Been a touch bizzy

Just lettin’y’all know, I am still here, posting may be lite, mostly because there ain’t amuch to yap about,,,,

well, theres PLENTY to yap about, but is it worth sitting down and tapping out a post about the latest distraction, or some Cesna and the pilot passing of ‘sudden’ crashing in Virginia,,,  

Or the latest krazy that I am into,,,  Trucks and kayaks, trying to keep my Buffalo moving under her own power, and making an older kayak seaworthy again,,,,

or that I am getting 9 hour days in at the J.O.B. and that seems great, until you realize that ALL of that extra lucre needs to pay off debts that WERE getting knocked down until Buff decided to frag me and my finances,,,   She didn’t kill me, but all that headway I had made was splattered on the alley walls like so much gruesome grafitti.   Again, could have been much worse, but thanks to you guys, wasn’t,,,   Many thanks and I can’t say it enough…

As for the more hours thing going on at the J.O.B.,,  Most of it krew leading, and ‘putting out fires’…   Not fires in my shop, since I haven’t fired up the welder since sometime last week.   I need to check my shielding gas tanks, not sure I have any full ones that aren’t on the rig, and that needs rectified soonest since I DO have welding jobs forthcoming that will require more than one tank to finish.  (even though I run at barest minimum of flow since we no longer have a supplier close,, can only order once a week for scheduled wednesday delivery.)

About Lyssa, the blood red kayak,,,   That hatch is fixed, but man, that was a mess to do.  They afix the hatch rings when the deck is not attached to the hull, and that makes the way they do it flat easy.   Since I am not going to seperate the hull/deck to fix one little ring (Oh Hell no!!) I had to make some strange and troublesome yoga moves.   That ring is now fixed but in doing it, I mucked up some of that work I had done on the skeg and now have to pull the seat pan, again,,,  sigh,,,  My addiction, my zen thing, and there is USUALLY a price to pay for such.  I am paying mine.   But the compartment holds 5psi for 30 minutes and no bubbles anywhere to be found.  (rear compartment still has a leak somewhere: she won’t hold pressure, but I haven’t found any bubble spots.  May be in the rear where the toggles are located, I hadn’t looked there,,, if so, I live with it, that area is complicated and near unreachable from inside.)

Buffalo is doing well for now,,,   Been working on pulling donor parts in the evenings when I am ‘watching paint dry’ on Lyssa.   I want everything off and ready for when I start to swap parts on the real deal because I don’t want to be without transportation for more than 48 hours at any given point.    Preferably 24 but I am a realist, I know engine/transmission swaps can be a DAYS affair, even with full shop access,,,   I have shade-tree(or carport if you prefer full honesty), gravel drive, and hand tools,,,  My one power tool is my dewalt impact driver (which rocks, but has limits,,,) and the rest is busted knuckles stuff (but Snap-on, Mac, and Cornwell,,,   Quality tools that have served me well for three decades,,, If ya wanna borrow them, its full price down with 95% back to you on safe returns.   Sorry, gonna protect those tools like they were me own fingers…)(and I found a local Cornwell dealer that isn’t an ass like the Snappy dealer, that won’t honor the handtool warranty…)

Gonna be long humpday, clocks are winding down today, even though I haven’t done all I intended to do tonight. Did take a big chunk out of them though…

more tomorrow, maybe early post before things take off on me.