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scrottieNew filter on but due to the hour, untested. I didn't goober too much diesel. Broke siphon so couldn't pour diesel in to the filter, so had to pump it in. Hand pump didn't work for some reason so after much effort, got out the electric fuel transfer pump that plugs in to the cigarette lighter (cuz cigarettes and diesel fuel goes together). Hoping I don't have to bleed the injectors (mechanical injector pumps! 1970s!). Managed to not dump the fuel out of the fuel line in to the engine. Some small pockets of air will get broken up in to a stream of tiny bubbles and pulled through without any problem. After mucking with diesel, everything always smells like diesel for days and I hate that. New filter is comically much larger than the old water separating filter without a clear bowl and even more so than the small clear inline filter.
Trying to recycle engine oil in Rio Vista from yesterday's oil change (was that only yesterday?) I once again figured out only very slowly that it was Sunday. Ace Hardware had bad hours a few years ago then very suddenly had good hours, and ever since, I've not thought too much about Sundays. So I hauled the used engine oil and filter back with me with a replacement floor scrubber (for decks and sides, cuz raising the new sail, the new sail lifted my old one off the deck, and I'm used to it floating, but cap came off the hollow tube and couldn't stay back on, so it sank), a gallon of Simple Green for more bilge scrubbing (to be wet vac'd out and put in empty gallon jugs), and a box of shop towels. This little Kubota has served me well so far (knocking on wood) but I still dream of putting an electric in there. Did not forget my laundry soap and had two weeks of laundry piled up so that went to and fro to Rio Vista, over the Sacramento River, with me with the groceries and hardware store goods and used engine oil.
U*P learning journal has a like five step submission process. Every now and then I fail to do the last step of confirming the submission. So Fri, trying to finish stuff for the week, I noticed that a paper I put some work in to (since I'm arguing that the course material is completely wrong, I feel like I have to argue carefully and with well supported arguments, as they say) was still in "Drafts" status and was a day odd over due with no option now to submit late. Dammit. Then this week the learning journal is about Alternate Reality and Virtual Reality and IoT and connected devices are the future thanks to 6G! And I don't think I even have the energy to argue this one. This class is bad and I won't miss it. Need to do discussion replies. Guess that and a shower and shave are probably what's left of the day, leaving work in a sorry state. I'm failing at way too many things at once.
Edit: One thing that was bugging me was the lights constantly flickering with some electrical or wiring problem when the sconce light is on. It's clearly electrical because both sconce lights will flicker together, in sync. There's another little LED light here but having more light really helpful to me, so I've been in a cycle of turning it on, getting annoyed, turning it off. In the past it was flickering and I found the bad connection to the battery. Then it didn't flicker for a while. Then it did. Unscrewing and re-screwing the little E26/E27 bulb different amounts seemed to help a bit but never for long. Last year (or two years ago?) I replaced the light socket in the little sconce, but it didn't help. On a lark, I replaced the generic 12 volt E26/E27 bulb... and the flickering stopped. Whatever was going wrong in the bulb was flickering the whole circuit. The LED light strip was just more immune to the noise apparently. One of these days, I'm going to fix the wobbly table.
Edit edit: Almost forgot... finally replaced the bicycle brake pads. Been meaning to do that for ages too. A while ago, I decided to drill a hole right through the middle of the front rack frame to get to the adjust bolt instead of having to take off either the disc brakes or the rack every time I needed to adjust it and that was a great decision. Getting it adjusted is still annoying, just a lot less so now.
Trying to recycle engine oil in Rio Vista from yesterday's oil change (was that only yesterday?) I once again figured out only very slowly that it was Sunday. Ace Hardware had bad hours a few years ago then very suddenly had good hours, and ever since, I've not thought too much about Sundays. So I hauled the used engine oil and filter back with me with a replacement floor scrubber (for decks and sides, cuz raising the new sail, the new sail lifted my old one off the deck, and I'm used to it floating, but cap came off the hollow tube and couldn't stay back on, so it sank), a gallon of Simple Green for more bilge scrubbing (to be wet vac'd out and put in empty gallon jugs), and a box of shop towels. This little Kubota has served me well so far (knocking on wood) but I still dream of putting an electric in there. Did not forget my laundry soap and had two weeks of laundry piled up so that went to and fro to Rio Vista, over the Sacramento River, with me with the groceries and hardware store goods and used engine oil.
U*P learning journal has a like five step submission process. Every now and then I fail to do the last step of confirming the submission. So Fri, trying to finish stuff for the week, I noticed that a paper I put some work in to (since I'm arguing that the course material is completely wrong, I feel like I have to argue carefully and with well supported arguments, as they say) was still in "Drafts" status and was a day odd over due with no option now to submit late. Dammit. Then this week the learning journal is about Alternate Reality and Virtual Reality and IoT and connected devices are the future thanks to 6G! And I don't think I even have the energy to argue this one. This class is bad and I won't miss it. Need to do discussion replies. Guess that and a shower and shave are probably what's left of the day, leaving work in a sorry state. I'm failing at way too many things at once.
Edit: One thing that was bugging me was the lights constantly flickering with some electrical or wiring problem when the sconce light is on. It's clearly electrical because both sconce lights will flicker together, in sync. There's another little LED light here but having more light really helpful to me, so I've been in a cycle of turning it on, getting annoyed, turning it off. In the past it was flickering and I found the bad connection to the battery. Then it didn't flicker for a while. Then it did. Unscrewing and re-screwing the little E26/E27 bulb different amounts seemed to help a bit but never for long. Last year (or two years ago?) I replaced the light socket in the little sconce, but it didn't help. On a lark, I replaced the generic 12 volt E26/E27 bulb... and the flickering stopped. Whatever was going wrong in the bulb was flickering the whole circuit. The LED light strip was just more immune to the noise apparently. One of these days, I'm going to fix the wobbly table.
Edit edit: Almost forgot... finally replaced the bicycle brake pads. Been meaning to do that for ages too. A while ago, I decided to drill a hole right through the middle of the front rack frame to get to the adjust bolt instead of having to take off either the disc brakes or the rack every time I needed to adjust it and that was a great decision. Getting it adjusted is still annoying, just a lot less so now.
