I drove over two hours to see Dar Williams in an old opera house in VT. Apparently the fastest way to get there from Portsmouth was an hour plus of winding backroads through NH. Fun at 4pm in the daytime. Less so at 11pm. Light traffic, tho. Bought her song writing book and she signed it after the show.
Today... chores and usual YouTube videos in the hotel room. Two more weeks until I go home for a weekend...
Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) said:Today is day 14 of being sick for me and it has really lingered in my lungs. So I went out on a bike ride in the boonies and I coughed and I spit and I pumped all of the crud out of my lungs. I died twice and got dizzy several times but feel so much better afterwards. I can finally breathe easy for the first time in weeks.
I am now 9 days with symptoms 6days since testing positive. I am beginning to think I may need to do something similar. Get out and get a little exercise and just hack up and clean things out. I have felt basically fine since Thursday. Except for the crap in my chest.
Oh and a quick note on the testing positive on this round. Everyone in my house ended up getting the bug. This variant seems to take 2-4 days from initial symptoms to testing positive. The up side is that while being sick at all sucks this round is not nearly as bad as the last time I got it.
As for the weekend I got the sorting of stuff done rather fast. Everything in a package got labeled and put away and all the one off stuff was added to the ever growing nut and bolt bin.
Watched some of the Bathurst 12 hour yesterday.
I spent a long time looking at bidirectional scan tools versus just getting a Merc Star one. This caused more questions than answers.
I then spent an hour looking for the thread I started here on GRM about the Star system and bidirectional scanners. Someone posted a solution that was way cheeper and better that I purchased the hardware pieces to do it but my laptop was dead at the time so I never downloaded the software recommended. I now have a new laptop but I need the software that was posted in the thread. I will be doing more searching today for that.
May go to the range. I got a new pew pew two weeks back that I would like to get the feel of.
There is also food shopping that needs doing. I may try that on line to try and keep the bug contained. Or there is a market that is open late that I may hit up Monday night late as the place is usually empty late at night.
Anyway happy weekend everyone.
dean1484 said:Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) said:Today is day 14 of being sick for me and it has really lingered in my lungs. So I went out on a bike ride in the boonies and I coughed and I spit and I pumped all of the crud out of my lungs. I died twice and got dizzy several times but feel so much better afterwards. I can finally breathe easy for the first time in weeks.
I am now 9 days with symptoms 6days since testing positive. I am beginning to think I may need to do something similar. Get out and get a little exercise and just hack up and clean things out. I have felt basically fine since Thursday. Except for the crap in my chest.
I went out and rode again today. I went twice as far as I did yesterday with no real distress. A little more coughing but less than yesterday. I think I finally got most of it out. I'm no doctor but I believe heavy huffing and puffing and coughing is vital when you got an alarming amount of goop in your lung. Back when I was in paramedic school I had to do hospital intern hours and I remember we had to go into ICU and force patients to cough to hopefully stave off pneumonia.
I slept in this morning. All of it. Woke up at 12:09PM. Arc flash sunburn on forehead hurts like hell. 40F outside, gotta make that 7-mile run I skipped yesterday. 2 miles in, my head stopped sweating. Didn't drink enough water yesterday. Only got 5-1/4 miles in, but that's better than nothing. Heading to garage at 4PM.
Within a twelve-hour period from last night to this morning the polar vortex went out into the Atlantic and we had a beautiful day in the mid-forties today. I was able to work in the yard picking up debris from Friday night's heavy wind. Nice. Now relaxing at home in front of the fire with a Belgian Ale:
And Italian wine (which is only mezza mezza at best, perhaps somewhat worse):
Weekend is here. Thinking I am going to lay low and try and put the last vestiges of the Covid behind me.
Restoring some wheels for my truck.
Just returned from a tech session with the local British car club which I belong to. The objective was to separate the hub on a rear axle of a Spitfire using a home-made tool. (Axle assembly out of car). Even with the original heavy-duty factory Churchill tool it's a difficult job. The home-made tool failed. We resorted to the hydraulic press and were finally successful.
This is the expensive factory tool, which we don't have:
The home-made tool (no pic) was much flimsier and was doomed to failure from the start. But we all had a lot of fun with the destructive testing! 
Playing with a new toy with the grandkids.
Took the NYN family to the regional Lego League competition. The older one and his team took first place (out of 25 teams) and the younger one was such a supportive little brother it made my heart melt a little. Bonus is Mrs NYN was the coach, a lot of hard work for 8 months, it was really nice to watch them all succeed.
Annie and I are back in Palm Springs for a few weeks. I'm posting this because it's close enough to our first weekend here. We went to the Art Museum this evening. This iconic statue is on permanent display on Museum Way:
(BTW, it's never supposed to rain in California, especially the desert ... except for whenever we're here).
I generally stick to riding trials events but this is a trail ride which is planned around trials bikes - yee ha, Moto-X and Enduro bikes need not apply 
Pics from previous events ...
Down in the forest something stirred
Hill is steeper (and much slipperier) than it looks ... It's about 5 kms long and called "Gearbox" because, according to legend, most Land Rovers will starve the input bearing of oil before they get to the top.
Saturday and Sunday me and my Star Wars friends will be there, including a bunch of hand-made droids by a member. Like movie quality R2D2 and possibly his wearable C3PO costume. Wilmington OH. https://www.daytonoffroadexpo.com/
Day one of the McCormick auction in Palm Springs. A lot of great mid-century Detroit iron, but diversity as well. Here are just a few things that caught my attention:
'62 Bubble Top Chevy with a 409.
'59 Bugeye Sprite
'54 Big Healey
The cars above haven't had their chance on stage yet, but this '69 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow sold today for $7,250. The McCormick auction is definitely a buyer's market, unlike some of the other major high-end auctions. That's why I like McCormick so much. Auctions should be for the buyer in my opinion.
That car would be a cheap way to start a wedding car business if the buyer was so inclined. Me? At that price, I wouldn't care about keeping it original. I'd do an LS swap with headers and loud exhaust and enter it in an uppity British car show for fun.
Playing a 3-hour gig tonight with my classic rock/blues band at the Ouray, CO Elks lodge's Mardi Gras party, complete with gumbo and crawfish boil prepared by members who are Cajuns. Should be a good time.
In reply to Gary :
That Impala 409 should sell reasonably. Right.
Starting to work on something old.
In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :
looks interesting, I presume you know what it does but it's not leaping off the screen at me
R
RichardNZ said:In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :
looks interesting, I presume you know what it does but it's not leaping off the screen at me
R
It's an engine made by the Maytag company between 1927 and 1937. It originally powered a clothes washing machine.
Making bad life choices
I sooooooo wish I had gotten a C3 instead of the C4 I got.
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