If I get to that point when I don’t have enough then I’ll take you up. For now I am scrawny and weak
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Downtown via e-cargo bike. 14 miles and change one way. Will catch an A Line assist on the way back, methinks.
in addition to this buddy RadWagon there was a Bullitt cargo bike locked up 50’ away as well
edit: despite being downtown all my gear survived unscathed, including the velcro-affixed bags and the Outbound light on my locked-through-strap helmet.
in addition to this buddy RadWagon there was a Bullitt cargo bike locked up 50’ away as well
edit: despite being downtown all my gear survived unscathed, including the velcro-affixed bags and the Outbound light on my locked-through-strap helmet.
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1) channeling @Jm_ and ordered some heavy weight pogies from REI for my commuter. Cobrafist. if they're overkill I'll return 'em.
2) closed on the refi of the PNC HELOC on the mountain place this afternoon. prime rate + 1.3% float, not great as that equals 9.8% in this rate climate (!), but few places will write for a second house and PNC does. now I will have the full $200k of available credit breathing room, which should help my credit utilization ratio a bit.
they also had three options for closing: in a branch (a new branch is actually close to me, by Raising Cane's, 1.6 miles away!); with a traveling notary that would come by here; or via a virtual notary, via webcam.
picked the third option and it was awesome. signed the non-notarized stuff online this morning. ID verification and the actual real signing part took 20 minutes. every closing should be this easy.
2) closed on the refi of the PNC HELOC on the mountain place this afternoon. prime rate + 1.3% float, not great as that equals 9.8% in this rate climate (!), but few places will write for a second house and PNC does. now I will have the full $200k of available credit breathing room, which should help my credit utilization ratio a bit.
they also had three options for closing: in a branch (a new branch is actually close to me, by Raising Cane's, 1.6 miles away!); with a traveling notary that would come by here; or via a virtual notary, via webcam.
picked the third option and it was awesome. signed the non-notarized stuff online this morning. ID verification and the actual real signing part took 20 minutes. every closing should be this easy.
Not sure if those will do what mine do or if they have a similar feature, but these "near freezing" rides have been challenging, especially with the heavy snowfall.
Basically everything is getting wet and you can't really stop it with a "waterproof" layer, so a little more insulation below such layer has been good and helps to trap the heat, while I've been getting a little soaked.
On the pogies side, the Dogwood Designs let me "roll them up", slightly inside-out, and they just stay like in the picture. Super nice for air-ing out and when you start getting a little warmer. Given how wet it was, I eventually would pull them back up, despite temps 28-34F or so, because my fingers would start getting cold in the soaked gloves. When it gets cold, I put some foam insulation around the "openings" where the shifters and brakes are and leave it there for the rest of the season. They also make a good place to put your extra gloves if you have no other room on the bike/pack for some, that also keeps em a little warmer, or throw them down your jacket.
Some have a "flap" that will open? On some rides like I said, I gotta start with them "up" and then lower them later, but there's no way on the same ride I could just "deal with it" and ride without them in the cold initially with my raynauds. I mean, there are ways, but all of those tend to decrease bike control significantly and finger tips usually still get cold.
Basically everything is getting wet and you can't really stop it with a "waterproof" layer, so a little more insulation below such layer has been good and helps to trap the heat, while I've been getting a little soaked.
On the pogies side, the Dogwood Designs let me "roll them up", slightly inside-out, and they just stay like in the picture. Super nice for air-ing out and when you start getting a little warmer. Given how wet it was, I eventually would pull them back up, despite temps 28-34F or so, because my fingers would start getting cold in the soaked gloves. When it gets cold, I put some foam insulation around the "openings" where the shifters and brakes are and leave it there for the rest of the season. They also make a good place to put your extra gloves if you have no other room on the bike/pack for some, that also keeps em a little warmer, or throw them down your jacket.
Some have a "flap" that will open? On some rides like I said, I gotta start with them "up" and then lower them later, but there's no way on the same ride I could just "deal with it" and ride without them in the cold initially with my raynauds. I mean, there are ways, but all of those tend to decrease bike control significantly and finger tips usually still get cold.
So it turned out that their original repair wasn’t. Found a leak after having turned on the zone a per the above post. Small leak at least—nothing evident below it. Renovation coordinator lady will get a plumber to fix this and will repaint now water stained baseboard.Good to know that they made sure everything was working correctly when they said they were done with their work.
Also got the second solar survey done, room divider curtains (and normal curtains elsewhere) hung, 7’ beanbag chair unfurled etc.
This should be the last visit up there: left it tidied up. Formal clean, photos, radiant zone fix don’t need me around. Won’t open up the rental schedule until the latter item is done.
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Official Ramcharger images all up on Stellantis’s press site. This is the interesting one, imo:
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Pack in floor. No transmission. No tunnel for a driveshaft. IFS and IRS (!). A rear axle motor and presumably under that Pentastar up front a similar one.
