And more garage work...

Took Monday off to burn up some use 'em or lose 'em days...later realized I had a haircut appointment and I get my haircut near work :/

But got some Chinese for lunch on the way home, made a good highball, and went out and attacked the garage some more.

I moved a bunch of stuff from the house to the garage this weekend, and today got it up on shelfs. Sunday I was just tired (probably from staying up late following the latest posts about the Jennings Creek fire burning on the NY / NJ border)...I took a nap during the middle of the Patriots game.

I had cut some brush, this was stuck on the cable line. Before I got a round to figuring it out, a north wind blew it up near the house where it made me pretty nervous getting near the electric lines. But I remembered I had a long (manual) pole saw with a rope operated brush cutter and used that to clip away at this till it came down.



Time for new batteries for the Maglite I keep in the car...errr...well shoot...time for a new Maglite I guess?





Some of the stuff moved from the house -- forgot I even had a dedicated collection of car wash and waxing towels.

Bought some nice plastic labels for the bigger boxes.










Trying to figure out how to mount the white board so I can swing it out of the way. The gas brush cutter can move to the shed. I'm thinking a 4x4 somehow supported by the rack to the right.

Tools Wishlist

Just a place to keep some cool tool ideas I've seen, similar to the ones I do for the Jeep.

Probably should make a grand inventory some day, too :D

Toolbox Widget Organizers:
https://toolboxwidget.com/

Nora Ratcheting Crowfoot wrenches:
https://vimtools.com/product/nora150/

For when you can't fit a stubby impact wrench:

https://webcat.cornwelltools.com/CTGSS15-Pneumatic-Socket-Sledge-p573279254

Impact gun driven bead breaker:

https://beadbuster.com

Keep plugging away...

I had Thursday off, but election night news junkie behavior caught up with and by 11:30am I was back "napping"; Mom called waking me up out of a very fun dream (I remember in the dream saying I shouldn't ge giggling this much from one beer just before I woke up), kind of forgot I had offered to take her shopping Thursday instead of Wednesday. Anyway didn't get much done.

Saturday I took a long morning drive to look at the area that burned in Monson last week; at first my brain was confused why they cleared so much area with leaf blowers -- they hadn't, I've never seen such a large area where the leaf litter had burned completely down to mineral soil so it was just dirt, ash, and some recent new leaf falls.

Normally our brush fires there is still a rough layer of moisture fuels left behind on top of the soil.

Saturday afternoon and Sunday were putz away in the garage days.

Made the "shower curtain" for the door opening so I can cut down on light breezes to help hold heat in...without having to deal with the heavy door all the time.





Uggh...Amazon tie wraps. I spent the extra money for the same name brand I already had, but they ship them coiled up instead of straight :( Hoping I can force them straight.





Did buy some cheap outdoor LED lights, but instead of bright white LED I put some red plastic



Garage is continuing to come along, emptied/organized a bunch of stuff, building up a pile of stuff from the house to bring out.




Yard Cock is landscape stapled down with some good rock weights to hold it down for the winter :) There was part of me that first thought "it looks like it needs cresh shelter(?) over it, then I thought it would need a spotlight, then I wondered if I set it up down by Route 6 what the hell people driving by would make of that rooster cresh :D

Connecticut 29th Senate District finally fell

Never mind...Mansfield came in with another ~2,500 votes from same-day registration after these numbers had been published. Not seeing how to hide this post and I don't want to delete it right now.

Local media had not mentioned anything about the outstanding ballots yet to be counted.

This is a seat that was gerrymandered like 30 years ago to be a safely Democratic seat as Don Williams was rising in the senate leadership.

Mae Flexer continued to win it, with her first race for the open seat being close (2.1ppt victory, when Don had last won by 24.8ppt); then safe reelections around 10%. Once she showed some weakness in 2020 with a 4.4ppt victory, the Greens decided to also start running -- and in 2024 the Greens siphoning votes delivered the seat to the Republicans.

It has a line of Reagan Democrat towns along RI, then a string of smaller Republican towns, then two large towns each with a state university.

2024:
-0.29ppt LOSS with the Greens pulling 1.74ppt of the vote...bwahahahaha
Democratic Party Mae Flexer 16,442 45.51%
Working Families Party Mae Flexer 848 2.35%
Independent Party Mae Flexer 409 1.13%
Republican Party Chris Reddy 17,804 49.28%
Green Party Alice Leibowitz 627 1.74%


2022:
3.3ppt victory with 2.2ppt to the Greens.
Mae Flexer (D / Working Families Party / Independent Party) 50.6 14,893
Susanne Witkowski (R) 47.3 13,927
Jean de Smet (G) Candidate Connection 2.2 634


2020:
4.4ppt victory
Mae Flexer (D / Working Families Party) 52.2 20,878
Jessica Alba (R / Independent Party) 47.8 19,103


2018:
12.6ppt victory
Mae Flexer (D) 56.3 18,915
David Coderre (R) 43.7 14,679


2016:
9.64ppt victory
Democratic Mae Flexer Incumbent 54.82% 22,180
Republican John French 45.18% 18,280


2014:
2.1ppt victory
Democratic Mae Flexer 46.6% 11,537
Working Families Mae Flexer 4.4% 1,099
Republican John French 43.8% 10,850
Independent John French 5.1% 1,266


2012:
24.8ppt victory
Democratic Donald E. Williams Incumbent 62.4% 21,567
Republican Sally White 37.6% 13,007

Election Day Jeep Pic Dump

Thursday and Friday was like in the 70s. I was off Thursday, took half of Friday off, plus some weekend trips...it is just gorgeous. Probably some from even before Thursday.