OT How do you deal with stress?

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  1. Jade Falcon

    Jade Falcon Just to piss you off.

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    Dammit. Just found out someone I knew at BNSF died in 2016.

    Dammit. :(
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Freedom is not as wild as your basement.
     
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    Convert internal stress for external pleasure. 200w2RIQJIBUslash.gif Play your bass guitar LOUD...… Binge watch Utube vids of driver fails.....Take melatonin to help you sleep at night …..Give your anxiety to those you dislike.... Don't take being a Blazers fan seriously.
     
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    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I don't know if it's settings on my browser, but a lot of your photos don't show up.

    Also, thanks for sharing the story. I don't personally have any harrowing stories like that (or if I do, I've repressed them significantly), but it's good that you felt comfortable enough to share them with us.
     
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    the rest of my life is one long vacation youngin'....retirement rocks!
     
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    Grrr! It's probably Google Photos. I couldn't upload the pictures here directly because they were too big, so I had to upload them to Google. They show up okay for me, but obviously not for you guys. Dammit. Gonna have to find something else.
     
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    There were a couple of nice shots on my browser yesterday. Nothing now.
     
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    Jade Falcon Just to piss you off.

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    Okay, I uploaded the gorge photos. If you want the full story, go back to page 4 of this thread. These are listed in no particular order, and please let me know if you can't see them.

    Pictures were taken March 9th.

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    The first set was at a park I stopped at, the second set is from a highway pull-off overlooking the gorge.

    And pictures of my car....again, for the full story, please see page 4 of this thread.

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    I love this whole picture taking and driving thing. Gonna do it more often, as money provides that is. Gonna drive up to the Cedar Creek Grist Mill tomorrow. Should be a beautiful drive.
     
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    I can tell it is the Gorge by the shape of the Conifers. Of course I could be fooled by shot from Cape Blanco.
     
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    My brothers father in law, who is in his mid 70's, has a 96 Brougham. That thing is a fucking boat.
     
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    Yeah, this thing definitely floats like a pimp mobile. I made a quick pass on I-5 last weekend to get around a motorhome, and the whole car swayed when I shot over to the left lane. That woke me up.

    Good power and torque though. 275 hp and 300 lb/ft. And in 1997, the SLS was the smallest model of Cadillac being sold. Hard to imagine lol.
     
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    I think his has the Corvette engine in it. I've been told it hauls ass, but can't pass a gas station.
     
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    Nice! Mine's got a 19 gallon gas tank and, to my knowledge, it shuts down 4 cylinders at highway speeds. I've had the estimated range on the computer, on a full tank, go all the way up to over 450 miles. 457, IIRC.

    What year was your Tahoe?
     
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    I went on a drive, I want to say 140-ish miles, through the mountains this past Sunday, and it was.....interesting. I drove northbound on I-5 to Woodland, then took HW-503 east to Northwoods. From there, I took NF-90 to Curly Creek Rd, then took that South to Meadow Creek Rd, to Wind River Highway, all the way South to Carson, where I got on HW-14 West and took it home.

    I discovered my car does NOT do well on very tight windy roads. It's just too damn big. And it was brutal as hell trying to keep it from going out of control when I was coming down the mountain, so I had to use my brakes a lot. I tried down-shifting in a few places (I have 3 low gears) to Low 3 and Low 2, but that didn't help whatsoever (perhaps a transmission issue?). And these were NF roads; in some places full of potholes and under construction, so they were very narrow and isolated. Not fun. I almost ran a oncoming car off the road in one of the turns. So I won't be doing that route again anytime soon. But I hear it's beautiful up there in the Fall.

    Nevertheless, the majority of the drive was okay. I need fuses replaced in several key components: brake switch, cruise control, traction control, and the alarm system (at least I'm assuming these are fuse-related issues of them not working properly....the computer itself was updated recently). But my instrument readout on estimated fuel range, with a freshly-filled tank, was over 550 miles (I think the highest I recall seeing....mind you I was watching the road more than the instrument cluster.....was 564 miles till empty). That's astonishing to me for a V8-powered car from 1997.

    No pictures this time, I'm afraid. It wasn't very scenic, and I was too busy concentrating on driving, and trying not to get motion sick from those twisty bits.
     
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    I have to think a good set of Nitrogen Gas Shocks all around would help the heck out of that boat. When I first got my Tahoe, I figured it would be handle badly on curving mountain roads, just as the Suburban I had a few years before. It did, worse than I remembered. Put a full set of over size Gas shocks on the thing and fixed it right up.

    Drove it about 10 years, bought another Suburban. Didn't even bother to test it. Gas Shocks all around before I even brought it home.
    If you want to keep that Caddie, make it drive up right. Rolling over on every corner sucks.
     
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    Next time my car is getting new tires put on, I'm going to ask them to take a look at the suspension. There's been a clunk, like the sound of a golf ball inside of a bucket, somewhere, but I can't figure out where it's coming from. I think it's from one of the two front suspensions though.

    Thanks for the suggestions. My first priority though is to get the fuses replaced.
     
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