Certainly not getting any younger!! Spent 4 hours working a brush fire this morning, I feel 90 percent good but I think I inhaled a bit more carbon monoxide than I wanted to, working the flank cutting in a line ahead of the fire. My resting pulse is normally about 62 or less, after an hour it was 114, now 2-3 hours later its down to 106, gonna take some time to get all that out of my system!

I'm totally glad I can still cut line and work fire, teach the new generation how to keep moving and keep aware of what's around you, got some light burns just from the heat, more like a sunburn, damn it was hot!! My hair is gonna smell like smoke for a couple weeks.

Later all, keep plugging away!!

Had a wonderful xmas eve driving Santa about on a firetruck to see all the kids, wrapped up by 9pm and wasn't feeling sorted. Got home, a touch dizzy and out of sorts more, literally walked into the corner of a wall. Decided to retire early and hydrate some. Xmas morning comes, 102.4 fever, ohh holy hell. Locked myself away as not to share some random virus with guests and let all the inlaws nieces and nephews have a grand day of it, don't worry about me I'm going to war, pour on the blankets and turn up the heated mattress pad and aim for medium rare. Didn't move much the whole day or the day after, called out sick to work even though its WFH, my brain wasn't right enough to work in production environments.

Today, Friday, better, working to cure some dehydration and that's an uphill battle for reasons. I think I won the war, just cleaning out pockets of resistance, even went outside today for a little bit.

Hoping everyone has a happy set of holidays, remember to tell loved ones you love them, wouldn't want to miss that opportunity.

Ciao!!

Tons of folks at AC this year, worked staff just to help out, keep things running and moving. Sunday winding down, take a little walk outside and a local protogen fur on a scooter rolls past with a flat rear tire. Flagged him down, seems he parked someplace publically and thinks someone aired down his tire. Anyway, DLCC parking guys were working on the gate and with a little convincing they allowed this scooter to slide into the garage. I had a small air compressor with a SAE plug on the end. We aired up the scooter to a comfy 40 in a few mins. Whereas this person had about a two hour ride home, I gave him the little air compressor and said to check it after 5 or 10 miles, wouldnt accept payment of course. Ride on our furry friend, rise on!

Had a mid sized Kubota on my favorite little car trailer, swerve around a few potholes, clipped one with the trailer, sun was just starting to come up and I check the mirrors and wonder, I don't recall driving through a fog bank. A better glance on the right side show smoke boiling out of the right side trailer fenderwells. Tires on the right side, both axles rubbing the fenders, dagnabbit!! Move the fender out of the way, they're removable for super wide cars like the mid 20's to 30's. Get to where I'm going, down at the shooty club to mow a ton of grass, unload and get things cut then look, both axle tubes are corroded and bent outboard of the springs. This trailer was my uncles, 1979 car hauler Owens Classic. I rewired it in mid 80s and in the early 2000's rewired and replaced all the lights with LED's wire wheeled, stripped and painted along with all new brakes and hubs.

Time to bite the bullet, I do use the trailer for some side work, I have a few customers for field mowing and its a good trailer for the mid sized tractors. 2 new axles, 4 sets of seals, 1 set of bearings, a couple tires, new valve stems. U bolt kit and some other misc parts, guessing it's run up to about $1150 but a new trailer is $5k so I think this one will still serve me well. I have the 30K trailer for big stuff but the car trailer is just easy. Its also time to change the decking and give the underside a needle gun or sandblasting and repaint. 45 years, I guess that's long enough for a set of axles.

Well, I suppose honestly, it aint my bag.

The park is lovely and damned near spotless unless you look outside the pedestrian areas where the slobs toss paper and trash over the walls. Each of the Fla parks is well laid out with plenty of spaces for strolling and artifacts to view and examine whether history, science or sci-fi.

That being said I'm a lover of rides and tours, even if the tours are on foot or motorized conveyance. Rides, all kinds are appreciated. That was one facet I found lacking, each park might have one or two premier rides, those with some pizazz and maybe one or two laid back ones. Sadly I'm outside the nominal height for the average rider so some of the high G rides feel more like a mugging, but a fun mugging. Now the other 99% of the real estate is shops and commercial spaces, stores on stores on stores. Snacks are expensive even for Fenway prices, price you pay for not packing something in. The dinner meals were a touch on the high side for the offerings and ambiance.

