Daily Archives: April 15, 2019
It’s In Ripper-Vision . . .
Strangely enough I spent most of today at work ordering baby furniture. My client and his wife are fostering a two-week old baby, so I’m apparently in charge of the Amazon Prime ordering.
I did get my tax forms in the mail today. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. I hate to give money to anyone before I have to, especially the government.
Following up on our LegalZoom wills, Jan and I will stop by my client’s tomorrow afternoon to get him and the office manager to witness our wills. Also, if after you do your will, download it, and then find a problem, you have 30 days to make any further updates or changes at no charge.
Right now I’m printing 3 copies of our wills and affidavits for tomorrow, and I’m really surprised that I’m able to do that. On our trip up to Kingsland last weekend my HP 4650 Inkjet printer took a header off the computer desk. Scared the barf of Karma (literally) because she was sleeping between our chairs about a foot away.
I had pulled it out to the side so I could access the printer’s document feeder and forgot to push it back into place. So I was really surprised when, after I popped the document feeder lid back in place and powered it up, it printed and scanned fine.
HP builds them tough, I guess.
As if I didn’t have enough to do right now, this weekend the front disc brakes on our Dodge Dakota started complaining, so I stopped off at O’Reilly’s on Saturday to order a set of ceramic pads, that I picked up on the way home from work today.
Ideally I’d wait until A.C. (After Cruise), but right now I’m still on the warning area of the worn-down pads and don’t want to start scarring the rotors. So it looks like Thursday will be the day.
But since my jack stands seems to have moved up to Kingsland with Chris, I’ll pick up a couple tomorrow at WalMart. Only $8.83 each, so not bad.
Ever since our rig’s blowout in May 2015, our windshield has leaked around the top outside corners. And it had nothing to do with the actual blowout.
When the repair place was replacing the dented diesel fuel tank, they lifted the front of the rig up about 4 feet using one of those vertical lift jacks. And when they let it back down they torqued the frame enough to crack the passenger-side glass. And it’s leaked every since. But we didn’t discover it until months later when we were back in Texas and had our first heavy rain.
I had it looked at several times to have it resealed but it never fixed the problem. So after trying to caulk it a couple of times with no real luck, I got out the big guns.
Gorilla Tape Waterproof Patch and Seal Tape
Like Eternabond Tape, it has a peel-off release liner that covers a super-strength adhesive that once stuck in place, stays in place. And the outer black layer is waterproof and UV resistant.
So I cut strips to fit, peeled off the liner and stuck it in place. Looks pretty good too. You have to be up close to see the difference. Now I’m really looking forward to the next big rain.
I booked what is probably our last pre-cruise London tour this morning. Any others we will probably wait until we’re in the area. Long-time friend and blog reader, Jim Hamm recommended that we check out one of the many Jack the Ripper tours.
Most of them seem to be in the morning or afternoon, but who wants to take a spooky Ripper tour in the daylight. So we picked one that starts at 7:30 at night.
Jack the Ripper Tour with RipperVision
And this one comes with Ripper-Vision.
Apparently ‘Ripper-Vision’ is some sort of projector system that shows what the buildings and areas actually looked like at the time of the murders.
This still leaves us one completely free day in London, and, of course, the morning and afternoon of the Ripper Tour.
Thought for the Day:
“Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler”. – Albert Einstein
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