zannej
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The previous owner of our CR-V put Dynamat inside. They apparently had a massive subwoofer system in it (but took it out when it was repossessed). Guess they should have saved the $ to make their car payments. Or gotten some decent headlight bulbs. CR-V's default headlights are garbage. Reminds me I need to take it in to get the inspection sticker done.
Been watching How To videos on various things from how to make a tailor's mannequin to how to shrink or enlarge molds. Watched this very cool one that showed how to make a shrinking mold by mixing minieral spirits in and letting the mold sit for a few days to dry and shrink or soaking a normal sized mold in mineral spirits to make it expand. Guy has a dry sense of humor and was quite entertaining.
I don't like the loud vehicles. Never understood the appeal. But then, I don't like children walking on my lawn. I'm a curmudgeon.
Shoulder and arm have been bothering me a lot the past few days. Not sure why. I reached for something and got a shooting pain from my shoulder down to my elbow. I left my bedroom door open and much to Mewlatto's chagrin, Sir Hammington and Yasuke decided they had to come in. Yasuke was content to sit on a pillow (that I use as a mouse pad) off to the side, but Sir Hammington had to get right up in my face and cling to me. Biscuits got jealous so he had to climb up on my shoulder. Mewlatto was sitting on my leg. I couldn't really use my computer or get comfortable so I fed them and shut the door so I have some privacy-- until they climb through the hole.
Friday I brought my brother to help me remember what Mom wanted from the store and to pick up my RX. Stopped by and saw our friend before he had to run off to work. He managed to get his stove working for the most part (one of the burners won't heat up in the middle part) but they can still cook with it. He gave us his old computer chair (that I bought for him on a big sale). The mechanism to make it stay up when lifted broke and one of the arms is loose. But the base/wheels are solid. I bought my brother an identical chair but one of the parts that holds the wheel in broke. So we took the other chair for parts. He was trying to figure out how to take the wheel base off. Youtube videos said to use a mallet and pound on it. He was trying but the mallet was too big. I walked over to take a closer look and noticed there was a small clip holding it on. I said "Hey, can you get this clip off?" It was one little clip and a washer. He was able to remove it and put the "new" wheelbase on. He could have just put the whole chair in because his needs a new seat (padding wore down in his) and he keeps the chair at the lowest height setting so he doesn't need to be able to raise it. Friend also gave me a better vesa wall mount for my monitor. It can hold a 55" TV so it has higher weight capacity. No screws so I can use the screws from the cheap one I bought. Still need to clean up the mounting boards down at the workshop.
I sent my friend a link for mount that clips on to the back of the desk and he found out they have ones that can hold two monitors. So he's going to try that for his new smaller desk.
When my arm is cooperating I'm going to help my brother with more cleaning in his room so we can get his old desk out and get his new desk in. We didn't bring the other desk home yet (friend is giving us the older larger desk-- nothing wrong with it, but he wanted more space in the little room). It's in pieces on his porch right now.
It's raining pretty hard so internet might be going out soon.
Flyover, I'm glad you're feeling better.
Spicoli, my middle school was directly next to the high school and we shared a lunch room. I vaguely recall some of the boys having loud trucks. Always knew which ones were on the volunteer fire dept. Alarm would go off at the fire station down the street and we would hear truck wheels squealing as they pealed out of the parking lot. The school had special rules to excuse students that were firemen.
Been watching How To videos on various things from how to make a tailor's mannequin to how to shrink or enlarge molds. Watched this very cool one that showed how to make a shrinking mold by mixing minieral spirits in and letting the mold sit for a few days to dry and shrink or soaking a normal sized mold in mineral spirits to make it expand. Guy has a dry sense of humor and was quite entertaining.
I don't like the loud vehicles. Never understood the appeal. But then, I don't like children walking on my lawn. I'm a curmudgeon.
Shoulder and arm have been bothering me a lot the past few days. Not sure why. I reached for something and got a shooting pain from my shoulder down to my elbow. I left my bedroom door open and much to Mewlatto's chagrin, Sir Hammington and Yasuke decided they had to come in. Yasuke was content to sit on a pillow (that I use as a mouse pad) off to the side, but Sir Hammington had to get right up in my face and cling to me. Biscuits got jealous so he had to climb up on my shoulder. Mewlatto was sitting on my leg. I couldn't really use my computer or get comfortable so I fed them and shut the door so I have some privacy-- until they climb through the hole.
Friday I brought my brother to help me remember what Mom wanted from the store and to pick up my RX. Stopped by and saw our friend before he had to run off to work. He managed to get his stove working for the most part (one of the burners won't heat up in the middle part) but they can still cook with it. He gave us his old computer chair (that I bought for him on a big sale). The mechanism to make it stay up when lifted broke and one of the arms is loose. But the base/wheels are solid. I bought my brother an identical chair but one of the parts that holds the wheel in broke. So we took the other chair for parts. He was trying to figure out how to take the wheel base off. Youtube videos said to use a mallet and pound on it. He was trying but the mallet was too big. I walked over to take a closer look and noticed there was a small clip holding it on. I said "Hey, can you get this clip off?" It was one little clip and a washer. He was able to remove it and put the "new" wheelbase on. He could have just put the whole chair in because his needs a new seat (padding wore down in his) and he keeps the chair at the lowest height setting so he doesn't need to be able to raise it. Friend also gave me a better vesa wall mount for my monitor. It can hold a 55" TV so it has higher weight capacity. No screws so I can use the screws from the cheap one I bought. Still need to clean up the mounting boards down at the workshop.
I sent my friend a link for mount that clips on to the back of the desk and he found out they have ones that can hold two monitors. So he's going to try that for his new smaller desk.
When my arm is cooperating I'm going to help my brother with more cleaning in his room so we can get his old desk out and get his new desk in. We didn't bring the other desk home yet (friend is giving us the older larger desk-- nothing wrong with it, but he wanted more space in the little room). It's in pieces on his porch right now.
It's raining pretty hard so internet might be going out soon.
Flyover, I'm glad you're feeling better.
Spicoli, my middle school was directly next to the high school and we shared a lunch room. I vaguely recall some of the boys having loud trucks. Always knew which ones were on the volunteer fire dept. Alarm would go off at the fire station down the street and we would hear truck wheels squealing as they pealed out of the parking lot. The school had special rules to excuse students that were firemen.
