1985 BMW 325e

http://columbiamo.craigslist.org/cto/3959817942.html

Yep. Selling my E30 because college. Realistically I want $1,500 for it. 2 door, 5 speed, 2.79 diff, 98% rust free. Runs and drives. Needs and inspection and at least a half-assed stereo job. The PO kind of just threw one in without giving a shit because it was a rallycross car before I bought it. Subsequently, there's something that causes the battery to go flat every few days unless you drive it regularly. Just replaced the starter and battery.

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Why do you even need brakes? Are you some sort of pansy or something?

Tyler, how are you doing?

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
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Why is the shitty seat on the driver's side?

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"Talk about drugs. Driving a car like that, going that fast, it’s like all the drugs at once." - Tommy Byrne

"Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?" - The Brain

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Why is the shitty seat on the driver's side?

Either from being worn out or somebody wanted to snag the Recaro for themselves. Like I really want to do with the passenger side.

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Why do you even need brakes? Are you some sort of pansy or something?

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Tyler, how are you doing?

I'm good, just busy. Deciding not to live my life on a computer was a good decision. How about you?

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Why do you even need brakes? Are you some sort of pansy or something?

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john vanlandingham
Tyler, how are you doing?

I'm good, just busy. Deciding not to live my life on a computer was a good decision. How about you?

Doing good. Just got back from a big camping trip in the high Cascades with my sweet wifey and kiddies.. Cool thunderstorms! Gonna take time for another trip before school starts...gotta take some time off from these long days making steel and aluminum parts.

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All work and no play
makes Jack gay....

or sumpin..

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

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john vanlandingham
Tyler, how are you doing?

I'm good, just busy. Deciding not to live my life on a computer was a good decision. How about you?

Doing good. Just got back from a big camping trip in the high Cascades with my sweet wifey and kiddies.. Cool thunderstorms! Gonna take time for another trip before school starts...gotta take some time off from these long days making steel and aluminum parts.

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All work and no play
makes Jack gay....

or sumpin..

Camping and high Cascades? I think maybe you got high in a tent in your back yard. WHY WASN'T I INVITED, YO?!

It's always better getting out and doing things than it is to own things. Even if you're a materialistic prick like me.
Speaking of school, I should get around to figuring out what sort of career I want. I don't really give a fuck about working with my hands. I make several genres of music almost every day, but I don't think that would make a good day job unless I got famous overnight. Which only happens if you're Canadian or one of those Disney clones. Or however they do it. Pretty much just anything slightly better than tolerable that pays enough to allow me to do what I want.

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Why do you even need brakes? Are you some sort of pansy or something?

Glad you're hanging in there kiddo. The career/college thing can be tough to decide at your age. Have an acquaintance that sent his daughter to a great eastern school. Smart girl and something like $250k was spent on her higher edumacayshun. After graduation she moved to a large metropolis and waits tables. Awesome use of funds...

A career shouldn't be something you come home and bitch about every night. Find something that pays the bills and brings joy to your spirit.

If you are musically able and enjoy it, by all means go for it. If you can, take a class or two in recording/ running the board at shows. I have a few friends who do this and have a great time, also have a buddy who became a booking agent, there are all kinds of options, and if you enjoy it, you will be good at it.

Yeah, with the cost of a traditional four year college education, if you don't know what you want to do when you grow up...don't amass a pile of debt. Take a few classes at the local community college, or learn a marketable skill.

Two thing I would do differently-- I would have done some machine tool classes in high school, and I should've taken the opportunity to get a Commercial drivers license. Those are two fields that seem to always need warm bodies. Now that I'm knocking on 40 and have two young kids, starting over is tough.

That said, I'm grinding away in retail again to help pay for my kids' Waldorf school...

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

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Yeah, with the cost of a traditional four year college education, if you don't know what you want to do when you grow up...don't amass a pile of debt. Take a few classes at the local community college, or learn a marketable skill.

Two thing I would do differently-- I would have done some machine tool classes in high school, and I should've taken the opportunity to get a Commercial drivers license. Those are two fields that seem to always need warm bodies. Now that I'm knocking on 40 and have two young kids, starting over is tough.

That said, I'm grinding away in retail again to help pay for my kids' Waldorf school...

Starting over is easier when geographic limitations are remeoved---that's always the hardest thing.

But As usual good words.
Tyler.
Get the fuck outta dodge, find some THING some idea that holds a special place and let that be Da Big Goal.. The Keep your eyes on the Prize thing..
When you have a BIG GOAL to keep your eye on, all the trivial crap in the foreground can be dismissed as neccasry to reach the BIG GOAL...

For me it was first RACE MOTO-CROSS INTERNATIONAL full time.... So when working some job running the same boring part in some loud, hot, stinky factory, I could say "This is OK, it's getting me closer to the goal"...

Gotta have a goal..
After a while it was clear it didn't matter what the BIG GOAL was, but it had to be difficult to attain to sustain the effort for 7-10 years.

next big goal was "I want to live someplace for 10 years" (understandable after 30 years of constant moving, never in one place for more than 2-3 years---and only by going cumulative could I come up with 7-8 years in one area...and that was Stockholm in Sweden....)

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I sometimes think of how fucked up it is that I came from a family with strong blue collar ties that I didn't weld something until my mid twenties.
The people I know that are enjoying and regularly playing music and releasing albums well into their 30s and 40s have regular day jobs and recognized long ago that music is most successfully a hobby.
I know other people that loved playing music and when the time came to go to college, their parents said, "you can't go into a music field. That's a dead end career of waiting tables." They were so discouraged they set the instrument they had played since 3 years old down and haven't played it since." (or similar.) Or they spent their late teens and early 20s trying to find their break and trying to book shows and play in bands and doing way too much coke, drinking, etc. and disappear from sight.

Find and read the book Flow: The Psychology of the Optimal Experience. I've only read one chapter but it probably should be required reading for all.

There are two major things I have identified that lead to depression/sadness.
Debt.
Monthly Living Expenditures.
Until you have found a career that you love and have been doing for a few years and want to do forever, keep these non-existent or minimal.

I'd love to form a full time rally business. I could afford to quit working and do it. Right now, I am enjoying working remotely and on my own time getting to spend huge amounts of time with my daughter regularly during the daytime. None of my friends that could potentially be business partners are able to take the leap. They might be able to invest some money, or maybe some nights, but not quit their day job to make it happen, no matter how much they might hate said job.

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Grant Hughes

My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.

For only when love and need are one
And work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and for future's sake.

-Robert Frost

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Kirk Coughlin
Woodbury, MN and River Falls, WI

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.

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My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.

For only when love and need are one
And work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and for future's sake.

-Robert Frost

Said in only the way an artist could...

However, the mathematician will tell you, that is a contradiction. There is no way that your avocation and your vocation can be one. Technically.

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Grant Hughes

I'd also be willing to trade for an ESP guitar or a Mesa Dual Rectifier, Egnater Tourmaster, or any Engl half stack.

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Why do you even need brakes? Are you some sort of pansy or something?