This was my street snack – usually you buy this at stationary shop near elementary school – in Seoul when I was a kid – still not clear what is made of but taste chewy, sweet and crusty after torching ๐
One thing encountered after moving in current place in last summer was this place is hot in Summer ๐ – Part of it driven by Townhouse structure and also next door neighbor’s air conditioner vent was installed right next to the siding door of our place; hence opening the window/siding door never helped or even made worse in hot summer days.
After long thoughts and landing a plan to stay at this place for one more year, purchased expensive LG portable Air Conditioner. Now, the problem is how and where to install the vent, and making it worse, this home doesn’t have a horizontal or up-and-down windows, leaving the only option as installing the vent at siding door. (plus as a rental house had the solution shouldn’t impact the main structure of the house and should be easy to remove when season is over)
As all the portable air conditioner assumes up and down windows, had to find the solution to have vent at tall siding door, but luckily found there is something at Amazon for this.
However, this was not sturdy enough (PVC) or very loosely standing – likely because this is optimized for siding window – not turning out to be a long lasting option (had to do adjustments almost every time we turn the conditioner on) and also the default vent didn’t fit with LG’s outlet.
So had to take several actions
– Hand cut the vent to fit the LG outlet with knife and hand saw
– Buy and cut the 2×2 lumber and cut + make a rabbit cut at the bottom to fit into the door’s rail
Then forced to snug the vent kit between the door and inserted wood – but kit was still unstable as the door’s lock installed at the end of door wasn’t providing angled & straight support to the kit.
So bought one more 2×2 had it as a place holder at the door’s end and inserted the vent kit between 2x2s; worked well but vent kit was still dancing around and had tons of gaps to let air flow in various locations, and – as expected- 2×2 not being straight/square also generated sizable gaps between door and 2×2 when closed.
To solve these next set of troubles, drilled between the kit and 2×2 and screwed it to make it sturdy; adding one more layer of wood at outside to close the gap between door and 2×2, + applying weather stripping to seal the gap around the vent kit and 2×2 and also applied the weather stripes on inner frame gap (between the moving door and fixed door), and also cutting the 2×2 for security lumber as the lock will not work during the times we have this vent. ๐
Although not having ever been an engineer, reminded me engineering is all about problem solving ๐
Now the question is – shall I paint the woods to white to match or not ๐
Thanks to this endless Pandemic and magical YouTube algorithm, I have came to try unusual things I hardly done before… (and Amazon wins as I end up ordering some tools….)
Starting with one floor mat deep cleaning per day at shower time while waiting for handy steamer to arrive..:)
You break it, we fix it – lived the life of ‘Bob the Builder’ today
– PC reinstall with USB media : found no USB thumb drive at the world of Cloud, so had to order Amazon’s same day delivery and made the USB repair/installation media and recovered a PC which turned to black screen upon every boot
As our gentleman in the house -who never sits straight while putting more weights on chairs- have more time at home with various chairs because of Pandemic, this meant my chair repairing skill goes beyond the wood chair repair
– Plastic chair with broken back: after failed attempt with Super glue, went to epoxy glue. As the broken part was highly visible part of chair, had to go with multiple sanding after the glue and spraying paint and coating with Polyurethane.
– Bent Steel folding chair with disjointed horizon bar: so after using hammer and bring back the bent part, the question was whether I am willing to go into welding (which I don’t have any tools…) so settled with steel epoxy…
– Office chair: This is the still one of the mystery need to solve – how can you rock the rolling office chair?! But our gentleman must have showed that skill before he broke the chair. Similarly my first attempt with Super glue didn’t last long, so attempted with epoxy glue, but as this doesn’t have much visibility I am not willing to go into sanding/coloring part..
All in all, total four items in my household got the treatment, Home Depot and Amazon was the winner and I enjoyed smells from various chemicals (and now I understand why they check the birth date when I purchased the spray can..)
Not a surprise that this is a critical news in Hawaii, but I came to this news after wondering why I couldn’t find SPAM at Costco and Walmart in last few visits. Found reasonable package at Amazon and ordered thru it..
At the end – this is all because of stupxx pandemic (now I hate this more and more….this had enough of us..) and Amazon continues to be the winner ๐
So pumped to taste this back! ๐ This was one thing I have looked around to get the taste again since 2005 as I have an emotional tie ofย this with “Lonely dorm life in hot (in Summer) and cold (in Winter) days at Ames, Iowa from 1997 to 1998”
Anyhow, this soda was reintroduced after some hardcore fan’s movement aka “Surge Movement” and Coca Cola made it available from Amazon about 5 years ago…and finally.. I made a bold order recently and this just arrived at the day Red flag/Heat advisory went effective.
Still refreshing! (and my brain memory of ‘more citrus and less sugar than Mt. Dew” seems about right ๐
์์ฌ์ด๊ฑด ๋ด Elton John ์ต์ ๊ณก์ธ Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me๋ฅผ George Michael๊ณผ ๋ถ๋ฅด๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด ํ๋ ์ฌํํ์ ํ๋๋ฐ…. ๊ทธ ๊ณต์ฐ ๋์ฃ์ ์๋์์ด๋ ๋ ธ๋๋ ๋์์ผ๋ ๋ญ ๋ง์กฑ..
Nice catchup of one of the missed movie via Amazon Prime Video. Felt like a musical performance (although the story was a bit gloomy) Reminded me the old days in Iowa where all the radio stations played Elton John’s music for a month upon his visit to Ames where I was residing ๐
(At then, there was no bigger area/event place in Des Moines than the arena in Ames, so every event happening in central Iowa was happening at Ames..)