3500:

• A passenger-side wheel joint, before the worst of winter

• Headlights and LED bulbs, already ordered, with photos of the install to come

• A new Bluetooth stereo

• Plow work, including fixing the controls, and possibly a Fisher V plow for the season

Beast, my 2002 Ram 2500, has a new dash waiting for me, but no place to install it with winter storms coming. I'll log it here when the weather and a workspace line up.

Refreshing the Articles

There are nearly 700 articles on this site, and a lot of them haven't been touched in years. I'm going back through them one at a time to update what's out of date, add what's missing, and clean up the layout. Web addresses stay the same, so your bookmarks still work. If you've used an article and something was wrong or confusing, tell me in the comments, and tell me which ones you want done first.

Cummins Help by Video Call

I'm setting up paid, scheduled video calls for Cummins and Dodge owners. You point your phone or laptop at the engine bay, and I'll walk you through it live. You can show me the problem, and I can show you where things are. The plan is $45 for a quick question, $100 for a one-hour session, and $125 for a hard diagnosis. Booking details are coming soon.

The Goal

Get the site back to the top, with real experience from someone who's done the work, not recycled filler. This is a hobby site now, but subscriptions and downloads are still available, and I'm cleaning up the ad side so the site can help pay for itself. A landslide update is coming soon too.

What would you like to see covered first? Tell me in the comments.

More soon.

— Titanium (formerly Mopar1973Man)

Hey everyone,

If you've been anywhere near my neck of the woods lately, you know the good warm weather isn't going to last much longer. Fall is creeping in fast, and it won't be long before the days turn cold and rainy for good.

That means my outside work is on borrowed time. I've been putting in as many hours outdoors as I can while the weather holds, but once the rain and cold move in for the season, I'll be shutting that down and heading back inside.

Before that happens though, I've still got a solid list of outdoor jobs to knock out while the weather allows it:

• Beast needs the driver side front wheel joint replaced

• Thor needs the passenger side wheel joint replaced before winter hits

• Get the snow plow installed on Thor

• Track down and fix the electrical gremlin in the plow controls

• Get the backhoe back up and running — it's currently down with a spool valve issue in the controls causing trouble with the left to right swing

All of that has to happen outside, so it's taking priority while I've still got decent weather to work in.

The upside for you all: once I'm off the outdoor projects, my attention is going right back into the site. I've got some updates and improvements I've been wanting to get to, and winter is exactly the stretch of time I need to knock them out. So while the outside work winds down, expect to see more happening here on Mopar1973Man.Com.

As always, thanks for sticking around and being part of the community. More to come soon.

— Mopar1973Man

The Slide (May 29, 2025, 8:15 AM)

The first photo captures the immediate aftermath of the landslide that came down off the hillside behind the property. A section of the slope let go, taking several large pine and fir trees down with it — they're shown lying flattened across the debris field, still rooted at the base but toppled toward the yard.

The slide plowed straight through the diesel shop, leaving it sheared apart and tipped at a steep angle, its wood siding torn open and insulation hanging out. In front of it, an old pickup truck sits crushed and half-buried under the debris pile. Scattered across the foreground is the material that had to be sorted afterward: broken cinderblock, sheets of pink foam insulation, coiled blue tubing, splintered lumber, a mattress, and general shop contents thrown clear by the slide. Bare dirt is exposed high on the hillside where the slope failed.

The Site Today (September 8, 2026, 11:00 AM)

The second photo, taken from an elevated spot on the property looking back over the same ground, shows how much has changed in the roughly fifteen months since. The debris field and the wrecked shop are gone — that whole section has been cleared, graded, and turned back into usable yard and driveway.

