Patching stretchies takes some skill. Any pics?

Wife woke up early this morning with mild fever and achiness. I took a Viagra to try to cure her, but alas it didnt work. .

Well, the master abators are here. They are in hazmat suits with respirators, but they're bashing away at the tile with hammers and just letting it fall. Don't see any 6 mil plastic on the ground, just a taped-off perimeter. As our siding guy said, it's a racket and all about the piece of paper. There is no restriction on what the home owner can do with this stuff either. I guess it's not too dangerous, being in a cement matrix and all...:rolleyes:

EV6 is a pretty neat car. I'll tell you, there is nothing better than simply plugging in to recharge. No gas stations on cold mornings.

Only thing is I'd think long and hard before buying an EV if you will ever travel with it. Great as a second car or one used solely around town.

That's a bampilot move

:roflmao2:

Thought about it.


I love the idea of a truck, and if my daughter keeps riding horses then I am sure we would buy a horse in the future. Can’t tow a horse with a mini van.

My job requires a lot of driving though, and I don’t want to do that in a truck. Also don’t want to drive a truck just to go to the store. So I don’t know what I will do, great thing is I don’t have to figure this out now.

Havnt hurt a jacket yet.

She used a combo of sticky patches and iron-on patches. The only stretch fabric that she patched were my tights and I doubt that it will stay long term.

Edit: Doubt that the insulated jersey is going to hold up, either.

But is the bike okay?

Couldnt ride this morning. Had to take my van to safelite for a new windshield. Crack was about 14 inches long. As I was driving this morning the crack expanded lighting fast the whole length of the windshield.


Hoping to get a ride in around lunch time.

My wife is doing her best. Driving to the city almost everyday, and mixing it up with strangers. Am I the only one who thinks that the female of the species is an odd creature? I mean her rationale just makes no sense. But to her it's adamant that she get it done yesterday. All for a meeting that won't take place due to Covid.

We would plan on it being an only car and would travel with it. That in mind, the range and charging speed is what makes it attractive (and potentially viable) in ways that previous gen EVs weren't. We would certainly need to be more deliberate about planning, but I've chatted with my EV-owning friends about apps/online resources that calculate the road trip minutiae and assist with routes, charging locations/durations, etc, and it seems like it's within the realm of possibility. I mean, the reality is that 400 miles between stops isn't feasible with my wife and two kids, anyway, and pit stops are always longer than I'd like; a planned recharge stop of a half hour might actually be a stress reliever rather than a stress raiser.

Yes. I think so, anyway.

Cold shower for you then?

Last night at band I noticed the extremely overweight female that I'm sitting next to seemed to have laboured breathing after we played for a stretch. Not sure if I just noticed that, or if it's new.

Either way. :twitchy:

They should give her a long solo……

LSS works out in the pool at Walter Reed three times a week and frequently shops at the exchange and Whole Foods on the way home. If we get it I'm blaming her.

The furthest we generally travel by car is ~200 miles from one house to the other so it’s right in the wheelhouse of an EV. Plus the same w/ kids and stops on longer trips. Crap, if we can make it the 3.5 hours to Marblehead without stopping bits a miracle.

Considering the 303S from PBK even without a bike to put them on.

Continued success then :)

It can be done, but adds a level of complexity and additional time to each trip.

When you talk to other EV owners about such things, make sure you exclude Tesla owners from that discussion unless you plan to get a Tesla. The reason is that Tesla's infrastructure is the largest, and they have the really fast superchargers. But, the connector for their superchargers is very proprietary and there is no hack to use them with cars other than Teslas. However, you can get an adapter so you can use Tesla's slower Level 1 and 2 chargers.

I looked into whether I could take my Taycan to see my kid at school, which is an easy 2.5 hour drive at 170 miles. I have plenty of range to get there, but once there there are only Level 1 and 2 chargers available. For a Level 2 charge, that would mean leaving the car overnight to charge from 20% to 80%. A Level 1 charge takes more than a full day.

Level 3 charging stations are pretty far and few between, and the reality of a 15 to 30 minute charge as you drive cross-country is not very real at this time. If it wasn't for being able to have a Level 2 charger in my garage, I would find it really burdensome.

My car has an 800 volt architecture, which is capable of recharging at very high speeds. The problem is finding a Level 3 charger (and one that works when you find it). In my town of 60k people in the middle of DFW, there is 1 Level 3 charger (50 kW), and it is a block from my office. When I first got the car and before I had my home charger sorted, I plugged into it. I sat in a Walgreens lot for 30 minutes only to get about a 20% charge. The closest charge point to me that supports the 800 volt platform is about 45 minutes away.

Don't get me wrong, I love the EV for lots of reasons and we'll likely have another at some point. It just took me hours of research to learn the shortcomings, which ended up tempering my expectations of what I could do with it. At this point in time, I would not have one as my only car, especially it I wanted to travel with it.

wut

:(

Nah, just kidding about the Viagra.

She did get up really early this morning not feeling well. She said she feels really achy and has a low grade fever after taking Ibuprofren. She's debating on whether to get a Covid test, but my thought is that it's not really necessary. If she feels better in a day or two, then she's over whatever it is, but knowing if it's Covid or not will not change anything. If she gets to the point where she needs medical care, then a test would help the care provider diagnose, but it doesn't really do any good for us to diagnose. Any contrary thoughts from the docs?

She told me yesterday that her boss came to the office with a fever (the lady is a real dingbat), so we wonder if that's where this is coming from. The irony is that Friday is my wife's last day on the job.

Man, you are too old for that nonsense! Glad there are no broken bones or bikes.

No.

interesting the push for EV when the country doesn’t have the infrastructure sorted out to handle EV. If you only have one level 3 charger near you, and you are in an actual city I can’t imagine what’s in my area.