Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 22 and going into the 40’s with clear skies.

Yesterday started with breakfast with my retired lawyer / professor friend. After that some chores and a trip to get welding gas. Traded in a 20 for an 80 cu ft CO2 / argon mix. The bottle upgrade was more than I expected, it cost me $260 to get out of there. I prefer to own bottles rather than rent them, I hate recurring costs, and my usage is very sporadic. Next stop was Staples for a toner cartridge for an HP laserjet. I couldn’t get a single, had to buy a pack of 2. Turning out to be an expensive morning, but I got through the rest of the day without spending any more.
Emily seems to be stabilizing, she still stumbles and occasionally sits unexpectedly, but gets around and is happy.

Today I plan to get to the hangar and make some progress on the little airplane. Other than that, nothing planned.

Drew, sounds like my typical dealer experience. One of the reasons that I end up doing most of my own repairs. I am lucky to have an eccentric, but very competent local mechanic to do tasks that I don’t want to do, but obviously he can’t do the warranty work that a dealer can. In all fairness, noises are one of the hardest things to troubleshoot. Especially if they can’t be predictably reproduced.

 

[Looking4new]

Drew, if you want to quieten the whine in the rear end down, put a couple of bananas in it. Let the buyer beware.

 

[Buppies]

Nice job on cabinets sodamo. Nephews picture is priceless

 

[txdon]

Yes terrible took wife for seafood she had a great time

Buppies, Dog houses are not allowed in the neighborhood, so good there. I did supply my wife with two new books, her second love.

Good morning! 62˚F, cloudy, South wind heading to 70.
IRS refunded me after filing just 8 days ago, nice surprise it was so quick.
WFPB meeting today with my wife as the guess speaker. She has a good slide show presentation on reading and understanding food labels. She is also throwing in a quick review of a new study on Olive oil which came out last month. Olive oil is no better than any other vegetable oil and better than lard. In the study "oil" to "no oil" was not part of the study but the headlines still incorrectly says that it is heart healthy. All added oils are just the fat of the complex Whole Foods that should not be processes out, you loose the nutrients and only gain empty calories and all oils hurt your blood vessel endothelium for hours after ingestion.

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning!. 40° now on it's way to 56°.

Told my wife about the abrupt change in hydraulic oil delivery at work. She manages a store for a major equipment rental company. She has a bulk tank for the hydraulic oil. She is now restricted to 2 - 5 gallon buckets/month. She is 1 blown hose away from being out of hydraulic oil.

Chasing noises in a vehicle is tough. You sit in a metal shell that resonates sound. There just isn't enough sound deadener when you get the right sound in the right place. But the echo chamber of the body can make you do a lot of chasing.

Bike batteries actually kind of suck @RedNeckGeek. They don't seem to be as robust as car/truck batteries.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 18 going up to 48 and I do see a little sun through the clouds.
One of the foxes is back and I saw it twice yesterday. It is big and healthy looking.
Wonder if it's going to get the last rabbit and one last squirrel.

Sodamo - Nephew pics is really cool. He has some great handwriting. If it weren't for computers I would not be able to read my own handwriting.

Stay safe and be well,

Acapulco has certainly changed from the 50's . Don't think we will go back. The bad guys kinda own the town now. When my wife was younger she was there and she said it was so completely different back in the 80's
Saw the cliff diving and went into town, area we were in had a shootout about a month later.
This was from 2009.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Bike batteries actually kind of suck @RedNeckGeek. They don't seem to be as robust as car/truck batteries.

And how! I've tried most brands out there, and seldom get more than five years out of one. Even keeping them hooked up to a Battery Saver charger is no guarantee they'll be OK when next needed. I haven't tried a lithium based battery yet, but they'er showing promise if for no other reason than their small size and light weight. Still pretty unsure they'll hold up in the heat and vibration present in a typical motorcycle, though, and at the current price point, it's an expensive gamble.

 

[pennwalk]

I did notice that dealer had ADM/adjusted dealer markup on every car, at least a thousand dollars packed into a 35k car. I simply refuse to pay ADM.

Drew, I mentioned it before that my neighbor is a Cady dealer. He said if he could get an Escalade he thought he could sell it for 20 thousand over MSRP so a thousand doesn't sound that bad but what do I know? I can't figure out what a dollar is worth any more.

Chris

 

[daugen]

Chris, what may be good for him is surely not good for us.
Every grand of extra cost just adds to long term cost of operation.

When I was selling yachts in Florida for three years, several of my largest clients were car dealers.
Car dealership owners make a huge, repeat huge amount of money. John Staluppi is one example of flagrant wealth.
I'm sorry but when they bring out the violins of poormouth and need for ADM, my hearing just hears noise.

Just because a lot of folks are making seriously good money in current market and want to pee away money on poorly valued
luxury items doesn't mean it's smart for me to. And I really had to laugh when I looked at the sticker of the one triple black G90 Genesis sedan, the top dawg
of them all, which stickered at 81k and they had the audacity to load on another 4 grand to make it 85. I hope the tires go flat on that car in the showroom, but I know
they won't. Someone got a bonus and in they come with a fat wallet and not much patience. A salesman's dream.

 

[B7510HSD]

Drew are you thinking of buyer the same brand car again? With the dealers approach at solving your problem yesterday I would scratch that off my list just sayin..