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05-31-21, 11:09 AM
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05-31-21, 11:18 AM
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05-31-21, 11:20 AM
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05-31-21, 11:23 AM
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I forgot how fun group rides are!
05-31-21, 11:28 AM
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Had breakfast with some friends, mowed the lawn, had a short ride and then get home to find out that it’s SUN-day.
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05-31-21, 11:47 AM
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05-31-21, 01:39 PM
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Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Hard work, practice, and careful selection of grandparents.
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05-31-21, 01:50 PM
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05-31-21, 02:20 PM
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05-31-21, 02:58 PM
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05-31-21, 03:00 PM
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05-31-21, 03:01 PM
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05-31-21, 03:11 PM
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05-31-21, 03:12 PM
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So it is
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05-31-21, 03:14 PM
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I know someone doesn’t like this tune.
05-31-21, 03:19 PM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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The little lady just finished knitting me some new matching but not matching wool socks. #readyforautumn
05-31-21, 03:25 PM
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05-31-21, 04:45 PM
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05-31-21, 04:49 PM
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Hey, so remember how Mrs. GeneJockey's beloved 2001 Sienna wouldn't pass smog because one of the Emmissions Monitors for the Catalytic converters wouldn't show 'Ready'? And the dealer said we needed to get new ones at a cost of about $5000, and Toyota doesn't make them anymore so we had to go to a muffler shop, where Muffler Guy told us that might not be the problem at all, and we should go to a Bureau of Automotive Repair referee and see if we could get them to pass us anyway? And then I spent some time looking up the BAR referee program and drive cycles and stuff like that? I got an OBD2 scanner and sure enough, "Catalyst Mon" showed "INC".We decided we needed to spend some time trying to preform the drive cycle maybe 5 times, just so we could tell the BAR. And we've been putting it off because it's a crazy set of instructions.
So, today we're finally ready to do it. We're dreading it, because 1) it's weird and hard to follow the instructions in the real world, and 2) it might not work anyway and we'd have to decide what to do. I go plug in the OBD2 scanner and start the car to warm up. I go to 'Emissions Monitor Status', and scroll through.
No "INC". Huh. SO I go through more carefully. "Catalyst Mon" now says "OK".
Somehow, after months of driving, something in the last week got it to complete. YAHOO!!! Now we don't have to decide between junking it and paying $5000 to fix a car worth $1500!
Now we gotta get the thing smogged before something else goes wrong!
So, today we're finally ready to do it. We're dreading it, because 1) it's weird and hard to follow the instructions in the real world, and 2) it might not work anyway and we'd have to decide what to do. I go plug in the OBD2 scanner and start the car to warm up. I go to 'Emissions Monitor Status', and scroll through.
No "INC". Huh. SO I go through more carefully. "Catalyst Mon" now says "OK".
Somehow, after months of driving, something in the last week got it to complete. YAHOO!!! Now we don't have to decide between junking it and paying $5000 to fix a car worth $1500!
Now we gotta get the thing smogged before something else goes wrong!
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05-31-21, 05:00 PM
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Just drove 1.5 hours thru a storm that produced 4” of rain. Fun times.
05-31-21, 05:04 PM
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I once rode 8 miles in something like that. One of those days when every decision I made was the wrong one.
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05-31-21, 05:04 PM
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Ever see those Dominos Pizza cars? They upfitted them in another state and then brought them to California and they had to have a smog test. I drove the stupid things around to try to get the catalyst monitor to pass and eventually found out those cars don't run a cat test until the car has more than 1000 miles on it. Duh.
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05-31-21, 05:14 PM
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shaken, not stirred.
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The rain has finally stopped here. We recevied 136mm of rain in 3 days. That's usually three months worth of rain. At least we got off lucky and our two rivers didn't flood badly. Further south bore the brunt of the rain: over half a metre in three days. They are going to be cleaning up and rebuilding bridges and roads for while.
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05-31-21, 05:23 PM
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