So a clean slate design that just happens to share the Pentastar and a charging port with the Pachy but is otherwise very different indeed.
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Official images all up on Stellantis’s press site. This is the interesting one, imo: Pack in floor. No transmission. No tunnel for a driveshaft. IFS and IRS (!). A rear axle motor and presumably under that Pentastar up front a similar one. So a clean slate design that just happens to share the...
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Pack in floor. No transmission. No tunnel for a driveshaft. IFS and IRS (!). A rear axle motor and presumably under that Pentastar up front a similar one.
So a clean slate design that just happens to share the Pentastar and a charging port with the Pachy but is otherwise very different indeed.
electric car designs are so shitty they literally carry their own generator nowOfficial Ramcharger images all up on Stellantis’s press site. This is the interesting one, imo:
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Official images all up on Stellantis’s press site. This is the interesting one, imo: Pack in floor. No transmission. No tunnel for a driveshaft. IFS and IRS (!). A rear axle motor and presumably under that Pentastar up front a similar one. So a clean slate design that just happens to share the...
Pack in floor. No transmission. No tunnel for a driveshaft. IFS and IRS (!). A rear axle motor and presumably under that Pentastar up front a similar one.
So a clean slate design that just happens to share the Pentastar and a charging port with the Pachy but is otherwise very different indeed.
sweet
I can chuck one of those in the back of an electric maverick
what's the point of electric again?
at least you can actually drive it somewhere without camping out at a charging station for 3 hours I guess. I can think of another system that provides the same freedom however....
For the towing use case this makes a ton of sense. No worrying about pull through DCFC and can supply 7.2 kW faux shore power at camp. And for 99% of regular use it’ll be in electric with 145 miles of range.
sweet
you should definitely get one
you should definitely get one
Nah, I’m not a trailer person. Doesn’t make sense for my life. I just think it’s cool that it’s coming to market.
@SkaredShtles weird local price flukes
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My local station that anachronistically shuts down at night is at $2.559 now, with an extra 10 cents off from that since I signed up for Walmart+ for the year. Between the free Paramount+ and the gas discount $49 for the trial year is well worth it.
Price war forces gas prices below $2 on road south of Denver
Gas prices have been dropping ever since a Quik Trip opened on Arapahoe Road.
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My local station that anachronistically shuts down at night is at $2.559 now, with an extra 10 cents off from that since I signed up for Walmart+ for the year. Between the free Paramount+ and the gas discount $49 for the trial year is well worth it.
LOL@SkaredShtles weird local price flukes
Price war forces gas prices below $2 on road south of Denver
Gas prices have been dropping ever since a Quik Trip opened on Arapahoe Road.
My local station that anachronistically shuts down at night is at $2.559 now, with an extra 10 cents off from that since I signed up for Walmart+ for the year. Between the free Paramount+ and the gas discount $49 for the trial year is well worth it.
it's 6.50 here
headed to nevada to get gas today!
I'd be installing a storage tank at my house
Can't we just declare a nationwide transit system to be crucial to national defense and use that budget?
1/2 new, unripped 3rd row seat covers kinda installed, the right sided one in the mail. Kinda because the rear attachment mechanism was something infeasible to replicate without much, much disassembly. So snip snip and stuff it is.
The astute watcher will note piping color isn’t a match. That’ll just have to do.
also proof of gas price.
The astute watcher will note piping color isn’t a match. That’ll just have to do.
also proof of gas price.
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First string ensemble concert for my eldest
Liftin’. Bumping up by 5 lb each set for now. Ended today at 100 lb. Just getting comfortable again.
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edit: make that 105 lb, after having one of my med school buddies point out that I should lower the safety bars (so as to be above my neck but low enough I can do a full ROM rep above them instead of in front of them).
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Liftin’. Bumping up by 5 lb each set for now. Ended today at 100 lb. Just getting comfortable again.
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Lifting update: going to aim for 2x/week, Sunday and Wed or Thurs depending on what my week holds. Bumped up by 5 lb each set and did sets at 75-100 lb, iirc. Bar moving well at 100, just some trepidation getting it off the hooks over the big safety arms. If I’m doing something bad form-wise...
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edit: make that 105 lb, after having one of my med school buddies point out that I should lower the safety bars (so as to be above my neck but low enough I can do a full ROM rep above them instead of in front of them).
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I was informed I was using the safety arms wrong by lifting around them, as it were. Now they are lowered a notch, I’m further back into the rack, and the J hooks are raised a notch. Net result is now I’m lifting over the safety arms: still with full reps and they’ll save my neck, literally, if...
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Independent plumber guy says $1,500-1,800 for the water softener + catalytic carbon filter installation. Going with him.
