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It's been COOOOOLD around me the last few days for the season because of this wacky weather.
I've decided to treat myself this winter. I'm not going to be a human popsicle. My usual rule is "No Heat Until November... No Matter What".
I turned it up to 65, which is 3 degrees higher than I ever turn it. I think I'll keep it that high all winter unless I start getting monthly bills over $200 because of how inefficient the system is.
Maybe this spring I'll finally get the new furnace and A/C installed. We'll have to see how my car and teeth situation is by then.
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Congrats on the mammogram, BRENDA, and happy belated birthday! It seems like lately every time I get a mammogram they find "something" which leads to more and more testing.
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Thanks Sig. I've already been there with the more testing. I've had two biopsies done and I've got two medical clips in me because of the biopsies. So far I have been lucky.
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Quote:I know that it doesn't get as cold here as there, but sometimes we let the house fall to 62F. In that case, we've found a few well=placed heating pads really help, like one tucked in under the bedcovers (preferably around the feet) turned on about ten minutes before bed time, and one on the sofa.
It's been COOOOOLD around me the last few days for the season because of this wacky weather.
I've decided to treat myself this winter. I'm not going to be a human popsicle. My usual rule is "No Heat Until November... No Matter What".
I turned it up to 65, which is 3 degrees higher than I ever turn it. I think I'll keep it that high all winter unless I start getting monthly bills over $200 because of how inefficient the system is.
Maybe this spring I'll finally get the new furnace and A/C installed. We'll have to see how my car and teeth situation is by then.- SIX
Thanks again for the info about spiders!
Quote:I guess there's hope for me yet! I had one area that had TWO biopsies (an X-ray guided needle biopsy and then a much more extensive excisional one, plus those clips) but so far that's the only area that needed a biopsy even tho they've called me back for 3D mammo and ultrasound for the other breast.
Thanks Sig. I've already been there with the more testing. I've had two biopsies done and I've got two medical clips in me because of the biopsies. So far I have been lucky.- BRENDA
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I guess there's hope for me yet! I had one area that had TWO biopsies (an X-ray guided needle biopsy and then a much more extensive excisional one, plus those clips) but so far that's the only area that needed a biopsy even tho they've called me back for 3D mammo and ultrasound for the other breast.
Thanks Sig. I've already been there with the more testing. I've had two biopsies done and I've got two medical clips in me because of the biopsies. So far I have been lucky.- BRENDA
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Both the biopsies I've had done have been the needle ones and both on the left breast. I have calcifications in both but the left was looking worse, so that is where they did them. The first one was simple but the second one the freezing didn't take on the surface so I felt the needle going in. Nothing else though.
As for the place, I am starting to freeze my azz off.
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Quote:That is a very poor map. That red line is about 400-500 miles south of the WI/UP border, where Brown Recluse is our poisonous spider. Canada is far closer to that line. I'm not sure how much farther north Brenda is.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Silverfish are gross. Ew.
Should be no worries of Brown Recluse spiders up by Brenda.
I seriously doubt that any other spiders up there would be harmful to humans.
Wolf Spiders can bite, but I think you'd really have to go out of your way to get a bite by one. I can step right by one, or even put my fingers right by it and it will barely move away from me, and it never lunges to attack. Unlike a brown recluse that might take up residence in a pair of shoes, or a pile of clothes on the floor, the wolf spiders like to be out in the open to stalk their prey. Even if you do get bit by a Wolf Spider, you'll just get an irritating bump that will go away on its own.
Interestingly, the Brown Recluse is not nearly as dangerous as the urban legends say they are either. Only 10% of people would react with some form of necrosis after the bite around the region, and only 1% of people could have a systematic shutdown from the bite. More importantly though, the fangs of the Brown Recluse are so small that it couldn't even puncture your skin if it were just crawling on top of you. It needs the force of being up against your skin with tight clothing or inside your shoe to generate the force necessary to bite you.
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Brenda, what is your latitude?
Nobody has tried hedgeballs?
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:That is a very poor map. That red line is about 400-500 miles south of the WI/UP border, where Brown Recluse is our poisonous spider. Canada is far closer to that line. I'm not sure how much farther north Brenda is.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Silverfish are gross. Ew.
Should be no worries of Brown Recluse spiders up by Brenda.
I seriously doubt that any other spiders up there would be harmful to humans.
Wolf Spiders can bite, but I think you'd really have to go out of your way to get a bite by one. I can step right by one, or even put my fingers right by it and it will barely move away from me, and it never lunges to attack. Unlike a brown recluse that might take up residence in a pair of shoes, or a pile of clothes on the floor, the wolf spiders like to be out in the open to stalk their prey. Even if you do get bit by a Wolf Spider, you'll just get an irritating bump that will go away on its own.
Interestingly, the Brown Recluse is not nearly as dangerous as the urban legends say they are either. Only 10% of people would react with some form of necrosis after the bite around the region, and only 1% of people could have a systematic shutdown from the bite. More importantly though, the fangs of the Brown Recluse are so small that it couldn't even puncture your skin if it were just crawling on top of you. It needs the force of being up against your skin with tight clothing or inside your shoe to generate the force necessary to bite you.
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Brenda, what is your latitude?
Nobody has tried hedgeballs?
Are you sure it's a brown recluse? A lot of people mistake a lot of different spiders for brown recluses.
I've actually never seen one in my life, and I did live just south of Milwaukee for five years. Not saying that they aren't there, just that I've never seen one.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:That is a very poor map. That red line is about 400-500 miles south of the WI/UP border, where Brown Recluse is our poisonous spider. Canada is far closer to that line. I'm not sure how much farther north Brenda is.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Silverfish are gross. Ew.
Should be no worries of Brown Recluse spiders up by Brenda.
I seriously doubt that any other spiders up there would be harmful to humans.
Wolf Spiders can bite, but I think you'd really have to go out of your way to get a bite by one. I can step right by one, or even put my fingers right by it and it will barely move away from me, and it never lunges to attack. Unlike a brown recluse that might take up residence in a pair of shoes, or a pile of clothes on the floor, the wolf spiders like to be out in the open to stalk their prey. Even if you do get bit by a Wolf Spider, you'll just get an irritating bump that will go away on its own.
Interestingly, the Brown Recluse is not nearly as dangerous as the urban legends say they are either. Only 10% of people would react with some form of necrosis after the bite around the region, and only 1% of people could have a systematic shutdown from the bite. More importantly though, the fangs of the Brown Recluse are so small that it couldn't even puncture your skin if it were just crawling on top of you. It needs the force of being up against your skin with tight clothing or inside your shoe to generate the force necessary to bite you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Brenda, what is your latitude?
Nobody has tried hedgeballs?
Not sure about latitude but I am well north of the border. Find a map of British Columbia with cities on it. Look for Vancouver and the surrounding area and that is where I am.
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Been having some really bad rough starts with my car when it is humid still. Thought the winter would end that, but the other day it was around 90% humidity in the morning when I was scraping ice off my car and had some real problems.
Not sure if "misfire" is the right word for it, but the engine rocks violently when the problem happens and the whole car moves. Not really sure what the problem is since this actually happened once before I ever touched the timing belt to get to the oil, but after I had changed spark plugs. I wasn't able to change all 4 since the parts place only had 3 in stock, so I took what looked to be the best one and cleaned it with gasoline at the time before putting it back in.
This could be a timing issue, a spark plug or wire or distributor issue, an airflow issue, etc....
Transmission has been "buggy" as well. Particularly getting to the top gear (4th or 5th... not sure). This might not actually be a problem with the transmission system from what I've read because of the misfire problem.
So... what I did today.
1. Checked tranny fluid. It's red and it's full. Good news.
2. Replaced air filter. First time in 10 years that I've owned the car that I did this. Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty.
3. Bought cheap NGK spark plugs and put them in. This time I did spring for both the anti-sieze lube so they don't get stuck in there as well as the dielectric tune-up grease to supposedly maintain a proper spark.
I did some light test driving on the city and highway. No problems firing up and the transmission in the first few gears seems pretty smooth. I still have to let off of the gas a bit around 45MPH to get it to go into the high gear, but at least it doesn't "jerk" on me when it switches over now.
I really can't do any more meaningful testing at the moment. It's only about 35% humidity now. I'm going to leave it out side of my garage the next few nights and try in the early morning. I never have problems starting it when it's been in the garage. It only happens when it's out in the parking lot overnight and I'm trying to start it in the morning.
I forgot to pick up seafoam with my order. I'm going to have to get that too.
Any other suggestions here, guys and gals?
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No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.
I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline?
Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough?
Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline.
Quote:[ Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.
Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty.
If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.
If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup.
If it's really random, then it could be an electrical problem. Have you tried cleaning off the spark plug wires?? Or replaced the wires?? You wouldn't think it would make a difference, but it does!
Quote:I had to look up what those were! No, never tried them. But don't have to because I generally like spiders a lot better than mosquitoes.
Nobody has tried hedgeballs?
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Fall is the time for gardening in So. California! Except for the few plants that are actively blooming and growing, now is the time to weed, prune, cut down, and plant! So I've been filling up my yardwaste bins with spent cosmos and bermuda grass (also use weedkiller on THAT sucker!!), weeds, old tomato and bean vines, hollyleaf cherry (pruning), penstemon spectabilis (cut down). I have a California lilac that I have to dig up ... it grew to 10' and bloomed spectacularly and then died all at once ... and a "heavenly bamboo" that I want to take out. Am also going to take out a CA gooseberry ... it's just not very garden-worthy.
SO, since my front yard looks like a sandpit when the CA poppies and cosmos stop blooming, (I'm sure my neighbors aren't too happy about that!) I've decided to fill in with CA buckwheat (parvifolium or fasciculitum, whichever I can get), more beach aster, more CA fuchsia, purple-three-awn bunch grass, more succulents, and a hedge of Catalina Island Cherry. I already have an Island Oak which is doing quite well, and some mahonia (shinyleafed oregon grape) bushes which look quite handsome.
For the first time, I feel enthusiastic about my garden design instead of doubtful. I think it will look spectacular!! Once it looks decent I'll post it online somewhere.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.
I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline?
Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.
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Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough?
Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.
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Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline.
This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.
Quote:Quote:[ Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.
Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty.
It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.
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If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.
What is "diesel" in that context?
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If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup.
I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.
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If it's really random, then it could be an electrical problem. Have you tried cleaning off the spark plug wires?? Or replaced the wires?? You wouldn't think it would make a difference, but it does!
There is a long time electrical problem with the car. I've never tried to "fix" anything electric except for changing the plugs themselves.
UPDATE:
Did some research on seafoam and watched some youtube videos and I was sold. Not just the standard stuff, but the air intake variety and the transmission stuff as well. I bought it all.
Put 16oz in the gas tank. Easiest thing I did.
Oil was a bit trickier because I put too much oil in when I changed it. Had to bleed about a half quart out before I put 3.5oz in there.
Sprayed the entire aresol can for the air intake as per instructions. Used a couple of bricks to put the RPM's about 1000 above idle during this process. Ended up with a check engine light during this process, but disconnected the battery, put it back on and restarted it. Light hasn't come back on after about 20 miles of test driving.
Put half the can (about 8oz) of the transmission seafoam into my transmission.
So far so good. Even though it's not humid and I can't really test anything, there is already a very notici
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Quote:OK, equivocal.
No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.
I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline? - SIGNY
Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.- SIX
Quote:If it's coated with carbon, the inside of the tailpipe won't be "dirty", it will be a deep, light-sucking velvety black.
Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough? - SIGNY
Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.
Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline. - SIGNY
This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.- SIX
Quote:I have idea idea what kind of soil is in your area, but if it's grayish then you might just be picking up road dirt.
Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty. - SIX
Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.- SIGNY
It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.- SIX
Quote:The car will continue to run ... sort of ... even if you shut off the ignition. Kind of knock and rattle because the gasoline vapors auto-ignite, even without the spark plug firing them. In fact, that's what high-octane gas is supposed to solve: "engine knock", when the gasoline "goes off" before it's supposed to and creates a pinging, rattling, or knocking sound, especially under acceleration. But that doesn't sound like your problem.
If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.- SIGNY
What is "diesel" in that context?- SIX
Quote:I'm really beginning to think its just dirty spark plug wires or a dirty/broken distributor cap. Seriously. There's a lot of voltage in those lines ... enough to cause a little lightning bolt (spark) in your engine ... and if your wires aren't clean the electricity can "leak out". I know it sounds crazy, but it's true, and it's a really cheap try: All you need is WD-40 and some of that dielectric grease that you already have.
If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup. - SIGNY
I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.- SIX
How to:
https://itstillruns.com/clean-spark-plug-wires-2283270.html
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Quote:
Did some research on seaf
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:OK, equivocal.
No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.
I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline? - SIGNY
Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.- SIXQuote:If it's coated with carbon, the inside of the tailpipe won't be "dirty", it will be a deep, light-sucking velvety black.
Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough? - SIGNY
Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.
Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline. - SIGNY
This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.- SIXQuote:I have idea idea what kind of soil is in your area, but if it's grayish then you might just be picking up road dirt.
Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty. - SIX
Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.- SIGNY
It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.- SIXQuote:The car will continue to run ... sort of ... even if you shut off the ignition. Kind of knock and rattle because the gasoline vapors auto-ignite, even without the spark plug firing them. In fact, that's what high-octane gas is supposed to solve: "engine knock", when the gasoline "goes off" before it's supposed to and creates a pinging, rattling, or knocking sound, especially under acceleration. But that doesn't sound like your problem.
If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.- SIGNY
What is "diesel" in that context?- SIXQuote:I'm really beginning to think its just dirty spark plug wires or a dirty/broken distributor cap. Seriously. There's a lot of voltage in those lines ... enough to cause a little lightning bolt (spark) in your engine ... and if your wires aren't clean the electricity can "leak out". I know it sounds crazy, but it's true, and it's a really cheap try: All you need is WD-40 and some of that dielectric grease that you already have.
If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup. - SIGNY
I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.- SIX
How to:
https://itstillruns.com/clean-spark-plug-wires-2283270.html
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Huh, interesting video. I have to say, the "clatter" from the sticking lifter(s) was definitely eliminated!
There are some very powerful solvents - aside from oil or alcohol-based - that will take sludge and carbon out of the system. One problem with the ones I'm thinking of, tho, (dimethyl formamide, methylene chloride, and the like) is that they will also dissolve all kinds of gaskets like the head gasket or the gasket under the carburetor. So I'm assuming that they aren't using THOSE solvents!
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Yes I see ...
Quote:A "moisture drier" can be any kind of alcohol (or acetone) because water mixes in with the alcohol, and then the alcohol/water mixes with the oil or gasoline. So any water in the bottom of your crankcase or gasoline tank will be flushed out.
Sea Foam Motor Treatment is a Blended Petroleum Product, NOT A CHEMICAL and is widely used as an old oil residue reducer and moisture drier in any oil crankcase.
It's a common problem with oil refining: dewatering the oil. There is always some residual water at the bottom of the storage tanks, and SOME water dissolved in the product, even if only 0.1%. In winter, can be a SIGNIFICANT problem if the water "drops out" (goes out of solution) and freezes in your gas line or filter. There used to be something called "dry gas" ... which used to be diethyl ether (before they got all weirded out about the propensity of ethers to form explosive peroxides on storage, and substituted alcohol instead) and it worked like a charm. Better than alcohol.
I imagine that they use "aromatics" (toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene) as part of their carbon/ sludge dissolver, since aromatics are safer for silicone gaskets.
I would look at Lucas more closely. There have been problems with some oil additives swelling the gaskets ... head gasket, carb gasket, valve cover gasket ... and then when you go back to regular oil the gaskets over-shrink and then leak. I had that problem with my 2001 Civic when the shop used a modern synthetic oil once (I always ask them to use "regular") and then when it got another oil change - with regular oil- it started leaking like a sieve.
But FWIW I looked up Sea Foam+complaints and didn't find any.
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Running late today. Couldn't sleep last night.
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Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis.
If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Huh, interesting video. I have to say, the "clatter" from the sticking lifter(s) was definitely eliminated!
There are some very powerful solvents - aside from oil or alcohol-based - that will take sludge and carbon out of the system. One problem with the ones I'm thinking of, tho, (dimethyl formamide, methylene chloride, and the like) is that they will also dissolve all kinds of gaskets like the head gasket or the gasket under the carburetor. So I'm assuming that they aren't using THOSE solvents!
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Yes I see ...Quote:A "moisture drier" can be any kind of alcohol (or acetone) because water mixes in with the alcohol, and then the alcohol/water mixes with the oil or gasoline. So any water in the bottom of your crankcase or gasoline tank will be flushed out.
Sea Foam Motor Treatment is a Blended Petroleum Product, NOT A CHEMICAL and is widely used as an old oil residue reducer and moisture drier in any oil crankcase.
It's a common problem with oil refining: dewatering the oil. There is always some residual water at the bottom of the storage tanks, and SOME water dissolved in the product, even if only 0.1%. In winter, can be a SIGNIFICANT problem if the water "drops out" (goes out of solution) and freezes in your gas line or filter. There used to be something called "dry gas" ... which used to be diethyl ether (before they got all weirded out about the propensity of ethers to form explosive peroxides on storage, and substituted alcohol instead) and it worked like a charm. Better than alcohol.
I imagine that they use "aromatics" (toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene) as part of their carbon/ sludge dissolver, since aromatics are safer for silicone gaskets.
I would look at Lucas more closely. There have been problems with some oil additives swelling the gaskets ... head gasket, carb gasket, valve cover gasket ... and then when you go back to regular oil the gaskets over-shrink and then leak. I had that problem with my 2001 Civic when the shop used a modern synthetic oil once (I always ask them to use "regular") and then when it got another oil change - with regular oil- it started leaking like a sieve.
But FWIW I looked up Sea Foam+complaints and didn't find any.
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Yeah. I just threw the name Lucas out there. The guy who made those vids seemed to think that he wouldn't be using it again. There are other types of similar products out there if I feel the need to do it. It's really not much of a leak that is left after fixing the major one. It's just the very minor leak I've had for 10 years that prohibits me from parking on my old man's driveway. :)
Started up the car this morning with zero issues after leaving it outside of the garage. It was around 90% humidity. Drove it around a few miles with no signs of misfires. I'm not going to consider this issue fixed until spring when it's really humid and rainy all the time in the morning, but for now things are looking much better. Looks like $100 well spent this week. :)
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Ya'at-eeh, SIX.
Sounds like progress!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis.
If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved!
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Last night was pretty easy to solve. I ate too much after 6pm and my body never got to digest it properly before I had to take my meds. So, I am trying to do better tonight.
I don't sleep well. At least not right now. Mostly because of stress from living in this place and trying to find another place.
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Bright sunny day. Off to get some recycling done and see what else.
