Chris helped me change the oil on the Suburban and even fished in the pan for the plug. He came out with a black hand and the bolt. His reaction, "Ehw, how do I get this stuff off?" Mileage was 122K. Note to self, next time make sure you've got a strap wrench before proceeding.
Called Surf City marina and asked them to have the ski ready for Memorial Day. Ha! If this Memorial Day is like the last 5 we're talking 60 degrees and rain.
Got the motorcycle started on Sunday after a night on the charger. The battery has been so abused that I probably need to get a new one.
Wanted to take the boat to LBI this w/e but the weather didn't cooperate.
Spring Garden splashed it in last week and had to replace the starboard battery. We had a problem last season having to use the parallel switch to get that engine started so I should have known this was coming. I told Ken Walker that we had to replace the house battery during summer '06 and he said that because the house and starboard engine batteries are wired in parallel that one going bad will cause the other to fail too. Ken T recommends that we keep the battery switches off when the boat is at the dock. That's probably going be too inconvenient given that we have to run the engines every weekend.
The forward fitting on the hot water heater is leaking so will ask Ken to fix it before we take off.
It took about 157 gallons ($550) of gas to fill it.
Went to the drive-in Sat night and saw a double feature of Iron Man and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. My butt gets tired sitting in the car for 5 hours but a good time was had by all.
About Me
- JohnO
- I am settling into a summer hiatus from work and live in the New York area. Kevie and I have a 14 year old son and have been married for 30 years. I used to want one of everything especially if it was wicked cool.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J.M. Barrie
What's not possible is not to choose
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much . . . the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001), THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.
John Webster (1580-1625)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J.M. Barrie
What's not possible is not to choose
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much . . . the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001), THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen.
John Webster (1580-1625)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her?
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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