Started a new painting. It's from a picture that mike took of a fjord at midnight.
I'll post the process of my most recent painting in a bit. (here) I might have a commission too.
Also, this week, my cousin was at the restaurant/bar in the UP of Michigan that I painted this winter. She showed it to the owners, and they love it. I told them I would gift it to them for a Moscow mule. They are going to hang it in there. I'm pretty happy about that. My family has been going there for more than 60 years.
Very busy with work. Soon I'll post about the new business that thenewgreen, b_b, ecib and I started.
Interning at a law firm for a few weeks, until I leave for West Point's basic training at the end of June. I'm on the 69th floor of the Empire State Building, a statement that embodies the two halves of my personality.
Prom tomorrow, LOL. My hideously wealthy classmates have organized quite the set of shenanigans before and after prom in NYC, and as they go to the Hamptons for prom weekend, I'll be seeing a bunch of awesome artists perform at Governor's Ball '16 with the homies.
I hit the gym at 10PM last night, partly to vent a lot of newfound frustration, and found out that anger is a fantastic pre-workout drink. Like most pre-workout drinks, though, too much anger could leave you with a kidney stone or worse. I'm a doctor.
My life, at the moment, is a bullet train in a Persian bazaar. I have no idea what the fuck is going on but it sure is stimulating.
I think Meriadoc and I finally have a topic for our day in the life/tell hubski..... we're apartment hunting (there are supposed to be emphatic tildes here but hubski formatting hates me)
But! I also got promoted to a principal finalist for my Fulbright so that might happen too. Hard to say. Either way, this August is going to be busy and interesting and I just have to plow through working at a job that was not as advertised until then and/or next spring.
Awesome!! Please let me know when you post it, I don't want to miss it. Good luck with everything on your plate!!
I got a job! Someone I know works at an urban planning firm / consultancy. They have very skilled planners and GIS experts but nobody to bridge the gap between the two, so they're asking me to improve that. It's likely going to be a summer job for me that continues as a flexible job alongside my study. It sounds like fun and I can use the monies. Maybe it turns out to suck but I'll give it a shot for sure.
In other good news, we just presented the baggage handling system our group designed to an engineering company that designs automated systems for every big airport, warehouse and distribution center on the planet. They wanted a followup because they're working on something very similar and liked our design. I put a lot of thought into this course and this design so it feels awesome to get that kind of approval.
- They wanted a followup because they're working on something very similar and liked our design.
Make sure you capitalize on this. Get something with their letterhead and somebody with an important sounding title's signature that says this or something to that effect and it will go far I suspect.
Depending on how frequently you travel, you may have seen some places where they have baggage dropoff points where you enter your bag into a unit and it goes straight into a system.
Our challenge was to design a similar system, but for baggage pickup, mostly as a engineering design challenge. So instead of waiting endlessly at a carrousel with everyone else crowded together and no idea where your bag is or when it will be there, we designed a system where your bag is placed in a secure locker that you can open with your boarding pass. Lockers are feeded by a bag rail system and individual bag carts. The idea is that every bag has an ETA and just one specific locker that it will be in. Instead of everyone going to one carrousel, you have a room with aisles of these lockers, dispersing the crowd. Here's two images I drew for the assignment:
While there was an excursion planned to Siemens (cancelled because flying up and down to Frankfurt on the same day was too expensive), it wasn't them but Vanderlande, responsible for almost all of Schiphol's baggage handling systems. I was supposed to go to Schiphol and take a look at that system on Monday, but that sadly got postponed to a few weeks from now.
That's a pretty great project, I like it. Is it part of a university class?
I didn't know Vanderlande did airport baggage automation too, I've only seen a little of their parcel systems.
Siemens owns a ridiculous number of companies, but I'm assuming the Siemens you were going to visit was a branch of their Postal, Parcel, & Airport Logistics company. I didn't know there was a Frankfurt site, I work for Siemens in the U.S.
Siemens is Big with a capital B. I keep discovering new subdivisions, most recently their metro rolling stock.
