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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>News</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/blog/15-mopar1973mancom-staff/</link><description><p>What people post here.</p></description><language>en</language><item><title>COMING SOON!...in process of designing a club</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/82-coming-soonin-process-of-designing-a-club/</link><description><![CDATA[<p><span class="ipsEmoji" title="grinning face">😀</span><strong><em><u><span data-i-color="red">COME AND SHARE </span></u></em></strong>your <strong><u><span data-i-color="violet">Hobbies</span></u></strong><u>,</u> <strong><u><span data-i-color="blue">Interests</span></u></strong>, and <strong><u><span data-i-color="green">Talents</span></u></strong>! Anyone who is interested in <em>sharing</em> what you like to do for <u>crafts</u> or even have a <u>business</u> that you want to <em><u>spread your marketing</u></em> of what you make, sell or give as gifts like birthdays, holidays, or just do for fun...Let Us Share our talents or interests!  </p><p>I am extending this Invitation to all of you <strong><u>wives of Diesel owners</u></strong>, all of you <strong><u>Diesel driving </u><em><u>ladies</u></em></strong>...I welcome you to join me in this fun adventure!<span class="ipsEmoji" title="smirking face">😏</span></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">82</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:32:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>January Ending</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/76-january-ending/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>It's really hard to try and keep going here. Sadly with the lost of my shop and building it place a huge strain on trying to even keep Beast in good repair. My original design was just before my cancer I was going to shut down the shop and work on Thor during the winter. Thor now sits in my yard and nothing happening. I've got new terminals for the batteries now just waiting for a good day to do the work. Articles are based on this but im not going to do something to risk my health. This is why the slow down.</p><p></p><p>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.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">76</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:11:10 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Mopar1973Man.Com Weather Tower (KIDNEWME29)</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/75-mopar1973mancom-weather-tower-kidnewme29/</link><description><![CDATA[<h1><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://Mopar1973Man.Com">Mopar1973Man.Com</a> Weather Tower (KIDNEWME29)</h1><p></p><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://Mopar1973Man.Com">Mopar1973Man.Com</a> 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!</p><p></p><h2><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KIDNEWME29">https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KIDNEWME29</a></h2><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30698" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2026_01/20260124_100024.jpg.9bdd759e4d54859e27da2e60559edd48.jpg" alt="20260124_100024.jpg" title="20260124_100024.jpg" width="739" height="1600" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p><code>&lt;iframe src="https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KIDNEWME29" width="600" height="400" title="Description of content"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</code></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">75</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:04:49 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Ziply Fiber finally!</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/73-ziply-fiber-finally/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Since May 29, 2025, at 6 am, my yard has been a dirt pile with the remains of my shop and guest scattered across my yard. I ran into a Ziply Fiber staffer parked in Riggins, Idaho, and figured I'd try again to get someone to finally come out and fix the line that has been off the poles since. I informed the tech that this has been reported many times to Ziply Customer Service and nothing has been done.</p><p></p><p>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).</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">73</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:38:26 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Mr. And Mrs. Michael S. Nelson has occured!</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/65-mr-and-mrs-michael-s-nelson-has-occured/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Hey Gang, Great News!</p><p></p><p><a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> 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.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30605" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_11/20251125_174916.jpg.fca35ef7ba9a88c04475f5e74f94d626.jpg" alt="20251125_174916.jpg" title="" width="739" height="1600" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">65</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:40:20 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Email Server</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/64-email-server/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Geez, when it fouls up, it dies well! <span class="ipsEmoji" title="face with rolling eyes">🙄</span></p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>I'm no longer going to use my private email address for the website notifications. I've created a new <a rel="" href="mailto:no-reply@mopar1973man.com">no-reply@mopar1973man.com</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>Make sure to "whitelist" the email address of <a rel="" href="mailto:no-reply@mopar1973man.com"><strong>no-reply@mopar1973man.com</strong></a><strong> </strong>this is required to keep communication going between <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://Mopar1973Man.Com">Mopar1973Man.Com</a> and yourself.