Another Hump Day - August 9, 2023

[howard lee]

Here we go.

Don't work too hard, those who still do.

[Cornflake]

Good morning. It's just getting light and it should be a mild day by recent standards. Beyond taking a walk and working on various current projects, I don't have much planned.

Older daughter is honeymooning in Colombia and has been sending photos. They went to a soccer game and didn't get stomped. Medellin looks like a very pleasant city.

All's well.

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[drlj]

Wednesday is Wednesday. Nothing humpy about it. Just another happy, stress free day.
There was a fox in the backyard yesterday. Bright orangish red and he/she had stealthy movements down to an art form.
Enjoy the day.

[majorminor]

Morning! Bachelors Log Day 9: that damn sink is filling back up!

So the Mavericks are coming to Missoula in October and tix go on sale in about 3 hours. What say ye? Yes? No? Maybe?

[paleo]

Good morning. I have nothing special planned for today, how crazy is that?

I suppose I could do some cleaning, maybe a little music, a nap, sound like an exciting day.

[epaul]

Morning.

Just another day in paradise.

[Cornflake]

"Just another day in paradise."

I never thought you'd make it there, epaul.

[Marty]

Good morning.

62F-83F sunny.

Another nice day in gangland. Had way too many Fire, Police and Emergency sirens blasting by yesterday, also heard shots in the distance. We need to move and just a few miles makes all the difference. Same mix of people just without the drug users and gangster territorial attitude. East St Paul is getting to be a battle zone. 

Down to the shop.

[Cosmic Wonder]

Load up and head home this morning. But first, coffee.

Mike
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[amanajoe]

Day three of the viral infection in my throat. Woke up at 5am with chills so bad my teeth were actually chattering.

This too shall pass.

[theevan]

Futzing around with my older Honda eu2000i generator. Hurricane season so...

Runs fine on full choke. Sputters and dies when off choke.

1. Removed carb & cleaned all parts including the tiny jets.

2. Tried to get at the fuel filter and realized that it is beyond my ken to extract the darn thing.

The result is it runs fine, better, on full choke, but still sputters and dies when off choke.

Remaining possible culprits: Air leak, fuel filter.

[david]

Aug 9, 2023 10:21:46 GMT -5 theevan said:

Futzing around with my older Honda eu2000i generator. Hurricane season so...

Runs fine on full choke. Sputters and dies when off choke.

1. Removed carb & cleaned all parts including the tiny jets.

2. Tried to get at the fuel filter and realized that it is beyond my ken to extract the darn thing.

The result is it runs fine, better, on full choke, but still sputters and dies when off choke.

Remaining possible culprits: Air leak, fuel filter.

Evan, It could be the fuel line. Some older engines used lines made of material that could break down when gas with ethanol was used.

My attempts to learn some basic pentatonic blues are starting to pay off. I can finally loop a 12-bar blues and play a not-too-ridiculously childish improvised lead over it.

[billhammond]

Pleasant weather here, low humidity, upper 70s temps, light breeze, some cloud cover -- the dogs and their walkers seem contented.

I had an enjoyable after-work couple of hours yesterday: I motored over to Morelli's to pick up some boxed Spanish vino on the last day of their latest sale, and also had the deli guy slice me some provolone and Genoa salami. Which I presented to my 84-year-old Italian barber at my next stop, his shop. Man, you would have thought I bought him a new car, and the rest of the staff was mighty happy, as well, as I had bought enough for them all to enjoy. Nothing like a cheese/salami roll-up at 4 p.m. to ward off the hungries. Then George proceeded to pretty up my hair and beard, but not so pretty that I would be harassed on the street or anything like that. As usual, we talked about cars and local restaurants. Plus I filled him in on Elderdottir's fishing junket to northern MN.

Post-beautification, I headed up to Culver's and scarfed a scoop of Red Raspberry frozen custard, and brought home one of their "new" Pepper Grinder Pub Burgers. I'll post a mini review on the Culver's thread later, need to get some work done now.

[Marty]

Not a good day so far. Can't stay standing for more than 5 min or so. Sitting is fine so that's what I'm doing but that doesn't help me get any work done. Time to call my PTs for another visit.

[drlj]

Aug 9, 2023 12:00:58 GMT -5 Marty said:

Not a good day so far. Can't stay standing for more than 5 min or so. Sitting is fine so that's what I'm doing but that doesn't help me get any work done. Time to call my PTs for another visit.

I hope you are feeling better soon.

[millring]

I'd love to get the chance to go up in the loft and see the rafters on this.

[Dub]

Aug 9, 2023 19:38:16 GMT -5 millring said:

I'd love to get the chance to go up in the loft and see the rafters on this.

You might be disappointed. It might be sheet roofing material over corrugated metal sheeting. That isn’t a barn, it’s a corn crib, or at least that’s what it looks like to me.

[millring]

Aug 9, 2023 23:07:35 GMT -5 Dub said:

Aug 9, 2023 19:38:16 GMT -5 millring said:

I'd love to get the chance to go up in the loft and see the rafters on this.

You might be disappointed. It might be sheet roofing material over corrugated metal sheeting. That isn’t a barn, it’s a corn crib, or at least that’s what it looks like to me.

Oh, it's for sure a corn crib. You mean, though, that you guess it's steel frame with corrugated steel sheets covering it? I assume it comes from the 40s-50s era of Quonset huts and bent sheet metal fabricating.

[millring]

RIP David LaFlamme, founder, singer and violinist with the San Francisco band It's a Beautiful Day.

The song White Bird, written by David and Linda LaFlamme, is one of late 1960s Bay Area staple songs. The song features a great violin solo by David LaFlamme who shares the vocals with Pattie Santos. A great band that never quite made it like more successful San Francisco peer bands. They missed an appearance at Woodstock after concert organizer Michael Lang had to flip a coin between them and Santana for one open slot.

LaFlamme talked about the writing the song: “We were living in the attic of an old Victorian house in Seattle and performing at the Encore Ballroom. It was a typical Seattle winter day, rainy and drizzly, and we were looking out from the attic window over the street in front of this old house. It was on Capitol Hill, the old section of town across from Volunteer Park. There was a statue of some famous general right across the street in the park.

The song describes the picture Linda and I saw as we looked out this little window in this attic. We had a little Wurlitzer portable piano sitting right in the well of this window, and I’d sit and work on songs. When you hear lines like, ‘the leaves blow across the long black road to the darkened sky and its rage,’ it’s describing what I was seeing out the window.

Where the ‘white bird’ came from … We were like caged birds in that attic. We had no money, no transportation, the weather was miserable. We were just barely getting by on a very small food allowance provided to us."

[John B]

That's sad to hear. For the longest time I thought this song was by Jefferson Airplane. It was just a few years ago I learned who really performed it.