–Took the Beemer to Lunardi’s in Los Gatos for meat, cheese, danish, apples, oranges, etc.
–Took a walk on the beach.
Month: September 2019
–Played with Fujiyamas on the buffer.
Made pizza, as Grace was busy with Bochy farewell broadcast.
–WWII bubble lens flashlight came in; cool. Ordered 18650 battery; will be too small, but should work.
–Omeprazole arrived.
–Got scary email to wsf@comcast.net from scammer who knew froggy11 password. Turns out that email address was compromised, though not sure how they got the password. bf and flurbun seem safe at the moment.
–Played with regulators. Thought I had a severe setback when Mk5 kept blowing out; turns out the o-ring under the HP seat had fallen out at some point. All good now.
–Went to FedEx on Clare’s St. to send Rolex 5512 back to LAWW for warranty work.
–VDH stuff finally came in. Pin spanner too big for HP seat cap, but the “bullet” worked nicely to install piston stem through o-ring. Mk5 reg seems really consistent now. Tried 4 different HP seats, found that the “+” seat gave best IP at 125. May add a shim; may leave it.
–Went shopping at Farm Fresh Produce and Safeway; got a breakfast sandwich and some pastries for dessert at Donut Basket.
–Sorted out Scubapro Mk5 o-rings (sort of) and built as far as I can. Waiting for a couple parts from Vintage Double Hose.
–Barbecued hamburgers, corn, squash, plus heirloom tomatoes. Good!
–Went to Steven Bregman, PA, for another stab at getting rid of the ganglion cyst. He injects lidocaine and then squeezes the crap out it. Not necessarily the best approach, in my opinion.
–Deep Six first stage came back; I think it’s a new regulator (as opposed to a repaired original).
–Roasted some wet process beans. I think those are all I’ll be buying going forward–no chaff to clog up the roaster.
–Got new speedometer on Inner Light. Setting it up is another matter.
–Discovered that hour hand was loose on Rolex 5512–the one that came back from LAWW with dust under the crystal. grrr…
–Took a walk to the bluff with Grace, got some bearclaws.
–I went to Ace for a scuba tool and Safeway for milk, cream and eggs.
–Second Scubapro Mk5 came in; it’s in really nice shape (IP around 110 though). Took it apart, cleaned it up. Waiting for some additional tools/o-rings before final assembly. Doing this one right.
–Mowed, pruned, etc.
–Scubapro Mk5 came in. Took it apart and cleaned it. Waiting for rebuild kit.
–Went to Phoebe’s Art Gallery in Capitola and bought some cool stuff.
–Got some bagels at The Bagelry.
–Roasted caf and decaf beans.
–Further, turns out that “modern” high pressure seats are not flat like every one I’ve seen; they have a sort of rounded concave cone in the middle. Even further, newer rebuild kits come with THREE of these seats, different sizes to allow adjusting IP higher or lower. Oh well, fifth time’s a charm…
–Had a good breakfast at Holiday Inn Express.
–Takeda petty came in from Arizona Custom Knives. Piece of crap–pitting right up to blade edge. Oh well…
–Took the Beemer to Sac to look at houses. Zero traffic; trip took 2 hours and 43 minutes.
–Dame Shirley house is single level, nice yard (no pool), needs interior updating. We’ll let it go to someone who’s been after it longer. [Also a security sign with “armed response” at beginning of Dame Shirley.]
–Dinner at Panera. Pretty good, though no more pastries for an extra $.99 (crappy cookies only).
–Went to Capitola Art/Wine Festival. Fun, but hot. Got a t-shirt, an etched-metal art piece, and got to see The Great Morgani.
–While I was playing with regulators, second stages showed weird popping behavior. Turns out new Deep Six first stage must have broken a seal and was way over pressure. Strange, since I just tossed a nice Scubapro Mk5 first stage that was also way over pressure. The tank tonight was only at 1,300 PSI. I don’t know what’s going on.
–Took the Beemer to Farm Fresh Produce (Moss Landing) for apples, oranges and such. Got gas at the Chevron station on US 1.
–Finally heard from Nate Newsom. Loan pre-approval seems to have gone through.
–Took the Beemer to Nepenthe; couldn’t find a place to park. Went back and had lunch at Rocky Point, on the other side of 1 than my memory said. Stopped at Carmel Cutlery, bought an OTF knife, put in a request for a Laconico super-grind.
–Went to Dr. Kim for phase 2 of the crown. One more visit, I think.
–Dinner at Round Table Pizza. Good!
–Another Konosuke Fujiyama came in, from Bernal Cutlery. A keeper, finally.
–Replacement garbage disposal came in from Home Depot, missing some parts. Scrounged some bolts and spent the day trying to install. No go. Uninstalled it, took out the original sink ring, and will try again tomorrow with the replacement sink ring and a longer PVC drain pipe.
–Returned too-wide sink disposal to Home Depot. Bought disposal installation kit (PVC pipes) and plumber’s putty.
–Bought skin cleanser for Grace and hearing aid batteries at CVS. (Mixed up old and new batteries last night, so needed something prior to eBay batteries arriving.)
–Scubapro dive knives came in. Kinda crappy, pitting for example.
–Went to Target for deodorant and eye drops, McDonald’s for lunch.
–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 7 PM, after 11 days. Turns out the ones I ordered from eBay were size 10, not 13 as needed. I’m an idiot. Ordered some 13s.
–Kirill Yuzh noticed that crystal was mis-installed on ceramic Daytona I sent for consignment. CRAP! Asked him to return it. Good thing I didn’t put the warranty card in it.
–Heard from Randall Frey (Army, Afghanistan) that brass Tekna arrived in time for his dive trip to Philippines.
–Fixed EUFY wheel that was clogged with hair.
–Shopping at Farm Fresh Produce and Safeway.
–Went to Shoppers Corner for salami, cheese, apples, oranges.
–Took out the garbage.
–Rolex Daytona came in. Nice. All stickers, 0 beat error, no name on warranty.
–Went to Dr. Kim for root canal. Went fine. Two more visits: build up tooth, then crown.
–Rolex Daytona coming tomorrow, after many threats from me.
–Watchco Seamaster came in. Runs nice, so put it in best case to keep. As usual, tossed two movements because I couldn’t get the @#$% stems in properly.
–Rolex GMT 1675 crystal came in–a top hat with a large bevel, as was originally on the watch. I installed it, taking the opportunity to clean up a lot of gunk under the crystal retaining ring. Good job. Wondering whether to put same crystal (incoming) on 1680, which currently has original “no bevel” top hat, which MAY make the dial of the watch look slightly smaller. Tough choice.
–Had some Insight Ethiopia this morning. Good stuff, with berry aspects, but my tastes are changing towards darker roasts.
–Went to Chalk It Up, took pictures, got a t-shirt (undated).
–Went to new Temple Coffee on P Street (formerly Insight), found they stopped putting dates on roasted beans. Bye. Went to original Insight and got some dated beans and green beans.
–Grace dislikes inside of house we looked at, at 1900 Studebaker in Gold River.
–Drove to Sacramento. 5.5 hours. Miserable.
–A little shopping at Bel Air, then back to Holiday In Express.