Only the fourth?
Nov. 4th, 2021 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoNovember is going to be long. This post will not be.
Cold weather continues. One of the five heated buckets installed yesterday proved to have failed. It had ice on top. That one was two seasons old. Our experience has been that after two winters they start failing in the third cold season. The darned things are not built to be repairable either. Thermostat and heating element are enclosed and sealed so you can't even see them, much less replace them.
So I drove up to Harvard's Tractor Supply to get a replacement. At $45, their brand is not cheap. But they are more heavy and durable.
SiriusXM sent me a complicated message about how they are reshuffling a bunch of channel numbers. Many of those channels are among the ones I programmed into the presets of my car radio. Redoing that is cumbersome and would not be fast or fun. So I was pleased when I turned the ignition key and the radio display lit up with "Reconfiguring SiriusXM. Please wait." It took about two minutes, and all the preset numbers on the dash still had the same station content as before, but the channel numbers on the display were different. Slick job, Sirius. Thanks.
One good thing about the colder weather: I will be wearing mittens to do chores. My hands were getting hard calluses from carrying water buckets.
Cold weather continues. One of the five heated buckets installed yesterday proved to have failed. It had ice on top. That one was two seasons old. Our experience has been that after two winters they start failing in the third cold season. The darned things are not built to be repairable either. Thermostat and heating element are enclosed and sealed so you can't even see them, much less replace them.
So I drove up to Harvard's Tractor Supply to get a replacement. At $45, their brand is not cheap. But they are more heavy and durable.
SiriusXM sent me a complicated message about how they are reshuffling a bunch of channel numbers. Many of those channels are among the ones I programmed into the presets of my car radio. Redoing that is cumbersome and would not be fast or fun. So I was pleased when I turned the ignition key and the radio display lit up with "Reconfiguring SiriusXM. Please wait." It took about two minutes, and all the preset numbers on the dash still had the same station content as before, but the channel numbers on the display were different. Slick job, Sirius. Thanks.
One good thing about the colder weather: I will be wearing mittens to do chores. My hands were getting hard calluses from carrying water buckets.
