How was your day

[oldbike54]

 Slightly jarring , watching Last of the Summer Wine on PBS , they show 2 episodes every night 11:00 PM -12:PM . The series jumped from the last one in 2010 to the first in 1973 , watching Cleggy go from 89 years of age back to 52 in 1 minute was kind of a shock 

 Dusty

[Muzz]

Well, it looks as our drought and high temps may be drawing to a close.  A drizzly day, and a trailer load of firewood to cut up with a drop saw, so instead spent it in the garage with three petrol powered implements that badly needed attention.

My 14" aborists saw (Oleomac) was running sweetly but needed some blade and chain attention; no problem to do that

My 56cc hedge trimmer that will go through a 27mm branch took a bit more, but cleaning out a few things and she's away.

I had had numerous goes at my 20" Echo chain saw, but failed each time.  This time I was under no pressure, eliminated things bit by bit and finally narrowed it down to the pumper carb.  I am sure all you guys can set them up in five minutes flat; me, well, I personally hate them.  Chain saw ran if I squirted fuel down the hole so it meant the diaphragm.  Checked that, no holes.  Needle and seat ok.  So, I bent the float arm.  Put it back together and she promptly flooded.  At least I was on the right track.   Bent it back, assembled and away she went, perfectly!!!!

I have no idea why the actuating arm would alter like it did,  <shrug>  and I assume the agents have a magic formula for them, but it seems I fluked it and fkukes count.   Wine o' clock, cooked tea and felt rather chuffed with myself.

Having a mate with a lifestyle block with lots of fallen trees and winter coming on it is good to have both chainsaws working.

[DougG]

Had to change my wi-fi password.  I've been spending the last four days re-introducing all my stuff to the new network...grrr.   Cameras, security system, Sonos, computers, NEST, printer, etc.  You never know what's on your wi-fi until you change something!!!  Huge PITA!

Be well,
DougG

[Lannis]

Had to change my wi-fi password.  I've been spending the last four days re-introducing all my stuff to the new network...grrr.   Cameras, security system, Sonos, computers, NEST, printer, etc.  You never know what's on your wi-fi until you change something!!!  Huge PITA!

Be well,
DougG

I'm sure it'll get easier as time goes by.   Once upon a time, it was a major PITA simply attaching a new printer to a computer - you had to download drivers, make sure you had the right connectors, etc.   Or in the old days of AT&T telephones - simply attaching a new phone, or moving one from your living room to bedroom, involved a technician with a truck and specialized tools - you weren't allowed to touch it.

I'm having to get into all that technology myself now, after years of just one landline, no cell phones, and one satellite system for Internet.  The landline is no longer a communication solution for me - the price has doubled (I'm paying $70 a month now, long distance not included) and the robocalls are making it unusable, even with a Callblocker trap installed.   

The satellite can't be used as a phone solution via VOIP because it goes dead every time a heavy cloud comes up in the southwest, although when it IS up, I get clean 20 Mbit/sec Internet.

Verizon is the only cell signal I have here, but the signal is very weak even though the tower is only 4 miles away as the photon flies.   I just bought a YAGI antenna to amplify it, to see if I can use the Verizon signal from the indoor amplifier to feed a hot-spot in a smart-phone (via the old Samsung S3 phone that charlie b sent me a couple years back) to provide an Internet link, and also use the cell signal for a home phone system.  Not having any luck so far.

Problem is that NONE of the people at the two local Verizon stores know ANYTHING about Verizon "LTE Internet" as advertised on-line, nor have they heard anything about connecting a cell signal up to the home phone wiring, even though I know that people are doing it.   AT&T has those solutions for sale, but there is ZERO AT&T signal here according to the nice lady who came out to survey it.

So I'm having to do the research myself, and it's slow going.   I'll probably be better off in the end, though, and I will know 200% more than any of the 20 pierced and tattooed teenagers "working" in the local Verizon stores ....

Lannis

[MGrego]

I'm sure it'll get easier as time goes by.   Once upon a time, it was a major PITA simply attaching a new printer to a computer - you had to download drivers, make sure you had the right connectors, etc.   Or in the old days of AT&T telephones - simply attaching a new phone, or moving one from your living room to bedroom, involved a technician with a truck and specialized tools - you weren't allowed to touch it.

I'm having to get into all that technology myself now, after years of just one landline, no cell phones, and one satellite system for Internet.  The landline is no longer a communication solution for me - the price has doubled (I'm paying $70 a month now, long distance not included) and the robocalls are making it unusable, even with a Callblocker trap installed.   

The satellite can't be used as a phone solution via VOIP because it goes dead every time a heavy cloud comes up in the southwest, although when it IS up, I get clean 20 Mbit/sec Internet.

Verizon is the only cell signal I have here, but the signal is very weak even though the tower is only 4 miles away as the photon flies.   I just bought a YAGI antenna to amplify it, to see if I can use the Verizon signal from the indoor amplifier to feed a hot-spot in a smart-phone (via the old Samsung S3 phone that charlie b sent me a couple years back) to provide an Internet link, and also use the cell signal for a home phone system.  Not having any luck so far.

