TSCLT 7.0: Hemis, Harleys, Hooters-n-Harridans

[bellisarius]

I'll take a pass on the humid.

Lots of pieces parts showing up today courtesy of UPS. Should keep me busy over the weekend and all but one small part can be done indoors. Hallelujah brothers and sisters.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[SpeareChucker]

I need to replace my main kitchen lightbulb and discovered that all I have are those POS 60-watt mercury bulbs.
I have come bitching 100-watt LEDs, but they won't fit in the glass dome.
This is the downside of "saving" money...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My kitchen has bitchin' hunyets.


LEDs, too.


I need to order a couple of more wun-fiddies for the lamps upstairs. The last batch didn't last. Pieces of shit!!!


Wish my luck. At least TURRuh will live through the day . . . .

 

[SpeareChucker]

Yeah, I lit up the basement with LED 100s, it really makes a difference.
I'm trying to gradually upgrade, but so many of the old fixtures/lamps
are just designed around Edison's reliable old-fashioned bulb.

 

[bellisarius]

With the exception of 1 bulb in the LR and a couple of lamp 3-ways I've transitioned to LED's throughout. Found that all LED's are not created equal as well. Finally found a brand that I like. A little more expensive but worth it.

 

[Cuppers]

ok

second request fullfilled

 

[SpeareChucker]

I gave up on 3-ways. They just seem to burn out faster than any other bulb
on the face of the planet. They always end up working on only one setting.

 

[bellisarius]

As I wandered into the kitchen to get some more coffee the cats expressed their insecurity in the fact that their food bowls were only 2/3's full. Only a FULL bowl seems to keep them from rioting over food.

 

[SpeareChucker]

They must be part dachshund...

 

[JohnnySavage]

A week of temps in the 80s and ole Johnny (and his pal Larry) are ready to melt. Two more days, then the highs drop back to a more civilized lower 70s.

Heading to the big city (Morgantown) this afternoon. Larry and I are in the mood for sushi.

 

[bellisarius]

I gave up on 3-ways. They just seem to burn out faster than any other bulb
on the face of the planet. They always end up working on only one setting.

True that, although the ones I have have lasted for a few years now. Probably because I don't use them?

 

[SpeareChucker]

lol



There is that.

Johnny, I see the 80s here. At night. At about 4AM...

 

[de_valmont]

second request fullfilled

If that would have been my request I would have asked for a meaningful post, some content

 

[JohnnySavage]

Those temps turn the powder on my wig to paste

 

[SpeareChucker]

If I don't drive in the shade, they even overwhelm the A/C on the ol' F150.





So I stay out of town and in the forest.

 

[Que]

lol



There is that.

Johnny, I see the 80s here. At night. At about 4AM...

Brrrrr.

Them is some right chilly indoor temps hereabouts.

The Mighty Prius has an electrically-driven, barely adequate, screw-type compressor. The upside is if you can find at least some spotty shade you can sit with the engine completely off and run off that big battery for quite some time and stay reasonably comfortable. You don't have to run the gasoline engine in order to have air conditioning.

As a practical matter though with the amount of time that that compressor needs to run even when you are going down the road you essentially use all of the hybrid electricity generated just to run the air conditioning so what you have now is a 2900 pound car with a 1200 cc engine running full time it gets maybe 3 or 4 miles to the gallon better than my much more powerful bigger Honda.

The Honda on the other hand gets great gas mileage in the summer time because I don't turn on the air-conditioning because I'm too cheap to replace the $110 dealer only hardline. Every single junkyard that I've been to that particular hard-line seems to be the first thing that junkyard cuts when the car comes in. All they have to do is remove one at 10 mm screw and I'd be delighted to give him fifty bucks for it.

I've only driven the car three times in the last couple of years, so it seems an extravagance to replace it. I shopped the Prius a week ago for a new (to me) CVT, and I'm still dealing with triple-digit temperatures in the Honda because apparently the same idiots at the same junk yards keep cutting through the main power cables for the CVTs they have shipped to my mechanic. Given that the CVT is also the electric drive system it is sort of important to have those great big cables attached.

The small one has a couple of pet names for the Prius. The first time I showed up with a Honda this last week she wanted to know, "WHERE is the ________?!??"

Para quoting Pulp Fiction "The Prius is dead."

"NO!!!!! The Prius CANNOT be dead. THIS car does NOT HAVE air conditioning!!"

Once we're actually underway she's actually pretty accepting, but I only travel early morning or late at night with her in the oil'flinging beast from hell. She ended up giving it a nickname as we spent most of the week with it, given I'm off for the duration.

 

[SpeareChucker]

*chuckle*



Old-timey mechanics have not yet "evolved" with the cars...

 

[JohnnySavage]

Here's my latest battle with Big Brother:


I got a letter from the DMV stating I needed to get a new driver's license by October 1 to comply with the latest demand from the government to "Present your papers, Comrade". I called up the bureaucrats, and stayed on hold for 20 minutes, despite being assured they were anxious to serve me.

Me: What's this nonsense about needing a new license by October? My license is good for another 2 years.

DMV: To comply with the Real ID law, we have to have additional papers to verify your identity. We need to see your Passport or Birth Certificate and proof of your residence.

Me: Well I'll show you my papers when I next renew my license.

DMV: You have to do it by October 1st.

Me: Or what?

DMV: Or you won't be able to board a plane.

Me: That's ok, I don't plan on flying anywhere.

DMV: But you have to do it or your license won't be valid anymore.

Me: Why not? It's good for two more years.

DMV: That's the law, sir.

Me: Well that's a stupid law. If I get pulled over, are they going to take me to jail?

DMV: No, but they will tell you your license is no longer valid.

Me: I think I'll just risk it then.

DMV [pleading voice] But sir, you MUST comply with the law.

...so I hung up.

And to think - the census is just around the corner. The are still pissed at me from the last one about refusing to answer their questions without a warrant.

 

[bellisarius]

As soon as the rains kick back in we'll drop into the high 80', low 90's for highs. Subtract 25 deg. for the nightly lows. If I get really desperate I'll head to the Mtn's. At 11,000 ft. it barely breaks 70 in the shade.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Oh yeah.

The census.

I take a big red marker and write down the number of legal residents and send it back.



But Big Brother is a piker when it comes to the Google/Amazon complex.

 

[JohnnySavage]

They sent me 30 pages of crap to fill out. I just put on there how many people live at my address and sent it back.

Three years of phone calls, letters and personal visits ensued. I felt like I was dodging service of paternity papers.

The Constitution places a burden on the government to count the people every 10 years. It places no such burden on me.

 

[SpeareChucker]

They sent me 30 pages of crap to fill out. I just put on there how many people live at my address and sent it back.

Three years of phone calls, letters and personal visits ensued. I felt like I was dodging service of paternity papers.

The Constitution places a burden on the government to count the people every 10 years. It places no such burden on me.

Amen, but you're preaching to the choir.

 

[bellisarius]

There is an opportunity for fun with those documents. Lots of room for creative exaggeration. What if all the folks living in the smaller states claimed 7-10 people per household?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Here, the government is hiring census workers. $18 an hour. That's more than coal miners make.

I may apply. I could do that job sitting at the Legion, drinking a cold PBR!