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">64</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:12:32 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Starting Over</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/63-starting-over/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Ever since the landslide that wiped out my shop, displaced my good friend Mark Hall and his dog Hachi into my basement bedroom. It's been complete hell trying to find tools that remain and attempting to repair vehicles and house repairs, too. It's been a bad summer, and it just seems to get worse here at home, and frustrating. Winter is coming, and snow is not far away now. Just want to close this chapter and attempt a better start in the spring of the year.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Let me toss in a bit of good news. <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>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...</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>As for Thor, I'm going to start working on the project truck and start to hopefully build information for <abbr title="Common Rail">CR</abbr> engines.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">63</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:14:10 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Driveway is finally clear and we can access the house normally!</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/60-driveway-is-finally-clear-and-we-can-access-the-house-normally/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Yeah I'm finally getting this cleaned up and can focus on getting my driveway back. As of right now the driveway is rough but accessible for vehicles to the front door. After I clean up the trash pile we will have parking area for all the vehicles here on the property.  I'm racing against winter time to make sure I can keep my driveway cleared and open. </p><p></p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo" contenteditable="false" data-og-user_text="https://youtube.com/shorts/xWhV2SZ7ZFQ?si=VaHvaeA5ZhZ2DjFp" style="--i-media-width: 100%;"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xWhV2SZ7ZFQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; fullscreen" title="Cleaning up the landslide." loading="lazy"></iframe></div><p></p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo" contenteditable="false" data-og-user_text="https://youtube.com/shorts/xJrplYR-FtE?si=yyl0IvrQAOejj6yK" style="--i-media-width: 100%;"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xJrplYR-FtE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; fullscreen" title="Cleaning up the lanslide." loading="lazy"></iframe></div><p></p><p></p><p>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.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">60</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:41:23 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Down and Out</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/59-down-and-out/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Man, when it rains, it pours. Last Thursday, there was an internet issue beyond my reach. What would happen is try to access <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://Mopar1973Man.Com">Mopar1973Man.Com</a> website, the site wouldn't respond at all. Making matters worse that I attempt to reach the hosting company, and the same thing happens. No response at all. Yeah, panic sets in for a bit, but after making a call to the sales team, they clearly could see the server was running, and pages were loading normally. My problem was just after the ground station of Starlink, there was a breakdown in the backbone of the internet. Just had to wait and be patient for the internet to return to normal to get to the website. I've been right here at home for the week and lost internet connection to the website for 4 days.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">59</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:28:27 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Landslide updates</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/57-landslide-updates/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Lot of you might be a bit upset with me not being available at the drop of a hat. Sorry! Since May 29th, my life has been turned upside down, and been dealing with all kinds of issues. For example, I had a brake malfunction on Beast and was attempting to fix the issue with limited tools, royal pain in the tail. Thor has an issue right now with the injectors (again) and is short on time and short on tools to really dig into this. I've had some luck and got another family involved, and was willing to loan out their Bobcat track hoe so I could get this huge dirt ball off my driveway. I know there are a few of you asking about donations! Yes, we have a donation page up, and every penny counts now, so I can replace tools and equipment lost to the landslide event.</p><p></p><p><a rel="" href="https://mopar1973man.com/clients/donations/">LANDSLIDE DONATION PAGE - Also available in the normal menu.</a></p><p></p><p>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!</p><p></p><p><a rel="" href="https://mopar1973man.com/gallery/album/7-mopar1973man-landslide/">LANDSLIDE PHOTO GALLERY</a></p><p></p><p>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 <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://mopar1973man.com/uploads/monthly_2025_09/large.20250920_184135.jpg.da66f65be0fe11d40cb59453fe00780a.jpg" alt="large.20250920_184135.jpg.da66f65be0fe11" class="ipsRichText__align--block" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>Yup these trees were all removed from the landslide.