RedNeckGeek
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
- Messages
- 8,754
- Location
- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
Good Morning!!!! 40F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 49F. Winds light and variable.
The 10-day is calling for a bit of rain to start the week, and a bit more next weekend, with sunny skies and moderate temps in between. We're still below average for rainfall, but above the average for snow pack in the mountains.
If you liked the Thin Man movie, Billy, there's a whole series of them featuring the same leading man and woman.
Tesla has long threatened to release a self driving semi-truck into the world, Chris. I'm all for progress, but as the American Motorcyclist Association keeps pointing out, these new inventions haven't been tested enough with motorcycles, bicycles, or pedestrians to be considered anything like safe. Just like the internet is a far cry from being anything close to the reliability of the old Bell Telephone system it is supposed to replace. New year, same old worries.
I do have a lithium jump starter, Bruce, and even had it with me. But I also had jumper cables, and the folks in the next cabin offered their big Ford van as a donor, so that just seemed simpler. Truck started right up, of course, with that little bit of extra TLC. Still going to do that load testing on the batteries, especially since I went back through the maintenance records and now find that the current pair is five years old.
Welcome to the GM thread, Realtornz. Always nice to have another Kiwi join in!
Hope you stopped the antibiotics soon enough to save your shoulders, Kyle!
Made it past midnight last night, thanks to the talkative friend with whom I shared the cabin. They've been having trouble getting their sister to follow the hospice nurse's instructions, and the usual pain medications don't work well for her pancreatic cancer pain. New meds didn't agree with her stomach, which kept her, her husband, and my friend, up very late. All I can do is offer sympathy at this point, but at least it's something.
Got a new set of brakes ordered for the truck yesterday, then spent the rest of the day in the attic patching a failed Ethernet cable. Replaced a 10' section of the line, which meant installing four new connectors, which was almost assured to result in at least one that wasn't done properly. But since I checked each one with the Pockethernet tester, it was no surprise, and only a little more work and another trip up and down the ladder to get it working again. Hopefully the new cable is a little more resistant to chewing than the old one. Now I need to get some traps set up in the attic.
Hope everyone's year gets off to a great start!
The 10-day is calling for a bit of rain to start the week, and a bit more next weekend, with sunny skies and moderate temps in between. We're still below average for rainfall, but above the average for snow pack in the mountains.
If you liked the Thin Man movie, Billy, there's a whole series of them featuring the same leading man and woman.
Tesla has long threatened to release a self driving semi-truck into the world, Chris. I'm all for progress, but as the American Motorcyclist Association keeps pointing out, these new inventions haven't been tested enough with motorcycles, bicycles, or pedestrians to be considered anything like safe. Just like the internet is a far cry from being anything close to the reliability of the old Bell Telephone system it is supposed to replace. New year, same old worries.
I do have a lithium jump starter, Bruce, and even had it with me. But I also had jumper cables, and the folks in the next cabin offered their big Ford van as a donor, so that just seemed simpler. Truck started right up, of course, with that little bit of extra TLC. Still going to do that load testing on the batteries, especially since I went back through the maintenance records and now find that the current pair is five years old.
Welcome to the GM thread, Realtornz. Always nice to have another Kiwi join in!
Hope you stopped the antibiotics soon enough to save your shoulders, Kyle!
Made it past midnight last night, thanks to the talkative friend with whom I shared the cabin. They've been having trouble getting their sister to follow the hospice nurse's instructions, and the usual pain medications don't work well for her pancreatic cancer pain. New meds didn't agree with her stomach, which kept her, her husband, and my friend, up very late. All I can do is offer sympathy at this point, but at least it's something.
Got a new set of brakes ordered for the truck yesterday, then spent the rest of the day in the attic patching a failed Ethernet cable. Replaced a 10' section of the line, which meant installing four new connectors, which was almost assured to result in at least one that wasn't done properly. But since I checked each one with the Pockethernet tester, it was no surprise, and only a little more work and another trip up and down the ladder to get it working again. Hopefully the new cable is a little more resistant to chewing than the old one. Now I need to get some traps set up in the attic.
Hope everyone's year gets off to a great start!
