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 › funny     2007-03-30 19:11   ...1 comment

Various things going on at the moment. My car had a nasty spell of transmission trouble. This is not ideal, but not entirely unexpected as it was built in 1996 and so is 11 years old at this point. My mechanics managed to jiggle things back into place for the time being, but I am not confident that it will be a long term solution. We are still finalizing numbers, but I believe that we will likely obtain a City Golf. I drove one on Monday and enjoyed it. It will be expensive to buy a new car, but since I seem to drive my cars ‘til they drop, it seems smarter to shell out a bit more and enjoy the maintenance-free years. Nothing has been finalized and the standard transmissions are hard to come by right now.

I am building a beer cozy. It will be an insulated box with a heater inside from Calorique. (Although, I have to say that it’s been a real nightmare trying to get them to ship my order. Three weeks and counting and today I was told I’d get a call back… nothing. I hope the heaters are better than their service.) The goal is to tightly regulate the temperature so that even in my cold basement the beer will be kept at just the right temperature. I think that part of the reason my brews are not working in the winter is the freezing cold temperature downstairs. The box is coming along but my plan to use dowel joinery is not going to work. You just can’t dowel 1/2” plywood to itself… the material is not robust enough. I hate brackets, but I’m switching to them since I’ve already bought the wood.

Also, I’m having trouble sealing an air leak right around the level of the top of our foundation. This is not because I don’t know how to do it, but because the expanding foam insulation I bought is defective… the can does not contain the right amount of propellant.

Better luck next week!

    2007-03-20 22:18   ...0 comments