Their true mastery is the queue, one attraction without a waiting line the queue path was the better part of a quarter of a mile it seemed, five minutes of walking at a good pace, there was stuff to look at on the way but it was a long walk. It seems each stanchion has a serial number and a place to be located to make optimally long lines. Now if you don't want to wait an hour, you can pay a fee that gets you in a somewhat shorter and faster moving priority line.

I'm a little surprised I didn't see an extra charge for using the fitness center, a fairly spartan gym spot with two benches, one rack of regular weights, a couple bicycles, a couple treadmills and a rowing machine. Thankfully it was open before sunrise so I had something to do while every one was sleeping.

I did enjoy the open air walking, and while everyone else was shopping I could either do a lap or find a nice place to sit for a bit. The mouse is an expert of reaching deep into your pockets. I think Walt would be someplace between aghast and vexed at the pricing.

Well finally agreed to a week in Disney, the weather is nice, cool in the morning/evenings and decent during the day. Family is staying at the Riveria hotel, visited Epcot and saw some of the sights so far. Really good with stacking folks into organized lines! HA, more exploring today. Only difficult point so far is the Pillows! I wake up feeling like I've been mugged! At least there is a gym for something to do in the morning.

So far its really nice to look at, that's for certain.

So the biathalon team is pretty awesome but one issue is, we don't get a lot of snow, its not really needed but its very nice to have some sweetly groomed ski trails.

I've been applying brain power with two options for mobile snow making, both to include a modest compressed air supply to drive a water/air nucleation nozzle, pressurized water and a home brew fan gun style snow making machine.

1) tractor driven.
1 IBC tote front filled to 2k pounds, 1 on back carried on the 3pt hitch, 500 ish gallons total.
Hydraulic driven fan, can generate ~ 7 hp from the rear remotes, drive a diesel truck fan in a 24 inch diameter metal tube of about 55 gallons in volume, 4000 rpm.
PTO to drive a 10gpm high pressure pump and modest air compressor, 6-10 cfm, 2gpm for the air mix nozzle and the other 8gpm on hollow cone nozzles in a ring.

2 truck mounted, 2x IBC totes, 600 gallons or a bit more.
Generator driven electric fan, Grain aeration style, axial fan but find on that runs on 240v, best is about 7hp 6500 cfm 36 amps
Truck air compressor to supply air for the mix nozzle.
Electric driven pressure pump, I'm thinking that lowering the pressure on a similar 10gpm pump reduces the HP requirement. 800psi should need about 5hp.

It likely needs more thought, commercial guns cost 10k and typ want 3ph power at 30-60 amps. A purchased blower costs about 2k, mfg a hydraulic blower is likely going to be in the 500-800 range for a hydraulic one.

Freezing and water supply are both concerns during the brainstorming.

Today is a nice full day, while investigating a clunk on gigantor, I found a bad ball joint and a couple stripped wheel studs, so today is a whirlwind. rinse off the plow, drop the plow, go fetch the sander and load it up, spread some salt on the ice for my customers and then unload and wash the sander off. Next to pick up some plow parts and a pair of batteries for another truck (club truck) then head over there and borrow some garage space, swap in a pair of ball joints and wheel studs. Hopefully that goes smoothly and quickly. Once done the next task is to attack some wiring on the truck, wire up a new controller for the lights and accessories and re map some of the older switches for the built in truck functions like high idle etc.

So I've not really done any concrete pouring taller than a couple feet, this wall section, 11 feet long, sitting on an 8x16 footer a smattering of rebar and 5 feet tall. The inside was braced and shored against the existing soil and the outside was framed and cribbed. Picked up a pallet and a half of 80# bags and got everything ready. Started pouring mix at sunrise and picked up a 4' whip concrete vibrator from Horrible Freight, Hazard Fraught you know the place maybe Princess tools for the northeners! Anyway, it worked pretty darned well, shifting the concrete around and setting it down perfectly. The only trouble was the vibrator smelled like overheated Wuhan right off the bat, but it was working. Bag after bag, everything going smoothly before some awesome help arrived that really increased the production rate. Vibrating and stirring to eliminate any lines in the wall. Well! My shoring was a little sub par, so a couple minor 5 minute pauses to reinforce a few spots where the wall shoved against the cribbing and cracked a few things, a minor bow, hydraulic jack fixed that one and all well below grade. Well then the vibrator quits, so I keep mixing and Takatha attacks the machinery to find out what's going on. 1 the switch doesn't work anymore, okay bypass it, still doesn't work, now seems the cord has stopped being a conductor completely! Both legs, no connection, fetch a PC cord and whack off the IEC plug and hot wire the vibrator, now its working again and stinks more than ever.

