Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT Bob Heine's Auto Emporium

[Bob Heine]

I finished digging the trenches and glued up the sprinklers. Feeling confident, I back-filled the trenches and put the concrete squares back (after soaking the soil. I'll give it some time because the squares are not even with the adjacent rows yet. I'll flood the patio a couple of times to see if that helps. I didn't take pictures because it doesn't look like anything was done.

Last week the 30-year-old fan in the bathroom took quite a while to start. It's the builder's cheap model but with a bladed fan rather than a squirrel cage so it's noisy. I decided it was time to replace it (it's in the 70s so I can venture into the attic). I might have held off for another 30 years had I realized where the fan was located. It's connected to that flex pipe and the path to get to it is under the air conditioner air handler.

When I first tried to get to it, my knees gave notice they weren't happy with the 2x4 pad. Went to the workshop and found a 25-inch 1" x 14" shelf and screwed it into the rafters. Still not a comfortable position but laying on my chest was only annoying. The fan came out with two screws and some foil tape on the duct. Those Harbor Freight LED lights are real handy!

I measured the old fan box before ordering a new one and chose one the same size. In that size the fans are rated at 50cfm. Because our house is always either heated or cooled, the humidity never gets real high and we've never had the mirrors fog up even after a long shower. It's just the two of us so bathroom fumes taking more than a few seconds to clear is covered in article 18 of our marriage contract. To me, a box that doesn't require a new opening is a good deal.

In my haste to get the new fan installed, I bent all four tabs on the box. I was forgetting the side with the mounting flange couldn't fit that way -- easy-peasy unbending in the attic. I thought I was on the home stretch hooking up the wires and putting the cover back in place. Turns out the nut on the Romex clamp interferes with the opening so I can't get the cover installed. Disconnect the wires, go to the workshop and grind the nubs off the nut. That worked! Re-connect the wires, stuff everything inside and mount the box -- all while laying face down a few inches above the dust that passes for insulation.

What I thought would take an hour at most was well into the second hour and the attic was getting warmer. I managed to get the box screwed to the truss -- not perfectly but I was no longer in the mood to re-do it. Also managed to tape the adapter to the flexible duct using foil tape. Ducts turn out to be the one place you never use Duct tape. Pushed all the cellulose/dust insulation back in place and crawled out. Without even testing the fan, I unscrewed the shelving and placed it in its new home in the attic. It's the perfect work platform for the attic trusses and I'm sure I would use it for a project if left in the workshop.

Back in the bathroom, I plugged the fan in, re-installed the mounting screws and turned the circuit breaker back on. This Delta fan is much quieter than the one it replaced. Supposedly it has a noise level of 1.0 sones and therefore needs a light to tell you it's running. It ain't THAT quiet but Liane is happy.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Well done Bob

I have to be careful crawling through our roof space now I have to use knee pads..

 

[BBChevro]

I feel your pain Bob, I've been doing a bit of crawling around in our eaves recently.
I think I lost some weight on Sunday, running cables in our "sauna"...


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[BBChevro]

I don't know why that photo is sideways (the right side should be the bottom).

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[BBChevro]

Well done Bob[emoji106]

I have to be careful crawling through our roof space now I have to use knee pads..

That's not a bad idea Steve - I've actually got some knee pads, I just never remember to use them. [emoji106]

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[driftpin]

Another good repair Bob. In my first house here in so. FL I installed a bathroom combo light, exhaust/heater where there was just a jalousie window before in the bathroom. The walls/ceiling were real plaster, when I was re-working the ceiling, I saw the horsehair used in the mix. The house would be 100 years old, next-decade, if it still existed. I paid-it-off and tore it down, it needed too-much work to stay.

I like the HFT new-style LED portable lights, they are very bright! I keep those HFT portable lights all-over the house, on the bedstands, one in the living room, one on the branch circuit panel (continuous magnet-testing). I just got another, it hangs on the side of one of my toolboxes, along with my magnetic parts trays collection, in close-proximity to my magnetic toolbar collection (toolbox lid). The way I accumulate them and store them, I suspect they may be breeding, as it appears I have more HFT free gifts than I actually obtained. The drawers where I keep the HFT free combination screwdrivers and the tape measures are also apparently multiplying.

 

[jimreed2160]

Great project, Bob. Both of my fans went kaput a few years ago and I thought it would be an easy project. But nope. They were in a tiny space under the eaves that I could barely see, much less access myself. In addition, the builder just vented them to the attic space.

So after the electricians drilled a hole in the roof and sent in the small intern, life was good. Permanent marriages require his and her bathrooms where mine is outfitted with an industrial strength fan to exhaust all of the ozone depleting noxious gasses.

 

[rmalkow2]

Bob,
You mentioned using a project list. Great tool. I just started one myself after taking the que from Strouty. Maybe it's contagious like Flat Surface Disease that we all seem to have.
Anyway, whether you use your notebook, excel or slate and chalk it's a good idea I've once again re-discovered. Helps keep me focused on priorities and is strangely rewarding to cross off a completed task.
You sure get a lot done. Great work.

Bob

 

[Toothaker]

Bob, my bathroom fans can be removed with a flat blade screwdriver. There's an outer shell that's nailed or otherwise affixed to the ceiling, and the guts come out with a little persuasion. If your fan has a little outlet and plugin from the fan to the case, yours is the same.

I take mine down every few years and clean it up with compressed air. If they ever die completely, I'll go down the the big box lumber yard and buy another and take the guts out and put it into my fan.

My knees sound like they are doing better than yours, and I think I know why.

 

[oldironfarmer]

I always hate working in the attic. Hat's off to you!

That project has me exhausted just watching.

 

[drivesitfar]

Bob: i've owned a home the past 31+ years that doesn't have an attic. also almost every interior wall is made of cement block cause one of the past owners was a mason and he added a room to a 1 bedroom house everytime he had time and money. SO running wires and anything has always been a challenge for me.

now you climbing up ladders and crawling in your attic knowing that you only have one hand is nothing short of AMAZING. not to mention your stories of putting a strap around your neck so you could handle a 2 handled wheelbarrow.

AGAIN YOU ARE THE MAN!!

keep up the great work and nice job on the sprinklers too.

 

[cbacres]

Bob, you measured before ordering? Where's you're sense of adventure?

I'll need to upgrade our fan too, makes more noise than it moves air and I must not of had as good of representation in the article 18 area.

 

[xtremek]

There's a job I don't want. Nope, don't want it. You're a better man than I Gunga Din.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Bob glad to see you are back down through the rabbit hole! There's always something that has to be rerun on the jobs that require crawling. Makes you feel like a squirrel. Did the mirror fog up when you filled the tub with all the hot water it took to allow you to be able to move your limbs again; once they seized up a few hours after you got back on your feet?

