new house for mikemike

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Second small window unit went in Sarah’s office, house is 72 now.

Shop is 74.

Hit 92 outside, still 89.

Sprayed weeds today, did about 4 gallons. A gallon of leftover roundup brand and three callings mixed from a cattail marketed glyphosate. Did a test section of the bulrush in the pond along with weeds and margins and crap in the lot gravel. Hope it works well. So much clover spreading over the untraveled gravel!

[mr.mindless]

shop stayed at 77 after pulling buggy out and putting 2 cars in. not awful.

love to have 2 projects inside plus three cars in the air in state of being worked on. swapped mattresses today, hope my back feels better and motivation to spend a couple hours on things comes back even with going to work daily again now.

[M4wdFab]

i worked all day today in my barn, it was about 93 at its peak, came in for some food and AC.

really not bad with the exhaust fan pumping, and i move my floor 48" fan and point it where i am haha

geared two axles with locker installs in less then 6hours today, not bad. 

pulled all of the baddness of a DIY 4.56 gear install out of both diffs.  so many wrong parts in so many creative places when you dont know what a carrier break is, or left hand thread ring gear bolts on 8.25"  lol   who ever failed at this had some really fun frustration. 

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Damn duckweed has taken over the pond in the last month as the bulrush fell back.

[M]

a lot places around here put bubblers underground to help combat that.  Also brings oxygen into the pond.

[etk300ex]

or get some ducks

[mr.mindless]

bubbler is the only reason there's that hole in the middle. it runs 24hr but pauses when there's motion in the garage so I don't have to listen to the compressor.

[mr.mindless]

Duckweed improved with 400% water exchange

[etk300ex]

Well, now you know what you have to do next time
 

[etk300ex]

That was a serous amount of rain yesterday.  I had a small stream running through my basement, seeping through the walls, up in the cracks in the floor.  I'm sure that's not great .  Usually I get a small wet spot in the corner in a heavy rain.

[M4wdFab]

i get a little water in the basement too when it rains for 2 days straight haha

2 days with dehumid running it will be gone and dry

[mr.mindless]

Proper cars can pass each other in the shop.

I don’t think the Allroad fits under the Jetta, I think I tried that before.





Was going to try to check alignment after swapping axle shaft and it appears the CD drive in the alignment computer may have failed. Hope I can find some old enough parts to verify and repair.

I looked through it and was getting to the point of connecting sensors when the video glitched and wouldn’t remedy. I rebooted and it couldn’t detect the boot CD anymore. Won’t eject either. Maybe I’m lucky and it’s a simple power issue.

Otherwise iirc it’s all IDE interface and the full size card it uses to interface with the alignment hardware is ISA or some other pre-pci thing. It’s a Pentium 3/4 era machine.

Mounted 4 new to me snows for the Jetta. They’re very mild but have lots of siping. Undecided if I’ll run them now or go through the 17” super aggressive snows that I only have a pair of.

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First string of Xmas lights unspooled. Waiting to share until it’s done later this week but I’m extremely pleased. I just hope I can do ok to get to the top of the tree.

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40ish gallons of oil picked up from north side of Syracuse. Locals in Rochester seem not to respond. That’s a lot of hugs to crush. I like barrels.

Was over there grabbing some sweet studded snows for the equinox. I spoiled Sarah with those on the Malibu2yr ago, and I guess that’ll be a thing now haha. 175 for 4 on proper pattern steel wheels right pattern. 60% or so and 9yr old. Seemed a steal even with some wheel rust. No checking and wheel burn through them in 1-2 seasons at most.

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Finally. I misjudged a bit on spacing and shorted myself half a string. Gave the street the better view. By coincidence more than talent. Approx tree height 33’



A little disappointed in the 30’ extension pole I got to do this with — but really, it was disappointing in exactly the way expected. Probably has 2 duty cycles left in it. Not strong enough to lift a whole string of HD oversize lights.

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