Chit Chat Thread For The Week Of February 22, 2016

Good bye Wednesday

Global warming... that's all I'm saying.

Need rain.

Have a fantastic week end everyone.

hello

Snow tonight.

Hi

won't be long now,ready for some sunshine

Then the moon came out...

Happy weekend all almost here

Good morning.

In the blink of an eye, it's Thursday already.

one more day..

Have to go to the dentist today for cleaning. Hate it. Nice Weather until Sunday and then some rain. Snow is melting fast.

Sup dudes?

Seems they always find something else wrong that will cost big $$$ to fix.

Like bringing a car in for an oil change and they find other "recommended" maintenance.

Supposed to warm up again for the weekend. Time to wash the salt off.

A little snow last night. Not the 7 inches that were predicted.

Have a great week all

Hello everyone.

Back from a 2300 mile trip to Florida. The GPS worked great. Although I did find a new development near Naples that didn't have it's streets in the GPS yet.

Survived the dentist, surprise no cavities. Look about the same as six months ago. Did tell me to buy a more expensive elec toothbrush, and not the real cheap ones.

One workday to go.

in

Monday is the 29th. Happy Bday to you folks.

Stay safe.

Hello.

good morning

Remember, it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!

so that I can start going on road trips.

Nice

Another nice weekend / No Snow

Hello.

But still here...

Larry

Have a good weekend everyone!

Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Sunday, 28 Feb at 6:46 PM.

winter needs to go away

It's almost Saturday.

Hello everyone have a safe weekend

Hello everyone have a safe weekend

https://goo.gl/maps/KyAPrbipz242

Good morning.

Almost missed this week. - Weekend is gonna be nice for some riding -

But its bright and sunny

Will grab the GPS and camera and go for a walk in the bright winter sun

have a great weekend all !

Hope you had a good week

The 75th anniversary of Bike Week in Daytona Beach starts in one week!
Get your motors running and come down to ride with about a half-million of your friends .....

Back by popular demand!! My long weekend

Go Blackhawks

Some electronics hard-wired into my car: amateur radio transceiver, GPS (Nuvi and more), and Valentine One radar (and laser) detector. I feel naked without them.

Newer cars are using K-band radar for collision avoidance, lane change whatever, and to make my life difficult. I'm on the freeway and my radar detector pegs on K-band from behind (the Valentine tells you where the threat is, in front, behind, or to the side) and I start looking for a newer Audi zooming up from behind. Yup, there it is, paper plates still.

Valentine has an update to reduce the irritation cause by these things (Dodge is another one using K-band). But that update requires me to send in my Valentine One and be without it for a week or more. I'd rather drive without pants on. (We've all had that dream, right?)

Valentine does have a programming option to disable K-band alerts (on the programming page, it's one of those items with a drawing of a screw beside it, as in, if you do this you might be screwing yourself). LEO in this area doesn't use K-band for speed.

(As an aside, the locals have stepped up their game -- at lunch this week I parked next to a pair of LEO motorcycles. Each had a pretty new Stalker XS LIDAR gun.)

I'll probably punch out K for a while, and send the thing in to Valentine when I go on vacation.

Or learn to live with it and just hit the mute button more often. Those of us that drive with radar detectors (and especially those of us who drive with good ones) learn to live with X-band and K-band door openers and motion detector systems in stores, K-band roadside speed signs (many of those are going to Ka-band, where a lot of LEO speed radar still lives), and so on.

The price of progress.

(my rant for a Saturday)

Time flies when you're having fun. It also flies when you're old. I've got both going for me.

Have a great week end and, please, take care of each other.