[Toshi]

$7,880 for house paint with single coat 4-5 mil paint, 6 year warranty
$9,142 for single coat 6 mil paint, 9 year warranty
$11,382 for two coats of the 4-5 mil paint, 14 year warranty

$1,232.50 for the fence

so not bad. I'd go for the single coat thick option at that price differential. I emailed Certapro as well, but unless they can get a quote out super quick will probably go with this and eat the $1,200 or so in extra costs re insurance payout.

edit: Certapro coming by tomorrow afternoon for their estimate. nice and quick indeed. (and I'm wfh that day anyway.)

Certapro came back with $8,200 all up for the house + fence, same 6 mil paint. but their warranty is 2 years and excludes hail.

thus I'm going with Vivax, paying the premium for the better warranty.

picked out colors with family:

dark blue for house and garage door. white for the trim. (color balance on this Windows desktop I"m on makes it seem a bit green/yellow. it isn't. very pure white with a hint of warmth.) periwinkle front door.

 

[canadmos]

Worked on my bike instead of going riding today. Had to cut away a fair portion of my right crank arm to extract a very stubborn stripped pinch bolt. Lots of sparks but didn’t light anything on fire (and I wore eye protection as is prudent). Replacement crank arm en route now but it’ll probably hold up for a ride with the one remaining bolt. Maybe?

The ol’ bike got a fresh chainring (inadvertently went up 2 teeth but should be ok), chain, and cassette. While I had the rear wheel off I noticed a decent gouge in one chainstay. I’ll see what Pivot has to say about that.

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Jeez, how do those bolts strip out? Are they the same as any regular Shimano crank?

They aren't done up too tight.

You've probably already sorted it out, but I had a buddy who once mounted a Shimano cranked, but mismeasured (or had too many beer) and spaced the crank too far out. So it was effectively held on by one bolt and that plastic end cap.

You can probably guess how that turned out It survived most of the ride, but eventually the crank slid off while he was in the air on a dirt jump. Ended up cracking a bone in his foot, if I recall correctly.

 

[Toshi]

yikes

fwiw I haven't been using any spacers. not sure if that's right or not . I figure the plastic cap is only to hold it in position so that the pinch bolts can keep it on.

it's the same as any regular Shimano crank except that it's like a left hand one... only with right hand appropriate pedal threads. spider/ring goes on the motor's crankshaft, if you will, with a larger, left hand threaded, splined interface (and its own deep dish socket tool that I had to buy to service it).

 

[Toshi]

only one bolt stripped, for the record. and not even the closer in one that mandates use of the ball head Allen. maybe one time when I put the wrench in there was a tiny rock that made the engagement depth just shallow enough to not stand up to the torque?

 

[Toshi]

And, like that, the roof supplies are getting delivered (to the roof itself!)

 

[SkaredShtles]

And, like that, the roof supplies are getting delivered (to the roof itself!)

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Hopefully they aren't gonna rip the old roof off right before the rain/snow?

 

[Toshi]

Hopefully they aren't gonna rip the old roof off right before the rain/snow?

nah. Tuesday is the one forbidden day anyway due to it being garbage collection day. so after it for sure.

 

[Toshi]

Apparently Wednesday is the plan!

brrrrr

I don’t think that sounds like a great idea but what do I know

 

[6thElement]

Isn't Wednesday the rain/snow day?

 

[Toshi]

Isn't Wednesday the rain/snow day?

yes, at least through mid day

 

[Toshi]

Roof day moved to Friday. Guess they finally checked the weather eh. House got pressure washed today in anticipation of paint day (tbd: late next week?)

Fat skis getting Cast 1.0 swapped out for 2.0 at Powder7

Golden Bike Shop mechanic told me unofficially to just keep riding on the damaged chainstay but to keep an eye on it to make sure it’s not expanding. ‘tis 15 mm now.

Mangled by me crankarm didn’t fall off during my ride, which is good. Somehow I managed to strip the first few threads on the apparently fragile XT cassette’s lockring. A spare Deore lockring from my LBS’s parts drawer fixed that right up. And the 36t size was noticeably different but overall it was all fine still.

 

[Toshi]

from my local dealership contact re the VW ID.Buzz:

"We have our dealership training on the ID.Buzz at the beginning of next month. This will be my first time getting hands on with the ID. Buzz! [...] We should get the programs any week now. I will let you know how my training goes, I’m super excited!"

I’m committing: getting the snow tires put on the Busy Forks (instead of on the minivan). If an ID.Buzz transaction doesn’t happen by winter break I might end up having to get the minivan a cheap set of snow tires just to hobble through this ski season.