Where the wreckage once sat, there's now a mounded dirt berm running along the base of the hill (likely holding back the remaining slide material), with a low stone retaining wall marking the edge of the driveway in the foreground. The driveway itself has been re-cut and is drivable, with a car parked partway up it. Off to the right, the property has clearly moved on to normal use again: a solar panel array is set up on a post, vehicles and a small tractor implement are parked near a shop-type building, and stacks of sorted rock and cinderblock sit staged nearby rather than scattered as rubble — material kept back for reuse. A dog sits in the yard, and the grass and fruit tree in the foreground show the place is lived-in and maintained again.

What the Photos Show Getting Done

Between the two shots, the work visible is: clearing the collapsed shop and downed trees, hauling out the debris pile, separating reusable material (stone/concrete) from junk, regrading and re-establishing the driveway, and rebuilding the yard's infrastructure (solar setup, parking area) on top of the cleared ground. What was a fresh disaster scene in May 2025 reads, by September 2026, as an active, functioning yard again — with a visible stockpile of salvaged stone/block still on hand, presumably for the next phase of work.

Ongoing Work

The cleanup isn't finished. Dirt from the slide is still being worked through — pulling remaining garbage and debris out of it — and the cleaned dirt is being moved to the back yard to level out the ground back there. So the front area shown in the September photo is largely squared away, but the back yard is now the active project, being built up and leveled with what's salvaged out of the slide dirt.

There's also no shop or dry covered space to work out of the weather, so as fall turns toward winter, this work has to keep pushing forward as long as outdoor conditions allow before the weather shuts it down.

I love the built in jacks. 🤣😂🤣😂

I am extending this Invitation to all of you wives of Diesel owners, all of you Diesel driving ladies...I welcome you to join me in this fun adventure!😏

Anyone who wants to build articles, I'll be willing to credit your account after staff reviews the article and determines it is of quality. Your account will be credited.

Mopar1973Man.Com now has a public weather tower up in my yard. Being where I live the closest weather tower is at different elevations compared to me. Here in the Pinehurst area, you are about 2,800 feet above sea level. Then McCall is just over 5,000 feet in elevation at the airport and about 35 miles south of me. The next tower is down in Slate Creek and its over 1,000 feet below and 45 miles north. Then looking at NOAA weather the radar can't quite cover my area. My weather data can be found on the internet with Weather Underground. The other reason I'm wanting weather data I'm sick and tried of all this "global warming" and "climate change" nonsense Being to control the narrative you have to hide all weather data from the public I'm going to post my weather data publicly!

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KIDNEWME29

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Today, I started seeing trucks pulling up into my neighbor's driveway and into our driveway to look at the lines. I grabbed my slippers and led the guy to where the line goes to the next pole south of me. Come to find out, this is listed as an emergency repair. YEA! FINALLY! Ziply Fiber is going to replace the poles and get the phone line back up on the poles again. Finny part is that Ziply Fiber needs to move the phone line from behind my house to the west, along the highway, which is about 200 feet to the east. So temporarily, they are going to get the poles and lines back up so my neighbors get phone service once again. I'm excluded. I dropped Ziply Fiber services for landline a long time ago. (Starlink / Verizon service here).

@Tweety Bird and I just got married yesterday! (November 25th, 2025) We both opted to get the legal stuff done now so we can work as a team. Our full ceremony will be July 2026. I have to say, "We had to go through our 'Hell' to find 'Heaven' together." Our actual ceremony will be at 'Heaven Gate' in the Seven Devils' Mountain Range in July, hopefully the road will be passable by then. Suzanna and I met in a waiting room in the Portico West building in Meridian, Idaho. Suzanna was dealing with a surgical wound that was being stubborn to heal. I was dealing with my ostomy fitting and setup. The magic was that we met once, and I happened to change my appointments to 2 weeks earlier and wound up meeting Suzanna again on my second appointment. This is what we consider our anniversary date (July 25, 2024), which is rather strange, we got married on November 25th of 2025.

