busy day
Sat Nov 24 23:49:01 EST 2012
My prime objective for the day was to go out to bikes@vienna to get a Primo Comet 20"x1.35" front tire for my bike. It was staggeringly expensive at $65 (my 26" rear tires are generally $15-20), but the previous tire has lasted many years (outlasting 3 or 4 rear tires), and I have some interest in keeping this local bike shop in business. It looks like I could have gotten it for $45 (incl shipping) on Amazon. I also got some brake shoes that do seem competitively priced, and for $3 the Fairfax County bike map. (Arlington county gives its map away.)
I was planning to go to Micro Center, since I was going that far west. They've been advertising LED light bulbs to replace incandescents. But I compared with Home Depot (where I also needed to go) on line, and Micro Center lost out. After spending almost $100 at my "local" bike shop I decided to stop by Micro Center anyway. Once I got in the store and saw the check-out line (going 3/4 of the way to the back of the store) I decided I wasn't buying anything there today. They didn't even seem to have any kind of special sale going on.
I went to Home Depot, but there were other kinds of lights on the shelf in the place of the light I was looking for. I asked an associate for help, and was told there were 384 in stock. The guy went off looking, couldn't find them, and then later reported that they'd stopped selling them. The cheapest ones they had were twice what I was expecting to pay, but one in that shelf spot didn't match the specs on the price tag, so I asked for a price check. It turned out to be the light I was looking for. It was the only one on the shelf. This light is going in the downstairs fridge. anniemal will be surprised and elated to find a light in the fridge again. The previous bulb shattered some time ago when water dripped on it while I was defrosting the freezer. I decided I was not going to put another incandescent bulb in there. (There used to be a plastic guard over it, but it got brittle (age?) and cracked.)
The other thing I wanted at Home Depot was a short piece of pipe for mounting the new lights on the bike. I found steel pipe, but it's very heavy. Copper pipe, longer than I need, and perhaps crushable. PVC pipe was cheap, but absurdly long. (I may have to go with that and have a lot left over.) I didn't get any of them. I did buy some momentary-contact push-button switches that I think I will be able to use with gloves on, so that's a step in the rewiring that's needed. There was no line for the self-service check-out, even though the parking lot was crazy.
After that I went to my brother's house. He had asked me to stop by and help him unbox a piece of heavy, self-assemble furniture (granite table top) so he could get to the directions and make sure all the pieces were there. I decided to stay and assemble the thing. It took a few hours, but I'm sure it was much faster with 2 people. And they fed me pizza, which was a nice break from turkey. (We've still got days of leftovers, and another turkey which hasn't been cooked yet.)
After we got the furniture together we moved the TV on top of it. When we turned the TV on we surfed into what looked like a cold-war nuclear-disaster movie. Except that Robert Wagner was in it, as a civilian. And eventually someone called him "Al". At the end of the hour it was revealed to be It Takes a Thief, and it was followed by another episode.
MythWeb: Sat Nov 24, 2012, 11:52 PM
Channel 50-3: AntTv SD on November 24, 2012
TimeTitleEpisodeDescriptionLength
21:00-22:00It Takes a ThiefSituation RedMundy must open a door that shields an insane colonel intent on launching a nuclear attack.1 hr
22:00-23:00It Takes a ThiefSing a Song of MurderMusicians (Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue, Ron Townson, Lamonte McLemore) become involved in a political plot.1 hr
Those co-stars from the 2nd episode are The 5th Dimension. Putting pop-music chart toppers into prime-time shows is nothing new.
Sunday 16:30
I replaced the front tire and front brake shoes on the bike this afternoon. One of the brake pads had worn down to the underlying metal, and on close examination the old tire had a few sub-pinhead-sized spots where the rubber was gone.
