Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 10:00AM. Periods of rain. High 46F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a half an inch.
Picked up just shy of an inch of rain yesterday, but have enjoyed a temporary lull since midnight. More due in today and the rest of the week, with some sun for Sunday. Most appropriate! I need a day to move a fresh pallet of wood into the garage, which involves untarping the wood pile to get it. It would be very nice not to do that in the rain!
Your 2+ inches makes what we're getting here a mere drop in the bucket, David! But we like it nice and steady, and that much all at once would very likely flood lots of folks out from under their plastic tarps!:laughing:
Doctors come in all ranges of competences, just like any other profession, Ed. Only problem is their "union", the American Medical Association, makes it very difficult for mere mortals, er, patients, to review history like education, years of experience, etc., before selecting one. Wouldn't it be nice if you could choose a doctor the same way you shop for a robot vacuum, on a place like AmazonMD? I bet something like that is not too far off into our future. At least I hope so. In the mean time, we'll all just have to try to keep our tempers when confronted by miserably unprofessional behavior. You've the patience of a saint, and I'm afraid I would have said something during an experience like yours. But I probably wouldn't have regretted it later.
It won't be long before those Red Flag Warnings return out here, but I'm very surprised to see them back east with all the recent moisture. Fuel moisture levels are a key component when setting Red Flag Warnings out west; are they not back east, too?
Speaking of Red Flags, I saw a news story or two last week about the Forest Service letting contracts to start harvesting some of the millions of beetle and drought killed pine trees. Not only will it make the forests healthier and safer, it's good business not to waste all that timber!
Dribbled gear oil into the final drive, driveshaft housing, and transmission of the old motorcycle yesterday. Talk about patience as a virtue. Nothing slower than 75W90 in the winter, especially through the tiny hole BMW made for it to pass.:confused2: Thank goodness they don't build 'em like that anymore.:laughing: Also put a couple quarts of that fancy racing oil in the engine, another step closer to running.
While we're on the subject of bad designs, I managed to install the ignition switch into the headlight shell yesterday. It rests on the roof of the shell, held in place by four sheet metal prongs that pierce four slots in the plastic circuit board. It's dark in there, the prongs/holes are tiny, and they're above line-of-sight, making the job truly delightful for someone like me that wears bifocals. And just to add insult to injury, the board will only fit one of two ways because the holes are not evenly spaced around the board. Once in place, the prongs need to be bent over to keep the board up there, and they're very hard to see because they are nested in with the components that populate the board. If all that weren't enough, the board holds the ignition lock in place, which contains a sheet metal contact piece, plastic bushing, spring, and contact plunger, all of which sit between the board and the roof of the headlight shell. Gravity is not your friend in getting everything positioned, and there's only a thin sliver of space to view the alignment of the parts, and did I mention it's dark in there? Ended up turning on a headlamp and shoving it in there, then tweaking the prongs until the board would go on but at least try to keep itself in place against the spring pressure. Then I remembered the pair of tiny lever actuated clamps I picked up somewhere, and they were perfect one-handed accomplices for keeping the board in place until I could get the prongs bent over. A true Michaevalean design, one which I'm sure the person who designed it ever had the "pleasure" of installing. One can only hope they have a special place down below for such people, and that they've found their final resting place there.:muttering::devil:
That done, and I was delighted to see that all the various bulbs were doing what they should do at the appropriate times. Not so good is that the ignition has yet to produce a single spark, and it's looking more and more like I did burn out the regulator/rectifier unit. But still have a bit more troubleshooting to do before I make another call for help.
Finished up the mechanic's part early yesterday morning and texted him of it's ability. No response until 7:00 last night, sez he never got the text. Odd, because I sent it from my phone and it showed up on my laptop, so I know it went out. But then nothing surprises me these days. Anyway, he said he wanted it as smooth as possible, so I polished it up through crocus cloth and it shines like a new penny. I asked him to call me when he gets to the shop this morning; he said it wouldn't be until sometime around 11AM. What a way to run a business...
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
And it is not just medicaid/care recipients; its everyone covered by health insurance. It is next to impossible to "end run" "Client Confidentiality." The very regulations that were designed to protect client confidentiality can prevent information sharing when there is a "real live" medical problem going on.
