This is a trip we took in late September last year. The boss had a four-day conference in Austin, TX that the girls and I were going to join her on. We were then going on to NM and planned to spend a week or so there. We left on a Friday morning, but...
This time last year, I got roped into making a sudden trip to the Austin, TX area the day after Christmas. It was me and the boss, her sister, and the three girl cats who all identify as girl cats. So, that makes more or less, approximately, one guy ...
Today is Veterans Day. Salutations to all who served in any capacity. I enlisted right out of HS. WTH was I thinking!?!?Probably that I needed some salable skills if I was going to support a family, and I didn’t have any. About eight months later, te...
This guy knows how to get things done, and has the big toys to do it. Yeah, a few things get bent. Some get broke. But in the end, it all gets done. Or, “You didn’t really want that bumper all nice and straight, did you???”Up a Mountain YouTube Link ...
At 5.5 years old, and 56K miles, the outside shoulders on the front tires were getting thin. I considered moving them to the rear, and moving the two best rear tires to the front, but after looking the rear tires over carefully, I found that one had ...
You’d probably have better luck finding a magnetic oil drain plug. Sources for those are pretty numerous. If the engine has spin on oil filter, another option would be to stick a magnet to the side or bottom of it.
I’ve had heated mattress pads both at home (120v AC) and in our TC (12v DC) for at least 15 years, and wouldn’t want to be without them. In the TC, if you can provide the power, they just can’t be beat in the winter. With my DC-DC charger, I have the...
That was actually Caverns of Sonora, Jeff. But, Carlsbad Caverns isn’t very far away. In fact, we almost went to Carlsbad after leaving Sonora. We all enjoy a good cave tour, but I think we decided that one spelunking experience was enough for this t...
Since the steering wheel in my truck isn’t heated, and the boss’s ‘stang has one, I tell her that heated steering wheels are for girls. I used to tell her that heated and cooled seats were for girls too, until I got my current truck that has them. ...
