Curtis our co-op is Grayson Collin Electric Cooperative. The shindig was at the Van Alstyne High School stadium.
Yesterday must have been a little tougher than I remembered. I went to bed shortly after nine last night and didn’t wake up until seven thirty this morning. We’re dealing with feels like temps of 105 to 110 this time of year. But we haven’t hit the official 100 degrees yet this season.
One of my mechanisms that I use when dealing with challenges is I skirt them until a good plan emerges. The best example of that lately is my weld plates that go into the slab for the columns supporting the building framework. I can’t install them where I want them before the pour because the concrete crew won’t be able to get good mud underneath the plate like it should be. Most of the weld plates are installed by the concrete crew just after the mud is leveled. I’m not comfortable with their doing that accurately. Plus the standard plates aren’t attached to the rebar and once again, I’m not comfortable with the plates being secure without being attached to the rebar. So the plan I’ve been working on is having the plates suspended above the finished grade a couple of inches so that the crew can get the mud underneath and then the crew can push it down to grade. The plate will be tied into the rebar.
Then this morning just as I opened my eyes a better idea came to me. I’m going to install pipe stubs that will be attached to the rebar and protrude up out of the slab. The big advantage is knowing for sure that the plate will be attached to the rebar grid underneath and full concrete contact. And, huge and, it will allow me to have some flexibility with plate location, an inch here or there can make a huge difference. Basically the plate can be located where it is needed because the hole for the pipe can be anywhere in the plate. We’re talking inches, fractions of an inch even can make the job easier and better. If the concrete crew moved the plate over an inch then beams might have to be custom cut. This way I won’t have to deal with their error making my work harder.
They’re talking about Ron bringing us a cool front for his visit. I don’t know he’s done it but a cool front coming from the north to meet him here as he’s coming in from the south. We’re only talking four of five degrees but the feel like will be eight to ten degrees difference. We might have to go bake on the new slab to stay warm.
We’ve dropped almost $2,000.00 on getting the a/c working as it should in the Bravada, 2002 model with 212,000 miles. The upside is that’s better than the cost of a new vehicle. I think we’re going to keep the Bravada for some years. It’s a great car. I have some work now that has to be done on the truck. Lucille needs a pinion seal replaced and that will happen next week. Both vehicles will need new tires next year, it never ends. I’m going to have to deal with the broken exhaust manifold on the toad by November too, it really never ends.
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