Well almost reaching the top of the forms with mix and there's a loud Crack! awwgeez! a 4x3 support on the form has shattered and that has broken its support board as well two more bottle jacks and some 4x4 blocking and that section is shoved back in place, and the rest of the agitation is done by hand. Lost about 2 bags of cement in the two small blowouts, but I have a much improved idea of how to make concrete forms! They gotta be heavy!

I put the vibrator back together mostly as it was when purchased a few days back, went back to the store to return it, the mgr was breaking in a new employee and asked what happened, said it smelled like fire and then quit working with a bit of smoke leaking out.. He replies 'ya that happens' good golly. Anyway if I had bought two and returned them it'd still be cheaper than a rental unit.

Ended up finding a good used unit on ebay, was a BIN or make offer, offer made and accepted so that's a good thing, was an actual commercial unit with a 10' whip and a square head vibrator tip.

Good news, the wall set up great and it set up fast, my cake recipe is 2 80# bags and then 1/3 flat shovel of portland cement added, type II pref. It adds heat, makes a nicer looking mix and speeds the cure time. Stripped the forms 48 hours later and the concrete was still so very nice and warm to the touch. Now to lower the wall down on it.

Electrical conduit laid down and the drain well placed and extended with dry stack bricks, first gutter attached and it looks like its doing an awesome job, crapload of rain yesterday and the water was flowing where it should. I missed a cool shot, well could not get it, excavator was working hard and all the lines and cylinder barrels were steaming like crazy in the cold rain, looked awesome but the camera couldn't resolve what the eye could see.

Home projects are coming along and coming together, today is the front yard drains. get those set to grade and laid in, what could possibly go wrong!

Well, things are moving along, keep paddling!! I tried the cam sensor on the truck, I could not get my giant paws in there to get it loose. There is a local guy, he specializes in ford diesels by choice, he has a few special home made tools for removing the sensor by shearing it off, cleaning the bore and then extracting it. He charged less than it would be for a tow to his shop by the local tow company, he had it banged out in about an hour and a half including a new sensor from Ford.

My digging has gained some speed. I picked up a grade laser, a nice used unit but it allows me to check the grade from the cab while digging, takes just a few seconds instead of dig, clear the trench, install ladder, go down with level, pipe, shovel and rake, fiddle with grade if possible to get it on the money, else mark any high spots with a rock, remove everything from trench and try to make small downward adjustments, repeat the measurements.
My farm engineered solution has a hand held laser detector screwed to a piece of rebar that's c-clamped to the dipper stick and the laser set at a 1% up grade, I'll check the pipe still before adding stone and its staying the same few inches right above the bottom of the trench. Still rassling with the unemployment office and not making much gains, might have to give them a call this week.

A hurricane is coming up the coast and we're forecast to get at least 2 inches of rain, that'd make a mess of my trench so I'm going to try and haul ass and get things moving a lot faster before it comes.

So I'm trying to keep my project list under control while looking for regular work. I'm clawing at getting a couple certificates for a little bit of programming and in the mean time, attempting to locate a source of water incursion! I'm digging a few hours every day, moving tons of stone and rolls of fabric and yards of perforated pipe all going deep below ground. Also have to pick a day sometime soon and start splitting up a few cords of wood, get that stacked and set aside. Also have a sensor on the side of the truck engine that needs changing, typically this sensor is rusted soundly in place and burrowed deep into the block.

Had a pickle Thursday, the white whale has a combination trailer hitch, gooseneck style and 5th wheel. Well a simple change over went a little sideways, the pre-tension bolt pulls on the lock pin, well the lock pin wasn't seated right and it got bent all to heck!! Well, could not lock the hitch in place and could not remove the hitch. I took a bit of a gamble, the big trailer sits on the hitch with 4500 pounds of weight, that should be enough to keep it pinned and surely it was. A successful trip back to the yard with Ahab in tow behind the white whale! Today's plan was to get this extracted, I had to cut the pin into a couple pieces and get them freed up. With a bit of pondering I came up with a plan to remove a non-removable lock pin. A bit more careful cutting to extract the whole pin and then a bit of prodding from a friend convinced me to make a whole new lock pin, thankfully the piece of stock I found in my parts bin was plenty long enough to make a new pin and weld on all the fiddly bits, a bit of careful grinding and testing and presto, new cold rolled steel pin installed. I'll be a little more careful that that pin locks in correctly in the companion hitch.

