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  1. Flash Update

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 04/08/2025 10:35 PM

    A lot of things happened today. Actually, back up to last night, and I was making calls on getting a hold of a trailer to haul back Thor's new bed. Found a local friend I could borrow his trailer to bring the bed home. Yeah I have to use Beast one last time. Beast is leaking at both ends of the crank front and rear seals. I managed to get oil and an oil filter for Thor. Then, fresh coolant. I'm hoping to do a recrimp of the radiator here very soon. Back on track, I've got to haul down to Horseshoe Bend, ID to get the new bed. The gent that is selling the bed is a fan of the website too. Maybe I'll bring another new member to the website.

    As for the Website software, a lot is going on. I'm watching over many systems and trying to adjust for the best performance of the server and get the search engine walking the site again. I've seen some serious traffic changes in the amount of bots walking the site en masse trying to catch up to the new code and reindex several pages I had changed the URL structure in. There is much more coming. Like there is a solved marker now for the forums so you can be directed to the solution of the problem without having to read an entire long forum post. Gallery area: I'm going to ask for everyone to post photos of their trucks so we can have a Truck of the Month vote and then start replacing truck photos for the different generations on the website.

  2. Business side

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 04/08/2025 12:36 AM

    I made a trip down to Nampa to my fiance's place. The next day I was hopping from salvage yard to salvage yard. I was on a mission to find the next bed for Thor. Even while I was out looking for a truck bed in the salvage yard I was still in hair and makeup. The fiance wanted to come along. She was wearing an orange dress to complement her I opted for the orange tone on my eyelids. Even the shirt which I don't need to repeat in text. You have no idea how much this really does bring more helpful people into my life. I ended up walking a total of 5 miles in 5 salvage yards. Now, even for huffing around in a dirty salvage yard, it turned heads for sure. Still in all the guys that work there are super helpful and could point out the trucks I was hunting for. Even on travel to another salvage yard, seeing other guys giving me thumbs up as I sit in traffic. Even fun to see granny rubbernecking with a smile.

  3. Thor - The project continues

    Thor · Mopar1973Man · 04/07/2025 05:22 PM

    Yup. Thor is a running and driving truck now. I've been fighting to find a 3rd Generation bed, taillights and tailgate for Thor. Surprise, Surprise! The 3rd Generation trucks in the Boise Valley are all short bed. OMG! This is nuts. I spent over 5 miles of hiking just walking around the wrecking yards attempting to find a truck bed for Thor. Long Bed boxes are rare, and if you find one, typically the bed is completely hammered like I've got a few photos of trucks with long boxes but the truck looked as if it was put through a drier. I now realize I need to call today and find a wiring loom for Thor yet. Just made the phone call to North Verde Auto Salvage in Ontario OR. I just found my taillight loom and it will be picked up while I'm down getting the truck bed. I found another bed in way better shape and it is white in color and excellent shape. All this will be gathered on Wednesday.

    With all this happening, I was wanting to bring back the classified section for the website so people can sell and look for parts they need for their trucks and vehicles. Give me some time I'll see if I can build a classified ad area most likely be built on the article database idea. Ok. I managed to toss together a database and some extra fields for other information. We now have a classified ad once again. The only thing I ask that people set a expire time no longer than 1 year. Now you can see I have a flatbed for sale and winch bumper.

    One of the staff @Doubletrouble made a request for the return of the Classified Ads area. Sadly, there isn't much for 3rd party apps right now for this software. I created a database for listing your oddball parts and then even list vehicles you want to sell. This is all home brew design, so if there is something else you want me to add to this Classified ads area, I'll be glad to add the info slot.

  4. A day to play with green!

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 03/31/2025 07:53 PM

    Yesterday was Sunday. I wanted to keep up with my makeup artistry, work with my white face foundation, and try a few tricks. It's not my best work, but it was an improvement compared to some of the other white face makeup I've done. I've added Mehron setting powder to set the white base and pull the extra moisture out of the body paint. Green is a tough color to work with being I've got very little in a green powder palette to do my eyeshadow. Then working with green lipstains is interesting, to say the least.

  5. Introducing Titanium

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 03/28/2025 08:34 PM

    Let me introduce you to Titanium my other character I've created to deal with my cancer. Yes, I've had bladder cancer twice. The first one was on December 27th, 2019. I went in to have a cancerous tumor removed from my bladder covering my right ureter. Fast forward 4 years to December 17th 2023, and back in again to see my entire bladder consumed in cancer, and doctors were uncertain if I would survive. Now that I've been 6 months clean, I'm happy, but I still have kidney issues. My right kidney is stressing because of the restriction of flow to my stoma. I ran through my phone rapidly and uploaded most of my good photos and I want people to understand there is map data to show these are not staged but real interaction with random people.

    This has led me down of path of watching several other makeup artists on Tiktok and YouTube to create my character and just enjoying the interaction with the people of the public. As I continue on my adventure with my makeup artistry, I'll be posting up my own content here and sharing my interaction with other forum members and random people in public.