About 40% of Vanderlande business is baggage, 20% parcel, 20% warehouse. The course is only on BHS, so it made sense to visit them. How well do they stack up against Siemens and other competition?
I ran my first half marathon on Sunday. It was great. Perfect weather, and I felt good. My time was 2:05:20, so now my goal is to do one in under two hours. I think I can do it. My summer running plans will be to slowly and deliberately add training miles. I overdid it in March, and I'm still paying for it. But how I feel in late May versus early May says it's getting better. In early May I ran a 20K, and my right knee was painfully stiff at the end. After the half, it wasn't at all. I could have gone further.
As a personal achievement, I feel really good about this.
'tis brilliant the way Tremors is brilliant.
- “We had lunch with Sigourney [Weaver] who was telling us that there actually used to be an R-rated version of that movie which was awesome. It was the director’s cut and it was R-rated and everybody was swearing and there were sex scenes, and the whole thing. They didn’t know what to do with it, so they had to re-edit the whole thing and made it what it is today. We were like, ‘How do we get our hands on the R-rated version of Galaxy Quest?’ She said ‘I don’t know!’ and we were like, ‘Come on, Sigourney!’ ”
Yo, hubski. I just landed in KW and found two envelopes from insomniasexx containing two different fridge magnets. Whoo whee. Now off to be free and crazy and maybe have a holy moly piña colada!
Never made it to piña coladaification, but managed a long bike ride. At the Green Parrot (note: live web cam), I watched a rockin' ukulele threesome + string bass. It took me a minute, but walking through the audience, I noticed almost EVERYONE had a uke and were all playing along. I had stumbled onto ukulele night at the Green Parrot.
Sadly, the fridge here was totally empty and scrubbed clean. There was some coffee though. I checked in the highest cupboard and found that the Bailey's that I left here last February was still there.
It took me ten minutes and pipe wrench pliers
to finally open it. And that's why I'm still here writing on pubski instead of off and running. mivasairski
- There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
'Morning Pubski. Good News only today, because spreading manure around doesn't make less of it. In 8 days I leave for my second ever trip to NYC, and the performance is 2 weeks on the nose from Monday. I wasn't really excited about the trip and performance in any concrete way until a few days ago. It sank in that holy shit, I get to go to NYC again! I'm still kinda strapped for ideas of things to do while I'm in town. A close friend from high school recently moved to New Jersey and she's planning on coming into the city for dinner/drinks one night, so that will be fun. I'm going to spend a morning in Chinatown to stock up on tea and stuff myself with xiao long bao. I have a list of museums that I get into for free with my performance pass, so I'll probably sort out the ones I'm most interested in and go that route.
Regarding THE MUSIC: Every other day or so for the past month, I've been going through the full performance with practice tracks that omit my voice part. This week I'm going to do more fine-tuning on some fast runs that I still allow myself to slip up on. I have definitely developed a healthier attitude towards practicing music than I ever had as a child or even as a college musician, and singing with people in their 50's and older has been a big factor. Every year for over a hundred years, my choir sings Handel's Messiah, and there are choristers who have been singing it for nearly 50 years. When asked, they'll all say that they still have parts they need to work on, things they can improve, but they aren't worried about it.
A big chunk of wisdom is being able to exert effort without stress or worry. It's being able to expend some energy without constantly worrying about return on investment. I'm very thankful for my older friends. Perspective is a thing of beauty, most of the time.
I really wish I could hear your performance. Post that bad boy if they have a stream of it when you are done.
- I have a list of museums that I get into for free with my performance pass, so I'll probably sort out the ones I'm most interested in and go that route.
Museums are great for getting perspectives on life. If I ever retire, I am going to buy a small RV and hit as many museums as I can before I get sick of living on the road.
I don't think the performance is even recorded to be honest. Last time I went my director had to really lean on some people just to get a recording for himself. Pretty sure the contract he signed was written in blood.
