Nov. 14, 21: Routine, Groceries, Garage Putzing, Broken Streak, A Movie, and Games
Man! Woke up this morning to realize that I’d fallen asleep without getting my steps in for the day! 🤬 Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me considering I was moving around basically all day, but I’ve broken my streak again for no good reason at all. 😭
I did sleep nine to five, but FitBit says I was an hour and a half short. I didn’t drag too bad and spent the afternoon in the garage, so I’m going to call it close enough anyway.
Did the usual morning routine and was happy to see that Bitcoin had a few green candles. Not a whole heck of a lot, but looks like it might try to test resistance soon. HIVE had a bit of a pop too, but immediately erased, no surprise. MATIC is still underperforming, but that’s likely due to the rise in ETH.
Got my post done and scheduled and then we headed into town to do the weekly grocery shopping. Not much to note in that regard other than it was properly snowing today and we didn’t really feel that motivated to go for our walk. (Feel bad, I’m sure Lady was waiting for us).
Got home and put stuff away and I jumped in to Resist on the Oculus for a little while. I’m starting to get a bit better with the navigation and I made some progress through some of the side missions. Didn’t want to play long enough to start to feel motion sick and didn’t want to waste the day, so quit out before long and headed out to putz in the garage.
There’s currently two main issues that I have yet to suss out (besides the head and head gasket): the clutch and the brakes. Now that I have some jack stands, it’s possible for me to approach either. The clutch involves a lot (dropping the rear and pulling the bell housing and transmission out), which I kinda’ am procrastinating on (and should attack the rear brakes at the same time as the rear is jacked), so I decided to start with the front brakes.
I shot some penetrating oil on the lugs and popped them before raising her up, jacked it, and got the stands in place. Took the wheels off and now she’s floating:
Left the jack under there as well, loose, just as an extra backup, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere. Used a couple pieces of the scrap metal that I saved to prop in behind the rear wheels to help stop it from rolling. It’s stable, though, no problem, just have to recognize that it’s in a position of high potential and needs to be respected as such.
The first weirdness/ disappointment I was faced with is that the driver’s side drum is different (and not like original) from the passenger side.
My hope/goal was to remove the hydraulics and put back in the original lever style. For one, they seem to be stuck/frozen. I banged on them with a hammer and got them to move slightly, but I’m worried I’ve done more damage pounding on it. The rubber on the wheel cylinders still seems to be good, though, and it doesn’t look like it’s been leaking.
However, they are not original backing plates that have been modified for hydraulics, they’re completely different and it looks like they’ve been welded on! 😱
At this point my head started to spin and my stomach started to churn and I honestly felt like crying. A new set, just the fronts, will cost me a thousand dollars…ok, I guess, but they require the old cores in exchange to buy new ones, which I don’t know what that means and mine are wrong anyway…thinking I’ll call them up and ask them about it, might not even be able to get new ones. 😲🥴
I really don’t know what to do now and it’s making me feel wicked bad. Seems like the only choice I really have is to hope to repair the hydraulics and leave it alone otherwise (which I don’t know if I can do)…might have to replace the master cylinder and the wheel cylinders, but I think (not sure) that would be less expensive than getting a new set ($2200 plus shipping plus exchange plus the linkage rods…plus a new kingpin assembly since the damn backing plate is welded to it). Additionally there seems to be all this business about arcing the shoes to the drums and work that requires major specialized tools to replace it piecewise, so the only option there seems to be getting a new set. 😢
So, one step forward, five steps back. I did get out in the garage and I did get to the brakes, so that was goal accomplished, but what I found just makes me want to cry and give up. Pretty much ruined the rest of the evening occupying my thoughts and mood…
Wenche heated up some leftovers and made some smashed potatoes for dinner and we watched Rampage that we bought for five bucks at the grocery store today. Was fun and we started it early enough that I actually made it to the end!
I had like four thousand steps left for the day when I started looking to bedtime and I did some laps and got close, but made the mistake of laying down to watch TV and ended up falling asleep short of the goal. 🤬
Forty-seven minus five is…oh, wait, shittiness in General, so just subtract some arbitrary amount to ensure that the plebs remain such and call it a day. Yup, that’s dShitty alright.
CryptoBrewmaster still sucks crab infested cocks, that is all.
Just did a couple more missions in the second area on Rising Star today trying to unlock the next one. Pretty close now, but I need fans and level to get the one after that going. Went in and checked the rankings, but digging through hundreds of names I wasn’t able to find where I’m at.
Have to say that I was seriously tempted to play Splinterlands today…that chance to get one more quest done in Diamond kept calling to me. I even went to press the battle button, but chickened out. Figured I’d just end up getting pissed off and risking the reset, so waited it out for the day. I did do quite well on my guild brawls, though!
Still a few more hours to wait out…I did decide to get five more presale packs today and then staked the rest of my drop for the day.
Average Last 7 Days: 11,095
Lifetime Average: 15,398
10k per Day Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 204
Distance on shoes: 720.24 km
Distance on hikers: 64.92 km
#AutomaticWin Tally: 421
#AutomaticWin Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 53
#TripleTen Tally: 118
#TripleTen Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 7
#DoubleDay Tally: 229
#DoubleDay Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 37
Highest Floors: 120
Highest Daily Steps: 41,528
Zombies evaded: 0/0
Mindfulness Diary:
Health: 92%
Satisfaction: 60%
Energy: 88%
Productivity: 89%
Referrals:
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