Things that make me happy

"SPAMBot - Horse Doctor" (spambot2002)
06/12/2018 at 22:01 • Filed to: None

Clean(ish) wheels

Red Italian Cars

and a nice sunset

Stay #blessed, obbo

DISCUSSION (21)

Svend > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/12/2018 at 22:15

I like clean wheels too.

Kinja'd!!!

smobgirl > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/12/2018 at 22:20

Can I also add, cars for which that color green is an option. GREEN ALL THE CARS (except red Alfas and Ferraris)

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Svend
06/12/2018 at 22:39

Those look much cleaner than mine. I did a really abbreviated svending. I really love the clean, glossy black wheels

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > smobgirl
06/12/2018 at 22:41

Kinja'd!!!

I’ll allow it!

Svend > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/12/2018 at 23:29

They are from a colleague’s ninth gen Honda Civic.

Kinja'd!!!

Nauraushaun > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/13/2018 at 05:41

Did you actually see that 8C in the flesh? I’d kill to see one of those. When I saw an Autozam AZ-1 and a Carrera GT for the first time, I could not walk away. I think it would be the same experience.

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Nauraushaun
06/13/2018 at 11:54

Yes I did. My local Ferrari dealer (Ferrari South Bay) had a F1 watching party in their showroom last Sunday. This was right next to the catering table. Their inventory was way more exciting than the race haha

CaptDale - is secretly British > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/13/2018 at 14:30

Can I have that 8c? Think they would straight trade for the GTO?

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > CaptDale - is secretly British
06/13/2018 at 14:42

Let me try with the 348 first!

Oh, I might be about 300k short :(

https://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/2008/alfa—romeo/8c—competizione/1813221

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > CaptDale - is secretly British
06/13/2018 at 14:43

Their sister dealer has one too! They are almost controlling the market haha

https://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/2008/alfa—romeo/8c—competizione/1791805

CaptDale - is secretly British > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/13/2018 at 14:45

You’d get rid of your 348 for a 8c? My god man

CaptDale - is secretly British > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/13/2018 at 14:45

Gib now!

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > CaptDale - is secretly British
06/13/2018 at 14:50

I mean, from a purely monetary standpoint haha. I’ll probably never sell it, if I can help it. But If I netted 290k on the deal, I would have to take it lmao

Maybe I should buy a lotto ticket...

CaptDale - is secretly British > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/13/2018 at 16:23

That is fair

You and me both

Nauraushaun > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/13/2018 at 22:12

Ugh awesome

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/20/2018 at 16:04

That Ferrari dealer must be newish. I don’t remember there being one in the area when I lived in LA; I moved away in late 2012.

And where was that beach picture taken?

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/20/2018 at 16:17

I think the dealership opened in 2014. The beach pic is ~4th and the strand in Hermosa. Crazy, I moved to the area in 2012!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/20/2018 at 16:32

I just looked up the place on Google street view and I see it was under construction in 2014. Lots of changes since I moved away. I lived in Westchester from 1993 until 2012 (and Inglewood from 91-93). If I move back it would probably be back to south Orange County, near my folks and where I grew up. But financially I just can’t justify it; hell, I can barely justify the airfare to go back for a visit...

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/20/2018 at 16:59

It’s only getting crazier. It seems like everyone is a real estate developer now. There are practically no little beach cottages left. They are being tore down and replaced with McMansions or luxury townhouses. I feel like I’m already out-priced in my neighborhood but it doesn’t seem worth it to move inland, and still pay huge money. So for now, enjoying it while I still can. Who knows what the future holds so if I have to move, I’ll cross that bridge when I get there. I would love to move to San Diego or even Oceanside. I really do like living in the south bay and I have a lot of support network here. If I leave, it will probably be the central coast (if I can find a job) or to Colorado where I have some family. Not planning on it though!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor
06/21/2018 at 00:03

I recently looked at my old apartment via Google Street view and am glad I don’t live there any longer. It was a nice park-like setting, with plenty of open space and very few common walls. The complex was built in the late ‘40s and was of solid construction. Now they’re tearing it down building by building and cramming in tall buildings with huge numbers of units packed in like sardines - no thanks. It’s going to be like a friend’s place - neighbors on three sides, no open space, flimsy minimum code construction.

Some of my favorite old houses on the Balboa peninsula in Newport are being torn down and replaced with the same old faux-Tuscan McMansion monstrosities that take up every square inch of the lot. Or overly modern places that are going to look extremely dated in just a few years. It’ll probably be like Vegas where there isn’t value to older properties, even if they’re only a few years old, and they’ll be torn down and done over in an even more extravagant OTT fashion. And this will be for someone’s second or third house that doesn’t get used much of the year. I just wish people would save and protect these older, more modest places.

Last year when I was visiting family and friends I was thinking of moving back, and then I spent an hour in rush-hour traffic - pass. I love crossing over 44 on my way to work these days, looking down at the road and not seeing cars in either direction. Mind you, this is at 3 AM, but in LA at 3 AM there are still tons of people driving, for what purpose I may never understand. STL traffic at its worst never seems as bad as LA on a good day. And now I understand why my folks rarely venture more than a few miles from home.

I moved out here for a specialty position in the airline industry in my particular field of expertise and then myself getting laid off after three years. At that point I gave up on the boom-or-bust nature of this insane industry and sought employment elsewhere. I’m actually doing much better these days, making more money and putting in fewer hours. My current job is stressful but rewarding, something I couldn’t say about being an airline slave. But it’s not enough money to get me back to SoCal, so I’ll just have to make the best of it out here.

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/21/2018 at 13:47

That’s good you are out of the stress and have a rewarding job. That can make life sooo much better, no matter where you live. I am part of that crowd that hardly leaves my bubble. I work close to home and only take the 405 for a short distance in the opposite direction of traffic. I used to work near downtown. That took an hour in the morning and over an hour (usually 1:15) to get home. All for a job I hated. It was definitely effecting my life in a negative manor and had to get out. So now I’m very thankful I have such an easy commute.

It’s a damn shame about all the cool little old places with yards are gone and modern monstrosities that are 1 ft from each other are the norm. West coast property is now a commodity being traded like stock. It’s sickening but I really hope it pops because I would love to buy a sliver of a place I now consider home.

If I had a billion dollars, I would buy a block or two of strand property, and rip all those gaudy houses down. Get it zoned multi-family and bring in families from the intercity on a scholarship program. I would provide free rent as long as the head of the household (ideally single parents) were pursuing some type of education to improve their family’s future. I’m thinking mostly trades or something like a nursing program. But would definitely be open to advanced degrees. Then, help them find full time employment and have a money management course. Let them stay for a year after full-time employment so they can build a safety net. Then, the next family comes in behind them.

Bonus points, I think this would reduce property values on adjacent properties (rich white people being rich white people) so I could expand the little community at a reduced price. I wonder if I could get someone like Jay Z to buy in on this (thinking emoji)