- If I ever retire, I am going to buy a small RV and hit as many museums as I can before I get sick of living on the road.
This sounds fun.
Everyone, be sure to meet mike:
I thought that his was a pretty great #meetuubski. Someday I'd like to visit him in Norway and see that fjord. Isn't fjord one of the greatest words?
My day job is kicking my butt. Startup is doing very well. Big things afoot.
I'm on vacation in California, and three days before we're set to fly back, my wisdom tooth starts impacting. It's bloody awful. And I can't get anything done to it before I fly back home (for various reasons, half of which I understood). I've only got low-dosage drugs in me because the Urgent Care in Oakland we went to doesn't like to prescribe pain meds because, "you're in Oakland," says the NP, "and we can't give you what you're looking for." It was the weirdest code. I wanted to say, I'm not looking to get high, just to alleviate this eye-watering pain but all that came out was a whimper because this wisdom tooth is laying me low.
I should have got all my wisdom teeth removed. Goddamn this sucks. And now a red-eye flight back to the East Coast.
On the plus-side: my stockpile of badges is completely out because you guys have been on a roll with the good, long reads. Thanks flagamuffin and bfv.
That blows, I went through the same thing. I finally got some prescription pain meds and they completely worked, but I had to pay for a new full exam to get more every time they ran out. And I had to postpone my surgery like six months for money/time reasons. There were a lot of long fucking days that year, and a lot of unnecessary visits to the dentist.
In the meantime I slammed OTC stuff. I'm sure you're already doing that.
You waited six months? You poor thing. I'm, thank-the-lucky-stars-but-fuck-the-system, still on my mother's really good health and dental insurance. So I've already scheduled a surgery for when I get back. But the interim is total hell. I half considered hitting up a high-end and trusted drug dealer in San Fran to properly medicate. I don't mean to alarm anyone with that: I don't have any addictions, and have at home unused painkillers that have sat for years without me even being tempted by them. It's just an indictment of the system.
Now that I think about it, this is a really common Pubski topic with us. Everyone's got stories.
Can you describe what it was like?
I had all mine taken out at 17 and I'm really, really curious what it feels like to be in pain from your wisdom teeth impacting. Is it a throb, or an ache, or is it stabbing pain if you try to chew or talk, or what? Does the pain become a headache-y situation that overrides most of what you can think about for the day? TELL ME
For me, sharp throb, like a toothache but worse. Wasn't 24/7, but mostly (except when I took pain meds). And I don't think all four of mine were impacting.
I avoided chewing on that half of my mouth for six months and had to relearn that I could chew normally afterward.
In the end, it was all an insurance "misunderstanding" and I would have been covered from day 1... and I'm still bitter that they wouldn't renew my prescription without me paying for a $70 dental exam at the end of which they were just like hey your wisdom teeth are still impacting -- every time.
Know what it is to start a business? It's spending half an hour selecting a dual voltage floor pocket to be installed today because your electrician isn't sick this week. It's trying to figure out which is cheaper, having the guys selling you two phones for $2200 pull the wire or your contractor pull the wire because you might not have time to do it when you get back home because you don't know when you're going to get back home. It's calling the greenhouse for the sixth time to make sure they're actually starting your order for $700 worth of houseplants.
On your day off.
The bike ride turns out to be 15 miles, not 14, because the bike lane entrance that Google thinks exists... doesn't. And by adding a mile I get to take 4 miles off of the shittiest city streets in Los Angeles and put 5 of them next to the LA River. Which gives you a glorious choice between "wretchedly fierce headwind" or "swarms of gnats that aim for your eyes." I ordered clear shooting glasses for the nighttime commute last night. My eye is still red from having a bug living in it for 9 miles. But there's a 3 mile stretch where, wretched headwind or not, you're still going faster than the interstate freeway right next to you.
And I think it's going to be manageable.
