Good Morning!!!! 72F @ 5:15AM. Sunny. High 97F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
I learned the hard way that when low budget cellular companies say something like "we use the same network as Verizon", the hide the fact that Verizon has contracts with local cellular providers for coverage that the Verizon antennas don't provide. So if you're on your StraightTalk or whatever service in those areas, your phone doesn't work. If you only use the phone in big cities with lots of Verizon antennas, you'll never know the difference, except when it comes time to pay the bill, which will be about half what Verizon charges. But go on vacation out where the birds sing and the air is clean, and maybe your phone won't ring, and maybe you can't phone home. Ironically, Verizon works well when I'm traveling, but when I get home, if I can get any cellular service at all, it's just 3G. Very rarely I can get LTE, and then only briefly. So I'm looking forward to whatever improved service Verizon is using to improve 3G, but I'm not holding my breath that it'll get deployed out here in the wilderness anytime soon.
Gosh, Dave, hope you feel better. Generalize much?:laughing:
Another beautiful lily! Thanks, Ron!:thumbsup:
Been looking for a "camping table" for a while now, Drew. Something that folds up and doesn't take a lot of storage space, but that gives maybe ten square feet of solid table top, and doesn't wobble around or collapse under 40 or 50 pounds of weight. So far I'm not having much luck, so if you find such a thing, I'd be all ears. Once you're ensconced comfortably in your MH, you may yet figure out a way to fit your PC in there. And because it's in your new storage unit just a few minutes away, you can easily go and fetch it, and all will once again be right with the world. Just give yourself a little time to sort things out, that's all...
I'm glad somebody's having good dreams about that firetruck, Billy.:laughing: I was thinking more about the hot tub idea while I was running the grinder (there's a lot of time to think when doing repetitive manual labor), and unless I also built a substantial set of stairs leading up to the deck on the firetruck, I'd likely die of a broken neck long before I got much use out of a firetruck borne hot tub. So when the time comes to scratch the hot tub itch, I'm going to call on Drew to share some of his hot tub expertise, and for now, just put the firetruck back together in a way that the makers at Howe would be proud of. And get a 2 1/2" suction hose so I don't have to store water in that tank. Sorry about your hand, and hope it didn't raise blisters. Happy to hear of Coco's progress, too!
I've been dirtier, Kyle, and Tide always seems to bet the dirt, most of it at least, out of my working rags. When I was a kid, I had to take pills for iron poor blood, and they permanently stained my teeth yellow. And now 50 plus years later, I probably have more iron in my blood than some might consider healthy. :laughing: But I am having second thoughts about the fiberglass. I'm gonna have to figure out a way to hoist my welder up high enough to reach into the tank to weld the stiffeners in, so I might as well weld up the holes in the bottom, too. I have visions of a piece of plywood on the tractor forks, and making up a long SO extension cord. Actually might already have one, now that I think about it. But when I saw your setup on the mill, though, I wonder how far out of round the vise squished that cylinder, and if you've measured it for roundness since it came out of the vise? Maybe it doesn't matter if the plastic ring will wear down to an oval?:laughing: Like you, and what Randy wrote, I bought the HF Predator, in my case to replace the clapped out B&S on the Craig's List cement mixer. In spite of the neglect and abuse it's suffered, it's still going strong. That's probably more due to Honda's good design, one which rumor has it HF copied in the Predator.
I didn't read your links on WBGT, Don, but isn't it calculated from "real" data such as temperature, humidity, and maybe barometric pressure? And as such, couldn't you set up a spreadsheet to do the calculation for you anytime you wanted, then keep a copy of it on both your desktop and your iPhone so you'd have it handy anytime the WBGT urge strikes?:confused2:
Is there ever such a thing as too much insulation, Mike? No, I didn't think so.:thumbsup:
Surprised you didn't just "linish" down the new casting instead of the chisel, Eric. I follow an Aussie bloke that uses that term, too, and have learned to associate it with what us Yanks call grinding or sanding. But at least you're catching on to the retirement thing quickly. No need to worry about daytime TV. It's more of a horse thing, in that it's far easier to ride the horse in the direction it's already going.:laughing:
Nice of you to give the kids a break, RS. Just hope their machines (quads?) don't make too much racket. You're right, it's probably all about the ride...:laughing:
Well, I did manage to get the instruments mounted back in the van yesterday, but that's about it. Actually, I got to do it all twice. After the first time, when I turned the key nothing happened, and that's when I remembered I'd neglected to hook up the main pigtail to the cluster. So it all had to come out again, which meant disconnecting everything. But when it was all back together, turning the key still did nothing: The battery was dead. Apparently while installing the alarm system I'd also created a parasitic drain, which now I'll have to track down. I did finally manage to get through to VOX tech support, and they were able to confirm that I'd properly installed their cellular tracker. But T-Mobile coverage here is pretty iffy, and it won't reliably signal an alarm while the van is parked here on the property. I'd anticipated that, and I'm OK with it, as I already have video surveillance that will alert me to trespassers. I just need to get the van to somewhere it can connect so it can finish its initialization routine, but that wasn't happening yesterday until it spent some quality time on a Battery Saver.
So once again, it was Ford to the rescue, and off I went to town in it. But not before I stopped by my bulldozer neighbor's to check on the progress they've been making with the crack house remodel. Since I saw it last, they stripped all the siding off the outside and have it prepared for stucco. And they've made great strides in putting up new drywall everywhere, and refinishing the few places where they kept the old stuff. Lots of new electrical and plumbing, too. Gonna be a beautiful place when they're done. I think his wife thinks I'm too skinny; she's always twisting my arm to stay for lunch every time I go over there. Not that I mind one little bit, and yesterday's tomato soup made from home grown tomatoes and fresh cream was a perfect complement to the grilled cheese sandwich that I'd never make for myself. It tasted delicious, so it must have been bad for me.:laughing:
TGIF, right?:drink:
