Yay Snow!
Accomplished much yesterday, including slamming my index finger knuckle many many times with a hammer; meeting new folks in kniggit-2's garage/armor shop; giving and receiving shit/smack talk; and watching mindless cartoons. But, holes are now punched in the leather, and they have been nicely sauteed in a waxy/parafinny bath. I made kniggit-2's haus all nice and smokey.. yeah, I should have punched the holes first, but I could only do about 10-15 at a time before my hand got tired and I had to do something else - thankfully kniggit-2's lady jumped in a punched/marked quite a bit... Leather was a bit thick... I also found some *fabulous* dark green parachute cord that will work perfectly with my rig/clothing choices in armor.
Another accomplishment -- found a decent vehicle for the Mr. O -- nicely upkept Ford Tempo under 100k miles on it. Kniggit-2 will be putting in a water pump, and it will eventually (read soon) need a new muffler, but tranny works good, engine doesn't have leaks (except for said water pump) and it is cheap. It is ugly as hell, but I really don't care at this point -- just as long as the O can get out of the house, he will be much easier to live/deal with.
One last accomplishment: I made it home in one piece last night. I had neglected to look out the window until about 9 p.m. at kniggit's haus -- and looked and saw a vast cloud of whiteness of dumping snow. It was coming down pretty good, but I needed to get home... So, figured out how to put little Taco into 4-wheel drive, and had the weight of my tent in the back... and I drove nerve-wrackingly home. It didn't clear up until about S. of Ft. Collins. I had about 4-5 inches on the road. I even PASSED some idiots who bunched up and kept putting on their brakes (wow -- THAT will put you out of control in a heartbeat!)
I am still a bit sore this morning due to my entire body being tense for about 1.5 - 2 hours... THinking a nice hot shower will do the trick, along with some brekky.
MmmMMmm brekky.
Another accomplishment -- found a decent vehicle for the Mr. O -- nicely upkept Ford Tempo under 100k miles on it. Kniggit-2 will be putting in a water pump, and it will eventually (read soon) need a new muffler, but tranny works good, engine doesn't have leaks (except for said water pump) and it is cheap. It is ugly as hell, but I really don't care at this point -- just as long as the O can get out of the house, he will be much easier to live/deal with.
One last accomplishment: I made it home in one piece last night. I had neglected to look out the window until about 9 p.m. at kniggit's haus -- and looked and saw a vast cloud of whiteness of dumping snow. It was coming down pretty good, but I needed to get home... So, figured out how to put little Taco into 4-wheel drive, and had the weight of my tent in the back... and I drove nerve-wrackingly home. It didn't clear up until about S. of Ft. Collins. I had about 4-5 inches on the road. I even PASSED some idiots who bunched up and kept putting on their brakes (wow -- THAT will put you out of control in a heartbeat!)
I am still a bit sore this morning due to my entire body being tense for about 1.5 - 2 hours... THinking a nice hot shower will do the trick, along with some brekky.
MmmMMmm brekky.