I want this. It has street rod written all over it. SBC crate engine, 5-speed manual, stake bed.....
Anybody else think the President could have appointed Solomon for SCOTUS and still been opposed by the Dems? It's pretty much a giveaway when they announce their total opposition before he's announced his pick. Even the pretense of integrity is gone.
Yesterday afternoon I backed out the "high speed jet adjustment" on the new carb to see if it would eliminate Sally's slight hesitation at speed.
Note: I've never heard of a carb with an adjustable jet. Usually you have to open up the carb and put a larger/smaller jet in. So I wasn't sure how to set this one when I did the installation.
Oh my. Sally has a little kick in her pants!
I backed out the adjustment a whole bunch. Now I'll start turning it back in a bit at a time until the problem reappears, then out half a turn.
If you're a regular here you know that about three months ago at our pastor's impetus we had a worship service in which the music was all classic hymns and instead of our normal good worship band it was just a keyboard on a piano setting.
It was a good idea with lots of potential but the execution was off. The keyboard player was a younger guy who isn't familiar with the kind of keyboard accompaniment that backs up hymns. (He used a lot of right hand embellishment.)
Lewis (Lew) our music pastor and all-around good guy decided at Brett's encouragement to give it another try with some adjustments. Also at Brett's suggestion Lew asked if I would help them make sure it was "classic" in both hymn selection and execution.
Hymns are traditionally sung in a style quite different from contemporary Christian music, including phrasing, which is largely absent from CCM.
Sure, I'll help if I can. So I suggested Lew and I have a conversation about some of the differences, like getting from one verse to the next. That was set up for 2:00 yesterday.
Lew called me about 8:00 yesterday morning to tell me he was going to be out of town on the 29th and was wondering, after hearing Brett's suggestion, if I would be willing to lead that service in his absence. (Anybody else seeing a "Brett" theme here??)
I asked if I could give him an answer when we met, mostly so I could ask Pam and do whatever she told me I should.
So....I'm leading worship on the 29th. No, I am not comfortable with this assignment but that's not the bottom line.
We'll have a different keyboard player. I know Gustavo well (in the small world dept. he's originally from Belen, Costa Rica where I was on my teaching trip) and he "gets" hymn accompaniment, so I'm confident that part of it will go much better. My concern is the doofus who's in over his head as the leader.
Coming soon to a Starbucks near you: adult Sippy Cups.
I bought a rear view camera on Amazon for $32 to put in the Blazer. With the rear hatch it's hard to see when backing up and I figure it will make hooking up the trailers much easier.
Easier than getting this thing installed! The directions are translated from Chinese by someone who should have used Google Translator. The diagrams are worse, combining bad translation with poorly drawn wiring diagrams.
I eventually figured out which wires need to go where and got the camera hooked up. The display also has to be connected to a power source and that's proving to be a challenge. In a car as old as Sally you find a wire under the dash that carries constant power and splice into it. With modern vehicles they hide all those wires behind plastic panels and run them through complex connectors that make it impossible to figure out which wire goes where and does what.
I got the camera wired in and will tackle the monitor connections tomorrow.
Marta emailed me the final report from Eclair's necropsy. Except that it's written in medicalese and we can't make any sense out of it. Marta is going to call the guy tomorrow and try to get an explanation that make sense to us, then let me know. Mostly I want to know if I could have or should have done something differently.
The one thing I could get from the report is that a stretch of his small intestine was dead tissue before his death.
Isn't "free gratis" redundant?
Related: I dislike the word impactful. It sounds made up.
Highs in the mid-90's Thursday. I'm trying to talk Pam into going to Florence an hour away on the coast where it will be in the mid-70's. Picnic lunch on the beach, a visit to the lighthouse....
Sounds better than sweating in MoHo.
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