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I have one load of laundry dried and put up, another partially drying in the dryer but with the sun up I wanted to put pants and towels out on the line, and another load going. The dishes, which have been soaked twice were good enough to scrub what had been scale off and set to one last soak. Simply, I washed everything again before putting back in another soak. The dishwater was too "meh" for my tastes. I'll have those cleaned and dried before I go to bed. To handle some questions D.C. had about my towing kit, I went out with a tape measure, to be sure, and then checked the wiring connection. Yes, 2"x2" and 7-pin. I found pictures of what I saw and sent those as well.
The grill? I don't know. If I finish the dishes before I go to bed I may try to sneak a shower in before setting the last dozen pieces of dirty cooking and eating ware in for a soak. The grill? Yeah, I said it before. I really want to do it. It should be easy. But when a mind gets weary little tricks that are common knowledge or well known dissipate into the fog and I can become like a child mechanically. Still, the grill? Ha!
As I do the laundry I am picking out this and that to wear for the trip. The trick is I need clothes for heat and clothes for serious cool. Shorts, of course. But pants of several sorts. Shirts, hopefully to layer. Longjohns, actually, as well. The trick is to look for pieces that can layer. I can easily handle 40 degree whether. I literally often sleep with the windows wide open in the winter, when it gets down to -20 commonly this last winter. The thing is, going from 110 down to 40 is a new experience, one I will have to test a bit. It does go from the mid 90's to the 50's here currently, but I am not out in it. Still, I am getting a bit of a taste. I want to be prepared to not be too cold. I will be too hot, from time to time. That is the way of this thing, the desert.
I did order a couple of things for the heat. One was in accord with D.C.'s recent experiment, the other was on my own impetus. A soak cooling vest and a water fan/ac. Those should be in quite soon, I will test them post haste. The fan will work, I suppose. But I had hoped to wear it under my ghast gillie suit. It would have been perfect under it. It should suffice anyway, just not probably as good. Time will tell all things.
Later.
You will be pleased with the evaporative jacket. I've used it a few times recently and it makes a big difference when I have to be in the field on a blast furnace day.
ReplyDeleteI am just hoping I ordered the right size. I went with 2x. Technically, that IS my size. Then again it is my size with shirts as well, by measurement. And yet the only reason I am not in a simple large is because my shoulders are too broad. I have very odd dimensions.
ReplyDeleteI've made suit jacket fitters, among others, wheeze, cry, and moan. I told em', ahead of time. But would they listen? Learned to do any such work well in advance for redos, usually one won't do because they can't believe how the numbers and reality interplay.
Then again this is a skin-tight item. Odds are not in favor but I just couldn't quite order two. I worry a great deal about sizing.
I do have a question or two though. You do wear it under a shirt, right? Or over? Or... And you simply soak it? Does it hold all the water or does some escape, drip out, when you flex, bend, do things? Oh, sure, I'll know soon enough, but soon is never enough.