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  1. Prospective

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 01/14/2026 07:13 PM

    @Tweety Bird I love this woman. ❤️ She said something to me today that change my point of view. Dont let my cancer ruin my Dec / Jan time. Look at it this way Titanium was already created before this date but his birthdate of being is December 31, 2023. Cancer might of created him but ive got to celebrate his life! Titanium is 2 years old already. Like I mention in my previous blog entry im a Phoenix rising from the ashes and going to enjoy what ive created, and what I still have!

  2. Ziply Fiber finally!

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 01/12/2026 07:38 PM

    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.

    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).
  3. You might have all seen the change in my avatar to red hair. I've now past 2 years of daily makeup work when I leave the house. People still have issues understanding why? Do you all understand I've been a greasy mechanic since I was 14 years old? Yup, my life began with a desire to acquire tools and fix things as early as 14. So, for my life to change while having bladder cancer, I couldn't return to working on trucks in a commercial capacity. Even today, it pulls me down when I see a problem with someone's truck, and I can't do anything to fix being all my shop and tools are gone, and secondly, I can't because of my kidney issues as well, being a infection could really end my story quickly. I'm required to keep my ostomy bag clean and the area around it to reduce the chances of infection. Being my makeup work and my dress code enforce my safety and keeps me out of the greasy, dirty jobs. In 40 years of doing mechanical work, I've got to retire from my greasy jobs and rolling on the ground to protect my remaining health!

    Now, this doesn't mean I cannot help a person with their truck. I'm still a very knowledgeable person about the Cummins ISB and BT series engines. It's just the fact that I cannot place myself in a position that might cause injury to my stoma and/or puncture my ostomy bag. I'm trying out some ideas with local folks to guide them as a set of eyes and help teach the owners how to do the repairs themselves. Just place me in a chair to watch a job and guide on tools and the proper way of doing a job.

    The crazy hard part is to have done something for 40 years and now be FORCED to learn another way. I'm not willing to let go of the website, but this causes issues being I WANT to create more articles on the 3rd Gen stuff but I'm shopless. I don't even have a clean place to work, which adds a lot more frustration trying to keep clean by using gloves, laying carpet or board down to stay out of the mud/dirt. My strength isn't what it once was either and on top of that, I've got to be careful of hernia issues with having a stoma.

    I'm 2 years CLEAN of bladder cancer, listed as Chronic Kidney Disease 3a, and now a lifelong CPAP and ostomy patient.

    I'm looking at how to redevelop my life to continue doing what I love to do. I'm open to comments and suggestions or even questions about anything.

    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh2Gpn8a/

  4. Mr. And Mrs. Michael S. Nelson has occured!

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 11/26/2025 06:40 PM

    Hey Gang, Great News!

    @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.


  5. A lot of you don't understand why the makeup. I'll admit I fell apart last night; it's Christmas / New Year's again. Both of my bladder cancers came for Christmas. What most people don't get is the fact that what I love to do is out of my reach. Let's roll back the clock and understand that as a kid at the 14 years old I was gifted a socket set (Craftsman) and fell in love with mechanical things. I was building go-karts and mini-bikes with friends. I was fixing lawn mowers and small single-cylinder engines. Then, at the age of 16, I got my Dad's 1973 Dodge Charger SE as my first car. Hence, my nickname came from my first car. Now fast forward to 2002 and buying my first Diesel truck and dove in with both feet into a world I've never done and became an" internationally known diesel mechanic". Now, for 2018 and 2023 Christmas was a lonely and frightening trip to a hospital, and a fight for my life. It's been rather tough to figure out where I'm going from here since my shop is nothing more than a frozen dirt pile today. I have some basic tools to keep things going here, but still missing a lot of tools and equipment. As much as I want to be that diesel mechanic, I can't because of health issues stemming from my kidneys, left side is 82%, and my right is 17% remaining. In this condition a infection would kill me, so I can't really be out and covered in grease and dirt. I can't lift more than 40 pounds because of a hernia risk with my stoma. I want to continue doing what I love, but at the same time, it's nearly impossible to jump into doing major work in Thor to just build articles. It's just too cold and getting difficult for me handle long-term cold without heat and an enclosed shop.

    Then another realization, Titanium has a birthday and is officially 2 years old. Yes, this means I've been doing daily makeup work for 2 years now and taking my art to the streets. My makeup work was my way of dealing with depression and trying to do something that brought happiness back, while doing something that was very scary at the time, dealing with chemotherapy treatments and the possibility of death. Titanium is my way of finding some enjoyment in my day, as I can't just go down to the shop and fix another problem with a truck, to build a website article is gone. I have to be thankful for the fact that I created the Titanium character to keep me going during a very tough time. Happy Birthday, Titanium!

