Digital Impulses

'02 'Vette Electrical isue # 987,645 (I think)

I think I may have just resolved the latest electrical issue with my Corvette. It’s been sitting dead for more than 10 days and I can’t stand not having a car of my own to move around in.

So, this afternoon, I left the bakery for a few hours and drove home to see if I could get the car jump-started and taken over to a mechanic friend of my brother’s called Cesar who said he’d take a look at it.

I walk up to the car, open the door, get in and turn the key. “clack, clack, clack…”  DEAD as a doornail. BUT.  I hear a sort of repetitive CHUNKING noise coming from the back of the car. Get out, walk around, pop the trunk and the noise seems to be coming from inside the main storage compartment.

Open that compartment and sure enough, the CD Changer is just clicking away, in an electrical short sort of fashion, rather haphazardly. Thinking that this might be the source of the problem, I disconnect the power from the CD changer and the chunking noise ceases immediately.

Back to the front of both cars, pop the hoods, hook up the cables and start the engine on my wife’s Ford Explorer. Back to the Corvette and the engine turns over smoothly. I let them, both idle for like 10 minutes while I empty out the trunk.

Come back, turn it off and back on.Turns over fine.

Taking it for a spin, I drive from our house, jump on the 405, get off on El Segundo Blvd. and drive over to the car wash that’s near El Segundo and Sepulveda. Car Wash proceeds OK andf I drive home where I park, turn off the car and turn it back on. Turned over just fine.

We’ll see what it does when I get home tonight from LGVB.

 

 

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Busy Thursday

AJ upgrades his 3G iPhone to a 3GS

Good, relaxing day today.  AJ worked at LGVB from 1200 to 1600 and while he was there we went to AT&T in El Segundo near Mom’s house and had the SIM card swapped from his old iPhone 3G to my pre-iPhone 4 3Gs.

His phone was giving him lots of trouble (the power switch wouldn't let him reboot, etc.) so that took care of his cell phone issues with the added bonus that now he has a video camera to play with.

Signing up with Pre-Paid Legal

After taking care of the iPhone issues, we came back to the bakery and worked on getting me signed up to Pre-Paid Legal.  We did that and part of the process seemed to complete but the “Becoming an Associate’ did not.  I will look into that early next week some time.

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Early bird gets the worm

DOING LAUNDRY

In continuing what I was talking about last night regarding getting into a routine, I got out of bed at 0520 and got ready to go do Laundry at the 24 HR Super Laundry in Hawthorne at the corner of 133rd and Hawthorne Blvd.

I was there by 0540 and out of there at 0720.  It took me a little longer because I added to much soap to my white load and thus had to run it through another 30 min. cycle to rid it of the excess soap. Once that was done and I ran all three loads through a 45 min drying cycle, it was a simple matter of hanging up all of the tee-shirts and folding my jeans.

NEW SNEAKERS

After the laundry session, it was back home for a spell, a shower and then a quick run over to Macy’s to get some new tennis shoes. Once I got the new tennis shoes, (a $71.00 pair of dark brown Nikes) I headed over to LGVB where I will spend the rest of the day taking care of business.

CAR INSURANCE AND PRE-PAID LEGAL

I expect that A.J. will be pressuring me some more about signing up for PPL, but after having made a $643.00 to Mercury Insurance (through my sister Isa), I am not going to have $$ for PPL for at least a couple of weeks.

So it goes sometimes…

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Still on a speeding Bullet Train called LIFE

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I wrote back on 17 April that I was “back” and that I would be journaling regularly the way I was before.

Fast forward 65 days and I made a SINGLE additional entry in this blog, the very next day, as it so happens.  So, my commitment at that time lasted exactly one day. That’s horrible.

However, today I was going through my Google Reader feed items and I came across a post by Wil Wheaton in which he talks about an incident in his life from 2003 when he was navigating some tough times.  In his post he talks about going back in time and talking to the 2003 version of himself and reassuring that guy that everything will (eventually) be ok.

That really got me to thinking that as fast as I think life is going right now, it’s probably only going to accelerate going forward and I am going to regret not having kept a regular record of the events in my life as they are transpiring now.

So, with that in mind, I am going to start writing in this journal again on a regular basis, if only for the sake of having a record to look back on when I am 45, 50, 55 and beyond.

Although, come to think of it, I am 11 years away from being 55.  WHO KNOWS what things are going to be like in 2021, assuming I and the rest of planet Earth make it that far?

I do know one thing:  It’s sure going to be interesting, that’s for sure.

Wednesday, 7 January, 2009

• Breakfast at Piggies at 0808.
• Worked from Carson.
• Home at 1200.
• AJ and I drove over to the AAA office on Aviation in Manhattan Beach to see about getting a copy of his registration and a new sticker for his car.  That went well and only cost us $18.00.  We were in the office less than 10 minutes.  I applied the sticker to the license plate of AJ's car as soon as we walked out and put the new registration card in the little booklet in his glove compartment.
• Had a work-related phone conference from 1400 to 1430 related to the possible deployment of some new software.
• Dad came over again today to get the $$$ for the replacement Juicer machine blades and he also cooked for me while he was there.  He ended up selling some additional cooking pots to the wife.
• We had dinner with the Kids at Olive Garden in Manhattan Beach.
• After dinner, I was dropped off at Mom's where I had a really nice visit with her and watched (2) episodes of our favorite show, Bones

Tuesday, 6 January, 2009

• Worked from home.
• In my home office all day.
• The wife and I drove over to Pacific Sales in Torrance to look at the kitchen range hoods and at some of their ranges.  We did not see anything we really liked.
• We had dinner at El Pollo Inka in Lawndale.
• I won a $100.00 gift certificate card from Microsoft for taking an on-line survey.  I bought 2 IDE HP DVD optical drives (with Lightscribe) and a 1GB Video card from Amazon with that gift card and a little extra cash I added.
• Nice, relaxing visit to mom's house to watch a little TV and talk.

Monday, January 5, 2009

• Worked from Carson.
• Spent the rest of the afternoon in my office.
• Dinner with Isa at Piggies.
• Spent 3 horrible hours at Isa's house, setting up, configuring and getting Isa familiar with her new Dell laptop.  There is VERY BAD tension between David & Isa inside that apartment.  I could not wait to get out of there.
• I was home by 2145 and asleep not much longer after that.

Sunday, 4 January, 2009

• Bought some plastic storage cases at Staples.
• Lunch with Reyna at Benihana at 1300.
• Bought a new Refrigerator ($2,899) and a Trash Compactor ($649) plus 2 year extended warranties on both units ($99 a piece) at Home Depot for the kitchen remodel.
• Working with dad on my diet.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

• Breakfast at Piggies at 1000.
• Bought an HP LaserJet P2035n network black & white Laser printer at Staples for $364 including an extended 2 yr Warranty.
• Installed new new network laser printer.  Worked great.  Zeus, Hermes and AJ's iMac connected to it perfectly.
• Dad came by and setup Juicer machine for me with a blade from his juice machine.
• I took David a carton of cigarettes and $20 in cash.
• Scrabble was good.  We played 4 games and I won 2 and tied another.  I should have won the TIED game, but Bert acted like a fucking asshole and blacked out my Karma to the point where I put down my remaining tiles to tie the game and I could have won if I had just looked a little closer.