Posted By RichC on October 21, 2020
A group of #carspotter buddies on social networks often share cars they admire .. so last week I included this Porsche 99CarreraS last weekend while in Florida. Nice!
Posted By RichC on October 20, 2020
Just a “beary” interesting video that is making its way around social media. The bear is a big one, but I’m more impressed with the trash can!
Posted By RichC on October 19, 2020
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Posted By RichC on October 18, 2020
About half the time I need to cover a cut with a Band-Aid, it is on a finger. Often right where the joint flexes and then even the better stretchy bandages bunch, unstick and come off. Here’s a tip for covering the finger when dealing with a joint … and it works for the tip of you finger rather than two BandAids or extra tape too!
Posted By RichC on October 17, 2020
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Posted By RichC on October 16, 2020
Watch what happens when this “magic hat” is put on a baby duckling …
Posted By RichC on October 14, 2020
This past week I finally finished Dan Hampton’s excellent historical World War II book titled “Operation Vengeance” 
about the operation to kill Isoroku Yamamoto and can finally move on to the book I mentioned in September after reading a WSJ review. Since the “reviewed” book was the third and finally Ian W. Toll’s book in the Pacific Trilogy series, I figured I would start with “Pacific Crucible.”
So far I like the author’s writing style and quickly looked up a few photos, names (Admiral Harold Rainsford “Betty” Stark) and maps for visual purposes … and even reflected and referred to my blog photos from our time at Pearl Harbor. The account of Japanese Zeros so low as to see the uncanopied pilot’s cats-eye goggles brings the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor a bit more intimate.
Posted By RichC on October 13, 2020
Thrifty or maybe frugal is the word choice that I use, but occasionally “cheapskate” might be a better fit? 
I’ve used a 3-speed Jet Tools Air Filtration System to clean the air in my basement woodworking workshop to reduce the amount of dust. It works reasonable well but suspect a lot of dust still makes it way upstairs.
Two of the maintenance items required for optimum efficiency are the filters. First is the electrostatic disposable particle filter which collects most of the dust followed by the Inner Pocket Filter (not seen in photo) that can be taken out and cleaned. The company also sells a “washable” electrostatic outer filter but at over twice the price is hard to swallow.
For me, it is costly enough to replace the filters in our 3 furnaces, but I do it more often at the request of my wife. She asks me to replace them ever 3 months rather than my 6 month interval … although I’m pretty laxed about it. Lately I’ve noticed that the better grade of hypoallergenic filters I been buying aren’t as dirty, at least to my naked eye, so I’ve repurposed by cutting them down to fit in the Jet AFS-1000B. I’m sure the experts would say that 
the “reused” furnace filter is not the same as a $20 stock “electrostatic” filter, but for me they are always plenty caked with dust when I replace them. Eventually I’ll buy a new “proper” filter, but for now, this is an inexpensive way to get double duty out of filters AND encourage me to change the whole house furnace filters sooner. (also in a user’s online test, filter or no filter, shops are still dusty)
Posted By RichC on October 12, 2020
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Posted By RichC on October 11, 2020
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