Now that I'm fixing the other parts of the server, I'm running into email problems with other members. Keep your email inbox in good repair and status. If I can no longer reach you by email means, then I have no recourse but to delete your account completely. I'm no longer going to hold on to accounts with broken email addresses. Again, if your email box is flagging our email as spam, I'll be forced to delete your account. I'll attempt to contact you by the listed phone number and/or PM you on the website, hoping to get a corrected email address.

I'm no longer going to use my private email address for the website notifications. I've created a new no-reply@mopar1973man.com for all the notifications from the website. This email address will not be checked, nor will anyone respond from this address. If you need to be in contact with me, it should be worked out on the website in the forums or PM, depending on the nature of the issue. Checking email and website messages is just too much to chase, so we are going to keep the majority of the communication in the open forum. This way, if I'm not available because of medical reasons or traveling, then other staff and members can still help out till I return.

Make sure to "whitelist" the email address of no-reply@mopar1973man.com this is required to keep communication going between Mopar1973Man.Com and yourself.

The last few months have been a pain in the tail. Asking people to go get firewood, and we will pay them. Then have one person who brought 2 cords at $200 a cord. Great, we have a bit of firewood. Sadly this person knew me and played my heartstrings and asked if I would front him the money so he could be with his family in the hospital. Of course I did! Sucker!!! I've been taken advantage of again! He never delivered the promised 3 cords of wood. There is so much more to even talk about. Simply put, it has just been a rough year between having bladder cancer, losing my bladder and prostate, then having the mudslide destroy my shop and guest house.

I'm hoping Dischinger can help out just one more time to blade a driveway for me, and so I can mark off my septic tanks and hopefully keep people off the top of my tanks this winter. The yard is a total mud pit for now. That's fine too, because I don't even have a lawn to mow right now. It's all been trashed by the trackhoe and skidsteer. I still have a huge pile of dirt and garbage to sort through in time.

Let me toss in a bit of good news. @Tweety Bird and I will be getting married, which was supposed to happen this summer, but the entire landslide and house move ruined that timing. We as planning on a simple courthouse wedding for now to get the legal parts done with. Hopefully, God willing, we will have the celebration up on Heaven Gate Summit by next summer.

Second bit of good news, my kidneys are healing very slowly, and some of the herbal stuff I've found is helping heal them up. There is a bit more...

Finally, after a lot of hassle with Home Depot, I could replace my toolbox and get a base set of tools. I'll admit the price of tools is expensive to start over this way. Ugh! The first order I made didn't work out, and I had to rebuild the order a second time, and the shipping cost doubled. I called Home Depot to get them to help out with building the second order. Ok, everything is waiting to ship. Shipping starts, and the toolbox was last. Finally, we get a phone call for Home Depot. They wanted to inform me that the toolbox was damaged and they are willing to cut some price off and just sell it to me. Then, 2 hours later, I got a second call to inform me that the toolbox was too badly damaged to sell, so they canceled the order and refunded the funds. We ended up heading to Lewiston, ID, to deal with this. Sadly, it wasn't don't good at the start, but we got the manager to step up and reorder the toolbox for me.

As for Thor, I'm going to start working on the project truck and start to hopefully build information for CR engines.

The videos are while I was digging for the shop stuff and Mark personal stuff, if I got lucky but most everything in the house and shop was crushed by heavy slabs of concrete. Finally, I got my driveway cleared in a rough method. It has been long days and a lot of diesel fuel for digging like this. I've had to double-stack all my dirt and debris pile against the mountainside. This is only a temporary place for just the wintertime. I've still got to rebuild a shop at some point so I can even maintain my own vehicles. The driveway is clear but I've got a huge trash pile to sort out, hopefully before the snow comes. Take the wood and move it to the lower yard to be burned this late fall.

