We have two new nests this year both under the roof over the deck, one in the lattice, one between the gussets of the trusses.  Sparrows or black capped chickadees I think in the gussets and the lattice one is a robin.  I'm certain because we found the remains of an egg on the deck under the robin nest.  Sad.  Well, sad // dinner, depending...

I've been finishing the addition I started 15 years ago which means installing lights and completing the wiring. When I started I bought a few boxes of recessed lights that came in a pack of 6 called 'contractor packs'. They had the cans and the trim pieces. I went to buy some more and learned that they don't really sell them like that any longer; the trim pieces are sold separately and result in a much higher price than when you could buy them all together. They were a Lowes and House Depot staple. Not so much any more. I think LEDs have changed things.
I bought the lights and had to order two boxes of six trim pieces to be delivered. When they arrived one of the boxes had been opened and sloppily taped shut. I opened the box and saw that one trim piece was missing.

After a long back and forth with HD customer surface it turns out they won't send me one to replace the missing piece and want me to buy a whole new box. I said no thanks I want to return them. Turns out they can't be returned so they just refunded me for both boxes.

I can get a single trim piece from amazon for $5.
 

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Monster got that job.

Monster got the job!

fargon wrote:

Limey wrote:

Monster got that job.

YAY!!! me also.

You got a job?!

...the hell?
 

Last edited by TheNeverWas (2/10/2022 7:04 pm)

aw, you lot.... :D  Now I'm home from work (yes I was posting on my phone from the other workplace but trying to work faster in between to make up)  I GOT A JOB, I GOT a JOB, I GOT A JOB ....oh yes, sorry, it's kind of sinking in 

I forgot it was a holiday and I'm at the office catching up on things where I run reports and methodically check on why things are a way and then fix the problem and update my spreadsheet. Today I'm even completing all the items on a spreadsheet of a problem I just realized I may have been causing during my normal process, and fixing all of those items if I find them. I love selecting a row in Excel and applying Cell Styles 'Good'

Huzzah!!!

(works for me)
 

I see the emoji, but not the url.

Kook.  E.

 

Undertoad wrote:

somebody put googly eyes on a keurig and it's perfect

This pic alone is worth the $30.  (Easy for me to say, when it cost me nothing,)

I fixed my external computer speakers.  I always really liked them.  Impressive sound quality.  Harmon Kardon HK195 speakers.  Some radio hobbyist took a pair apart and modded them and posted about it, so you can see what they look like here.

The on/off/volume knob was all crackly and full of static, and I had taken the things apart and blasted the pot with electronics cleaner, but it made matters worse.  I lost all sound from the right speaker, (although the right channel worked with headphones, just cutting in and out all the time.)

I figured I needed a new potentiometer to replace the one I had tried cleaning, and I was about 30% confident I was right.  I had a very hard time finding a replacement part.  I found the exact part here in the U.S. for more than a nice new pair of speakers would cost, but finally found a knob on aliexpress for like $1.50.  I just wasn't sure it was an exact match, because it was a different manufacturer, and the language barrier left me with some doubts.  Still it looked the same, and had the right number of pins and the same resistance specifications. 

So about 3 months later, this package arrived in the mail.  And when I looked at my soldering iron situation, I had poor tools to work with.  The tips of the two I own were both broken, and they were pretty underpowered.  Only 25 watts.  So I swung by Home Depot yesterday and got a nicer iron with variable temperature control and a base.

And today I took the speakers down into my shop, pulled them apart, and I de-soldered the old pot, and soldered in the new one.  This pot had 8 pins, and required some patience to get the old on off and even more patience to get the new on one.  I'm a novice with a soldering iron.

Anyway, I re-assembled everything, and it sounds out of this world.  I forgot how good these speakers are, it's been so long since they worked correcty.

So I wound up spending about as much as I would have on new crappy new speakers by buying the new soldering iron, but these sound better than anything I could have found in stores.

I'm pleased with myself.


 

"I'm pleased with myself."
That's worth a million bucks, plus bragging rights.
Well done Sir, oh and new tools too.