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Hopefully he actually turns it on and checks that it works and doesn't leak before he leaves.
I don't have salt for it yet. got 44 lb x 6 bags coming from Amazon in the next few days.Hopefully he actually turns it on and checks that it works and doesn't leak before he leaves.
my delivery driver will love me even more*, after the 255 lb of plates + extra (since given away) 45 lb barbell and all. and the power rack itself.
* not quite true, though, as this is going to be a scheduled freight delivery apparently, a la the massage chair, TVs, and other furniture type things.
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got a new EV
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I bought another EV. It has portal axles even. Kinda. Box looked as though it had been dragged behind the boat all the way from China. But as it was an Indiegogo project that actually shipped and materialized I won’t complain further. I’m curious as to whether this will have any...
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it is construction worker-cosplay bike commuting season!
brought the battery in and lugged the 2A charger from home (will upgrade to a 7A Cycle Satiator when in stock via Juiced) as today will be a high miles day due to rehearsal downtown tonight.
"Object Assembly" and "Bug Search" values very poor. Off to work in the coal mines for that one!
did you note that she colored a scuba diver correctly tho"Object Assembly" and "Bug Search" values very poor. Off to work in the coal mines for that one!
after a delay for "accounting review" my expenses for my Japan ostensibly-for-work trip have been approved by the powers that be
this pleases me. (the difference between "due employee" and the total cost is because they fronted the plane ticket so that wasn't out of my pocket.)
so the moral of the story is that I should skip my own talks more often eh
this pleases me. (the difference between "due employee" and the total cost is because they fronted the plane ticket so that wasn't out of my pocket.)
so the moral of the story is that I should skip my own talks more often eh
November 2023 State of the Debt Union update. this should be the high water mark: renovation costs all basically done with now, HELOCs drawn upon (with one just refinanced to raise its limit to the full $200k they'll write for).
just shy of $1.6mm in total debt. 3/4 of it is at good rates. 1/4 of it isn't, although in this climate only the 9.8% bit truly is egregious. but I shan't be paying any extra on it until I plump my taxable account back up from its sad state, although I am hedging my bets in that I'm contributing fully to all my sundry tax-deferred retirement accounts once again. some months of actual rental income instead of continual expenses from the mountain house would help this cause, but I think I've threaded the needle and not cash-crunched myself into a hole.
note as before that my student loan shall be done with in a year. I'll also have an equivalent size chunk of cash monthly freed up from Baby Aya not being in preschool any more, whether she skips to 1st grade or goes to kindergarten alike. then there's the minor Peloton treadmill payment (not on spreadsheet) that goes away in 2 months, and the self-loan (with interest paid to me so effectively not an interest-bearing note) from the 403(b) done in 2.25 years. it shall all be ok. eventually. those principal vs interest figures for the high rate 30 year term notes at the beginning of the term are sobering.
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‘tis a day when I can with my schedule so it’s to and from preschool via the RadWagon. She won’t need the baby suit this afternoon and even it was borderline too hot this morning at 51 Freedom Units.
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Cleaning a hot tub is like scrubbing a giant, irregularly shaped toilet. Only with fewer poop bits. In theory.
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anyway, Oh Yuk cleaner run through the jets for an hour, surfaces sprayed down, water rapidly emptied via the very satisfying to use submersible pump I got, and every bit of it scrubbed by me with a microfiber towel.
it's refilling now--slowly via the garden hose as I'm waiting on the proper adapter to fit my giant PVC hose to the garden hose spigot. first lesson of hot tub ownership now learned: don't let it get gross even a tiny bit.
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Ran some Oh Yuk hot tub cleaner through the pumps and jets for an hour. It surfaced green gunk as it’s supposed to do. Now draining it quickly with my new fancy submersible pump and large PVC hose setup. Much, much quicker than gravity drainage via the 5/8” garden hose thread method I did...
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anyway, Oh Yuk cleaner run through the jets for an hour, surfaces sprayed down, water rapidly emptied via the very satisfying to use submersible pump I got, and every bit of it scrubbed by me with a microfiber towel.
it's refilling now--slowly via the garden hose as I'm waiting on the proper adapter to fit my giant PVC hose to the garden hose spigot. first lesson of hot tub ownership now learned: don't let it get gross even a tiny bit.
It is apparently time for a new rear tire for my commuter e-bike. This is just shy of 2,500 miles so it did ok. Except for the whole multiple flats before settling on a Mr. Tuffy rim strip deal.
it’s a stupid 26 x 4.0” size. Time to poke around and see if anything with even similar circumference is available in hardened form, a la Schwabe Marathon Plus (or GT 365) that are far too small
it’s a stupid 26 x 4.0” size. Time to poke around and see if anything with even similar circumference is available in hardened form, a la Schwabe Marathon Plus (or GT 365) that are far too small
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