RedNeckGeek
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
- Messages
- 8,753
- Location
- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
68F @ 6:00AM. Sun and clouds mixed. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High near 90F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Yes, Dave, rocks do build character. Patience, often acquired when a trench turns into a pit large enough to expose the entire boulder to allow removal. Jubilation when it finally comes out of the hole. Satisfaction after its forked, rolled, or drug to the rock pile, or strategically placed in the landscape. Acceptance when the boulder turns out to be bedrock and only many yards of dirt will keep the mower blades off of it. Perseverance when you lose the first battle but return after repairing what broke or finding a hammer big enough to git 'er done. And if it's not rocks it's tree roots; lots of ways to build character when digging in the ground. :laughing: When you mentioned erratics, Dave, I thought you were referring to people who painted their rocks. Out here that would be a full time job, and you'd go broke buying enough paint to do it! :laughing:
85F is a nice temperature, but only when you can stay in the shade. Leave a wrench in the sun for ten minutes around here and see if you can pick it up without gloves. And forget about wearing shorts when you sit down on that tractor seat!
I wonder about all of those animal parts with obvious personality, Drew. I think it's great that none of the unusual pig (or chicken or cow or fish) parts go to waste, but I've never met anyone that actually enjoys eating them, let alone knows how to eke a tasty meal out of 'em. They're people with more imagination than me, or that love that sort of challenge. When I used to shop in Chinese markets, I'd always bring home something I'd never seen before, and try to figure out what it was and how to cook it. I got to calling it dare food, and I didn't always win. :laughing:
And yeah, always run the carb dry before putting a small engine away. Saves having to take the carb apart to unstick a stuck float needle.
RS, same thing happened to me at the Stihl dealer with a carb rebuild kit, except he knew two versions had been used, and since I didn't bring the carb with me, he guessed it'd be the more common one in hopes of saving me a return trip. It didn't fit, so the carb went back with me and it did turn out to be the other kit, which was also less expensive. Life is like a box of chocolates...
Wing, when I get to the Duke University concert I'll think of you. Trouble is Rhino seems to have mislabeled the CDs so it might take some detective work to figure out which is which. :confused2:
Buppies, have a safe trip home. Farmer, glad you and the family made it back OK. Didn't it used to be the only time you had to worry about traffic was during rush hour? Now it seems like traffic's even worse on weekends when everybody and their brother are out joy riding. Maybe it's because they're not in such a hurry to get somewhere? :confused3:
Speaking of wireless routers (the network kind, not the wood shop kind), the fairly new Asus refused to let me log into it last week, and rather than reset and reconfigure it again, I took it back. At Best Buy it was a no-questions-asked, no fuss return, except when I asked the clerk for a recommendation on a replacement. He didn't know much more than I did, except that he got a bigger commission from selling the most expensive one on the shelf. I ended up with a Linksys, a brand I've had good luck with before. Setup was OK, but I soon found glitches. Couldn't print, iPhone wouldn't sync to laptop, other weird stuff. Finally had to update the firmware to get it going. The odd part is that it was advertised as coming with DD-WRT firmware, but it was only DD-WRT compatible. The worst part is that the open source project that was supposed to come up with the compatible version was being stone walled by Linksys, and there's still no DD-WRT available. That's when I learned that Linksys had been acquired by Belkin, and I've never had anything from Belkin that I didn't have to return. This POS is no exception. Did a little digging and found a medium priced Netgear that can be flashed with DD-WRT, so I'll buy two of 'em and set one up as a range extender. That way I can use one to experiment on while the other one keeps the Internet connection up. And if one croaks I can use the other one until I can get a replacement. If I run into a snag with DD-WRT, there are tons of forums full of eager developers just waiting for a chance to help. But that's only if I can't google up the right answer. Kinda like a TBN for nerds. :laughing:
Needed a break from the motorcycle work yesterday, so swapped out some florescent closet and bathroom fixtures with LED versions. Not only do the LED lights consume less power, they're much brighter as well. No more squinting in the bathroom mirror or groping around in a dark closet, only to come out with mismatched clothes or shoes. It was an easy swap until I found that the builder had used single gang switch boxes instead of the correct round or hex boxes in the ceiling. I was able to pick up one mounting screw, but had to resort to drywall anchors for the others. Then I found that one of the new fixtures buzzes like a florescent with a bad ballast, so it'll also have to go back. Cheap Chinese crap! It'd be my own fault if there had been a high quality, perhaps American made, alternative available that I didn't buy instead, but the low priced off shore junk has driven everything better off the market.
ullinghair:
Enjoyed another dinner concert on the patio last night, but not without some pesky company. The juicy New York strip and fresh sweet corn brought out the meat bees, what I used to call yellow jackets. First just one, then a pair, then four or five to the point I had to be careful what I was putting into my mouth. I saved my scraps, and today will make up a trap baited with insecticide they can take back to the nest. That should take care of 'em for another year...