</p><p><img src="https://mopar1973man.com/uploads/monthly_2025_09/large.20250920_184320.jpg.3255e389ab40769ead3baeb85cb96e97.jpg" alt="large.20250920_184320.jpg.3255e389ab4076" class="ipsRichText__align--block" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://mopar1973man.com/uploads/monthly_2025_09/large.20250920_184250.jpg.dcd4337513a22cf4b937373e2a140356.jpg" alt="large.20250920_184250.jpg.dcd4337513a22c" class="ipsRichText__align--block" width="554" height="1200" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>As for the 2 new workstation computers and the new server. I've managed to get my workstation up and running, <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> 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 <abbr title="Random Access Memory">RAM</abbr>, 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.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30533" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_09/image.png.9d1dc1923254ee4b973f7f4710695f4e.png" alt="image.png" title="image.png" width="807" height="874" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">57</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:49:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>September Update</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/55-september-update/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Some of you might think we are not around. Truth is, we are still working on cleaning up the shop mudslide disaster. Currently, we are down on vehicles, being that Beast just lost a starter, Thor had a random injector failure right at the time of the mudslide. Most of my tools and shop stuff are still buried in the yard. <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> is trying to fill my shoes on the website by handling administrative duties. I'm working with the locals here to attempt to get use of a small track hoe and hoping for the return of the skid steer. Shop is still just a mess as we keep sorting materials to dispose of the debris while hunting for tools, parts, or any belongings.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Just another note, as for access to the website <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> 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.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30527" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_09/20250902_134919.jpg.21bb530363bfa5890ee4ca6d4651249a.jpg" alt="20250902_134919.jpg" title="20250902_134919.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">55</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:09:13 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh my Redis and other things!</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/47-oh-my-redis-and-other-things/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>I've been working on improving the server's performance over the last few days. I've done some memory management with the Apache server and PHP compiler. The CLS issue should come to a close very, very soon. I've been testing the code every night to ensure it's working properly. The page shouldn't jump much at all now.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">47</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 02:23:21 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Still cleaning up the mess slowly.</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/44-still-cleaning-up-the-mess-slowly/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Today I was out in the yard running the little skid steer, loading bricks and concrete. Just getting things sorted out of the dirt is taking the most time. I just found the couch, which is pretty flat and crushed. Finding items from Marks' living room, I found the new but beaten network hub, which was less than half a year old. At about noon, it got pretty hot here, so we abandoned the front yard and came in. Still I've gotta give a huge amount of love for the Dischinger Family that continues to allow us the use of the skid steer.</p><p></p><p>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 &amp; 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.</p><p></p><p>I got busy trying to organize a bathroom between <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> 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.</p><p></p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo" contenteditable="false" data-og-user_text="https://youtube.com/shorts/49qXyes3rts?feature=shared" style="--i-media-width: 100%;"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/49qXyes3rts?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; fullscreen" title="I'm back! I'm modified but alive and cancer free for 1 yr. Then reveal the shop and what happened." loading="lazy"></iframe></div>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">44</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:43:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>My Roots, Where did the whole website idea come from?</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/41-my-roots-where-did-the-whole-website-idea-come-from/</link><description><![CDATA[<p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30472" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_07/20250718_162829.jpg.2811aa17e1fecfd8cc241fd124aac834.jpg" alt="20250718_162829.jpg" width="739" height="1600" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Back in 1984, <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet">Fidonet</a> 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 <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://atarimuseum.ctrl-alt-rees.com/computers/8bits/400800/ATARI800/A800.html">Atari 800 Computer</a>, an <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_GT">Indus GT floppy drive</a>, a 2400 baud modem, <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://atarimuseum.ctrl-alt-rees.com/computers/8bits/400800/peripherals/Communications/835/index.htm">Atari 835 UART to Serial</a>, etc.