 

[Toshi]

so I've bitched here before how my wife has an education degree and a masters yet has been working as a teacher's aide in the younger kids' preschool, and how this job seems to sap all excess energy from her (and then some).

well, she laid the groundwork for going to work as a legit full-blown teacher over this summer by taking the Praxis exams. apparently that's all she needed to do, 4 of them, all passed on the first try after some weeks of studying from books. but she said that for logistics and familiarity with this school she wouldn't want to work anywhere but at the kids' elementary.

turns out one of the 1st grade teachers, new this year, hasn't had a great time with it. said 1st grade teacher is thus quitting mid year, effective next month. the principal of the school, aware of my wife's desire to teach elementary there, has reached out to her as their first, internal choice. thus my wife shall be doing a long term sub gig in the 1st grade classroom until winter break, at which time she'll make up her own mind of whether this is something she wants to segue into as the official classroom teacher and all.

this is a positive thing, finally working with the benefit of her actual degrees (which are unrelated to early education in particular but count in the tally), and finally to make more money than the 401(k)/403(b) annual employee contribution limit. which she hasn't been to this point.


update: she decided to jump in with both feet come Nov and just accept it outright. might as well get paid for the real job if the real job is what she's going to do.

Update: turned out to be an interview process required kind of thing. She had her sample lesson taught and formal interview on Monday. Should hear more one way or another re her or the other two interviewees later in the week.

edit: in fact she has a meeting with the principal Wednesday afternoon!

 

[Toshi]

ordered up a new chainring. already have an extra chain and cassette (actually 2 of each iirc) in the workbench. shall give the ol' Pivot Shuttle some nice fresh parts

(and I desperately need a new rear tire. but I'm holding out for the Schwalbe radial Shredda to be available.)

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Front and rear radial-fanciness Shreddas: ordered

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who knew 3rd party (aero this time!) crossbars for the Busy Forks had such powers

said 3rd party crossbars arrived. construction actually looks pretty solid (and clearly is designed specifically for the hard points of the bZ roof rail system).

not bad for 2.78 Busy Forks payments, including tax and gratis shipping straight from China. (OEM would have been more like 6.6 such payments thanks to pricey shipping.) tons of bubble wrap and tape used. only minor gripe is documentation talks about T40 bolts but the ones in question look straight 6 mm Allen to my eye, def. not Torx.

being aero and all they hopefully won’t whistle and resonate like those crap round crossbars I tried on the short lived EQB.

 

[Toshi]

the flag has shipped

I repeat

THE FLAG HAS SHIPPED

(note that I probably won't actually mount the flagpole on the railing of my porch until post-election due to the whole "getting whole house painted" business. but I will post it EVERYWHERE online in the meantime when it comes, because flag.)

 

[Toshi]

Update: turned out to be an interview process required kind of thing. She had her sample lesson taught and formal interview on Monday. Should hear more one way or another re her or the other two interviewees later in the week.

edit: in fact she has a meeting with the principal Wednesday afternoon!

wife got the job. starts tomorrow with planning time, and Monday in the classroom. so she'll be the classroom teacher for our 1st grader after all this.

 

[Toshi]

Golden Bike Shop mechanic told me unofficially to just keep riding on the damaged chainstay but to keep an eye on it to make sure it’s not expanding. ‘tis 15 mm now.

Pivot support got back to me and their recommendation is to bring the bike in and start a warranty claim. So I shall do just that… on Friday, after one last ride.

 

[Toshi]

Off with the old and busted (by my hand/tools)

On with the new and mysteriously not actually the same in profile but of proper length and interface

My pedal spindle is a bit bent, evident on screwing it in to the new crankarm, but that’s not surprising. I do this periodically, just another part to replace now and then

I also had to twist the ol’ nipples on my commuter’s rear wheel, which had lost much of its tension. Did one pass of all 36 of them for a full turn, then another pass with a half turn. Wheel stayed true before and after this but might have to do some more later.

edit: added in another full turn later. so 2.5 turns of retensioning to get them back into reasonable spec.

 

[Toshi]

My pedal spindle is a bit bent, evident on screwing it in to the new crankarm, but that’s not surprising. I do this periodically, just another part to replace now and then

Going to give a $20 Amazon generic set a spin

 

[canadmos]

the flag has shipped

I repeat

THE FLAG HAS SHIPPED

(note that I probably won't actually mount the flagpole on the railing of my porch until post-election due to the whole "getting whole house painted" business. but I will post it EVERYWHERE online in the meantime when it comes, because flag.)

