07/29/2024
Meh - yesterday was an up-down day.
Due to our friend's mini shop getting a 90-day quitrent notice I'm having to absorb the shop items and stock I had accumulated over the years doing side-work there. My garage is packed up to the point of bursting and the ShelterLogic fabric garage has past its lifespan over a year ago...
So we went to TuffShed (Sacramento office) to spend a bit.
Very helpful salesman Chuck, getting a 12x16 with enough bells and whistles to outlast five fabric shelters. Signed contract.
~ now need to rent some equipment to level its planned resting place. Sigh.
Off to said mini shop to finish the Spearfish Rescue of our friends' wheelchair trailer (car saga, they ended up renting one-way from Spearfish, we-all took on getting their failed mini and trailer home - had to disassemble the trailer)
Amazing street find: new shelving for the new shed! and the guy putting them out for free was happy to take $50 he wasn't expecting. Probably $00+ worth of shelving. Yay team!
Then the trailer assembly took about 4x the time it was projected to. Hot and sweaty. Probably only missing a few bolts. But it's done. Now only one more Spearfish Rescue to accomplish, and that's scheduled for at-home in December. Woof and phew.
And then swing and a miss. Whiff bigtime. The Vanagon Strikes Again. Or more accurately crap workmanship from Aftermarket Vendors. Popped yet another CV joint 1 mile from home. One. Mile. AAA to the rescue. Sigh. I had spent the morning "fixing" the design error in the also-crap aftermarket replacement parts of the fuel pump/filter system (new my-design seems to have worked, at least for the 50 mile test)
~ off to NAPA for "lifetime" CV/Axle - the ones I bought last time (and the time before) only had a one-year warranty. About twice the price, but as they seem to fail annually... yeah, that. FWIW there really isn't "OEM" anymore - the ones you get for 4x price could be the same ones you get from the LPS, just in a different box.
~At least I don't have a one-year-model Sprinter
Oh, and wait - "we" were going to use Vanagon for an overnight this eve for a remote job contract tomorrow.
- "We" being Amanda and I - so to finish the Long day, she got a work call and may have to work. We'd already booked a hotel (drive the car, not the campmobile) - and now, not so needed as I could have just woken up early and went straight to the job (It's in Monterey and she was supposed to have had the day off). We'll know more by noon - but solo and work = not as nice as companion for the trip and quality afternoon.
Meh. Up and Down.
Seems like "just another day"
Anyone want to come help level a 16x20 pad?