  6. Makeup artistry

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 12/27/2025 07:59 PM

    Now, to speak up on another fact. Just because I've changed my appearance with makeup and hair, it typically doesn't make me less knowledgeable. My typical day is that if I'm planning on going to town, I'll always do my makeup work before I leave. I was referred by a local repair shop in McCall (Sharlies Auto Repair) to a Cummins owner for tuning his Quadzilla. Even on a day like that, I was dressed up and rolled to this client's house to chat with him about tuning and getting his truck ready for a trip. This shocked my client that seen the makeup and dress code. But after talking to him for a short while and built a quick base tune to roll to Oregon for the holidays. He's totally sold on my abilities to diagnose and fix anything Dodge Cummins. When this client shows back up after the holidays, I'll be guiding him and his roommate on how to repair both of their trucks. I might not be able to turn the wrenches, but I can give guidance to people on how to fix their trucks.

    Wound up going into Riggins for a few odds and ends groceries. I stopped by the deli counter for a chicken strip to munch on for the ride home. The gal working behind the counter was fixed on my face. After getting my chicken strip, she said, "I really do love the makeup you did on your eyes!" Quite fascinating doing the makeup work I do, and the many comments and even people to come up and just ask, "Why? What's your story?" I can break out a quick tale of my cancer and move forward. Just totally awesome to be me and add the style of Victorian Goth with my jacket.

  7. Titanium Live on TikTok

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 12/26/2025 11:38 PM

    Today I was stuck inside the house being its raining here in Idaho. While the mornings are cold here, I was checking back on a few videos near Christmas time. Sadly, I saw a few artists who were having a rough start to getting the Goth/Emo/Alt makeup. Either being laughed at or just treated poorly by people on the streets or at school. I'm going on 3 years of makeup artistry that I've self-taught. @Tweety Bird asked me to get the new weather station set up and working. I needed a 4x4x12 to get it up above the roof line for now. As I was rolling into New Meadows, I was still thinking about the videos I've seen and wanted to speak out for these new makeup artists. I got over to C&M Lumber and purchased a nice 4x4x12 pressure-treated, low-knot. I left C&M lumber and drove across Highway 55 and up this side road just a bit, and stopped in the road and broke out the phone. Tried to make a video but naw sounded dorky. Packed up and left. Got up the highway on 95 heading home had another thought and pulled over. Tried again. Just couldn't get the thought right. Drove on for home. Found a spot just before I drop out of cell range and fired up the camera again and created this video...

    https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth/video/7586810780318846221

    What I've learned is that it doesn't matter what you do in life. Be happy doing what you do! Like for me, I didn't want the depression and BS because I can't work on Cummins trucks as a wrench job any longer. Yeah, I have trouble doing simple tasks because this ostomy bag is on my belly. I'm still alive and still have all my knowledge of these trucks. Still going to do what I enjoy tinker in my spare time when the weather is good. In the meantime, I'm enjoying "Titanium". I've been growing on TikTok with 600+ followers. I've impressed quite a few people with my makeup artistry. I still do daily makeup when I leave the house. So I want to show these artists that you can do it! First thing is to learn how to "Own That Look". @Tweety Bird is going to start popping up in the photos too, as she enjoys the colored hair and being colorful too.

    I'm going to start looking for a period of time to go Live very soon.

    OH! Just so you all know, if you click (or tap) on the banner photo, it will open up to full size too.

  8. Fire in the Eyes

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 12/26/2025 11:13 PM

    This is one of my first attempts at blending many colors evenly. This case told me she was going to wear green. Christmas colors, so I went to the wild side and took the fire-red wig and makeup to boot. I've been watching several makeup artists explain how they blend colors. Now, I'm combining the artwork I currently do with the tapered color down each side of my nose and outward toward the outside of my eyebrows. Since getting her eye surgery and correcting her vision, that is a huge blessing and makes it fun for her to enjoy her own style of makeup artistry.

    We had to be out and about on Christmas Eve. While we were out in McCall, ID, we figured on picking up a few odds and ends for Christmas time, like snack food and such. It was fascinating to see all the people giving us stellar comments about being festive and colorful. I've been enjoying the makeup work for 2 years. Yeah, it's been 2 years since my bladder cancer, when I started. Still, every day I do makeup when I'm out and about. I'm always challenging myself a bit more each time.