Problem is that NONE of the people at the two local Verizon stores know ANYTHING about Verizon "LTE Internet" as advertised on-line, nor have they heard anything about connecting a cell signal up to the home phone wiring, even though I know that people are doing it.   AT&T has those solutions for sale, but there is ZERO AT&T signal here according to the nice lady who came out to survey it.

So I'm having to do the research myself, and it's slow going.   I'll probably be better off in the end, though, and I will know 200% more than any of the 20 pierced and tattooed teenagers "working" in the local Verizon stores ....

Lannis

Here's an option :

I too, have very weak cell signal at my house.  However, I do have decent internet via a fiber optic connection from the telephone company.  My cell phone has a feature called "wifi calling".  Now I can make calls in my house and out in the yard using the wifi feature.  Its just like a regular telephone call.  I was able to get rid of the cell signal amplifier that never worked that great anyway, (and the tin hat we always joked about having to wear to get a cell signal....)

[Lannis]

Here's an option :

I too, have very weak cell signal at my house.  However, I do have decent internet via a fiber optic connection from the telephone company.  My cell phone has a feature called "wifi calling".  Now I can make calls in my house and out in the yard using the wifi feature.  Its just like a regular telephone call.  I was able to get rid of the cell signal amplifier that never worked that great anyway, (and the tin hat we always joked about having to wear to get a cell signal....)

Thanks!  But there's no cable, DSL, fiber, or anything here.   Any signal comes in over the airwaves, either satellite or cell ....

Lannis

[nick949]

Brilliant!!  My niece Leonie Adams played cello with the Dionysus Ensemble at 'A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day' for the Queen, at Westminster Abbey.

click the thumbnails for some screen captures:







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The whole service is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7LGafVZ38

Nick

[larrys]

Here's an option :

I too, have very weak cell signal at my house.  However, I do have decent internet via a fiber optic connection from the telephone company.  My cell phone has a feature called "wifi calling".  Now I can make calls in my house and out in the yard using the wifi feature.  Its just like a regular telephone call.  I was able to get rid of the cell signal amplifier that never worked that great anyway, (and the tin hat we always joked about having to wear to get a cell signal....)

Me,too. Had the "Microcell Tower" in the office. Every time the electrical power burped it would quit, and had to be reset. 28 year old daughter showed me how to change the cell phones to WIFI calling. Happy!
Larry

[DougG]

Yea Dave, I get it.  However, here's a thought...what if every electronic devise you bought, came with a 14 year old to set it up?  Then you bring the kid right back to the store.  Don't want one of those pesky things hanging around the house very long.  Been there, done that...

[oldbike54]

Brilliant!!  My niece Leonie Adams played cello with the Dionysus Ensemble at 'A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day' for the Queen, at Westminster Abbey.

click the thumbnails for some screen captures:







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The whole service is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7LGafVZ38

Nick

 How cool is that ?

 Dusty

[PJPR01]

Lannis...check out Vonage...I cut my landline about 7 years ago and went with Vonage just to have a backup line over my cell phone.  Monthly cost is about $15...unlimited calling to North America (US, Canada and Mexico).

Also Skype is your friend...can work on a cell phone too with home WIFI if you decide to get a cell phone as a backup.

No reason to pay $70 a month these days for a landline anymore..

[Lannis]

Lannis...check out Vonage...I cut my landline about 7 years ago and went with Vonage just to have a backup line over my cell phone.  Monthly cost is about $15...unlimited calling to North America (US, Canada and Mexico).

Also Skype is your friend...can work on a cell phone too with home WIFI if you decide to get a cell phone as a backup.

No reason to pay $70 a month these days for a landline anymore..

My problem is that VOIP like Vonage won't work for me because I don't have IP.

Skype neither.

My goal is to bring Internet service and Telephone service into my house via a Cell Phone Signal, Verizon to be specific since a tiny wavering Verizon cell signal is all I have.   

I want to get rid of my Land Line and my Satellite service ($160 month together and Satellite doesn't work if there's a cloud over it). 

After sifting through everything I can find, I would hope that I can:

1) Amplify my Verizon cell signal with an outside antenna so that I can have a medium-strength cell signal inside the house, and use that for telephony.   Ideally, I could convert that signal to something I could feed onto my house telephone wiring, and use fixed phones.

ALSO

2) Amplify my Verizon cell signal with an outside antenna (maybe the same one above or maybe a separate one) that will feed a device (similar to a Hot Spot), that will generate a WiFi signal that I can feed to a router and have Internet service throughout the house (like I have now from the Satellite that I want to get rid of because it's expensive and intermittent).

All of these solutions exist, but either they don't exist for Verizon (they DO for AT&T) or nobody knows about where to buy them and how to sign up for the data contract.

If I had a WiFi signal and a strong cell signal already, I would have done away with the land-line years ago ....

