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Disposal disaster

Can you hear it hum when you turn it on? Does it immediately flip the breaker when you turn it on? If it hums just a bit before it flips the breaker it is likely stuck and turning it with the hex key should break it loose. The badger brand disposal will also have a red reset button that will trip to prior to the unit burning up. You should check to see if it's tripped. Pushing it in will usually have a haptic sound and click when it's reset.

The (Official?) “I’m Married” Thread

A day will not go by when we don't verbally tell each other "I love you" - saying it's easy... it's demonstrating it that takes effort (and it's well worth it). I make coffee for her every morning. I routinely leave the office to walk into the den where she's watching TV, simply to pop my head around the wall and blow her a kiss. We like to be the example for others: we'll stop for a lip-lock right in the middle of a store parking lot: showing other people what genuine love looks like after 35 years.

Plus she's a hottie. That's a bonus 😍

What's the weather like where you are?

It has been miserably windy here the past few days. Today, my weather app shows a flag in the wind icon indicating it is to be even windier... sheesh. I have found that when they break out the ol' flag in the wind that they are predicting winds above the twenty mile per hour range. Eighty eight degrees is the predicted high but they were nice enough to tease me with a chance of rain tomorrow.

E-Bikes

The controller swap gained me nothing. I ordered another sensor from the same guy I bought the last after market sensor from. I remembered when I installed the new sensor last time that it lacked almost an inch of cable being long enough. I stretched and pulled and even wire tied the connection together. When I put the original controller back into the bike, it had plenty of extra cable to connect to the sensor. The cables were the same length but the controllers are different in length making the wire too short. It's quite possible that tight cable is causing it to cut out... maybe.. I don't know. In any event, I have another ordered that should be here Wednesday. I'll not be stretching the cable on this sensor.

It was dang windy again today. I test rode the RCS after the controller swap which didn't take but a couple of blocks riding. I put on my bike clothes and took the Aquila for a ride. It is a bit under powered to fight the wind but I sure would have hated trying to ride with no assistance. I pretty much drained a battery before dinner and another after dinner. I logged 74 hot windy miles. I saw nobody riding on the sidewalk South.

Project Hail Mary

Having seen and greatly enjoyed "The Martian" I read that (also by Andy Weir), and greatly enjoyed it as well.
I'm currently on the waiting list (it's pretty long) at the library for "Project Hail Mary;" I kind of have an agreement with my wife that neither of us will buy another book until we cull the gargantuan collection we already have. Since that task it too insurmountable, we just borrow from the library for now. I did read a PHM excerpt that really drew me into it.

That said I am currently reading the commendable "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly. It goes so much deeper than the movie and has thus far really appalled me at the deplorable way folks of color were treated back then. It's so much more systemic than what is depicted in the movie. And yes, I borrowed it from the library.

BTW, if you don't mind reading on a screen, Hoopla will use your local library card to link you with card catalogs across the US, so even if your local branch doesn't have the ebook, you can still "check it out" from another library across the state or across the country. And it's free, too. :)

Gas prices?

I had to fill up my gas can for the cabin mower yesterday. I bought gas for my normal mowers Tuesday and failed to catch the price. I'm very sure that regular was $3.98. Two days later regular was $4.29 and premium was $4.89. This morning I passed two fuel outlets on my way to Lowes. Both had their premium priced at over five bucks a gallon. I have never raised my mow prices in the middle of the year but a dollar a gallon increase so far is felt. I'm sure we will all feel it with all goods that are transported.

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