 

[Bob Heine]

Well done Bob

I have to be careful crawling through our roof space now I have to use knee pads..

Steve, I hear you! I had knee pads at one time but they fell apart. I searched on-line and it appears they start at $10 and go up quickly. As attractive as the $119.00 pads looked, that was too painful for my **** pad (wallet). Harbor Freight to the rescue with several $3.99 models available. Like my ear protectors, a pair in the garage and another in the workshop should do it.

I feel your pain Bob, I've been doing a bit of crawling around in our eaves recently.
I think I lost some weight on Sunday, running cables in our "sauna"...


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I don't know why that photo is sideways (the right side should be the bottom).

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That's not a bad idea Steve - I've actually got some knee pads, I just never remember to use them. [emoji106]

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Mark, I waited for winter to go up there so the puddle I left behind was fairly small. I suspect you left quite the stain on the ceiling below the spot you were working.

I don't understand what's going on with personal computers these days. I edit and size a photo and store it in the proper orientation and when I go back to post it, the photo is turned. It's annoying but I don't know where to *****-slap the machine to fix it (I just rotate it back at posting time).

As I was sucking up some of that 30-year old dust, I realized I forgot the dust mask that hangs on the air compressor. They do last a lot longer if you don't use them.

Another good repair Bob. In my first house here in so. FL I installed a bathroom combo light, exhaust/heater where there was just a jalousie window before in the bathroom. The walls/ceiling were real plaster, when I was re-working the ceiling, I saw the horsehair used in the mix. The house would be 100 years old, next-decade, if it still existed. I paid-it-off and tore it down, it needed too-much work to stay.

I like the HFT new-style LED portable lights, they are very bright! I keep those HFT portable lights all-over the house, on the bedstands, one in the living room, one on the branch circuit panel (continuous magnet-testing). I just got another, it hangs on the side of one of my toolboxes, along with my magnetic parts trays collection, in close-proximity to my magnetic toolbar collection (toolbox lid). The way I accumulate them and store them, I suspect they may be breeding, as it appears I have more HFT free gifts than I actually obtained. The drawers where I keep the HFT free combination screwdrivers and the tape measures are also apparently multiplying.

Philip, our previous home had blue-board and plaster but the only hair in it was mine when I tried patching it. Turns out I'm capable of sticking wall paper to the ceiling but not plaster. Long before the internet I ripped out the closet next to the front entry and put blue-board up on the wall and ceiling. How hard could it be to slap up a little plaster? Close to impossible for me! After I replaced the blue-board a second time I looked in the Yellow Pages and called a company that doesn't do little jobs. They gave me the name of a retired former employee who came out and put up a scratch coat in less than an hour. I had plastic sheeting on the floor and it was spotless when he left. Came back the next day and put the finish coat on. Only the sand finish on the old ceiling hinted at the repair. A coat of latex with sand in it and the job was perfect. When he told me $70 (that included the plaster) I refused to pay -- unless he took $100. I couldn't believe a 70-year-old could work that fast (I was in my 30s).

I tried putting HF LED lights around the house but the decorator put them out of sight. Turns out they also were stored out of mind because neither I nor my partner in crime could remember where they were hidden when the lights went out. I keep the flashlight in the garage on permanently mounted clips and the HF LEDs stuck to the real steel HF tool chest (they won't stick to stainless).

Great project, Bob. Both of my fans went kaput a few years ago and I thought it would be an easy project. But nope. They were in a tiny space under the eaves that I could barely see, much less access myself. In addition, the builder just vented them to the attic space.

So after the electricians drilled a hole in the roof and sent in the small intern, life was good. Permanent marriages require his and her bathrooms where mine is outfitted with an industrial strength fan to exhaust all of the ozone depleting noxious gasses.

Jim, you are smarter than me. I forget that people still do that kind of work. In South Florida and especially in Boca Raton, the professionals won't look at a job for less than $1,000. The guys in the parking lot at Home Depot don't understand what I want done. By the time I finish showing what I want done, I've done 90% of the work and they expect to be paid for my three-hour explanation. I guess I need to learn to speak Spanish.

Bob,
You mentioned using a project list. Great tool. I just started one myself after taking the que from Strouty. Maybe it's contagious like Flat Surface Disease that we all seem to have.
Anyway, whether you use your notebook, excel or slate and chalk it's a good idea I've once again re-discovered. Helps keep me focused on priorities and is strangely rewarding to cross off a completed task.
You sure get a lot done. Great work.

Bob

Bob, when I got paid to do project management 20 years ago I bought Microsoft Project 98 and used that. When I retired, I continued using it for my projects at home. I still have the file for the '72 Corvette and other than the final tasks being scheduled for completion in 2009, it worked great. Maybe just some new markers for the white board.

Bob, my bathroom fans can be removed with a flat blade screwdriver. There's an outer shell that's nailed or otherwise affixed to the ceiling, and the guts come out with a little persuasion. If your fan has a little outlet and plugin from the fan to the case, yours is the same.

I take mine down every few years and clean it up with compressed air. If they ever die completely, I'll go down the the big box lumber yard and buy another and take the guts out and put it into my fan.

My knees sound like they are doing better than yours, and I think I know why.

Mick, it sounds like you have the same exhaust fan. The Broan fan clips into the housing and there's a standard plug on the fan and a matching socket in the case so it can be removed and serviced.

It was mounted to the truss with two drywall screws and the housing was installed prior to ceiling texture (it was covered with the texture inside). You can see the straight fan blades and that's the problem with this fan, it was noisy. According to the factory stamping it's a 2 Sone 50 cfm fan in a D Housing. No way was I going to buy a replacement fan louder than that. I also would prefer the new fan to fit in a D Housing.

According to all the experts the exhaust fan should be able to move all the air in the room 8 times per hour. Our master bath is about 9'x9' with an 8' ceiling. That's 648 cubic feet so 8 times per hour is 5,184 cubic feet per hour. Divided by 60 to get cubic feet per minute means we need an 86.4 cfm fan. The experts also suggest that bigger is better so I guess that means 100 cfm. Except our bathroom mirrors have never fogged and our walls have never had condensation. More importantly the shower has never had a mold or mildew problem (I squeegee it down after MY showers).

I could buy a new Broan for $21 and by design it would put out 6 Sones and 70 cfm from its "powerful centrifugal blower wheel" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00002N93C/?tag=atomicindus08-20). Then I would have to explain why the 747 in the bathroom was a good deal.

The Delta I bought has the same size galvanized housing as the Broan but with a plastic squirrel cage fan inside. The design puts out 1 Sone at 50 cfm so it seemed like a perfect replacement. It has one of those new-fangled polarized round-pin plugs so it can also be removed from the housing for cleaning and service (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C2N9CP2/?tag=atomicindus08-20).