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Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis. If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved! - SIGNY
Last night was pretty easy to solve. I ate too much after 6pm and my body never got to digest it properly before I had to take my meds. So, I am trying to do better tonight.
I don't sleep well. At least not right now. Mostly because of stress from living in this place and trying to find another place.- BRENDA
If you don't drive, it must be very difficult to look for a new place. I hope you have some other resources available ... internet postings or FB or housing authority or some kind of neighborhood bulletin board (internet or otherwise). Here we have a website called nextdoor.com which has been very helpful as you can query the most local of areas (the dozen or so blocks around your place) or expand it to perhaps several miles around. If you have that website in your city, I recommend it.
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Today, I boogied out of the house early to hit my most-local native plant nursery. They inventory and put out new stock on Monday/Tuesday (when they're closed) but if I wait until the weekend they might run out of the things that I want (like what happened last time). So today I got all of the things that were on my list ... two more Catalina cherry to complete the privacy screen, a bunch of buckwheat (cinereum/ashy-leafed and parvifolium/seacliff), more golden bunch-grass (purple three-awn) ... and found a few things that I knew I wanted but didn't know were available - foothill penstemon and mahonia repens (a loverly layered groundcover for the shade, which is already growing happily in another part of the yard.)
Today is a toasty 89F, and tomorrow will be an even toastier 91F ... and I have other things to do today and tomorrow ... but there's supposed to be a big cooldown on Monday which will give me the oppty to plant more of my plants.
Does the happy dance!!
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SOOOOO envious of your warm weather.
I think I'm going through a bout of the SADs right now. Today will mark burning half of my days off and I haven't gotten nearly as much accomplished as I wanted to by now. Slept in quite late today and have done nothing of value since I've been awake.
I have managed to get quite a bit done until today, including some non car related stuff that's been on the backburner for some time now. What a waste of the day though....
Fired up the car again this morning and everything looks to be a-okay. I might take a trip up to my work to buy some stuff and back just to get a real feel of how it's performing now. I'm feeling really good about it.
@Brenda. Still wishing you the best in finding a better place. Has the landlady been a bitch or has she at least backed off a bit?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No, sorry SIX, no advice on the car. I'm pretty good at dxing my onw car, but I have to drive/ listen to it myself to figure out what the problem is.
I'll think about some simple diagnostics you might run. Like, for example- the tailpipe. Is it coated with black carbon? Does it smell like gasoline?
Hard to tell. My exhaust system is just about defunct. It's pretty rusted out and the car is loud. There's actually a hole toward the front of the car where the bulk of the noise comes out. There was a lot of black soot around the back of the car all over the place, but then again, I haven't washed that car in ages, so who knows how long that was building up.Quote:
Hmm... ok, some other thoughts on the topic. Except for the "misfires", does the car run smoothly, or does it run rough?
Rough. The steering wheel would shake in your hand it ran so rough.Quote:
Here are my thoughts ...
If it's a case of being rich, which causes backfire, then you'll see it in a carbon=coated tailpipe, and if its REALLY rich you'll smell gasoline.
This could be the case. Never smelled gas, but the tailpipe is dirty.Quote:Quote:[ Dirty like black? Or dirty like leaves and sand and stuff? IF you have a carburetor then backfires also blow out thru the carburetor and up thru the air filter, and you'll get carbon on your air filter as well.
Whoops. I've only put on about 25k miles since I've owned it, but that filter was VERY dirty.
It wasn't black. Just very, very gray and a lot of leaves and crap.Quote:
If the valves are coated with carbon, which takes up space in the engine and reduced the cylinder volume, creating higher compression ratios and causing backfires, you will see that in general "running rough". In addition, sometimes the car will continue to "diesel" even after your turn it off.
What is "diesel" in that context?Quote:
If it's a timing belt problem or the distributor timing if off, I would imagine that the problem would happen all the time ... well, maybe not ALL the time, the timing might be OK enough to run at higher speeds (if the timing is too advanced) or at lower speeds (if too retarded) but you would definitely feel it at more than just startup.
I do feel it at more than just startup. Sometimes I can start the car with little problems, but before I get on the expressway if I'm stopped at a light the car can misfire really bad and stall out. This only seems to happen on extremely humid nights, and only when the car has been outside of my garage all night.
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If it's really random, then it could be an electrical problem. Have you tried cleaning off the spark plug wires?? Or replaced the wires?? You wouldn't think it would make a difference, but it does!
There is a long time electrical problem with the car. I've never tried to "fix" anything electric except for changing the plugs themselves.
UPDATE:
Did some research on seafoam and watched some youtube videos and I was sold. Not just the standard stuff, but the air intake variety and the transmission stuff as well. I bought it all.
Put 16oz in the gas tank. Easiest thing I did.
Oil was a bit trickier because I put too much oil in when I changed it. Had to bleed about a half quart out before I put 3.5oz in there.
Sprayed the entire aresol can for the air intake as per instructions. Used a couple of bricks to put the RPM's about 1000 above idle during this process. Ended up with a check engine light during this process, but disconnected the battery, put it back on and restarted it. Light hasn't come back on after about 20 miles of test driving.
Put half the can (about 8oz) of the transmission seafoam into my transmission.
So far so good. Even though it's not humid and I can't really test anything, there is
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Huh, interesting video. I have to say, the "clatter" from the sticking lifter(s) was definitely eliminated!
There are some very powerful solvents - aside from oil or alcohol-based - that will take sludge and carbon out of the system. One problem with the ones I'm thinking of, tho, (dimethyl formamide, methylene chloride, and the like) is that they will also dissolve all kinds of gaskets like the head gasket or the gasket under the carburetor. So I'm assuming that they aren't using THOSE solvents!
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Yes I see ...Quote:A "moisture drier" can be any kind of alcohol (or acetone) because water mixes in with the alcohol, and then the alcohol/water mixes with the oil or gasoline. So any water in the bottom of your crankcase or gasoline tank will be flushed out.
Sea Foam Motor Treatment is a Blended Petroleum Product, NOT A CHEMICAL and is widely used as an old oil residue reducer and moisture drier in any oil crankcase.
It's a common problem with oil refining: dewatering the oil. There is always some residual water at the bottom of the storage tanks, and SOME water dissolved in the product, even if only 0.1%. In winter, can be a SIGNIFICANT problem if the water "drops out" (goes out of solution) and freezes in your gas line or filter. There used to be something called "dry gas" ... which used to be diethyl ether (before they got all weirded out about the propensity of ethers to form explosive peroxides on storage, and substituted alcohol instead) and it worked like a charm. Better than alcohol.
I imagine that they use "aromatics" (toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene) as part of their carbon/ sludge dissolver, since aromatics are safer for silicone gaskets.
I would look at Lucas more closely. There have been problems with some oil additives swelling the gaskets ... head gasket, carb gasket, valve cover gasket ... and then when you go back to regular oil the gaskets over-shrink and then leak. I had that problem with my 2001 Civic when the shop used a modern synthetic oil once (I always ask them to use "regular") and then when it got another oil change - with regular oil- it started leaking like a sieve.
But FWIW I looked up Sea Foam+complaints and didn't find any.
Anybody heard about all these torrential rains? Excessive humidity? Flooding? Guess where flooding water at a gas station goes? You know that hole in the manhole cover goes straight into the tank, right? That is how they measure the contents, a long measuring stick is inserted, until touch bottom, and the marking indicates how many gallons are in that tank.
So when rainwater goes in to the tanks at the gas station, guess where everybody pumps that water into?
Water in your gas tank can cause problems, roughness.
Get gas from a place on a hill, where no surrounding elevation flows to it. Even during flooding.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Edit: I also told you to use STP for your oil leak, but you ignored the free advice. Even argued against it.
My oil leak was 1.5 quarts every 40 or so miles. Didn't sound realistic to me. I'm willing to give it a shot now that it's just the minor leak I've always had.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Sorry to hear that you didn't sleep well. I have many sleep problems myself; they were enough to cause me to retire early. I didn't even realize how badly I was sleeping until I had the time/luxury to start bird-dogging solutions one-by-one. All can be traced back, ultimately, to massive allergies: blocked nose; chronic sinusitis; swollen tongue, soft palate and throat; aches and pains from food sensitivities kicking up arthritis. If you have sleep problems I hope you can bird-dog the causes until you get them resolved! - SIGNY
Last night was pretty easy to solve. I ate too much after 6pm and my body never got to digest it properly before I had to take my meds. So, I am trying to do better tonight.
I don't sleep well. At least not right now. Mostly because of stress from living in this place and trying to find another place.- BRENDA
If you don't drive, it must be very difficult to look for a new place. I hope you have some other resources available ... internet postings or FB or housing authority or some kind of neighborhood bulletin board (internet or otherwise). Here we have a website called nextdoor.com which has been very helpful as you can query the most local of areas (the dozen or so blocks around your place) or expand it to perhaps several miles around. If you have that website in your city, I recommend it.
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Today, I boogied out of the house early to hit my most-local native plant nursery. They inventory and put out new stock on Monday/Tuesday (when they're closed) but if I wait until the weekend they might run out of the things that I want (like what happened last time). So today I got all of the things that were on my list ... two more Catalina cherry to complete the privacy screen, a bunch of buckwheat (cinereum/ashy-leafed and parvifolium/seacliff), more golden bunch-grass (purple three-awn) ... and found a few things that I knew I wanted but didn't know were available - foothill penstemon and mahonia repens (a loverly layered groundcover for the shade, which is already growing happily in another part of the yard.)
