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  1. Down and Out

    Landslide - What Happened - What is now Happening - What Will Happen · 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.

  2. September Update

    Landslide - What Happened - What is now Happening - What Will Happen · 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.


  3. Still cleaning up the mess slowly.

    Landslide - What Happened - What is now Happening - What Will Happen · 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.

  4. Landslide - Update

    Landslide - What Happened - What is now Happening - What Will Happen · Mopar1973Man · 06/15/2025 05:19 PM

    First, let me say that for any of you who own your homes, please review your insurance policies. I just found out that the majority of homeowners are not covered for landslides, mudslides, earth movement (earthquakes), etc. Like me, it's a completely lost. The insurance policy doesn't cover this at all, not one dime. For all those religious people who walked up and said they would pray for me. They packed up and left the scene quickly and gave ZERO help at all. Even my neighbor who is part of the same church group, came over drunk with a glass of wine and offered ZERO help.

    As for @Tweety Bird and myself, I know we have been kind of MIA right now. We have been trying to unload all of @Tweety Bird house into my garage. We are downsizing to financial responsibility. Then, to make matters worse, you start with the NO KINGS protest (https://nokings.org). Most of you know I'm a Trump Supporter! We have one small load of stuff to grab out of her garage, and we are done. The house is going on the market. Nampa, Idaho, is an armpit right now with protests and construction everywhere. Yeah, during my last visit down there, dealing with medical too I was pulled over by a Boise City Police officer in Downtown Boise because of smoke and loud exhaust. (Oops. Wrong tune loaded.) There are state police, county police all over the place because of the possibility of riots because of the NO KINGS protest.

    So, doing inventory of the house debris, my ATV is damaged beyond repair, both of Mark's trucks are destroyed, and all of Mark's and my tools are scattered all over the place. I don't have a full set of tools! We did get lucky and find, like my bow and Mark's bow. Mark's black powder rifle is undamaged. Still have not found the big double door refrigerator, stove/oven, etc. I'm hoping my MIG welder made it, but doubtful. The washer and Drier of @Tweety Bird is crushed and gone. Currently, I have no way to even pull the injectors out of Thor to send back to @dieselautopower because I've lost most of my tools. Like my air compressor is damaged, shouldn't be used. 4kw generator got ruined, etc. Thousands upon thousands of dollars of damaged tools, equipment, and building, all gone and not covered by my homeowner's insurance.

    I've gotten some donated funds to keep fuel in the equipment (track hoe, and skid steer) here so we can keep digging. Thanks to the Dischinger Family for bringing TRUE HELP! His wife made us all dinner the night of the slide. Their son AJ, has been helping out with running the equipment and digging up stuff slowly so we can try to recover stuff. Andrew has been super helpful and brought other friends to aid in the dig for our stuff.

    I'm calling on any of the Mopar1973Man.Com family for help. You all have to remember that since my battle with cancer, I've been dealing with my health problems including my Stage 3a Chronic Kidney Disease and my ostomy that I now have for the rest of my life. This puts me in a bad place where I can't even help to move all this. It's been a challenge just trying to move @Tweety Bird here with me. Even if all you can do is support me on the website as a staff member and watch over the site as I try and handle other problems I've got to handle.

    Be aware that some people might get their feelings hurt. Understand that their action hurts us as a family.

    At this point, I want to say to all you "religious people" who keep doing the same thing, "I'll pray for you!" You, my friend, are part of the problem! We have had so many come here to peer at the destruction and just walk away to say the same phrase, "I'll pray for you!" and do absolutely nothing to help us. Please, if you can help, please take action and do the right thing and help. Either with donations, equipment, or time, etc. I've even contacted my local church group to that I was with and got the same answer "I'll pray for you!" Please, I'm truly asking for help to move dirt and clean up this mess that is taking forever because too many people want to do the LAZY thing and "I'll pray for you!" then leave.

