Balancing Tires
Today is tire balancing day. I got the two new rear tires mounted; now all I have to do is balance them. I got an awesome deal on closeouts for $54.00 each from Town Fair Tire after wasting a 25-mile trip to Walmart in another city for nothing. I hate Walmart and only go there for good reason.
It's about 15F outside right now, and it's also "tire balancing day".
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Ditto
Three down and one to go. The ride was surprisingly smooth yesterday even though the left rear tire hasn't been balanced yet with the old weights still on the rim in some random location. Maybe just lucky but it would be highly unlikely for a newly mounted tire to not require any balancing at all.
And thankfully O'reilleys' is open today because I'm going to need more tire weights. A couple months overdue, but the car is now ready for a sticker. I did replace the front right brake pad a few months ago because it became quite noisy so hopefully the front left is still good if they even bother to check it. They do only sell brake pads in pairs but as I always say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.".
Three down and one to go. The ride was surprisingly smooth yesterday even though the left rear tire hasn't been balanced yet with the old weights still on the rim in some random location. Maybe just lucky but it would be highly unlikely for a newly mounted tire to not require any balancing at all.
And thankfully O'reilleys' is open today because I'm going to need more tire weights. A couple months overdue, but the car is now ready for a sticker. I did replace the front right brake pad a few months ago because it became quite noisy so hopefully the front left is still good if they even bother to check it. They do only sell brake pads in pairs but as I always say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.".
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Writing Forums
Just got done spending a couple months at another writing forum. A little poetry, philosophy, and cosmology, but I'd say the majority of the time we were writing limericks and haikus and playing a whole slew of other word/writing games. There was this one old bitter fella there that was always negative and complaining about stuff. One day he tried to criticize my writing and asked: "anyone else think this is a bunch of nonsense?", and there wasn't so much as a fuckin' peep from any of the other users. It was all just him/her and after that they knew it, or if anyone else agreed they didn't have the balls to say anything.
Anyway, around 700 posts later I decided the place didn't have enough traffic for me. It was sort of active, but the traffic was next to nothing unlike this place.
Just got done spending a couple months at another writing forum. A little poetry, philosophy, and cosmology, but I'd say the majority of the time we were writing limericks and haikus and playing a whole slew of other word/writing games. There was this one old bitter fella there that was always negative and complaining about stuff. One day he tried to criticize my writing and asked: "anyone else think this is a bunch of nonsense?", and there wasn't so much as a fuckin' peep from any of the other users. It was all just him/her and after that they knew it, or if anyone else agreed they didn't have the balls to say anything.
Anyway, around 700 posts later I decided the place didn't have enough traffic for me. It was sort of active, but the traffic was next to nothing unlike this place.
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Shower/Tub Not Draining
So, a couple days ago I go to take a shower and notice the water isn't draining (at all). Plunged it a few times and see all this nasty black shit coming up. We go out and buy a snake – no go. Come to find out the "snake" can't negotiate the "drum trap" that was likely installed even long before bell bottoms became fashionable. Next, we try and remove the drum trap cover – that thing wouldn't budge and it's in a really awkward place to even get any leverage on it.
Can't use acidic drain cleaner on metal pipes not that it's a really brilliant idea anyway. Thought about tearing the back of the tub down or going through the kitchen ceiling and replacing the drum trap with a modernized p-trap. And then I thought before going to extremes I really should try and find an easier and simple way of resolving this problem. As it turned out, all I needed to do was stuff a wet shirt in the overflow pipe and then replace the faceplate tightening it over that balled up wet shirt to form an airtight seal. That created phenomenal plunging power and 30-40 plunges later the water was draining faster than it had in over 20 years – we even got the little whirlpool back!!
No help from Google there. It was all my idea. Now I'm a day late on a water change for the aquarium because of all this.
So, a couple days ago I go to take a shower and notice the water isn't draining (at all). Plunged it a few times and see all this nasty black shit coming up. We go out and buy a snake – no go. Come to find out the "snake" can't negotiate the "drum trap" that was likely installed even long before bell bottoms became fashionable. Next, we try and remove the drum trap cover – that thing wouldn't budge and it's in a really awkward place to even get any leverage on it.
Can't use acidic drain cleaner on metal pipes not that it's a really brilliant idea anyway. Thought about tearing the back of the tub down or going through the kitchen ceiling and replacing the drum trap with a modernized p-trap. And then I thought before going to extremes I really should try and find an easier and simple way of resolving this problem. As it turned out, all I needed to do was stuff a wet shirt in the overflow pipe and then replace the faceplate tightening it over that balled up wet shirt to form an airtight seal. That created phenomenal plunging power and 30-40 plunges later the water was draining faster than it had in over 20 years – we even got the little whirlpool back!!
No help from Google there. It was all my idea. Now I'm a day late on a water change for the aquarium because of all this.
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