You probably have the knees of a newborn baby. I wore out my knee pads and knees in our last house, installing 900 square feet of ceramic tile. My knees still work fine but they let me know when I abuse them.

I always hate working in the attic. Hat's off to you!

That project has me exhausted just watching.

Andy, I love working in the attic if it involves making storage space. Everything else, not so much. I'm thinking I need to wear a hat so I can take it off. When I visit your thread I often feel exhausted -- a nap attack is my retiree response.

Bob: i've owned a home the past 31+ years that doesn't have an attic. also almost every interior wall is made of cement block cause one of the past owners was a mason and he added a room to a 1 bedroom house everytime he had time and money. SO running wires and anything has always been a challenge for me.

now you climbing up ladders and crawling in your attic knowing that you only have one hand is nothing short of AMAZING. not to mention your stories of putting a strap around your neck so you could handle a 2 handled wheelbarrow.

AGAIN YOU ARE THE MAN!!

keep up the great work and nice job on the sprinklers too.

Drives, thank you for the kind words and I feel your pain. Our last house was CBS construction (Concrete Block on Slab) with wood framed plaster walls inside. I decided the garage needed to be cooled so I figured I'd cut a hole in the outer wall big enough for a window air conditioner. The block was easy to cut but the place where I wanted the A/C to go fell on one of the 8-inch thick reinforced concrete columns that connected to the top poured concrete beam. Only needed to remove a half-inch of the column but that took a whole day.

Think of my missing limb as a positive -- I can squeeze into smaller spaces. As for the strapped wheelbarrow, that ended up an epic fail. I was pouring a concrete slab next to the pool patio and chose to have the redi-mix delivered. I had two wheelbarrows and a helper so we could each fill up and run a wheelbarrow from the driveway to the back of the house. On my third trip, the strap shifted and i dumped the whole load on the lawn -- in the path we were using. I swore I'd never do that again and that's why I have the wagons now.

When you drive through a neighborhood in this part of Florida you can tell who repairs their own sprinklers and who doesn't. Brown circles in green lawns are a giveaway.

Bob, you measured before ordering? Where's you're sense of adventure?

I'll need to upgrade our fan too, makes more noise than it moves air and I must not of had as good of representation in the article 18 area.

Craig, my measuring was an accident. In the good old days I drove to the store and bought what looked good on the shelf. Now I search the Internet before I buy. Looking at all the different fans I noticed they were all different installed dimensions. That gave me the brilliant idea to measure and not buy something that was too big (or worse, too small). I don't hate doing drywall but am happy to avoid it when I can.

I assume your wife's poop doesn't smell. Liane doesn't fart (damn dog) but my local Home Depot evacuated the building based on a catastrophic gas leak once that may have been my fault.

There's a job I don't want. Nope, don't want it. You're a better man than I Gunga Din.

Kirk, I understand. I don't think poor decisions makes me a better man -- it mostly means more ER experience.

Bob glad to see you are back down through the rabbit hole! There's always something that has to be rerun on the jobs that require crawling. Makes you feel like a squirrel. Did the mirror fog up when you filled the tub with all the hot water it took to allow you to be able to move your limbs again; once they seized up a few hours after you got back on your feet?

Hi Bobby! As with every attic job I've ever done, this one involved multiple episodes of crawling forward all the way into position and then having to crawl backwards to get the tool I thought was in my back pocket (it was in the tool chest where it belonged).

I no longer use the tub to loosen up. Climbing out of the tub without slipping is becoming too much of a risk. I just hose myself down in the shower with hot, warm or cold water depending on the job. Summer visits to the attic involve cold showers after. Most of my muscle cramps seem to be related to dehydration and potassium loss. I'm finding a glass or two of V8 (low sodium) helps.

 

[oldironfarmer]

"I don't understand what's going on with personal computers these days. I edit and size a photo and store it in the proper orientation and when I go back to post it, the photo is turned. It's annoying but I don't know where to *****-slap the machine to fix it (I just rotate it back at posting time)."

I know nothing about computers but want to relate my experience. I take pictures with my phone and load them (is that upload or download?) into the computer for sizing. Sometime after I started on Garage Journal something changed. Now I find my pictures are random orientation in the computer but if I leave them alone and just resize them they almost always come out right on Garage Journal. It's just me, if I don't screw with it, it works.

Not being computer savvy I like to put all my pictures in folders where I can kick myself when I finally find them. I go by year to give myself a chance. But resizing them meant I had to scroll to the bottom of the list for the new pictures, last year that grew to 1,619 pictures so that was a struggle. I can no longer sort them in reverse order like the olden days of Windows 3.1 (which was good enough for me, by the way).

So my workaround is to transfer all new photos from the phone to an Upload folder where I resize them and have my way with them for Garage Journal. When I'm done posting they get moved to a permanent folder so my upload folder stays empty. This is how an emotionally challenged computer cripple does it.

Now somebody tell me the easy way.

 

[driftpin]

Bob said:
I assume your wife's poop doesn't smell. Liane doesn't fart (damn dog) but my local Home Depot evacuated the building based on a catastrophic gas leak once that may have been my fault.

We were at Home Depot shopping for wood blinds for the home. There was a sales person we snagged, and while waiting to sit-down, during the back & forth on the blinds displays, a SBD escaped (Silent But Deadly) due to a can of Bush's Baked Beans I had for lunch. Another customer passed us in the aisle. My wife recognized the situation, and discreetly attempted to provide separation for herself from the odor. I started to do the same.

The clerk told us, in her classic British accent, "Come-ovah heah, somebody fah-ted!" Man, it was all I could do, to not burst-out laughing! I sneaked a sideways glance at my wife, and saw her stifling a smile. We still use that line when appropriate, "somebody fah-ted!"

 

[BBChevro]

That all sounds like good advice Andy, I only discovered folders relatively recently (before that, I had to sift through thousands of pics to find the ones that I wanted).
I'll give your folder management tip a try, some of mine are getting large-ish.

I reposted same "crawl space pic" (that I posted sideways here in Bob's thread) in my thread - I could see that it wanted to go sideways there as well until I cropped it slightly (the cropped copy posted with the correct orientation).

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Bob, I've seen many a barrow load of concrete fail to reach it's destination - despite having a two-handed operator.
I applaud you Bob - surely that's something that you struggle with. [emoji1] [emoji106]

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[Toothaker]

"I don't understand what's going on with personal computers these days. I edit and size a photo and store it in the proper orientation and when I go back to post it, the photo is turned. It's annoying but I don't know where to *****-slap the machine to fix it (I just rotate it back at posting time)."