    Video (Tiktok)
    https://www.tiktok.com/@titaniumgoth/video/7516228282023497002?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7516228666382091807

    As you can see, most everything was damaged or turned into junk rather quickly. A few things under plastic that was some computer parts I've kept.


    They recovered my ATV, which is a total loss. Damaged beyond repair.


    Mark's 1998 5.9L V8 Magnum truck seriously damaged and possibly a bent frame. It was shoved sideways for about 20 to 30 feet.


    You can see both my Mother's bicycle and mine are a loss too.


    All I'm asking for is some help to hopefully clean all this up and then hopefully build a shop in a new location on the property. Like all my ability to do the little articles and such just came to a screeching halt. Without even a basic set of tools, it's tough to do an oil change right now. I don't even have a chainsaw to go get firewood with for winter or even cut the fallen trees up in the landslide. Seriously, I've lost everything!

    Toss in my cancer battle, social security battle, and now the landslide that wiped out my guest house and shop. It's very depressing and mentally tough to handle on a daily. Just imagine for a second you get up every day and look out your front window, and see this mess. The best you get for help is "I'll pray for you!" Please understand it is not only just me who is affected, but also Mark and Suzanna, we all live together in the main house.

  5. As of May 29th, 2025 Mopar1973Man.Com Shop was leveled by a landslide!

    Landslide - What Happened - What is now Happening - What Will Happen · Mopar1973Man · 06/07/2025 08:53 PM

    Mopar1973Man.Com Shop was leveled by a landslide.
    Yeah, with a heavy heart, I lost my entire shop and guest house to a landslide. I won't discuss how this all happened yet. The biggest thing I lost was the entire building. My Best Friend, Mark Hall, was living in my guest house. He was one of the few who helped me out with my cancer. He was protected by a guardian angel. I just saw where his bed landed and what pinned Mark in the house. Mark's Dog Hachi made it too, and no injuries. We managed to hunt for stuff. Like my huge black tool box it was there under the roof lot of our tools between Mark and I. There are tools but scattered all over the ground, spilled out during the landslide. As you can see I had a load of stuff from @Tweety Bird on my BigTex trailer pulled by Thor. We got home at 1:30am and hit the bed by 2am. This event happened at 6am roughly in the morning.

    I would like to apologize in advance for my being missing in action for the last few weeks, I've been busy getting @Tweety Bird moved in with me. Then the landslide issues were another that really took all my attention from the website for the last few weeks.




  6. News on Mopar1973Man.Com

    · 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.


  7. Thor - Back in the system

    · Mopar1973Man · 02/17/2026 09:34 PM

    With how the wintertime is going for us up here. I pulled Thor back online to see if I can get more done. @Tweety Bird and I ran Thor to Lewiston, Idaho, for our shopping trip for chow and supplies. Thor is actually running quite well when fully warmed up. Even with a weak set of rings yet, Thor fires up every cold morning with white smoke and offbeat idle till those rings warm up some. Thor has been a comfortable truck to run, but there is add ons I'm looking at doing. First, I'm going to look into gauges, which will include rail pressure and lift pump pressure. I already have boost and pyrometer installed. I know there is no more power or tuner being added till I can get the engine rebuilt. I know the added power could break the rings, possibly. I'm going to look into replacing the driver's seat cushion and seat skin. Much as I'd love to just jump out and work on Thor, I'm held up for the weather, which is currently snowing here today. I've got no shop, so working in the snow is not happening. Another thing is the banner decal I have for the rear window too.

    Without a doubt, Thor has the potential to be a great truck in time. Just between my cancer, body limitations, and the weather being my shop is gon, it's impossible right now to get very much done. I'm working on things on the server, little at a time, trying to add things and make pages load faster than ever, since I'm opting for breaking up the website into divisions, and now pages are not super long like before.




