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Sep. 15th, 2022 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrottieFun stress dreams. Last night, before getting up at 2am, I dreamt (dreamwidth is for posting dreams, right?) that newly formed body parts were falling down kinds of chutes in an elevated house, where the chimney, drains, laundry chutes, etc all opened to the outside through a kind of inside-out basement pedalstal, and they absolutely had to be collected, and everyone else was busy with other horrors, inside that house or elsewhere, so I was doing my best to collect them, but they kept coming down other openings on the side/outside of the house where I wasn't looking. Then I wasn't sure what to do with them when I had them.
When the alarm went off at 2am, I wasn't sure I wanted to go back to sleep.
Ride to the airport was cool enough, and metabolism asleep enough, that I donned the fuzzy lined tights, sweatshirt, and neoprene shortie gloves before setting out. 2am was the correct time to get up. Body asleep, I wasn't riding fast.
Reposting some sleep deprive email updates sent to Rebeccmeister:
On the [] 99 now, finally. First bus from the
airport didn't appear or was terribly early, second one
had all three bike slots full, got on the third.
Light rail station ticket machine was missing.
Waved down the [] 99 when I got off and spotted
it circuling around the parking lot on the way out and
she kindly came back around after dropping off two
handicapped passengers. Both of my bottom braze-on
eyelets broke off not on the ride to the airport
or in transit but when I was hefting the bike up
the stairs on the Sacramento light rail. Lots of
crazy and incomprehensible stuff to look at from the
air. Second leg, passenger next to me slept the
entire time, which was kind of amazing as we must
have gotten in like noon his time.
/cut
Turns out, the 99 was late, not early, and late enough that it left the parking lot where the Sacramento light rail dumps out a few minutes before it was supposed to be there again, so initially I thought it left early without me, and there I am, trying to chase it down. Driver from across two traffic lanes gestured to me that she would circle around and about 20 minutes later, she re-appeared, just in time for me to finish kludging the other half of my back rack mounting with loop clamps, like these: https://www.mcmaster.com/hose-clamps/vibration-damping-loop-clamps-8/ . Huh, McMaster has chain whips, like you use on a bicycle to hold the rear cassette in place while wrenching off the lockring: https://www.mcmaster.com/clamps/chain-wrenches/ . Was writing on the bird site talking about McMaster is a great alternative to Amazon for everything except fashion/beauty/consumer electronics.
I wish public transportation was so good that people didn't even want to drive to the airport. And that it was so good that you didn't even need an airport.
Sun's coming up in the fog.
I don't know if what I did is any good, but Princess TinyHouse has a new roof. She's back to under the tarp for now. I don't want to find out about leaks unless I can do something about them. Realistically, she should be in covered RV storage, which doesn't seem to exist in or near Albany. I think the RV industry responded to inevitable RV roof leaks by just not using beautiful wood veneers inside and using plastics and "modern materials" instead, which kind of makes TinyHouse a gem. Her roof was and is far lighter constructed than real house roofs, especially this Craftsman kit monster (I need to take pics... larger timbers closer spaced than anything modern roof framing, then fully decked with larger timbers used in roof framing now, probably all hardwood). But TinyHouse wasn't badly built. Light and strong is hard. A house would get a new roof sometime in 43 years. If this roof does work, it's life is limited by the life of the adhesive sealants used under the corner trim pieces. Still very much to do.
When the alarm went off at 2am, I wasn't sure I wanted to go back to sleep.
Ride to the airport was cool enough, and metabolism asleep enough, that I donned the fuzzy lined tights, sweatshirt, and neoprene shortie gloves before setting out. 2am was the correct time to get up. Body asleep, I wasn't riding fast.
Reposting some sleep deprive email updates sent to Rebeccmeister:
On the [] 99 now, finally. First bus from the
airport didn't appear or was terribly early, second one
had all three bike slots full, got on the third.
Light rail station ticket machine was missing.
Waved down the [] 99 when I got off and spotted
it circuling around the parking lot on the way out and
she kindly came back around after dropping off two
handicapped passengers. Both of my bottom braze-on
eyelets broke off not on the ride to the airport
or in transit but when I was hefting the bike up
the stairs on the Sacramento light rail. Lots of
crazy and incomprehensible stuff to look at from the
air. Second leg, passenger next to me slept the
entire time, which was kind of amazing as we must
have gotten in like noon his time.
/cut
Turns out, the 99 was late, not early, and late enough that it left the parking lot where the Sacramento light rail dumps out a few minutes before it was supposed to be there again, so initially I thought it left early without me, and there I am, trying to chase it down. Driver from across two traffic lanes gestured to me that she would circle around and about 20 minutes later, she re-appeared, just in time for me to finish kludging the other half of my back rack mounting with loop clamps, like these: https://www.mcmaster.com/hose-clamps/vibration-damping-loop-clamps-8/ . Huh, McMaster has chain whips, like you use on a bicycle to hold the rear cassette in place while wrenching off the lockring: https://www.mcmaster.com/clamps/chain-wrenches/ . Was writing on the bird site talking about McMaster is a great alternative to Amazon for everything except fashion/beauty/consumer electronics.
I wish public transportation was so good that people didn't even want to drive to the airport. And that it was so good that you didn't even need an airport.
Sun's coming up in the fog.
I don't know if what I did is any good, but Princess TinyHouse has a new roof. She's back to under the tarp for now. I don't want to find out about leaks unless I can do something about them. Realistically, she should be in covered RV storage, which doesn't seem to exist in or near Albany. I think the RV industry responded to inevitable RV roof leaks by just not using beautiful wood veneers inside and using plastics and "modern materials" instead, which kind of makes TinyHouse a gem. Her roof was and is far lighter constructed than real house roofs, especially this Craftsman kit monster (I need to take pics... larger timbers closer spaced than anything modern roof framing, then fully decked with larger timbers used in roof framing now, probably all hardwood). But TinyHouse wasn't badly built. Light and strong is hard. A house would get a new roof sometime in 43 years. If this roof does work, it's life is limited by the life of the adhesive sealants used under the corner trim pieces. Still very much to do.