I'm looking forward to having the drains installed and then add a few gutters to get all the roof runoff under control!

Giving it hell everyday!!

I'd like to say I'm out of work but well mostly my regular job of a decade and a half has gone by the wayside, its been a while coming, land of huge corporate decisions, that's what happens. Anyway, I think I'm going to put in for unemployment, haven't ever used it so time to try it while I pick up some new skills and work on the house, mainly an excuse to work on the house.

I sure hope everyone is staying healthy and getting enough exercise! My math thought for the day... If masks / social distancing / hand washing are effective, this year's flu season should be right about 0 cases and the same number of deaths. Corona, sars-cov2 is a new thing but the flu has a huge cache of data carried along over the years, so we should see a massive downturn in flu cases.

Good friends Smash and Dragon's home got burned out as well as the entire neighborhood in the hills south of San Jose

original journal from Timberwoof

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Looks like a cash helper page has been set up to bolster any funds that insurance might provide when they feel like it.

Plague is still going on, four months in and then some, some folks are doing well and some are taking the dirt nap unfortunately, I personally only know one person who succumbed unfortunate indeed but that how the ball bounces sometimes. Hopefully folks will remember to be careful where they can. A mask isn't a guarantee so much as a reminder that this is the next big thing.

I'm wondering though, I have a few friends that are hearing impaired, but they read lips. I wonder how they feel about all of this. I haven't seen them around to ask, being isolated and all.

Take care and be good to one another.

So the warning say don't touch your face and wash your hands, but can you touch someone elses face? HA!

Anyway, went out to buy steel, luckily there's no run on that, need it for a project, just like half a ton or so but long pieces, on the way back I thought I'd get some McDonalds as we're drive thru food service only around here. All went well and I thanked the two window workers for working during the plague scare and it really seemed to brighten their day! One said her mom made her wear rubber gloves and well where she is handling money, I said that's a good idea, and if you don't have a lot you can wipe them with hand sanitizer too for extra protection.


Anyway, if you have to go out and shop, remember to thank those still out there, they're rather in the line of fire so to speak. This sounds like a virus that we're all gonna get either by exposure or vaccine, hold onto your hats.

So after a lot of wrangling and their techs connected to their laptop on my network, maybe 14 hours worth, they still had no idea what was going on but could see the randomness. A shot in the dark the phonetech suggested replacing the equipment on both ends of the fibre strand with newer updated gear, well that pretty much fixed everything immediately.

So this has been troubling me for about six months. I'm going to lean on the billing department with the argument, this is a commercial connection and if you expect the customer to keep an eye on the health of your equipment, you're sadly mistaken. Business pays extra for such services as well as guaranteed networking speed to the backbone. not to the first router. I'll lean on the finance department for six months of fees, else I suppose a well drafted letter to the states atty general may prove to be useful.


In other horrid news, a few years ago we had a horrid manager four layers up that said he doesn't believe in data centers... for a development org... WTF, dumbass, well we moved divisions to get out from under him and this week, blammo, we get the announcement, he's moved back into our chain, is pissed that we avoided his axe last time and now we've got till Q2 to vacate the lab and relocate all the data and equipment.

Now the upper mgmt says there are internal jobs we can apply for and after the migration we can get placed in new spots. Honestly that's all a huge truckload of bullshit, slathered with a spatula and they're calling it cake. No currently open job req is going to wait six months to be filled and no upper management is gong to approve a transfer ahead of getting their data moved. My manager thinks she can approve some stuff but at some point, it'll be blocked. A giant fuck you because some upper manager has this check box on his annual goals. Where the data is moving to, both sites, neither has duplicate power or even generation capacity, so yeah, great idea.

So for any of the savvy networking types this might be intriguing but to everyone else its likely to be just confusion and weird.

