Yes to day will go down as filled with pointless facts… We had to get the Jeep to the detail shop and I had to drive Sherrie on to work so I could have the car to get home… along with several other little things to do… When I get out and looked at the pond… there was a fog on it like it was mid fall… we did get down to about 55 or maybe a bit less this morning so that was interesting…
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It made for a strange picture with the sun just coming over and hitting the tops of the trees and reflecting into the pond with a yellow tent…anyway we need to be off so we dropped the Jeep off at 7:30, picked up Sherries breakfast usual at Braums and got her to work… On the way back to the detail shop I stopped to grab some pictures…
they were all sunning like it was cold but it wasn’t that cold… ha! just funny to see them all in the sun on the top of the antennas..
The old Baptist Student center, gone… I thought maybe they were going to build back but no… with a bit more inspection…
They got bought out and a new Frat house will occupy the corner of University and Monroe… Prime spot so several new Frat houses are going up… and coming down… who will be next? I heard the the UM student center at Washington was to be rebuilt but no action on that yet… might be bought out by a rich Frat? and across the road from that the rework of the Atherton (hotel at the Union) is going on… seems it has been going on for a really long time?
Heck they are still working on the parking garage and that was started way before the hotel rework…
I also got a picture of the Boot on campus… I need a new one of the hat but have this one form before…
I will have to try and get a new one and see if they have added anything…
Got the OSU one the other day
And the Boot today…
Always things to get pictures of on campus…while I was walking to the boot I found some rather large beetles , and at first I thought they were bumble bees but on closer inspection..
They sure like all the flowers but were landing on this plant for some odd reason, it did have flowers on the ends of spikes but they weren’t landing on any of the flowers? ok, needed to get back to the detail shop and get things started. so I went back the shop left the key for the detail work and went over for breakfast at Braums. … From there I headed home… I got home and figured to move a guy post for the new loop antennas to get a little better angle. I set a new post, moved the guy and the bird house and then found that it was not any better an angle than what I had before. I spent an hour loosing and tightening the other poles to see if I could get the first corner to straighten up more… with so many angles and all it was just not going to work like I had hoped… so back to plan B.. split the difference in the guy pole…but that would wait for another day..
I got several calls in and out… set up some appointments for next week, and then it was time to get back to town by way of Toyota to find out about the dash replacement ( we have a crack happening in the air bag cover and we had gotten a letter that it was an add and extension to our warranty = they should replace it for free) The issues is no one has ordered the parts, the time delay is pretty long, etc. I was there for 45 minutes with out much action as they looked up the warranty issue and then had to talk to the maintenance manager… but by the time they went to talk to him… he was gone for lunch so I would have to come back after lunch… I hustled in for lunch as I was now late… got there just right and off to Slim Chickens. I got in just in time and off we went , another not spectacular event, they do pretty good with fresh chicken breast and it is not expensive…, guess that last part is why we like it.
With that over I needed to get by the Pharmacy to pick up some meds I had called in that morning… It has occurred to me that the one place I am most recognized is the pharmacy. I am in there probably every other week and sometimes multiple times per week. One of those things about getting older, you know your pharmacist way better than you want to.
With that pick up done I headed back home and went back to the antennas to figure out where the guy post should be and work on a few other small yard things. Mostly I wanted to cut out some limbs and see if that would improve the SWR on the antennas and from testing tonight it did help on 80 meters but the other bands were fine anyway.
Well after a few hours of trimming and cleaning had to get back to town to pick up Sherrie and the Jeep. On my way around I spotted this guy, who was peaking over the fence…
WAY! over the . I guess the team was practicing and he needed to get film of it , from here I couldn’t tell if there was another film guy on the building walk or not? I picked up the Jeep and Sherrie went on home and then back for exercise workout while I worked on refilling the hummer feeders and other things. For dinner we almost had Redneck Calamari
but figured the left over pizza from Pie Five yesterday would be better…so we had left over instead.
I then slipped out to the shop and checked into the local Thursday night net and worked on the airplane… got the wings on and soldered up the landing gear… not for a few other small details and some glue and it should be done this weekend.
Oh and I listened to the local police in a hot pursuit this evening so the crazy and strange-o-s are still out there. At bed time they still were trying to locate the “runner” as he left the vehicle and took off… I guess… will have to check the news later to find out what was causing all that.
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