Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Did you make it to Haight/Ashbury?

Kyle, don't think we went much further than the Golden Gate bridge, remember it being too misty to see much.

Wiki tells me the Haight-Ashbury "Summer of love" was the following year, so I missed out there - then again, I was only 11 at the time

 

[Eric Salop]

BEF, very sorry to hear the loss of your friend.

 

[Eric Salop]

A new experience for me today, my first ever ride through a CT scanner, for the docs to resolve an anomaly inside my face that the dentist discovered when my teeth were X-rayed last year.

I was expecting the table to gradually move me into position, instead it took me by surprise with an impressive rate of acceleration rate that wouldn't have been out of place on a fairground ride. My wife was waiting in the car park and thought my appointment must have been cancelled when I came out so quickly. From arriving at the hospital to leaving again had taken only 20 minutes.

Am I too late to enter the most expensive fuel competition ? Pump prices here showing petrol at the equivalent of of $1.99 a litre - $7.53 per US gallon

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Wow, Eric, those are some steep prices! Our gas (petrol to you foreign guys) was $3.14 / gal when I filled up this morning. I feel lucky......

For you guys that have been to Albuquerque, the news reported that an Albq. landmark / icon is permanently closing its doors------- Quarters BBQ.
They always had good food and great customer service. They can't survive the decreased business caused by restrictions of you know what.....

WOOHOO! Shop has power! No sparks, no fire, power tools work.... I guess I did the install correctly. Wifey already mentioned a bunch of projects need some attention....

 

[toppop52]

Been having trouble attaching images lately. First try seems to result in a broken link, but edit and re-insert seems to fix it.

Same here I wrote admins, no reply.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

For you guys that have been to Albuquerque, the news reported that an Albq. landmark / icon is permanently closing its doors------- Quarters BBQ.
They always had good food and great customer service. They can't survive the decreased business caused by restrictions of you know what.....

That's a shame, Ted. I tried to eat there at least one night every trip I made there. Did they close their liquor store, too? I usually did takeout, and would go over there to snag a couple beers while my order was being prepared.

 

[toppop52]

Used to be, you could add a gasoline heater...same with the air-cooled Porsches

My first car was a Corvair so I understand your pain. Mine had a gasoline heater under the backseat, it didn’t work much. I carried a blanket and gloves. Gas heater in the car seems a bit dangerous.

 

[sodamo]

Driving any air cooled VW in an Ohio winter resulted in frost on the inside. I used to keep an ice scraper handy to keep the windshield clear in the winter.

Yup, had a 1960 Bug in Maine. Sometimes I wondered if colder on inside than out.

 

[sodamo]

My first car was a Corvair so I understand your pain. Mine had a gasoline heater under the backseat, it didn’t work much. I carried a blanket and gloves. Gas heater in the car seems a bit dangerous.

My very 1st brand new car, 1965 Corvair Monza, payment @$69/month.

 

[rswyan]

Currently 21F and pretty sunny @ 16:00, heading down to a low of 8F. Ten Day looking good, with half of the days calling for highs of over 50F ...

Far behind at this point so will be playing catch up for a while.

Shortly after I woke up yesterday I noticed that it seemed kind of cool in the house. Checked the thermostat and it read 69F temp and it was set on 73F.

Here we go again ...

Went downstairs flipped the on/off switch on the furnace and heard a "click" then proceeded to pull the flame sensor and ignitor and cleaned both of those off with some steel wool. No change.

Pushed on the one roll out switch I could find, which didn't seem like it was tripped. Still no change.

Checked condensate drain and it was open.

The inducer was not running whenever power was applied to the furnace so I disconnected the wires going to that and hooked up the meter to see if it was getting power. It wasn't.

So I disconnected the the red and white wires coming from the t-stat from the board on the furnace and took a jumper wire and jumped across the two screws where the t-stat wires were connected and flipped the switch. Inducer spun right up and the furnace fired off ...

So appears to have been a bad t-stat or a break in the wiring.

Took a good bit for the house to warm up after that as the temperature had fallen to around 65F or so by that point. Glad that it did though ... as the low this morning was 7.3F. It would have been very painful had it not fired up and come on.

Had to control the furnace by switching it on and off at the switch mounted on the side of it. I shut it off initially around 21:00 after the temp had gotten up to 77F and then turned on again around midnight and shut it off again around 4:30 before I went to bed.

Went ahead and ordered a new Honeywell smart t-stat last night from Amazon around 20:00, it was delivered this morning before I got up ... along with a new glass turntable for spare microwave No. 2, a small Magic Chef that was The Woman's mother's. Price was $6 cheaper than Menard's sale price on the same stat and it was delivered in less than 24 hours to our door ...

The old microwave - a large Sears Kenmore model which I bought back in mid 80's - finally went **** up a couple of days ago. It still comes on ... but is making a funny noise. May dig into that at some point and see if it's repairable or not ... although The Woman has already commented that she likes the smaller footprint of Her mother's microwave much better.

Agenda for the rest of the day is to get bird feeders filled (it's been several days) and to check wiring for the t-stat and then if good, replace the old t-stat with the new unit. New unit is gray with black face, and the display is backlit with white lettering. Will be much better than the old unit which was not lit at all and in a location in the main hallway where the lighting was dim.

We are somewhat excited by the new t-stat, which can be controlled from our phones ... as it may go towards ameliorating the thermostat wars here ...

She and I are opposite ends the spectrum with regard to temperature: She gets too warm fairly easily and doesn't (usually) mind it being cooler. I get cold more easily and don't mind it being on the warm side.

At least She'll be able to check with her phone what the t-stat is set on ... instead of asking me "Did you turn up the heat?" ... all the time ...

Hope eveyone is having a great day ...