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://atarimuseum.ctrl-alt-rees.com/computers/8bits/400800/index.1.jpg" alt="index.1.jpg" class="ipsRichText__align--block" width="750" height="356" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>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!</p><p></p><p>Ubuntu Software version list and release dates - I started with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS then currently using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS</p><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases</a></p><p></p><p>As for web server software, I have used CentOS7 Linux and now AlmaLinux 8 Linux</p><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg</a></p><p></p><p>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 <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/126-moparmom/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="126" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/126-moparmom/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@MoparMom</a> 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.</p><p></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">41</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:08:27 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>YouTube, and more...</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/40-youtube-and-more/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Hey Gang, I just spent some time going back to YouTube and doing some tweaking to my account. Now my Mopar1973Man.Com videos are still there, and I'm going to start building videos in the near future for articles. I'm going to still have to do repairs with what I have so this is going to get interesting working in the yard, doing repairs on Beast and Thor both in the wilderness of Idaho. Currently, the last few days here have been right about 95℉ to 108℉. Yeah, I'm going to be doing brakes on the rear axle, being the slide pins got bound up and worn the pads down pretty quickly. But Yeagh, I've got to keep vehicles running and do the repairs for now. Time to dig out the GoPro and do some video work.</p><p></p><h3>Mopar1973Man.Com YouTube Link</h3><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@mopar1973man">https://www.youtube.com/@mopar1973man</a></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><h3>Titanium Social Media Links</h3><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@titaniumgoth">https://www.youtube.com/@titaniumgoth</a></p><p></p><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth">https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth</a></p><p></p><p>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.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">40</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:47:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Performance Tunning for the Website / Server</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/37-performance-tunning-for-the-website-server/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>I'm back at it again. I'm looking to make this website a hotrod as well. Still having issues with the Total Blocking Time of JavaScripts. I'm playing with the Google Pagespeed Module now on the server to help clean up the wasted bandwidth on unneeded things. It's all about being able to trim off the unused code and compress the required code, and get it sent to your desktop, tablet, or phone quickly. Part of this might take some time as the pagespeed module learns and creates methods of saving bandwidth and time for all of you surfing here. </p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">37</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Personal Note</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/35-personal-note/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Hey there gang, I'm still here working at the website.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30464" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_07/20250707_122800.jpg.8388b16b870c95c5acf03e549d8bd66e.jpg" alt="20250707_122800.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p style="text-align:right;">What is left of my toolbox and tools, a lot of my sockets spilled out.</p><p></p><p>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 <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.mehron.com/">Mehron</a> 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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30463" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_07/20250707_121839.jpg.52d29bb15758267ba79a0419cfbe53d9.jpg" alt="20250707_121839.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p style="text-align:right;">Month later its just the Dischinger Family and Us (Mark, Suzanna, and I) cleaning this up.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30462" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_07/20250706_134729.jpg.e8353abd6cf2f76ca81a87f16ebda387.jpg" alt="20250706_134729.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p style="text-align:right;">Beast, sitting in Rupp's parking lot, While I offer help to the Rupp family after the mudslide.