I'm now carrying around two changes of clothes. I'm sweating out a shirt, shorts, underwear and socks, then taking a shower, then working 10 hours, then sweating out a shirt, shorts, underwear and socks. On the plus side, My Fitness Pal says I cooked off 2200 calories yesterday, in part because I volunteered to make a 5-mile supply run, putting my total mileage at 35.
The fact that I volunteered says a lot about how much I'm enjoying that bike.
I pass maybe 4 homeless encampments. It helps to remind me that my worst days are better than most people's best days and that I've had steady, white-collar employment that pays me an excellent wage and allows me to, realistically, take eight months off a year. Was hanging out with a buddy who was annoyed that someone would ask him to take a job in Australia because it would involve him leaving LA for five months. The job was Thor.
Perspective.
Cooked off 2200 calories, meaning that was your expenditure or your deficit? I'm imagining your deficit, what with being on a bike for 35 miles, in which case, rock on.
What's really cool about your system, where you have to ride a bike quite a distance to get to work, is that it takes the variability of motivation out of the picture. Uber rides when you're sick notwithstanding, that's a great set-up. I know someone who moved into an apartment above a gym for the same reason.
I actually saw a link to Hubski on a random site the other day, was very happy. We need some way to incentivize people to use the site over others, problem is the only ways I can think of doing that would be going against the grain of what Hubski is built to do.
I think the content and the community are enough incentive. Problem is it takes time to realize it. At first glance Hubski is just a bunch of links, it's hard to realize the people behind those links and comments without investing some time.
I know mk is working on a way to showcase the people (you all) that is more overt. It may help in your cause.
Keep spreading the word! I love seeing Hubski links in the wild.
When I tell people that I co-founded and have been working on Hubski for 5 years, they immediately ask if we make money. When I tell them it actually costs is money they think we are insane.
Making music also costs me money. Many things that are worth while do not have a profit motive ascribed to it. Building something of worth is enough reward. You would be hard pressed to find many other communities where the intent wasn't to grow, grow, grow.
I'd like more people, but only because I know there are people out there searching for something like Hubski. Plus we all benefit from more, interesting people. But I have no illusions that Hubski will make me monetarily wealthy. It's certainly enriched me though.
Working graveyard shift. Which I like, except my schedule is totally opposite of my girlfriend's.
We live together, but suddenly we're not sleeping at the same times, and generally spending less time together. It sucks because I miss her, but she hasn't gone anywhere.
I'm sure I'll get used to our schedules pretty soon here. But right now I'm sad.
Have you worked third shift before? They can take quite a toll on you, both mentally and physically, so it's really important to take care of yourself as best as possible. If you do, your job won't seem half as bad and you'll be in better shape.
I have before, but it's been a while.
I like the shift and I was able to get my sleep schedule adjusted just fine.
I think it's just the transition, being unemployed and at home most of the time for the past month means I got to spend a lot of extra time with my girlfriend. But now, working nights, it's as if I'm seeing her less that when I worked regular daytime hours.
I used to work one night shift a week and my boss would book my next day shift the day after I finished my night shift. So I worked Monday 7am, Tuesday 7am , Wednesday overnight and then Friday at 7 am. She somehow figured Thursday was a day off even though I was definitely working on it. I had a sort of routine where I would push myself to stay up late Tuesday so I at least slept in Wednesday and then on Thursday I would only sleep about 3 hours so that I could get to sleep at night for my Friday shift.
The only worthwhile thing is we had this piano in the store and this man would come in almost every Wednesday night to play Mad World. He played other things, but that one was my favorite. Point being, schedule transitions totally suck.
Locks eyes with waiter 3 more months. Until then, vanilla coke, please.
Mainly sitting in wait for the MHACF event starting next week. On the side of the dating apps, I've to be amazed at the sheer amount of people I'll just "OK" without a mutual response. A joke from my brother (who's using similar sites/apps) is to 'speed date,' by doing the running man with your fingers on the screen to no avail. You know, I really thought I could have gotten at least one match over a week's time? Perhaps I just need to expand my preferences and try again...