  9. Titanium story continues

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 12/11/2025 01:01 AM

    Titanium's story continues in public. I've got followers all over the place. At Starbucks coffee in McCall, the two gals who work there started to ask questions about my appearance with my colored wigs and makeup. When I was done explaining the story of my cancer, they both were impressed with my ideas of heading towards a Goth/Emo/Alt appearance. While I was still in the Albertson store, which has Save-On Drugs and the Starbucks coffee, two kids stopped me to tell me they loved my hair color. Compliments from other people are truly amazing.

    Today, I had to run into town to handle some banking for us. I ran into an old client I had worked with on his Toyota, and he gave great comments about me wearing my Victorian Tail Coat and basic black makeup. He told me to stay in touch and stop by once in a while. Then I stopped by the Riggins One Stop fuel station. I needed to drain the ostomy bag. While I was there, I said hi to the staff, and one gentleman who lives in the RV park out back gave me wonderful comments about my appearance. After he understood the story of my cancer, he fully supported my dress code and makeup artistry. He's now a follower on TikTok.

    No, my other passion for makeup artistry will never stop at this point. Even my wife loves the aspect that I'm doing makeup and getting rather good at it. As for all my abilities, like Computer repair and Network Administrator, Diesel Mechanic, and now cosplay and makeup artistry. I've made the choice that I'm just roll along and enjoy life to the best of my abilities. This means slowly start building articles as a diesel mechanic, but it will be rare to find photos now of me without a wig or makeup. Nearly 3 years of doing makeup artistry.

  10. Beast gets a new radiator!

    Beast · Mopar1973Man · 12/11/2025 12:33 AM

    Finally, I'm getting back to doing things with the trucks. Beast has been rolling on a blown radiator for 2 years with a 200℉ with zero pressure. Yeah, I bought time (too much) and just clipped off the vacuum breaker part of the radiator cap. Now I'm getting the radiator installed in Beast and have a 16 PSI pressure once again.

    First off I gotta show off my mini shop for now so I can keep our vehicles in working order. It's tiny but its dry space somewhat. We are still sorting out stuff and getting @Tweety Bird moved into the house. The garage here in the main house is small.




    Let's get that coolant drained. Opps! this a screw plug type of drain. Unscrew the drain and then still your hand in front of the stream and deflect the flow into the 5-gallon bucket. Yup, a mess.


    Typical removal, nothing out of the ordinary. The new radiator is fully assembled and ready to drop into the truck. I got the new radiator all installed and pulled the 200℉ thermostat and saw the inside of the block at 501k miles. Well water and coolant is doing awesome, barely any surface rust on the cast block.

    Just a tip to all of you that do a radiator drain and flush, just make sure to pull the thermostat and replace it while you're there. The refill can be done with the thermostat out, so the block can burp air out quickly. Nice green hue with a 50/50 mixture of coolant. Now drop in the thermostat and run the three 8mm bolts back in snug.



  11. Email Server

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 11/18/2025 11:12 PM

    Geez, when it fouls up, it dies well! 🙄

    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.

  12. Starting Over

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 11/03/2025 11:14 PM

    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.

    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.

  14. Titanium getting ready for Halloween

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 10/07/2025 02:09 AM

    I'm still experimenting with makeup artistry. Been more focused on the dirt work in the yard, but there are a few days I was messing around. @Tweety Bird wanted to see a few new colors of hair for me. How about fire red? Then I've even been to a funeral for one of my friends, I was dressed in full black and black makeup. The fire red hair, I really enjoy wearing when you get comments about being seen all the way across the store, like Walmart. I love to dress up and interact with the public. The black was a way for me to dress up for a funeral for my friend Dan Catherman. Just after the landslide, he was down helping me hike up the mountain to look at the landslide from top down. Rest in Peace, my friend.
  15. 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.




    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.

  16. Down and Out

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 09/29/2025 12:28 AM

    Man, when it rains, it pours. Last Thursday, there was an internet issue beyond my reach. What would happen is try to access Mopar1973Man.Com 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.

    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.

  17. Landslide updates

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 09/21/2025 01:49 AM

    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.

    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.


  18. News on Mopar1973Man.Com

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 09/13/2025 08:58 PM

    First, I have to say, "If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!"

    I've just had a series of things go wrong. First off, we are down to a single laptop for doing website work. I lost my old yellow box computer it finally died after 20 years of service. The old AMD CPU, the video software is no longer supported by Ubuntu. Just too old. Now my @MoparMom computer was our house server for the video cameras and storing the backups. This machine died with hard drives. Again 20 year old computer. Then @Tweety Bird blew the monitor on her laptop. This has made it tough to do the server work and repairs, and adjustments now.

