Month: February 2019 (Page 3 of 3)

–Got a dozen bagels at The Bagelry, Soquel, and some dessert at Aldo’s.

–Trying to use pencil erasers as valve seats on Tekna regulators. No luck yet. Maybe I should try to adapt rubber seats from (a) espresso machine steam fittings or (b) other more “standard” regulators. Duh.

–Ran EUFY in the bedroom.

–That’s about it.

–Went to see Dr. Liao in Los Gatos. Biopsy of thing on nose, likely basal cell, likely Mohs surgery. Froze a bunch of sun spots for $300 (pay at the clinic).

–Replaced hearing aid batteries around Noon.

–Sold a couple of Tekna regulators–the prototype and a brass body. Revived a needle that hadn’t been working by carefully cleaning it and the valve seat.

–Helical auger spring broke on Orphan Espresso Apex hand grinder. Looks like a weak spot to me. Emailed Doug and Barb Garrott asking for replacement; no response yet.

–Super Bowl Sunday. Made some yummy nachos. Grace made slow-cooker chili.

–Resurrected 7 Tekna regulators (3 working) to sell after being contacted by scubaboard.com members who read my Tekna rebuild post from a couple years ago.

–Still a couple of leaks in garden shed, maybe due to plastic sheet blowing off. Too muddy to check.

–Got all documents ready to send to Curtis Finton for taxes.

–Went shopping for cough drops, lemon drops, milk, nacho sauce.

–Bike discs came in.

–Robert Erickson knife came in: beautiful. Also deba from Australia: I actually flattened the bevel without destroying it (yet).

–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 10 PM.