What did you do today?

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Bad news: I keep finding things that are broken
Good news: There's nothing left to take apart...
 
Half Fast said:
Learned that a dear college buddy (and a groomsman in my wedding) is having major surgery next week for oral cancer. They'll be removing the entire inside of his cheek and then doing a skin graft with donor tissue from his wrist and thigh. He will have a tracheotomy and a feeding tube for about three weeks, and will likely need six weeks of radiation.
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Is he getting a stomach tube for feeding. The radiation will fry a lot of innocent tissue and may seriously impact his oral feeding.
 
Domenick said:
Is he getting a stomach tube for feeding. The radiation will fry a lot of innocent tissue and may seriously impact his oral feeding.
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My understanding is that they'll insert a feeding tube through his nose. The radiation is a factor, but they also expect considerable swelling in his throat from the surgeries. He'll have two separate procedures by different surgeons: one to excise the tumor (requires removing most of the inside of his cheek), then another to graft in replacement tissue.

He's otherwise in good health and (surprisingly) good spirits, but he's going to have a lot of pain and misery for the next several months.
 
Sat on the screen porch watching the rain and listening to the thunder roll around the mountains. I love a good mountain thunderstorm.

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Got home from Oshkosh today. While it took us 4 hours to get to Oskosh, we departed right after the major storm that hit and travelled almost straight south to Springfield IL before turning to home. Decided I didn't want to fly over North Korea (what a friend describes the KY-NC mountains as) at night, so we stopped at Somerset, KY for the night. Was lucky that a line man saw us arrive and came back to open the closed FBO to let us use the restroom and give us the coutersy van for the night. Arrived home this afternoon.
 
Got a new hangar today. We'll be moving out of our present hangar to one directly facing the runway with MUCH MUCH better lighting, better door, better floor, presumably not as leaky, with a 220 outlet on the wall AND a winch. That's the good news... the bad news is that with the slope from the hangar to the taxiway and the 1-1/2" or do dropoff, we'll need that winch every time. A few people passed on this hangar, but we'll be happy to leave Seaplane Base D7. I think it's still worth the tradeoff.
 
Jim K said:
Today I found out that "J airways" exist.
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V (Victor) and J (Jet) airways are the older VOR-based ones. Victor airways are part of the low enroute structure and are thus generally used below 18K while Jet airways are part of the high enroute structure and thus generally used in the flight levels. I've gotten Victor airways in the flight levels a few times, but never a Jet airway below!

The corresponding newer RNAV based airways are T ("Terminal" maybe, low enroute) and Q (who knows, high enroute).

I once flew an airway in the CONUS named Blue 7. That was a long time ago - I filed that flight plan via an FSS briefer. The airway was much older - Even the briefer was like "You what what now?" but then said "Well, the computer took it, so okay I guess." It was in a then-brand-new 2006 G1000 C182. Bonus points if you know what it was... And I'm sorry about your back.
 
Received a bunch of new turbocharger components for my dumb VW. Ordered the stuff on Sunday, it shipped via UPS on Tuesday from the UK, arrived in Minnesota on Thursday - insane, considering I didn't even choose an expedited shipping option.

One of the mounting screws backed out of the variable nozzle cage assembly and went through the exhaust turbine, destroyed all the nozzle vanes, caused a sudden shaft stoppage which spun off the compressor's left-hand threaded nut, the nut went through the wheel, dinged up the compressor housing, etc. Real horror show.

I guess I'll swage the screws with a chisel this time around. 35+ PSI on a 19.5:1 compression ratio was fun while it lasted. What is that in airplane parlance, 110" of manifold pressure? :lol:
 

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I did this for grins. At some turning point in music history, emo became scream-o and I can’t say that was an improvement.
 
Finished wiring a sub-panel at a gazebo, after pulling 180ft of wire through conduit. Now to do the gazebo and the bride will be happy
 
Walked through my rental house after tenants of 6 years moved out. They painted the fiberglass tub surround and sink. They removed the glass shower doors for a curtain, probably for the kids. Which caused water damage on one of the walls.

Yeah, they're not getting that security deposit back.
 
Today was a good day. There's a recall on my Jeep (electrical problem leading to several fires, they're saying don't park indoors or near other vehicles!) which applies to my truck, but I got a copy of the official recall service instruction, which basically says look at this connector; if it looks like picture A it's OK and no further action is required, but if it looks like picture B then new parts (that aren't yet available) are required. Looked, mine looks like picture A, meaning there's no urgency to get the truck to the dealer to get it officially blessed.

