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Dan in Pasadena
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^^^ Certainly better but still 31 miles from my house. Appreciate the info
Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The "Glendora Garage"
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Workspaces sized between 265 and 485 squarefeet.
xtremek
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I was guessing that the Jeep would self shut down. Guessing the BCM shuts it down to protect the battery.
Swanny1953
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Dan, when I put the aux braking in my '16 Wrangler, they had me wire it directly to battery. I also bought a kit to charge the battery off coach power while towing. Got everything from etrailer.com. Here's link to battery charger kit - https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install...t-2016-jeep-wrangler-unlimited-rm-156-25.aspx
PugetDude
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I guess 31 miles is relative in SoCal- In many parts of the US a drive of ONLY 31 miles to the nearest TSC would be cause for celebration.
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Trapps
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31 miles in the LA area might take 3 hours…
PugetDude
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Well, there's that.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Exactly. There are no "rush hours" here anymore. ALL hours are rush hours.
Swanny - I had a 2017 JK before the Gladiator and it had a switched 12v outlet in the dash - the typical cigarette lighter. But it also had a constant hot 12v outlet in the center console. Because of this I just assumed (and we all know what THAT means!) it had the same but it does not. The Gladiator has a USB outlet in the console.
On our 2012 Fiat 500 - our original "toad" - when I had the thing wired for the brake system they just added a 12v hot under the left side of dash.
kaymccampbell
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Only 3? You are so optimistic.
Well, when I was driving to work (pre-retirement, pre-Covid), an 11 mile ride home from downtown LA would easily be an hour.
Right now, Google puts it at 16 minutes!
kaymccampbell
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Things must've got better. I remember spending about 5 hours in LA traffic one evening. I was told it was fairly normal.
captain14
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Is that three hours one way or total? Don't forget to give yourself time to wander through the rest of the store discovering other items.
Sounds like a all day trip to me.
Sounds like a all day trip to me.
xtremek
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With that kind of traffic, seems like a bicycle is a better option.
kaymccampbell
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People in Californica don't bike or walk, even to the building next door, they drive. I have watched an entire office go to lunch together. Each one got into his/her individual car, and drove 200 feet up the street to the restaurant, overcrowding the parking lot there. Priceless.
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Dan in Pasadena
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^^^ This is far from typical.
Maybe in "the old days" - 80's-ish - but today we're a little more conscious of walking. At least we were before I retired in 2017.
Agreed that unless you're a devoted bicyclist, we don't much ride bikes - though that is changing toward electric bikes. Which of course isn't exercising at all because most use them as electric minibikes not as assistance on the hard parts of an ordinary bike ride.
kaymccampbell
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Guess what? 60's-70's-80's was when I was out that way. Haven't been there in 40 years. Nice to know things have changed.
don long
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There are a lot of people in my hood that walk there dogs every day and a slug of bikers riding around our area.
I live at a trail head into the Cleveland national forest and parking of cars around here is a huge problem with so many people wanting to go hiking and trail riding. I have counted as many as 100 cars parked on the sides of the road just behind the property on a Saturday morning.
So So Cal people do walk and ride round here
I live at a trail head into the Cleveland national forest and parking of cars around here is a huge problem with so many people wanting to go hiking and trail riding. I have counted as many as 100 cars parked on the sides of the road just behind the property on a Saturday morning.
So So Cal people do walk and ride round here
LeonardY
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It depends on what area of California you live. I rarely drove when I lived in San Francisco. It was easy to catch the bus, cable cars, bicycle or walk. Not to mention parking was horrible. Even on the peninsula we often rode bikes and walked to the store.
When I lived in Monterey, I walked and bicycled every where including to work.
Southern California is different. Everything is spread out and public transportation isn't great. But where I live, people walk and bicycle around. There are paseos and pedestrian bridges through out the community. Not to mention, the trails for hiking that are always packed.
It's not perfect but I'm not sure any place is.
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Dan in Pasadena
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NO place is perfect. If there were such a place, everyone would move there.
Oh yeah, that used to be California. (Break out the popcorn and stand by for flames!)
Oh yeah, that used to be California. (Break out the popcorn and stand by for flames!)
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Dan in Pasadena
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My girlfriend's mother was living with us but in hospice care the last 2-1/2 years. She passed away in December and we are finally getting around to cleaning out the office that had been serving as her room complete with a hospital bed. All sorts of little dings and dents in the walls plus picture holes that were already there when we moved in.
Going to remake it as an occasional guest room since we do not need an office but first we needed to repair and paint. Got the walls done yesterday and patched a few gouges in the baseboards. I'll sand those repairs tomorrow. P{aint hadn't quite dried when I took the "After" picture. In good GJ style I even clocked the screw heads straight....until I posted this pic and realized one is off. Damn, pings my OCD. I'll fix it, ha ha
Speaking of tomorrow - fingers crossed - I am having a growth then from under my eye that was previously cut out 4-5 years ago and has grown back. Also a bigger one on my back. One under eye tested benign before so I my fingers are crossed that it will again. Wish me luck.
Going to remake it as an occasional guest room since we do not need an office but first we needed to repair and paint. Got the walls done yesterday and patched a few gouges in the baseboards. I'll sand those repairs tomorrow. P{aint hadn't quite dried when I took the "After" picture. In good GJ style I even clocked the screw heads straight....until I posted this pic and realized one is off. Damn, pings my OCD. I'll fix it, ha ha
Speaking of tomorrow - fingers crossed - I am having a growth then from under my eye that was previously cut out 4-5 years ago and has grown back. Also a bigger one on my back. One under eye tested benign before so I my fingers are crossed that it will again. Wish me luck.
PugetDude
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Sorry to hear about your MIL. We went through that with both my inlaws last year.
Hospice workers are amazing- can't omagine doing that day after day.
