Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 4:45AM. Cloudy with occasional showers this afternoon. High 58F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Nursing homes are like anything else, Ed. Some good, some bad. Some you can tell just walking in by the smell that it's no fit place to live. The best hospitals and nursing homes we found for my mom were affiliated with the Catholic church. Most will let you visit, talk to the residents, and even have a meal. At least the nice ones will.
Good luck with the tractor delivery, Andrew. We all know how much Eric likes his Iseki, and hope you like yours, too. Don't forget to update your SIG here on TBN.
Busy like a beaver, eh Wng?
Beware of any surgeon that owns his own operating theater, Ted. He won't have the latest and best equipment and will try to use it on you even if it's not the most appropriate because he's in hock up to his eyeballs. Find the best hospital in your area, often they're associated with a university, and see if your doctor will give you a referral to an orthopedic surgeon there. Your injury is pretty common among big time sports athletes, so give some thought to looking out of state for one with a good reputation in so called "sports medicine". Now is not the time to mess around with some backwater bush league doctor.
How do you lose weight and still eat dessert, Randy? Maybe it's all that "exercise" you're gettin'?:laughing:
More pogoing on the kickstart lever yesterday, but still no joy. I did finally manage to get the importer of the charging/ignition system on the phone yesterday, and learned that kit I have doesn't have the same parts in it that he's used to seeing, so the instructions he's passing out are no longer accurate. That explains the differences I'm seeing between his comments and what I'm working with, and I have a clearer understanding of how the system works. But since everything is new or rebuilt on the bike, I also have to figure out the right setting for the throttle/carbs. Today I'll pull off the intake manifolds so I can see down into the carb throats and make sure there's not too much or too little fuel, and try changing the timing in small increments until I get a chuff or a pop. I just need to get it running long enough to get a timing light on it so I can accurately set the timing. Turns out that the wacky ignition control unit makes some assumptions about engine RPM while it's being kicked, and may select an amount of advance that isn't necessarily appropriate. Apparently that's a problem with large displacement, high compression engines like what I'm working with...:confused2: I did rig up the timing light with tape over the trigger so I can tell when I'm getting spark, and my kicking technique is improving. The straight 40 weight oil and cool temperatures aren't helping much though.