Then brought the new LH landing gear to the airport to test fit it on the plane. Not really necessary, if it fits the fixture I built it in it'll fit the plane unless I really screwed up building the fixture, but a sanity check makes for a warm fuzzy feeling. It fit, and the bolts slipped in easily, life is good.

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Now I just gotta finish building the RH gear, and hopefully I'll have it flying before winter.

Then on the way home from the airport I took the "scenic route" through the state forest (I'm driving a Jeep, after all), and spotted the unmistakable orange color of chanterelles (mushrooms). Not a lot, but just enough for a mushroom omelette for breakfast tomorrow. :)
 
Dana said:
Today was a good day. There's a recall on my Jeep (electrical problem leading to several fires, they're saying don't park indoors or near other vehicles!) which applies to my truck, but I got a copy of the official recall service instruction, which basically says look at this connector; if it looks like picture A it's OK and no further action is required, but if it looks like picture B then new parts (that aren't yet available) are required. Looked, mine looks like picture A, meaning there's no urgency to get the truck to the dealer to get it officially blessed.

Then brought the new LH landing gear to the airport to test fit it on the plane. Not really necessary, if it fits the fixture I built it in it'll fit the plane unless I really screwed up building the fixture, but a sanity check makes for a warm fuzzy feeling. It fit, and the bolts slipped in easily, life is good.

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Now I just gotta finish building the RH gear, and hopefully I'll have it flying before winter.

Then on the way home from the airport I took the "scenic route" through the state forest (I'm driving a Jeep, after all), and spotted the unmistakable orange color of chanterelles (mushrooms). Not a lot, but just enough for a mushroom omelette for breakfast tomorrow. :)
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Weird how our lives are parallel today. I too received a Jeep recall. And I too am installing new landing gear this weekend.

But I'm not eating mushrooms. That's just weird.
 
I mean, recalls on stellantis vehicles are not exactly uncommon. I get one about once a month.
 
Jim K said:
I mean, recalls on stellantis vehicles are not exactly uncommon. I get one about once a month.
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Only two in 2½ years for me. The first I ignored as it won't leave me stranded. The potential to catch on fire got my attention, but the inspection to rule it out was easy.
 
Played electric guitar at church this morning. We have a new worship pastor and today was his first Sunday. I think he's a bit overwhelmed at the moment, but he did a fine job.
 
Ed Haywood said:
Snuck back into my old aerodrome to install new landing gear. Decided to do a bunch of minor patching and painting I've been deferring. I am the reigning world champion of "while I am in there."

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It would seem that the airport closure was more of a suggestion
 
Painted my living room and went through round 7452 or there abouts with my wife about keeping my drafting table. I still occasionally use it and can often rough out a workable “shop print” in a pinch faster with it than I can on a computer, and personally enjoy hand inking one off design prints for personal projects.
 
Jim K said:
It would seem that the airport closure was more of a suggestion
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Nah it's deserted. But nobody is watching now that everyone left. If a plane lands and nobody sees it, was it ever really there?

We did figure out why it closed though. The power company just put up high voltage lines right across the end of the runway. We think they paid the property owner to shut down flight ops so they wouldn't have to screw with whatever they have to do otherwise.

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Ed Haywood said:
Nah it's deserted. But nobody is watching now that everyone left. If a plane lands and nobody sees it, was it ever really there?

We did figure out why it closed though. The power company just put up high voltage lines right across the end of the runway. We think they paid the property owner to shut down flight ops so they wouldn't have to screw with whatever they have to do otherwise.

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I still see a Stearman...
 
Found a weird looking VOR:

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And later, a remote tower made of video cameras in class E airspace

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I have very real concerns about getting out of here. I'll cross that threshold (at 50agl) when I come to it. For now, life is good.

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Ed Haywood said:
Nah it's deserted. But nobody is watching now that everyone left. If a plane lands and nobody sees it, was it ever really there?
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Until the moment the property owner visits, and the Citabria's wave function collapses forcing it out of the cosmic cloud of possibilities and into a single, concrete reality... . That Champion could be anywhere... or everywhere... or nowhere. It is only through observation that the infinite number of possibilities collapse into a discussion. Besides, if you don't observe yourself being observed, then any commentary on your presence is moot since the property owner could be anywhere... or everywhere... or nowhere... at least not where you might be... maybe.
 
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