Monthly Archives: February 2015
Great Times with Old Friends . . .
Although the forecast was for clouds and rain today, it started out warm and sunny. In fact by noon we had the AC’s on. So I was outside working on my chore list.
First up, I got back on my headlights. I removed the old passenger side unit, replaced the clear turn signal bulbs with amber ones, and then installed the new one. Again, easy pezy.
Then I removed the new unit Chris and I installed yesterday so I could replace the clear bulbs with amber ones on that one too. But the reinstall was anything but easy pezy. I’m not sure why, but it was a real pain in the butt to get it lined up and tightened down correctly. But finally, all of a sudden, it just worked. Going to be interesting to see what it looks like tonight with both lights installed.
I spent the rest of the afternoon working down my list, trying to catch up for lost time due to all the bad weather. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the weather is going to allow me to get some paint on the rig bumper, but we’ll see. I may be able to do it on the way to Tucson. Weather-wise, it looks like Las Cruces might be a possibility.
About 4:15 Jan and I headed up to Webster to have dinner at Zio’s with our long-time friends, Bob and Maria.
We’ve known them since the mid-80’s, and as I said, they’re pretty much our oldest living friends.
We had a lot of catching up to do, even though we just saw each other 6 or 8 months ago. So much catching up, in fact, that we were at the restaurant for a little over 3 hours, not getting back home until about 8:15. Of course we’ll get together again when we come back through here in August.
Coming home, the new headlights performed great. I still need to touch up the alignment, but really it’s not that bad now.
Tomorrow morning Jan and I have our annual physical checkups and then we’ll be done with all the medical stuff for this year.
We hope.
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Thought for the Day:
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Goering, April 18, 1946
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I Can See Clearly Now . . .
Or at least much better.
A little before 11am Jan and I decided to have breakfast out, but just then our son Chris called and suggested lunch at Barcenas Mexican Restaurant near their house, so off we went. We were hoping our granddaughter Piper would be able to meet up with us, but she showed up later in the afternoon.
After our usual delicious meal, we went back over to Chris and Linda’s so he could help me with a couple of things on my truck. One of which were my new headlights. With all the rain and wind at the rig, I had not been able to do the installation, but since Chris had the garage and a canopy to work under, I thought it might work better there.
And the uninstall the old one / reinstall the new one went about as easy as the shop manual described. Which is very unusual, believe me. Four bolts to take the old two piece unit off, and three bolts to reinstall the new one. Easy Pezy.
Chris thought it was weird, but I only wanted one new headlight installed right then, because I wanted to really be able to see the difference between the old one and the new one. Shouldn’t be a problem since I don’t think there is any law about having one headlight brighter than the other.
But we did quickly see a problem when we tested the new light. Although the headlight unit is new, you reuse the old bulbs and sockets. And while the old unit had amber turn signal lenses and white bulbs, the new unit has clear turn signal lenses. Which means since legally turn signal lights are suppose to be amber, I need to get amber bulbs to replace the old white ones. Which I did on the way home a little later.
About 6pm Jan and I headed up to the South Shore area to have dinner with our friends Tom and Barbara. We try to get together at least once whenever we’re in town, and always have a great time.
(Left to Right: Barbara, Tom, My Jan, Margaret, and James.)
And if you notice all the bottles on the table, you’ll know we had a great time tonight too. Barbara is a great cook, and the meal is always delicious. Another couple, James and Margaret, also joined us, and as Barbara said, James and I have a lot in common.
Like me, James does IT support, and does it for PPL, the big consignment RV dealer here in town. Plus we’ve both done a lot of Military Contract work over the years. So we had a great time reminiscing about things.
Finally, after getting our hugs and goodbyes, we heading home about 11pm. And I finally got to see how my new headlight performed.
And all I can say is WOW! The new one is so much brighter that it’s hard to tell the old one is even working. So I can imagine how two of them will do.
I do need to readjust the new one a little to the left, but as far as up and down, it’s perfect. Can’t wait to see both in action.
Thought for the Day:
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
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