  8. Trying to keep Thor and Beast running!

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 02/09/2026 04:21 PM

    Beast has developed a problem with the hydrobooster being the main booster piston; the seal failed, and even brake pedal usage was leaking hydraulic fluid from the hydrobooster. There is a bleed hole on the bottom of the unit. This was just replaced, as the article was created in the 2nd Gen brake and axle category. That particular day, I was wearing my black hair and basic black makeup.

    Then on Thor, it was a matter of replacing the battery terminals. Using the really basic tools I do have after the landslide its rather challenging to do some jobs because you just don't have the right tool and needs to be done. All the factory lead terminals were cut off with a dull hacksaw. Then trimmed back to find copper wire. Clean any corrosion off the wire before crushing copper lugs to the wire. Improved the starting and power stability for this truck since the passenger cable was held on with a C-clamp. That day, I was enjoying my red hair and flame colored eyes.

    Some of you wonder why still. The makeup work of Titanium becomes a line in the sand for me for protection for myself. Knowing my ostomy bag is there, I must keep my bag area and my hands clean. My dress code limits me from rolling in the mud or dirt to do work. Remember, the landslide took my shop and the dry space I had. The last 2 days here have been raining so no work was done last two days because of zero dry space to work. I'm going to continue to produce as many articles as I can with my limitations. You have to remember my right kidney is only 17% remaining and my left is 82% remaining.


  9. Today I'm going to get myself together and get out and do the battery terminals on Thor. Yeah, it's a cold start here this morning. It's going to be a warmer day heading into the mid 50's at least. I want to get the new battery terminal and copper lugs installed today. I figured I would check over the website. @yohon and his rebuild, and helping out where I can. Every day can be a battle for me. I love what I can do, but my body tells me all about it when I try too hard. This is the depressing part for me, doing simple things, but still have to keep my hands clean, so if I have to touch my ostomy bag. (infection risk)

    This is part of the risk that the other categories will be added to the site. Remember, I'm working in the mud at this point, and certain jobs I just CANNOT do, such as the ostomy bag and infection risk. Those days I cannot work outside on vehicles. I got to have something else to do, so I brought the Computer knowledge to the table and then the fun side of my makeup artistry, which has blown up to +780 followers on TikTok. I'm trying to move more back to my website. Again, I lose ownership of my video and photos when posted on other websites. I own my own webspace, use it!

    I'm still the same guy who knows tons about the Cummins trucks, but I cannot do the wrench work at a commercial level any longer. I still want to help people, just with the whole loss of my shop and nowhere to even work on my own stuff makes it super rough. This is why posting slowed down for me was depressing to want to build an article, but have no shop and cold weather, and mud to work in. Those days I tend to just stay in and practice my makeup artistry, which today I'm going to do red for another purpose, but I need some photos. Then, since my wife told me to build us a business-class network, I did, and I've learned so much about the Linux operating system and the networking equipment. Amazing to have internet quality tha blow most away!

    I want to share what I have left. The Titanium and Cloud 10 Computers are open to messages for registered users (unpaid). Please don't post diesel questions in these areas, we will delete those posts.
  10. The gentleman who made the video of me. I'll just call him by his handle Genetix. He confronted me on the streets of Ontario, OR, as my wife was shopping for jewelry supplies in a small shop. I was in the middle ofa phone call and ended my phone call to see what this gentleman wanted to know about me. Genetix wanted to understand why the appearance and what my story was about. So, for those that have not heard the story of my cancer, here you go. Video form on TikTok. I have to say this gentleman done a super job of telling the story and the whole edit was awesome! Look up Genetix on TikTok to meet this wonderful person!

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

  11. I'm going to post this here. Mopar1973Man, Titanium my makeup artistry, and Cloud 10 Computer, which is my old computer shop name, I'm going bring back for Linux PCs and networking.

    Cloud 10 Computers
    Cloud 10 Computer I always said I'm cloud better than Cloud 9! I'm going to support all my computer users out there that have Linux operating systems, website management, network administration, etc. I'll be working in the Linux and Android realm of software which is nearly all for free. Want to learn more? Please stop by the Cloud 10 Computer forum and post your questions. 41 years of experience in computers, networking, and communications. If you want to join the Linux family, just let me know I'll even create a Linux thumb drive so you can ditch your Microsoft Windows. Come to the Linux side we don't have viri or malware!