So a few months back, I started having an issue, I was unable to connect to my home servers, Fios, business class, overall decent stuff. Now my firewall router is almost 15 years old, way out of support and had lost one of its three wan ports some time back. So I'm assuming this inability to do any kinds of authentication is a result of the firewall going bad. Well a few things got in the way and I ordered a new cisco firewall router that has some good functions. I can't seem to get it to install correctly as it can't get its software update from the corporate update server at cisco. So recently. last week, I decided to unplug everything and connect one system directly to the Verizon ONT (optical network terminator) well lo and behold, things are still screwed up!

I'll open up a web page, most all of them use tls so start the connection then that connection hangs
I'll open up a ssh session (or receive an ssh session) Client hits the server, initial handshake is made, version is selected and the transaction stops right there.

I can't imagine what downstream equipment is doing selective packet snipping.

I called verizon and even business class you talk to one person, you can't escalate it seems, They have no knowlege of the OSI model and have to refer any snazzy questions to their backline that they have on a chat session. They send a tech out who replaces my ONT with one removed from someplace else, not a new one, first attempt yeilds a bad ONT, second one seems to work though. After a lot of fussing its all set and the ticket is closed. Except the problem is exactly the same. So I can do a few online operations, software updates and the like that aren't secured connections, but anything secured with SSH or TLS is a non-op.

Another tech is supposedly coming out tonight, I guess I'd love for them to find the problem and then, get me some credit for the missing months.

Time will tell.

So, I'm banned from flying and lots of walking, so stayed home from Disney, yep, I have the week off and well there was going to be a little snowstorm, 4-6 inches forecast. Turns out what hit is a classic Nor'easter, it started snowing lightly sunday afternoon, light for the first 10 minutes then it was really coming down. I took a nap at 6pm as I was still exhausted from this ankle stuff, plow was already hooked up so I wake up around midnight and there is 8-10 inches and coming down heavily still. Warmed up Gigantor and had a little snack before heading out, very heavy wet snow indeed.

I plowed snow until about 4 am where I took another nap until 9am. I wake up and there's another 10 inches outside and its still snowing. I ran some errands, get food fuel and snax, everything looked good until the plow hydraulic unit suddenly stopped working, motor runs but no hydraulic functions. quick fluid change and bottom end inspection, nothing seems wrong, still won' work. My gut feeling says the hydraulic pump exploded or some such. Its snowing like hell and 7pm I'm trying to work under a tarp to keep the snow out of everything but the winds are now gusting to 40. And its still snowing. I make an attack plan for what will be Tuesday morning.

At sunrise by the clock I get outside just to check the motor coupling, and its still snowing, another 6 or 7 inches has piled up but finally its slowing down. I hammer the plow into a snowbank to raise it and then slap on the safety chain, taking it to the other house where there's another truck with a similar hydraulic assembly on it. A quick trip to Napa to get some adapters and everything swaps over and functions as needed, its now noontime. I toss the dead unit in the front floor and make a plan. get all my customers cleaned out and salted, then start a repair day, fix this hydraulic unit and the snow blower.

Snow blower really needed a belt adjustment, simple fix and now it'll take a load without stalling the impeller, all my customers cleaned out and pushed back, time to take the old unit to the shop and see what's busted. As I start driving the brakes don't feel right..... fack!! Got a line that's cracked and leaking, rust never sleeps. So today's plan is buy a coil of copper nickel brake line, should be about $150 for everything and then change the last 10 feet of brake line where there are several bad looking spots. Then take apart the bad pump unit, if its the hydraulic pump, that's a $400 module. The whole unit is 2400 so don't want to go that route!!

Anyway, storm total was 23 inches in 3 nonstop days.

Well, doc looked at it, another set of xrays and such, expecting a lot more bruising to appear and that I shouldn't panic with the soon to be pretty colors. They have issued me a big weird rigid walking boot for my foot and that's gotta stay for 2 weeks more then transition to another flavor of ankle support.

Well, there was a plan to go to Disney next week, and I'd agreed to go along but the doc says I should nix the trip due to flying and walking around and all that jazz. Gotta break it to the wilfe but it looks like she's gonna go without her big doofus, just her friends and her pop.

