Good Morning! 45F @ 5:15AM. A few showers this morning with mostly sunny conditions during the afternoon hours. High 58F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Took all day to drop 0.4" of rain yesterday, and only another 0.1" since midnight. Radar sez it's all east of me now, so today should start a dry out that'll last most of the week. Should make it back into the low 70s by mid week with another chance of showers on Wednesday.
Knock it off, Kyle, yer makin' the rest of us look bad (again)! Poor ol' Rip's gonna kill himself tryin' to keep up, and Lenny, too. Not to mention what's gonna happen when RS reads your post... :laughing:
Around here, L4N, they could give the gravel away and just charge for hauling it and still make out like bandits!
DVDs for the last half of season 3 of the old Route 66 TV series arrived from Amazon Saturday, so I got busy converting them to MP4 files to host on the media server. Two of the four discs wouldn't play, and when I checked the Amazon reviews it turns out I'm not the only one to have problems. As usual with Prime purchases, a few clicks and I had a pre-paid mailing label ready to ship the thing back for replacement. Good to know that Instant Pot has a similar warranty policy, Don. Although at the rate I use mine, it'll be someone else that gets the new one. :laughing:
One thing that struck me as I worked with the Route 66 DVDs is that there were over 30 one hour episodes for the first three seasons (only 23 for the last one). That means they shot film for an episode in less than two weeks (assuming they worked all year 'round)! Nowadays we're lucky to get six episodes for some new shows, and even luckier if they get the OK to run another year! Just another sign of the approaching apocalypse I guess. :confused2:
Shaped up the epoxy that was applied to the speedo housing on the van last week and learned it needed another layer, so mixed up a batch and used the leftovers to alter the power resistor bracket for the fan speed control. The resistor is one of those big ceramic jobs, and the new one is about 3/4" longer than the old one. The bracket is spring steel, and holds the resistor by the ends, so I cut it in half in the middle and made a piece of stainless steel with a hole in the center for a screw to clamp over the two pieces once they were moved far enough apart to fit. It'll be interesting to see if the epoxy set overnight, as it was only in the low 40s out there in the garage.
Got another tax document in the mail Saturday as well, so I'll take another swing at 'em today. Hopefully that's the last of 'em.
Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!
