🎯 ... the third it is ...

  🎯 ....  starting cool and gray out there .... the small machines are running ..... the crew saws the asphalt and a Bobcat comes and lifts 200 # slabs of asphalt and runs to the big dump truck.
Repeat. Now, they are smoothing the dirt .... and moving on down the street

wind is still .... Oh ! coffee and typing

Woke at 5 AM and read ..... tired to sleep and saw the clock just after 7 A .... and here I am

the big adventure. Bestco, the Asian Food store. Purchases incl. inari sushi [ bag rice or suitcases ] / breaded chicken pieces / char sui [ marinated pork slices ].

I further, Asian - ized the meal by frying beef slices, onions, carrots and a pinch of garlic paste, sauteed then add coleslaw mix. A marvelous side dish for ----- everything

🎏 ... aha, its number two

  🎏 ... sun is lifting above the treees. slightly hazy Eternal Blue. Wind seems still

Coffee and typing, watching the life on the street. squirrels flying everywhere and foxes are being spotted throughout the ' hood '

The neighbour is offering to patch the driveway [ I guess, my efforts looked pathetic ].

Follow up.
We got a chance to patch the cracks in the driveway. Neighbour did some longer and more obvious crevices. I took on the rough and moonlike surface near the garage door. This part of the driveway is reclaimed from the waterproofing that was done to remedy a leaky basement wall. 

We shall see said the Zen Master

🛷 ...the first of Novembrinus

  🛷 ... and the stable [ ish ] weather holds. Non typical calm for our Fall. Yes. some frost warnings but fairly mild conditions

Typing and coffee, the view is bright, cool as I ventured out for the paper.

Okee Dokee. the sequence. October 31 is Halloweenie - this year. We did candy give away to 22 - 30 ragamuffins. Polite and appreciative. Good

Daylight goes to Standard, as in the time zone. We gain an hour. BUT. apparently, the change makes my sleep rhythm - FUBAR. Woke and couldn't get back to sleep. 

This morning is a loss. Coffee and typing is the sum total of the useful stuff

YouTube was disaster centric. Floods in North Carolina, Florida and then California and Nevada. Jeez, imagine building at 4 ft above mean Sea Level and worrying ?

Day was as predicted, A loss for sure

🌯 ... oh ! the three - one ....

  🌯 .... and blasting sunshine and a touch of cool ... for the month end

Coffe and typing ... but  .... its been an hour since I began drinking the coffee. I was playing on line slots for pretend money. Ah, they call it credits NOT dollars. Just to let you know that its worth zilch. No prizes etc. - credits -

The state of affairs. Driveway is set for winter. More could be done but I await good conditions which may arrive this afternoon.

🎀 ... and the big three - oh

    🎀  ... a fading month of October. 
The view. Full sun and full wind. The day pops !

The driveway. Slathering is the term. A layer of thermoplastic topped w / asphalt repair goop.

An interesting term or phrase ' I'm 80, and there is so much drama about aging '

Rice cooker blues. Alright. We have rice cookers that have stood the test of time. The metal bowl takes a beating. Scratches etc. Likely, these aluminum surfaces are coated w / less reactive material than the aluminum itself. However, wear and tear, leads to leaching of some plstic coating into the food.
To wit. I purchased a ceramic lined rice cooker. Amazon purchase for $ 26. Arrived on time, yet from the beginning, the toggle control was gimmicky. It ceased to function after 2 weeks.
OK. Amazon agrees to swap out the defective one w / a new one. E Z peasy. Staples the office supply outfit, does all the return hassle.

Meanwhile, Amazon shipped the new one - one day service.

New rice cooker is here and awaits trial by me

We shall see said the Zen Master

🍠 ... on the 261029

  🍠 ...  another month dwindling away ...... ' time keeps on drifting into the future ... ' ?

The view from the window seat - hazy, fog ?? cool and wind seems still

Inspected the driveway crack repair. The crack formed at the join between the original driveway asphalt and the repair asphalt from ten years ago when waterproofing the foundation wall was done. The join was obvious and the seam split. If there was a place to happen, then this juncture had advantages. The slope favours water running away and the garage overhang somewhat shelters the area.
Yet, some action was required. As mentioned, retail crack filler does not work on deep [ more than a 1 / 4 in or wider than your little finger ]. Pli - stix was meant to form a solid surface for such crevices.
I asked the associate at HD to wait while I read the description concerning length of the Pli - stix. Well, the package had 30 ft and I needed 20, perfect.
Now, of course, having had to split the licorice into lengths of 1 / 2 width and mostly, as it turned out into 1 / 4 widths, I used 4 ft or less. The instructions suggested pulling the licorice to thin the sections [ fat chance ].
Thus, splitting the lengths was simpler.

There remains the job of filling the finer cracks w / crack repair. You squeeze out the gunk w / a grease gun [ like for caulking ]. That is this afternoon, w / promised temperatures of 20 C

Apparently, not good enough. The neighbour saw the ' patch ' effort and said ' too many inconsistencies [ I did the fill in poorly ]. Positive part is that what I filled in was crucial. Now, I paint over [ asphalt over ] the portion that I deep filled.
Ugly but  - will it do ?

🍆 ... twenty eight times .....

  🍆 .... the sun has been  round the ......  Eternal Blue

Coffee and typing. Sore wrists, sore bum / sore finger - Pli - Stix has its revenge

a bit dull out there / cool / wind is stirring.

Well. It was take the old guy to lunch day. Noodles at Yogi s [food court stall ].

Returned home and rested a bit. THEN out to the driveway .... the project ....
approx. 1 / 3 left to go, as I began. Somewhere in the last 40 min, I discovered ' super hot ' on the control wheel of the heat gun .... like SUPER --- >. Little lakes of thermoplastic were forming .... like magic.
long story short .... likely would have saved 30 minutes over the two days.

Next. Go over the area w / a driveway crakc sealer. Starting w / the crack sealer is a non starter.
The formula is too liquidy and will not / cannot pool and harden. Thus, the base layer of thermoplastic was needed.
An aside. The directions for Pli - stix include clean the area. So, I'm flicking out sand. Then I read ' if the cavity is deeper, use a filling or or sand ' Right, chase out the sand and then put it back if needed.

Oh, my