Pretty good mileage, but I will never have a motorcycle. I like AC or heat, and steel around me.

We must have some fat and stuffed Koi. The toads and the frogs were all having an orgy in the pond. This is the third round of the toads and at least one round of frogs laying eggs, and the tadpoles are thick, but vanishing fast.

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Every time I take a look there are a lot fewer tadpoles. The Koi are just hanging out trying to digest as fast as possible I guess. No way can our area support hundreds of toads and frogs, so mother nature is taking care of the excess. Every year we few a dozen or more little bitty toads. I have never seen a baby frog, just the adults.

Oddly, I hate driving with the windows down but will ride a bike or in a roadster/convertible all day long. Unless it is raining. Or raining hard anyway.

I had my 74 914 2.0 for over 17 years as my only car. I bough the El Camino in 1991 and it was the first air conditioned car I ever had. The 914 was a fun toy but got less and lees use in the HOT summer months. It had a great heater.

I have had enough wind noise and open air driving to last a lifetime. I roll my windows down only to talk to someone while at a stop. At all times the AC or the heater are on. The sunroof on the 911 has been used three times since 1995.

Wow, Mr. Toad was back to his singing last night looking for love at the pond again. Of course we have no idea if it is the same toad, but they are some horny toads, but not horny toads AKA Phrynosoma or Horned lizards. We have a lot of blue tailed skinks but they are quiet.

Having fun in the humidity. Mow the yard day again. Nice mid 70s temps, light breeze, and solid overcast so no direct sun. Only 70% humidity according to my Davis Vantage Vue. It must have been stuck. It started to sprinkle, a 4 inch rain, a large drop every 4 inches apart. Then stop raining, and just be virga, rain that evaporates between the cloud and the ground.

I understand that science says 100% humidity is the maximum possible. But like a heat index, or a wind chill, there must be a humidity index. It was 110% humidity I am sure! The rain drops that fell on the mower plastic covers was there for most of the hour. It is all done.

It would be nice if we got some actual measurable rain.

Morning all. Nice long weekend with a trip to Eugene to see the daughter. Ate well slept so so. Now its back to work.

I am having a hard time getting used to that back to work part.

Me to. Tuesday with 3 to go and still feels like 5.

Yea, get to work! Someone needs to. :cool:

On occasion when we have guests my wife will volunteer me to give them a ride in my 911. Most people have never gone around a corner at a rapid speed. We have some fun (for my 911) interstate on-ramps. One is a very tight S curve that blends into a 70 MPH speed limit.

My wife's cousin and her husband came to visit, and he was talked into a ride. He is part Sasquatch, and has size 16 feet! He is 6'4 as well. He was wearing his custom made boots and squeezed into the passenger seat. Anyway at some point as I was having fun just merging onto the interstate, his giant boots squashed the cardboard hose for the AC vents. He was properly terrified and was sure we would roll over. I did compensate for his large mass and did not push too had in the on-ramp. I did not know about the crushed hose until months later when I was was doing some work on that side.

Crap, it is a 36mm cardboard with a foil liner to stand up to the roasting hot heater, and the AC cold. No plastic hose will stand up to it, and so one sells a hose that size anyway.

I searched through the parts catalog from Porsche and finally found 911-573-204-00-OEM. Pelican sells it in 1000 mm long pieces for only $12.75. So ordered it from Pelican. I will need to get that replaced before my trip to California. It should be fairly easy.

Morning all. Off to platform design.

We have two different clients at different large companies that are regular customers. Bot men are named Jason. It makes me have to think before pulling up their contacts and to be super duper careful not to send the wrong information to the wrong Jason. The two companies are competitors.

More than a few times one will ask for a price quote, and send the project information. And shortly after the other Jason asks for a price quote for the same project. Our prices are as low as we will go to either client, so the only difference to the end buyer is how much they mark up our quote for the final product. Both are super slow paying so no discounts for fast paying customers needed.

One of the projects we delivered recently went through all of our double checks and accuracy checks and it passed with flying colors. So we put it on out FTP site for delivery.

The customer imports it into their program, Civil3D, and is is just wonky and off by several feet. We scratched our head, did all the double checks and it was just well within national map standards.

We just received this from them:

Okay, an update on our inserting into Civil3D issues.
We seem to have found our culprit. Originally, we were all trying to use ‘MAPIINSERT’ to load the image, but it kept having shift/scaling issues. We later tried ‘IINSERT’ and it came in right on the money.

Evidently mapiinsert uses international feet, and not US feet. So just good old Civil3D making our lives hard. Phew, we are golden and accurate! :D

Morning all. Is it Friday yet?

Almost, just one more day!

Mr. Toad is still singing. He must be desperate now, as he is singing in the day time. We have had many rounds of tadpoles. I have yet to see any baby toads. The Koi must be stuffed with tadpoles.

free fish food.

We only feed them if we have guests that want to feed them in summer months. They manage on just the alga in the pond, and the bounty of tadpoles in the spring. My wife will not allow any feeding of them in spring as evidently too much food after winter is something that can kill them. Only when the water is pretty warm will see feed them some fish food.

No doubt they eat some bugs that land on the water surface. They are pretty shy, and hang out under the lilies or the waterfall so it is hard to see them.

The wife has three ceramic koi we got in Hawaii. They require no food or water.

And they never grow or die!

Well if they ever fall off the wall they will sort of be dead.

We used to have a pond but the animals kept eating the fish