Good Morning! 57F @ 6:30AM. Rain early...then remaining cloudy with showers in the afternoon. High 57F. Winds SE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
The bulk of this storm system will hit late tonight and into tomorrow morning, bringing high winds and a couple inches of rain before it peters out on Sunday into Monday. Probably won't get much sleep tonight. Didn't get much last night, either, not having returned home until 10PM, and it was midnight before I wound down enough to get to bed.
Headliner install didn't go too well. As predicted, the glue soaked through the material staining it a spattered yellow. I'm now looking into using buttons over a thicker foam to hold the cloth up on the underside of the arched headliner, and even found some button forms that let you cover them with your own cloth. Or I could just let the nickel finish shine through, and tell folks that notice that they're UFOs floating around in the sky (the pattern on the material). :laughing:
I was able to get the luggage carrier installed with a lot less hassle than I was led to believe, and also the driver side window and rubber moldings. Still needs a little adjustment to run smoothly, but all the shouting is over. :confused2:
Forgot the bracket for the GPS tracker, so I'll get that installed today, and install another relay for the dual horn setup I ended up with. Have to wait for the radiator installation to finish before I can find a place for the horns though. Still have to install the rear wiper assembly and license plate lights in the rear hatch, and there's also a remote entry kit for the driver and passenger door locks to install. That'll be enough for today, as I want to be off the roads by dark when the heaviest part of the storm is supposed to hit.
The youngest mechanic was getting grumpy yesterday afternoon, blasting some pretty hard edged rock from the stereo and pretty much getting on everyone else's nerves. One of the guys just turned it off, prompting the owner's wife to suggest playing some Hawaiian music. Slat key guitar, but modern, some Pandora stream she'd found. They say music soothes the savage beast, and it was almost funny the way it calmed the youngster down. He was actually smiling and singing along with some of the tunes.:laughing: Right up until he dropped a transmission on his arm, which he milked for a half hour of whining and slacking off. He's also taken to dropping blatant hints of wanting a raise at every opportunity, but until he shuts up and starts kicking some butt, they're pretty much having the opposite effect.:confused2::laughing:
Got an email from my divorce attorney yesterday asking me to write a review for him on a popular online attorney rating site. It seems some rich doctor (a previous client) went on there and cried crocodile tears about the settlement he signed, apparently before reading it or discussing it with the attorney. I'd never had anything but the most professional service from the guy, and thought his communication skills were well above average, so I agreed to the review. It's really unfortunate when someone decides to blame other people for their poor judgement, especially when they do it in a forum where the person being attacked has very little recourse. Unfortunately, writing that review brought back some pretty awful memories, ones I still find myself struggling to get over. Maybe some day, eh?
Hang in there gang, Friday's comin'!
