Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

71°F and .03 inches rain. Yea, it pretty much stopped shortly after getting tractor put away yesterday.

Likely get some more bushhogging today.
This afternoon going to neighbors for a house blessing. Be interesting to see who is there.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good luck on the Vanagon, RNG. I was wondering, since you did the engine conversion, will you be doing anything significant with the interior, or will that remain a more traditional approach?

It's down to the bare walls and floor now, PJ, mostly for insulation and sound deadening purposes. I've also run new heavy gauge speaker wire from the dash to the back. The camper cabinets will be reconfigured and then refaced, doing away with the funky round cornered cutout doors in favor of locking drawers in most places. There will be a new heater and refrigerator installed, and a tiny microwave oven if I can find one I like. And upgraded LED lighting. All that will involve more new wiring, and installing a water tank and perhaps a gray water holding tank as well. Fun times ahead!

I've been watching the satellite location reports come in on the van this morning, and it has moved, but seemingly off the alignment shop's lot to a nearby house. No idea what's going on there...:confused2:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 84F @ 10:00AM. Sunny. High 92F. Winds light and variable. Looks like a cooling trend starts Friday, with high temps dropping into the 80s, then a good chance of a little rain on Monday with temps back in the 70s next week. I need temps in the 75F-85F range to paint, so it's almost a guarantee I'll have the van back by then and won't be able to do the painting that's needed.:confused2::duh:

Ordered a pair of LED driving lamps for the old motorcycle yesterday, the last of the accessories. Also ran wiring for an accessory socket, GPS power, and GPS audio. The audio had to have a 1/8" four pole female socket soldered to it, and I felt like a brain surgeon with 7x magnifiers, tweezers, and a tiny soldering iron tip getting the wires on how they needed to go. Literally, I'm gittin' too old for that kind of crap!

Was told by the fabricator that the aluminum bumpers for the Vanagon are done, and am now waiting on tracking info and an arrival date. Shouldn't be long; they're only coming from Washington state.

Happy Hump Day everyone!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Wow! Satellite image quality is frighteningly good these days! Location dots were collected over the last 24 hours.

 

[PJSprog]

That's just the level they share with us. When my oldest stepson was deployed in Iraq, his first job was in a Comm tent. He said they could zoom satellite views to read license plates and see faces. That's amazing.

 

[Bird]

No offence Bird but the cops need to write more tickets so people will behave.

:laughing:Now I've been retired for many years, so I cannot say how things are today. However, contrary to what many, if not most, people think, most officers hated writing tickets. Yep, you stop drivers because they did something wrong, but haven't we all made mistakes? And you meet a lot of nice folks who just made a mistake, so you hate to issue a citation. We never had a quota, as such, however, when I was a patrolman, each sergeant kept track of the citations issued and/or arrests made by each of his patrolmen, and each month the low man got, at least orally, reprimanded for being so low. Personally, I averaged better than 4 a day, which back then was about normal, or just a little better. Years later, when I was a patrol lieutenant, my officers averaged less than 2 a day, but that was higher than any of the other lieutenants' crews.

When I was recruiting as a patrolman, and years later was commander of the personnel division and in charge of hiring, I long ago lost track of the number of applicants, or potential applicants, who wanted to be police officers, but only if they could be detectives and not wear a uniform or issue traffic citations.:laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Reminds me, i need to schedule dermatologist for a check.

 

[Thomas]

74F cloudy high humidity gusty winds at times, weatherman said heavy rains at times tonight clearing around midnight cooler temps to follow.

Call to work at1:30am this morning let's say do to lack of help on project the ole pillow will be fluff up early tonight.
Heading outside shorty for short walk about than take the rest of the day as it comes.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We always jerry rig, or MacGyver it. Jurys are probably already rigged...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Must be a lot of Rube Goldbergs at the IRS...