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UPDATE on this post:
Called the city this morning.
The service guy said, “I’ll check it out.”
The billing lady said, “We can see the usage over the last three months spiked. We’ll adjust the bill.”
Got home from work and it’s fixed.
Gotta love it when it works like it should. Kudos to the city guys/gals!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Ur…heh…I’m thirsty apparently.
The utility bill came today. In our city, electricity, water, sewer, and trash pickup are all on the same bill. I seldom give it a glance if the $$ amount is in a “reasonable” or normal range for the time of year.
A quick glance.
Wait. What?
This time, it was higher than normal. Just what [...]

Playing with the new toy…ur…tool…TOOL today.
TOOL.
Wanted to get used to the boom movement/bounce etc…since I haven’t been on a boom truck since my Llamco Electric days…gad…30ish years ago…and that was a squirt boom instead of a knuckle boom…
Anyway, wanted to test it out and practice a bit before trying to use it up against our [...]

Big day tomorrow.
I’m writing a “heap-big-check”…
Well, big at least, when compared to the monthly cable bill or something LOL!
We’re closing on this tomorrow…

More pics
This has vast implications on my writing/books/etc.
Among other things…(art studio, coffee shop, internet cafe)…it is the new world-wide headquarters for Stormrider Press!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Had a tough week this week…lots of work at work…too much to do. Not enough folks to do it. Everything on deadline. We’re getting told about projects now, AFTER the “go live” date has already passed.
Everything is busy. Phone calls EVERY single night (we don’t have enough people to cover all the shifts anymore). Hours [...]

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

(deep breath)
A project that’s related to the Old Vic project that’s not quite on topic but since it’s a project and I tinker on it and this one will definitely be related to the other one…
There’s a tower ya see. (shrugs) What was I supposed to do?
So, ya’ll (technical Texas term) may know I own [...]

Cash reserves help in times of reduced or no income.
But inflation eats cash reserves, returning nothing. As prices rise the money can buy less. Any interest earned only offsets a small fraction of the loss of buying power.
Have I put you to sleep yet?
History and basic economics suggest our economy is headed for recovery, but [...]

Y’all might recall this little malfunction…

A little closer view…

Ordered some new ones…a better design this time. I haven’t ridden in DAYS! GHAAAAAA!
Was waiting on the friggen bolts to come in.
The poor postal guy…walking toward the door with a package in his hands…looks up to find a 300 LB fat guy, tools in his hands, [...]

Y’all see what’s wrong with this picture?

Here, I’ll zoom in a bit…

Soooo….that was just a bit of a surprise…there was this hard stop, ya see…and the bars dropped…kind of hard to steer when the bars are beside your tank…
The bottom half of that riser is gone too…there’s a stress mark in the chrome…that would have [...]