Month: March 2022 (Page 3 of 4)

–Finished compiling tax documents for Curtis Finton.

–Got the pivot unscrewed yesterday on the Shiro F3 using the “apply pressure to blade while unscrewing” method. Messed the pivot screw. May have it sand-blasted, may buy another screw (ali express?).

–Back has hurt for the last two days, after I did some pre-painting cleanup yesterday. Hope it’s not for long.

–Moved stuff away from house prior to power-washing.

–Chatted with a redditor about swapping my Shiro 111 for his Arius w/ nice scale. Signed up for imgur account so I could send pics. He asked for video, so I politely dropped out. Guess I’ll have to learn how to take videos. Could be an excuse to get (much) better with phone, though I don’t see how I can get around the difficulty of typing in 1.5 square inches.

–Sold some stuff in Grace’s Stanford IRA at Vanguard, as it seems likely they will be sending out an RMD check soon.

–Shirogorov F3 Elmax gray came in. Great feel and centering; action is a tad stiff. Tried briefly to open it up with polyimide tape: no dice.

–Went to Roseville Cyclery (now Mike’s Bikes) to get a receipt for the Sirrus I took to Goodwill. Turns out the missing receipt was in the 2020 tax folder, as I deducted the bike last year. Crap.

–Drove to Bel Air for milk, cream, apples, sumos.

–Samsung phone lost the left hearing aid again. Replaced batteries, was in the process of switching back to iPhone when the S10e found the HA. Seriously frustrating.

–Played with knives.

–Walked to dinner at Jack’s Urban Eats, then got dessert and such at Bel Air.

–Played with knives.

–Grace is still in a super-scary snit.

–Trying to figure out Grace’s inherited IRA distribution. Called Kathy Purcell (Grace exploded) to get a Raymond James contact. Wrote him, he said they didn’t deal with the account. Later sent him a pic of a Raymond James document from the account with his name on it. HA!!

–Walked to Bel Air for dessert.

–Put the TV back together.

–Did an incredibly stupid thing at Kraken and sent all ethereum and bitcoin out into the crypto void. Metamask found the ethereum, but not the bitcoin. Spent hours trying to figure out how to get it back. Failed.

–Grace is being super-weird, claiming I unhooked the wireless TV extender and wired the TV back up. I didn’t. I’m pretty sure she did it in a snit when I failed to appreciate the genius of her experiment.

–Took Grace for a blood draw in Folsom.

–While cleaning debris off the roof, Grace discovered a 3-foot long piece of gutter mesh that had (apparently) blown off a second-story section of gutter. I called Cal Vintage to come and replace it.

–Bought my 9th Shirogorov (or so). This one has some nice inlays on the scales.

–Took a Shiro apart and replaced the ball bearings with some from Boca Bearings. Could not detect a difference. The blade will move toward center as you tighten the pivot (as with nearly all knives); the difference is that when centered and tight, the Shiro still opens and closes easily.

–Made pizza for dinner.