Today is a toasty 89F, and tomorrow will be an even toastier 91F ... and I have other things to do today and tomorrow ... but there's supposed to be a big cooldown on Monday which will give me the oppty to plant more of my plants.
Does the happy dance!!
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Hey Sig. Over the last few months I have posted twice on Craigslist and I think I got 4 answers. One was a scam, another was for a basement suite but if I wanted to use the laundry I would have to pay an extra $100 a month. The last answer I got was just for a room rental. I'm in contact with BC Housing.
I can see if there any other websites around my area.
Yay! on the still warm weather. Won't see temps like that up here until next Summer. Right now it is dry and sunny and not cold when I go out.
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SOOOOO envious of your warm weather.
I think I'm going through a bout of the SADs right now. Today will mark burning half of my days off and I haven't gotten nearly as much accomplished as I wanted to by now. Slept in quite late today and have done nothing of value since I've been awake.
I have managed to get quite a bit done until today, including some non car related stuff that's been on the backburner for some time now. What a waste of the day though....
Fired up the car again this morning and everything looks to be a-okay. I might take a trip up to my work to buy some stuff and back just to get a real feel of how it's performing now. I'm feeling really good about it.
@Brenda. Still wishing you the best in finding a better place. Has the landlady been a bitch or has she at least backed off a bit?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Hey Jack. She has backed off but I am still wary when I hear her and her husband talking upstairs.
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I used to work at a gas station a bazzilion decades ago ... that big long stick? They don't use it anymore, at least not in SoCal. Gas pumped is telemetered to the refinery, and the trucks deliver a metered amount to replace gas pumped. Another thing that got changed out here were the old-timey single-walled tanks. There was this problem by the acronym of LUFTS - leaking underground fuel tanks - and they were dug up, the soil remediated (except for the stations that closed down, they were remediated to the point of being 'brownfields'), and are now doubled walled. sealed, stainless steel tanks. The space between the inner and outer walls has a vacuum pulled on it, and a gage is inserted to make sure the the vacuum is staying intact. If the vacuum is broken, it indicates either the inner or outer wall (or both) has been breached.
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It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!
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It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!
Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!
Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.
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The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday.
I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon.
So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far.
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It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!- BRENDA
Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead. - SIGNY
The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday. I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon. So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far. - BRNEDA
Well, I know I get MY back up when people start scolding/ patronizing me!
Can you put on an I'm listening to your pearls of wisdom face while you ignore her?
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Quote:What kind of work do you do for them? Are they a business?
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!
Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.
The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday.
I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon.
So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far.
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Hey Brenda
At least you're not working with a back-stabbing little bitch newbie who thinks she knows it all and has the boss wrapped around her petite finger.
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Just a comment about the weather - there is a guy in SoCal who's the water manager for rivers, dams, and settling and ground-water recharge basins. Anyway, apparently he's a whiz with the data and forecasting that predicts rain specifically in this area.
When he thinks it's going to be a rainy winter, he tells the upstream dam managers to release water into the rivers in fall ahead of the winter rains. That creates more space in the dam systems, and fills the downstream basins.
So today I drove past the downstream basins, and they were dry, dry, dry.
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It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!- BRENDA
Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead. - SIGNY
The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday. I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon. So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far. - BRNEDA
Well, I know I get MY back up when people start scolding/ patronizing me!
Can you put on an I'm listening to your pearls of wisdom face while you ignore her?
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Definitely does me.
Oh, I sort of nod then turn my back on her. Deaf ear time.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:What kind of work do you do for them? Are they a business?
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
It's oh so nice when people tell you, you aren't thinking the right way, problem solving enough or just aren't working hard enough. NOT!
Well, who told you THAT???
Yanno, when someone criticizes what I'm doing, I tell them they're always welcome to do it instead.
The lady that I work for last Thursday after she had talked to her husband after I talked to him about all the trouble I am having finding a place, the previous Thursday.
I am too negative in my thinking, think I ignored that statement. Told her that I am always problem solving, and tried to point out some reality of my situation. That never works though as I have done that one before. I just basically ignored her for the rest of the afternoon.
So, if she is around this Thursday, I am putting her on ignore as much as possible. I don't like talking to them for a host of reasons. One thing is that she seems to think that I need "life lessons" not understanding that I have had enough lessons from the universe to last me 10 lifetimes. Supposedly also I am someone that she feels "responsible" for but that only goes so far.
No, not a business. I am working in someone's home. Just some light housekeeping and cooking.
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I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.
I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.
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I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.
I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.
It is taxing and it is odd in a way as I have known this couple off and on for years. They are friends of a lady that I knew since I was a baby. This lady died last year and she left her house to them.
It is also taxing because of their religion. She's a doctor but also the wife of a semi-retired minister, so they bring their religion into a lot of discussions I have had with them. That ticks me off to no end as I just throw science back in their faces.
And in their own ways they have issues with minorities. Example their son got married over the summer to a Thai girl. The new couple came over for a visit in September but because of Trump and his travel bans, their new daughter in law couldn't enter the US to change planes. Their son came on his own and then their daughter in law had to fly direct into Canada.
The husband of the woman, I work for couldn't understand why that happened. I could only look at the man and think, "You dumb f&ck! The President of the US has problems with people of different skin colours."
This man also related a story to me a year ago that his father had told him. His family may have Indian blood. He was so horrified at this idea, that I sat at the other end of the table from him and pointed at myself and said, "Sitting right here. My family has no problem with being Indian. We're proud of it."
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Heading for a rain here.
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Also do you think Halloween coming has something to do with disappearing dish towels?
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Quote:Oh how annoying!!! What a situation!
I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.
I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.- KIKI
It is taxing and it is odd in a way as I have known this couple off and on for years. They are friends of a lady that I knew since I was a baby. This lady died last year and she left her house to them.
It is also taxing because of their religion. She's a doctor but also the wife of a semi-retired minister, so they bring their religion into a lot of discussions I have had with them. That ticks me off to no end as I just throw science back in their faces.
And in their own ways they have issues with minorities. Example their son got married over the summer to a Thai girl. The new couple came over for a visit in September but because of Trump and his travel bans, their new daughter in law couldn't enter the US to change planes. Their son came on his own and then their daughter in law had to fly direct into Canada.
The husband of the woman, I work for couldn't understand why that happened. I could only look at the man and think, "You dumb f&ck! The President of the US has problems with people of different skin colours."
This man also related a story to me a year ago that his father had told him. His family may have Indian blood. He was so horrified at this idea, that I sat at the other end of the table from him and pointed at myself and said, "Sitting right here. My family has no problem with being Indian. We're proud of it."- BRENDA
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Was invited to a neighborhood end-of-summer party a few weeks ago. The couple who hosted it, plus a few of their friends, have a band that's pretty damn good. The drummer is particularly good. They played all of the oldies that I remember and like ... Riders on the Storm ... Dust in the Wind ... Grange (ZZ Top) and they did a GREAT job! I had a blast!
But I've had uh haw haw haw (ZZ Top) and dust in the wind stuck in my head ever since!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh how annoying!!! What a situation!
I've done that in my day. It's a weird dynamic to me - not quite business-like and not quite personal. Obviously you two are together for work purposes: her to get something done, and you to do it. But when you're in someone's home you're in their personal space. And in turn they seem to feel free to intrude in your life.
I found it taxing. Perhaps you do better with it.- KIKI
It is taxing and it is odd in a way as I have known this couple off and on for years. They are friends of a lady that I knew since I was a baby. This lady died last year and she left her house to them.
It is also taxing because of their religion. She's a doctor but also the wife of a semi-retired minister, so they bring their religion into a lot of discussions I have had with them. That ticks me off to no end as I just throw science back in their faces.
And in their own ways they have issues with minorities. Example their son got married over the summer to a Thai girl. The new couple came over for a visit in September but because of Trump and his travel bans, their new daughter in law couldn't enter the US to change planes. Their son came on his own and then their daughter in law had to fly direct into Canada.
The husband of the woman, I work for couldn't understand why that happened. I could only look at the man and think, "You dumb f&ck! The President of the US has problems with people of different skin colours."
This man also related a story to me a year ago that his father had told him. His family may have Indian blood. He was so horrified at this idea, that I sat at the other end of the table from him and pointed at myself and said, "Sitting right here. My family has no problem with being Indian. We're proud of it."- BRENDA
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Here's the kicker Sig. The man is an American. He's been in Canada for 50years and is a citizen but he is as dumb as a box of rocks.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Was invited to a neighborhood end-of-summer party a few weeks ago. The couple who hosted it, plus a few of their friends, have a band that's pretty damn good. The drummer is particularly good. They played all of the oldies that I remember and like ... Riders on the Storm ... Dust in the Wind ... Grange (ZZ Top) and they did a GREAT job! I had a blast!
But I've had uh haw haw haw (ZZ Top) and dust in the wind stuck in my head ever since!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Cool.
Been there and done that.
Taking some music with me tomorrow and hoping no one is around when I am working, so I can listen and sing along with the CDs.
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Continuing to blitz on all fronts .... hubby's retirement (and nailing down health insurance for all of us) ... home renovation .... the garden.
Especially the garden. Been devoting a few hours most mornings lately, before the day gets too hot, to do the cleanup, pruning, and planting that one is supposed to do in the fall here. Yesterday, I devoted a lot more time than anticipated cleaning up around the driveway - mostly pruning, raking, and sweeping; plus giving the vehicles a quick wash and filling tires.
I filled up one of those ginormous greenwaste bins that our trash company makes available in our fair city. And wouldn't you know it? You can hardly tell the difference!
