5/13/2014

As usual, I did not want to come back to work after that long weekend.  Here’s how it went down.  Thursday I went to the dentist to have a cavity filled and my gums scraped.  They numbed me and got to work.  Eventually he was done with the filling and was about to shoo me out the door.  “Um, doc?” I sheepishly asked.  “I hesitate to ask this but, weren’t you going to do something with my gums while I was numbed?”  He consulted his notes and said that he had totally forgotten that bit.  He shot more Novocain, or whatever they use these days, into me and then got to digging.  I remember thinking, “Wow, that sounds really painful!”  When he was done with that he sent me on my way.  I decided that since I was taking the whole day off, I might as well find where the new Bloodbath & Beyond store was.  I knew it was off of Eastchase Parkway on the east, duh, side of town.  I headed out I-30.  I found it and had a look around.  It is a nice store.  I hope they do well.  We’ll see.  From there I went home.  My brother was to be in town to load up my niece’s stuff from her dorm so mom agreed we would meet him for lunch.  We went to Olive Garden thinking I would have soup.  The ‘cain was wearing off but I didn’t feel too sore so I agreed to that plan.  We had a nice lunch, except for him spouting some pinko, lefty, Dumbocrap bullshit which I just ignored with an eye roll.  After lunch I settled in to waste the rest of the day.  Friday… um, mom and I did stuff… I guess.  I don’t remember.  Suffices to say, I was not sore at all and could have come in to work… but I didn’t.  Well, I did go get the keys and phone from Jason around 1545 h, but that was as close to work as I got.  I chose to drive the Seven because… well, it’s the Seven!  It began to do its cough and sputter thing, much to my annoyance.  I told John about it and he said we should look at the fuel pressure regulator and carbs on Saturday.  I agreed and drove it to the shop Saturday morning.  We disassembled the float chambers and had a look.  The floats still floated so we fingered that part was ok.  We took off the dashpots and had a look at that system and discovered they were quite filthy inside… so much so that they were a tad on the sticky side.  We cleaned them up and reassembled everything.  With 40wt oil in the dashpots and some improvised filters over the dashpot intake holes, I took it around the block for a test.  It seemed much better.  I declared it fixed and we moved on to other projects.  It was decided that we’d leave the Seven at John’s house while we went to lunch and on the way there it began sputtering again.  I was a bit out of sorts during lunch because of it.  Back at his house, we adjusted the fuel pressure down from 4 psi to 2 psi and I headed home.  The car ran great.  I’m tentatively ready to call it fixed, but we’re probably going to try and lower the pressure even more.  If it does it again, I’m afeared we might have to go with a different fuel pump.  I would rather go with a low pressure electric but we might just do a mechanical pump.  I hate the thought of that though so I am going to fight that tooth and nail.  Anyhoo, as I was driving home from John’s, traffic became stop and go on I-20 for about a mile or so.  The temperature began to climb.  It reached 250 just as the traffic opened up and I could get moving again.  It came right back down to between 180 and 190 so I began to worry that the piece of plastic I intercepted HAD covered the nose.  No, turns out the electric fan has crapped out.  I will need to fix that as well.  Oh, we took some measurements and now know approximately what we need as far as shock absorbers go.  Now all I need to do is find some and finger out how I’m going to pay for them.  Sunday I took mom to lunch at West Side Café, not the most swanky Mother’s Day eatery but we like it… and the waitress called “Shorty” is so friggin’ yummy that I just want to lick every square inch of… oh, sorry.  Family rant.  After lunch I went to the Burleson Gun Show to see what it was all about.  It was about ¼ the size of the SMALL Fort Worth Gun Show, is what it was.  It was ok, I suppose.  I’ll probably go back for the next one in June.  We’ll see.  From there I went to Best Buy and bought mom a printer… for Mother’s Day, of course.  Yesterday AT&T installed Uverse at the house… the picture is “meh” and I cannot access the wireless so… yea!  Ok, the picture is getting a “meh” rating because BBC America is lo-def and therefore grainy and stretched.  If I can find BBCA HD I might be happier.  As for not accessing the wireless, they didn’t write down the password… and even if they had, there are at least four different AT&T wireless signals showing up on my computer.  Which one is ours?  No idea.  So, now that y’all are back up to speed with me… go fuck yourselves, San Diego!