I know nothing about computers but want to relate my experience. I take pictures with my phone and load them (is that upload or download?) into the computer for sizing. Sometime after I started on Garage Journal something changed. Now I find my pictures are random orientation in the computer but if I leave them alone and just resize them they almost always come out right on Garage Journal. It's just me, if I don't screw with it, it works.

Not being computer savvy I like to put all my pictures in folders where I can kick myself when I finally find them. I go by year to give myself a chance. But resizing them meant I had to scroll to the bottom of the list for the new pictures, last year that grew to 1,619 pictures so that was a struggle. I can no longer sort them in reverse order like the olden days of Windows 3.1 (which was good enough for me, by the way).

So my workaround is to transfer all new photos from the phone to an Upload folder where I resize them and have my way with them for Garage Journal. When I'm done posting they get moved to a permanent folder so my upload folder stays empty. This is how an emotionally challenged computer cripple does it.

Now somebody tell me the easy way.

Andy, I know my way around a computer, and that's how I do it.

 

[drivesitfar]

BOB: funny you mention your ability to get into tight spaces cause i do have a cement floor under our framed in home's floor and about a 18 inch crawl space under most of my rooms. I had to make access through old foundations and walls or cut in access holes in some closets to get to it and it's been a while since I've been down there. I think the last time I was down there and i could crawl around I weighed 210 and it was tight and that was 15 years ago. one of my motivating goals is to get my weight under 210 to crawl under there so maybe I should just lose the weight and do it instead of having a good excuse not to crawl under my old house so i can finish up a few projects.

it's sure a good excuse though if my bride asks me to go under the house.

I had a bathroom fan that wasn't moving air out, but seemed like it was working and i couldn't figure out the problem. then my BIL stops by to help me with my new siding job and I mention that I need to maybe rip up my roof to install a new fan and we go up to take a look. he reached in and found an old hornets nest that was keeping the fan from working and he pulled it out with his bare hands and our fan works fine now.

sometimes I think i'm fairly handy and then something like this happens.

keep up the great work and I bet your lawn doesn't have any BROWN SPOTS cause you sir have SKILLS!!

 

[Guster]

Happy new year Bob!

Great to see you restoring the surrounds on those speakers. A good pair of bookshelf speakers are a great investment.

Have a similar LED light. I almost lost it recently when I accidentally left it in my sister-in-law's car engine bay. It was still there a week later. Luckily on a cool part of the engine. Though you wouldn't catch me crawling around in the ceiling crawl space over the last few days. Our home ventilation showed 78C in the roof yesterday!

 

[don long]

Just catching up on this page going from replacing fart fans to blowing up home depot to putting pictures in some sort of order so they can be refound

I agree with extremek, No way do I do that (to much girth) I don,t do home repair any longer cause I don't do it to the liking of SWMBO so I juist send my helper to her rescue.

Andy
All my projects have their own folder and I keep a work in progress folder full of unfinished projects

All the events we host have their own folders and are in by year folders so I can keep track of what happened when.

Bob you do amaze us all by your normalness.

 

[rubberrodder]

Bob,
Thanks for stopping by my little thread a while back. I started reading yours and am up to page 54. Great read and a wonderful, slightly twisted, sense of humor.
I pit crewed a compact/ mini stock with a friend for 4 years on the same night they ran figure 8 races. He and I came to the conclusion you had to be certifiably insane, or, lost body parts to qualify as track figure 8 champion. Our first year, the figure8 champ ended up in the state hospital for the mentally ill. Our second year, figure8 chap had lost his right leg below the knee in an accident. Our 3rd and 4th year, the champ had lost his right arm at age ten. He drove a floor shifted 4 speed car, shifting by reaching his left arm through the steering wheel and putting it in second gear. I guess after losing a limb and surviving, it does give you a certain sense of "fearless-ness" as well as a deeper appreciation of being alive.

 

[xtremek]

...........Bob you do amaze us all by your normalness.

Did you just call him "normal"? Are we talking the same Bob? With his mental state, I'd think it was more like "Abbynormal".

Bob, I just couldn't help myself. And it does take one to know one!

 

[Bob Heine]

"I don't understand what's going on with personal computers these days. I edit and size a photo and store it in the proper orientation and when I go back to post it, the photo is turned. It's annoying but I don't know where to *****-slap the machine to fix it (I just rotate it back at posting time)."

I know nothing about computers but want to relate my experience. I take pictures with my phone and load them (is that upload or download?) into the computer for sizing. Sometime after I started on Garage Journal something changed. Now I find my pictures are random orientation in the computer but if I leave them alone and just resize them they almost always come out right on Garage Journal. It's just me, if I don't screw with it, it works.

Not being computer savvy I like to put all my pictures in folders where I can kick myself when I finally find them. I go by year to give myself a chance. But resizing them meant I had to scroll to the bottom of the list for the new pictures, last year that grew to 1,619 pictures so that was a struggle. I can no longer sort them in reverse order like the olden days of Windows 3.1 (which was good enough for me, by the way).

I sometimes forget the name of the latest photos so I switch the Windows Explorer "View" to 'Details' and then click on 'Date modified'. If it's in ascending order, it switches to descending and vice versa.

So my workaround is to transfer all new photos from the phone to an Upload folder where I resize them and have my way with them for Garage Journal. When I'm done posting they get moved to a permanent folder so my upload folder stays empty. This is how an emotionally challenged computer cripple does it.

Now somebody tell me the easy way.

Andy, I'm a writer so I rarely choose the easy way. Your way sounds easier than mine. I'm going to spend a little time and try your method (without the phone). I pull the card out of the camera and plug it into the computer and then copy the photos to a camera-specific "Source" folder. I edit that copy and save it in the appropriate GJ folder. I have used the "By Year" approach but it just proves time is moving faster and my memory is moving slower (everything happened "Last Year."

Bob said:
I assume your wife's poop doesn't smell. Liane doesn't fart (damn dog) but my local Home Depot evacuated the building based on a catastrophic gas leak once that may have been my fault.

We were at Home Depot shopping for wood blinds for the home. There was a sales person we snagged, and while waiting to sit-down, during the back & forth on the blinds displays, a SBD escaped (Silent But Deadly) due to a can of Bush's Baked Beans I had for lunch. Another customer passed us in the aisle. My wife recognized the situation, and discreetly attempted to provide separation for herself from the odor. I started to do the same.

The clerk told us, in her classic British accent, "Come-ovah heah, somebody fah-ted!" Man, it was all I could do, to not burst-out laughing! I sneaked a sideways glance at my wife, and saw her stifling a smile. We still use that line when appropriate, "somebody fah-ted!"

Philip, I usually just take the blame "Good grief, I can't believe that was inside me!"

That all sounds like good advice Andy, I only discovered folders relatively recently (before that, I had to sift through thousands of pics to find the ones that I wanted).
I'll give your folder management tip a try, some of mine are getting large-ish.