It WILL make a difference, I tell myself, when the Santa Ana winds blow and there will be fewer leaves and pine needles to drift across the driveway. But so far ... meh! 
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Just takes time Sig and it is a rainy kind of day here. Need my umbrella when I head out in a bit.
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Quote:Sounds like housecleaning: wash this, scrub that, sweep here, mop there, dust another, polish more. And then 6 months later...you gotta do it all again. (Irma Bombeck, IIRC)
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Continuing to blitz on all fronts .... hubby's retirement (and nailing down health insurance for all of us) ... home renovation .... the garden.
Especially the garden. Been devoting a few hours most mornings lately, before the day gets too hot, to do the cleanup, pruning, and planting that one is supposed to do in the fall here. Yesterday, I devoted a lot more time than anticipated cleaning up around the driveway - mostly pruning, raking, and sweeping; plus giving the vehicles a quick wash and filling tires.
I filled up one of those ginormous greenwaste bins that our trash company makes available in our fair city. And wouldn't you know it? You can hardly tell the difference!
It WILL make a difference, I tell myself, when the Santa Ana winds blow and there will be fewer leaves and pine needles to drift across the driveway. But so far ... meh!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Irma Bombeck ... one of my favorites back in the day, god rest her soul.
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Irma Bombeck ... one of my favorites back in the day, god rest her soul.
Mine too kiki. I've a number of her books stashed in a box.
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No rain today but I did receive a late birthday card from the UK.
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Tons and tons of wispy rain last night. PERFECT conditions to really give my latest car fixes a test. She fired up without a problem and didn't give me any trouble on my trek home. :)
I'm still a little concerned about my transmission though. It does seem to be doing better overall since I put the Seafoam Hydra in there, but it's really sticking sometimes before getting into top gear and sometimes I'm hitting 3,000RPMs for a while before it kicks in and I'm only going about 55MPH.
I probably need to just go ahead and change the fluid now that it has had some time to get de-gunked and see what happens. Hopefully I have a semi-warm day when I get off of work to do it. Shouldn't be any more difficult than an oil change. Maybe I'll change the oil again now that I've flushed everything out with the seafoam too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Are you still keeping secret the brand name of this car? That determines how your transmission works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Tons and tons of wispy rain last night. PERFECT conditions to really give my latest car fixes a test. She fired up without a problem and didn't give me any trouble on my trek home. :)
I'm still a little concerned about my transmission though. It does seem to be doing better overall since I put the Seafoam Hydra in there, but it's really sticking sometimes before getting into top gear and sometimes I'm hitting 3,000RPMs for a while before it kicks in and I'm only going about 55MPH.
I probably need to just go ahead and change the fluid now that it has had some time to get de-gunked and see what happens. Hopefully I have a semi-warm day when I get off of work to do it. Shouldn't be any more difficult than an oil change. Maybe I'll change the oil again now that I've flushed everything out with the seafoam too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:How cool!! Somebody so far way was thinking of you.
Originally posted by Brenda:
No rain today but I did receive a late birthday card from the UK.
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Quote:I've heard from someone with a similar-sounding problem that the screen in the transmission being clogged is sometimes a problem. The trans works on hydraulics, if the screen s clogged the trans fluid doesn't get through to do the job.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm still a little concerned about my transmission though. It does seem to be doing better overall since I put the Seafoam Hydra in there, but it's really sticking sometimes before getting into top gear and sometimes I'm hitting 3,000RPMs for a while before it kicks in and I'm only going about 55MPH.
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Quote:How cool!! Somebody so far way was thinking of you.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
No rain today but I did receive a late birthday card from the UK.
The weird thing is Kiki is this friend sent it a week before my birthday, which means I should have gotten it around my birthday or just after. We don't know what happened with the post as it is not close enough for people to start thinking about sending things overseas for Christmas.
I'm wondering if my landlady got to it first and for some reason just suddenly realized it wasn't for her and put it back out.
Or if the post just got really, really wonky for a bit. Still it was there either Thursday or Friday but I was too tired to check, so I checked yesterday and what a nice surprise.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Are you still keeping secret the brand name of this car? That determines how your transmission works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Tons and tons of wispy rain last night. PERFECT conditions to really give my latest car fixes a test. She fired up without a problem and didn't give me any trouble on my trek home. :)
I'm still a little concerned about my transmission though. It does seem to be doing better overall since I put the Seafoam Hydra in there, but it's really sticking sometimes before getting into top gear and sometimes I'm hitting 3,000RPMs for a while before it kicks in and I'm only going about 55MPH.
I probably need to just go ahead and change the fluid now that it has had some time to get de-gunked and see what happens. Hopefully I have a semi-warm day when I get off of work to do it. Shouldn't be any more difficult than an oil change. Maybe I'll change the oil again now that I've flushed everything out with the seafoam too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Mid 90's Toyota. Great car to work on for somebody who doesn't know about cars. Ask me how I know.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I've heard from someone with a similar-sounding problem that the screen in the transmission being clogged is sometimes a problem. The trans works on hydraulics, if the screen s clogged the trans fluid doesn't get through to do the job.
Thanks. I'll have to look into that. If changing the fluid doesn't fix the issue I'm going to have to do something about it. I've come to far now to worry about this thing all winter, or even worse get stranded somewhere.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I don't recall working on tranny problems of Toyotas. I don't think they are based on vacuum.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Are you still keeping secret the brand name of this car? That determines how your transmission works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Tons and tons of wispy rain last night. PERFECT conditions to really give my latest car fixes a test. She fired up without a problem and didn't give me any trouble on my trek home. :)
I'm still a little concerned about my transmission though. It does seem to be doing better overall since I put the Seafoam Hydra in there, but it's really sticking sometimes before getting into top gear and sometimes I'm hitting 3,000RPMs for a while before it kicks in and I'm only going about 55MPH.
I probably need to just go ahead and change the fluid now that it has had some time to get de-gunked and see what happens. Hopefully I have a semi-warm day when I get off of work to do it. Shouldn't be any more difficult than an oil change. Maybe I'll change the oil again now that I've flushed everything out with the seafoam too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Mid 90's Toyota. Great car to work on for somebody who doesn't know about cars. Ask me how I know.Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I've heard from someone with a similar-sounding problem that the screen in the transmission being clogged is sometimes a problem. The trans works on hydraulics, if the screen s clogged the trans fluid doesn't get through to do the job.
Thanks. I'll have to look into that. If changing the fluid doesn't fix the issue I'm going to have to do something about it. I've come to far now to worry about this thing all winter, or even worse get stranded somewhere.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The filter is a good tip, and should be cheap. If you need to drop the pan to change fluid, the filter should be right there, easy to replace at the same time. Flushing a bunch of crud in your system could have clogged the filter. If it is dissolvable crud, you are probably not driving it enough to allow it to dissolve fast enough.
Is your ONLY transmission problem the shifting? That will mess with your traction come snow/ice driving.
Some Trans use hydraulics for shifting. Some shift based upon mechanical actuation, or air pressure, or vacuum, or computer processing of the speed sensors of Trans input and output.
How many months did you go without letting SeaFoam fix your problems?
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Quote:Mine's a 95 Toyota corolla sw, but with a manual shift. But even though it's been a one-owner car all its 'life' (me), at this point vital things are breaking down. The ac and trip odometer went years ago (I never got them fixed - I'll see your cheap ass bid and raise it), but just a few months back the hydraulic valve that moves the clutch back and forth went kersplat. Fortunately I found a cheap good mechanic.
Mid 90's Toyota. Great car to work on for somebody who doesn't know about cars. Ask me how I know.
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Also jack, as I was thinking about it ... when my clutch went out and I couldn't shift out of gear (fortunately on a surface street instead of the freeway) it was late in the eve and raining. To top it all off, I had forgotten my cell phone. I was able to limp it in to a Target parking lot and after pumping the clutch pedal shift it out of gear and park. And thankfully the store was still open and they let me use a store phone to call AAA.
But those two things - a phone and AAA - really saved me some serious problems.
Perhaps you could invest in a prepaid cell phone for emergencies, and a basic AAA membership. And given where you live, maybe one of those plastic foil emergency 'space' blankets in case you end up spending time in a cold car.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:Mine's a 95 Toyota corolla sw, but with a manual shift. But even though it's been a one-owner car all its 'life' (me), at this point vital things are breaking down. The ac and trip odometer went years ago (I never got them fixed - I'll see your cheap ass bid and raise it), but just a few months back the hydraulic valve that moves the clutch back and forth went kersplat. Fortunately I found a cheap good mechanic.
Mid 90's Toyota. Great car to work on for somebody who doesn't know about cars. Ask me how I know.
Yeah. I don't recall ever owning a car that had working A/C.
I've got an automatic, so there is no clutch. Well... I guess I shouldn't say that. There's no manual clutch, anyhow. Don't know enough about it.
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Also jack, as I was thinking about it ... when my clutch went out and I couldn't shift out of gear (fortunately on a surface street instead of the freeway) it was late in the eve and raining. To top it all off, I had forgotten my cell phone. I was able to limp it in to a Target parking lot and after pumping the clutch pedal shift it out of gear and park. And thankfully the store was still open and they let me use a store phone to call AAA.
But those two things - a phone and AAA - really saved me some serious problems.
Perhaps you could invest in a prepaid cell phone for emergencies, and a basic AAA membership. And given where you live, maybe one of those plastic foil emergency 'space' blankets in case you end up spending time in a cold car.
