Everything posted by Mopar1973Man
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Fire in the Eyes
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.
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New Kicker Speakers for Beast!
Yup after all the years and miles driven I've had a bad speaker on the passenger side. @Tweety Bird said, "Get this fixed! Time to get new speakers in Beast!" @Tweety Bird and I went to a stereo shop in Lewiston ID to look at speakers and prices. Great quality is really pricey say like $350 for a pair of speakers that really sound rich in frequency. Being budget mined I jumped over to Amazon and found. Kicker Dodge Ram Truck 1994-2011 Speaker Bundle - CS 6x9 coaxial Speakers, and CS 5.25" coaxial Speakers. Yeah Dodge and there strange wiring schemes. I'll list out the positive and negative wiring for each speaker. You can see I cut the factory OEM speaker plug off and wired in the new blade style terminals. Be aware of the polarity of each wire and speaker lug. In this set, the Kicker makes the ground with a black strip, and the positive lug is marked red. Left Front + Dark / Green Left Front - Brown / Red Right Front + Violet Right Front - Dark Blue / Red Left Rear + Brown / Yellow Left Rear - Brown / Light Blue Right Rear + Dark Blue / Orange Right Rear - Dark Blue / White
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Mr. And Mrs. Michael S. Nelson has occured!
Thank you. It's been crazy here trying to get back to some functional state, between cancer, shop is destroyed. Then the perk of being married.
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Working through miss/studder issues - codes 0237 & 0230
If you opt for a new connector then you might ask @Auto Computer Specialist for a pigtail. There are some out the but watch the price on them.
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WOLFBOX G850 PRO 4K Mirror Dash Cam
I've got to move my rear camera to the rear bumper very soon. I love the fact that high beams mean nothing now because it's not a mirror but a camera screen. With my unit being WiFi camera, I'm going to look into the WiFi handshaking with my network and possibly download camera footage. Dreaming at this point but give me a bit of time I might be able to pull it off. I'm really hoping!
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Mr. And Mrs. Michael S. Nelson has occured!
Thank you Thank you
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Beast - 500k miles - Projects
Yeah... I was in a hurry and needed the truck and jumper cable to come out so I could get my wife to her appointment for her eyes. Didn't think and it blew the circuit for the cooldown timer and poof the Quadzilla had issues. Call DAP, and Lenny took care of me, and I ordered a new Quadzilla module. ($246 Mistake)
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WOLFBOX G850 PRO 4K Mirror Dash Cam
WOLFBOX G850 PRO 4K Mirror Dash Camhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD3NV7PX?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title With all the miles I've put down on Beast and all the wild stuff I've seen, now I can capture this stuff for future proof. I'm very pleased with the product and the function. I'll admit I've not finished the installation of the rear camera completely on the rear bumper. I tucked it in at the rear window for now, but the other functions, like lane departure warning, are incorrect because the camera location is wrong. Huge menu of options that make the whole camera part very universal for any vehicle. The 2 camera and 3 different views of the cameras. (Default is Rear, Front and both cameras side by side.) Rear View (Default) Forward View Side by Side view. This records in batches of 3 minutes for my setup. It also recordsin cab conversation, music playing so forth. On the left side of the view is the direction you are travelling and the rate of speed from the GPS. Time and Date is on the right of the screen. I've got a few things to configure and set up. Weather is suppose to change in the next few days maybe I'll get lucky and get the rear camera finished out. I wanted this feature for hitching trailers. I will eventually change to a smaller rear view mirror for a base instead of my factory rear view mirror that is a bit too long and you can see it poking out the right side.
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Beast - 500k miles - Projects
Ugh. The Beast has a sticking passenger door handle, and the salt and rust have finally eaten that door handle. I was trying to free it up with oil and everything. It turned into a full cleaning, disassembly of the door latch, and power washing the latch re-oiling, and replacing the door handle which I was lucky our donor truck still had a door in the yard. I fried my Quadzilla about a week ago jump jump-starting the truck. Another thread on that. Then cleaned up the truck and got it ready to head towards Lewiston, ID, soon for a grocery run, we are getting low on supplies here. I have a new toy I've not even mentioned yet but I'll start another thread for it.
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Pilothouse/RAM3500 build
That is going to be one of the coolest trucks in history. I took notice of the 11 YEARS this thread has been going on regarding your custom build Cummins truck. I'm sitting here waiting for another bag of popcorn to watch this come together.
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Titanium story continues
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.
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From the album: Titanium
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From the album: Beast - 2002 Dodge Ram 2500