Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To, indeed.

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
02/27/2019 at 12:46 • Filed to: None

So someone was supposed to buy the Mazda6 today. Sunday I decided to go drive it a bit to get the rust off the brakes and whatnot. Went to the coffee table where I set the key last Wednesday and... not there. Wife had some friends over the weekend and they spent the weekend partying and moving furniture around and somehow in the middle of that the key went bye-bye. We spent two full days turning the house upside down looking for it to no avail so I caved and called a mobile locksmith. $120 later I have a new key that... sorta works. Have to jiggle it sometimes. Cool . I also checked the mail and found a recall notice for the driver airbag. Didn’t feel super great about selling a car knowingly with a claymore in the steering wheel, plus the legal grey area of doing so, so I scheduled a time at the local Mazda dealership which will be 7:30 this Friday, so the sale is put off until after then.

Then yesterday the wife called me and said the IS300s fucking key snapped, which is fun. So now I ordered some more keys so I can clone it and hope the RFID tags in them are the proper fucking ones to actually start the car, unlike the (free) keys I already had cut that have the wrong RFID tag so they’re useless for anything other than opening the door.

I have the money. I can spend it. I’m just trying to fucking be frugal and I’ve been DYING to buy a special lens adapter for my camera that will make my vintage lens collection absolutely come to life (speedbooster/lens turbo) but have not wanted to drop the $160 necessary. Then all this bullshit happens and I end up spending $180 or so on this fuckery.

I also ordered a knockoff Techstream cable in the hopes it will give me extra options for key programming and to disable the auto-tilt steering column bullshit in the LS400. My column motors are intermittent and I’d rather not they stop working altogether with the wheel in the full up position where it’s useless to me. I called the local Toyota dealership and they wanted $60. I called the local Lexus dealership and they told me the very well-documented process by Lexus to accomplish this was impossible and they’d have to unplug the motors. Fucking lol. So for $30 I ordered a knockoff techstream cable and very-definitely pirated software because fuck Lexus for making this require a dealership visit when the 1st gen LS400 had a DEDICATED FUCKING BUTTON to disable it and the LS430 lets you do it through the onboard menus.

Assholes.

On the plus side the Mazda6 drives great. Easily the best car in its class, driving-wise. Changes direction with a quickness and the engine makes a fantastic noise.

DISCUSSION (12)

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 13:03

Hopefully things get better, I mean hopefully....

Did you break a mirror under a ladder with a black cat?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > 2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered
02/27/2019 at 13:05

Accidentally sexted Fortuna, probably.

BeaterGT > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 13:08

“Then yesterday the wife called me and said the IS300s fucking key snapped”

I’m convinced your wife is the one with bad luck.

MonkeePuzzle > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 13:11

just get a cheap key cut, and leave the broken key with its RFID in the car? as a cheap option until more expensive recoding can be done?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > MonkeePuzzle
02/27/2019 at 13:19

Yeah I’m gonna dig the RFID chip out of the broken key and stick it in the new one, but I still need to buy a spare in case that one gets lost.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 14:11

“Accidentally”

thejustache > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 14:17

I’m sorry to hear about the keys, and I know what it’s like to have life keep eating out the photography/hobby fund.

That said, I highly recommend a speed booster if you can get one! I have a cheap ebay focal reducing pentax adapter for my a6000 and I love it. My only gripe is I bought a really cheap one and it has a nasty blue flare in bright sunlight which I have to take care to avoid. I’d guess a better one might not have that problem? Either way it’s on the camera almost all the time because I shoot film too and switch my lenses back and forth between my film and digital bodies. Last year I had a rental a7rii so I compared some shots from the same lens between it and my a6000 with the focal reducer. Clearly the a7rii is superior when you pixel peep, but real world when not cropping a ton you could take more or less the same photo with both and be hard pressed to care which camera was used.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
02/27/2019 at 14:42

hey man I was drunk and had a contact list full of roman goddesses what do you expect

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > thejustache
02/27/2019 at 14:44

I’ll probably be getting a cheapish $160 one to go to EF mount, because there are $7 adapters to go from EF to absolutely everything, including the screw-mount Pentax and OM-mount Olympus lenses I use. The blue flare is interesting... I’ll have to see how that plays out. I do get some pretty nasty flaring with just my regular adapter + old lenses sometimes though.

MM54 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 20:38

I have a couple OM series lenses for my very-rarely-used olympus DSLR. They’re very good.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > MM54
02/27/2019 at 22:10

I love how compact my 100mm and 200mm lenses are. Physically the same as my Zuiko 35mm, lol.

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
02/27/2019 at 23:49

Sounds Plausible.jpg