Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

... It's been long enough since I've done this kind of thing that it's been a struggle. I'm tempted to dedicate an old laptop to the job, but it would mean I'd have to stop updating the operating system. Not a good idea security wise.

It takes some time and thinking, but I run some Virtual Machines that are "sort of" configured to avoid software changes and operating system updates. Some of my tasks include time based research, so these machines and configurations allow us to set that moment in time and not worry about all the BS some vendors try to push around. The VM environment may be a way for you too, avoiding the security and update issues. There are free O/S and VM software kits available on the net.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 32 to start going to 48. Bright and sunny , and looks to be a beautiful day at least until later when rain moves in !

Later we have to pick up two of the grands from preschool, take them out for pizza and then bring them back to school for their play ! Should prove interesting!

All I know is she greatly appreciates my visits and I leave her with a big smile.
promises kept

Drew, that’s super thoughtful to respect your wife’s wishes! You will be rewarded!

Christmas party at the FD was very good, food by Texas Roadhouse was very good ! Don’t seem to get as excited about FD party as years ago , but I guess that comes with age !

Hope all have a good day !

 

[RedNeckGeek]

It takes some time and thinking, but I run some Virtual Machines that are "sort of" configured to avoid software changes and operating system updates. Some of my tasks include time based research, so these machines and configurations allow us to set that moment in time and not worry about all the BS some vendors try to push around. The VM environment may be a way for you too, avoiding the security and update issues. There are free O/S and VM software kits available on the net.

I did try that a year or two ago using first Parallels and then VMWare. Both were so laggy they were almost unuseable, so neither would have been a good long term solution. I'm moving off Dreamweaver because Adobe only offers it as a subscription service, and the website I'm supporting is just a hobby and I have a hard time justifying the annual licensing fee. The laptop it's running on is so far behind in OS updates I'm having problems sharing data between it and laptops running the latest OS version. It's the age old gotcha of forced migration, someting I've always hated when dealing with IT.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 33 going up to 55 and sun is up as is moon.
Got the star hung and some other sundry tasks done, and brought up some firewood.
Garage rearranged for winter and snow blower started.
Tonight is sons Choral Concert.

Thanks Popgadget for reminding me, markers need to go out, will go out tomorrow. The upzdazy looks like a real work saver.

Drew - you care and it shows, good deeds are their own reward.

Back to the day job, be well.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 64˚F cold front is blowing in and this is our high for today. Light rain falling, .08" so far, not expecting much more and will have clear skies by this afternoon and 40s tonight and 30s tomorrow but no freeze forecasted.

I took all the tape off the shower and sanded the epoxy spots. Will put the sealer on today. I did a couple of test spots yesterday and they look good. Pool temp has warmed up to 62˚ and house temp 75˚but should cool down again. Haven't had to use central heat or ac for a week and had windows open last night.
Might get to the yard and maybe wash the truck if the afternoon is mild (60s not 50s).

 

[daugen]

Tractor is getting tired of resting
I think someone has the itch to plow some snow...

Ken, great decorations.
growing up the community decoration was the giant white star on top
of Bowman's Hill. Our front door faced in that direction so we looked at that
white star all winter. I don't get down there at night but I assume they
still light it up?

dropped my friend off at Philadelphia airport and then came home on Rt 95, which turned out to be a good decision.
476 was a parking lot coming North the way we came down to the airport. Adaptive cruise made a slow crawl at times
much easier.

I stay a full car length back at all times in slow/stopped traffic. That drives some folks nuts behind me.
It's like if they could get close enough to me somehow I'll
move forward another ten feet. Nope. I drive my car like a big truck or the rv, staying as far away from folks as I can.
I had one guy get so close to my rear bumper today it set off the parking dinger.
tailgating is really stupid.

I loved driving my diesel dually with a giant hitch ball in back, one of those triple ball jobs that
clearly would take your grill out in a hurry. Folks just didn't tailgate that much

need to get outside and get some sun on my face before rain comes back in tonight.

 

[B7510HSD]

Drew maybe some overload shocks on the rear of the car and add the big hitch!!

 

[LouNY]

Many years ago I was down in Albany for something, don't even recall what it was. But me with my mother and a couple of my daughters in the truck. I wasn't jumping out and cutting off traffic fast enough for the dip stick behind me. After a few right turns were I didn't get going when he thought I should have he started blowing his horn about the second time I dropped into reverse and squawked the tires jump about a ft back. He got the message and didn't blow the horn again.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .45 inches rain

Got a couple more hours mowing before disaster. Mowing with the rotary in reverse can be hard on the 3ph, especially in really thick, tall stuff. I managed to break off my stabilizers. Not the first time, I should know better. Unfortunately the female half of 1 side is hiding in the clippings. Hopefully to be found again at some point. I do have a spare, but not the M12 1.25 nut to attach. Off the town to find 1 one. I did. Also refilled my fuel cans and a stop at Safeway. Should be able to resume today.

Some of the lighter stuff

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[riptides]

65°F and .45 inches rain

Got a couple more hours mowing before disaster. Mowing with the rotary in reverse can be hard on the 3ph, especially in really thick, tall stuff. I managed to break off my stabilizers. Not the first time, I should know better. Unfortunately the female half of 1 side is hiding in the clippings. Hopefully to be found again at some point. I do have a spare, but not the M12 1.25 nut to attach. Off the town to find 1 one. I did. Also refilled my fuel cans and a stop at Safeway. Should be able to resume today.

Some of the lighter stuff


Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

You work hard on that property.

What do you mean by stabilizer? The rear hitch bars? If so, that is a lot of stress on the backend and the PTO in the general, no?

