The Huge January Drag, (T)Rusty Gets Fussy , And The Quick Six Buck Fix Pick Nixes the Trash Pandas

And a huge boy howdy thankya to Neil....................remember Neil? I thought not. His coffers remain unreplenished. He gives encouragement by pushing us to finish. I still maintain that we will be on the water by a Christmas and we would really like to attend the Port Aransas boat show this year in the Dog. We missed it last year due to our stupidity and being disengaged with this whole concept of time. This is in training for the sailing life........... Anyhoo, this sounds like a goal, or a goat, if you hit the wrong keys, which I just did. Maybe we are the goat and this whole typing thing is our id trying to escape like in the movie "Forbidden Planet". I digress..........again.

So January drags on and of course ol' (T)Rusty got cranky and ate a coolant hose. I was told that old cars are like old men: there's always something wrong with them. I am already contemplating the return to Tejas, but whither we go, weather is weather whether we like it or not and we would rather not get there and sit around.

We had a very short weather window to try to repair the ingress port of the raccoons. We kicked the ideas around. Screw the soffit down...........maybe. Put a board behind it............Ok. It was difficult to get to as it is where the two roofs intersect. Ben finally had the definative solution : Foam the crap out of it. We picked that one. I trotted down to the hardware store and bought a can of triple expanding foam for $6.00. Ben then stuffed a block of foam insulation and the plywood chunk in the space and squirted the whole can of foam into the space so the critters cannot push up on the vinyl soffit and get in. This was done (mostly) during a lull in the weather (rain). It was supposed to get cold again so we had to do it. Some foaming, some cutting, some fitting, some cursing, some raining and it was done. Ta-Daaaa!

I decided to clean the funky keyboard of my laptop. TiP: Do not spill bottle of cleaning fluid into keyboard. The keyboard was toast. Time to fix that.
Step one: remove battery. Drop on floor. Oh good, it didn't break.
Step two: Remove back of computer by taking out the 14 screws holding it.
Step three: Check the internet and realize that you do not have to remove the back. Screw the back back on by screwing in the 14 screws.
Step four: Remove keyboard by pushing in the tabs as shown on the internet.
Step five: Dry out the keyboard. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.........it's sealed! Dump out moisture? Nope, didn't work. Bake it in the oven? Nope, didn't work.  Phooey.........give up and order a new one for twenty bucks. Arrived today.

Ben's ceiling fan light started flashing like a 70's disco light. All we needed was the Bee Gees and John Travolta to make it a party. It turns out all you have to do is cut out this redundant regulatory contraption and splice the wires back together, which he did. 

I am working on a small wenge box to hold a domed magnifier that I bought on a whim. I have been tussling with design aesthetics and construction methods. This is what I have so far..................

So there you have it another week shot. We need to stay until we are sick of staying.

The Music♪: Billy Lee Riley "Red Hot"

We're all suckers for a love song. It turns out that "Doodley Squat" entered the lexicon. many years previous to this song. Well waddaya know.............