–Rolex 1625 Turn-O-Graph came in. Buggered up the caseback opening it as it was tightened by a behemoth. Why do they do that? Replaced green leather strap with Oyster bracelet and it looks pretty good.
–Hearing aid batteries went out around 9 PM.
Month: May 2019
–Took Grace to the dentist in Aptos. Root canal/crown coming. Apparently lost my Benchmade/Boguszewski auto while sitting in the waiting room.
–Went shopping at Target and Food Maxx.
–Reconsidering iPhone 6S (older, larger, rounded case) vs. SE (newer, smaller, square-cut case). 6S feels nice now (after using SE for a while), but SE is said to have better battery. Arghhh…
–Japanese pruners came in. Nice, but not mind-boggling.
–Nozzle popped off the end of the Flo-Jet tube. Crap. Took the Rocket apart to dry it; not much moisture there. Put it back together solid, then wiped it clean.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 2 PM.
–Sun is in and out; low 60s.
–Read a book.
–Bought some bear claws at El Patio.
–Heard from Tom Elken that he has a place for the U.S. Open. So, no incentive to spruce up 110 Playa.
–Put together an Omega Seamaster ‘electric blue,” which was running much better than when it first arrived (0 beat error, -1s/d), so I can get rid of the one from efauser.
–Looked into, and gave up on, Rolex Hulk (green dial and bezel, but “super” case; and Kermit 50th anniversary (green bezel only, black dial, nothing to indicate it’s an anniversary watch.
–Took Grace to PAMF Santa Cruz for ultrasound and blood draw.
–Mowed lawns.
–Kato tamahagane letter opener came in from JNS. What a piece of crap. Separations, splits, sharpened by a 10-year-old. Will toss. Expensive lesson.
–Watched an episode of Wiseguy with Kevin Spacey. Dated, but the man can act.
–Shabang potato chips came in (found on reddit, apparently their major market is prisons). Good stuff: vinegar and barbecue.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 6 PM.
–Went to REI to look at Sahara hiking shorts. Size 38 fit, they had one, bought it. Bought two more online.
–Roasted some decaf.
–Checked tires on both cars (got warning last night in Civic regarding pressure). All slightly low, no obvious problems. Filled.
–Took a short bike ride. Chilly.
–Susan’s wedding. Miserable.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 2 PM.
–Took a shower.
–Furnace went out during the night. Came back on AFTER I set up appointment with Steve from Bellows Plumbing/Heating. He spent a while looking at it, ended up cleaning flame sensor. Gave a price for replacing flame sensor, but did not recommend it as it seemed to be fine. $149 service charge. Happy.
–Noticed a NEW pit on Shig western suji, in same area as others near kanji. Got rid of it, but this is scary stuff.
–Re-roasted some Barefoot Redcab to make it easier to grind. Not a good idea.
–Shig 270 western sujihiki came in, poorly wrapped and pitted. Cleaned it up, offered to trade for 210 western gyuto + $500 with eitan at KKF. He got rude.
–A little rain came.
–Also tried to swap blades in the two Benchmade Boguszewski spike autos. Nope. Hole must have been drilled at an angle in longer blade.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around Noon.
–iPhone SE came in; all good. Ordered new battery anyway (Coconut battery app says 124 cycles, which is weird; same app shows 17 charge cycles for Mac).
–Second Benchmade/Boguszewski auto came in. Better-centered blade, but blade is .5″ shorter than the first one. Very strange.
–Grace went shopping at Safeway.
–Played with watches/bracelets; tried to clear off paperwork from desk.
–Lunch on the bluff.
–Did much yard work.
–2 of 3 packages expected from USPS arrived–at 8 PM. (Troy Lee gloves and Klean Kanteens)
–Sent out Seamaster blue bezel.
–Got a rug mat for Grace at Home Depot.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 8 PM.
–Made muffins.
–Jay Welty finished the fence: $1,400. Seems to be good work.
–Got a book at the library and bear claws at El Patio.
–Jay Welty and crew came to dig up ivy and replace fence between our place and Pat Cross’s.
–Took a walk to the beach.
–Went shopping at Capitola mall; lunch at Five Guys.
–Grace’s watch bracelet came loose for the second time in a couple days. Replaced it with a 20mm strap. Don’t really know what the problem was.
–Started to go to Capitola Mall for wrapping stuff; traffic too heavy.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 1 PM.
–Made a bunch of strawberry jelly. Good stuff, but maybe less water and pectin next time.
–Got some salmon at the boat Beticia in Moss Landing. Got some strawberries and such at Farm Fresh Produce nearby.
–Went to Home Depot for weed trimmer and poles to mount mosquito net on front door. Went to CVS for epsom salts.
–Tried to mount mosquito net. Need longer poles (at least).
–Turns out I wanted potassium bicarbonate, not magnesium sulfate (epsom salts). Bought some at eBay.
–Went to Steven Kim DDS to get a couple of “holes” filled in right upper canine. Seems fine.
–Read up on water for coffee. Will likely just add potassium carbonate (epsom salts) to bottled water. No scale, no corrosion, tastes good. (I hope.)
–Downloaded some vintage Magnum from dailymotion.com. Turns out that they (appear to) foil the copyright robots by (a) freezing the video for the first ~15 seconds before letting it run normally, and (b) left/right reversing the video. Unbelievable.
–Renewed vstat.com hosting package at namecheap. Updated from Professional plan ($77/year) to Stellar Plus plan ($52/year). Only difference is no access to cloudflare under Stellar Plus—whatever that is.
–Went shopping at Rancho del Mar Safeway.
–Went to Pure Water store, discovered their water is ultra filtered, with TDS of 4.