u/Abject_Recipe_8390

I test drove a mid-roof Transit 150 today for about 20 minutes. It was amazing, I almost want one as a daily driver! Anyway I have left formal cutaneous radiculopathy. Basically the nerve in my left leg is bad. I can't put my leg *on* the dead pedal wedge because it lifts that leg and compresses the nerve. But I would love to be able to make the van work for me. I tried putting my foot to the inside of the wedge, but twisting my ankle like that caused ankle pain.

What if I add height to the seat to compensate for the lifted leg, and add a riser under the right foot too so they're at equal levels. Should that work?

And are there other solutions?

I have a 2014 4WD 5.3L Sierra 1500 with Extended Cab.

And I'm planning to buy another of the same thing, except in 2WD, toward the end of this year.

Reasons:

1. I work in roofing sales and when it's down for DIY repairs, I need a backup vehicle.
2. Having the same bed, I can swap my ladder rack between them as needed.
3. I want to buy a spare 5.3L and rebuild it outside of the vehicle. Then when I replace it, I'll rebuild that one too. Swapping parts between two essentially identical vehicles is handy.
4. If one vehicle dies when I'm far from home, I can get to my second Sierra and use it to tow the other.
5. As far as I understand, this generation used steel instead of aluminum for its body panels which makes them more hail resistant. I'm a storm chaser (roofing).

Note: I'm actually open to 2014-2018 models, as long as I'm getting the A6.

I drive too much to have only one vehicle. And being unable to work for weeks or months at a time (e.g. after an inevitable engine failure) would cost me more in lost opportunity than the expense of the second vehicle.

Thoughts, any reason this would be a bad idea?

Coccodrillo vs. Dravec.

If < Dravec, then why?

I have both and so far Cocco seems better overall. More impenetrable, better burst damage, and it brings an enemy MT to the battle instead of an enemy HT.

Background: About five years ago I went hard into learning software. I was doing 40-80hr weeks, self-taught. It was easy because it was fun. I went broad, but I also went deep into React.

I was also using next, cypress, jest, express, php, mysql git, docker, nginx, about to start Stryker, etc.

As a non-CS student, after daytime studying my brain is too depleted for hard topics in the evening. I thought that getting back into software would be an excellent and enjoyable activity to replace gaming. And it could lead to a nice career.

Jumped into JavaFX and with AI's help I moved at breakneck speed. It was ... disappointing. It feels like the vast majority of software work that remains to be done by a human is deep work: studying books, documentation, much system planning, etc.

In other words, the parts that require much more cognitive effort. The parts I can't relax into.

It used to be spending 70%+ of my time writing code (easy flow). Now it feels like that will be probably less than 20% of my time.

So it seems to gain valuable skills, I need to focus on building large, or complex, or pristine systems which seems like a mismatch for my goal of relaxing.

But also: I'm just one guy with a computer. What large system am I supposed to design, unless I'm starting a SaaS business?

Anyway, am I doing this wrong? Is it still an appropriate evening activity, or is my eval pretty accurate?