Good Morning!!!! 54F @ 7:00AM. Abundant sunshine. High near 65F. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph.
I dunno, Eric, looks to me like when the first hole was being drilled the bit was chewing on the vise jaw and the part wasn't firmly clamped. He got the vise tight for the second one, and since the vise was in the same place, the jaws had been appropriately:confused2: machined so as not to ruin the hole in the plate.
Hope things go well at the party, Ed. What a kind and compassionate man you are!
I wonder if those antibiotics are upsetting your stomach, Farmer. Sometimes the doctor can swap the prescription for something equally effective that is easier on the tummy.
Congrats on your boy's graduation, PJS! Hope he gets a good mentor and continues his on the job education.
All this talk of snow and ice has me very glad that a monster Pacific ridge has established itself overhead and we'll have warm days and cool nights for at least the next week. But Larry Cosgrove is making noises that the pattern could persist into next March, putting us back in drought mode.:shocked:
I was supposed to have heard back from a satellite internet repair person by now, so I called HughesNet again to find out what went wrong. Their records showed they'd never set up the appointment. The last tech wouldn't pass on the contact info for the local contractor that would actually do the work, but this one did, and it turns out to be the original installer. He's a good guy, but had one of his techs do the actual install and something has now gone wrong. I called him and left voice mail, so hopefully I hear back today and can set the visit up for tomorrow. I'm tellin' ya fellows, if you have any other choice for Internet other than satellite, TAKE IT!
Also had to call the bank to find out where the e-check that was supposed to get to the mechanic by today was. Why, it was mailed from Phoenix on the first, sez the gal on the phone. That would put it at 5 business days, exactly what I told the mechanic when he asked for the progress payment. I told him if he needed it sooner, I'd go to the bank that day (Thursday of last week) and get him a bank draft. He declined, but yesterday complained about the delay. Rather than let him make his problem mine, he got a reminder of the previous conversation, and will get another earfull when I stop by today to observe the latest round of non-progress.
I did find room in the yard equipment trailer for twelve feet of van awning, and got the rest of the truck unloaded. Not much else to report from yesterday, other than that the intro text at the start of the original Blade Runner states that events occurred in 2019, only two years from now. We're no way near flying cars, remote space colonies, cyborg human clones, or an Earth so crowded people are being paid to immigrate off planet, but if the traffic in the SF Bay Area is any indication, we'll get there pretty soon.:laughing:
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!