In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I hope the weather clears up for you soon, Brenda! It'sgetting towards the end of February ... does that mean that you're thru the worst?
Oh btw - that Canadain friend that I mentioned - he's not just a Canadian, he's also the tennant representative for supported housing in Toronto. He knows a politician who is a representative for native peoples, unfortunately that friend moved from Vancouver to Winnipeg. (That was the person that I was hoping to get involved. Nothing gets things moving like pressure from the top.)
In general, he said that Toronto supported housing is a far better program than anywhere else in Cananda and that Vancouver area is particularly bad because it's overwhelmed with homeless drug addicts, but he did email contact info for support groups that you could reach out to in relation to your housing and transportation situation. I can pass that along, if you want. Because your employers sound like ditzes and your landlady sounds like a byatch, and maybe you could use someone on your side. Let me know one way or another.
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Life has cycles; sometimes things come at you fast and sometimes they slow down. This is one of those times when things are speeding up again, so if you don't see me around very much for a while I'm just going to be busy. This will the one thread that I'll be checking in with regularly just to stay in touch. Cheers!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I hope the weather clears up for you soon, Brenda! It'sgetting towards the end of February ... does that mean that you're thru the worst?
Oh btw - that Canadain friend that I mentioned - he's not just a Canadian, he's also the tennant representative for supported housing in Toronto. He knows a politician who is a representative for native peoples, unfortunately that friend moved from Vancouver to Winnipeg. (That was the person that I was hoping to get involved. Nothing gets things moving like pressure from the top.)
In general, he said that Toronto supported housing is a far better program than anywhere else in Cananda and that Vancouver area is particularly bad because it's overwhelmed with homeless drug addicts, but he did email contact info for support groups that you could reach out to in relation to your housing and transportation situation. I can pass that along, if you want. Because your employers sound like ditzes and your landlady sounds like a byatch, and maybe you could use someone on your side. Let me know one way or another.
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Life has cycles; sometimes things come at you fast and sometimes they slow down. This is one of those times when things are speeding up again, so if you don't see me around very much for a while I'm just going to be busy. This will the one thread that I'll be checking in with regularly just to stay in touch. Cheers!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
That friend of yours that moved to Winnipeg can't help me anyways. My grandmother was an American Metis. Anyone who helps Canadian Indians or Metis won't help me because of that fact.
It rained last night but this morning more snow.
They are all ditzes and bytches around me.
I was hoping with it being the end of Feb it would clear out but not so far.
I will be going out for a walk in a bit to do the little I can get done.
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Well, you know how to get in touch or just let me know here if you'd like me to forward that info to you
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I sent you an email through the board here. Hope you got it.
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Looks like its suppose to dry out. We shall see.
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Didn't get it. I've changed my email addy several X since I first created an account, and don't want to have an account with an active email address attached. Just paranoid, I guess. But I'll just tried PMing with my email addy. I hope it gets thru so be on the lookout! :-)
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"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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I don't think my transmission issue is an actual problem with the transmission.
I've been doing a little online research today after I discovered that there are no youtube videos detailing how to swap one out on my year/make/model.
When I buttoned up the car after swapping everything out, I had a bitch of a time making all of the mounting brackets fit back together correctly. I wasn't even aware of the fact that this entire system was designed the way it is to allow a certain amount of engine movement while switching gears and going into park/drive/reverse, etc. (Seeing this in action kind of blew my mind, and I know that there's no way mine is working correctly right now)
I don't know the names of all of these things, but there's also the issue of the cables that are tied into the system that control acceleration and downshifting. I know that many years ago I adjusted the acceleration one in an attempt to raise my idle because of the (now fixed) issue where my car would stall on me.
It's still too cold for me to go to the lengths of pulling everything apart down to the timing belt to re-seat everything, but I did tighten up the acceleration cable a bit. It didn't fix the issue, but it certainly changed the behavior of the car. Hard to explain, and hard to tell if it made the problem better or worse, but it's different.
I may have mentioned that years ago I noticed a pronounced gear shift here and there on occasion. This would have been after I originally messed with that acceleration cable. The problem didn't get bad though until I did all the work on the car and had a bitch of a time forcing everything back in place.
I'm fairly confident that I caused the problem by putting it back together wrong. Fingers crossed that with the minimal driving I've done since that I haven't caused any permanent damage. As soon as we get back into the stable 50 degree weather, I'll be making a lot of adjustments and I'll replace the transmission fluid and put a new filter in there and hopefully everything will be copacetic.
That car still has a lot of miles left in the engine. If I can fix this and be reasonably sure it's good, I might even replace my exhaust system, the broken driver side interior handle and the two bad motors in the power windows. At that point, this car could probably last me long enough that I might actually have to buy new tires for it one more time before it goes to the scrap yard. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'll keep an eye for it.
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you should have gotten it by now. Look in your spam folder if it's not in your inbox.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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