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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
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Friday, May 6, 2022 11:17 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW BRENDA, I think you're right! In looking thru the inet for other Shetland compilations, I ran across a few interviews that mention a Season 7. Supposedly due out later this year. Looking forward to that!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Good. Glad you found some more. Yeah, when I went looking a bit that's how I came with the info about Series 7. Me too.
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Friday, May 6, 2022 11:18 PM
Out for a walk in the dry in a bit. Need to get a refill of my seizure meds.
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 3:00 AM
Back and done for today.
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 7:03 AM
Quote:And now for a well-deserved sit-down!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and done for today.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 9:12 AM
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Originally posted by Brenda:
It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.
As long as you have fun playing either way, right?
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Bummer that you still can't get your car right. What I know about cars you can fit on the head of a pin.
We'll add this to the ever-growing list of things I'd rather have never known... like how to remove raccoons from your attic.
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At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.
Yeah. Even though it's cold this weekend, it looks like 9 straight days of sunlight with some clouds in a row. I can't wait to see the sun again tomorrow.
We've had quite a lot of rain here too. Hopefully your dry spell is on the way soon too, Brenda.
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 9:14 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!
Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)
And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.
Oh, well. Onward thru the fog!
Glad everything seems to be going well for your treatments, Sigs. Sorry to hear about your husband. Hopefully your doctors are better at troubleshooting a human body than my mechanic and I are at troubleshooting my car.
BTW... Have you ever heard anything from Kiki?
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 9:30 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, SIX, what's with that "driving cycle"? It seems you have to drive a certain number of miles, I guess under varying conditions (freeway speed, tooling around etc) and it sets some sort of flag. Which gets reset when the battery dies or is disconnected. Clearly it's connected to an onboard computer. Which, I guess, all cars (even old ones) with pollution control equipment have. (I didn't realize until I had the same problem with my old car that onboard computers went back that far.)
Do you have more info than that? Like - what else might re-set that flag? What, exactly, constitutes a "driving cycle"?
Sigh.
I feel for you and your car issues. Wish I could help!
I actually have the official Driving Cycle spec sheet for my make/model/year car, along with the entire mechanics manual for everything from the engine to the electrical system. Not exactly something that normies like me should be able to get their hands on without a hefty fee, but I've got my methods.
It seems that I'm also fortunate enough to own a make/model/year car where the driving cycles aren't anything too nutty or complex either. I hear that BMW's cycles are pretty stupid and annoying.
Honestly, if everything were working right, it shouldn't be much of a problem. Unless something has changed or gotten extremely dirty inside, or another sensor is broken that we haven't isolated yet, I shouldn't really even have to worry much about driving cycles. Two years ago after welding on the new pipe I had all the monitors in the OK state within less than 30 minutes of highway/street driving. Between that time and the point that my check engine light came back on last summer I had to disconnect the battery twice and all the monitors went back to an OK state without me babysitting it at all.
Temperature DOES play a roll though. I know for sure that the EVAP (gas tank evaporation) monitor won't even run unless the outside ambient temperature is at least in the 60's, so it's no surprise that I haven't been able to get that one to show OK with how cold it's been around here. The spec sheet doesn't indicate that the CAT monitor cares about ambient temperature, or that it requires the EVAP monitor to clear first, but there has never been a single occasion that I've ever got the CAT to show OK before the EVAP did. (But correlation isn't causation, and all of that...)
I was doing some more digging on the forums and the consensus seems to be that you SHOULD reset the MIL after replacing an O2 Sensor because your system is running off of erroneous data that the old/bad O2 sensor had stored in the computer. There actually isn't even a specific monitor for the Catalytic Converter itself, and the "CAT MON" shown on the OBD reader is actually a collection of various readings put off from a collection of sensors in the car including both of my O2 sensors.
This could possibly be the missing piece for me here. My mechanic didn't reset anything while he was working on it, and I didn't reset the computer before doing my single drive cycle in the cold.
So tonight, not only did I clear the codes with the OBD2 monitor, but I disconnected the battery, hit the break while turning the key to discharge the system, hooked it back up, put the key in the start position (right before firing up the ignition) for 2 minutes, then started the car and let it just sit there in idle for 10 minutes before shutting it down.
This is (supposedly) supposed to go a step further than just resetting the computer and also supposed to reset your idle air sensor control motor, so it can be re-calibrated from scratch. I was warned that you shouldn't do this unless you've recently cleaned the upper intake valve and throttle body because you could be left with an old dirty car that won't idle properly and will constantly sputter and die on you, but I DID just do that a week or
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 9:58 AM
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:And now for a well-deserved sit-down!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and done for today.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Yup, had nice long one too.
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 10:03 AM
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.
As long as you have fun playing either way, right?Quote:
Bummer that you still can't get your car right. What I know about cars you can fit on the head of a pin.
We'll add this to the ever-growing list of things I'd rather have never known... like how to remove raccoons from your attic.Quote:
At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.
Yeah. Even though it's cold this weekend, it looks like 9 straight days of sunlight with some clouds in a row. I can't wait to see the sun again tomorrow.
We've had quite a lot of rain here too. Hopefully your dry spell is on the way soon too, Brenda.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I love playing. It's a great game to keep the brain going.
Part of the joys of life. I don't mind learning new things.
It was great in my area today but yeah slight chance of showers with a wee bit of sun and mostly clouds for tomorrow and the same for Sunday and the next week. I hope the dry comes soon as May is shaping up to look a lot like April.
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 10:30 AM
Quote:I think KIKI is OK.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!
Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)
And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.
Oh, well. Onward thru the fog!
Glad everything seems to be going well for your treatments, Sigs. Sorry to hear about your husband. Hopefully your doctors are better at troubleshooting a human body than my mechanic and I are at troubleshooting my car.
BTW... Have you ever heard anything from Kiki?
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I hope clearing the computer does the trick. I was surprised to learn that the computer adjusts operating parameters away from the factory setting for optimum pollution control, and saves them on an ongoing basis.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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