so you may have read my FIL passed last week. He fought brain cancer for a year before losing to it. He'll be severely missed. Given our chaotic schedule, my project list is growing:

- still need to change oil in the Porsche
- change rear pads on the Envoy
- heater core/radiator flush on the Pontiac so I have some heat again
- pray the flush fixes my heat and I don't have to replace the heater core

Not much else- it's too damn cold for anything fun. What about you folks? I see much of the warmer states have gotten hit by this heat wave too.

 

Its to darn cold to even go outside here. Actually its to darn cold to be inside also as the power company keeps shutting off my heat to conserve power. There have been a lot of power outages here since everybody has their heat strip systems going full blast.
I drove the Turbo to work today. i like the heated seats and fast working heater

 

For us in North Carolina, it was COLD this weekend.

Picture of my son riding on the trails behind the house. He had lots of fun riding on the ice... then we went to an indoor rink, his first time! What a champ, he started of telling me that he could do it right away, no falls. I looked at him with a big smile... I really admire the "natural" confidence a kid has at 6 1/2 years old... it's wonderful to think that you can be good at everything!

Afterward we got a movie for "kid's night" on Saturday... how did they get Benji to that cool stuff?!

 

Black ice covered the streets of Atlanta, and the city owns not a single snow plow.

I would love to be in the wrecker business, body repair business, and mailbox replacement business today.

 

Too cold to actually work on the car so I had take it out for a wash and drive. Clear skies and sunny day.

Then I almost t-boned a fire truck that ran an intersection (no lights, no siren, no horn).

Yea for Porsche brakes, sticky tires, and close calls!

 

I worked in the garage all weekend. I built a trebuchet with my son, and we launched blobs of modeling clay as part of his science fair experiments. Pretty neat. I am glad I get to show my son the process of paper drawings, cutting, welding, sawing, building and testing, along with various burns from hot steel, mistakes, oh-**** moments and the like. It was fun to take a pile of materials and turn out a working device to specifications. Not many people do that nowadays. It hucks objects of the same mass very predictably, and we were able to compile an excel chart of the data that actually reflects reality. (Who actually gets to use charts for a real reason aside from obfuscation anymore??? )

I also worked on the wife's e36 convertible. The inevitable clogged drains makes the car smell like a diaper. blech. The trunk and all its contents are soaked. Ugly. Oil changes are so simple on other cars. ;-)

 

Have it power flushed; you'll get better results. I'm assuming that you've checked the thermostat and it's ok.

 

Paul, replaced the thermostat, and even replaced the temp valve attached to the blower pod.

 

Paul- had it power flushed at lunch today. I HAVE HEAT!!!!!!

 

[QUOTE=tbennett017;7214542]I worked in the garage all weekend. I built a trebuchet with my son, and we launched blobs of modeling clay as part of his science fair experiments. Pretty neat. I am glad I get to show my son the process of paper drawings, cutting, welding, sawing, building and testing, along with various burns from hot steel, mistakes, oh-**** moments and the like. It was fun to take a pile of materials and turn out a working device to specifications. Not many people do that nowadays. It hucks objects of the same mass very predictably, and we were able to compile an excel chart of the data that actually reflects reality.
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I miss those days of building things with the boys, they are all grown up now (well, it depends on your definition of Grown Up). Care to share the engineering dwgs and performance data for the trebuchet? (I have two grandsons who will be ready for projects in a few years...)
My son and I built a trebuchet about 10 years ago, but it would hurl pumpkins, large ones, concrete blocks, dead cats, (just kidding - don't call the aspca) VERY far. We also built potato guns out of pvc, using hair spray as fuel, that would shoot potatoes a few hundred yards. Awww, those were the days.
And then there was that rocket-powered pinewood derby car....

(Who actually gets to use charts for a real reason aside from obfuscation anymore??? )
perhaps you should move over the the "Steve Wong Chip fiasco" thread, and offer up some performance charts.

Have Fun.

 

Great picture. I love this season although it is so cold.
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Love Chapel Hill. It has also been cold (relative term) down here in Wilmington. At least it is starting a warm up so I can fix an annoying rattle in convertible top. Also need to do some work on the Range Rover. Likes to pour in water when it rains.