I reposted same "crawl space pic" (that I posted sideways here in Bob's thread) in my thread - I could see that it wanted to go sideways there as well until I cropped it slightly (the cropped copy posted with the correct orientation).

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Bob, I've seen many a barrow load of concrete fail to reach it's destination - despite having a two-handed operator.
I applaud you Bob - surely that's something that you struggle with. [emoji1] [emoji106]

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Mark, I am easily confused and these days it happens more often. It's the main reason I hate the smart phones. Everything is just a little different from the computer -- and I can't touch type on that tiny little keypad.

For my first 20 years the wheelbarrow was an indispensable tool and I loved using them. I was still able to dump my fair share of loads with two hands. For the second 20 years I wore an artificial arm with a hook and could lock it on the handle (but couldn't feel it slip off until it was too late). For the past 34 years I rarely wear the arm because of the South Florida heat and humidity (bizarre alien creatures grow inside a fiberglass socket wearing a wool sock).

Andy, I know my way around a computer, and that's how I do it.

Mick, I plan to join the 'in crowd.'

BOB: funny you mention your ability to get into tight spaces cause i do have a cement floor under our framed in home's floor and about a 18 inch crawl space under most of my rooms. I had to make access through old foundations and walls or cut in access holes in some closets to get to it and it's been a while since I've been down there. I think the last time I was down there and i could crawl around I weighed 210 and it was tight and that was 15 years ago. one of my motivating goals is to get my weight under 210 to crawl under there so maybe I should just lose the weight and do it instead of having a good excuse not to crawl under my old house so i can finish up a few projects.

it's sure a good excuse though if my bride asks me to go under the house.

I had a bathroom fan that wasn't moving air out, but seemed like it was working and i couldn't figure out the problem. then my BIL stops by to help me with my new siding job and I mention that I need to maybe rip up my roof to install a new fan and we go up to take a look. he reached in and found an old hornets nest that was keeping the fan from working and he pulled it out with his bare hands and our fan works fine now.

sometimes I think i'm fairly handy and then something like this happens.

keep up the great work and I bet your lawn doesn't have any BROWN SPOTS cause you sir have SKILLS!!

Drives, my tight spaces are quite a bit larger these days. My neighborhood is unique because several homes have walk-out basements but the vast majority of Florida homes are built on a slab with the water table about 8-feet below.


I think our fan had a hard time starting because of the dust buildup in the housing. It was a good excuse to replace it and now that the old one is cleaned up, I have a vent fan for the workshop. If I install a dozen of them I should have a decent paint booth.

Happy new year Bob!

Great to see you restoring the surrounds on those speakers. A good pair of bookshelf speakers are a great investment.

Have a similar LED light. I almost lost it recently when I accidentally left it in my sister-in-law's car engine bay. It was still there a week later. Luckily on a cool part of the engine. Though you wouldn't catch me crawling around in the ceiling crawl space over the last few days. Our home ventilation showed 78C in the roof yesterday!

Guster, thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year to you and yours! I see you are avoiding your steam bath and working on SWMBO projects.

I'm kinda looking forward to hooking up the Advent speakers. They are the first "good" pair of speakers I've owned.

I really like those LED lights and not just because they were free. They have a magnet on the back of the case as well as a fold-out hook so they work just about everywhere. Wow, that's a hot crawl space! That's pretty close to the temperature I cooked the standing rib roast for New Year's Eve (roast at 200*F until internal temp reaches 130*F, let rest and then roast at 500*F for 10-15 minutes to get a crust). Low and slow makes the whole roast the same "pink" and still has a brown crust.

Just catching up on this page going from replacing fart fans to blowing up home depot to putting pictures in some sort of order so they can be refound

I agree with extremek, No way do I do that (to much girth) I don,t do home repair any longer cause I don't do it to the liking of SWMBO so I juist send my helper to her rescue.

Andy
All my projects have their own folder and I keep a work in progress folder full of unfinished projects

All the events we host have their own folders and are in by year folders so I can keep track of what happened when.

Bob you do amaze us all by your normalness.

Don, I am honored to call you friend and appreciate you stopping by. I avoid the attic most of the year but with A/C in the garage I can aim a fan at the folding stair opening and make it cool by sauna standards. Unlike our previous home, this attic has stand-up headroom between the rafters.

It's difficult to hire someone to do work on our house. Liane watches way to many crime shows and is convinced that every single man in the world is a murdering ****** sociopath with the exception of the occasional psychopath who acts all "normal." Around here, my "normalness" is not an asset. I really appreciate your compliment and with time my friends and co-workers forgot about my "special needs."

Bob,
Thanks for stopping by my little thread a while back. I started reading yours and am up to page 54. Great read and a wonderful, slightly twisted, sense of humor.
I pit crewed a compact/ mini stock with a friend for 4 years on the same night they ran figure 8 races. He and I came to the conclusion you had to be certifiably insane, or, lost body parts to qualify as track figure 8 champion. Our first year, the figure8 champ ended up in the state hospital for the mentally ill. Our second year, figure8 chap had lost his right leg below the knee in an accident. Our 3rd and 4th year, the champ had lost his right arm at age ten. He drove a floor shifted 4 speed car, shifting by reaching his left arm through the steering wheel and putting it in second gear. I guess after losing a limb and surviving, it does give you a certain sense of "fearless-ness" as well as a deeper appreciation of being alive.

Dave, thanks for stopping by and appreciate the effort my thread requires.

In the early 1960s I was a spectator at Islip Speedway (Islip, New York). They had a little 1/8th mile drag strip and a small oval track. I saw my first Figure-8 racing there and didn't say a thing to Liane (she was sitting next to me). Apparently the look on my face gave it away and all she said was "OH NO YOU'RE NOT!" She didn't say anything about Train Diving so the rest is history.

You may be on to something about the "fearless-ness" but there's also a little bit of "this isn't so bad." I also think there's a realization of how short our lives are. Obsessing about the bad things that can happen make a lot of people miss out on the great stuff.

Did you just call him "normal"? Are we talking the same Bob? With his mental state, I'd think it was more like "Abbynormal".

Bob, I just couldn't help myself. And it does take one to know one!

Kirk, "Garage Journal Normal" isn't what most people think of as "Normal." When I mention spending a day polishing engine parts to my grandchildren, their look doesn't say "he's fine." I'm proud to be a member of this club.

 

[Bob Heine]

I made progress on the garage speaker shelf. Once I had the Audio Cabinet and freezer moved, it went well. Eons ago, when I first decided to install this shelf, I bought the plywood and an electrical cord. In the process of moving the freezer, I also discovered a 4-food oak 1"x2" that I must have added to the cart and promptly forgot. That scrap oak piece I found for the edge means I now have a non-scrap oak stick I can use on another project (if I remember I have it). The cable on the water heater is a bit too short because the previous unit was a hybrid and much taller. Thus, I had to swap the new 6-foot (too long?) cable. This is the first home I've owned that had the water heater cable plugged into a 230V outlet. No need to shut off the circuit breaker, saving me several seconds on the project.

