Mr. Scat Spark Licka cruised on over this afternoon for a day of car stuff. No grease monkey today, today we’re going to mess with bodywork. We whiled away the first part trying to figure out how to fabricate a engine underbody gravel pan for the rally FX16. As we were leaving for City Mill to see if they had some appropriate sheet metal, Ckucky and Dave showed up after their session at the shooting range. Man, how macho manly can you get, go shoot some guns in the morning, then some welding on a car in the afternoon. Of course Dave with his iced mochaie espresso coffee thing and the fact that we we’re doing this and ignoring that there was some kind of sporting event going on kind of ruins that image. Continue reading ‘Jalopy Day’
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Oh yeah, been turning my room upside down. What’s this, Root’s cleaning his room? Didn’t make it for the New Year though. Been gradually reorganizing my room. Been dumping old piecemeal furniture bits, like the old color TV cabinet in my closet that was acting as shelf and replacing with more efficient shelving. Also picked up some Lundia wood shelving modules from City Mill to replace my desk and wall shelving. These are the wood shelving systems you’ll see throughout the store for displaying shelving. Pretty nice stuff. Not sure where they’re getting it from, this is Lundia euro stuff, not the Lundia USA. They look similar, but are not compatible, this stuff is in metric, although City Mill labels it in inches. Works fine. Not exactly cheap, the three uprights, seven shelves, and misc hardware set me back around $400, but it’s pretty nice. Solid wood, not particle board, goes together easily, adjusts easily. Will need to get the house fumigated sometime before it becomes termite food!
I was forwarded info to article in paper about the TV show Off The Map currently shooting in Hawaii was looking for vehicles for a scene in their season finale. Criterion was beat looking vehicles as this show is supposed to take place in the jungles of South America. Well people, do I have the vehicles for you? Within hours of submitting these pics to their casting dept, they called me saying they’d love to have them. But I gathered from the descriptions and what they said, they wanted people to drive to the shoot and man the vehicles for the scene, which is supposed to be a traffic jam during a festival. It would have been amusing to do, but they are shooting this Monday at Kualoa ranch, something I couldn’t swing. Oh well, next time, I’m not too heartbroken over missing chance to be in this show. If it were Hawaii 5-0 I might have considered it more. It seems to pay more to NOT fix up my vehicles. Guess it’s not easy to get that authentic patina!
Latest variety pack I picked up, “American Originals”, this is the White Ale. Pours faintly cloudy yellow, moderate head that dissapates, carbonation stays moderately strong. Mouth feel is fairly light and crisp, with just a bit of body. A bit of citrusy tang, without really having citrus, being a Belgian white style. The added spice flavors are not very strong here, I can’t really detect them, this is not a Hoegarten. Mild bitterness that stays even through the middle and gradually fades. I can’t say this beer is very interesting. It’s drinkable, but not one to make me seek it out. I’d have to go with a middle of the line 2.5 out of 4 weiss monkeys.