Friday done
Made it though another one. After a early night last night got up and felt better, not good, not great, but better than yesterday. Fixed breakfast, read email and checked feeds and comics and got a shower. Went to the camp where Tim and I talked about business type things for a while.
Ate lunch and we dealt with some more. He went to deal with the post office and I cranked off the compressor, filled an air tank, got a battery, some tools, the battery charger, and the truck. Took the plunder to the 76 Honda accord and proceeded to get it ready to try to crank off. Battery was dead so is still on charge. And have another one on charge in the barn just in case this one is well and truly dead. As of dark the one in the Honda is still being deadish. Will do the lights and basic stuff but the starter is doing nothing and the in tank pump is not making it’s accustomed noises. If the pump is bad suspect I will put a boat tank in the back with a electric pump hooked to it. Only gonna use the car on the farm at present. Just need another cheap runaround and this one fits the bill. I hope. 🙄
Got the tractor out and did a bit of maintenance to it just in case it has to be used to extract us from the snow. 😎 Then cleared some briars and brush and pushed some stuff around. Put it up for the night.
Tim came back from the post office and we put up his new mail box out by the YST. Guess it will become the Airsoft Alabama trailer instead. Had to get the tractor back out to clear a bunch of crap out of the way to put the mail box up. Got that area cleared and the box installed. And the day was called by all.
Came in and fixed a big pot of hamburger and baked beans kinda using the recipe in the linked article. No vinegar or lemon juice or hot sauce. Most of the rest as called for and added a quarter cup of salsa, and some frozen bell peppers along with some dried flaked chili peppers. Made a nice spicy change from the standard version.
Just put it in the oven when Mihel called to see if he could get to his generator (cause his wife was driving him crazy about the coming blizzard and them freezing to death 😆 ) so I got back in outside clothes and went and helped him get to it and get it out. He and his son loaded it the propane radiant and headed back home. I came back to the house and to food.
Ate, and sat down to check email, feeds and get this down.
Game tomorrow has been put off until next Saturday due to the weather. So sitting here waiting for the snow. 🙄 😉
Think I am gonna do a bit of browsing and then call it a night. Looks like most if not all of the snow is to be in the morning so may as well get sleep while I can.
Themocracy
Friday was a day for me, too. Got one of the last two new computers set up, only had to install 20 programs that that person uses. Yep, twenty. At least half with the “Name, organization, and serial# required” kind of thing, and several that required a floppy disk with the license on it. On a machine that doesn’t have a floppy drive. Well, it did for a while yesterday, but it turned out the licenses were maxed out anyway and I had to call tech support to get the activation codes. Not the most fun day I have ever had, but tech support was quick, competent, and friendly, and there until 7:00, as I almost was. 😎 The biggest problem I had was caused by me (quelle horror!) trying to save time by using a USB adapter to hook up the old computer’s hard drive to make copying files easier. It did that, in a dramatic fashion, but when I started installing programs, it confused the HECK out of the installers, and things just wouldn’t run. An hour on the phone with a nice guy named Bernard K. in tech support took care of most of the problem, and after I decided the hell with it and uninstalled/reinstalled the program in question, it did fine. Interesting afternoon/evening…about 6/12 hours, actually…now I’m just waiting for the lady to call me Tuesday and tell me what data I didn’t get copied over–I looked REAL good for all the data for the programs I could, but I’m willing to bet a pretty good sum I didn’t get it all–I mean, twenty programs. That’s a lot of stuff to track down. And we all know just how easy the programmers make it for us. I mean, it could be listed under the program name, the company name, or (my favorite) some weird folder stuck God knows where with a nice, logical name like “W39KT002”. Yeah, I ALWAYS look for THAT one…
In re the Honda and a boat tank, I think you have created a new mileage metric. Not MPG (Miles Per Gallon), or KPL (Kilometers Per Liter), but DOUBT: Days Of Use per Boat Tank. “Yep, we got 5 DOUBT out of the old Honda last week, but I think we’ll only get 2 or 3 DOUBT this week, it just don’t do as good hauling wood.” Maybe we should submit this one to The Register…
The hamburger and baked beans sounds good, if somewhat risky in a dwelling with an open flame. We had some fresh collard greens this past week, they were very good, but if we had had a reliable ignition source around here, I don’t think I would be here to type this right now…
With the benefit of hindsight (writing this Saturday evening after the “snow event”, as they so succinctly put it on 33/40 today), I hope they have a good storage place for the generator. 😎 Maybe I missed it, but NOBODY I saw (Weather Channel, 33/40, 6, or 13) predicted either that much snow, or much in the way of power loss/infrastructure problems. Of course, weather being like it is, it wouldn’t have been too difficult for it to have worked out where I would be sitting here with no power, no Internet, and a burning desire for, well, something burning to keep me warm.
We’ll have to see what the definitely dropping temperatures do to the roads, but I suspect nothing of any real consequence will happen. Hope not, the wife has to work tomorrow. But I don’t really think it will be bad. Ain’t going to worry about it, won’t do any good anyway.
In re the Honda and a boat tank, I think you have created a new mileage metric. Not MPG (Miles Per Gallon), or KPL (Kilometers Per Liter), but DOUBT: Days Of Use per Boat Tank. “Yep, we got 5 DOUBT out of the old Honda last week, but I think we’ll only get 2 or 3 DOUBT this week, it just don’t do as good hauling wood.†Maybe we should submit this one to The Register…
Will have to see. 😆
I have always had trouble with the fuel pump in the honda. When Tom put the Weber carb on it he just blocked off the return lines to the fuel tank and the factory carb had some kind of over pressure return on it I think cause the pump always makes mucho noise when the carb is full. I seem to remember having to replace a large number of needles too, like they were getting too much pressure. Should have a couple of aftermarket electric pumps on other cars/trucks that can be used too.
The hamburger and baked beans sounds good, if somewhat risky in a dwelling with an open flame. We had some fresh collard greens this past week, they were very good, but if we had had a reliable ignition source around here, I don’t think I would be here to type this right now…
Surprisingly enough haven’t had much gas at all from them and have eaten 3 meals of it now. Along with baked veggies with lots of cabbage on the side. So I will either blow up here with one large fart or the long baking (around an hour) did some serious breaking down of gas making components. Or the beans and cabbage are fighting it out and whoever wins gets to …
And that’s ALL on that subject folks… 🙄