</p><p></p><p></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">35</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:08:04 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>We are back from our camping trip</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/34-we-are-back-from-our-camping-trip/</link><description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> And I had to get out of here and get some downtime. Extremely stressful to get up every day, looking out the living room window at an entire mess of my shop buried under tons of mud and dirt. It was wonderful to just go out north of McCall, ID for about 4 days. We didn't do anything but rest. Now we have returned home and are going to start making moves to clean up the main house with all the unpacking from moving to my place. Lots to do. Then still need to handle the mess in my driveway of my shop. Here shortly I'm going to post up a Go Fund Me Page and we are going to attempt to start heading towards normal life again some how. Anyone who wishes to help out, I will not turn you down. As for those who just want to send Prayers, thank you, but it doesn't clean up the mess, replace my shop or my tools that were lost.</p><p></p><p>Beast and the RV are up near Upper Payette Lake, Idaho</p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30453" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_07/IMG_20250701_124219.jpg.a63d618320530ede0102276e2958ecdc.jpg" alt="IMG_20250701_124219.jpg" width="747" height="1600" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>Miss Mollie on her first camping experience.</p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30454" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_07/IMG_20250701_124227.jpg.b02e9df162f535f4dfd23737ee64c76c.jpg" alt="IMG_20250701_124227.jpg" width="747" height="1600" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">34</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:16:55 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Search & Webpage CLS]]></title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/32-google-search-webpage-cls/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>I spent a good part of the day trying to recover from a loss of search engine ranking. Yeah, I have been super busy dealing with insurance agents and people coming and going. Now things are settling down, I jumped back into the website more so. On to the website stuff.</p><p></p><p>My biggest hit was a problem called Content Layout Shift, or CLS for short. We had most of the mobile phone pages were as high as 0.44, which is a huge fail.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30446" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/image.png.9e55d47663cb9bd6149c7568687f57de.png" alt="image.png" width="320" height="157" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>Now to see this for me I have to logoff and view from a guest level. Yeah this started to explain the problem why the search engine is dropping search results we are falling out of the first place.</p><p></p><p>Now to fix this problem, being I have a dynamic webpage. Mopar1973Man.Com will allow you on a desktop to pull the window frame smaller width-wise and the webpage will automagically change from desktop, to tablet, then to mobile format screen. Basically, we need to make sure that frames for Google Ads are pre-laid out, in other words, reserve space on the screen for the ad to be placed without skewing any page text or graphics up or down. Inside the backend of the website, I have a way to add CSS scripts to the theme so I can alter the way information is displayed.</p><p></p><p>Here is my Custom CSS</p><pre spellcheck="" class="ipsCode language-css" data-language="CSS"><code>/* GOOGLE AD CODE FOR RESPONSIVE ADS */
#ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { 
  width: 320px; 
  height: 300px;
  display: block;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}
@media (min-width:500px) { #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 480px; height: 300px; } }
@media (min-width:800px) { #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 780px; height: 300px; } }
@media (min-width:1050px) { #ipsLayout__main .adsbygoogle { width: 1040px; height: 300px; } }</code></pre><p>Now you have to go back over your Google Adsense code to add a bit of custom code around the Google Adsense code.</p><p></p><pre spellcheck="" class="ipsCode language-xml" data-language="HTML/XML"><code>&lt;div id="ipsLayout__main" class="adsbygoogle"&gt;
&lt;script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-0000000000000000"
     crossorigin="anonymous"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;!-- Header Ad --&gt;
&lt;ins class="adsbygoogle"
     style="display:block"
     data-ad-client="ca-pub-0000000000000000"
     data-ad-slot="0000000000"
     data-ad-format="auto"
     data-full-width-responsive="true"&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;
&lt;script&gt;
     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre><p>Here is how the magic works.</p><p></p><p>The custom CSS script creates a container on the webpage. I'm more worried about the height pixel more so than the width. It's the vertical shift of information on the page that is where the issue of CLS comes into play. The CSS script checks the screen size (window) and then, if the window size is at the "min-width" value, then the reserved space is width and height values to the right on the same line. This keeps the layout from moving as the ad loads from Google. The &lt;div&gt; tags in the HTML code of Google AdSense this is what create this container in the code.