I attached the two mounting strips to the bottom of the shelf with three 1.25-inch drywall screws each and then attached the strips to the three available studs in the wall with another three screws (2-inch construction screws). I haven't decided exactly how I am going to manage the cables so I didn't drill any holes or slots. The final touch was a coat of Tung oil and while I was at it, I gave the freezer-top a coat as well. The 3/8" oak plywood top on the freezer extends all the way to the wall so fewer items fall behind the freezer. This means much more productive vacuuming when I do move the freezer out. I hate vacuuming almost clean spaces (I want to hear that Hoover earn its keep).

Now it's just wait a little for the Tung oil to dry and I can put the speaker back.

EDIT: It involved quite a bit of cable sorting, some zip ties and a large cup holder but the corner is acceptable for now.

 

[Guster]

Not far off 200F. I've never liked high temps and quite prone to heat exhaustion anyway. Would be a very bad way to go but at least I'd be juicy and tender all the way to the bone, going by those instructions.


That actually reminds me that I really should fit a ridge vent fan for summer and make some time to play with sous vide immersion cooking a bit this year.

That corner shelf above the water heater is a great place to reclaim and not a bad space to hide an audio system and short leads on appliances are a definite bugbear.

I’ve been playing with a Google smart home speaker during the last few weeks. Especially now I’ve got a great new phone and thinking of getting another speaker to replace the old clock radio in the shed. Loud enough to listen to with earplugs and any fidelity issues are meaningless when wearing hearing protection anyway. The voice control is great when you have your hands full and since it extends my phone functionality my wife can keep in touch and visa versa. Might have to think again about some audio integrated hearing protection as it will pair with other Bluetooth audio devices. Already have a set of bookshelf speakers on a Bluetooth receiver in the shed but found the table I use for a digital readout on my lathe had issues streaming. Alternative is a cheap variant of the Google home hub perhaps then I can voice control lights and other devices too and add some security devices. The more I think about it the more I really like that idea!

 

[drivesitfar]

Bob: great work on the shelf in the corner. WOW that really looks a lot better.

speaking of passing gas. If i have those oven baked beans or cheese or maybe anything i tend to be a walking tooter. That's why i usually don't eat much before working out with 10-20 gals at our gym cause it's a tad embarrassing when doing a stretch and letting one rip.

there was a local restaurant we used to go to when we first got married some 30+ years ago that served up a huge greasy and tasty ONION LOAF that I'd eat as my dinner with a couple beers. well one night I was feeling a bit gassy and finally managed to move the bubble inside me out and it woke my bride out of a sound sleep and i still can't help from laughing while i'm writing this. OMG she yelled at me while I was pretending to sleep and she never suggested we eat at that place again. garlic seems to do a good job too, but now that i don't each much meat the power of them just isn't the same.

hope you enjoy your day and looks like BOB'S place is really getting spiffed up. how does Liane like it or have you let her inside the garage lately?

 

[bolensboneyard]

Nice job Bob. Sorry but I have to respond to drives' post. Drives thanks for posting proof for me to show the wife; although I don't know if I can convince her that the GJ board is proof on anything relating to HUMAN elimination. I have been trying to tell her for years that meat rots and ferments in the system and is DEFINATELY more disgusting at the other end. Don't eat much meat anymore myself as it is hard for me to digest since my intestinal operation. I don't know if I would go as far as to say vegetarians S--t D--'t S---k but I'll take a bow for not being the worse follow up on the thinking stool.

 

[drivesitfar]

BB: i'm sure Bob won't mind (or will he) if we mention how I learned about the lack of eating meat reducing the smells. my bride used to eat hamburgers at least 3 days a week and i almost called her my WHOPPER GIRL (for a few reasons other than Burger King's burger) and when she got cervical cancer during our little girls pregnancy that she wouldn't let them operate on until our little girl was born she became a vegetarian that ate fish. well to shorten a long story her passing gas smells could no longer compete with mine cause of the lack of fermenting beef in her diet, but occasionally she has chicken and on the rare occasion she lets one loose that has some meat in it she laughs and says she owed me one.

I had to laugh when I read your post and had to give you more FODDER to give your bride on the fermenting beef in her system.

BOB: I won't sing the song we all might know about musical beans and back to your woodworking, plumbing, car repair and landscaping posts which look like you are a pro at all of them. keep up the great work!!

 

[jimreed2160]

With half of the country freezing to death, maybe the time has come for you to break out the flannel in Boca.

 

[Bob Heine]

I spent three days making lasagna last week. A day for the sauce, a day for the pasta and assembly and a day for cooking. I'm not much of a cook but I know how to turn simple jobs into massive projects. Now we have 18 frozen lasagna dinners (sausage, beef and spinach).

Also cut down a tree after SWMBO requested I trim some off the top. I asked her to make sure the car was warmed up for the ride to the hospital after I rode the branches down to the ground. We compromised with me on a stepladder taking the trunk to six feet and then cutting it down to the ground.

Not far off 200F. I've never liked high temps and quite prone to heat exhaustion anyway. Would be a very bad way to go but at least I'd be juicy and tender all the way to the bone, going by those instructions.


That actually reminds me that I really should fit a ridge vent fan for summer and make some time to play with sous vide immersion cooking a bit this year.

That corner shelf above the water heater is a great place to reclaim and not a bad space to hide an audio system and short leads on appliances are a definite bugbear.

I’ve been playing with a Google smart home speaker during the last few weeks. Especially now I’ve got a great new phone and thinking of getting another speaker to replace the old clock radio in the shed. Loud enough to listen to with earplugs and any fidelity issues are meaningless when wearing hearing protection anyway. The voice control is great when you have your hands full and since it extends my phone functionality my wife can keep in touch and visa versa. Might have to think again about some audio integrated hearing protection as it will pair with other Bluetooth audio devices. Already have a set of bookshelf speakers on a Bluetooth receiver in the shed but found the table I use for a digital readout on my lathe had issues streaming. Alternative is a cheap variant of the Google home hub perhaps then I can voice control lights and other devices too and add some security devices. The more I think about it the more I really like that idea!

Guster, I too am susceptible to heat exhaustion. My normal cooking method is poaching in my own sweat. I come out more gray than pink when done.

Anything you can do to let the heat out the top of your shed will help. You might want to try a tinfoil hat as well (works for me -- when I remember to wear it).

