Repainting our 1991 4x4 compact cab. Previously red, looking at repainting a dark blue. The original Toyota “dark blue” they used on these trucks is great. Wanting to see if anyone has gone with a different more recent Toyota blue shade and been happy with it. Photos encouraged!
Passing through town for an evening. Any recs on dog friendly winery or brewery spots? Burwood looks good, any suggestions welcome.
Went to Whitman but haven’t been back in 20 years, so much has changed!
Going to Vegas in November while the missus attends a conference. I’ll have a rental car and will be playing golf most mornings. Looking for a nice off-strip spa or massage place for after round of golf. I’ll be all over town, so any recommendations are welcome. Not looking for anything taboo. Staying at Park MGM.
Cooking a nice steak tonight, second attempt with sous vide. First time was too done. Prefer rare/med rare.
Thick NY strip
Defrost from freezer
Place in ziploc with some herbs and remove as much air as possible
129° for 90-120 min
Remove from bag, pat dry, place in freezer uncovered for 10-15 minutes while warming flat-top
Warm up Blackstone to 500° surface temp.
Pat dry some more. Steak on Blackstone for 45-60 seconds per side
Remove, slice, serve with Maldon salt and black pepper to taste. Maybe touch of butter on top at finish.
Any other gems for preparing this?
I have a pair of old Technics-1210 M5G turntables, they’ve been sitting in storage for quite some time, used to use them for DJing. I dusted them off and brought them out of storage, and cannot for the life of me figure out why these tone arms look so different.
I have the tone arm height set equally at 0mm, the counterweight set equally, and the same cartridges on there. One tone arm looks very parallel when looked at from the side in the locked position, however, the other looks more angled, and in the locked position, the cartridge can almost touch the actual body of the housing instead of the platter. Even raising the tone arm height to the max and properly balancing the counterweight for tracking force, the angled tone arm naturally puts a lot of pressure on the record, enough to have slight distortion of the same album when compared to the other.
I simply cannot figure out why this one tone arm is angled more so than the other, considering all of the other components are constant and set the same. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps one of the tonearms was bent or damaged when I shipped them 20 years ago, but even looking at it from above, it does not look damaged or bent in any particular spot. Anyone have an idea as to why one tone arm might be tilted like this? Is the base of the tone arm where it attaches to the body of the unit potentially damaged or mis-mounted? I will attach some photos, though it is shockingly difficult to get a nearly identical photo of the two separate turntables.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Need help identifying which type of grass I have. AI seems to think it is likely Kentucky bluegrass with some ryegrass mixed in. I am in Cloverdale, Northern California, relatively dry climate, temperature gets up to 100 in the summer, rarely below freezing in the winter.
This season, seems to have more weeds, some of which have been managed with turf builder weed and feed, especially dandelions. Some of the other unwanted weeds have been less controlled that way and required some hand pulling.
Also have some moss which I have been using moss out for control, looks like I need to do a second pass. From what I have read, once the moss is eradicated, I can plant some new seed, but also trying to make sure I put in the right seed to match the rest of the lawn…
Any help on identifying the grass type and effective way to manage some of the weeds in these photos would be much appreciated!