I can't help but think that life has been exceedly dull since I've started college in terms of not having a drive or goal holding a fire to my ass. With the loads of spare time in between classes I figured reading may be a bright idea for once while in this state of apparent limbo.
My current reading list starts with books I failed to finish reading for school assignments, yet scooped up enough to pass the class. Oddly, I'm sure they are great books overall - the reason why they were assigned. Time to form my own opinion.
Current reading list:
- The Impending Crisis, America Before the Civil War By David M. Potter
- The Irony of American History By Reinhold Niebuhr
- The Medium is the Massage By Marshall McLuhan
We'll see where I get from there.
- expand my preferences and try again...
looking for someone who has read a book. (yes, the whole thing)
looking for someone with a REALLY BIG vocabulary
futureperson in an archaic heterosystem looking for same, or different
- Preferences are nonsense anyway.
That was a point of conversation last night with my brother. Be too descriptive and it allows for knit-picking, be too brief and you're just another profile with little to say for oneself. Finding a balance with indulgence and brevity is an odd concept to me. Maybe I'm looking at it a wrong way around.
Note: Love your sense of humor in those 'preferences.'
I don't know whether you have seen my #stateofthelil posts which are mostly about internet dating, but Dating Part 4 ignores preferences altogether and talks about describing your ideas on your profile.
Also thx for the compliment.
Truth be told, I started from the beginning once I saw your "Dating Part 5," seeing its relevancy to my current position. I've you in mind as I was (read am) cyclically typing and deleting preferences.
- Dating Part 4 ignores preferences altogether and talks about describing your ideas on your profile.
Sound logic to me. Looking for someone with aligned ideology is at the core of reading the preferences, one would think... I'll pop this method into the slower dating apps in the coming week. The 'fast' ones like Tinder etc. just aren't my cup of tea.
Shit, just the phrase "my cup of tea" feels like a disqualification.
I did a new blog post:
And I'm very pleased to say my Star Wars LEGO collections are complete -- for now, there's more coming out soon that look fantastic, but I will have to wait! Things have been good, I've got back in touch with a very close friend and have been chatting with him after what felt like half a year of not really talking much; though other friends I have fallen further out of touch with and feel like it may be time to drop them down from BFF to something more appropriate, acquaintance maybe?
Today I had a moloch of an exam. Five hours for six questions (or more appropriately: six statements to prove. It was Mathematical Analysis II exam; largely based on Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds but extended quite immensely), pick any three you want, additional ones can work as a buffer. I have solved all of them in just over three hours and got into this scream-in-my-head moment when I realized that most people just finished two. That's going to be one of these ulcer-inducing where I don't know if I'm just that good or will have to repeat the exam in the September. Either way, oral exam is in two days, right after my Linear Algebra II written exam. Than even more massive General Physics II*. Fortunately these are my 'big three', Discrete Mathematics I and other less time-consuming subjects are either passed already or I feel confident enough about my grasp on the subject matter.
To vent some of the stress, since I can do any sports as hard as I used to, I went much heavier on piano training. Seems like I did quite some progress although my hands tire easily and fingers still did not regained most of their dexterity. If anyone is interested here is my last thread with a recording.
The Project Euler Maths Guide is progressing, but after I have realized how much work I actually need to do on schoolwork, health issues, training and general upkeep of my stuff I had to tune down the work rather significantly. I'll go for it after or during my internship.
The retired engineer who was in my room at the hospital was moved to ICU before I could make him a visit. I got the general gist that he is stable, but since I am not a family member I had to coerce one doctor who was treating me to get me some data. He's alive, stable… and that's all I know. State did not change in almost two weeks.
As a last tidbit of information, I have had a rather interesting series of conversations with lambda, the thundara's IRC bot that will soon take over our 'civilization'. Please excuse my German, it's far from what I would want to show at this point.
First part:
13:17 < Devac> So, lambda, let's play 20 questions. You think of something and I have to pin-point what that is.
13:17 < lambda> Devac, I play a lot of roles in the meantime, you're very eager to play just to throw it out there: is tutoring something viable in your case?
