[elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:57:02 -0500
Hell of a good day. I can only hope this one goes as well for me.
On my list:
CAD for work before 7:30 AM
Lions Club Board meeting at 8 AM (El Camino .... It's dry for now)
Come home to a contractor in my house installing can lights and finishing
drywall on the new island.
Do the minutes for the board meeting (I'm the Secretary)
Try to rustle up enough help to lift the heater in to position while I
attach it to the ceiling of the garage
Shut the gas off in the laundry room to start re-routing the pipe in the
garage to the new heater
Hardware run for pipe and a thermostat (El Camino hopefully... looks like
rain today)
Price out the Bamboo for the floor while I'm at the store
Gotta eat in there somewhere
Gotta walk about 3 miles before it rains too.
I'll only get half of it done. If I get more, I'm happy.
JC
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boy, am I tired. It's been a long day (14 hours so far) and it ain't
> over, but in what seems to be a change from the norm, things went right
> today. Here's the list:
>
> I finally got Expedia to arrange for a refund of the 2 night's lodging in
> Wendover that I left early when World Finals was rained out:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2011/05-wf/Welcome.html (there's a
> caption on every page to explain what went on as far as the racing and the
> Burb's distributor's untimely demise.) I had to be tenacious about it
> before I got it...at first they didn't want to refund anything, then the
> hotel manager said it was their policy to refund only 1 out of 2 nights, but
> when I explained that my German friend checked out at exactly the same time
> I did and got a full cash refund, the motel owner finally ran out of excuses
> and authorized the full refund. Btw...if you come to the salt flats, avoid
> the Motel 6 like the plague. The Knight's Inn is much better. Jim can
> explain about the cockroach he found in his room earlier in the
> year....ohh...and that was the place where the owner doesn't turn the heat
> on for the rooms until November. Hell, I dunno if he's noticed, but
> Wendover is in the high desert and has the same climate as Salt Lake
> City...except for our Wasatch mountains directly to the east of the SL
> valley. I started turning on my heater before I left for WF. But then I'm
> kinda cold-blooded.
>
> Moving right along, I got Moon Equipment's refund of the deposit for the
> Moon Disc mounting hardware welding jig.
>
> I took the junkyard driveshaft in and had the people at GRS Drivelines
> replace the slip joint and rear u-joint. That was done in about 6 hours.
> It cost about half of what had been refunded to me, so that wasn't too bad.
> It was pretty good, as a matter of fact.
>
> While I was waiting for that to be done, I was able to fix the Beater
> Camaro's horn button with the spring from a ball-point pen. Seems that
> whoever installed the aftermarket wheel (looks sorta like a 60s-era Cal
> Custom job) neglected to put the spring in the electrical contact do-dad
> that has the wire that connects to the grounding plate the center cap snaps
> onto. Confused? Me, too...but it was a no-cost repair of something that
> was a case of (as Jim H likes to say) "the dreadin was worse than the
> doin." Now I just need to get Safety and Emissions Inspection and I can get
> a real live license plate for it. That one may not be so easy.
>
> Finally (and this is rather ponderous) I took the "flexible flyer" trailer
> ramps back to the place I got 'em and although it also took some rather
> tenacious discussion with the parts counter people (the first guy was
> Mexican and we definitely had a "failure to communicate") I got a result
> that I'm very satisfied with. Here's what happened. When the folks at
> Henderson Wheel (a very well-established place for just about anything to do
> with wheels, spindles, bearings, trailers and a whole buncha other stuff)
> told me that they had a pair of 4400 pound-rated ramps, but they'd have to
> be brought in from one of their other stores (in Orem, Ut...the joke about
> that goes, "what's the difference between Orem and yogurt?" Answer: "Yogurt
> has culture." <G>) they did just exactly that. They had a pair of ramps
> brought north by their courier and I picked 'em up the next day. But what
> they gave me isn't what I paid for, nor was it what they'd told me I was
> buying. Seems the counter guy (experienced, knowledgeable and ok in my
> book) was off by a single digit in the part number and the ones he gave
> me...well, all the labeling was in French and when I unlimbered my high
> school (and Moroccan) French skills, I saw that it said, "Do not exceed
> 500kg on ramps." That's 1100 pounds, exactly 1/4 of the 4400 pound-rated
> ramps I supposedly bought. They were intended for use with garden tractors
> or maybe ATVs or snowmobiles. Fail. Big time fail.
>
> In an almost spooky way, the ramps that I'd paid for and they'd had brought
> in by courier were right by the door behind the counter. They apologized
> for handing me the wrong ramps and handed me the right ones. Here's a shot
> of 'em still in their packing along with the installation-ready driveshaft:
>
>
>
> Seeing what I should have had in the first place, there's no way that the
> first set could have done the job of what I picked up today. These are
> about twice as wide and twice as thick. Now I know why the others bent.
>
> Finally, I got in touch with a guy who wants a CD of photos (a new
> customer) and he tells me he'll be making a contribution to my website as
> payment for 'em.
>
> I can't remember a day in the recent past (hell, I can't remember
> breakfast) where so many things have gone right. Yanno, I think I prolly
> otta go to bed before I screw something up. :) No...I have another 120
> files to edit from the car show I shot last Saturday. But I can handle
> that.
>
> r
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