[elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
- From: "CTSVMONGO" <ctsvmongo@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:41:41 -0500
Busy as always John, good for you!
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Of John Christensen
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:57 AM
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Subject: [elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
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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