Month: December 2021 (Page 1 of 4)

–Bread basket came in early: eBay fulfilled by Amazon. Steinhart Ocean 39 Explorer also came in early. ((% sure I had one of these in La Selva Beach and tossed it (gilt dial and hands). I like this one now, but who knows? Peter Carey knife came in from Monterey Bay Knives. Nice enough, but like Laconico knives from MBK, it’s quite hard to start the flipping action.

–Did two loads of laundry: underwear and such, then sheets. Changed the sheets on my bed for the first time in…a long time.

–Went to Home Depot/Lowe’s for washing soda. Turns out I had some from last electrolysis. Tried it on the Erie skillet. Nothing. Don’t know if the skillet has to be rusty for it to work; there were no bubbles or anything indicating a reaction was occurring. Gave up and sprayed some more EZ-Off on it.

–Replaced hearing aid batteries around 4 PM.

–Not much going on today. Drizzly, cold.

–Ordered a Random Fabrications Mini Thicc fidget spinner, $197.06.

–Blue Datejust dial came in. I swapped it in successfully; it looks great.

–New neighbors’ dog started barking. Crap.

–Thought I had ordered a second cheap bezel from wholesaleoutlet1990. PayPal only shows the first. There’s an unknown package floating around the postal system, but I think it might just be a bogus interim number that somebody used. Crap.

–Successfully baked some bread using the new book. Didn’t follow it completely, and had to fake it here and there because the dough was so wet, but it turned out fat and gorgeous. I ordered a proofing basket to (possibly) help with the last step of getting the dough neatly into the dutch oven.

–Took a shower.

–Tried to build a fire last night. Couldn’t (kindling not small enough, wrapping paper not flammable enough). Gave up on the fireplace–cleaned it out today and closed it up.

–Played with watches some more. Decided (maybe) to sell the two Watchcos and keep the Helson Sharkmaster. Also (maybe) will go with the two 42mm Squale Batmen and the 40mm Mondia Batman.

–Grace has been in a bad for mood for a couple of days now.

–Opened presents.

–Watched two vintage Christmas specials: Bert and Ernie, and Disney. Nope.

–Got Grace’s Christmas presents wrapped.

–Set up Christmas music and video stuff–even got the cassette deck going so we can listen to “St. Olaf Christmas.”

–Rolex 16610 came in. Very nice: sharp crown guards, clean. I removed the bezel because it was a little hard-turning. Not really dirty. I managed to reinstall it with the click spring, so another skill mastered. Still kind of hard-turning, but that’s okay.

–Finished cleaning the Erie spider skillet with EZ-Off. Looks better, but may have some pitting on the bottom. Was it always there? Beats me. I think I will zap it with electrolysis and then start building up again with Crisco.

–Went around and around with Squale watches. Ended up (for now) with the two 42mm Batmen [edit] and the 40mm blue/red GMT.

–Took a shower.