Good evening everyone!

Andy Worth recently announced here that his travel plans this summer involve some time in the SF Bay Area. Andy and his traveling companion have arranged for a Seti tour at 4pm on Sunday 6/20 at the Space Sciences Lab in Berkeley. Afterward there will be a barbecue at our home, along with an evening of Raccoon Feeding and General Raccoon Entertainment. Any friends of Andy who can get to the Bay Area that Sunday are most cordially invited to join us for the tour and barbecue. We are calling this little celebration "Andyfest USA"!

Uli has already reserved the guest room in our home, but if you need a place to stay, I can help make arrangements.

If you and your significant others wish to attend, RSVP by pm to me and I will send you all the details.

Fondly,
Angela

P.S. Only two things could potentially cause a change in plans. The first is that darn volcano. The second is the fact that I have a very ill brother who may need me at short notice. Barring bad news from either source, we are going full steam ahead with party planning!!!

Ooooh. A party! Wish I could come. So near my birthday too!

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(I turn the headlights on and My panel/radio lights go dim as do My cars external lights, relay seems to work as the interior lights are bright when the headlights/marker lights/turn signals are all off, So It sounds like an alternator problem)

Might not be the alternator. It may well be the regulator. If you battery isn't discharging to the point you need to jump the car then some charge is happening hence my thought of the regulator. I'm am assuming you have checked for loose connections, which is the most likely cause for that symptom. Also possible a rectifier in the alternator.

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Andy, I would skip Bodie and spend the extra time at Mono and Yosemite.
JMHO

I know, I know. So much to do, so little time etc etc. We're there for just over 2 weeks this year and it's still not enough time to fit it all in LOL.

I have done Bodie before, a couple of years ago, so know all about the car wrecking roads - I'll be in a rental car though, which if memory serves me right, means that they are indestructible and don't suffer any damage, ever.

Heck, I'm even going to have another shot at getting to the Race track in Death valley this year - I failed last year as the dirt road had been washed away by a flash flood and nothing but the biggest SUV could get through (I tried, but stuffed the hood into the track and decided it was too deep :D )

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Andy, I would skip Bodie and spend the extra time at Mono and Yosemite.
JMHO

I know, I know. So much to do, so little time etc etc. We're there for just over 2 weeks this year and it's still not enough time to fit it all in LOL.

I have done Bodie before, a couple of years ago, so know all about the car wrecking roads - I'll be in a rental car though, which if memory serves me right, means that they are indestructible and don't suffer any damage, ever.

Heck, I'm even going to have another shot at getting to the Race track in Death valley this year - I failed last year as the dirt road had been washed away by a flash flood and nothing but the biggest SUV could get through (I tried, but stuffed the hood into the track and decided it was too deep :D )

I look forward to see you at the Racoon Inn.

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I look forward to see you at the Racoon Inn.

Likewise. Just hope this Volcano shuts the heck up now so we can fly out! The problem being that due to the time of year the airlines aren't postponing flights, they are cancelling them, so if yours doesn't go - you aint going anywhere without a new booking maybe days or weeks later, which of course couldn't happen logistically due to leave restrictions, the number of different hotels we have booked etc.

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Hangover-win (*OUCH*)

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It's not April the 1st again is it?

Oooer!

Great, that's our tax money hard at work again...

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Hi Julie, with an RAC like that number as well, I'd be doubly careful today if I was you! :-)

Hi Chris. Thanx for the warning;)

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I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA WINNAR! MWUHUHEHAHAHA!!!

(Once again!)

I should pay closer attention....I missed paying homage to the great one. :)

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That's Father's Day! Would love to come to Berkeley but we have a little tradition of going on a Brunch cruise that day. Oh well I will have to try another day.

As for rental cars never falling apart! I rented one in Panama. Brand new Nissan with only about 400 miles on it. I thought I would see how close to Columbia I could get on the Pan-American Highway. First the A/C died when one of the hoses ruptured. It had worn thur due to vibration. Then a wheel and tire fell off. Easy Fix. Finally the gas tank fell out. Made some rope out of a vine I found. (Remember this is the rain forest.) Tied the tank back in and decided I had gone too far already.

I was not charged for damage to the car. The rental agent chaulked it up to factory defect, it was a new car (well before me it was.)

Stock market's tanking.

I'll just win.

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As for rental cars never falling apart! I rented one in Panama. Brand new Nissan with only about 400 miles on it. I thought I would see how close to Columbia I could get on the Pan-American Highway. First the A/C died when one of the hoses ruptured. It had worn thur due to vibration. Then a wheel and tire fell off. Easy Fix. Finally the gas tank fell out. Made some rope out of a vine I found. (Remember this is the rain forest.) Tied the tank back in and decided I had gone too far already.

That sounds similar to my trip a couple of years ago. I had a Cadillac DTS with just delivery miles on the clock. The A/C failed on that in the desert, then it over heated (boiled over) in Palm Springs. Got it fixed up and the oil warning indicator came on while climbing a mountain pass in Yosemite. I was relieved to make it to San Fran, where dealing with another breakdown wasn't going to be such a problem - although of course, it never happened once we were back in civilisation.

They are all the things that make mammoth road trips interesting though. Our car never broke last year fortunately.

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Stock market's tanking.

I'll just win.

Again?

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Stock market's tanking.

I'll just win.

Again?

Yes

ACK! MOLE!

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Stock market's tanking.

I'll just win.

Again?

Yes

Shocking.

Apparently it's the German's fault.

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Stock market's tanking.

I'll just win.

Again?

Yes

Shocking.

Apparently it's the German's fault.

“investors reasoned that if regulators are taking panic measures, it must be time to panic.”

Nar, the time to panic is a week before the regulators take panic measures, nows the time to run.

In for a win.

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Stock market's tanking.

I'll just win.

Again?

Yes

Shocking.

Apparently it's the German's fault.

“investors reasoned that if regulators are taking panic measures, it must be time to panic.”

Nar, the time to panic is a week before the regulators take panic measures, nows the time to run.

Well at least the pound has gone up a little.

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Prime time television in the US has cleared the thread of posters...Good enough for me to grab a win with no meaning or purpose.

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