Sully blew the right side head gaskets a few weeks ago. Left side has been dubious for years now but gasket sealer works for a few months. Overheated him twice due to low water (oops!) and wound up with milkshake in the valve covers.

So I took his motorvation apart.

Heads are off a few thousandths so we chucked 'em up in the mill and shaved .001" per pass until they were flat.

We covered the mill area with SHarpie(tm) rather than blue dye because it makes a thinner layer. You can see black on the top of the pic after the first pass.

Tomorrow we finish this driver side head and I get to start putting it all back together again. Gonna replace some hoses and other crunchy bits, too.
It's been 30 years since I really tore down a gas engine and they were all big 'Murican iron. Stuff on this engine is so small and easy to work with. Other than how soft my hands have gotten, this has been fun.

And a DIPL from this morning for your time. Never saw the back of it...

No, wait! This needs some cat laying in the sunshine.

Not so bad as a hurricane but these Tropical Storms can cause some havoc. Eastern hemisphere of this thing went over us - the worst half. Sparrow weathered it well. Rocked to 30 knot winds and walls of rain. Rain flying sideways finds holes that rain falling more-or-less straight down doesn't - we have a couple leaks.

Only one boat broke her mooring and wandered off uptide. Duet grounded herself in a safe place and the Seaarc brought her back this morning. I see Duet safely rafted to a shrimp boat for now.

Lot of water in the streets but this is normal after the many millions of dollars spent after Irma to build hurricane friendly streets down there. Yea, right. Never used to flood at every drop of rain...

3 tornados touched down. No picks of the Meeting street one because they had all the streets blocked off by the time I got over there. Higher rent district got hit but mostly just trees. No mention of houses damaged.

Nearer me, heck in line-of-sight to me, something smacked the ground and only lasted a few hundred yards but did plenty of damage to trees. Cool how the trees are laid down in the same direction amidst trees snapped off 20 feet up. That was a lot of power applied real quick. It's posted property so I couldn't go in but you can see the path of vengeance.

And the 3rd made a mess of an RV park up by the base. Here are pics I pulled off the FB and an article from the DM. Several trailers went into the river and swept away.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9763483/Hurricane-Elsa-threatens-Floridas-northern-Gulf-coast.html

Lessa was terrified and foaming at the mouth for awhile. I just let her be and eventually Erin went into her cubbyhole and stayed with her. An bit after the last of the lightning I wiped Lessa's face and petted her. She started purring and then laid down for a snooze. They are fine now.

When you get old, you'll regret more the things you did NOT do than the things you did. It is sad that your sister is gone but your life must go on. Go to Iceland, young man. You will not regret this in the coming years. Learning from others, particularly way out of your comfort zone, is a blessing.

Aleksander Doba is a hero to many adventurers but unsung to most. An older man when he started doing great things in a kayak. Solo adventures not recorded anywhere but there are those who know that he just liked to see things from his boat. And then his 3 Atlantic crossings brought him a bit of fame. And a climb up the mountain. He didn't make it back down. Rest now, you've earned it, sir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Doba

This is a grizzled old man content with his life.

https://explorersweb.com/2021/02/23/legendary-kayaker-aleksander-doba-dies-on-kilimanjaro-summit/

And another article.

https://lenexnews.com/aleksander-doba-who-kayaked-across-the-atlantic-dies-at-74/

This morning I woke to the sound of birds twittering and 2 cats chittering at them. Sweet sounds of home. As I lay there, I got to thinking about Fibonacci numbers. They're all over nature from number of flower petals to, well, stuff. What do they look like?

When I got up, the birds flew away and the cats settled down to watch me. Time for their breakfast. Over coffee I wrote this and through the afternoon I've messed with it. My itch has been scratched now.

I don't know how to compile & run c programs in winders (64bit numbers would be nice) without installing an IDE (nope!). Instead, I pulled out an Arduino and came up with this bit of code. And played around with it .

I started with floats but modulus calcs don't work on them. Doesn't even compile. Also found that out-range-numbers display "ovf" instead of digits. That happened at iteration 46. Changed the data type to unsigned long and it compiled.

At iteration 40, I quit the program after 10 minutes and ~10 million modulus calcs. May run it over night to test those last 5 iterations. Took that bit of code out to see how far it would go.

It ran only a bit further before it went off the rails. No warning, just garbage numbers after iteration 44. D'oh, 4.8 billion is too big to fit in 32bits. (max <4.3B). So I learned a couple things and had fun.

I've noticed some of you have been having hard week. Here's to Friday evening improving everyone's mood! Cheers!

Love being old enough to not need an excuse for my afternoon naps. As usual I make the berth as I get up. Sit at the bottom and spread the duvet(s when cold) from top to bottom. But today, I really had to pee. Got the top half and went off. A minute and a half later I come back to finish ... and find this. They do not want to move.

I now sit at the nav station looking at an unmade berth and am disturbed. Bah, cats!

My favorite meme of his mittens, so far. Also stolen from FB.

They have to celebrate with very fancy show chains

seent on twitler via fark

Back about 95, 96 the trucking co I worked for was negotiating for a new national phone service and system. When the vendors all offered free calling cards as gimmes. I got as many as I could. Probably ended up with a 6" stack; hunnerts of them. Took them over to the cop station and the shelter in L5P to give to the runaway kids.

Naw. I'm gonna still use "kinja'd' when shit breaks in odd ways on these innertubes. I've used the word elsewhere and some folks seem to know what I'm talking about. If nothing else, for nostalgia purposes - let us never forget!

Well? It's been 14-minutes since you posted this. WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!?

Oh, my gosh. I'm in lust love! Paint it Forest Green with flat Yellow accents , make living changes inside and tour the country. Plenty room for a workshop, living quarters and amenities. Also room for some friends for parts of the adventure. Nice view from up there, too. http://futurliner.org/valdez.htm

Oh, my. She is a beauty. By the looks of 'er, she's a working boat. Look to the open space 'tween the masts. Maybe a net winch in there? She may be earning her own keep. At any rate (hehe), she would be expensive to keep these days. I'd love to go out with her.

1/4" ID tubing from Lowes, HD, et. al. should work. No real pressure or volume going through them.

Bit of as sense of accomplishment successfully doing something you have never done, eh? Even a seemingly simple task. Good on ya'!

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly Yup. And that is the only kind of bike I like to ride. Modern bikes are too stiff; they don't talk to me. I have an aluminum-framed MTB that klunks over the road versus my last race bike, an '87 Bianchi, that is a sweet dance to ride. I used to break the bottom brackets of steel frames by the end of the season. And, I'm sure that can't be done with modern frames. Tradeoffs. Modern frames have more advertisement space...

Nice! My brother put 140K miles on his 2010 HHR before he curbed it and messed up the left control arm. It sat until my friend came to visit last month. She had a 1-way ticket here so they dickered a bit and she bought it.

We replaced a few bits like a control arm bushing, tyres and A/C compressor. She just finished meandering from ATL back to her home north of Sacramento. 35 MPG and nary a problem. These are underrated vehicles (car or truck?).

Sully was 109 when I got in to drive home. After 2 hours in ATL traffic, it never read below 103. Stopped by QT for a frozen Coke and it melted faster than I could drink it. I took out the functioning A/C when I replaced the head gaskets a month or so ago cause I never used it.

And tomorrow's supposed to be worse...

@Rusty-Vandura I'm kinda sorry but that made me laugh. Catch 22

Yea. I threw away my fobs when they failed and just use the key. Like we did before fobs came along. Remember when we couldn't use calculators in school cause the batteries might die?

@pyroholtz Thank you for this tip!