    Now I've been granted help from a private, unnamed investor who wanted to help Mopar1973Man.Com stay alive and on the internet. I'm currently building 2 work station computers.
    5.4 GHz AMD Processors (6 core)
    32 GB of DDR5 Memory
    4 TB M.2 SSD Harddrive
    GeForce RTX 5060 Video Card
    1,000 Watt power supply

    Now the Server is going to be much different. 36 TB of storage.
    5.4 GHz AMD Processors (6 core)
    32 GB of DDR5 Memory
    (4x) 4 TB M.2 SSD Harddrive
    (2x) 10 TB SSD Harddrive
    GeForce RTX 5060 Video Card
    1,000 Watt power supply

    Now the design will be that my server will be running 24 hours, 7 days a week. This will allow my server to contact the website server and make daily backups of the running server and bring them home to the server at home. Now the workstations will be automatically backed up every night. Even store our cell phone photos and information. We are adding more cameras here, so a chunk of this storage will be for the cameras on the property. This server will be set up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server Edition software. This will be headless, meaning there is no monitor, keyboard, or mouse on this server. This makes my home server very secure, being the only way you'll have access to this machine is over SSH connection (SSH stands for Secure SHell). This is all encrypted and firewalled inside the house.

    My entire network is based on a 28-port TP-Link managed switch, protected by a TP-Link Gateway, which is firewalled, then Starlink doesn't allow any port forwarding, so it makes it nearly impossible to see anything inside my network. I've also created several VLANs to keep access to different devices under strict control and prevent unauthorized people from accessing other devices, like my cameras or workstations. Yes, the information is very secure.


  19. September Update

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 09/02/2025 09:09 PM

    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. @Tweety Bird 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.

    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.


  20. Meet Stormy Rose.

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 08/17/2025 04:34 PM

    This was so awesome. I ran into a older couple that shared photos of their son and all the stellar comments. Their son did the whole punk theme, mohawk hair, and in blue green color. Checked out of the store with our groceries to run into Stormy Rose, she is a young artist who started her own version of Goth makeup, very impressive artwork for even her age, super cool interaction.

  21. Oh my Redis and other things!

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 08/06/2025 02:23 AM

    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.

    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.

  22. Fuel pressure!

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 07/30/2025 04:45 PM

    I've been playing with Thor to see if I could fix the AirDog 150 to get closer to 15 PSI. I found a spring at my local hardware store, and it was way thicker, but after a bit of trimming work, I got the fuel pressure to settle at 22 to 25 PSI. Yeah, I know it's high, but I wanted to be sure the CP3 is loading fully and getting good, solid rail pressure. I'm struggling to understand the grid heater light, and it typically trips on deceleration. I'm doing more testing to figure out my issues. Today I've got to run back to McCall to return core calipers for my core money. Thor is going to do the task.

  23. Whoa! Rear brakes are rusted.

    Beast · Mopar1973Man · 07/30/2025 04:40 PM

    Yeah, I just got done doing brakes on Beast. Both rear brake calipers had rusted pistons that were so jammed that I couldn't seat them. @Tweety Bird was telling me just get it repaired, we need the trucks to function properly. I most likely got a little tear in the rubber boots, and the road salt finally ate the calipers up before the pads were even worn out on the passenger side. The driver's side rear pads were nearly gone due to the rusted pistons. In my position, without a shop, it makes it rather tough to get creative with rebuilding calipers. Yeah, part changer, but at least Beast is safer to drive.

  24. Still cleaning up the mess slowly.

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 07/23/2025 11:43 PM

    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.

    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.

  25. Titanium takes the family out!

    Cosplay and Makeup Artistry · Mopar1973Man · 07/20/2025 06:44 PM

    Yeah, with all the stress of dealing with the mess in the yard, then the mess of everyone crammed under one roof. It gets to everyone here, so sometimes you just gotta get dressed up and grab a truck and go wander out in the woods looking for camping spots and even take Mollie, our fur baby, with us. @Tweety Bird found me a light ash blue wig and even picked up the lipstain as well. @Tweety Bird She is such an awesome fiancée, she is always trying to add to my Titanium makeup and clothing. We loaded up in Thor and took off up Smokey Boulder Road looking for different camping spots. We found several spots that are deeper back in the forest but close to the Boulder Creek so we can go fishing. Oh yeah, Huckleberries are out and OMG! I found a hotspot back in the woods, just full of berries.

    Here lets just post the video.

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