Beyond that, I've been spending most of my time cleaning up the yard of all the dirt and debris. Most everything I had has been crushed or damaged in some way. Found my chainsaws, both under a huge chunk of concrete wall lying on top of both saws, and they are just beyond repair. Found a full-size front-load washer no taller than 3 inches, mashed flat. Most everything had mud, and water ran through it. Electrical stuff might be best to just replace. Then the other stuff was crushed by the pure weight of mud and trees. All the downed trees have been pulled out are leaving the yard in trade for usage of Dischinger Family equipment.

Personal health note... My sleep apnea test came back. Not good to find out my oxygen levels are dropping into the 70's percent range as I sleep, not good. Thankful that the medical team informed me of my low oxygen levels during my ostomy surgery. Suggesting I talk to my doctor about taking a sleep study, it took quite a while to get this done. For the last 4 nights, I've had my CPAP and have been getting good sleep and staying asleep the entire night.

Trying to split up time for everything is nuts right now. Then when you wanted to work on the website and loose connection to the website and hosting company. Yeah been a huge hang up this week and hopefully we can get back to work.

LANDSLIDE DONATION PAGE - Also available in the normal menu.

I've now created a full album of photos from the time of the actual event and the current status of what is going on. I'm going to keep updating with photos in the Mopar1973Man Landslide album. Stay tuned, a lot more to come!

LANDSLIDE PHOTO GALLERY

So if you are really wondering what I've been up to, this is most of my effort currently. I'm focused currently on clearing the driveway so we have access to the remaining home here. Mark and Hachi, my friend and his dog, were living in my guest house and helping me through my bladder cancer. Right now is access to the house is much more improtant being @Tweety Bird has a fused ankle, then myself with the ostomy bag; neither person should be walking across snow and ice to get to the house. My remaining time in the evening has been working on getting the work stations up and running and then build my local server here to manage data backups of our workstations, the storage of video footage from the security cameras, also the server that manages the network switch and provides a secure internet for the household.

There is a few photos I want to bring to people's attention. These are from the shop floor, which I dug down to, and shooting photos from the shop. You are looking at the alleyway that I've managed to cut through the 4 to 5-foot-tall landslide. Thanks to the Rupp Family for the use of their Bobcat Track Hoe, then thanks to the Dischinger Family for still coming by and doing the advance moves of the very large trees with the trackhoe.

Yup these trees were all removed from the landslide.

Now, to show the forces this landslide had. There is a photo below of the large double-door refrigerator that was in that house. When I found that I was shocked to find the refrigerator. It was tipped over on its face and the pure weight of the mud and trees crushed the refrigerator to 3 inches tall no joke! You can see the remains of it here in this photo. Top of the stack.

As for the 2 new workstation computers and the new server. I've managed to get my workstation up and running, @Tweety Bird her workstation is up and running, but there is a minor glitch with the motherboard not being willing to use the new video card and its abilities. I've got to investigate why yet. As for the Ubuntu 24.04 Server, this is sweet. This will be a true headless computer with no monitor or keyboard. Even if you have a monitor and a keyboard, you can only log into a textual operating system. No mouse or graphical interface at all. Extremely lightweight, server, and super quick. Currently, there is 16 TB worth of storage on the server. I've made a mistake in ordering the two old-school mechanical drives instead of SSD hard drives, as the mechanical drives won't fit my server case. There is 32 GB of RAM, so there is a lot of room for server software, which I'm still considering a lot of different stuff for backup routines, etc. So this is the environment that I'll be working in, and all the workstations and server will be firewalled from the outside world.

We are trying to plan for winter coming which includes getting firewood. Remember, both of my chainsaws are gone in the mudslide. Then I attempted to get both trucks running without a full set of tools and had to drive to friends' places to borrow tools for what I was missing. Currently, both trucks need work to get ready for winter. The crazy part is that I have to find help for the heavy-duty stuff because my cancer / ostomy is preventing me from doing most of this work...lifting restrictions...hernia risk...still building up my strength.

