Cooler days, but just days. Well, slightly cooler days, and slightly cooler nights. We did almost have rain yesterday. The clouds were there, and in parts of town, a little mist hit my windshield, but no actual rain fell on me.<\/p>\n
After a dump run and a stop to fill up three propane bottles, I did my pickups and decided to return home rather than head to the BOL. I looked at my list and decided to keep working on the stuff here, rather than a new project with limited time at the BOL.<\/p>\n
Of course, I had to do stuff like fix my truck first. The door handle on the driver’s side stopped actuating the latch. It’s happened before and I know what failed. There is a little plastic clip that holds the rod to the mechanism, and it fails. It caused me some trouble when I locked myself out of my running truck at one pickup. Fortunately I know how to bypass the handle and lock on the passenger side, so I did get in.<\/p>\n
When I got home I took the door apart, confirmed that it was the little clip that failed, and went looking for the replacement. I was pretty sure I’d ordered spares last time, and I store like with like, so I looked in the door of the parts truck, and in the box of spares behind the seat, but couldn’t find the part. I looked in my truck too, both the console and glove box. Just when I thought I must have lost the parts, I found them in the map pocket of the door. 10 minutes later that was fixed, but by then it was dark out.<\/p>\n
I had the part and it was a simple and short matter to fix it. Prepping for the win on this one. <\/p>\n
I’d also done a fair bit of domestic bliss in the last 2 days- I did two loads of laundry, cut my hair, shaved, and booted the TiVO for the first time in years. I am hoping to sell it. The laundry folding took some time, as did the other messing around, so I wasn’t in a big hurry to load up the truck and head out by the time that was all done.<\/p>\n
All in all, I’m hoping for a productive weekend here. That’ll all be on me though, so while I’m hoping, I wouldn’t bet on me…<\/p>\n
Stacks made my truck problem into a minor issue that was easily resolved. Stacking up the propane bottles will be good for cooking, heat, or running a gennie. Stacks are good. Get you some!<\/p>\n
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Cooler days, but just days. Well, slightly cooler days, and slightly cooler nights. We did almost have rain yesterday. The clouds were there, and in parts of town, a little mist hit my windshield, but no actual rain fell on me.<\/p>\n
After a dump run and a stop to fill up three propane bottles, I did my pickups and decided to return home rather than head to the BOL. I looked at my list and decided to keep working on the stuff here,<\/p>\n