I've got "free" towing with my car insurance. Depending on how far I make it to work, it might cost a little money out of pocket. I've been talking about getting a burner phone forever now. Should probably do it if changing the fluid doesn't work. Blankets wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I don't recall working on tranny problems of Toyotas. I don't think they are based on vacuum.
The filter is a good tip, and should be cheap. If you need to drop the pan to change fluid, the filter should be right there, easy to replace at the same time. Flushing a bunch of crud in your system could have clogged the filter. If it is dissolvable crud, you are probably not driving it enough to allow it to dissolve fast enough.
Is your ONLY transmission problem the shifting? That will mess with your traction come snow/ice driving.
Some Trans use hydraulics for shifting. Some shift based upon mechanical actuation, or air pressure, or vacuum, or computer processing of the speed sensors of Trans input and output.
How many months did you go without letting SeaFoam fix your problems?
The first time I noticed a sticking sensation while driving would have been a few years ago. It was very rare though. It hasn't been a constant problem until the last month or two though.
The bad starts happened in mid spring.
Changing the transmission fluid on this car is as easy as removing the plug, draining it and then replacing the fluid through the dip stick. Changing the filter would be a bit more complicated, but probably not too bad.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I must have always ended up with no drain plug, had to drop the pan. If you do drop the pan, ensure you have a new gasket handy, and a sharp spatula (putty knife) to scrape off the tenants of the old gasket. Then pray the old gasket detaches easily and intact.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I don't recall working on tranny problems of Toyotas. I don't think they are based on vacuum.
The filter is a good tip, and should be cheap. If you need to drop the pan to change fluid, the filter should be right there, easy to replace at the same time. Flushing a bunch of crud in your system could have clogged the filter. If it is dissolvable crud, you are probably not driving it enough to allow it to dissolve fast enough.
Is your ONLY transmission problem the shifting? That will mess with your traction come snow/ice driving.
Some Trans use hydraulics for shifting. Some shift based upon mechanical actuation, or air pressure, or vacuum, or computer processing of the speed sensors of Trans input and output.
How many months did you go without letting SeaFoam fix your problems?
The first time I noticed a sticking sensation while driving would have been a few years ago. It was very rare though. It hasn't been a constant problem until the last month or two though.
The bad starts happened in mid spring.
Changing the transmission fluid on this car is as easy as removing the plug, draining it and then replacing the fluid through the dip stick. Changing the filter would be a bit more complicated, but probably not too bad.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I must have always ended up with no drain plug, had to drop the pan. If you do drop the pan, ensure you have a new gasket handy, and a sharp spatula (putty knife) to scrape off the tenants of the old gasket. Then pray the old gasket detaches easily and intact.
Yeah. I have no clue what any of my other cars were. The transmission went out on my first ride when I was around 18 years old, but they wanted more than I paid for the car to rebuild it.
I had seen that it could be a bit more complicated to change the fluid, but these mid 90's Toyotas seem to be extremely user friendly. Thanks for the tips. I'll definately be watching some youtube videos before I do anything since I'd have to walk a few miles to buy spare parts if something goes awry, assuming they'd even stock something like that. Otherwise I'd be waiting for it to ship online.
I forgot to reply to this part of your last post:
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Is your ONLY transmission problem the shifting? That will mess with your traction come snow/ice driving.
I think so... It's an automatic, like every car I've ever owned. Don't really know much about transmissions since they've all just done all of the work for me and I never thought about them until they stopped working right.
I drive really careful these days compared to my youth, and I don't ever tailgate. Replaced the breakpads a while back and gave them a thorough test, so hopefully I'm good. Fingers crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:For traction in snow/ice you need low torque. Which is the tallest gear possible. Meaning the tires moving fast while the engine is very low rpms. So at 25mph you want the transmission to be in the highest gear possible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I must have always ended up with no drain plug, had to drop the pan. If you do drop the pan, ensure you have a new gasket handy, and a sharp spatula (putty knife) to scrape off the tenants of the old gasket. Then pray the old gasket detaches easily and intact.
Yeah. I have no clue what any of my other cars were. The transmission went out on my first ride when I was around 18 years old, but they wanted more than I paid for the car to rebuild it.
I had seen that it could be a bit more complicated to change the fluid, but these mid 90's Toyotas seem to be extremely user friendly. Thanks for the tips. I'll definately be watching some youtube videos before I do anything since I'd have to walk a few miles to buy spare parts if something goes awry, assuming they'd even stock something like that. Otherwise I'd be waiting for it to ship online.
I forgot to reply to this part of your last post:Quote:
Is your ONLY transmission problem the shifting? That will mess with your traction come snow/ice driving.
I think so... It's an automatic, like every car I've ever owned. Don't really know much about transmissions since they've all just done all of the work for me and I never thought about them until they stopped working right.
I drive really careful these days compared to my youth, and I don't ever tailgate. Replaced the breakpads a while back and gave them a thorough test, so hopefully I'm good. Fingers crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
If trans doesn't shift, engine revs higher, where it has too much torque, and it will rip away traction when slippery.
Also, when trans does shift, at high rpm, it will rip away traction as soon as the new gear engages - and this is at the higher velocity. Losing traction means you can't control your car, and if FWD, your steering.
Traction happens when the speed of the vehicle on the road surface perfectly matches the speed of the tire tread. When the speed of the tire tread is different, either faster or slower, then you don't have traction.
It sounds like you've never read your Owner's Manual. Do you know what your 1 and 2 (or L and M) gear selection are for?
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Fireworks and fog late on a Halloween night.
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I can't decide if fireworks in fog would have looked genius, or lame.
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I can't decide if fireworks in fog would have looked genius, or lame.
That's something I hadn't thought about kiki. Probably depended on what they were letting off. I couldn't see them just heard them. Mind couldn't see anything really out the windows. Couldn't see the other side of the river. Got more fog tonight by the look of things.
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Major rainfall warnings for Metro Vancouver out to Abbotsford in the Valley. Weather site says between 40 to 60mm over night. I can believe that as it was very wet yesterday when I was out.
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How you doing Brenda? Haven't hear from you in a while. Hope everything is okay.
I'm usually alright in the cold, at least until it dips down into the double digits negative. But it was almost seventy degrees just a short while ago and it was ZERO with the windchill last night at work, and the wind was howling.
So glad to be home now. Especially since I stopped being such a cheap ass and I've got the thermostat at 65. Not exactly toasty on the 1st floor where I sleep at around 60 degrees, but nothing a blanket won't fix. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Blanket!
Knew I was forgetting something.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How you doing Brenda? Haven't hear from you in a while. Hope everything is okay.
I'm usually alright in the cold, at least until it dips down into the double digits negative. But it was almost seventy degrees just a short while ago and it was ZERO with the windchill last night at work, and the wind was howling.
So glad to be home now. Especially since I stopped being such a cheap ass and I've got the thermostat at 65. Not exactly toasty on the 1st floor where I sleep at around 60 degrees, but nothing a blanket won't fix. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Hi Jack. I'm doing okay. Just tired and wanting to decorate for Christmas can't really around here. Frustrated too and sometimes just down.
Cold in here now and little to no heat where I am. Hence the frustration.
Also thinking about getting Christmas cards into the mail because Canada Post has decided on rotating strikes a month or more before December, which is probably why the last birthday card I received from the UK was so late in reaching me.
Also Remembrance Day seems to be hitting me a little harder than usual this year. Will be posting my piece on it later.
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And yes sports fans, you read my reply to Jack right.
Canada Post has indeed gone on strike. At least out west anyways.
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I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can appreciate that Jack. I'm sure you will find something to do.
So do I. And I am trying to keep good thoughts in my head and maybe I will find something to decorate this dump with. Never know.
I am part way through making another handmade scarf for myself. I can't find scarves in stores that I like so I make my own. I knit them and they do come out pretty good if I do say so myself.
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Weather had finally gotten more reasonable here. In the summer, I just kind of estervate. But the heat and humidity has kind of abated, and this past week was sunny, breezy, and cool-to-warm. So I've been spending an hour or two most mornings whipping the landscaping into shape .. digging and raking out the weeds, planting even more plants!, taking out some of the plants that failed or that aren't garden-worthy, raking up all of the leaves and in general tidying up. (Making up for not having done a thing along those lines over the summer). Filled up my two greenwaste bins, again, so no more gardening until the bins are emptied on Monday. I suppose tomorrow will be mail and bills and pre-filling out the paperwork for window permits and in general taking care of the INside of the house for a change!
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can appreciate that Jack. I'm sure you will find something to do.
So do I. And I am trying to keep good thoughts in my head and maybe I will find something to decorate this dump with. Never know.
I am part way through making another handmade scarf for myself. I can't find scarves in stores that I like so I make my own. I knit them and they do come out pretty good if I do say so myself.
Keep your head up. I know that is much easier said than done sometimes, but I can say from experience now that once I started making a real effort to do that myself that good things started coming my way. Nothing overnight, and nothing mind blowing when you just look at the little things by themselves, but when I look back on the last 1 year, 11 months and 11 days of my sobriety and all the stuff that I've accomplished in that time I'm in a much better situation than I used to be in.
It's always going to be an uphill struggle since my days of making "easy livin" money are over and I'm not getting any younger, but to look at things positively that just means more opportunities to learn new things like all of the stuff I've learned about cars this summer instead of just taking it in to get it fixed or buying a new one.
That's awesome that you can make your own scarves (and I'm assuming other things as well?). I know how good it feels to create something of your own and sit back and say "I did that" when it's done. Maybe there's something else you can find to add to your hobby list in the cold months?