Lannis

[Chuck in Indiana]

Good, Dusty.. thanks for asking.  Rode the AeroLario today for the first ride of the season. It was good for me..

[Testarossa]

Raining steadily here for two weeks. Good news: It's snowing like crazy in the mountains so no sun but the best skiing in years. Also, the rain has washed the snowbanks away from my barn doors so as soon as the sun comes out I can ride the bikes.

Meanwhile my kid stars in a promotional video for the IKON ski pass.

https://www.ikonpass.com/en/my-ikon/girls?utm_source=IBM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IK_WIN-BRD-19_MyIkonMyGirlsPassholderProspects%27MID_EML_BLN%20(1)&utm_content=HeroVideo&&spMailingID=3056845&spUserID=NTgxMzY4MjUxNjAS1&spJobID=740347254&spReportId=NzQwMzQ3MjU0S0

[Guzzistajohn]

It SUCKED! day 5 of a chest cold w/intermittent fever. Makes me peevish! What I wouldn't give to be sitting on a rocky Ozark Mtn. hillside in the sun like a big lizard I'd pay like a hollyweird actress with a semi retard college kid.

[Gliderjohn]

Ya, that sucks. Get better.
GliderJohn

[JC85]

Interesting, and a bit stressful. Today, my company announced that there's currently a shortage of materials for the elements that we build, so it may be two to three months, before we're able to get started on the next big job. This resulted in a roughly 20% layoff. No two week notice to prepare, which isn't required by contract, but has always been standard policy in the past. Not even the Foremen knew, until HR came out with the slips. On the bright side, I slipped by on this one, since they went by production and rejection numbers. If there's another round, however, it will go by seniority, and I'll most likely be on the chopping block. Such is the life of a blue collar tradesman.

[tris]

That sucks JC

Like you I've ducked the punch when the guy the other side of the desk from me went and I didn't and been kicked out the door (5 times) during my working career - it's never fun

With the stupidity going on in my country at the moment I wouldn't be hugely surprised if I found myself in a similar position again before long

Good luck though

[JC85]

That sucks JC

Like you I've ducked the punch when the guy the other side of the desk from me went and I didn't and been kicked out the door (5 times) during my working career - it's never fun

With the stupidity going on in my country at the moment I would be hugely surprised if I found myself in a similar position again before long

Good luck though

Thanks Tris. Luckily, I've got enough put away that, between savings and what I'll get on unemployment, I should be able to ride it out for at least 3 or 4 months, should I get laid off.

[Muzz]

Up until 3pm my day was good.

After that it sucked.

[JC85]

Up until 3pm my day was good.

After that it sucked.

Why so sucky? 3:30 was great for me, because that's when I got off of work and went for my second ride of the season.

[Muzz]

Why so sucky? 3:30 was great for me, because that's when I got off of work and went for my second ride of the season.

Lockdown in the supermarket for three hours listening to sirens and choppers flying overhead, with patchy news feeds from cell phones while madmen shot people up. Sucks big time.

[JC85]

Lockdown in the supermarket for three hours listening to sirens and choppers flying overhead, with patchy news feeds from cell phones while madmen shot people up. Sucks big time.

Ohhh, wow. I just noticed your location. Horrible crap, man. Hope you and all of yours are ok.

[Muzz]

Ohhh, damn. I just noticed your location. Horrible crap, man. Hope you and all of yours are ok.

All good thanks.  Both we and my son's business are only a few hundred metres from scenes of action.  Too close for comfort.  The Islamic community is reeling.

[Testarossa]

After weeks and weeks of steady snow in the mountains and rain here in the valley, the last three days have been bluebird.

So short charge-up and air in the tires, petcocks on to refill the float bowls, and on the road. I fired up the F650 first (better to handle copious sand and gravel on the roads), then, today, the Mille, and did 20-mile hot-up-the-oil runs. Both bikes fired right up and ran smoothly. There's a lot to be said for simple winter storage precautions!

Back to skiing for the rest of spring break and then I'll wash the winter dust off and riding season begins in earnest in late April. Triumph is ready to go and the T still awaits reassembly.

[Dharma Bum]

Took a short ride up Highway 24 to scrub in my new tires before the afternoon rain. Stopped in M

anitou Springs to check pressures. All good, spring is on the way.

[Toecutter]

Spent the day on the ice, caught our limit in Jack & Walleye. Ate like kings for dinner.

[Chuck in Indiana]

Spent the day on the ice, caught our limit in Jack & Walleye. Ate like kings for dinner.

Oh, man.. fresh walleye. 

[Chuck in Indiana]

Good, Dusty.. thanks for asking.  Spent some time fixing a 4" gouge in my NOS (supposedly) Ebay Lario side covers.  Somehow, it didn't show up in the pictures.. 
Fill with paint with my pin striping brush, sand it down, repeat. Put the last coat on this afternoon. I hope..
2019-03-26_03-40-10 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr

[TOMB]

Not Sick after 2 weeks.
Bike is ready for a Sunday ride.
TOMB