Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

It is another WINDY day here. Just crazy windy. We had to go clean out the filters for the Koi pond again. The tadpoles are tiny, and the bull frogs are singing every night, so more tadpoles to come no doubt. They have lots of alga to eat so bring em on. The fish love eating the tadpoles.

[Porsche-poor]

Grrrr I am sick of all the password hoops. I kicked me out then I have to prove its me but the email I set up long ago is no longer any good. Once that was sorted they want you to use grithub and not just let me sign in using a password. Once I got in there was no way to change the recovery email.

[GH85Carrera]

I had a total endless loop on one software package of log in, and a warning to change my password. I did that, they sent me a text to my phone, I punch that in, I provide the code, and nope you have to change your password. After three loops, I called tech support. After finally getting to a human she immediately wanted me to try again. So round four, and same results. Then I hear the dreaded phrase, "hmm, I have never seen that before" and she put me on hold. 10 minutes later they said try again. Same result. She called in a supervisor and after another 5 minutes they changed something on their end, and I could use the software I had paid for.

Computers are fun.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The PDF files are saved with JPG compression, so a Zip file would just make one file to send instead of three and almost no compression savings.

I was back in the days when I drove to work for someone else that I was dealing with a client that had Mordoc, the preventer of information in their IT department. Even when I sent a file to the IT department they would not open it and put it on the server. She got pissed off enough to drive to McDonald's with her personal laptop, and downloaded the file. Then she used a thumb drive to copy the file to sneak it past IT. It got to the point that she just sent me her personal email address so I could email the files there. Then I had some big files that needed FTP. Only her home email could download them. The entire time the owner of the company was demanding she get her presentation finished ASAP hair on fire, now now now! She was not happy in her job.

It isn't about compression, IT guys either treat ZIP files like leprosy or they don't care a whit. ZIP is one of the most unsafe extensions so I would send a ZIP just to mess with them.

[ted]

Supply chain working, new Jongbloed rims arrived.

[GH85Carrera]

Things are looking like a busy summer for us. Several projects with several companies are going to happen. One company sent us an actual contract to sign and it is just a simple "we will work for you" thing. It does mention we get paid, so yes, of course we will work for them. They asked what area we are working in, and we just flew a job that is almost to Denver, but still in the flat lands of eastern Colorado. We are doing jobs in Tunica Mississippi, and southern Louisiana. They asked about North Dakota and we sent them a link to the 3D point cloud we did of Devil's Tower just because it is cool. We were in the area and flew right past it.

We told them we will not go out to California as those folks are too hard to work with, and NYC or Washington DC is a no go. No way we can travel all that way and be competitive with the companies that live there anyway.

[Porsche-poor]

Those rims are pretty!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

It isn't about compression, IT guys either treat ZIP files like leprosy or they don't care a whit. ZIP is one of the most unsafe extensions so I would send a ZIP just to mess with them.

I used to have a customer that could not get a zip file, the entire email just went into the ether. I just renamed it, and removed the extension. She knew to save the file, and rename it with a zip extension and everything worked fine.

Zip files seem to get through to most clients now.

[ted]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Those rims are pretty!

Thank you, wheel management, nice to have 2 new sets of rims for the 5 car.
BBS not taking orders till October so Jongbloed came through at a nice savings.
I have 16 vintage BBS basket weave wheels, 4 cracked, 4 good and 8 more left to crack check.

Need 8 good BBS basket weave wheels for the historic racing the 10 car.
Fingers crossed we will have at least 8 good ones.

[GH85Carrera]

Ted, those are fancy wheels for a race car!

My wife has a friend that she went to grade school and all the way to high school with. She called yesterday and said they are coming to town and will stay with us through the weekend. Fortunately we did not have any plans. Mrs Carrera had to move a bunch of plants from the guest bathroom bathtub. Most are plants she started as seeds and had under a grow light. All flowers of course.

We are amazed she would just call and say they were coming, and never mentioned it until the day before they arrive. They have stayed with us before, and are a nice enough couple. I like her husband, and he is a car guy. The lady is just weird. She just can't get ready to do anything at all on time. That drives me nuts. She has something to say about any subject at all, even if she knows nothing about it.

[ted]

Thank you Glen.
Last November I first met and raced a super cool dude named Ron Esau at the track, he passed away 2 months later.
https://kickinthetires.net/nascar/cup/former-west-series-driver-ron-esau-passes-away-kickin-the-tires/
Last photo is of Ron and I on the podium, I was thrilled to finish 2nd to him.

[GH85Carrera]

Ted, that looks like a fun track. I need to do Willow Springs someday. I see the TV shows go there all the time. I did drive past the sign for the turn off to it once. It was about 140 degrees and my wife did not want to stop for me to go take a closer look.

I will be within 5 miles of Poconos race track this summer but there is no track day scheduled. Dang it.

[ted]

Big Willow my home track.
Buttonwillow next race in a month.
Laguna Seca another favorite (your's too?) but I can only race there 3 weekends a year when it is sound free.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, Laguna Seca is a great track, and it was almost surreal to have such pleasant weather when I was there in the middle of summer.

Laguna is my second favorite. It is nice in that beside the corkscrew, all the corners are easy to figure out and no surprises. My new favorite is Eagle's Canyon in Decatur TX. It is super smooth, with no crown in the road. The track either cambers to the left or right, and and usually on camber for the corners, except for the trickiest corner, going down the hill into the canyon. It is a blind off camber, downhill, turn that drops more than the corkscrew. If I hit it just perfect, I could really push down the hill. If I was a bit off, I was looking out the side window and really hanging out my rear, and slow. It is 2.7 miles of fun.

[john70t]

On I-75 the radio choices are:
-two guys one girl rambling about anything
-gangster rap
-fire and brimstone preachers
-1980s rock
-NPR

[GH85Carrera]

I listened to the radio back in the olden days. I gave up about 15 years ago. Now I listen to Pandora, or my own collection of CDs thee as t I ripped to MP3 at low compression. I never listen to radio anymore. For just the reasons you mentioned.

[GH85Carrera]

Our guests have moved on. We had some entertainment for them last night. A line of thunderstorms moved through. The local TV stations all go to "wall to wall" coverage. No commercials, nothing but the weather RADAR and the storm chasers with running descriptions and careful monitoring of the storms locations. We got a whopping 0.15 inches of rain, and the insane winds finally died down.

[Porsche-poor]

Good Monday morning all. Off to work Oh wait I'm here already.

[GH85Carrera]

A few days ago we broke the record for the high, 93 degrees. This morning it was 42 degrees. The wind machines have been turned way down and it is easy to walk around again without getting blown around.

All those large towers with the really big fans had been cranked up and making it windy. Now they are on just gentle cycle.

[GH85Carrera]

Mrs. Carrera bought a whirligig last year. In crazy winds she would take it down so it did not shred itself. Whoever designed it spent time of figuring out how to ship it at a reasonable cost. It has a base that screws into 4 sections of pipe, very thin walled pipe, and it was easy to assemble. The problem is the wall of the pipe is just a but undersized for much more than a light breeze. One of the joints just deformed and the pipe would no longer screw together. It is an outside diameter of 7/8 of an inch and likely just a 1/16 inch thick pipe wall. The inside of the pipe is very rusty as it was not painted or protected so no way to slide something done the inside with all the rust.

So I had to figure out a way to "patch" it to be able to be used again. I had to get some 1 inch diameter galvanized pipe to slip over the joint, and I then will drill holes through it and bolt it in place. It will be strong, and the good news is it is all matte black, so rattle can spray it black and it will be functional. Not real pretty, but the only other choice is to replace the entire stand. This is easier.