Month: May 2021 (Page 2 of 3)

–Gay Freres Kon Tiki bracelet came in. Full size, bright but (on close inspection) over-polished. Now I have two: 1971 and 1968.

–iPhone 5S came in. I thought it would be exactly the same size as Grace’s (and my former) 5, but it appears to be a little longer. Hard to get specs on these; all they mention is screen size. Battery is amazingly good for 7-8 years old: Coconut says around 95% of capacity. Took a fair amount of finagling to get it to run Resound Smart 3D, but it did eventually. Don’t know if it will find the hearing aids tomorrow morning. [edit] 5 and 5S are identical in size.

–Went to the Orangevale farmers market (3 PM–8 PM Thursdays). Found some good stuff: radishes, salsa, Rainier cherries.

–Found algae on the pool walls yesterday; added more chlorine today. Still too cool for swimming.

–Battery died on the Honda after I left the trunk open all night. I put the battery tender on it and it charged back up.

–Got a buzz cut at Great Clips (waited a while), then walked over to Five Guys for lunch. Good as usual.

–Put chlorine in the pool. Likely too chilly today to get it up to 84-85. Still blowing occasional bubbles with both pumps at 3000 RPM.

–Rolex 5512 caseback came in. Expensive, but necessary.

–Took a shower.

–Played around some with the pool. Seems fairly certain that at least the main pump (probably both) has to be at 3000 RPM to prevent air bubbles. I finally got a good idea of what the solar porthole should look like when all is good: it should look like there’s nothing in it.

–Roasted some caf beans. Had too many in the second batch; the chaff actually caught fire (inside the collector) and turned to ash. Oops…

–Took Grace to the Carmichael Park farmers market. Market was nice, though I should have recalled that it’s a mistake to make Grace do anything.

–Internet went down again. I finally went to Best Buy and got the latest Motorola cable modem/router. After a long activation session on the phone with Comcast, all is good again.

–Went to Nai’s Berry Farm for strawberries, tomatoes, something.

–Took a swim. Nippy (pool 84, air 70).

–Took Grace to Green Acres in Citrus Heights, where she didn’t find a planter box. Then to Safeway, where she foundmany of her desired drinks.

–Bought a 5512 caseback with same date (IV.67) as the one Rolex will confiscate. eBay told seller to send it to Ohio (for authentication, which he didn’t know about) which led to a whole fiasco. Finally bought it direct, saving a few dollars.

–Switched back to the small group on the Livietta, since that portafilter allows 15g shots, as opposed to 13g shots with the large group (the larger portafilter won’t accept deep baskets). Doesn’t seem practical to grind out the large bottomless portafilter, and it seems almost impossible to find an original 54mm portafilter. Crap.

–Ruined yet another pair of goggles trying to clean them, then trying to polish out the (sticky) anti-fog film. That stuff is terrible. Took a quick swim anyway.

–Made pizza for dinner. #0 minutes at 450 (as the recipe called for) resulted in a charred hockey puck. Maybe I set the oven for 550?

–Went to Leslie Pool Supply for basket and inlet nozzle. Got nothing. Used some wire to make our “second” basket more round, so it fits better. Added chlorine to a cloudy pool. Adjusted pool temp to 87 and set pool and aux pumps to turn off at 4 PM.

–Took a swim; took a shower.

–Rode 11 miles with Tom Elken on the Humbug/Willow Creek trails in Folsom.

–Took a swim. Pool was 88, a bit too warm at the shallow end.