Good luck with the skin doc, Dan.
Hospice workers are amazing- can't omagine doing that day after day.
Good luck with the skin doc, Dan.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Thank you PD for the kind words.
I said it elsewhere: She lived a true "Hall of Fame" life. Born on a farm in Mexico and grew up with a lot of love but a dirt floor, raised their own food, etc. Won a small town beauty contest as a 17 year old. Married and came to the U.S. and had 8 children including 5 boys. They grew up in East L.A. - a hot bed of gangs and crime even in those days.
None of her kids were ever in gangs, no one ever got into drugs or were arrested. They sent them all to parochial school and their dad volunteered at the schools to offset tuition. Lived 100 years, had great great grandchildren, and died in her child's home in her sleep. No one gets any better than passing away in their sleep whether they are homeless or the Queen. Hall of Fame in my opinion.
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wasfast
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Awesome story, thanks for sharing her history.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Thanks for the words. She was a very very kind and sweet lady til the very end. Rest in Paradise, Señora.
xtremek
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I hope the surgery goes well.
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Dan in Pasadena
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It hardly counts as "surgery" but yeah, it went fine. Hardest part was anesthetic shots in the face & back. He lopped off the little things and said they don't look malignant but he'll send them to the lab and get back to me. Real attractive having a scab right on your face, ha ha!
Kinda/sorta finished the office/guest room redo. Daybed with trundle, a swivel chair & ottoman. Cleaned off the shelves and my Dodgers bobbleheads will be displayed....for awhile. Still need a lampshade and to re-screen the window - we'd cut a small hole in it so MIL's noisy oxygen generator could be outside with just a little tube running inside to her mask.
Man, Chinese nuts & bolts are ****. They give long machine screws with large diameter flatheads that hold the pieces together BUT they have a tiny place for the Allen wrench. Of course being GJ I can't use the pinché wrench provided so I put an Allen wrench socket thing on my Milwaukee drill driver and it immediately stripped out that little spot in the flathead - UGH. I had to use vice grips on the one I stripped and then had to wear out my thumbs turning the ****** wrench....which I promptly threw away!
All the **** on desk will be tossed. My Inspection Team, Fifi & Max are always on hand to supervise!
Could you have cut the end off the provided wrench and chucked that up instead?
xtremek
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Was the desk thing already there? If not, you put that up fast.
PugetDude
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Looks good, Dan.
A fresh start on that room will help you and your GF move forward.
A fresh start on that room will help you and your GF move forward.
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Dan in Pasadena
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I have those sockets that have about 3/4" of Allen wrench embedded in them. That's what I tried to use that stripped the hex hole in the cheapazz Chinese fastener. Had to downshift to the provided tiny wrench.
Yes, they were here when we moved in. The room is pretty small and truly is an office. The former owner was a self employed concrete contractor - which is why we have a bunch of stamped concrete front and back. It'll be a small but adequate guest room.
Another spare room redo is upcoming. It'll be a kid's room for our now 6 grand children ranging from 8 months to 15 years. Four of them we see regularly. SWMBO wants 2 bunkbeds w/trundles but I favor ONE bunkbed will be plenty. They're not ALL going to be here at the same time. We'll see how that goes, ha ha.
Thanks! Yes, I agree.
I sent a pic of the redone room to a relative and his response was, "...it looks good but makes me sad" - where he last saw his grandmother of course.
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Dan in Pasadena
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This is Southern California? Yikes! Posting this so I'll have a record it actually happened.
So much was falling so fast I worried it would pull down the ficus trees where our pool shade sails are attached. The cables were so taut I couldn't pull them ONE inch to unclip them so I cut the cables - ugh. But better than downed trees or wood ripped out of the patio structure (or pulling the structure out of plumb!)
Street and neighbor's grass completely covered as though it is snow.
So much was falling so fast I worried it would pull down the ficus trees where our pool shade sails are attached. The cables were so taut I couldn't pull them ONE inch to unclip them so I cut the cables - ugh. But better than downed trees or wood ripped out of the patio structure (or pulling the structure out of plumb!)
Street and neighbor's grass completely covered as though it is snow.
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Dan in Pasadena
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The three sails were all ganged together. I could tell they weighed a ton when the cable gave way. You can see how low they'd been pulled by the weight.
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Ford52PU
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WOW!! Thats more than we've had in PA this year.
xtremek
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Got to love Global Climate Change...............not.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Ha ha, really?
Weird, just weird. I've lived in Southern California all my life and never seen anything like this. Hail yes but a very small amount that melts off in just minutes. We went out to lunch, came back and found this much "snow" left on the roof. I guess it slid off the solar panels. Anyway, I'm calling it snow even though it isn't.
Ford52PU
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Looks like snow to me. It hit 67 here today. I live between Philadelphia and Lancaster this is only the second time we’ve had no snow accumulation. It’s really strange. Saw on the news there was snow at the Hollywood sign.
LeonardY
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I'm expecting this up here in Santa Clarita. So far though we have had only a few flurries that got washed out by the rain.The three sails were all ganged together. I could tell they weighed a ton when the cable gave way. You can see how low they'd been pulled by the weight.
Trapps
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Snow and Ice weight is real!
We have a large (36") Sycamore in our front yard. I trim the lowest branches with a pole saw as they're about 9' up. Yesterday morning, the lowest was less than 3' from the ground:
Granted, here in Michigan we're used to winter. I can't image how SoCal copes with it.
We have a large (36") Sycamore in our front yard. I trim the lowest branches with a pole saw as they're about 9' up. Yesterday morning, the lowest was less than 3' from the ground:
Granted, here in Michigan we're used to winter. I can't image how SoCal copes with it.
xtremek
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Some crazy weather we've got going. Did you try to make a snow ball with it?