Good Morning!!!! 55F @ 6:00AM. Cloudy with periods of rain. High 57F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall may reach one inch. Locally heavy rainfall possible.
Saturday sounds like even more fun, with both wind and flood advisories in effect. But now the 10-day is showing dry for the end of the period.
Town run yesterday went pretty much as planned. Very few people masking up these days in spite of increasing CV19 infection rate. I forgot to wear mask at one store, but remembered for the rest. Sanitized hands every time I got back into the truck, and the grocery cart, too. Similar precautions last year got me through the season without even a head cold. Be nice if the same thing happened this year.
Changed the oil, oil filter, air filter, and fuel filter in the truck when I got home. The
EZ Drain plug on the oil pan wouldn't stay open on it's own, so I got to hold it open against spring pressure with a pair of pliers while laying on my back until almost four gallons of hot oil drained. I'd have put the original drain plug back in if I could have found it. Ordered a new one, along with a handfull of crush rings. Always worried about knocking the thing off while off roading, or a vandal crawling under there and draining the oil for a joke. Good riddance.
Sorry to hear about your poor Verizon experience, Paul. I'm a long time cellular customer, too, and have always had great service. But it's been more than ten years since I had to talk to them on the phone. My, how times have changed, and not necessarily for the better. I had an experience similar to yours when I got a "free" trial subscription to T-Mobile cellular internet. Coverage was intermittent, and even though I cancelled after three days, it took almost six months to get them to stop billing me.
If the rain holds off long enough, I wanna get the rest of the hardware cleaned up off the back patio, and maybe even what's left of the chimney chase, too. If not, there's plenty to do out in the garage.
I've never had much problem with Friday the thirteenth. Plenty of trouble on the twelveth and fourteenth, though. For example, yesterday I got the insurance estimate, and it was just over half of what the contractor came up with. Talked with the claims administrator, and he's gonna have a chat with the contractor next week to find out if there's a middle ground. Hope they get it cleared up, as I want the work to take advantage of the dry spell coming up next week.
TGIF gang!
