Good morning everyone
There's a giant pot o' hot brewing, with enough already through the grounds to begin serving. It's French roast, Mrs. Fun's preferred brand, which amazingly still comes in steel cans when you buy a big enough container online.
It's 33°F and clear in Rockville with an expected high of 57 and mostly sunny conditions all day. Pleasant enough, and just about within seasonal norms.
Yesterday my BIL wanted to see the cherry blossoms, so we drove through one of the neighborhoods that's thick with them before heading down to the tidal basin to see the national display. I was quite surprised to see that the trees were still heavily-laden with flowers, after the rainy day we had Saturday.
No explanation needed, I hope.
Today we'll probably head out to the Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport and go through the Smithsonian Air and Space Annex, before I drop him at the other airport for his return home.
Update on my CR-V: apparently the A/C control unit had failed and needed replacing. That's what I was billed for, at any rate, and I was told that there's a service bulletin about it from Honda. How the failure of the A/C control can cause all the other monitoring systems to throw false alerts is beyond me, unless the failure somehow fries the CPU that controls all of that. It's delicate electronics- who really knows how they do what they do or how they're integrated? I did notice, the day of the failure, a strange new buzzing from the engine compartment under a narrow range of load and acceleration conditions, and that's now gone so they must've done
something but whether the two are actually related and not merely coincidentally correlated will remain an enduring mystery.
Overnight, a container ship has crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge , which carries I-695 across the mouth of Baltimore Harbor, causing it to collapse. That's going to make a real mess, and will snarl traffic around Baltimore for at least months to come.
I'll bet the captain, and perhaps the navigator, lose their mariner's tickets over that little "oopsie".
Stay safe and well everyone and tell your dear ones you love them. And remember: don't run your giant ships into bridge supports.
Condolences to all affected.