(Not a huge fan of mouseville after they pulled that H1B bullshit with the IT folks a few years back)

So, working on the house, its been a miserable week, can't work outside as its raining and sleeting and cold, well today is a warm day, 55 and sunny, perfect!!! plan is to move the table saw to a working area, move the planer and start ripping and making up some trim boards after I install the passage door into the garage.

I get the door installed, nice tight fit to the casing as well, open the door and trip on the new door sill, fall into the garage from the 14 inch step down and roll my ankle something fierce!! I'm on the floor for 15 minutes before I can even think of rolling onto my side and trying to get up, sweating and short of breath, wow, did something horrible.

Careful use of cruise control and I'm home but something is very wrong, off to urgent care for an Xray after icing it for an hour, sheesh, perfect weekend for working and I do this... dope!

So normally mid September the prices of heating oil slide lower and lower, tourist season is over, diesel and heating oil demand gets lower and lower and the price usually eases down into the middle of october. I buy my heating oil for the year in one shot, I built my snazzy mini tank farm so I can actually hold about 2 years worth of oil if needed. The market had a big jump in September and the price of oil shot up 20 or 30 cents a gallon right when I was looking at buying.

I'll wait a few more weeks, prices are slowly falling at the moment. hopefully I can save another 10 cens a gallon or more, do my usual 5-600 gallon buy and paid in advance to get all the bulk discounts. Commodities markets are a strange thing.

Well, things with moving parts break in time. The white whale, had a sticking brake pad, very well, new set of pads, gah, it was a stuck caliper piston, instead of waiting another day to get a reman caliper, I clamped the working piston and pumped out the stuck one, the low piston on the caliper, rust behind the dust boot and debris in the caliper low point. Clean the bore, remove square seal and dust boot, wire brush and scrape everything clean. Use a flat side of a screwdriver to rub over the square seal edges to clean everything up and remove any stuck debris. reassemble and all is well, new pads and a successful commercial inspection sticker the next day. Inspector commented the parking brake doesn't hold the truck back. Well duh, truck can drag 30,000 pounds, parking brake is for parking.

Big trailer was outfitted with hydraulic disc brake axles a little while back, but the axles set outside for a year or so while waiting, again, stuck caliper but the dust boots aren't like automotive ones, with heat they turn brittle and hard. Ordered a pair of caliper rebuild kits, likely will order another pair to keep in stock. On the last trip one of the axle oil seals failed it seems, emptying all of the oil all over the brakes. It could be that the dragging brake overheated the seal and caused it to fail, I picked up a pair of axle seals, hard to come by so I'll order a full set to keep in the tool box.. The annoying part is the seals are pretty much only available from the mfg and not from say my local Napa store, so its mail order only and $30-$40 a seal, so with brake pads and rebuild kits I'm at $120 a wheel for overhauling. Hopefully I can avoid any issues going forward with rebuilding two wheel brakes instead of all four.

This little foray has sidelined several days of work on the house project, I might have to crank up a few late night sessions to try and catch up with my schedule.

So my cousin stopped by a couple weeks back, well he seems to always wander over when I show up and start working in the shop, he's started some work and well there's an item in the shop that he thinks I might like, its called a hydraulic breaker, a big hammer for breaking concrete with an excavator or backhoe. Seems this new place had this set off in the back, customer was told it'd be more expensive to fix than replace. He brought it over and dropped it off, seems the boss wanted the shop cleaned up. Oddly it doesn't look like it was taken apart for inspection, there's grease in places you'd wipe off and there's paint on some bolts that should be chipped when they are removed. I'll have to give it a good inspection soon. The next addition is a hydraulic pin grabber for the Yanmar excavator, its a catepillar part but close enough with a little boring work it'll be dandy! Some photos to come. !

Well, was hoping to be able to ride my bike to AC, well one of them, but it looks like the weather forecasts are for big hairy thunderstorms and dreadful weather for darned near every possible commuting hour. I guess I'll clean out the Focus and give it a quick check over.

Arriving Wednesday maybe 15:00 or so and departing monday morning, hopefully everyone has a safe trip and see all you fuzzfaces there if you make it.

I had a consult with my doctor, actually an RN that works for the doc, I've never actually met the doc. So after some discussion last time the RN suggested a small dose of blood pressure meds but that seemed to make me feel more tired than it should. the results of the bloodwork say that my thyroid output is low so there's some more drugz that'll help with that. Well, lets see what happens, hopefully some good results, keeping positive!