Greg Uzelac

Frog toy squeaker. Sound up

Daughter & husband are refinishing their oak staircase. I offered to sand the spindles if they’d do the rest. I used a lathe on the rounds. Unfortunately, some were wobbly and needed lots of “touch up” hand sanding. I used an edger on the squares and it went smooth

Refinished a sentimental rocking chair. MIL rocked my wife as a baby in it 64 years ago. Our daughter is expecting, wants to rock her baby in it. Disassembled it to get best possible outcome. Daughter loves the results

My dog got excited and ran down the hall with her dog bed

Fancy new coffee machine at work. Coworker wants 25% cream/milk but UI touch screen isn’t having it Coworker a frustrated

My dog playing with a cherry tomato. If you watch closely you’ll see her flip the tomato in the air then catch it the run across the yard

Assembled a gazebo kit for mom and dad. House is short so needed to cut down the gazebo legs

Installed a washing machine hook up for my friend

Saw an fun/interesting collage in my friend’s church, Flatirons in CO

Assembling a gazebo for mom and dad. It’s a kit but mods are needed to accommodate their house.

@typescript.fm In Ep 72, 58:20, you discussed double pain windows that have fog between the panes. FYI that can be fixed. call your local glass specialist, tell them that you have fog and want to research a new glass pack. They’ll come out to measure. Ask for an estimate. Mine have been ~$300

@syntax.fm - yet another amazing episode. Syntax podcast Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0 syntax.fm/show/1008 If you are interested in frontend development, highly suggest you ingest this show. Wow!

At work we software developers use Copilot as an assistant. We all know about the copilot pricing “changes”. It’s the 3rd day of the month and I just reached my credit limit. I was told to ask IT for an increase. I’ll see how this goes

Lola likes guests

Lola watching me fill our bird feeders

Cleaned garage floor after gas spill and corresponding sticky residue. Power washed floor. Power washer pump needs a new Unloader valve because when I let off of spray wand trigger the engine stalls out. Saw a great YT vid about rebuilding the pump and what parts tend to wear out.

Teammates went to cook-your-own steakhouse

Video of all the I/O components for the minion wash presentation

Video of minion wash conveyor

Giving a presentation about PLC ladder logic this week. Made a faux system to control. A minion wash - a car wash but for minions. There are 3 inputs (big red run/stop switch, payment accepted, test) and 6 outputs (enter/exit indicator, wet down, soap, radial scrubber, dangly scrubber, rinse/dry)

Why dog, apparently, has given up. Has lost hope.

Daughter’s iWatch 3 won’t charge. Repair services exceed value. Will probably disassemble it because what’s to loose?

Our beagle Lola had orthopedic surgery yesterday. A FHO. We pick her up today from MedVet Chicago, 5-hr drive ea way. Beds are vaccinated and toys are washed.

had time this wkend to work on time-to-hot plumbing proj. Converting 3/4” copper trunks to individual 1/2” PEX-A. the 7 individual runs are in place & are terminated on the manifold. Next I’ll tie in the manifold to the 3/4” copper from hot water heater (manifold currently held in place w ty-wraps)

Daughter said he jeep’s rear defroster stopped working. We discovered one terminal had torn off the horizontal conductive silver(?) buss. We cleaned both surfaces and successfully soldered it back together. Win 🏆

I had some time this afternoon to work on my basement plumbing project. Ran (3) 1/2” PEX-A pipes from manifold to east side of the house - kitchen sink, dishwasher, washing machine.

Helped daughter diagnose her refrigerator’s ice maker. Her model has a dedicated evaporator for the ice maker. A fan draws that cold air over the ice cube tray. That fan malfunctioned. We tested it on my bench. New fan from digikey.com $15, delivered. Some appliance part sites wanted ~$100+

Making a hot water PEX-A manifold - so I can remove long 3/4” copper runs and use 1/2 PEX instead. So fixtures get hot water quicker. Math says 3/4” copper ID versus 1/2” PEX ID is a ratio of 2.7 to 1

Thank you card from grandson: “Thank you for the Mario T-shirt. Thank you for the LEGO camper. They are both fun!”

My parents said the drinks in their (detached) garage refrigerator are exploding because the fridge is freezing from the ambient being 0F. Bottles and cans. Brr.

Helped install a combination washer dryer. On a kitchen. Because the gal can’t reasonably access the main laundry in the basement. Brought in hot cold drain and electric.

Daughter stopped by with her dog, left. Red coat is Lola:beagle. White and spotted is Wiggles/dachshund. It was a great visit

Replaced the main bearing in our clothes washer. Two steps were difficult: 1) finding trick to remove control panel from the top 2) separating/removing drum from main shaft I’m currently testing it. No weird noises nor leaks so far .

Lola is recovering nicely after the pelvic surgery. My daughter and I took her to the home center. She seemed to enjoy herself.

Had a dentist appointment this morning. My hygienist has a farm w farm animals. She tells the best stories. Today she told me about dog stomach Tacking (Gastropexy). 😮 dogdiscoveries.com/health/dog-s...

This was half chicken and half carrots (from a pot of homemade chicken stock). Lola ate the chicken but not one carrot.

Lola eating homemade chicken broth

Feeding time. Surgeon said as long as Lola eats *something* ea day, we’re good

Lola going outside to stretch her legs

“Merry Christmas, Harry”

Brother new apartment. Sister found him a top-n-bottom washer dryer deal. Dryer hose was shortish so had to connect hose to wall with unit pushed partly into the narrow cubby. One guy scaled the unit and hung over the back, the other guy held his feet so he wn fall into the void. It worked.

Lola dog update: is out of orthopedic surgery after the hit n run. Surgeon very happy with reconstructive outcome. Something about screws and a 0.7mm target. Said Lola very lucky to be alive. Recovery will be long.

Caring for a dog, Lola. She was jumping off the back of our sofa, which is too high, sooner or later she’ll get hurt. So I made an very ugly thing so she can’t jump off the high part. Used scraps in my shop

water fixtures in our house take a long time to get hot. pipes are 3/4” Cu to ea device cluster, then 1/2” Cu for the final few ft. My plan is to install 1/2 PEX home runs from water heater, & a 8-port PEX manifold. Charts say 1/2” PEX is 0.00961 Gal/ft while 3/4” Cu is 0.0269. Or a factor of 2.8

I started my vacation after finishing work today. I dont go back until Monday the 5th

Our family room has a fake/electric fireplace. The 20A CAFCI breaker for that circuit started tripping intermittently. There are 9 receptacles on that ckt so I’ll start by moving the fireplace to its own breaker. Now we wait…