Just another note, as for access to the website @Tweety Bird and I am sharing a laptop right now. Her laptop screen got damaged. My main computer finally gave up and the video card isn't rendering the screen correctly. That machine was built a long time ago. To top it off...our cloud server that controls the network here, is giving us backup, and storage and video recording of the security cameras just died too. I'm working on solutions to all these issues.

I've got Redis Cache loaded up to see if I can gain a bit more speed or use less time to paint a webpage for members using mobile phones. I've gotta give it some time for the cache to load up with page information and start working. This takes time.

Now between the Redis and the changes to the MySQL server memory settings I've managed to improve performance here and make it load faster for most of us desktop users. My lab data for testing mobile devices is actually slower than I like but it should be nearly a passing grade.

I made some pretty basic cheeseburgers for lunch. I don't know why... I was in my grey scrubs and grabbed my phone, went out, and just recorded a video and uploaded it to Mopar1973Man TikTok explaining I'm back but different from my cancer. Then, to flip the camera around and show off the work we managed to get done cleaning up the mess of a shop being smeared across the yard. Tiktok & YouTube have the video on my Mopar1973Man Accounts. Yeah I'm trying to let people know I'm back and things are starting to settle down now my health really isn't changing much right now but I have issues yet.

I got busy trying to organize a bathroom between @Tweety Bird and myself. Crazy when there are two of us who do makeup work in the bathroom. There is a fairly large counter area for all of our makeup stuff. Yeah, I go into my little corner and start unloading my travel bag since I'm home for now and not traveling anywhere for now. Amazing how much black eyeshadow powder is on the mirror and even the counter. Time to clean it up. That's a hobby I enjoy is my makeup artistry with my character Titanium. I'll continue to post this in his blog area.

During our digging around the shop, we found my old Atari 800 computer stuff. Sadly, the computer is most likely destroyed. How does this mean anything? My computer adventure began at a very young age, around 14. My parents bought me an Atari 800 computer. This computer was the starting adventure of communications, even before the Internet was out. I bought myself a 2,400 baud modem and a few other bits and pieces for the Atari 800, but I created my very own BBS. BBS stands for Bulletin Board System. I made a deal with my parents to take over the phone line at night after 6 pm and run the site till 6 am. I created all my own software between the two cartridges above. The basic language was what I ran for the BBS software. Then the Assembler Editor allowed me to create and edit even current software.

Back in 1984, Fidonet was just getting started, and I was working on adapting Atari Basic software to get Fidonet node messages and download all my messages for my BBS. This was my start of communications back in 1984 using an Atari 800 Computer, an Indus GT floppy drive, a 2400 baud modem, Atari 835 UART to Serial, etc.

By the time I was finishing ITT Tech in 1989, I had built my own voice reader for my message coming off of Fidonet. Shortly after that, I moved to Idaho and then started Cloud 10 Computers. I was a computer technician till 2008 when the market crashed. During this time, I was building and selling computers for the locals around me. I was good with Windows right up to the time of Windows Vista. This is where I made the jump around 2010 and switched over to Ubuntu Linux and continued my adventure into the communication world using Linux software, as I still do this very day. I figure you all would love to see how a kid back in 1984 playing with a computer became the owner of Mopar1973Man.Com and still maintains the server on my own!

Ubuntu Software version list and release dates - I started with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS then currently using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

As for web server software, I have used CentOS7 Linux and now AlmaLinux 8 Linux

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

As a side tidbit the 2008 market crash was also a switch where I dropped Cloud 10 Computers and switched over to working on the website and Mopar1973Man.Com LLC as a shop and doing diesel repairs. Sadly I was pushed pretty hard to keep up during my @MoparMom kidney failure doing 5 years of dialysis to keep her going. She pasted away in 2020. Then twisted with my start of cancer in 2018.

Mopar1973Man.Com YouTube Link

https://www.youtube.com/@mopar1973man

Now, since Titanium is my new character (Emo Goth / Goth). I took my old personal account, downloaded the few videos off of it, and then renamed the account to Titanium.