Our son gifted me with an Anova sous vide unit that is meant to work with a smart phone. The instructions are brief: 1) Fill a pot with water. 2). Turn on the Anova and 3) Follow the recipe on the smart phone app. My Samsung Galaxy S4 works for about 4 minutes and then shuts itself off so I end up pushing two buttons on the unit until I get the time and temperature set. The phone is locked on a London Broil recipe but I can override the temperature and time on the unit. I then have to set alarms around the house, hoping I'll hear one of them and take the bag out of the bath after two hours or at least before the food turns gray.

We now have Alexa living in my office (Echo Spot). I keep my back to her but I know she's watching me. It's fine as long as I don't say "Alexa." Liane asked how it works and I told her you say "Alexa" and then ask a question, like "What's the temperature?" Not sure it's ever going to be a big hit because Liane can't remember "Alexa" and the Echo Spot doesn't respond when she yells "Siri" at it. I just smile and say "Yes Dear" when she tells me it doesn't work. My chances of introducing home automation are less than zero and both Siri and Alexa agree. You have convinced me not to buy a lathe because it will never respond any better than that sous vide cooker.

Bob: great work on the shelf in the corner. WOW that really looks a lot better.

speaking of passing gas. If i have those oven baked beans or cheese or maybe anything i tend to be a walking tooter. That's why i usually don't eat much before working out with 10-20 gals at our gym cause it's a tad embarrassing when doing a stretch and letting one rip.

there was a local restaurant we used to go to when we first got married some 30+ years ago that served up a huge greasy and tasty ONION LOAF that I'd eat as my dinner with a couple beers. well one night I was feeling a bit gassy and finally managed to move the bubble inside me out and it woke my bride out of a sound sleep and i still can't help from laughing while i'm writing this. OMG she yelled at me while I was pretending to sleep and she never suggested we eat at that place again. garlic seems to do a good job too, but now that i don't each much meat the power of them just isn't the same.

hope you enjoy your day and looks like BOB'S place is really getting spiffed up. how does Liane like it or have you let her inside the garage lately?

Drives, thanks for the compliment on the shelf but I have no comment on the rest.

Nice job Bob. Sorry but I have to respond to drives' post. Drives thanks for posting proof for me to show the wife; although I don't know if I can convince her that the GJ board is proof on anything relating to HUMAN elimination. I have been trying to tell her for years that meat rots and ferments in the system and is DEFINATELY more disgusting at the other end. Don't eat much meat anymore myself as it is hard for me to digest since my intestinal operation. I don't know if I would go as far as to say vegetarians S--t D--'t S---k but I'll take a bow for not being the worse follow up on the thinking stool.

Bobby, I'm with you on the meat. The older I get the less my body enjoys slabs of meat. Last time we ate out (some time in 2017) I ordered a salad with some blackened fish on it.

BB: i'm sure Bob won't mind (or will he) if we mention how I learned about the lack of eating meat reducing the smells. my bride used to eat hamburgers at least 3 days a week and i almost called her my WHOPPER GIRL (for a few reasons other than Burger King's burger) and when she got cervical cancer during our little girls pregnancy that she wouldn't let them operate on until our little girl was born she became a vegetarian that ate fish. well to shorten a long story her passing gas smells could no longer compete with mine cause of the lack of fermenting beef in her diet, but occasionally she has chicken and on the rare occasion she lets one loose that has some meat in it she laughs and says she owed me one.

I had to laugh when I read your post and had to give you more FODDER to give your bride on the fermenting beef in her system.

BOB: I won't sing the song we all might know about musical beans and back to your woodworking, plumbing, car repair and landscaping posts which look like you are a pro at all of them. keep up the great work!!

Drives, I try not to spend too much time standing still so whatever smells I generate stay behind me.

With half of the country freezing to death, maybe the time has come for you to break out the flannel in Boca.

Jim, it's funny but I did take out a flannel shirt the other day. As long as it stays above 60*F I'm fine in a T-shirt working in the yard. It was 65*F yesterday when I was cutting down the tree and there were only a couple of sweat stains on my shirt. A big improvement from the rest of the year when I'm soaked from head to knees (don't know why but my calves don't sweat much).

 

[jimreed2160]

Bob, I hope Alexa works out for you. I have three Dots in all--two inside and one in my shop. Best thing so far is the music, which of course requires a subscription.

 

[sawduststeve]

Bob, nice work with the extractor fan and shelf , glad it's not
to hot for you, I think we're due some snow any time soon. It won't last long,
but will bring the country to a stand still, no doubt.

Ask Alexa to play Baby Shark, ( it's all the rage here with the youngsters), then google and learn the actions. I'm sure you and Liane will keep the great grand children amused for hours, and the older ones will probably laugh as well.

Have fun.
Steve

 

[Redwolf947]

Hey Bob, long time lurker, I don't post much but I keep up with your and a few others thread's. You certainly get a lot done with your not so handicap handicap. I'm always impressed. I do miss the old stories and photos.

With the Alexa you can log into it from your amazon account and change the name to " echo" so you would say echo instead of alexa.. I think you can make it go with the word "computer".. You can view the history of what you've recently said too... I have the larger version. That thing listens to everything. I was talking to my better half the other night and in the middle of a song it got quiet.. it was listening tho I didnt say echo to trigger it : I said something dumb and it gave me a retort and went back to the song. it is nice for music or to tell you a joke and a bunch of other stuff I haven't tried.

Being from Wisconsin I don't think I could make it in the sweaty heat down there.

Mike

 

[Guster]

My colleague has all his Alexa units renamed to his ex-wife's name - "so for once she will just do as I ask" - which is extremely therapeutic according to him. I have had to unlink my Spotify account from the Google Home setup as I found my car suddenly playing a set from a Dolly Parton album. I'm not much of a fan shall I say. Turns out my wife was home and had it playing...

That is a very nice sous vide unit. Might be time for a new phone though. The experience is not too bad with Samsung as they have an app that can sync the important stuff across to a new one. I just replaced a J2 with a J8... suddenly I'm not frustrated and angry when I try to use my phone anymore. Had to double check a setting on the old one recently and all the old feelings came back.

I bought a Google Mini for the shed yesterday as they were heavily discounted so I'll see how that works out. Also have a WiFi plug socket on the way for a little fun. Our lounge uplight switch is in a bad place so a little Google assisted home automation is on the cards. Don't be put off a lathe from my choice in DRO. This tablet just doesn't multitask as much as I'd hoped there rest is all very manual.

I noticed the WiFi signal was poor on the tablet which was a surprise being only a few meters away. Turns out the shed WiFi repeater is in a bad spot as well because the metal man door blocks the line of sight to the tablet when it is open. Which happens to be all the time in summer. I have a shorter aerial cable on hand to move it to a more convenient spot in the rafters this weekend. I'll just need a stepladder to reset it in future.

