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Journaling June - Day 22-23
Journaling June
Day 22-23 Yesterday, Monday, I had a couple of items to post, one too bulky to carry on my bike, plus I needed to do my week's shopping, so out in the car I went... after first doing my morning's language lessons, going for a jog, and having my breakfast in the garden. With the parcels handed over (I'm now back down to owning just two printers, phew), I then grabbed some shopping. Upon returning to my car a woman was walking away from it, checking her phone; she'd obviously been admiring and photographing it. Sure enough she came back over to it when she saw me and politely said she hoped I didn't mind if she had been taking a picture of it, yada-yada... I chuckled and said not to worry, it happens a lot. It amuses me. Indeed, I'd been given this thumbs-up on the way:
I grabbed some bird seed at a hardware store on the way home, ready for the winter; I'm trying to stock up on things now so I don't have to worry about not driving my car in the winter weather for things that I'd prefer not to lug home on my bike. I had a weird moment in my car on the way back. I'd been sticking my foot down, as I do, and I sensed what felt like a wobble, seemingly from a rear wheel, so I eased off and continued home. Then as I was Austin Powersing the car into my garage (there's only just room), the engine seemed stumbly as I rode the clutch, and just as I was finishing up and about to turn the engine off I caught sight of the temperature gauge reading somewhat warm... "don't tell me I've blown the head gasket again, already!" I laughed. I surely hope not and maybe it was all due to it being a warm day and taking a few moments to get the car positioned in the garage that caused the temperature to inch up, and thus get stumbly, as I'm all too familiar with now from when I did have the whole head gasket saga. I later checked the oil and water levels when things had cooled down and both looked fine. I also gave the rear wheels a shake, and I now need to jack up the rear to investigate further because even sat on the ground the suspect wheel did seem to knock a bit... More things to do before the car shows in the next couple of months. I think I've just about got everything set up on the iMac and I now type this in Microsoft FrontPage on my Windows XP install in VirtualBox, on Kubuntu Linux on an iMac. This amuses me! There are a couple of issues though; while I seemed to have solved the screen garbling issue when the system goes to sleep... at least for a short period, when I left it for about an hour, the screen came back on garbled. Also, Kubuntu 26.04 has this window feature where they are set to wobble and go translucent when moved; I don't like this so I turned off those settings in Settings... but I swear I've done that a few times now and each one keeps seemingly reenabling in turn. Annoying! I am pleased to see the GIMP issue is resolved which persistently opened with an error (although worked otherwise) on my 24.04 install on my old system. Can I now drag multiple files to Neocities from Dolphin I wonder... We have a bit of a heatwave going on in the UK this week, so again today (Tuesday) I've been out on my bike and I think I might get the tent back out in the garden tonight. Last night I slept with my bedroom window open and was woken up at midnight by a couple camping a field away having a domestic; jeez I've not heard anything like that for years! Most dramas like this are just ones I read about online, rather than hear in person*. It was entertaining to try and figure out what was going on and being said, but at the expense of not getting a full night's sleep. *Actually, I now recall from last year some guy in Lidl speaking in an off-tone to his wife, and I was like "jeez, just go your separate ways if you think that low of someone." [I mean, I didn't say that, but I thought it, and I realise things aren't so simple.] Anyway, I spent the afternoon getting a rear wheel drum off my car to inspect things and... well... things aren't looking so great so half of the time was spent consulting with ChatGPT, flicking through the manual, and scrolling through ebay trying to find all the bits and equipment I'm going to need. Like the head gasket job this is going to be more stuff I haven't done before; namely replacing brake pipes, hoses, cylinders and shoes. Yippee.
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