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
Yes, Dave, rocks do build character. Patience, often acquired when a trench turns into a pit large enough to expose the entire boulder to allow removal. Jubilation when it finally comes out of the hole. Satisfaction after its forked, rolled, or drug to the rock pile, or strategically placed in the landscape. Acceptance when the boulder turns out to be bedrock and only many yards of dirt will keep the mower blades off of it. Perseverance when you lose the first battle but return after repairing what broke or finding a hammer big enough to git 'er done. And if it's not rocks it's tree roots; lots of ways to build character when digging in the ground. :laughing: When you mentioned erratics, Dave, I thought you were referring to people who painted their rocks. Out here that would be a full time job, and you'd go broke buying enough paint to do it! :laughing:
85F is a nice temperature, but only when you can stay in the shade. Leave a wrench in the sun for ten minutes around here and see if you can pick it up without gloves. And forget about wearing shorts when you sit down on that tractor seat!
I wonder about all of those animal parts with obvious personality, Drew. I think it's great that none of the unusual pig (or chicken or cow or fish) parts go to waste, but I've never met anyone that actually enjoys eating them, let alone knows how to eke a tasty meal out of 'em. They're people with more imagination than me, or that love that sort of challenge. When I used to shop in Chinese markets, I'd always bring home something I'd never seen before, and try to figure out what it was and how to cook it. I got to calling it dare food, and I didn't always win. :laughing:
And yeah, always run the carb dry before putting a small engine away. Saves having to take the carb apart to unstick a stuck float needle.
RS, same thing happened to me at the Stihl dealer with a carb rebuild kit, except he knew two versions had been used, and since I didn't bring the carb with me, he guessed it'd be the more common one in hopes of saving me a return trip. It didn't fit, so the carb went back with me and it did turn out to be the other kit, which was also less expensive. Life is like a box of chocolates...
Wing, when I get to the Duke University concert I'll think of you. Trouble is Rhino seems to have mislabeled the CDs so it might take some detective work to figure out which is which. :confused2:
Buppies, have a safe trip home. Farmer, glad you and the family made it back OK. Didn't it used to be the only time you had to worry about traffic was during rush hour? Now it seems like traffic's even worse on weekends when everybody and their brother are out joy riding. Maybe it's because they're not in such a hurry to get somewhere? :confused3:
Speaking of wireless routers (the network kind, not the wood shop kind), the fairly new Asus refused to let me log into it last week, and rather than reset and reconfigure it again, I took it back. At Best Buy it was a no-questions-asked, no fuss return, except when I asked the clerk for a recommendation on a replacement. He didn't know much more than I did, except that he got a bigger commission from selling the most expensive one on the shelf. I ended up with a Linksys, a brand I've had good luck with before. Setup was OK, but I soon found glitches. Couldn't print, iPhone wouldn't sync to laptop, other weird stuff. Finally had to update the firmware to get it going. The odd part is that it was advertised as coming with DD-WRT firmware, but it was only DD-WRT compatible. The worst part is that the open source project that was supposed to come up with the compatible version was being stone walled by Linksys, and there's still no DD-WRT available. That's when I learned that Linksys had been acquired by Belkin, and I've never had anything from Belkin that I didn't have to return. This POS is no exception. Did a little digging and found a medium priced Netgear that can be flashed with DD-WRT, so I'll buy two of 'em and set one up as a range extender. That way I can use one to experiment on while the other one keeps the Internet connection up. And if one croaks I can use the other one until I can get a replacement. If I run into a snag with DD-WRT, there are tons of forums full of eager developers just waiting for a chance to help. But that's only if I can't google up the right answer. Kinda like a TBN for nerds. :laughing:
Needed a break from the motorcycle work yesterday, so swapped out some florescent closet and bathroom fixtures with LED versions. Not only do the LED lights consume less power, they're much brighter as well. No more squinting in the bathroom mirror or groping around in a dark closet, only to come out with mismatched clothes or shoes. It was an easy swap until I found that the builder had used single gang switch boxes instead of the correct round or hex boxes in the ceiling. I was able to pick up one mounting screw, but had to resort to drywall anchors for the others. Then I found that one of the new fixtures buzzes like a florescent with a bad ballast, so it'll also have to go back. Cheap Chinese crap! It'd be my own fault if there had been a high quality, perhaps American made, alternative available that I didn't buy instead, but the low priced off shore junk has driven everything better off the market.
ullinghair:Enjoyed another dinner concert on the patio last night, but not without some pesky company. The juicy New York strip and fresh sweet corn brought out the meat bees, what I used to call yellow jackets. First just one, then a pair, then four or five to the point I had to be careful what I was putting into my mouth. I saved my scraps, and today will make up a trap baited with insecticide they can take back to the nest. That should take care of 'em for another year...
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