I've got to get back into my big project myself. It's been about a month since I worked on it at all, and even though last week off was my first time where I had absolutely nothing pressing to do I couldn't even find the desire to work on it. I think I've just got to adjust to the cold again. I think maybe I'm just a bit mentally exhausted after the mid-terms too. I spent too much time paying attention to that, and I really don't know why I bothered really.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Doing well. Got to hang out with my bro and niece today. We finally got to play with a new toy that I bought a few months ago but haven't had a chance yet. Advertised as "promotes interest in STEM", although I'm sure all the toys say that these days.
Whenever she comes over she likes building "castles" out of a few random coushins that I have, but they were really small and I didn't have a lot of other stuff to build with. I saw this thing online that was kind of like a giant erector set with 40 sticks with 20 balls that can all be connected and you can throw a sheet over it. I wasn't sure what the quality would be like or if it would work like I hoped, so I only bought one at the time. It was great though and we had a lot of fun building it. It would have worked better if she let us build it shorter and wider, but she wanted it tall, and she's the foreman, so I pretty much had to hold it up while she was playing in it. Extra sets aren't super expensive, so I'm planning on ordering a few more maybe for a Christmas present or something. Make something huge and a little more sturdy out of it.
I thought it was pretty funny that the Engrish instructions showed 3 samples that you could build with it, and all of them would require more pieces than came in a single set. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can appreciate that Jack. I'm sure you will find something to do.
So do I. And I am trying to keep good thoughts in my head and maybe I will find something to decorate this dump with. Never know.
I am part way through making another handmade scarf for myself. I can't find scarves in stores that I like so I make my own. I knit them and they do come out pretty good if I do say so myself.
Keep your head up. I know that is much easier said than done sometimes, but I can say from experience now that once I started making a real effort to do that myself that good things started coming my way. Nothing overnight, and nothing mind blowing when you just look at the little things by themselves, but when I look back on the last 1 year, 11 months and 11 days of my sobriety and all the stuff that I've accomplished in that time I'm in a much better situation than I used to be in.
It's always going to be an uphill struggle since my days of making "easy livin" money are over and I'm not getting any younger, but to look at things positively that just means more opportunities to learn new things like all of the stuff I've learned about cars this summer instead of just taking it in to get it fixed or buying a new one.
That's awesome that you can make your own scarves (and I'm assuming other things as well?). I know how good it feels to create something of your own and sit back and say "I did that" when it's done. Maybe there's something else you can find to add to your hobby list in the cold months?
I've got to get back into my big project myself. It's been about a month since I worked on it at all, and even though last week off was my first time where I had absolutely nothing pressing to do I couldn't even find the desire to work on it. I think I've just got to adjust to the cold again. I think maybe I'm just a bit mentally exhausted after the mid-terms too. I spent too much time paying attention to that, and I really don't know why I bothered really.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Congratulations on the almost 2years of sobriety.
That is great. I try to look forward to learning new things. Like picking up words in different languages. Lady that I play mah jong with has taught me how to say thank you in Filipino as that is her nationality and duck. I've also learned to say thank you in Korean over the last year or so.
Let's see. Over the years, I have made blankets both knitted and crocheted. Once I made a pair of mittens for my mom.
I am still trying to get back to finding a publisher for my book. I do mean to but I do and then I stop and stall.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter. Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
Weather is still hopping between dry and rain. Suppose to rain later this week.
Hoping to get one Christmas card into the mail this week and the rest by the end of the month. Hopefully that goes smooth with Canada post and striking workers.
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Quote:Have you got her a 3-D jigsaw puzzle? Many of those are castles. I just got one for $1 for my mom, my brother has put her in like an old people prison.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Doing well. Got to hang out with my bro and niece today. We finally got to play with a new toy that I bought a few months ago but haven't had a chance yet. Advertised as "promotes interest in STEM", although I'm sure all the toys say that these days.
Whenever she comes over she likes building "castles" out of a few random coushins that I have, but they were really small and I didn't have a lot of other stuff to build with. I saw this thing online that was kind of like a giant erector set with 40 sticks with 20 balls that can all be connected and you can throw a sheet over it. I wasn't sure what the quality would be like or if it would work like I hoped, so I only bought one at the time. It was great though and we had a lot of fun building it. It would have worked better if she let us build it shorter and wider, but she wanted it tall, and she's the foreman, so I pretty much had to hold it up while she was playing in it. Extra sets aren't super expensive, so I'm planning on ordering a few more maybe for a Christmas present or something. Make something huge and a little more sturdy out of it.
I thought it was pretty funny that the Engrish instructions showed 3 samples that you could build with it, and all of them would require more pieces than came in a single set. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
When my niece's were very young, I got them train sets with interlocking track, so they would learn geometry like I did. Their dolls all rode around the track.
Now they are both in Engineering schools.
Have you had adequate test of your SeaFoam repair?
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter. Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
Weather is still hopping between dry and rain. Suppose to rain later this week.
Hoping to get one Christmas card into the mail this week and the rest by the end of the month. Hopefully that goes smooth with Canada post and striking workers.
You don't want your landlady to know you are warm?
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Quote:Thanks Brenda. I'm slowly on the mend (I think) but now dear daughter has caught what I have. Hubby hasn't caught it YET, but he came down with a very mysterious and troubling illness that switched off as fast as it switched on.
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
Quote:I hope you do too!
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter.
Quote:I hope you manage. I take it that she's no longer making eviction noises? I'm sorry, but I still think she's a complete byatch.
Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter. Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
Weather is still hopping between dry and rain. Suppose to rain later this week.
Hoping to get one Christmas card into the mail this week and the rest by the end of the month. Hopefully that goes smooth with Canada post and striking workers.
You don't want your landlady to know you are warm?
No, I don't want her to know what I am doing as she will come flying down at me and start bitching about her bills and might actually evict me.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Thanks Brenda. I'm slowly on the mend (I think) but now dear daughter has caught what I have. Hubby hasn't caught it YET, but he came down with a very mysterious and troubling illness that switched off as fast as it switched on.
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
That's good. I hope your daughter doesn't have too bad a time with it. Well, that is something to be grateful for.
Quote:I hope you do too!
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter.
Me too. People are starting to cough around me and my boss's husband had a cold last week. So we shall see.
Quote:I hope you manage. I take it that she's no longer making eviction noises? I'm sorry, but I still think she's a complete byatch.
Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
She has and a couple of weeks ago she even waved to me as she walked past me and said hello. But I am still treading carefully. No, you are right and I have been quietly cursing up at the ceiling.
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Quote:What are you doing to stay warm?
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:??
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter. Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
Weather is still hopping between dry and rain. Suppose to rain later this week.
Hoping to get one Christmas card into the mail this week and the rest by the end of the month. Hopefully that goes smooth with Canada post and striking workers.
You don't want your landlady to know you are warm?
No, I don't want her to know what I am doing as she will come flying down at me and start bitching about her bills and might actually evict me.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Congratulations on the almost 2years of sobriety.
I try to look forward to learning new things. Like picking up words in different languages. Lady that I play mah jong with has taught me how to say thank you in Filipino as that is her nationality and duck. I've also learned to say thank you in Korean over the last year or so.
Let's see. Over the years, I have made blankets both knitted and crocheted. Once I made a pair of mittens for my mom.
I am still trying to get back to finding a publisher for my book. I do mean to but I do and then I stop and stall.
Gamsahamnida. :)
It's actually not hard at all. It was hard breaking the cycle at first, for sure, but I haven't had any cravings or even any real thoughts about drinking for at least a year and a half. I'm wondering how much of my problem with beer was alcoholism and how much of it was just me being bored.
I've always wanted to learn how to play mah jong since they played it in Deadwood. I don't know how to play that game itself, and I'm not sure what all the tiles mean, but I do enjoy playing a game called Shanghai that uses those tiles. It's sort of to Mah Jong as Solitare is to Poker.
There is a guy who I watch on youtube who's published a few books. I'll try to remember to see if I can find out who he uses.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Have you got her a 3-D jigsaw puzzle? Many of those are castles. I just got one for $1 for my mom, my brother has put her in like an old people prison.
When my niece's were very young, I got them train sets with interlocking track, so they would learn geometry like I did. Their dolls all rode around the track.
Now they are both in Engineering schools.
Have you had adequate test of your SeaFoam repair?
Sorry to hear about your mom. I keep trying to persuade my own mom to start working out again to increase her mobility. It's a lot better with her MS down in Arizona because of the climate than it was up here, but that's all the more reason for her to try to improve things now. My step-dad is quite a bit older and won't be around forever. I have no idea what's going to happen in the future there myself. I already told my brother not to expect me to take her in because I'm not going to end up being a living caricature of Principal Skinner.
I haven't really ever bought my niece much of anything. She's got a billion toys. I'm the only person I'm aware of that she gets excited to see just because she wants to play instead of asking first thing "what did you get me?". Now that she's getting old enough to appreciate stuff and she can start playing with interesting things that we both can enjoy I'm going to be looking into getting more stuff that we can do when she comes over. I'll definitely be looking into toys that teach like my grandpa did when I was her age.
The seafoam seems to have worked wonders with my engine and oil pan. I haven't had any missfires for a long time now, and I haven't had any problems starting the car or keeping it running once it's started. On the other hand though, the transmission is not looking good. I keep hoping we'll get a bought of warm weather for me to drain it and put new fluid in, but it's been too cold for me to do that and it's not likely to warm up until spring. I'm just hoping that it survives the winter and even if I have to learn how to replace the transmission at that point I've heard I can get a rebuilt one for around $250. Finger's crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:What are you doing to stay warm?
