Somewhere in all this, I did the plumbing for the new bathroom sink. The sink itself is a problem though and we've talked to the installer. It's too small. The one that Sandy had purchased was too big but they went ahead and drilled the holes for faucets for a round-ish sink and now there isn't enough room for a rectangular sink. This is what happens when projects continue when we aren't here. It's not their fault, per se, neither of us knew how it was going to look.
Then ... Jeffrey went to take a shower and there was no hot water. Actually there was, the control was operating backwards. Luke dropped in and reversed the cartridge and fixed that in about 15 minutes work. He wasn't able to test with the bathroom not being complete.
Tires. I thought that I had a solution. Tirerack was delivering rears from one warehouse and fronts from another; fronts were due in from Pirelli on Nov 8. Rears were here, fronts are MIA and Pirelli has no idea when they'll get to Tirerack .... so .... yesterday the rears left here the same way that they came, i.e. UPS. Before that happened, however, I was able to confirm with BMW that they could source the same tires from their stock (same tires) and I've got an appointment for next Wednesday to do the install. It's not much different in price from Tirerack + Tire Kingdom. Hopefully that's moving along otherwise I'll swap the summers for the winter tires and await someone, somewhere, to have tires that fit these rims. I hope that these tires are better than the Dunlops. They can't be worse. Two plugged tires, three destroyed tires - one on I4; one on I77; one on 522. I've spent more on this car, tires and the issue that was fixed late summer, than in the entire history with the M5 and the mileage is about the same. ps the M5 is 2001; the X5 is 2015.
I need to do an oil change on the X5 which is my plan for today. I'd ordered oil via Amazon, 4 x 5 quarts. They delivered 3. I went online and they committed to sending the missing one. They delivered 2. Go figure. I wasn't about to send it back. Had I done so, there's probably no way that they could have handled that without processing a refund. A rear derailleur order had a somewhat similar issue. I ordered two and two came except that one of them was the wrong one. It had the correct external sticker but the rd itself was wrong. Back that went and Amazon has replaced. No doubt the returned one will be restocked and sent out again. Sloppy.
I knocked out another 100k yesterday (actually 120+k) and intend to do another tomorrow. I need to get into my every-other-day routine. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I need to do a 200k. Perhaps I won't leave it for Nov 30 ?
Fussing with the T-Mobile gateway (that's what they call it). Using my Netgear router downstream was really reducing throughput vs attaching directly to the TM. So ... playing around ... I decommissioned the Netgear, renamed the SSID on the TM, connected the ethernet cables with a switch and everything (like 31 devices) came back online. It all adds up with plugs, switches, thermostats, ipad/iphones/watch etc etc. ... two tv's, laptop, computer, VM, printer ... the neighbors (hope not !). I'm now getting 30+ mbps, nowhere near the 200 with the Spectrum cable modem but acceptable. The TM has a built-in battery so there's no nightly shutdown as it would only flip over to battery anyway. The TM isn't very configurable as a router so I don't get a nightly email, can't choose the subnet addresses, etc. I do get traffic info and cell tower connection info. There's a built-in mesh setup but the satellites aren't available yet. We shall see.
Onward.
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