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03-31-23, 04:37 PM
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When the air is still this whole place is sweet with the aroma of orange blossom, so gonna be drinking orange beers this week:
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03-31-23, 04:55 PM
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There’s no place like home, even when the cable and Internet are out.
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03-31-23, 04:56 PM
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03-31-23, 04:58 PM
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03-31-23, 05:10 PM
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we just don't drive much, but my daughter enjoyed driving in it so much that i figured we'd make more time for it. but we definitely have not. i think it has something like 40k miles on it, pretty much mint except for a scratched front fender. i'd probably want to get that fixed before i sold it, which has been my excuse for not doing so....
if so - my guess is you would have battery issues / dead battery at times ?
might be a good idea to use non-ethanol gas if available in your area - ? - old / stale gas with ethanol can be a problem
03-31-23, 05:47 PM
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Trickle charger. I keep my C4S on one during the winter. Maintains a healthy battery by charging the battery periodically.
03-31-23, 06:09 PM
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i believe our gas has been 10% ethanol for maybe 20 years, hopefully no new problems in the last one or two!
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03-31-23, 06:12 PM
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today felt very springlike. after a moderately hard 50 yesterday, today i decided to do something new : an intentionally easy ride. i targeted an average of 150w instead of the usual 200-225w. it's amazing how much different 25% less is - i was literally not breathing hard at any point. heart rate under 100 99% of the time, average 88bmp. took a real camera, stopped many times to take pictures. it was actually super fun, i'm going to make a point of making every fourth or fifth ride like this from now on.
spring has sprung!!
spring has sprung!!
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03-31-23, 06:15 PM
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You can get a solar powered battery tender. I used one of those on one of our bike tour vehicles, which spent a lot of time unused in a parking lot.
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03-31-23, 06:36 PM
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03-31-23, 07:00 PM
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Tonight's classic song
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03-31-23, 07:11 PM
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03-31-23, 07:15 PM
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03-31-23, 07:19 PM
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Yesterday I was at the gas station filling a gas can for mowing.
Everything seemed to be going fine, but unbeknownst to me, the gas pump nozzle latch, which I rarely use, even on the car, somehow became engaged.
I did not realize this until the can was almost full. I loosened my grip, expecting the gas to stop, and it did not stop. wut
I pulled the nozzle out of the can and it took me a couple seconds to figure out how to unlatch it, gas spewing out all along.
Had there been a spark nearby I might have been remembered by a gas station viral video.
Everything seemed to be going fine, but unbeknownst to me, the gas pump nozzle latch, which I rarely use, even on the car, somehow became engaged.
I did not realize this until the can was almost full. I loosened my grip, expecting the gas to stop, and it did not stop. wut
I pulled the nozzle out of the can and it took me a couple seconds to figure out how to unlatch it, gas spewing out all along.
Had there been a spark nearby I might have been remembered by a gas station viral video.
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03-31-23, 07:23 PM
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Ok. I have only one photo from my stay. It was taken in the hospital post-surgery. Wanna see it?
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03-31-23, 07:31 PM
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03-31-23, 07:33 PM
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I began the new regime today. Awoke at 3. Made and drank coffee. Cold shower. Yoga for the first time in 40 years or so, in an effort to untwist and level my pelvis. Breakfast, and then got on with the day, including a little woodworking, cleaning up the kitchen, getting a loaf of bread going. By 11 it was too hot to really be active. At the advice of my Spanish teacher, I'm listening to interviews and music in Spanish, and am improving noticeably.
03-31-23, 07:47 PM
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glad to read that you are in the mend and in apparently good spirits! i have one of those post-sternotomy photos on my phone from about a decade ago, it was, er, sort of a crowd pleaser, i guess? take the recovery slow, but steady, and strong!
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03-31-23, 07:52 PM
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03-31-23, 07:52 PM
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wut
Maybe.
03-31-23, 07:55 PM
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Bird of paradise is getting started showing off.
I think it's starting to get crowded by this alien plant I can never remember the name of:
I think it's starting to get crowded by this alien plant I can never remember the name of:
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03-31-23, 07:57 PM
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Talked to one of the couples who found me. Gave them a healthy gift card to a really nice restaurant in town. The husband said I was talking to the EMTs. I’m guessing that the memory I have of being given Narcan is real and not imagined.
Tine to finish my first beer of 2023 and hit the sack. Verizon coming tomorrow as early as 8 am.
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03-31-23, 07:58 PM
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