No competition.....

7:51 am - Monday - January 15th - GNHS - 47° F, humidity 73%, wind 4 mph out of the east by southeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 65° F.  On this date in 2017 I was removing and replacing a bad piece of the diesel exhaust in our 1982 Newell....↴ 

The old galvanized section

The new stainless steel section

.....I had replaced this section once before back in 20010, and chose to use galvanized, instead of stainless steel at that time.  It, the galvanized, lasted 7 years.  It's been another 7 years now, and the stainless steel is doing just fine.

We had just two COA bookings for Sunday....the final day of a two day booking, and a short 2 hour rental, so TLE did not  report for duty, letting Hunter and I handle everything.  By the time our all day renter retrieved RZR #8 for the second day of their rental it was around 9:45 am, so I clocked out leaving Hunter to handle the rest of the day.  There were two more NFL wild card playoff games beginning at 1:30 pm and 5:15 pm, and I wanted to watch them hoping they would be more competitive than Saturday's offerings, plus I had a project, or two I wanted to get done before then.

The first was to install a new window washer nozzle on the VW Beetle.  Last week I noticed I was only getting a spray our of one of the two nozzles, and checked on it later to find the plastic hose barb had broken, so I ordered a new one on Amazon. Well, they (got a package of 3) arrived Saturday via USPS, and I had tried to install it, but the after market one was a tad too big for the slot into which it was supposed to plug.  Overnight I had decided to use my Dremel with a small cutting disk to trim the metal back about 1/64".  My default thought process is almost always that it will be more difficult, and take longer than it should, but in this case it took just a couple minutes to trim the slot opening and successfully install the new plastic nozzle....

New nozzle successfully installed

.....once that was done I did my toning workout (TLE and I took a day off from walking Sunday), and then headed over to the hot pools/tubs to take my first soak in a while....

.....both large hot pools were full, so I chose the empty one in which to take my soak....it was the prefect temperature, and I was back at the Newell in under an hour!

For the first time in a few years I took down my pirate flag and replaced it with my Gadson Flag....I've been feeling a little "Don't tread on me!" lately....lol....

.....Hunter called about 1:30 pm, while he was at lunch, to say he wasn't feeling well, and would we take care of the all day rental return, and watch the office the rest of the day, so TLE went out to do just that, and I joined her around 3 pm.....I never got to my second project.  In the interim I spent time in my anti gravity chair watching the Cowboys and Packers game being played in Dallas, TX.  I was expecting a good game with the Cowboys coming out the ultimate victors.  It turned out to be a rout in favor of the Packers.  At half time it was 27-7, and with 7+ minutes to play in the 4th quarter it was 48-17 in favor of the Packers, and the game was pretty much over.  Pretty hard to score 4 touchdowns with four 2 point conversions in 7 minutes.  The Cowboys were just not ready for this game on any level.  The final score ended up 48-32, only because the Packers began playing prevent defense, allowing the Cowboys to score 16 useless points as the game wound down.  Wow....who saw that coming?  Anyway, my quest to watch a meaningful, competitive playoff game was once again thwarted.

Our last rental returned around 4:30 pm without incident, and our weekend of COA rentals was done.  I hurriedly set up a chair to watch the sunset.....

....then turned the chair around to watch the beginning of the Rams and Lions game being played in Detroit.  Finally, a competitive game!  The game was close right down to the end with Detroit winning 24-23.....

....there are two more NFL wild card games Monday, so here's hoping they are competitive!

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