I believe my radiator woes are behind me.
I thought it was going to be easy and the work was, everything else gave me trouble all the way.
It started with the wrong radiator being ordered so it took a couple of more days to get the right one.
The rain moved in and I had to ride the bike back and forth to work in showers (I'm glad it wasn't downpours) for a couple of days.
Today the new radiator came in and I set to installing it...in the rain...
It was going alright till I had to lay on the ground to put the lower hose and the transmission lines on. Nasty !
Then when it came time to put the plastic shroud on the screws weren't long enough. I walked down to the parts store and they couldn't help me so I walked (still raining) down to the hardware store and found some screws that were longer.
Walked back home to find that the new screws weren't long enough either.
The shroud is now held in place by coat hangers. Filled her with antifreeze and it all seems good to go.

Going into work tomorrow for a couple of hours to work on a model changeover.
There won't be anyone standing around waiting for me to finish so I won't feel pressured.
I let my boss know today that I can't be superman and run around getting everything done.
There's other people who should be helping with these changeovers but I feel like it's all on me and the stress it produces leads to anxiety attacks which lead to depression. It took 4 days to get over the last model change.
It's not fair to anyone to let work affect me like that. I read a good article on stress and meditation today.
I've got to get around this somehow.
It starts with just a slight tense feeling in my arms or neck and then I start to worry about having an attack which only adds fuel to the fire.

These are flowers (Lilium Superbum) that grow wild in Owen's backyard.
Looking forward to next July when they flower again.


The days have been bleeding together lately.

The radiator on the van has a leak so I haven't gone anywhere.
I had to work this past Saturday so the money has been provided to fix the van. Now it's just a matter of ordering the part and putting some work into it.

Relaxing this evening with a glass of brown ale.

I've been working more on getting the old photos and negative scanned.
I'm doing the negatives at 1200 dpi and the photos at 400 dpi and saving them as .tiff files

Time for bed...bright-eyed and bushy tailed in the morning.

Grandpa (Frank Norman) is the third man from the right.

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Another Wednesday behind me...

The center of this flower is very cool. In person it's unreal.
Here's to spring and the return of the flowers.

Nice Mushroom.


Had a fun time last weekend. Raime and I went to Madison for food and drink on Friday night and on Saturday I went to see Boney Fingers in Okauchee.
Looking forward to seeing Boney again. The evening caught up to me quickly and I ended up snoozing in the car.
Did a little thrifting with Owen on Sunday and looked at cameras at Best Buy.
I'm looking at both the Cannon Digital Rebel and the Nikon D70. I'm leaning toward the Nikon...

My vote has been cast.