</p><p></p><p>The results of the code change below. The Google side panel is on the right showing the CLS value of a few random pages. </p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30447" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/Screenshotfrom2025-06-2217-17-28.png.8919f92f6c533ba4b2d956dae0de7a09.png" alt="Screenshot from 2025-06-22 17-17-28.png" width="1600" height="900" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30448" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/Screenshotfrom2025-06-2217-16-44.png.f78fe5648b279c8e0ed685847fed1198.png" alt="Screenshot from 2025-06-22 17-16-44.png" width="1600" height="900" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">32</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:41:40 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Landslide - Update</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/31-landslide-update/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>First, let me say that for any of you who own your homes, please review your insurance policies. I just found out that the majority of homeowners are not covered for landslides, mudslides, earth movement (earthquakes), etc. Like me, it's a completely lost. The insurance policy doesn't cover this at all, not one dime. For all those religious people who walked up and said they would pray for me. They packed up and left the scene quickly and gave ZERO help at all. Even my neighbor who is part of the same church group, came over drunk with a glass of wine and offered ZERO help.</p><p></p><p>As for <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> and myself, I know we have been kind of MIA right now. We have been trying to unload all of <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> house into my garage. We are downsizing to financial responsibility. Then, to make matters worse, you start with the <a rel="external nofollow" href="https://nokings.org">NO KINGS</a> protest (https://nokings.org). Most of you know I'm a Trump Supporter! We have one small load of stuff to grab out of her garage, and we are done. The house is going on the market. Nampa, Idaho, is an armpit right now with protests and construction everywhere. Yeah, during my last visit down there, dealing with medical too I was pulled over by a Boise City Police officer in Downtown Boise because of smoke and loud exhaust. (Oops. Wrong tune loaded.) There are state police, county police all over the place because of the possibility of riots because of the NO KINGS protest.</p><p></p><p>So, doing inventory of the house debris, my ATV is damaged beyond repair, both of Mark's trucks are destroyed, and all of Mark's and my tools are scattered all over the place. I don't have a full set of tools! We did get lucky and find, like my bow and Mark's bow. Mark's black powder rifle is undamaged. Still have not found the big double door refrigerator, stove/oven, etc. I'm hoping my MIG welder made it, but doubtful. The washer and Drier of <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> is crushed and gone. Currently, I have no way to even pull the injectors out of Thor to send back to <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/31-dieselautopower/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="31" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/31-dieselautopower/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@dieselautopower</a> because I've lost most of my tools. Like my air compressor is damaged, shouldn't be used. 4kw generator got ruined, etc. Thousands upon thousands of dollars of damaged tools, equipment, and building, all gone and not covered by my homeowner's insurance.</p><p></p><p>I've gotten some donated funds to keep fuel in the equipment (track hoe, and skid steer) here so we can keep digging. Thanks to the Dischinger Family for bringing TRUE HELP! His wife made us all dinner the night of the slide. Their son AJ, has been helping out with running the equipment and digging up stuff slowly so we can try to recover stuff. Andrew has been super helpful and brought other friends to aid in the dig for our stuff.</p><p></p><p>I'm calling on any of the Mopar1973Man.Com family for help. You all have to remember that since my battle with cancer, I've been dealing with my health problems including my Stage 3a Chronic Kidney Disease and my ostomy that I now have for the rest of my life. This puts me in a bad place where I can't even help to move all this. It's been a challenge just trying to move <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> here with me. Even if all you can do is support me on the website as a staff member and watch over the site as I try and handle other problems I've got to handle.</p><p></p><p>Be aware that some people might get their feelings hurt. Understand that their action hurts us as a family.</p><p></p><p>At this point, I want to say to all you "religious people" who keep doing the same thing, "I'll pray for you!" You, my friend, are part of the problem! We have had so many come here to peer at the destruction and just walk away to say the same phrase, "I'll pray for you!" and do absolutely nothing to help us. Please, if you can help, please take action and do the right thing and help. Either with donations, equipment, or time, etc. I've even contacted my local church group to that I was with and got the same answer "I'll pray for you!" Please, I'm truly asking for help to move dirt and clean up this mess that is taking forever because too many people want to do the LAZY thing and "I'll pray for you!" then leave.</p><p></p><p>Video (Tiktok)</p><p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth/video/7516228282023497002?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7516228666382091807">https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth/video/7516228282023497002?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7516228666382091807</a></p><p></p><p>As you can see, most everything was damaged or turned into junk rather quickly. A few things under plastic that was some computer parts I've kept.</p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30440" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/20250615_110015.jpg.2ecde5ddb0b7051c112e162290f6d021.jpg" alt="20250615_110015.jpg" title="20250615_110015.