 

[LouNY]

65°F and .45 inches rain

Got a couple more hours mowing before disaster. Mowing with the rotary in reverse can be hard on the 3ph, especially in really thick, tall stuff. I managed to break off my stabilizers. Not the first time, I should know better. Unfortunately the female half of 1 side is hiding in the clippings. Hopefully to be found again at some point. I do have a spare, but not the M12 1.25 nut to attach. Off the town to find 1 one. I did. Also refilled my fuel cans and a stop at Safeway. Should be able to resume today.

Some of the lighter stuff
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Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Have you got a hydraulic top link?
When I'm backing into heavy stuff, I shorten my toplink which lets the mower eat it's way back in.

 

[daugen]

Have you got a hydraulic top link?
When I'm backing into heavy stuff, I shorten my toplink which lets the mower eat it's way back in.

I'm beginning to think lions and tigers are going to come out of that jungle David has on part of his property.
it appears able to swallow his LS
all that rain, everything grows like mad
might be worth investing in paying to get it done with something well over a hundred hp and
then keep up with it.
I hope David finds his three point parts and wears more than flip flops hunting around that tall grass.
he might find a thirty foot Hawaiian viper in there...

I never liked mowing in tall grass. Scared to hit an animal living in there.
And if it was real tall, it always meant a double mow, once cut tall as I could, second
somewhat lower. Much less lumpy that way.

nothing like getting finished mowing a field that really needed it.

 

[daugen]

was doing really fine waxing parts of my car, cleaned the engine compartment, and then went to shut the hood.
clunk. One side would not go down, the latch was not fully retracted. Well I tried that about six times, including starting the car, and
the one side would not unlatch fully. Thankfully the other side did, so it looks truly ridiculous now, one side two inches higher.

tomorrow morning I have an 8am appt at Heath's in Lambertville to get a new battery for car, so will let them fiddle with it.
If not, will drive directly to Volvo dealer thankfully half an hour away. It's mechanical and I poked around a lot, could not get it to retract past
its first position. Which was still locked.
And this of course was after I had carefully sprayed the latch mechanism.
perplexing

cleaned out rest of veggie garden and hauled that dead stuff off to the woods.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I was recently following a semi truck in left lane, we were passing people in the right. Guy comes up behind me starts flashing his lights. After the 2nd time he did that, I brake checked him. When the semi ahead of me got over after passing, I slowly passed him, then stayed in the left lane. Guy eventually had to pass me on the right if he wanted to speed.

Today's costco run was worse than expected. First at the gas station, both cars leave the pumps ahead of me, the prius ahead of me pulls to the first pump and gets out to fill up, instead of pulling to the front pump. So I had to go around to the front pump.

Inside was the usual people blocking aisles, parked empty carts randomly in the store, people in a hurry, etc. but that didn't bother me.
The real joy was going to self checkout, and the costco **** wouldn't let me use self checkout, said I had too much stuff. There were registers open there, but the manned registers were all backed up. I protested to no avail. I did call her out on her lie, she said the belts wouldn't handle the weight. I looked at her in disbelief and reminded her the self checkout does not have belts. Costco just does not care about their customers. I was so tempted to just leave my cart there and walk out. I do think after I get my next rebates, I'll be cancelling my membership.

The L5030 is back from dealer.

 

[kenmbz]

Leave it to car companies to make hood latches complicated.
My wife's "new" car has double latch too, if you don't close ti right one side or the other fails to latch.
Not sure how this is safer....

BEF - see what you did, you got the self checkout belts to run away and hide

 

[Looking4new]

The fuel oil delivery that was supposed to come tomorrow, came today. 572.1 Litres/153.35 US Gallons, cost me $943.20 or $1.65/L ($6.15/US Gallon). That leaves me about $200.oo credit in the account. AND I still have 480 US gallons in the big tank. Perfect. The next fill up will be out of the big tank and all fill ups after that will be the new fuel.

We've got Walmart,Home Depot and Canadian Tire in North Bay, 45 miles away. The nearest Costco is in Sudbury, so that is out of the question. 25 years ago the Walmart in North Bay falsely accused my son of doing something he didn't do and barred him from the store. I haven't gone back. Home Depot, I will go into IF I need an electrical part that I cannot get elsewhere. I buy most of my electric tools and all of the lumber at Home Hardware in Powasson. Yes, that Powasson, the town the guy that stole the portrait of Winston Churchill, came from.

I went back to bed at 8 this morning and got up at 11:45, nice power nap. I'm still going to do nothing today.

 

[LouNY]

Leave it to car companies to make hood latches complicated.
My wife's "new" car has double latch too, if you don't close ti right one side or the other fails to latch.
Not sure how this is safer....

BEF - see what you did, you got the self checkout belts to run away and hide

I opened the hood on my wifes new car the other to fill the windshield washer reservoir with good winter fluid. We had opened the hood to just look when we were buying the car, so this was the second time.
You have to have the drivers door open, then reach down and pull the hood latch all the way, then release it, and then pull it a second time to get it open. Fortunately closing it was much simpler.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Merry Christmas to me
Mackinac Island fudge delivered.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,

You have to have the drivers door open, then reach down and pull the hood latch all the way, then release it, and then pull it a second time to get it open. Fortunately

Lou, they aren’t making it any easier for the old folks !

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 11.3C and it's presently 21.9C, partly cloudy & fairly calm.

Yesterday, after Veteran coffee followed by grocery shopping, the arvo was spent doing a number of 'little' tasks.

Today's task is attending the Parish Council meeting @ 1500.

Life's good.

That's about it, take care all.