Countdown! We plan on heading off in an hour. Shit, shower, shampoo & shave out of the way.
Wanted : a way to get into iCloud and permanently delete unwanted text replacements. All I can do at present is remove them on each device. But iClod (sic) recreates them & I'd dearly love a way to stop that shit.
Australia is an interesting place to live: the weather, the insects, reptiles & sealife do their best to kill you and even something as innocuous as grass corrodes cast alloy mower parts.
Just had a text message from my other brother, wanting to know the name & address of our motel. He's driving up & back on the same day & wants a place to shower & change before the ceremony. Oh, to have joints so flexible & unathritic to be able to travel such distances in a single day! Also, his truck gas cruise control.
Thinking of a lawn mower my father bought in the early 1990s: the grass that passed for lawn on the rural property turned out to be corrosive and the aluminium-alloy chassis of the thing just rotted. His previous mower was a two-speed self-propelled 5hp Honda with a steel chassis. The rotted one was a Jonn Deere with a 5hp Kawasaki engine and 5 gears on the self-propulsion system. The highest gear on each mower equated to virtually the same speed over the ground. Another problem with the John Deere: the gear selector broke and Dad locked it into 3rd gear.
He then replaced the missing deck sections with angle iron & galvanised sheet steel, a good trick considering one part carried the height adjustment mechanism. Because of the irregularities in the deck profile, mulching was no longer effective, it would clog up with cut grass instead of spreading it out over the cut area.
He could have easily afforded a new mower but as a tinkerer and instinvtive engineer, he just made do. He was 13 when the bank foreclosed on the family's market garden business in 1933 so "making do" was a serious part of his upbringing.
@hybotics Beautiful cheese. Sharp taste, crumbly texture neither oily nor dry. A bit strong & sharp for some tastes but I love it.
@hybotics Club cheese is a bit sneaky. It's a way of giving a 6-month-old cheese the texture of a four-year-old cheddar. And there's a cheese factory less than a mile away from my home that has 4-yr-old vintage cheddar.
@bazbt3 Yes. I knew the name was John but had to go back to a Riposte search to recall his surname.
@bazbt3 I try to get at least two 40+ WormWords games done per day, using the small word list.