In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I'll be damned...
I've got two Catalytic Converters. The guy I've been watching do YouTube videos either didn't know that, or didn't bother mentioning it because that CAT isn't going to make you fail the test.
At least, I don't think it will... The 2nd one is really far downstream and close to the muffler, way past the 2nd O2 sensor. So I'm not sure how it would be able to even be tested.
But if I'm wrong and that's why the CAT test isn't initiating, I may have to bite the bullet and have somebody give my flex pipe a proper weld. At least 95% of the emissions is making it all the way down-pipe right now, but I know it can't be all of it with my temporary patch job.
The only reason I figured that out is because I was watching another auto guy I like talking about how to clean your cat and he simply threw his in a bucket with dish detergent in it overnight, and I recognized the part from the back of my car. I probably won't be able to reach and remove it with my ramps. Might have to ask around for some good jacks/stands.
I'm downloading (what I believe) is the service manual now. Time to do some real research.
If I get this to work after upping the performance beyond my expectations so far, I might just have to look into figuring out how to fix the A/C. I could probably get another 5 to 10 years out of this car.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Republican congressman Tom Rice reveals he and his family have coronavirus - two weeks after he refused to wear a mask on the House floor
I'll start wearing a mask when I join your brain damaged buddies tearing down Thomas Jefferson monuments and throwing molotov cocktails at police cars. But thanks for the advice.
Oh, BTW... Friends of yours, Ted?
They all had good careers. They just wasted their lives. Hope it was worth it.
Future leaders of the world, I'm sure.
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So are they friends of yours, Ted?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Do not get me going on cell phones. I got rid of the last one I had because I now have a landline. I will not have one again.Quote:Good for you.
I don't know what's worse these days, living with a cell phone in your life, or the annoyance other people have for you when they find out that you don't have one, which pops up again any time they want to text something to you and you have to remind them of that fact.
Just kidding. Having a cell phone is worse.
I hear ya. I've gotten those looks. Heck, even people my age are bad with the things. There are members of my mah jong group that have them and leave them on then in the middle of a game get up to answer them and disrupt everything. When what they should do is tell people they are busy the morning of mah jong and to just leave a message and also TURN THE DAM THINGS OFF!!
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That doesn't really appeal to me as I like music on when I am working on my computer and I know I could do both when out. But I like to not be worrying about the time and stuff if I get caught up in something.
I doubt anyone would do that for me. And I think Best Buy up here does sell some refurbished stuff. Like I said I am going to a store on Wednesday at least that is the plan. Also want to hit up a bookstore in this mall as well.Kinda kill 2 birds with one stone thing.
Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I will let you know what I find out tomorrow after my little trip.
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The little hamburger place that is in the strip mall near the pharmacy where I get my meds was open today. 
The lady was so happy to see me as I was to see her and her husband working away. We didn't have much time to talk as they were busy with most places in that mall being open now, so more foot traffic. I got a hot dog and coffee and chatted with her for a couple of minutes. They and their children were all fine through this and she was relieved to see that I was.
So, that was good to see.
Guess they have been reopen for about 10 days or more.
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I will let you know what I find out tomorrow after my little trip.
Cool. ;)
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Anybody here ever have any experience using vinyl privacy rolls for windows?
I finally got around to putting mine up and I have to say that as long as they stay up and don't just fall down on me in a few days I'm extremely pleased with the results.
A few caveats, of course...
They're quite expensive. Not bad if you're only looking to do a few windows in one room, but if you wanted to really do them up all over your house or if you had a huge glass shower you wanted to cover you're going to be paying for it.
It's going to be really hard to find a good size for your windows unless you were really lucky.
I opted to go with the ones that were around 17" wide rather than twice that width and I'm really glad that I did. Cutting everything exactly to size was a little tricky as it was, and if I had to do it two different ways to fit a sheet it probably wouldn't have worked out as well. That being said, whatever size I bought was roughly an inch too short and I had to use cutoffs to fill in the missing piece up top.
If you do it right AND you pick the right pattern, it looks great and you can't tell it's not just one piece, but you should plan accordingly.
It's been so long since I ordered it with a few other things that I was extremely disappointed at how little I actually had. At first I thought the seller screwed me, but when I looked at my order I did get what I paid for. I must have decided to just get 1 roll and test it out first before committing to the 2 other rolls I'll need to do all the windows I want to and just forgot that's the decision I made.
So both windows in the master bedroom now have privacy at the bottom, and that's the most important spot since my neighbor's porch is high and basically can look right into the windows. You can't see in during the day of course, but if they're out there at night and I'm in the bedroom with the light on they could look right in before I put them up.
I also had enough to do the necessary cutouts to obfuscate the glass on the front door looking into the house. At one point years ago I got sick of the Jahova's Witnesses constantly knocking on my front door and since I do most of my living in the living room they could peer right in to see if somebody was home. So I had used some thumb screws to put a towel up over the window years back and just forgot about it. Boy, was that dusty.
So that's down now and you can't peer into the front door anymore, but I've also got a ton more natural light coming into the living room and it's not so dreary during the day.
There were a lot of mixed reviews about the product online, but from what I can tell it should work and won't be falling off. I think the people who complained were trying to put it up on extremely dirty windows and didn't prep them before sticking the stuff up there. Installing the big sheets on your own is going to make you wish you had 3 hands, but once you get the hang of it, it's not so bad.
It probably took me around 4 hours to do it though. I took great care to make cuts exactly where I needed them with my exacto blade and the finished product looks pro.
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LOL... Bezos scheming because Bezos.
I've played the free prime trials as often as I could recently and now they won't even offer me the cheap 1 week trial because they're on to me. It's either full price, pay for shipping or a long wait on free shipping.
Or so they'd have you believe...
"Save $x.xx on shipping and sign up for prime" it says...
The $x.xx was the default one checked if I chose to have it on Thursday. Friday shipping was free. So I chose Friday shipping.
Just got notification that it's scheduled to come tomorrow. A day earlier than if paid for the shipping, and the same day it would have shipped if I signed up for prime and paid for it this time.
Dumb, dumb, dumb...
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I will let you know what I find out tomorrow after my little trip.
Cool. ;)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Anyways got out to Best Buy and started off by talking to someone who works for Microsoft and he told me what someone in London Drugs told me. I explained that I was talking about a desktop and he said to talk to someone from Best Buy.
The young woman who works at Best Buy once I basically explained the problem again said that I need the number for my mother board then I can order a new internet card online. The card has to be an exact fit. Well, as we all know I can't do that and I mean the ordering online, so I went to see what they have in the way of desktops. Most of it is for gaming which I am not doing. Also a tower is too heavy to bring back on the bus for me.
Am thinking at the rate I am going I will have to order a tower through a local store then get a new mouse and keyboard and monitor.
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Well, sad day when I went into the big bookstore in the big mall that I had to go to. Young woman helping me doesn't seem to know the difference between George RR Martin "Game of Thrones" and Star Wars. Had to explain that. Last book for last Star Wars movie is out but bookstore is not taking cash right now, so I will have to wait until Christmas to get a copy of it.
Will look up on their website about "The Winds of Winter" last or almost last book of "A Song of Ice and Fire". I did find 2 other "Game of Throne" books out, related.
Also found 3 Firefly novels out. WAAAHHHH!!!! for the fact that they are not taking cash. Will have to see what I get in the way of gift cards for that book store at Christmas. 
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