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:??
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter. Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
Weather is still hopping between dry and rain. Suppose to rain later this week.
Hoping to get one Christmas card into the mail this week and the rest by the end of the month. Hopefully that goes smooth with Canada post and striking workers.
You don't want your landlady to know you are warm?
No, I don't want her to know what I am doing as she will come flying down at me and start bitching about her bills and might actually evict me.
Basically layering up on clothes specially my top half. I wear a sweater and gloves and socks to bed, along with a hot water bottle.
Have bought a heating pad but I haven't had the nerve to break it out and use it yet.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Congratulations on the almost 2years of sobriety.
I try to look forward to learning new things. Like picking up words in different languages. Lady that I play mah jong with has taught me how to say thank you in Filipino as that is her nationality and duck. I've also learned to say thank you in Korean over the last year or so.
Let's see. Over the years, I have made blankets both knitted and crocheted. Once I made a pair of mittens for my mom.
I am still trying to get back to finding a publisher for my book. I do mean to but I do and then I stop and stall.
Gamsahamnida. :)
It's actually not hard at all. It was hard breaking the cycle at first, for sure, but I haven't had any cravings or even any real thoughts about drinking for at least a year and a half. I'm wondering how much of my problem with beer was alcoholism and how much of it was just me being bored.
I've always wanted to learn how to play mah jong since they played it in Deadwood. I don't know how to play that game itself, and I'm not sure what all the tiles mean, but I do enjoy playing a game called Shanghai that uses those tiles. It's sort of to Mah Jong as Solitare is to Poker.
There is a guy who I watch on youtube who's published a few books. I'll try to remember to see if I can find out who he uses.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
From my understanding of alcoholism, I think boredom can play into it. But I'm happy that you are sober. That is great work.
Yes. A couple that run a hamburger place in a strip mall food court near where I live, I asked the wife how to say thank you and she told me.
Learning about the tiles in mah jong is easy but learning how to count the points is hard. I've been playing with the tiles for over 3years and I still get mixed up in the point counting sometimes. Shanghai or Tai pei was the first mah jong type of game I found on the computer. Then I found true mah jong and got hooked. I still play on the computer and can play for hours.
The tiles consist of the four winds, 3 sets of dragons, characters which are numbered 1-9, circles numbered 1-9, bamboo numbered 1-9. Also 4 sets of flowers.
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Quote:When my niece was about 6, I got her a logic puzzle which can be set into different puzzles. She didn't know what to do and asked me how to solve it. I asked her what she thought she should do and how, and once she finished one, she did an entire set in no time. Her dad, my brother is an Engineer, and he couldn't figure out any of the puzzles she had just done. She seemed to have spurred onward in STEM after that.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Have you got her a 3-D jigsaw puzzle? Many of those are castles. I just got one for $1 for my mom, my brother has put her in like an old people prison.
When my niece's were very young, I got them train sets with interlocking track, so they would learn geometry like I did. Their dolls all rode around the track.
Now they are both in Engineering schools.
Have you had adequate test of your SeaFoam repair?
Sorry to hear about your mom. I keep trying to persuade my own mom to start working out again to increase her mobility. It's a lot better with her MS down in Arizona because of the climate than it was up here, but that's all the more reason for her to try to improve things now. My step-dad is quite a bit older and won't be around forever. I have no idea what's going to happen in the future there myself. I already told my brother not to expect me to take her in because I'm not going to end up being a living caricature of Principal Skinner.
I haven't really ever bought my niece much of anything. She's got a billion toys. I'm the only person I'm aware of that she gets excited to see just because she wants to play instead of asking first thing "what did you get me?". Now that she's getting old enough to appreciate stuff and she can start playing with interesting things that we both can enjoy I'm going to be looking into getting more stuff that we can do when she comes over. I'll definitely be looking into toys that teach like my grandpa did when I was her age.
The seafoam seems to have worked wonders with my engine and oil pan. I haven't had any missfires for a long time now, and I haven't had any problems starting the car or keeping it running once it's started. On the other hand though, the transmission is not looking good. I keep hoping we'll get a bought of warm weather for me to drain it and put new fluid in, but it's been too cold for me to do that and it's not likely to warm up until spring. I'm just hoping that it survives the winter and even if I have to learn how to replace the transmission at that point I've heard I can get a rebuilt one for around $250. Finger's crossed.
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Looks like that rainstorm is heading this way anyway, as predicted. Not huge ... somewhere between 0.25" to 0.75" ... but enough, I hope, to put out the fires which are still burning.
Gosh, it's hard to imagine the devastation of the Camp Fire which wiped out most of the city of Paradise. 1300 missing last I heard, many of them elderly. And down here in So Cal ... dear daughter and I used to go cabin=camping in the Santa Monica mountains with the Epilepsy Foundation, when they sponsored that kind of event. Beautiful area full of oak. I heard its mostly charred now.
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But at least the rain will help all my newly-planted plants! The front yard was looking like a sandpit over the summer; I'm sure the neighbors were none-too-happy but it makes no sense to put $200 worth of plants in when you know they're going to die in two weeks. I'm so looking forward to these plants growing up and looking fabulous!
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Hey all - I've been keeping up with you all as best I can, just not posting much. I hope everyone has a comfortable, safe, pleasant T-day - even you too Brenda! as an honorary guest in absentia!
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"Have bought a heating pad but I haven't had the nerve to break it out and use it yet." Oh ... dear ... it may not be as useful as you hope. The newer heating pads, here anyway, have built-in timers somewhere in the switch. They only stay on for an hour or so. I guess too many people were falling asleep with them and ending up with low-temperature burns which are just as nasty as regular ones - they just take longer to get.
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Hey all - I've been keeping up with you all as best I can, just not posting much. I hope everyone has a comfortable, safe, pleasant T-day - even you too Brenda! as an honorary guest in absentia!
Thanks Kiki. Tomorrow will be a regular day for me. Mah jong in the morning and then work in the afternoon. But you have a good one T-day.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Have bought a heating pad but I haven't had the nerve to break it out and use it yet." Oh ... dear ... it may not be as useful as you hope. The newer heating pads, here anyway, have built-in timers somewhere in the switch. They only stay on for an hour or so. I guess too many people were falling asleep with them and ending up with low-temperature burns which are just as nasty as regular ones - they just take longer to get.
It's okay Kiki. I used one the other year ago so I know what I am getting in to when I do use it. I will be fine.
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Oh happy rain day!!
Some time between when I went to bed around 11:30 when it was just beginning to sprinkle, and 4:30 when I woke up at stupid-o'clock, it must have poured like a sunuvab!tch because my informal rain gage has well more than (the maybe, predicted) 0.25" in it. So I'm thankful for the approx 1" of rain that we got instead of the (maybe) 0.25" that they were predicting.
rain + subsequent sun = weeds but I have my trusty daughter to help.
The land is smiling and once again we have been blessed.
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From my understanding of alcoholism, I think boredom can play into it. But I'm happy that you are sober. That is great work.
Yes. A couple that run a hamburger place in a strip mall food court near where I live, I asked the wife how to say thank you and she told me.
Learning about the tiles in mah jong is easy but learning how to count the points is hard. I've been playing with the tiles for over 3years and I still get mixed up in the point counting sometimes. Shanghai or Tai pei was the first mah jong type of game I found on the computer. Then I found true mah jong and got hooked. I still play on the computer and can play for hours.
Ah. So you've played Shanghai before. :)
I didn't know it was also called Tai Pei. I only knew the tiles represented numbers kind of in passing, since you don't need to know the actual number values in any version of the game I've ever played. The circles and bamboo were self explanatory, but I just assumed the characters had to be numbers written out as well. The flowers were kind of tricky for me to pick up without any context or instructions.
It's a fun game. I've never known anybody who knows how to play Mah Jong.
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From my understanding of alcoholism, I think boredom can play into it. But I'm happy that you are sober. That is great work.
Yes. A couple that run a hamburger place in a strip mall food court near where I live, I asked the wife how to say thank you and she told me.
Learning about the tiles in mah jong is easy but learning how to count the points is hard. I've been playing with the tiles for over 3years and I still get mixed up in the point counting sometimes. Shanghai or Tai pei was the first mah jong type of game I found on the computer. Then I found true mah jong and got hooked. I still play on the computer and can play for hours.
Ah. So you've played Shanghai before. :)
I didn't know it was also called Tai Pei. I only knew the tiles represented numbers kind of in passing, since you don't need to know the actual number values in any version of the game I've ever played. The circles and bamboo were self explanatory, but I just assumed the characters had to be numbers written out as well. The flowers were kind of tricky for me to pick up without any context or instructions.
It's a fun game. I've never known anybody who knows how to play Mah Jong.
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Yes, I have.
The flowers can be though with the tiles the flowers are easier to follow.
It is a fun game. As I said I have been hooked on it for years.
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When my niece was about 6, I got her a logic puzzle which can be set into different puzzles. She didn't know what to do and asked me how to solve it. I asked her what she thought she should do and how, and once she finished one, she did an entire set in no time. Her dad, my brother is an Engineer, and he couldn't figure out any of the puzzles she had just done. She seemed to have spurred onward in STEM after that.
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Nice.
Do you have any other suggestions? Preferably anything $20 and under. I'd kind of like to build up a good collection of "smart" toys for her when she comes over. She's still at that age where her imagination can make anything a toy, but she'll probably be growing out of that soon.
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