Recent content by k1xv

He had just flown back from the Ukraine, a long flight. I suspect the stress of the flight, dry thinner air, etc. was a contributing factor.

Instead of calling it a window seat, they should re-name it as an "against the wall seat". Put in a disclaimer, that not all against the wall seats have a window. And then identify which rows do not have windows.

This invariably happens when the airline installs seats with a pitch smaller than the aircraft was originally designed for. Some people want a window seat so they can look out the window. And some of the seats have no window. Would you want an aisle seat that was not on the aisle? Or a...

Hoppe's #9 has been around so long, I wonder if there was ever a predecessor product Hoppe's #8 ??

We just leave our used tires in the abandoned vacant lot. A fine home for mosquitoes, and if somebody can get use from some worn tires, they are free to take. :)

I am waiting for the Red Sox/Mets baseball game broadcast to begin. I am a big Sox fan.

We installed Mitsubishi heat pumps 3 years ago and the old Trane/Spacepak central air system has not been turned on since. And summer electricity usage is way, way down from when re ran the old system.

They give the contractors more deliveries than they can accomplish in a day. It is either pushed to the following day, and I have gotten deliveries as late as 9 pm, and sometimes dumped at the road at the end of my 500 foot driveway.

Once you buy a Z06. in the overall scheme of things, the cost of replacing the filter is a minuscule fraction of total maintenance costs, and I would only trust the gasket for one spin on.

At 79, living in our mortgage free rural home, alone now since my wife died 3 years ago. Have some mobility issues. Just took a Cancerguard test and nothing was detected. My only real fears are dementia, and having a stroke and nobody discovering me as I lie on the floor. No assisted...

Yes, that carries over into amateur radio. An antenna cannot receive or transmit at peak performance until you have worked at least 50 countries with it. It then hears weaker signals much better. :)

There is a septic tank pumping company in my area with a slogan on its truck: "We are Number One in Number Two"

As a electrical engineer, I got a laugh out of some of the far out stereo publications that advocated and advertised things like "hospital grade" power cords for your equipment and "oxygen free" copper speaker wires. The power cords were hilarious to me, as they plugged into your house wiring...

Sounds like your 4th was flush with trouble.

I sometimes have a pest as a passenger. When they exit the car at a pit stop and go inside the store, I just leave any way I can. Sort of like Jack Nicholson abandoning his annoying girl friend (Karen Black) at a gas station at the conclusion of "Five Easy Pieces.