    Mopar1973Man
    The OG that started all this. The problem with the current article and work for me is very slow. Between my cancer and lack of dry space, so I'm not lying in the dirt or mud, is rather difficult (health risk) and requires some job to be delayed at this point. I'm going to keep the Mopar1973Man side going with any information I can provide. I'm still planning on expanding the articles on the 3rd Generation and moving forward the best I can with limited tools and dry space.

    Titanium
    Titanium has its own small section of the website where I'm storing photos and posting blog posts about what's happening here in the Titanium world. If you would like to talk directly to Titanium, the posting will be open for comments and questions to the registered members. TikTok is my main place I share my videos but the photos will be here more so. This is more about the makeup artistry, Goth/Emo/Alt styles. This is due to my bladder cancer and how I deal with depression in my artistic way.

  12. Server and Workstations

    · Mopar1973Man · 09/23/2025 02:02 AM

    Been a moment. I've been busy building these 3 machines.

    SERVER

    Now, as for building a server, this is my true first Linux Server I'm building. I've created plenty of desktop and laptop Linux systems. Now, let's roll back the clock to the good old days of Microsoft DOS 5. Starting a server is very interesting. The entire install is very strange, being we are all used to working with a mouse and keyboard. 😋 Now drop the mouse and just a screen and keyboard. Yup, there is no graphical environment here now. No mouse to use or icons to click. You have to know what you are doing to get one fired up. I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server Edition. Then installing the network management software took a bit to wrap my head around, be we are running a live server here at home. This machine will have several tasks to do in regards to the live website server. Then handle all the security cameras and store the video footage. It will be a large cloud server for backing up all our personal data and business data between workstations, laptops, and even cellphones.

    WORKSTATIONS

    The two workstations are high-quality machines for handling all the website work, video processing (KDEnLive), photo processing (GIMP), and much more. These workstations will bind to our cellphones. This will allow us to keep right on working, being text messages will display on the monitor. All 3 machines come with 2.5 GBit connection on CAT6 cable or WiFi 7, which is capable of a lot more. The main WiFi in the house was upgraded to WiFi 6. A huge improvement is speed. 4TB M.2 SSD Drive in each workstation. Storage of files and data is no issue now. The server will be tasked with making backups as we sleep at night.

  13. Mr. & Mrs. Titanium in Eagle Idaho

    Titanium · Mopar1973Man · 02/01/2026 12:22 AM

    We needed to get some groceries at Albertsons. Just as soon as we entered, we were quickly identified by two nice men who really liked our blue look. Ironically, these guys do construction work, so we got a contact phone number to get their advice on how we might build the new shop in the future.




  14. Mopar1973Man.Com Weather Tower (KIDNEWME29)

    Mopar1973Man.Com now has a public weather tower up in my yard. Being where I live the closest weather tower is at different elevations compared to me. Here in the Pinehurst area, you are about 2,800 feet above sea level. Then McCall is just over 5,000 feet in elevation at the airport and about 35 miles south of me. The next tower is down in Slate Creek and its over 1,000 feet below and 45 miles north. Then looking at NOAA weather the radar can't quite cover my area. My weather data can be found on the internet with Weather Underground. The other reason I'm wanting weather data I'm sick and tried of all this "global warming" and "climate change" nonsense Being to control the narrative you have to hide all weather data from the public I'm going to post my weather data publicly!

    https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KIDNEWME29



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  15. 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!
  16. 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/

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

    New Information - Updates to Existing Blogs Posted - Need To Know · 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.


  18. 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!

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.



  24. Email Server

    · 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.

  25. Starting Over

    New Information - Updates to Existing Blogs Posted - Need To Know · 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.

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