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>They recovered my ATV, which is a total loss. Damaged beyond repair.</p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30441" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/20250615_105946.jpg.dd830f91f2360f58a3d9a9925396bc3e.jpg" alt="20250615_105946.jpg" title="20250615_105946.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>Mark's 1998 5.9L V8 Magnum truck seriously damaged and possibly a bent frame. It was shoved sideways for about 20 to 30 feet.</p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30442" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/20250615_105950.jpg.46932b9e19ca3339775f296af8669827.jpg" alt="20250615_105950.jpg" title="20250615_105950.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>You can see both my Mother's bicycle and mine are a loss too.</p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30443" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/20250615_105957.jpg.b2fad7c3981fa725b219ff5184e6f318.jpg" alt="20250615_105957.jpg" title="20250615_105957.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p>All I'm asking for is some help to hopefully clean all this up and then hopefully build a shop in a new location on the property. Like all my ability to do the little articles and such just came to a screeching halt. Without even a basic set of tools, it's tough to do an oil change right now. I don't even have a chainsaw to go get firewood with for winter or even cut the fallen trees up in the landslide. Seriously, I've lost everything!</p><p></p><p>Toss in my cancer battle, social security battle, and now the landslide that wiped out my guest house and shop. It's very depressing and mentally tough to handle on a daily. Just imagine for a second you get up every day and look out your front window, and see this mess. The best you get for help is "I'll pray for you!" Please understand it is not only just me who is affected, but also Mark and Suzanna, we all live together in the main house.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">31</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:19:43 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>As of May 29th, 2025 Mopar1973Man.Com Shop was leveled by a landslide!</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/30-as-of-may-29th-2025-mopar1973mancom-shop-was-leveled-by-a-landslide/</link><description><![CDATA[<h1>Mopar1973Man.Com Shop was leveled by a landslide.</h1><p>Yeah, with a heavy heart, I lost my entire shop and guest house to a landslide. I won't discuss how this all happened yet. The biggest thing I lost was the entire building. My Best Friend, Mark Hall, was living in my guest house. He was one of the few who helped me out with my cancer. He was protected by a guardian angel. I just saw where his bed landed and what pinned Mark in the house. Mark's Dog Hachi made it too, and no injuries. We managed to hunt for stuff. Like my huge black tool box it was there under the roof lot of our tools between Mark and I. There are tools but scattered all over the ground, spilled out during the landslide. As you can see I had a load of stuff from <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> on my BigTex trailer pulled by Thor. We got home at 1:30am and hit the bed by 2am. This event happened at 6am roughly in the morning.</p><p></p><p>I would like to apologize in advance for my being missing in action for the last few weeks, I've been busy getting <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> moved in with me. Then the landslide issues were another that really took all my attention from the website for the last few weeks.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30430" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/20250529_081420.jpg.a8cee0e46231e78c772655131aa74056.jpg" alt="20250529_081420.jpg" title="20250529_081420.jpg" width="1600" height="739" loading="lazy"></p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30431" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_06/20181021_160030_HDR.jpg.b5068b033db004d35ce4e656e696a094.jpg" alt="20181021_160030_HDR.jpg" title="20181021_160030_HDR.jpg" width="1600" height="900" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">30</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 20:53:43 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Looking for members that wish to help!</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/27-looking-for-members-that-wish-to-help/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Hey there gang, I'm looking for people who truly want to get involved with the website. I'm adding functions like the Gallery so people can place there truck photos up and show them off to the rest of the world. The Event Calendar is going to be set up for the idea that we might plan travel trip to places and share our location so people can meet up with me. I also want to bring the Zoom meetings together too. I'm going to be building articles on Thor here shortly we are going to have more information on 3rd Gen Trucks soon. I'm serious I'm looking for people who want to get involved in building up this website. I'm willing to teach and show you around. Most of the stuff you would be handling is from the front end and no code knowledge is required. Anyone wishing to become part of the staff please contact either <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/1-mopar1973man/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="1" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/1-mopar1973man/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Mopar1973Man</a> or <a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> and we will interview you and see what you have to offer the website.