Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

You will drive yourself nuts attempting to figure all that out.

Is that why you enjoy your insanity and how you got there?

[Porsche-poor]

Could be. I'll never tell.
Wife
Kids
Work
English
Porsche

You pick.

[ted]

Spring is here the Plumarias are starting to wake up.

[GH85Carrera]

Our Plumaria is starting to grow more stems, but just tiny leaves as yet. We used to have a plumaria tree in our back yard on base at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. We could make a lei for visitors if they warranted the effort.

[flipper35]

We have a typical WI spring. It was 70 on Sunday and then back in the 40s and rain this week.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. 3 down 2 to go. Rinse and repeat.

[GH85Carrera]

We are forecast to hit low 60s today, and then 70s and 80s for several days. Yeah!

Amazon is amazing sometimes. I realized I had not done my annual spring brake fluid change on the 911 as yet. So I ordered some brake fluid. When working on the Macan it told me the battery in my key fob was in need of replacement. It takes a 2032 button battery. Amazon had packs of 4 but the best deal on a good battery brand was a 6 pack. They had 100 packs for not a lot more money, but I think 6 is plenty.

I placed that order and then a few hours later I realized I needed a mini SD card for the Autel OBD2 gizmo. They all arrived the next day in the same box. Not one was something I was desperate for, so they arrive really fast. I know if I was desperate for something it would be sent to Maine, then San Diego, and put on a train to Dallas, and a truck to OKC and get here in a month.

[Porsche-poor]

Isn't that always the case. Need it now its lost. Need it whenever and poof its there.

[flipper35]

Yup. The shipping speed in inversely proportional to the need.

40s and rainy here today and the kids are supposed to go practice for the Scholastic Action Shooting Sports team.

https://mysasp.com/

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I might make it into the 60's here with no rain. I'll be stuck inside doing mark ups till 4 but I'll live.

[GH85Carrera]

We are due for mid 60s today, and warmer for the next few days.

Every year I have to renew the business license with the secretary of state for our LLC. It is a whopping $25 per year, and a $1 credit card fee.

Usually about month before it is time to renew I get a letter from a low life, but legal company. They send out a very official looking letter. It really looks much like what the State might send, but the Secretary of State just me an email. The low life company has this official looking letter and all the steps to just send them a nice check for $225 bucks to renew my annual certificate. They would then become the "official" agent for the company.

The main reason to even have an agent is if a company is sued, the agent gets the papers served and they are on record as the agent for the company. Or is someone or some business wants to find the owners of a company, I my name and address are listed.

I can guess that many secretaries of small businesses see that letter and hand it to the accounts payable, and it gets paid, and the owner of the company will have a hell of a time to be the registered agent again, and lots of money is wasted.

If a company wants to open in Oklahoma but the owners live out of state, they have to have a registered agent in Oklahoma. So in that case they can pay some local citizen to be the agent.

[Porsche-poor]

Sounds like one of the more dumb scams. Speaking of which we are getting letters for extended auto warranty crap for the mother-in-law who died last Oct and didn't have a car for almost a year. The car she had was so old parts were some times hard to find. I think its time to black out her name and put it all back in the postage paid envelope.

[GH85Carrera]

I still get junk snail mail addressed to my dad. I just toss it in the trash if addressed to him. No one can steal his identity now. Of if they do, they can't hurt him in any way.

I just got another spam call that was blocked by the AT&T app as a spam call. They left a message about some lawsuit for people hurt from Roundup. My iPhone transcribes the voice mail, so I saw roundup, and just deleted the voice mail.

I got two car warranty calls and one wanting to buy my house, one from a candidate to congress and I deleted it before I discovered if she was telling me how she could fix congress, or if she wanted my money. I don't care, delete.

[GH85Carrera]

Working in the yard under the boss's wife's directions. The leaf cover for the Koi pond is removed, rolled up, and back in the attic. 7 years ago the large Bradford Pear tree was devastated by a ice storm. We had to have it cut down and removed. Mrs Carrera insisted they leave a two and half foot stump for her to use as a potted plant stand. It has pretty much rotted out and we pulled off large hunks of it to toss in the trash. It was like sawdust. The bugs and lichens and fungus have done what nature intended. Now it will take a few more wacks with the pike and a sledge to get it down to ground level. We can call it our science project now.

[GH85Carrera]

Toady is mow the yard with the mower lowered a notch, edge the 1/4 mile of the sidewalk edges, and string trim all 12 of the flower beds edges. Then I get to work on the rain barrel.

The fitting that threads right into the barrel at the bottom for getting water out of it broke off flush. There is nothing to get hold of on the outside. There is a little of the threaded part inside the 55 gallon drum. So I have plans to screw a 1/2 adapter onto it with some PVC cement. Let that set, and then back off the entire think. Sounds easy, except for reaching down into the bottom of the barrel. It will be a real challenge to get to it. If I had a 1/2 easy out I could do it from the outside. I just don't have one that big.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning. Use the every good project requires a new tool and get one.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, I put together a "kit" for my rain barrel repair project. I have a piece of 1/2 PVC riser threaded pipe male adapter. It has a 7/8 inch 6 point nut in the middle. I can use a 7/8 deep socket to reach that so after it is all glued in place I can reach in with the electric ratchet to back out the thread in the barrel. Just getting my arm and head far enough into the barrel will be the challenge.

Putting in the new adapter is easy, all done from the outside.

[GH85Carrera]

Phew, 2.5 hours of mowing and edging, and screwing with the rain barrel. All finished.

[Porsche-poor]

"Screwing with the rain barrel" You will probably be drug in to the HR department now.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

"Screwing with the rain barrel" You will probably be drug in to the HR department now.

Our HR department is great. Free beer and all ya can eat BBQ brisket, and then we have a burping contest, longest burp or loudest wins $100 cash! Then you get to drive the boss's 911 at a track event of your choice. It is a slow old analog 911, but still lots of fun.

I keep trying to get reported to HR!.