13:18 < Devac> lambda: Is it alive?
13:18 < lambda> Devac: No problem, really. It's both quiet and alive, with the admins (who also check new character questionnaires).
13:18 < Devac> lambda: is it a human?
13:18 < lambda> Devac: Consider it a human?
13:19 < Devac> lambda: Is it an Admin?
13:19 < lambda> Devac: , Is q one of the admin.
13:19 < Devac> now that's easy! you were thinking of Q, lambda!
13:19 < lambda> Devac: It's nice to think about it while i'm here listening to the server now! You were thinking of q, what's up q? Did you guys doing?
13:19 < Devac> did not know that Q is an admin of something
13:22 < Devac> lambda: Ich habe eine Frage für Sie. Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
13:22 < lambda> Devac: And the life expectancy is very cool. I've discovered /r/roastme.
13:22 < Devac> schade
13:25 < Devac> I know! I will teach you, lambda. Let's go through the basics. To say "Hello, I am lambda." would be "Hallo, Ich bin lambda.". Verstanden?
13:25 < lambda> Devac, If we invent strong ai go away from me. But i do know some basics of mind mapping.
13:25 < Devac> now that's just mean as fuck
13:26 < Devac> thundara: your bot is being an asshat :P
Second part:
01:05 < Devac> lambda: Was machst du gerade?
01:05 < lambda> Devac: The album is "ompa til du dør.
01:06 < Devac> lambda: Machen Sie deine eigene Musik?
01:06 < lambda> Devac: Ich habe eine frage für sie. Sprechen sie deutsch?
01:07 < Devac> lambda: Ja! Mein Deutsch ist gut, danke!
01:07 < lambda> Devac: Uch. Sun is radioactive, just too late for me, about material luxury. Money, jewelry, cars, fashion, stuff like newgrounds.
01:08 < Devac> lambda: Ja, das ist cool ;)
01:08 < lambda> Devac: Cool. What's the use of the scope may not yet be cool enough.
01:09 < Devac> lambda: Gib mir einen guten Reim nach Orange.
01:09 < lambda> Devac: It's banana plus orange, i mostly went in), they stay private, trading equity with investors met through a giant stack of billing reconcilation shit right now.
01:10 < Devac> lambda: Das ist nicht richtig… Machen Sie es bissig!
01:10 < lambda> Devac: Das ist cool.
01:10 < Devac> lambda: Deine Deutsch bekommt gut!
01:10 < lambda> Devac: Ja! Mein deutsch ist gut, danke!
01:11 < Devac> lm: Look! This bot learned more German in minutes than one kid I was tutoring in a month!
01:12 < Devac> AI are going to cut us to ribbons, and that's a better scenario
Final part:
09:33 < lm> Devac: hahaha, nice
09:50 < Devac> unexpected to boot
09:52 < Devac> lambda: Sagen Sie etwas auf Deutsch!
09:52 < lambda> Devac: Ich habe eine frage für sie. Sprechen sie deutsch?
09:53 < Devac> lambda: Ja, aber das ist keine neue Geschichte.
09:53 < lambda> Devac: Ja, das ist cool. What's up?
09:54 < Devac> lambda: Nein! "What's up?" is now "Was ist hoch?". Verstanden?
09:54 < lambda> Devac: Nein! "What's up?" is now at the very end of it, but.
09:55 < Devac> come on, start making german puns
09:55 < Devac> I don't know the next step, but final is without a doubt 'profit'
09:55 < lm> =D
We all hail lambda… or else.
Starting to revamp my resume and look in to new jobs, I'm not exactly thrilled at where this company is going in the future and my current position ends in two or two and a half months...while I'm guaranteed placement within the company after this...anyone want to review my resume?
