Good Morning!!!! 41F @ 5:30AM. Cloudy with showers. High 46F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Forecasting has been somewhat hit'n'miss out here as well, Buppies. Earlier in the week, they were predicting sunshine for Sunday, but now we have showers both days and sunshine Monday and Tuesday with more rain by Wednesday. Good thing I went easy on the firewood pallet in the garage, or I'd be out in the rain this weekend trying to get a new one inside without getting it wet!:confused2:
Life has a way of evening things out, Randy, and I'm glad you and Ellen didn't have to wait too long. Congratulations!
Yesterday's meeting with both "project leads" got us all on the same page, fortunately. Not sure where the miscommunication came from, but both were positive about my comments, one even going so far as to describe them as "refreshing".
The proposals will be re-drafted based on the information exchanged, and that will be the proof of the pudding. I think their intent is good, but perhaps they're not used to dealing with someone as detail oriented, with as much familiarity with the technology, as me. I should probably follow up with an email to both of them with my notes so that we're all clear on what was agreed to, just to keep things "refreshing".:laughing:
I found water softener salt two bucks a bag cheaper at Tractor Supply yesterday than I'd been getting it at from Home Depot. Maybe it's because TS stores it outside, in the rain, and they wanna get rid of it before too many leakers appear? The contents of the bags I got appeared to be dry, but the plastic bag itself was heavily textured by the coarse granules of salt inside, leading me to think pinholes were not far in their future.
When I got back home, the van parts had been delivered by the mail man, but I needed lunch and a nap before I could motivate myself to install them. I started the van before I started to make sure the problem was still there, and sure enough the low coolant level LED continued to flash long after it should have gone out. The easy thing to do was to replace the related relay, so I did that first, and the LED went out when it should have. Just to make sure, I put the old relay back in, and again the LED went out when it should.
The problem had been somewhat intermittent before, so that left the temperature gauge itself as the remaining suspect. That was the other part I ordered, so I pulled the instrument cluster and took it inside for the swap. And while I was in there, I replaced the LCD display for the clock, which had also been damaged over the years. Got it all hooked up again, and with the old relay, the LED was stuck flashing again.:shocked: OK, so maybe the both the gauge and relay were bad, though the misbehaving relay was a new replacement, though not a VW part. Put the just received relay in and the problem went away, but I'm not confident I've seen the last of it. But the only thing left is the wiring between the various components, and Lord help me if I have to try sorting that out in the rat's nest under the dash!
Not sure what I'll be up to this weekend, other than it will involve stoking the wood stove and trying to stay dry. Hope everyone enjoys their days off!