Sunday 23:21
I just installed the Copy Urls Expert Firefox add-on to replace CopyAllUrls, which was disabled as incompatible by a previous Firefox upgrade. The newer add-on has more functionality for me:
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/568655.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
My prime objective for the day was to go out to bikes@vienna to get a Primo Comet 20"x1.35" front tire for my bike. It was staggeringly expensive at $65 (my 26" rear tires are generally $15-20), but the previous tire has lasted many years (outlasting 3 or 4 rear tires), and I have some interest in keeping this local bike shop in business. It looks like I could have gotten it for $45 (incl shipping) on Amazon. I also got some brake shoes that do seem competitively priced, and for $3 the Fairfax County bike map. (Arlington county gives its map away.)
I was planning to go to Micro Center, since I was going that far west. They've been advertising LED light bulbs to replace incandescents. But I compared with Home Depot (where I also needed to go) on line, and Micro Center lost out. After spending almost $100 at my "local" bike shop I decided to stop by Micro Center anyway. Once I got in the store and saw the check-out line (going 3/4 of the way to the back of the store) I decided I wasn't buying anything there today. They didn't even seem to have any kind of special sale going on.
I went to Home Depot, but there were other kinds of lights on the shelf in the place of the light I was looking for. I asked an associate for help, and was told there were 384 in stock. The guy went off looking, couldn't find them, and then later reported that they'd stopped selling them. The cheapest ones they had were twice what I was expecting to pay, but one in that shelf spot didn't match the specs on the price tag, so I asked for a price check. It turned out to be the light I was looking for. It was the only one on the shelf. This light is going in the downstairs fridge. anniemal will be surprised and elated to find a light in the fridge again. The previous bulb shattered some time ago when water dripped on it while I was defrosting the freezer. I decided I was not going to put another incandescent bulb in there. (There used to be a plastic guard over it, but it got brittle (age?) and cracked.)
The other thing I wanted at Home Depot was a short piece of pipe for mounting the new lights on the bike. I found steel pipe, but it's very heavy. Copper pipe, longer than I need, and perhaps crushable. PVC pipe was cheap, but absurdly long. (I may have to go with that and have a lot left over.) I didn't get any of them. I did buy some momentary-contact push-button switches that I think I will be able to use with gloves on, so that's a step in the rewiring that's needed. There was no line for the self-service check-out, even though the parking lot was crazy.
After that I went to my brother's house. He had asked me to stop by and help him unbox a piece of heavy, self-assemble furniture (granite table top) so he could get to the directions and make sure all the pieces were there. I decided to stay and assemble the thing. It took a few hours, but I'm sure it was much faster with 2 people. And they fed me pizza, which was a nice break from turkey. (We've still got days of leftovers, and another turkey which hasn't been cooked yet.)
After we got the furniture together we moved the TV on top of it. When we turned the TV on we surfed into what looked like a cold-war nuclear-disaster movie. Except that Robert Wagner was in it, as a civilian. And eventually someone called him "Al". At the end of the hour it was revealed to be It Takes a Thief, and it was followed by another episode.
MythWeb: Sat Nov 24, 2012, 11:52 PM
Channel 50-3: AntTv SD on November 24, 2012
TimeTitleEpisodeDescriptionLength
21:00-22:00It Takes a ThiefSituation RedMundy must open a door that shields an insane colonel intent on launching a nuclear attack.1 hr
22:00-23:00It Takes a ThiefSing a Song of MurderMusicians (Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue, Ron Townson, Lamonte McLemore) become involved in a political plot.1 hr
Those co-stars from the 2nd episode are The 5th Dimension. Putting pop-music chart toppers into prime-time shows is nothing new.
Sunday 16:30
I replaced the front tire and front brake shoes on the bike this afternoon. One of the brake pads had worn down to the underlying metal, and on close examination the old tire had a few sub-pinhead-sized spots where the rubber was gone.
Sunday 23:21
I just installed the Copy Urls Expert Firefox add-on to replace CopyAllUrls, which was disabled as incompatible by a previous Firefox upgrade. The newer add-on has more functionality for me:
- Copy urls of all tabs in every opened window.
- Copy urls of all tabs only in the current window.
- Copy urls of all links in the selection.
- Copy urls of all images in the selection.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/568655.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]