What are you doing today? (1 Viewer)

Just about any invention that was intended to improve the ability to communicate, has been used for purposes other than intended, like the printing press, etc.

I still have and use FB - I just scroll past the bullshit (which is quite a bit lately).

I never joined, this Forum and a few others like it have been my only version of social media. Once I read what the companies running the Social media sites could do with your information, I decided no real good could come of me joining them. To the utter frustration of my Family who actually have to Text, E-mail, or horror of horrors call me to notify me of anything they would like me to attend or even be aware of.

SplitRz said:

Today I'm reading the news and weeping. I've come to the conclusion that social media, far from being a source of shared information has become instead the primary source of misinformation and social division. Today I've decided its time to leave Facebook, Insta and all the other socials that both track and feed biased information based on engagement.

Has anyone else successfully bailed from social media, and how did it go for you?

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I actually never joined FB ....... yes, it meant I was out of the loop on a few things, but I have not really noticed any consequential downside

Warspite63 said:

I actually never joined FB ....... yes, it meant I was out of the loop on a few things, but I have not really noticed any consequential downside

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Same here.

... and I'm happy.

Ditto.

I'm packing up for my return home. Flight 660 BKK to ICN is the first leg.

Just doing nothing. No lessons (already know what we are doing). Kids playing Risk and my other caught drawing her figures jamming.

Today proved to be quite busy as well as terrifying.

The day dawned clear, temp around 66F, and a light wind out of the SSE. I decided to run right over and fly the airplane. I lined up on Runway 11 and pushed in the throttle just as the Sun came up over the horizon. I climbed to 2500 ft and just flew around the local area, noting that Patrick Space Force Base ATIS was saying their airspace was not active and so I'd be able to circle down to the South when the flight school started launching airplanes on Runway 29, the opposite direction from my takeoff. While the winds favored Runway 11 they were so light, and at times dying entirely, that Runway 29 was still perfectly usable and had the advantage of producing fewer noise complaints. That did not occur, nobody else took off, so I descended to land on Runway 11. But as I turned Final, I realized the Sun would be a huge problem, aligned so perfectly with Runway 11 as to be utterly blinding. I put on my sunglasses, which helped some but also made everything else very dark. I thought I was lined up with 11 but suddenly realized that was the Taxiway! Yikes! I turned to the Left, toward the Runway but once lined up again I could not see it. Hey! I pulled off all power when I turned Final. What's my airspeed? I could not read it! I could not read anything on the instrument panel! But I managed a decent landing, if rather more Left of centerline than normal. Thank God and Fred Weick that the Ercoupe is the easiest airplane to land ever built!

I should have added power and went around to enter the pattern for Runway 29 the minute I realized that Sun made the Runway effectively invisible. Lesson learned!

Then I helped a friend of mine rebuild the steering on his hot rod golf cart. After that was done I helped him take his 20 ft boat to his home dock. The thing has 250 HP. We took the shortest route when we discovered the winds had increased to 17kt and there were numerous whitecaps on the Banana River. The boat handled the chop very well but I discovered that under those conditions the smallest boat I would be willing to hit 35 kts in is an Iowa Class. And neither the golf cart nor the boat has adequate hand holds.

Any lesson you can walk away from is a good one.

Flying overseas again for work.

Have coursework. I was researching B-29s and came across a treasure trove of pictures for the interesting posts. What's funny is there isn't A B-29 in the whole bunch. Have some coursework, but that won't take more than one hour. Then lessen plan for week.

Doing other things lately besides bench time.
Lost my mojo a bit, more decal work.
What is it some can't understand "straight on"
photos for me to work from, trucks, both
the Real thing to replicate, the model to apply to......FMD!

So I have missed the finish of GB's 63, 64.
I am going for 65 now. But............ why can't I choose
something easy.. ?????????? Don't answer that please.

65 I want to do Bob Love's F-86E 10-NA flown in Korea.
He had his Bernies Bo Mustang at Livermore and I think I met him
before he passed in '86, while cleaning is Mustang!!!!!!!
So I want to do a 1/32nd E version................................
but none are available!!!!!!!!!!!! Questions in the GB65 thread.

This may be near the last build. Shaky hands, arturitisss in me back,
Eyes going south on me, seeing double. I am tired of being near 82!

I continued with patching the hole in the bed of my pickup truck. Yesterday I used an air-powered drill with rotary brushes to remove rust below the bed and the applied a coating on Rust converter paint to the area. Today I took a piece of 0.020 stainless steel, coated it with polyurethane construction adhesive and stuck it over the hole from the bottom, adding some duct tape to hold it in place until it dried. Perhaps tomorrow I'll get to paint the underside of the treated area. I have never tried to do this before and I'm hopeful it will work well. New trucks are incredibly expensive!

Recovering from a cold. Fortunately, it only lasted about 36 hours, but I'm really not good at doing nothing

Plumber just left. Sinks drain again! YAY!

Somewhat irritating stressful day (and week) with false claims, assumptions, kid out of control (with his own mom no less), and glad it is Friday!

I need to go over to a location north of Orlando to handle some personal financial business but noted that one front tire on the car was just about worn slap out, even showing cord along the outside. I decided I'd better have it replaced and made an appointment at the local Firestone dealer for 0800 today. Then I found out that it was going to get down to 48F last night and realized that my plan to walk from the Firestone dealer to the local airport and just putter around there until the job was done had a flaw - it was going to be cold and uncomfortable. We have had some lovely days but of course it could not be one of those. I got up this morning and it was not 48F; it was 43F with a 10 plus knot wind blowing out of the NW. It was indeed a cold 1.5 mile walk to the airport and then I went looking for some place comfortable. I finally chose a car a friend of mine had parked there, he had given me the access code for his hangar and to the car. I finally realized the car would be getting warm in the Sun and eventually found the key to it, enabling me to listen to the radio. So I had a not too unpleasant but relatively unproductive few hours in the car. By the early afternoon, not having heard from Firestone, I walked back up there, but was picked up by a friend and given ride most of the way. I was not surprised to find that Firestone had pulled their usual trick and delayed completing the job until they could talk to me about:

1. Replacing the front brake pads. I had looked at them a couple of months ago and knew they had plenty of life left.
2. Replacing the brake fluid. I am planning to do that myself; in his hangar he has a suction device designed to handle that. I already borrowed it to do the job on my truck.
3. Replacing the rear tires, which have plenty of tread left but date from 2013 and old tires are not good. Told them No.
4. Replacing the wiper blades, apparently Just Because.

So after telling them No, No, No, and No they finished things after about an hour's work and I finally got the car back. This likely was my last trip to that outfit. Not only do the Pep Boys just do what you want and not delay it for other unneeded things they thought up, but their facility is across the street from the local branch of the Public Library, a pleasant place uncontaminated by the dregs of society, probably mainly so because of the large moat we have around our island.

Mlflyer,
Your car likely just needs a toe adjustment, but with that front tire worn excessively like that, you'll need to replace the tire.
I'm surprised Firestone never mentioned anything about an alignment.
Any shop is probably going to recommend all 4 tires anyway, so when it's on the alignment rack the suspension will be sitting as square as it can possibly be.

Going to get out and chase down an antenna for the 2m rig for the van and a computer cable for the oldest boy. He bought an SSD and adapter card for his machines, but it didn't come with cables and we haven't been able to identify the correct cable yet, so a visit to the big computer place that happens to be down the freeway an exit or two from the ham radio store. Going to ponder HF mobile antennas while there as well.