Freezing temps tonight just a few miles north of Houston. WUT?

Much further north than a few miles, but it was 28 this morning here in Denton. Finally had to break down and turn on the heater towards the end of the day.

Ha! We here in the Antipodes are on the edge of summer... and snow is forecast down to 500m (about 1600') on Wednesday. This will go with the strong winds we have had for the past goodness knows how long.

I've certainly come across a few spirited threads in my search for something that doesn't suck. Looks like my cheap solution will be:



If the accompanying air valve doesn't work, I've seen that people have installed an old Presta valve (with valve body removed, but keep the cap around to close it up) on the back of the can to avoid the gurgle.

I forget where I got it exactly, but my "no-spill" gas cap was kind of awesome. I could see where it might be annoying in a few cases, but it's got a spring loaded valve with a hook so you can open it just by pressing the filler neck into the hole a bit. Worked awesome for filling up the lawn mower.

And in other weather news: I finally rode the bike to work again this morning. After laying out clothes for 45 degrees, I woke up to the weather telling me it was 30 degrees outside. So I swapped my shorts+knee warmers for my insulated knicker bibs. Did not freeze. Had fun. Roads are much more peaceful with the schools closed for Thanksgiving break. Made me thankful.

I hang on to my CV cans. I have 4 or 5 in the garage.

I'm not sure removing the vent to reduce fumes going into the air and thus causing spillage of gas on the ground, into the water, down the side of the car, on the hot mower muffler, etc. is really having the intended impact.

Amen, brother!

Amen, brother!

I'll take some?

Oh, so you guys are talking about cans that don't even have a vent valve? What kind of dumb idea is that? The can I got still has a valve on the opposite side, or I thought it did. No issues with pouring it that I recall.

thanksgiving weekend bikepacking trip planned, we were worried about rain but it looks dry now, theyre predicting 29º low at night though.


bring ALL THE WOOL

I trust this will be a good blog entry?

This whole Thanksgiving break and weekend looks like it will be rained out for me. One of the reasons I got on the bike this morning is because I don't think any riding is going to happen over the break. Sucks.

I've never had any problem with the new nozzle design.

#justsaying

Haven't tried one of those, but each of the two newfangled ones that I have tried have leaked all over the joint at/near the twist lock when the nozzle is being depressed.

That's the same one I have. Works perfectly.

As it turns out, if the desktop is actually dead, I'll be waiting for the Skylake NUC to drop before building one - I want native 4k on any HTPC I build now. That'll be out in a month or so, with the i3 oddly arriving first. Good enough for my purposes.

In other news, slightly over 46 miles of running last week. New record. Easy week this week, other than the Turkey Trot, and next week I'm not sure what I'll do in the run-up to the first half-marathon of the season.

Wool is awesome. Today was the start of wool socks season.

In Texas? Really?

I wonder if the functional spouts are legal in California?

I bought a really awesome wool ibex base layer and am looking forward to some chilly weather here. It may hit 50f on my night commute this week.

Hasn't snowed here yet, but the ski slopes all made snow last week.

planning on it! 2 buddies coming for a bro-vet so we can wander around a big trail area camp out with some bears (hopefully not) then come home

This is one of the main reasons I lean towards a townhome when we finally buy. I don't want to do lawn work and it's more cost effective to split the cost within an HOA.