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  1. 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.


  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  5. 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.
  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.


  9. 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.


  10. 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.


  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.
  17. During our digging around the shop, we found my old Atari 800 computer stuff. Sadly, the computer is most likely destroyed. How does this mean anything? My computer adventure began at a very young age, around 14. My parents bought me an Atari 800 computer. This computer was the starting adventure of communications, even before the Internet was out. I bought myself a 2,400 baud modem and a few other bits and pieces for the Atari 800, but I created my very own BBS. BBS stands for Bulletin Board System. I made a deal with my parents to take over the phone line at night after 6 pm and run the site till 6 am. I created all my own software between the two cartridges above. The basic language was what I ran for the BBS software. Then the Assembler Editor allowed me to create and edit even current software.

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



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

    Ubuntu Software version list and release dates - I started with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS then currently using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

    As for web server software, I have used CentOS7 Linux and now AlmaLinux 8 Linux
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

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

  18. Thor might be fixed?

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 07/20/2025 06:03 PM

    With Beast leaking oil out front and rear main seals, needing tires, and closing in on 500k miles. Beast needs work to keep him going. Mark suggested to try looking into Thor. Luckily my fuel pressure test gauge made it and was intact and undamaged. I checked the fuel pressure key on, engine off, barely 7 to 8 PSI of fuel pressure. Now start the engine, the fuel pressure drops to 2-3 PSI with WOT stab of the throttle. Ugh! Now I pulled the check ball and spring and did my typical spring mod bending the last coil to block the ball from getting in the coil. Now shimmed it with two washers. Barely made 10 PSI. The grid heater light is off. I'm going to replace all the fuel filters see if it improves the pressure and stability.

    A simple job like this should be much more than a few minutes to fix. When your tools are all scattered and the box is in ruins. We are still missing sockets and tools in the dirt of the yard. Highly frustrating to spend nearly an hour to find 1 socket, 1 ratchet, and just take the fitting out and modify a spring. Absolutely frustrating!



    Let's see if Thor holds up now. Time and mileage will tell!

  19. YouTube, and more...

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 07/17/2025 02:47 AM

    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.

    Mopar1973Man.Com YouTube Link
    https://www.youtube.com/@mopar1973man

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

    Titanium Social Media Links
    https://www.youtube.com/@titaniumgoth

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

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

  20. Titanium goes to town

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 07/11/2025 06:19 PM

    @Tweety Bird and myself were not feeling well last night, so we slept long and hard. I got up this morning and she was requesting I head to town and get hamburger buns, and we would have something simple to eat for today.

    As usual, my local people know me and always love the makeup and the effect it brings to people. A couple of the female store employees have colored their hair green and purple. I always give people compliments about their appearance, and I always get right back as well. As for my appearance is with the purple hair again and similar makeup as my previous blog post.

    Left the grocery store and headed for the fuel station with Thor. Yeah, I've still got an injector issue, but I needed to bring home fuel in that truck as a fallback. I crossed paths with an older lady, and she looked like the outdoors type. She commented on my hair and appearance. As always, I thank the person for the comment. I put my fuel into Thor and saw her return and start to chat with her as my fuel was just completed. Find out we are both ostomy patients and she was highly impressed with my positive attitude for a person who survived bladder cancer twice, getting married this summer to @Tweety Bird and doing makeup artistry that most people think is impressive. I darted back to Thor and grabbed a business card for contact info, and often to share my knowledge of my ostomy journey to hopefully aid her.

    My own journey with losing the shop, digging to find anything that might have survived the mudslide. Trying to keep things around here in good repair without tools is rather tough. Slowly, we are trying to order the needed tools and stuff right now to keep even the internet and communications going. Yeah, I found a damaged CAT5 cable and am attempting to keep the WiFi going in the house.

    I got interrupted by Mark's dog barking, and it was the mail lady who 4WD around the outside of the debris pile to deliver our mail today. I told her Thank you for getting the mail to the door for us. She was even asking how we are doing and gave her a more detailed rundown on what's up and going on.

  21. Performance Tunning for the Website / Server

    Website News · Mopar1973Man · 07/10/2025 07:39 PM

    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.
    I will say for the most part, the CLS (content Layout Shift) is corrected, and it was the Google AdSense attempting to lay down ads and skew the page by pushing the content down, and there is a score system to this. Currently, through my testing, I'm well below the threshold of a problem, but my biggest move, which is tiny 0.02, is looking for the staff banner. Not bad, I'd say.
    If anyone is having issues, please make sure you contact me in a private message here. I'll make sure to look into any strange behavior.

  22. Off to see the insurance company

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 07/08/2025 03:15 PM

    Yes, I'm off to McCall, ID, to meet with my insurance agent and review the actual insurance policy, word for word. Just to give me a boost today, I went a bit more like Clown Goth. I've a few other stops today, including picking up medications and doing some other shopping. I've got several fans in McCall who enjoy my makeup work and love the reactions of people. Oh, check out the gallery photos. I've got a new shirt. Gotta keep building my character up. I'm hunting for a second shirt, but still searching for something particular.

  23. Personal Note

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 07/07/2025 07:08 PM

    Hey there gang, I'm still here working at the website.

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


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

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

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


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

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


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


  24. Shade tree mechanic back at it

    Beast · Mopar1973Man · 06/26/2025 08:17 PM

    Both @Tweety Bird and I gotta have a break from all this. I had to deal with rusted slide pins on the calipers front and rear axle. We managed to find enough of my tools to at least do a simple repair. Suzanna has been busy packing the RV so we can go take a break camping locally.

    I'm kind of amazed. Got the front brakes done with slide pins. Both side you had to beat the pins out of the boots. The last time I did brakes at 350k miles till now with 497k miles and rolling.

    Finished this project. Sadly I found my MPG loss. Driver side rear was stuck on the side pins and ate those pads up about 1/4 of a inch left.

  25. We are back from our camping trip

    Website blog · Mopar1973Man · 07/01/2025 07:16 PM

    @Tweety Bird 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.

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


    Miss Mollie on her first camping experience.

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