 

[Bob Heine]

Bob, I hope Alexa works out for you. I have three Dots in all--two inside and one in my shop. Best thing so far is the music, which of course requires a subscription.

Jim, I assume I will use the Echo Spot more as I get used to it. At the moment Alexa is just a creepy woman who sits on a shelf behind me in the office. Because Liane is a Luddite, she thinks Alexa is either deaf or doesn't speak English. She walks up to the Spot, leans over and speaks slowly and loudly to Alexa.

Bob, nice work with the extractor fan and shelf , glad it's not
to hot for you, I think we're due some snow any time soon. It won't last long,
but will bring the country to a stand still, no doubt.

Ask Alexa to play Baby Shark, ( it's all the rage here with the youngsters), then google and learn the actions. I'm sure you and Liane will keep the great grand children amused for hours, and the older ones will probably laugh as well.

Have fun.
Steve

Hi Steve, I hope all is well with you and the ladies. We have been having some really nice winter weather and so far nothing below 50*F. I know what you mean about abnormal snowy weather. Working in the Washington DC area in the late '90s I ended up being the only idiot to make it to work for a whole week. I was a contractor so no one mentioned the rule for closing the office, which was whenever the government closed for snow so did AOL. A foot of snow, once cleared from the roads didn't seem like a big deal to me -- it was normal winter weather in the Hudson Valley. The oddest thing was the number of Jeeps and all-wheel-drive vehicles stuck in the snow.

Thank you very much for Baby Shark. I'll be hearing that brain worm in my sleep for a long long time. Next time I go to my son's house I'm going to say "Alexa, play Baby Shark five times" every time I pass their Spot. That's what I call payback for buying old people technology presents.

Hey Bob, long time lurker, I don't post much but I keep up with your and a few others thread's. You certainly get a lot done with your not so handicap handicap. I'm always impressed. I do miss the old stories and photos.

With the Alexa you can log into it from your amazon account and change the name to " echo" so you would say echo instead of alexa.. I think you can make it go with the word "computer".. You can view the history of what you've recently said too... I have the larger version. That thing listens to everything. I was talking to my better half the other night and in the middle of a song it got quiet.. it was listening tho I didnt say echo to trigger it : I said something dumb and it gave me a retort and went back to the song. it is nice for music or to tell you a joke and a bunch of other stuff I haven't tried.

Being from Wisconsin I don't think I could make it in the sweaty heat down there.

Mike

Mike, thank you so much, I appreciate the kind words. I should get back to my stories of a misspent youth.

I'm trying to adapt but working for IBM all those years and being in the middle of the Personal Computer Revolution, I feel like technology isn't the be-all I thought it was. A deck of cards with machine language instructions punched in was fine and I was even OK with soldering jumpers to bump my PC from 64K to 256K. A laptop burning my legs with 1,000 times the power of the New York Life mainframe I serviced in 1965 is getting scary.

I ordered a refurbished Alcatel Go Flip phone for Liane this week. It will be the second phone on our $6 a month Ting account (soon to be $12 a month). We'll see how that goes.

It's funny you mention the heat down here. I just got my Ancestry DNA results and my southernmost ancestors are from Northern Germany and France. My maternal grandparents moved from Sweden and Denmark to England. They then emigrated to Canada, spending a few years in Grande Prairie, Alberta. When he got tired of the 2,000 mile horseback ride each summer (his territory extended to White Horse in the Yukon Territory), they moved south to Edmonton and then down to balmy Cudahy, Jefferson and Madison, Wisconsin. My parents met at UW Madison when they were taking graduate courses in the summer. I still have lots of relatives in Wisconsin. I stop sweating when the temperature gets below freezing so I am always sweaty down here.

My colleague has all his Alexa units renamed to his ex-wife's name - "so for once she will just do as I ask" - which is extremely therapeutic according to him. I have had to unlink my Spotify account from the Google Home setup as I found my car suddenly playing a set from a Dolly Parton album. I'm not much of a fan shall I say. Turns out my wife was home and had it playing...

That is a very nice sous vide unit. Might be time for a new phone though. The experience is not too bad with Samsung as they have an app that can sync the important stuff across to a new one. I just replaced a J2 with a J8... suddenly I'm not frustrated and angry when I try to use my phone anymore. Had to double check a setting on the old one recently and all the old feelings came back.

I bought a Google Mini for the shed yesterday as they were heavily discounted so I'll see how that works out. Also have a WiFi plug socket on the way for a little fun. Our lounge uplight switch is in a bad place so a little Google assisted home automation is on the cards. Don't be put off a lathe from my choice in DRO. This tablet just doesn't multitask as much as I'd hoped there rest is all very manual.

I noticed the WiFi signal was poor on the tablet which was a surprise being only a few meters away. Turns out the shed WiFi repeater is in a bad spot as well because the metal man door blocks the line of sight to the tablet when it is open. Which happens to be all the time in summer. I have a shorter aerial cable on hand to move it to a more convenient spot in the rafters this weekend. I'll just need a stepladder to reset it in future.

Guster, I remember the first Token Ring network I set up at home and it did that same kind of stuff, opening files on another PC for no apparent reason.

I don't think I can handle a name change. I have difficulty remembering names so it would have to be one of the few I can reliably recall. I don't have any ex's so I'd have to change Alexa to "Liane." I guarantee that will put me into permanent *****-slap mode.

I was ready to change phones last week until I looked at pricing. I did the remove battery and hold power button for 30 seconds reset and it seems to be working reasonably well now. Pretty sure it was an inadvertent app install that caused the problem. If I had to swap all the apps I use to another phone, it wouldn't take five seconds.

If I ever get a lathe it is going to be tiny and simple. I need to check Lego and see if they offer something.

I had to smile when you mentioned getting on a ladder. My workshop is at the lowest point in our yard and I don't get great reception there. I bought a motorized antenna, hoping it would work inside the shop but it looks like I'll be putting up a pole.

A big Thank You to everyone who stops by, whether you post or not.

 

[Bob Heine]

I broke down and bought some new 1"x6" pine. I only needed 10 feet but had to buy two 6-footers. I decided to build that second drawer to go into the table saw cabinet. This dovetail stuff is getting easier each time I do it. There is just enough room for the second drawer.

I thought I had a scrap piece of 1/4" plywood for the bottom but it turned out the piece I have is 1/2" too narrow and 2" too short. Another trip to Home Depot is in my future. A lot of the stuff I want to store in there is going to fit nice in that shallower drawer. Things like saw blades and smaller saws, like the Kobalt compact reciprocating saw. It might even be a good place to store the electric 4.5" angle grinders.

 

[shortykorte]

Bob looks like your drawers has a hole in them.


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[oldironfarmer]

I never tire of looking in Bob's drawers.