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I'd vote for Gandalf. Good kitties.

 

[Toshi]

Pivot support got back to me and their recommendation is to bring the bike in and start a warranty claim. So I shall do just that… on Friday, after one last ride.

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Bike dropped off at GBS and warranty (vs crash replacement) claim initiated as planned. Also ended up bending a derailleur hanger a bit on the ride so that'll be taken care of one way or another. and dropping to 32t on the chainring, owning up to the 36t mistake. my bad

edit: it'd be nice if they didn't have any more gen 1 Shuttle frames in stock and I was thus forced to be upgraded to a modern one at cost.

 

[Toshi]

Cast 1.0 up for auction (as I’m now set up with . Please spread the link around if you know someone who might be looking for this:

Cast Freetour 1.0 Touring Binding Upgrade Kit | eBay

<p>For auction: Cast Freetour 1.0 alpine touring upgrade kit. This is what you need to convert your Look Pivot 15 or 18 bindings from alpine to alpine touring use. </p><br /><p>This includes everything depicted, including the tech toes and an extra set of brake locks I had lying in my tool bench...

www.ebay.com

 

[Toshi]

kids' room window AC stowed away. shed cleaned out and converted to a winter sports conformation, with to-be-used skis and boot bags moved into the garage. (and precariously secured-with-drywall-anchors ski holders on the garage wall remounted to a piece of wood in turn screwed securely into my 24" on-center studs.)

now I am about ready for winter, esp. with the snow tires on the Busy Forks. I'll pop the ski rack on it sometime this week, maybe Tuesday night.

 

[6thElement]

kids' room window AC stowed away. shed cleaned out and converted to a winter sports conformation, with to-be-used skis and boot bags moved into the garage. (and precariously secured-with-drywall-anchors ski holders on the garage wall remounted to a piece of wood in turn screwed securely into my 24" on-center studs.)

now I am about ready for winter, esp. with the snow tires on the Busy Forks. I'll pop the ski rack on it sometime this week, maybe Tuesday night.

Winter wheels on the car, but have not yet swapped the race XC bikes into the basement and brought the fatbikes out. They'll need a tubeless refresh too.

A couple of house things to-do, but holding out until we delist over the winter...

 

[Toshi]

A couple of house things to-do, but holding out until we delist over the winter...

no bites so still here by default? we get to keep you guys, yay

 

[6thElement]

no bites so still here by default? we get to keep you guys, yay

Fortunately/unfortunately yep (I'd rather be "stuck" for summer riding conditions).

 

[Toshi]

Fortunately/unfortunately yep (I'd rather be "stuck" for summer riding conditions).

never too late to pick up plank-sliding

 

[SkaredShtles]

never too late to pick up plank-sliding

 

[Toshi]

photo by CDOT. this looks like heading east on I-70 towards the tunnel from Silverthorne

lovely, just lovely. except for the poor schmoes stuck in that behind some dude in a rental on bald all seasons, or a trucker unwise enough to not be carrying chains as is mandated...

 

[6thElement]

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photo by CDOT. this looks like heading east on I-70 towards the tunnel from Silverthorne

lovely, just lovely. except for the poor schmoes stuck in that behind some dude in a rental on bald all seasons, or a trucker unwise enough to not be carrying chains as is mandated...

I'd guess near Vail Pass with all the construction they're doing over there.

 

[Toshi]

es posiblé

closed between Vail and tunnels now (!)

 

[6thElement]

What do I win?

 

[Toshi]

Copper this morning

Me this morning

My view last evening

 

[6thElement]

 

[Toshi]

the Kia PV5 WKNDR Concept is highly relevant to my interests indeed. would, in a hot minute.

https://www.kiamedia.com/us/en/media/pressreleases/22696/presskits

 

[Toshi]

My newfangled radial Schwalbe Shreddas have arrived. Big ol’ knobs as advertised.

 

[Toshi]

Popped on the rack last night amidst exercise to avoid doomscrolling once I saw the writing on the wall.

 

[Toshi]

a short story in 3 parts

(that was some saturated, slushy snow to clear off!)

 

[Toshi]

No name $20 pedals arrived and actually look quite nice

 

[Toshi]

Got a free Ting device from my insurer. Pain in the ass: had to call to find out who to email, then got a secret link from them. Apparently they don’t want people to actually use this promo. Anyway I cost them $99 and now have something that’ll monitor the house for arcs.