sodamo
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- Joined
- May 20, 2004
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- Big Island, HI
- Tractor
- LS XR4140H (Mine) BX2380 (wife’s)
Fine looking job, Randy
You guys with the gravel: Knock it off! Yer making the rest of us look bad!:laughing:
Off to the clinic for my Wellness exam. No coffee or anything because of blood test.
Good Morning!!!! 49F @ 7:00AM. Cloudy skies this morning will become partly cloudy this afternoon. High 59F. Winds light and variable.
Steady but light rain yesterday lasted until about noon, bringing another 0.4 inches. Then another set of rain clouds just in time for my drive home from town in the evening had me creeping along for the last bit to the top of the hill in fog that would make any Englishman feel right at home.
There should be enough sunshine by this afternoon to give Don's stick shadow trick a try.:thumbsup:
You guys with the gravel: Knock it off! Yer making the rest of us look bad!:laughing:
Sadly, that Bimmer is just gonna have to find someone else to adopt it. I've no inside place to park it or work on it, and after sitting for so many years in a field in coastal Eureka, it's bound to be a rust bucket anyway. Yeah, sour grapes, but life is already plenty interesting right now.
Got a call from a shipper called SAIA yesterday, asking me to meet them twenty miles south of here to complete the delivery of the solar rack parts. I had to explain to the person that my truck only has an 8' bed, and I wasn't comfortable driving around with 6' of aluminum rail sticking out over the tail gate. Then I reminded her that I'd paid for door step delivery, not parking lot delivery. That was shortly followed by a call from someone in the shipping department of the company that sold me the parts, and I told them that the salesman had been briefed on the shipping situation with OnTrack not delivering to this area, so they should have known to verify with the shipper that the delivery was possible. I also let him know that since the order was placed, I've found a local source that is both less expensive and delivers, if it comes to that. What I didn't tell them is that I do have access to a 20' flatbed trailer, but I'll be darned if I'm gonna go to the trouble to borrow the thing from my neighbor and drive all the way down there to fix their screw up. I also leaned from the steel supplier that the pipe they wanted to sell me didn't meet the 35 ksi yield strength the structural engineer specified, so that delivery is pushed out another week. Oddly, the new steel is not only stronger, but less expensive.:confused2:
When I got to Home Depot yesterday to pick up the fuel injection tester, I found a bright orange bank of lockers just outside the entrance door. I'd never noticed them before, but they're kinda hard to miss, so my guess is they've only recently been installed. I'd printed out the email I'd received, which had one of those square bar code things on it, and there was a scanner mounted right on the lockers as part of the touch screen interface. All I had to do was hold the bar code up to the scanner and a door popped open with my envelope behind it. It worked a lot like the propane tank dispenser they already have, but it seems like at least half the time, the propane thing scans my credit card then forgets to open a door to release the bottle, and I end up having to chase down a clerk to get squared away. That new bank of lockers seems like a lot of trouble and expense to go through when they've already got a huge customer service counter that they could have mounted a wall full of cubbyholes behind. As a stockholder, maybe I should write 'em a letter and tell 'em to quit wasting money on frivolous technology.:confused2::muttering: To top it all off, I was so side tracked by the experience I forgot to go inside the store and pick up a bundle of wooden stakes, and I bet they're losing money when other people end up doing the same thing.
What's the ancient Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times?:duh: