Most of the time, to 2am usually, sometimes later. Since I became forcibly retired (by the Obama Recovering Economy) I don't have many compelling reasons to arise early in the morning just to take a 70 mile drive to the job. (Saturday night - Sunday mornings are the exception since I play around at playing keyboard at church so I can't sleep in and thus I go to bed earlier. Or should.. ;-) It's not quite how I wanted my working 'career' to end but it's how it is. It is - boring but I'm not quite ready to be a greeter at Walmart. Yet. ;-)
And after everyone is in bed and all the cats are inside it's quiet and interruption free (except for the occasional feline spat) so I can work on whatever unfinished project is on the table at the time. Or poke liberals on Facepagething. Or write stuff. Or do music (with headphones.) Or..
I had to beg off of church today due to a transportation issue - the Subaru died. I at first thought it tossed its timing belt but I took the cover off and the belt seems ok, no slack and definitely not broken. That leaves fuel pump or ignition (or even the ECM since it strangely is displaying no codes) but it has rained the past couple of days thus truncating any troubleshooting time. It leaves me though with the inconvenience of begging rides from the offspring.. ;-)
Looks like I need to put the front rotors and pads on Mrs. NoC's Audi so the second car is functional. Since she doesn't drive it much once the brakes became an issue last fall (as the climate change progressed into the winter ice age) it has been parked pending a further climate change into work-on-the-car-outdoors weather. And it seems that the battery didn't survive the cold.
And it's looking as if I need to consider shortening the height of the advanced grass substitute. It has responded verdantly to the abundance of moisture. But to do that I first must relocate what was driveway 'paving' that was deposited onto the lawn by several plow-the-solidified-glowbull-warmthing episodes back into the driveway so that the freshly sharpened blades don't become prematurely dulled. Next rain is foreguessed for Monday night..
Retired people have such busy lives!
DP just told me we’re supposed to get five inches of rain tonight.
When my truck needed the ECM (and the fuel pump) I got them online at autopartswarehouse.com. Inexpensive and guaranteed, replacement or refund. And their service is fairly fast. Just, FYI...