Did some reading
made breakfast.
washed some clothes.
Checked/reviewed a survey.
Ran errands in town- Dump and Post office.
shopped for some stuff for my venision backstrap recipe.
Fixed a kid's toy.
paid some bills.
fired off an old brushpile- still a bit wet.
cut down about 50 1.5" diameter and smaller fir trees and hand stacked them for another pile.
cleaned up the dog run from a winter's worth of crap.
re-leveled the deck out the kitchen door. ( it's a small temporary one I put on to satisfy the bank when i built the house with the intention of a bigger tajMa-deck later.... that was in 2002- so like i said i had to level it up a bit because it's just on pier-blocks...
things I DIDN"T do..... [SARCASM]clean the pooper scooper in Mrs. File's dishwasher......[/SARCASM]
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER] - I related your method to Mrs. File...... she's pretty much still in shock..... plus there was a threat of violence if I EVER tried that....
I took the boy wonder to the park then brought him home. I fell asleep and woke up to him on my lap passed out 🙂
Drove to a site about an hour from Austin and set stakes along a line that had originally been surveyed in 1882 in the Hill Country. The line ran along the side of a high ridge known as the Devil's Backbone between the watersheds of the Blanco and Guadalupe Rivers and its actual location of the line had been the subject of a lawsuit. I'd made a survey a couple of years earlier to help sort things out and got a call from one of the parties.
Lunch was in beer joint down the road with a parking lot full of motorcycles with an average engine displacement of more than 74 cu. in. The hamburger wasn't bad.
Staking the line attracted interested locals.
Goats will eat flagging.
Goats will jump on the hood, and snort, and fart.
I've never had a problem with goats. Horses and donkeys are another matter, though.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 420309, member: 291 wrote: Goats will eat flagging.
Goats will jump on the hood, and snort, and fart.
If you get the right one, it can be made into a delicious low fat curry.
Kent McMillan, post: 420315, member: 3 wrote: I've never had a problem with goats. Horses and donkeys are another matter, though.
That seems odd to me. I would have thought the horses and donkeys would have felt a sort of kinship with you....;)
paden cash, post: 420355, member: 20 wrote: That seems odd to me. I would have thought the horses and donkeys would have felt a sort of kinship with you
The last horses and donkey that I let near my truck apparently felt a kinship with the paint and vinyl trim.
Having cat tracks across the hood, windows and top of your vehicle is one thing most everyone has had to bear.
Leave your vehicle in the same place where there are goats long enough and and there will be several goats in battle over which one gets to stay on top of your vehicle.
They will not necessarily butt you front on, they like to stand up on two legs and come down with force and butt you about thigh high from the side or back when you are not looking after you have run the billy off of your vehicle.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 420309, member: 291 wrote: Goats will jump on the hood, and snort, and fart.
I've known some surveyors who do that too. 😉
saturday... i finally lived up to my name.
Goats have other habits. Especially the males.
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flyin solo, post: 420404, member: 8089 wrote: saturday... i finally lived up to my name.
Congratulations! Were you apprehensive? 😉
Thing I did yesterday: fixed a computer monitor. My son is home for spring break, and his desktop computer started acting flaky -- the monitor would go dark after a period of disuse -- which is normal behavior -- but it started getting harder and harder to get it to come on again. Bang on keys, wiggle mouse, sometimes it would come back, sometimes not. A reboot worked sometimes, other times not. Finally nothing worked, it was just dark. I tried it on another computer, swapped cables, no go.
YouTube suggested a bad capacitor, so with nothing to lose I tore into it and did, in fact, find a bulging cap on the power board. (Thanks again to YouTube, as I wouldn't have had any idea how to get the monitor apart without destroying it -- there are no screws, only some hidden plastic clips.)
1000åµf@16v. Scrounging around, I found a 1500åµf@250v (not sure now about the voltage, but it was plenty high enough) on a board from an old Trimble receiver. I figured the higher farad value wouldn't hurt in a power application, so I unsoldered the "new" one from the Trimble board and unsoldered the old one from the monitor board, the soldered in the Trimble cap (via some short wires, as the new one was physically too big to fit where the old one was) onto the monitor board. Buttoned everything up, applied power and it lit right up. I'm calling this one a success.
FL/GA PLS., post: 420411, member: 379 wrote: Congratulations! Were you apprehensive? 😉
thanks!
not terribly apprehensive. for one thing... i have insisted to my instructors that i was in no hurry to set some kind of record for quickest solo or whatever, so i was over 30 hours before saturday. second thing being that saturday was, by far, the calmest day i've been up this year. the last 3 months have been awesome crosswind condition practice, so when my instructor asked me to full stop so he could "take a leak," and proceeded to tell me to go do some pattern practice by myself, the conditions were cake relative to what i've been doing.
tomorrow afternoon (weather permitting), will be the first full-blown solo. which means full on ATC, class C departure and arrival, etc, etc. but again- not really nervous at this point. have had so many simulated engine failures thrown my way, as well as the aforementioned crosswinds... besides, i'm not the nervous type anyways.
