Monthly Archives: September 2018
A Two-Fer . . .
Today at work was another of those ‘firefighting’ days. The ones where you spend the day stomping out fires.
And sometimes it works, and sometimes you catch your feet on fire. Today was a little of both.
Coming home I stopped by the Post Office to hand in our Change of Address form or forms, I guess, for our new South Dakota address with Dakota Post.
I said ‘forms’ because I had to turn in two separate ones for our one address. That’s because when we got our Driver’s Licenses renewed 5 years ago, they made a mistake on our address and put our Box # in the system as PMB 110.
That was actually the street number from 110 E Center St.. Our real box number was #798, so we had to submit two different change notices, one for #110 and one for #798. Hopefully they don’t get confused again.
Last December 21st Jan and I went to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, one of our all-favorite shows, and really enjoyed it. So this year we had to make it a Two-fer, so I now have tickets to see their doppelganger competitor, Mannheim Steamroller on December 30th at the Smart Financial Centre in Sugarland.
Hopefully I won’t have another attack of BPPV or Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo like I did last year. You can read about it here.
So far I’ve never had it again since then. Fingers crossed.
I printed out the 98 page Service Manual for our Onan QD 7500 Generator and I’ve been poring over it trying to figure out what’s wrong with it.
To recap, we had it serviced last May when RV Mobile Lube serviced it with the rest of the rig, and when we left on our Illinois/Alabama trip in June, it worked perfectly . . . for the first day. Then it died ten minutes into the second day, just like I had shut it off. And it’s never started again since. It cranks just fine but just never catches. I’ve checked the fuel system and it’s working fine, so it’s something else.
Something that not only keeps it from starting, but also stopped it when it was running. So this eliminates a few things like glow plugs and some others.
The last time I worked on it was when we were in Athens, AL before we headed back to Houston, and I was looking at the Governor Actuation system that controls the fuel injection, so that’s where I’ll start this time.
If it ever stops raining long enough, that is. So right now it’s just book work and talking to Onan Tech Support.
We’ll see how it goes tomorrow, but I’m not optimistic.
The Headline of the Day: Author of “How To Murder Your Husband” arrested for killing her husband.
Thought for the Day:
To be sure of hitting your target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
fggh
¿Tienes un mapa?
Jan and I headed out about 12:30 for a WalMart run but since we were in the area we decided that, with the rainy, overcast day, another big bowl of King Food’s Hot & Sour Soup was in order.
Since we were planning on having dinner with friends later tonight, we each just had soup.
Hot & Delicious!
Next up was a quick stop by my client’s office to pick up something I forgot yesterday, and then it was on to our WalMart stop.
Coming home we made a gas/lottery ticket stop, finishing up at the Santa Fe Post Office for our mail, and also to pick up a Change of Address card. Now that we’ve gotten our new address from Dakota Post, I can submit an address change for our old My Dakota Address address.
In our mail was my renewed Passport America card and a paper PPA park catalog, which I didn’t want. I didn’t want the catalog because it’s pretty much useless, since it’s out of date pretty quickly, and I can get all the info online. But I had to pay $5 shipping for it anyway.
What I don’t understand is why my account number changed? I’ve had the same PPA number since I first joined in 2007. But suddenly with this new card I’ve got a new number for some reason.
About 5:15 Jan and I headed over to the TGI Friday’s in Pearland for a get-together of a lot of our Alvin Opry friends.
We’ve known most of them since the late 90’s, but don’t get to see them as often since the Opry closed a while back.
Jan had the Dragon-Glazed Grilled Chicken with Veggies,
while I had a bowl of their White Cheddar Broccoli Soup.
Guess I’m on a soup kick recently. But it was all good. As was the company.
Hopefully we’ll be able to do it again soon.
My Duolingo streak is still alive at 248 days, without a repeat of the time they lost my streak and I had to pay $14.99 to regain it.
One thing I wonder about is who compiles the phrases that they give us to translate. Some of them are really cheesy pickup lines. Like this one.
¿Tienes un mapa? Estoy perdido en tus ojos.
This translates as:
Do you have a map? I’m lost in your eyes.
I mean, does this ever work?
Thought for the Day:
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend”. – Bruce Lee
dg
