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Got a Brother laser printer/copier/scanner thingy from Amazon. Been working like an absolute champ since I got it. I can print to it from my phone if I need to... Was around $100 in 2019.

But I looked and it's twice the price it was when I bought it. Still not bad at $220.

Our lanai is about 17 and wide and deep with an additional overhang so it gets little direct sun. We use it form time to time during the summer and daily about 8-9 months a year. Worthy expense!

86F/73F 90%RH- with a good chance of 60s at nighttime- later this week.

At the Honda dealership for oil change, rotation, balance, air filter, wipers, brake fluid drain and alignment. Gonna be over $400. Ouch!!!

Dumpster for bathroom remodel gets delivered to our driveway today. Demolition tomorrow and Friday. Ordered the tile, tub and fixtures, all in stock locally. Could be done by end of next week, but I bet it takes a couple days longer.

Nothing else on today's agenda, but a zoom business call tonight.

Dealership rapes you on those air filter installs (engine/cabin). Super easy to do yourself, takes ten minutes, saves a couple hundred... Lots of youtube videos to walk you through the three or four steps.

A nice 64 for the morning walk. Amazing how cool 64 feels when the RH is low.

I can do all of that routine maintenance in my garage except the alignment... which likely isn't necessary unless you been riding on crap roads or hit a pothole or something.

Full synthetic oil change with Mobil 1, wix oil/air filters, wiper blades... less than $100. Same with the brake fluid... you can go 50-100k miles on brake fluid. Only car I ever had that recommended changing it every 20k miles was a Mercedes C300.

Bought my tires at Discount Tire and they do the balance/rotation for free. YMMV

getting a dose of heat starting today...sposed to hit 95...guessing it'll be hotter...walked at 0830 and it was already 78 when I finished...on the bright side, lows will be about 61, so I can sleep better...

another relief is the heat wave will likely relent next Tuesday, when I have surgery on my left wrist and thumb...post op, it'll be immobilized in a cast for 5-6 weeks...it'd be brutal to have a cast on, sweating and itching during a heat wave...

Get a wire handled fly swatter. Slide the handle into the cast to scratch where it itches.
It was a savior in the summer of 86 after my foot broke in seven places.

I know. Didn't need the alignment or brake fluid drained. Had a coupon and got everything else for $200. Well worth the money to me. YMMV.

Mornin MAC & 500 peeps.................

Oh my!

Morning folks.

Good Thursday Almost noon to All! It's 76° on the way to 83° and sunny.

Costco is selling Chili Tamarind Bites, not from Mexico, but from Thailand, they are delicious!

Tamarind and chili is a common candy in Mexico.

I got shut out is high school. Thanks. Thanks a lot. 😢

Made 2 bottles of habanero hot sauce. Even though I cooked the peppers in the garage, running the blender in the kitchen aresolized the hot stuff and had wife and I coughing for a while. Did open the windows despite the rain. I ran to the grocery store for ground beefs since the freezer was empty and when I came back the spicy air hit me again.

At least it wasn't really hot peppers.

Chopped up all the jalapenos and got them fermenting.

Only things left in the garden are a few carrots but they can stay past first freeze. The rest of the garden has all been pulled out of the dirt.

Brats for dinner.

Howdy........

Welcome to Friday all all ya cbidder's......................

…. Brothers.

Good Friday Morning to All! It's an overcast 72° on the way to 84° today.

Don't waste time getting this checked out Brother Eight.

Nice on furniture , but HEART issue is more important.

+1 on that!

+3 Get checked out. Heart issues are nothing to take lightly.

Took my hearing aids on the night stand the other after falling asleep with them. Woke up and couldn't find one. Tore bed and nightstand apart. Looked everywhere it could have dropped if I accidental left it half-way in my ear and got up without knowing and it fell off. Gave up after two days. Buying a new pair Tuesday afternoon at Costco- if I don't find it by then. It's like 3.5 years old, so at least II got it's life out of it. New pair comes with a loss warranty for the next two years and are much more technologically up to date. Chit happens.

Bathroom rehab is underway. They scheduled two days for tear-out with the expectation of a lot of rotten/moldy wood, but there was very little to none,. Only took one day, which our contractor said would lower his price quite a bit. Tile is ordered and comes in a couple days, if not already in. Fixtures are already here. Bathtub comes Wednesday. Contractor needs plumber to come in and possibly a dry-wall person, but the project **might** still be finished by next Friday- if everything comes together. If not, a few days into the next week and that's it!

Looking forward to the 40th reunion in Gainesville, FL with the guys I pledged my fraternity (TEP) with. We were all very tight, but haven't seen each other (everyone is all across the country) for like 20 years, so it should be a lot of fun doing the things college students do at like 60yrs. old, as opposed to 21yrs. or younger. Dinner Friday at a fine steakhouse (Shula's) . Nice hotel. Cigar bar after dinner. Hanging out the rest of the weekend and going to all the places and restaurants we used to eat at- if they are still there...

One of my buddies was 100% on track to medical school through the very end and wanted to be a neuro-surgeon, Almost perfect grades. Even got into UF medical school. But, he took a year off and then decided to get a PhD. in Marine Biology instead- I am bummed because I was so sure he would use his brilliance and skill differently, but that was his choice and I respect it. He would have been amazingly good. Another I am close with is an eye surgeon. And, yet another got a phd in Pharmacy and then went on to medical school and is a Critical Care Specialists. And, then there are several others who are other types of docs. I was one of the dumb ones who became a lawyer.

There are several other lawyers and then most everyone else got degrees in accounting, finance or economics. Another, is VP of Production for FOX. Really nice group of guys, several of whom are still very good friends - 40 years later. Can't wait until the 20th!

Gonna jump on the vherf tonight to watch the MMA Fights on Prime at 8pm ET. Everyone is welcome to join us.

Night shift is over thankfully. Back do days and some normalcy.

I miss having a garden. Hopefully next spring I can start another one.

On a completely unrelated note, the kid got a job a part time Walmart job and they work around his college classes. A selfish bonus is I can place an online order and he'll bring it home. Free delivery. Prolly do some tacos tomorrow for lunch. Maybe some steak tips on Sunday and do some chicken tortilla soup in the crock pot. Freeze some single serving sizes and thaw them out to take for lunches and stuff. It's been many months since I did a batch of chicken tortilla soup, It always turns out yummy.

Bought a battery powered snow thrower/shovel thingy off of Amazon for those days that it snows but doesn't snow enough to fire up the big snowblower. Has 4.8 stars and good reviews on Amazon and elsewhere so I bought it new for like $95. Claims to clear up to 6 inches of snow, can run up to over an hour between charges and moves up to 300 lbs of snow per minute depending on the weight of the snow (yeah, we'll see). Light fluffy stuff, it is probably true. Wet and heavy stuff, probably not true.

Just something to use rather than shoveling off the deck, sidewalk and stairs. I'm too old for that $hit and I don't want to blow out my back again nor my kids' backs. Work smarter, not harder. It's battery powered so we don't have to drag a cord around or gas it up.

Just out of curiosity I looked at it again on the web. The price was jacked up to about $200 or more on Amazon, Home Depot, Loews. Unintentionally I bought it before they jacked up the price to double for what I bought it for. Timing is everything but nobody can predict the future.

Saturday morning greetings 500 gang!