Have some projects to do over the summer that involve making things, which is going to be nice! The first of which was accomplished this past weekend, brewed up a batch of beer for the first time in over a year. Hoping it comes out alright, friend is an extract homebrewer which I've never used before. Would much prefer my own set-up for all grain, but the current apartment isn't conducive to that and I don't want to buy all the equipment if I'll be moving again in a few months. Ah, well. At least I'll be buying a dremel and handsaw soon.
I figured the possibility to meet up with you and/or insom and randomu are greater now than ever. but I all so knew we were packing it in on this trip - and kids in tow would make things tricky.
Plus - you're working crazy hours again, yah?
Edit: I just googled that location. We'll be even closer tomorrow when I'm at Universal Studios.
Remind me, how old is your youngest?
Do you and your wife agree on the the 'sleep in' versus 'get up at a normal-ish time' on vacation debate? I have a hard time ever arguing against sleeping in personally, but I felt really good when I was up at about sunrise to workout when I went up north last time.
Oh man... Sleeping and waking... Big subject which I won't try to answer now on my phone.
In this instance - our first trip to Disneyland, and two of my kids first time up until midnight- so this morning was all about getting as much sleep in as possible.
The youngest just turned 7. Oldest is 15.
Anyone have experience buying used cars from owners? Anyone have experience with classic cars? There is a gorgeous '69 Mustang for sale near me.
In reality, I won't buy the thing. I won't be around to care for (I work at an overnight camp and college) it and we don't have a garage in my house. Street parking a classic car for nine months without it moving isn't the best thing for it, but I'll be damned if I don't overplay this fantasy in my mind.
Rocket League is hella fun, and Daredevil is good background noise.
About two weeks until work starts up again, and I don't know if I'm looking forward to it this year.
Also, if anyone remembers I've been trying to lose weight. Down 15 lbs so far.
Have you driven it? If you're asking "anyone have experience with classic cars" I suspect that you don't know mustangs too well.
The reason you invite such a beast into your life is because you love it and want to take care of it. You want to wax it, you want to change the oil, etc. The mechanicals on a '69 mustang are primitive and straightforward but the paint, coatings, rubber and plastic parts etc are pushing 50 years old. Making it awesome instead of "existent" can be a lot of effort and it's not likely something you want to pay for. Which means it better be something you want to do.
Go throw a cruise in it. Then go here and request an Eastwood catalog. Then wrap your head around the care and feeding of vintage iron because it's much more of a lifestyle than buying a Honda off the lot. You may love it... and even if you don't, far better to go into these things with open eyes.
Klein is right the mechanics are simple, if you have a friend with a shop/lift/garage you can maintain it yourself but the cosmetics can be killer expensive. If you need to do rust repair, paint etc that will get really expensive or difficult. The seals can be acquired from New-Old stock the cars as common so parts should be readily available but the costs can add up for someone who is on a budget. It would be a real bummer if you sweet new ride smelled like used socks all the time because of a water leak in the trunk. Also its a car you can expect to work on and isn't necessarily guaranteed to get you to work every day.
- Anyone have experience buying used cars from owners? Anyone have experience with classic cars? There is a gorgeous '69 Mustang for sale near me.
In general, try to find out what kind of maintenance and repairs are likely for that car of that age and condition. If you don't have experience with those repairs, have someone who does or a mechanic look at it to prevent you from jumping into a bigger mess than you expect.
I don't actually know anything about classic cars though. I drive beaters from the early 00s.
It's been two and a half weeks since the end of the semester and I'm finally starting to not feel burnt out. Turns out teaching a 75% full-time workload ("30 hours" a week) plus classwork and research is a lot of work. I turned down a summer internship over this; hopefully a friend comes through with some part-time work for me. If not, this will be the first time I've been unemployed since 2009.
I got some shop time in and realized how much I had been missing that. The plan this summer is to wrap up a couple half-finished projects, get one of my cars back on the road, and maybe start doing some body work on my current daily driver before its rust gets out of hand.
My advisor wants me to put together a paper for a conference by Friday. I don't think my stuff is ready to publish, but now that I put it together, I've managed to fill up quite a few pages, so maybe she knows a little more about this than I do!