Whose keyboard app are you using? I'm using GBoard. It's got the gesture typing and the guessing. Gesture typing is where you put a finger on the keyboard and swipe it around to the letters of the words, no tapping. It guesses by the shape of your squiggle. I honestly thought I'd hate it, but after a few sessions it became second nature. And if kicks tapping the keyboard's ***.
Gerry, that Williams system had lots of adjustment points to provide a kind of "linked braking" like you describe.
Thanks Kay. All I have is the default keyboard. Looks like there's another rabbit to chase.
Zim, I'm not ready to give up (and Liane won't let me).
When I was 20, I assembled a Bird solid frame Mini Bike (scrub rear brake) with a Mac 9 go cart motor sourced from a guy that Dad worked with.. bad idea, John was a semi pro racer and the Mac 9 wasn't stock. We later calculated it was good for about 85 mph, power band was narrow, as 2 strikes will be, and came on at about 40 mph w/resulting wheelie. Messing around in my yard, I went over a set of whoops.... my back was the victim, probably one of the reasons for the back surgery this year.
They're easier to catch when they are frozen.
Bob knows....I know that's English but I'll be damned if I understand it.
He's talking about snakes, specifically Rattlesnake and Anaconda/Pythons. It's that hillbilly/redneck talk brother!I know that's English but I'll be damned if I understand it.
Gerry, as a *** Laude graduate of The Institute for the Crippled & Disabled, I understand the foolish stunts in our youth come back to bite us.
@Squankum, I was scheduled to visit the Lymphedema Therapy Specialists on Tuesday but they failed to mention I would need a prescription. Now that they have one, I hope to visit again on Monday. From there the shrink wrap/heat gun or ***** blowup leggings will be possible treatments.
Justin, until now I wasn't concerned about the "Therapy" part of my Monday appointment. Could be one of those places with the motto: "We upped our income, now up yours!"
Gerry, Liane wants my therapy to include Vaseline so I'm getting more concerned.
Hewey, most of the frozen iguanas falling dead out of the trees has been happening north of us. Our iguanas are just refrigerated and move real slow, making for easy pickins' for Jasmine.
Scott, you're right but then they take longer to cook.
Gerry, I didn't know about the pet name for our invasive Pythons. A quick Google revealed:
Dan, without Google I'd be lost.I know that's English but I'll be damned if I understand it.
Gerry, so far we haven't had any 'big squeezies' in our yard and I hope that continues.
It's cause when you reach down to pick one up, you say nope, nope, nope.I know that's English but I'll be damned if I understand it.
I ran over one a few years ago with the lawnmower. It stalled a 23hp mower, dead. I imagine it was an escapee from the local pothead's terrarium.
I'd agree with that. The fact that dino (conventional) oil prices are becoming much closer to synthetic oil prices. But I still think of my Dad (bless his heart) that still believed that he was going to put in conventional oil into an oil change into a customer's car, just because that's what the car manufacturers recommended... It took Dad many years to think otherwise. Haha. I don't think he ever did use synthetic. But Dad went from us in 2006... Many changes (progress) in oil have happened since.Many people out there can't afford the nicer anything, and I keep seeing videos from professional repair shops of cars that didn't get regular oil changes and paid a price for it! Synthetic has slowly taken over in America, over many decades.
Just checked, conventional oil is around 53% of the market.
North America Automotive Engine Oils Market Forecasts to 2031
The North America Automotive Engine Oils Market size worth 2.79 billion Liters in 2026 is growing at a CAGR of -0.45% to reach 2.73 billion Liters by 2031. Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation, Shell plc, BP p.l.c. and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. are the major companies operating in this market.www.mordorintelligence.com
Yes it’s always interesting!!
Key, inside it's more like eek, eek, eek.
Kay, that's a big hunk of meat if it stalled a 23hp mower.
Roger, she took a first step last night. Our kids were hard to hold because of the amount of Vaseline applied to said butts.Your legs will be baby-**** soft. She's giving you a partial makeover.
Rick, I understand and agree with your Dad's logic.
@Squankum, I remember my '63 Triumph Herald barely turning over on a -30°F morning. Putting the car in first and releasing the clutch resulted in several stalls. A quarter mile of driving loosened everything up just fine.
Our daughter's oldest is a Garrett so I had to check that video out. No relation but it wouldn't have been a big surprise if it was him.
Thanks Sean!
Mike, with SWMBO's help I am on the mend. I start PT next week so we'll se how well we've done in anticipation.
Fred, I'm working on it and I'm spending a bit more time sitting upright in front of my panorama of screens. No visual evidence until they look a lot better.
Sean, I really enjoyed your thread but it hasn't been popping up on my list. I'm going to track it down in a minute.
Dennis, bro love back at you. I'm overwhelmed by all the attention and caring coming my way. It is greatly appreciated.Bob, just dropped in to send you some (manly) love. If internet karma is a thing, then you have a huge pile of it coming from all your fans right now. Glad to see you posting, and always wishing you the very best from the frigid North
Patrik, first of all, welcome back! I'm not sure where you left off but I'm guessing this thread was on a similar side-track.Here I stepped away for a while and now the subject of the thread have changed to Vaseline?
Glad to see you back writing, hopefully you soon are back entertaining yourself and us with your adventures around the house.
Thanks TJ, it's good to be here.
@Squankum, I still have a PT Cruiser because SWMBO loves it. It's not the best environment for physical therapy but good in small doses.
Nice wok Bob.Had my first PT session at Lymphedema Therapy Specialists. Because I have a pacemaker she couldn't "use the machine" on me. I've been doing the exercises at home so the swelling has gone down and my lower extremities are feeling much better. Second session this afternoon.
To celebrate the improvement in my health, I tackled a small job outside. One of the gates had a few boards that were falling apart and two of the three lower hinge lag bolts had rusted away, allowing the hinge to bend and making the gate hard to open and close. Removed the board over the hinge, removed the gate side of the hinge, straightened it in the garage vise and put it all back together with stainless bolts.
The board on the other side of the gate covering the hinge bolts needed a couple of pockets to accept the nuts protruding through the 2x4 frame. The board also needed a slight trim on the bottom so the Milwaukee M12 reciprocating saw came to the rescue.
The new boards really stand out so I spent a few minutes (OK, an hour plus) to pressure wash the gate and section of fence closest to the house. SWMBO doesn't want her dragon fruit farm disturbed so my cleaning ended sooner than it otherwise would have. Instead, I pressure washed the side of the house. This side faces north so it doesn't get sun so mold and mildew like to grow on it.
Looks like I have to grab the reciprocating saw again and trim that one board -- it barely touches the pavers but when the gate gets soaked with rain, it tends to sag a little so the touching will become scraping.
