@matigo old & wise https://youtu.be/-4HI1_LTWIk
/@hazardwarning @larand @js
@streakmachine My last three cars have had Michelins fitted by choice, they're supposed to last 20% longer than other brands in the same price/size range as well as being very quiet on the road.
My current vehicle has some cheap Chinese hoops called HiFly HF201. I researched as much as I could about them & it turns out they last almost as well as Michelins, have good all-road condition grip and are reasonably silent. And the things are amongst the cheapest available.
Price has never been a consideration of mine when buying tyres. Just buy the best you can afford. I'd prefer Michelins but these hoops have plenty of tread on them (I've done 11,000 km on them) so there's no reason to change them.
// @matigo
@phoneboy Oh, yeah! He I am, Mar 3, 2012, with about half the wires & sensors hooked up prior to a sleep study.
// @matigo
Men's Shed problem: how to refit new timber slats to concrete garden benches when the concrete bases are too full of aggregate to allow new holes to be drilled.
Solution: remove the head of the old bolts (a single one near each end of the slat) and weld a steel plate to it. Then drill 4 new hole in said plate and grind the weld down enough that a new slat will fit. Bolt new slats into place after repainting the concrete bases. Works, looks good as well.
@js Greetings, I prefer PocketCasts, for two reasons. One, it has a sync feature and it works with Android & iOS.
Mostly successful day yesterday with the Men's shed group operating in a rather different room in the retirement village where we rent our premises. There's a small shop that caters for basic grocery, first aid, stationery, craft, snacks, tea/coffee, drinks and the like. Its shelving consisted mostly of bookcases screwed, nailed, bolted, glued and siliconed to walls, ceiling & each other at varying heights, mostly inaccessible to the volunteers who operate it for two hours each morning.
We've contracted to strip out the shelving, repair any surface damage prior to painting then fit out the new low-level shelving throughout the room.
We achieved the first aspects yesterday, removal & disposal of the old shelf units plus the repair of the walls. Today a painter goes in to do his stuff.
There were some noise complaints from self-appointed idiot residents (it was a high-noise environment involving much smashing apart of heavy bookcases -aka FUN). We simply asked if they'd like their shopping/social routine disrupted for one week or for two, that shut the intransigent of arsewipes up.
Assuming the painter does his jog today, we have the next three days to fit new shelving & rebuild the new service counter in a different location.
I'm claiming it was mostly successful because I may have overstressed my already-damaged lower back in the process. It was only the use of cold compresses that allowed any overnight sleep.
Two years after the release of a band's 2nd album, and after one year of enjoying two of its tracks via Apple Music, I have deleted those tracks from Apple Music & bought the entire album from iTunes.
It's "We Are Who We Are" by Vixy & Tony.*
*Their music contains many Firefly/Serenity references, especially their first album, "Thirteen."
Extract from a most interesting song by Vixy & Tony called "Just A Dream."
The rain is falling inside and the carpet's getting wet
But I'm sure I'm only tired and control's not failed me yet
I wake from dreams of monsters caged and raging horn and claw
To the grim, official knocking of the agents of the law
They ask if I know anyone with hyperlucid dreams
They ask if I've been home alone, and did I hear the screams?
They say that I'm the only one alive in building three
They say they've got the dream contained and now they've come for me
Dreams can't hurt you, that's what parents used to say
But they changed the world forever in New Mexico that day
Someone else's dream can bite you, you imagine that you scream
But the pain you feel is still just a dream, just a dream
Yes the pain you feel is just a dream.
More about them here: http://www.vixyandtony.com/music.html