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">27</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 02:51:11 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Terms Of Use and Policies</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/25-terms-of-use-and-policies/</link><description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/" class="ipsMention" data-mentionid="14475" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://mopar1973man.com/profile/14475-tweety-bird/?&amp;do=hovercard" rel="">@Tweety Bird</a> And I have been busy rewriting the terms of use and policies for the website. This is all new website software, and more features now than in the past. We felt that it was time to review the dated policies and realize we need to totally rebuild everything. Here, shortly, there will be a full database of policies for everything on the website for the usage policy. This is being built in a database so that when other issues develop, we can append to the current policies easily. This will be broke down in a modular design so there will be a policy for each division of the website.</p><p></p><p>Then I've been digging through the site. I'm trying to get everything working right when I've got time at the keyboard. I know the event calendar is currently broken. I need to grab a few days at home and be able to do tag team with the software manufacturer so I can get this resolved. The event module needs to be repaired. I want to post Zoom Meeting schedules. Yup! I'm going to push forward. I'm getting tired of social media and the censoring of speech. Since I have the website, I need to build up a few more features, like face-to-face Zoom meetings to help you fix your trucks. Yeah, I just leaked an idea... <span class="ipsEmoji" title="face screaming in fear">😱</span><span class="ipsEmoji" title="beaming face with smiling eyes">😁</span></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">25</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 21:48:57 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Badges and Achievements</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/15-badges-and-achievements/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>Now subscribing members can see how much other members have contributed to the website. There are several badges that you can earn by just being helpful to other members.</p><p></p><p><img class="ipsImage ipsRichText__align--block" data-fileid="30336" src="https://mopar1973man.com/storage/attachments/monthly_2025_04/Screenshot_20250415_133925_Chrome.jpg.c3481ffe7611a0d621c69948ef6e9db2.jpg" alt="Screenshot_20250415_133925_Chrome.jpg" width="738" height="1600" loading="lazy"></p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">15</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:40:53 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Stalled The Engine</title><link>https://mopar1973man.com/blogs/entry/6-stalled-the-engine/</link><description><![CDATA[<p>I was attempting to keep you all informed of the work happening here using the Blog system. Sadly, there were bugs in the software, some bugs have been fixed. We made it to the Invision Community Version 5 software. Things have been a bit weird and tough for me to catch up and get everything working correctly.</p><p></p><p>Blogs had an error where the categories couldn't be managed. When I attempted to delete one category, it deleted both of my previous blog posts. Opps. Yeash it sucked but I'll stumble and get back up and running properly and keep making the site better and faster. Yes, the blogs are a new feature that is part of the website package now.</p><p></p><p>The mobile and desktop themes both come with light and dark color themes. This can be selected at the bottom of your screen. By default, the screen will auto-adjust between the light and dark, typically dark with mobile devices. Remember, you can have light or dark at a touch of the icon at the bottom.</p><p></p><p>I know there are issues with the Event calendar that is going to be used now. The design plan is that you'll notice there is no phone number listed. I'm going to start an appointment-based call back and phone support. Take notice that the only contact information is my snail mail address. Phone contact will be done by appointment base.</p><p></p><p>I can no longer just give away my knowledge or my information on the website. I'm a <strong><span data-i-color="red">PRIVATELY OWNED</span></strong> website. I'm not like Cummins Forum, which is owned by VerticalScope Inc. Mopar1973Man.Com is a small business privately owned and maintained privately. Yes, this means I'm responsible for all bills and services to keep this running.</p><p></p><ul><li><p>Phone Support appointment based - $50.00 an hour based on the time logged on my phone.</p></li><li><p>Subscriptions - These are required to interact with Mopar1973Man or get support for your vehicle.</p></li></ul><p></p><p>Articles and Elite Articles will be merged, and Elite Articles will be removed soon.</p><p></p><p>The download section remains fairly the same, but the Listing is now Grid Styled.</p><p></p><p>Gallery Section is another new feature I'm already hard at work using for my blogs now and my artwork as well. I want to invite all the members to show off their trucks in the generation categories, and then I can start voting for Trucks of the Month. We can change up the generation categories and have fresh pictures of members' rides.</p><p></p><p>I've been digging through the article database and found several little things I wanted to fix, being that the website is in a state of flux right now with the Article Database having URL edits done. You might find old URL links that might not work now. Sorry, but give a bit of time to allow Google to reindex this in the days to come.</p>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">6</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:16:21 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
