Month: April 2019

–Went shopping at Bagelry and Safeway.

–Barbed output adapters for Flojet arrived. Didn’t come close to fitting. Turns out with the smaller Flojets you just stick a 1/4″ ID tube into the outlet port. No fittings needed. I might have known this if my memory lasted more than a day or two.

–Slow day. Roasted some Sweet Maria’s Ethiopian decaf. Okay, but not real different from most decaf.

–Took a shower.

–Went to PAMF Urgent Care Watsonville for gout on left second-to-big toe. Same doc saw me as for sudden hearing loss (Vaal Rothman). He thought it was simply an inflammation, as there was more pain pushing on swelling than manipulating the joint. He prescribed an antibiotic (Keflex), for which I stupidly paid $31 at CVS (didn’t show them my insurance cards). I still think it’s gout.

–Benchmade Boguszewski spike auto came in (snuck past the censors at eBay). Nice knife, though blade is way off center when closed.

–Went to the downtown Watsonville farmers market, got some hummus. Preponderance of vendors were selling prepared food. Also no prices showing. Probably higher for gringos…

–Got a tuna steak at Yamashita and grilled it over mesquite. Deelish.

–Went to Carmel Cutlery to return the two Laconicos I accidentally walked off with. Ended up buying a Kizer and a Case.

–Had lunch at Panera in Seaside. Expensive ($16.39) and very good.

–Took the BMW to Carmel to (a) get refund on Speedmaster 50th Anniversary at Hesselbein Jewelry; (b) visit Carmel Cutlery (bought a Bob Jones, walked off accidentally with 2 Laconicos); (c) look for wedding gifts for Susan/Izzy. Bought a coolmusic box at The Music Box; (d) Spend my REI dividend. Got some biking gloves, mosquito net, Tevas.

–Went to Home depot for various water filters. Replaced “whole house” filter. Ordered exterior fridge filter from eBay, will do same for internal fridge filter.

–Rivet bracelet came in from LA Watch Works. Was going to put it on 1972 5512, but noticed the date (1977) so put it on 1977 1680. Duh.

–Selle San Marco Rolls seat came in. Put it on InnerLight for now. Nice seat, nice bike.

–Moved record cabinet from den to living room.

–Jumped rope a little (very little).

–Took a shower.

–Went to harbor Freight for a free moving blanket for transporting bike frame in back seat of BMW. Might be a little small.

–Moved assisted pull-up/dip machine from den to my bathroom. Hard work.

–Built 2 Tekna needles, which actually worked!

–Watched the last episode of Raines.

–Mowed lawns, sprayed weed killer.

–Roasted some caf beans.

–Went for 8-mile bike ride around San Andreas: Oceanview, Peaceful Valley. Exhausted.

–Finally got the Coffex tube to seal (o-rings) and it’s working with the new pump. Nice.

–Played around with Teknas, and though I can’t be sure, it appears that just sitting for a while caused a couple of the diaphragms to seal. Nice. Testing this with 5 leaky diaphragms in a dated bag; will check them periodically.

–To PAMF for Grace’s Dr. Stegman appointment.

–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 9 AM.

–Took a longish walk on the beach, found 2 sand dollars and a heavy something, looks like brain coral.

–Hat stretcher came in.

–Two packages that USPS was supposed to deliver are “available for pickup.” Again. This is getting old.

–Watched another episode of Raines.

–Paid some use taxes to the State of California.

–Made some cinnamon rolls.

–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 10 AM.

–Saved DVDs came in (2007 TV show). Total out 5 episodes (out of 13): first, last, and 3 others. Both say “Consider Saved” on the cover–these are likely copies sent out to Emmy voters.

–Went to post office to get package “awaiting delivery.” USPS is off the rails here.

–Tap came for Rolex. Drilled and tapped case for new case tube. Didn’t seem necessary: drill hardly touched the old threads, tap went in easily. New case tube did thread tight, though, so all seems well.

–Got bird seed with lots of sunflower seeds.

–Power out from 6 PM to 8:30 PM. We need a generator.

–Mowed, pruned, etc. Wiped out…….

–Watched another episode of Raines. Good stuff.

–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 10 AM.

–To Los Gatos for appointment with Dr. Liao. Froze several lesions on face, one on arm, two large freckles on hand (freebie).

–Got air in big SCUBA tank that came this morning.

–Shopping at Farm Fresh Produce and Nob Hill.

–NCAA finals (yawn).

–Spent the day removing DRM protection from 7 episodes of Raines bought at iTunes. What a minefield! Had to do it on Windows PC since Mac’s newest operating system (Mojave) has iTunes built in and foils all attempts at altering the .m4v DRM-protected files.

–Lunch at McDonald’s, then haircut at Supercuts.

–Final Four day.

–Took a walk to the beach, got some bear claws.

–Dr. Liao canceled (sick) while I was on my way in the car.

–Cleared ivy from behind old shed.

–Speedmaster Mk II watch case came in. Put it together, stopped running, fiddled with crown/stem, seems to be okay now. What is it with me and stems???

–Grace made muffins.

–Went to Great Infusions to get new tube/fittings for Coffex. Got a tube, nothing else. Ordered fittings from eBay; we’ll see.

–Noticed that Krakowskis REALLY had the ivy trimmed back before putting in their new brick wall.

–Worked on Coffex. Add-on diaphragm didn’t do much to reduce noise, and leaked.

–Finally got iPod Classic going. Bought an app to load music, it sucked. Turns out syncing is easy at iTunes if you click the iPod ICON on top, not the NAME on the left. Bad interface, but it worked. Sweet machine.

–Mowed all lawns.

–Got SCUBA tank filled, got Crystal Geyser water, got bear claws.