Hot, Snapped, Sold

by Duf Anything and Everything

Since I am on vaca I will try to drop an entry in here every couple of days so I don’t need to tax my memory too much.  Friday I left work a little early to meet up with Daniel who was installing our new water heater.  My intent was for it to be a tandem effort but he got done with work early, by the time I got there he was almost done.  I am pretty sure I could have handled the swap out myself, the biggest issue would have been getting the correct plumbing fittings I would have needed.  Since Daniel does HVAC work he had all the parts on hand.  The new heater fired up without issue and within 30 minutes we once again had hot water flowing in the house.

Friday evening I also got out on the new Gotway Nikola Plus EUC for an initial test ride.  I REALLY liked the way the wheel felt.  I can’t wait to get more extensive testing in.

Saturday was the day I hoped to get the Prius back together.  Unfortunately I made a bad decision to use my power ratchet to reinstall the copper bus bars.  I managed to snap one of the battery cell terminals which meant I now have to wait another few days to get another replacement cell.  I was so annoyed with myself.  I released the adventure so far on video.

I decided to punish myself for my stupidity by doing a full weed whacking and mowing session during the hottest portion of the day.  It was around four hours of shitty, sweaty work.  I was beat to hell afterwards but glad I put in the effort as it dumped rain again Saturday night, making various areas lakes once again.

Saturday night I watched a Star is Born with Cindy.  Although the movie has been remade several times I never saw any of the older versions.  I thought it was really well done and I enjoyed it thoroughly to a B+ level.

Yesterday it felt like I was on the go constantly.  I have so many smaller things I want to get done over this week hiatus.  Cindy and I did get out on a ride in the morning which was fun.

The rest of the day was consumed by these little tasks which added up to five or six hours of time, a couple of the tasks resulted in ADDITIONAL videos.

I expect today to be busy as well.  My OneWheel Pint was supposed to show up today but AGAIN it looks like FedEx is shitting the bed, missing ANOTHER delivery time due to the box sitting in the black hole of Bell Isle Florida, again.  FedEx really sucks.

Oh I finally sold the Ultron scooter last night after it being for sale for a couple months.  The buyer was a nice guy from Bradenton. We had common interests, scooters, 3D printing, and fitness.  He was impressed by the neck snapping torque the machine has.  I was just relieved to at least recoup some money for the scooter and to have one less piece of equipment in the dining room.