guess who found out the quite expensive new wheels for the van (which now really, really need to be fitted because one of the old tyres now has a gash in it) won't fit without a set of wheel spacers and new, longer bolts which together cost €150 that I don't have it's me 📸: @dynode.eurosky.social

this one's still the best though

tee hee

whenever I have a song in one of my playlists that poses a question, there's a good chance that I'll put a certain Durry song in after it

I mean.... is anyone?

my guess for what the next failure will be: one of the rusty clamps on the cat's cradle that is the liquid cooling loop will give up the ghost. so at some point I'm going to have to have it open again, drain away the coolant, and replace the old clamps with new stainless steel ones

there was about a tablespoon of conductive dust inside there, causing an earth leak and apparent "insulation failure"

hello renault I just wanna talk

sending these to the dealer that told me they couldn't just check clean, and replace the rotor brushes because "that might not be the problem" anyway here's 15 years of graphite dust that I just cleaned out, which was what was tripping the insulation fault sensor

slowly turning three junk recumbents into one non-junk recumbent, for science

"did you buy that stuff just to do this" fool that you are I already owned all this stuff

my friends be like: "are you okay" and I'm like "yes, now blessed be the henry"

heartbroken to see that the current Kangoo model is not the pleasingly dorky little fellow of old but instead looks like it's the bastard lovechild of the old Kangoo and a Dodge RAM

he sees all, knows all, and forgives all

it shall involve BLESSED HENRY and I might accidentally start a cult

there is no train. but there *is* a crane.

oops I'm in narnia

the wheel hasn't killed me. calling this a success.

me:

it's getting worse, everybody. so much worse.

"....it's for a car, right?" (1960s hub in a 2000s bike with a 2020s belt drive, wheee)

"it's for a car, right?"

transmission oil day

The thunder in Amsterdam was biblical last night. We got a strike about every ten seconds at the peak.

oh how the tables have turned

nyeh heh heh heh heh

reading everything the HSE has on working safely under vehicles (here's a link: www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg43...) and every time I come across a recommended practice I'm like:

my current playthrough of The Outer Worlds is somewhat informed by Louis Renault (or, more specifically, his plant employees): go along to get along while you actually sabotage the shit out of everything

As for shading: there's more than just trees to consider. Shibam in Yemen was built centuries ago. Using building-to-building shading, high thermal mass material, and white render, it keeps a lot of the heat away. 📸: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh... 📸: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sh...

To whoever decided to paint my building black, causing my window frame to hit ~60°C: I just want to talk.