Titanium Social Media Links

https://www.youtube.com/@titaniumgoth

https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth

I'll start filming my makeup artistry here in the Titanium account. This is my Goth character I created to help me deal with my second run of bladder cancer. You all have to realize that the very thought that I could die from cancer this time. Instead of letting the depression eat me, I fought back with Titanium and won the hearts of my medical staff. Then, after the medical was done and I survived the odds, I started to enjoy the reactions of people with Titanium.

I will say for the most part, the CLS (content Layout Shift) is corrected, and it was the Google AdSense attempting to lay down ads and skew the page by pushing the content down, and there is a score system to this. Currently, through my testing, I'm well below the threshold of a problem, but my biggest move, which is tiny 0.02, is looking for the staff banner. Not bad, I'd say.

If anyone is having issues, please make sure you contact me in a private message here. I'll make sure to look into any strange behavior.

I know there are people there that just don't understand why I've changed in appearance and my nature of being. Sadly, the whole aspect of my life was permanently altered when I had my last run of cancer. You have to realize I'm no longer able to work as a mechanic and do Cummins diesel work at a commercial level. I have an ostomy bag hanging on the front of my belly that is a constant reminder of the cancer I fought through alone. I deal with depression on a mild level because all the things I enjoy doing are gone! I can't lift more than 40 pounds because of hernia risk. My makeup is my way of making the most of the life I have left. As much as I love to turn wrenches now you toss in the fact that my shop is gone due to the mudslide here. Some people ask why you don't just put on your cowboy hat and go back to wrenching. Sorry, I can't I've got medical limits that prevent me from doing the things I love. This is why the character Titanium was created to help deal with my depression of not being able to work on diesels, I can't do a lot of things now because I need to keep my stoma and ostomy clean at all times. Infection at this point could cause huge problems for my health.

What is left of my toolbox and tools, a lot of my sockets spilled out.

My makeup and character "Titanium" create that boundary because I'm usually dressed up. Yes, the dress code I wear some usually shirts like my "Don't like me F___ OFF Problem solved! I've got another shirt that says Fun Fact: I Don't Care. At any rate, this is all about the laughter and smiles I create while I'm in Titanium character. My medical team loves the makeup and shirts I wear. Even when I'm out in public I've got teenagers yelling out over the parking lot of Albertson's, "I Love You Titanium!". The more I'm experimenting with movie set makeup, like Mehron and other high-quality makeup providers. This is what I now enjoy as fun is getting into makeup and making smiles and also supporting other cancer patients and medical patients. Yes, I have a following on TikTok members with similar issues.

As for the nature of being. That has been changed too. I'm tired of the people who just say, "I'll pray for you" and offer zero help. It's gotten even worse now. Just now found out my neighbor, who actually his water line actually caused this issue, is willing to create a GoFundMe page for Mark, but no help for me. That is just absolutely rude. The fact since the landslide, the Dischinger Family is the only one to come help us with the clean up. Even my church group is not even offering to help. I'm sick and tired of all the "fake love" or "fake help" towards us as a family unit. I'm sick and tired of people posting this all over Facebook in turn does nothing to bring help. Everyone knows what happened but no additional help has come, and it has led to a lot of conversations. Yeah, it's been over a month still a huge mess.

Month later its just the Dischinger Family and Us (Mark, Suzanna, and I) cleaning this up.

Just a few days ago, the Rupp Family had a major mudslide come down through their orchard and cow pasture and made a huge mess. I know they are very religious people too. I told the owners, "I'm NOT going to say the same old, I'll Pray for you." No, I did the right thing. "Is there anything I can do with my abilities to help you and your family with getting your business back on its feet?" Yes, even as broken as I am I offer help to my local community.

Beast, sitting in Rupp's parking lot, While I offer help to the Rupp family after the mudslide.

Beast and the RV are up near Upper Payette Lake, Idaho

Miss Mollie on her first camping experience.