Week 5
Not a terribly exciting week. I need to ruminate on it a bit more. Being on-call has thrown my weekend to-do list out the window and I haven't considered a post topic until now.
Fixed my malfunctioning digital multi meter. It was giving weird DC voltage readings. Opened it and found a blown fuse. Off to Radio Shack for a fuse. Still reading off, but it wasn't generating random roving values now. Found a short in the 9V battery lead. Off to Radio Shack again for a less-cheapo battery connector cable. Readings were much more accurate, but still slightly off. Pulled the circuit board and cleaned the dial contacts. Finally, it works! Now I can get back to fixing the things I needed my DMM for.
Picked up a bit of a nail in my scoot's rear tire today. No dramatic loss of pressure, just a vaguely squashy feeling while cornering. Checked the tire when I got home. Found and pulled the metal out; the air in the tire followed suit. Wonderful. I may plug it for the moment, as I wasn't ready to throw a new set of Michelin Power Pures just yet. May have to do those before the Yuma ride for safety's sake, but I'm not happy about the additional headache/expense of replacing and balancing the tires right now.
Think I have my classes/sorted for the semester. Took a quiz on Wednesday and was glad to find that I remembered more Debian than I thought I did. Maybe this class won't demand as much time as I expected and leave time to prep for the other one that starts in the last week of March.
I'll post more later.
Fixed my malfunctioning digital multi meter. It was giving weird DC voltage readings. Opened it and found a blown fuse. Off to Radio Shack for a fuse. Still reading off, but it wasn't generating random roving values now. Found a short in the 9V battery lead. Off to Radio Shack again for a less-cheapo battery connector cable. Readings were much more accurate, but still slightly off. Pulled the circuit board and cleaned the dial contacts. Finally, it works! Now I can get back to fixing the things I needed my DMM for.
Picked up a bit of a nail in my scoot's rear tire today. No dramatic loss of pressure, just a vaguely squashy feeling while cornering. Checked the tire when I got home. Found and pulled the metal out; the air in the tire followed suit. Wonderful. I may plug it for the moment, as I wasn't ready to throw a new set of Michelin Power Pures just yet. May have to do those before the Yuma ride for safety's sake, but I'm not happy about the additional headache/expense of replacing and balancing the tires right now.
Think I have my classes/sorted for the semester. Took a quiz on Wednesday and was glad to find that I remembered more Debian than I thought I did. Maybe this class won't demand as much time as I expected and leave time to prep for the other one that starts in the last week of March.
I'll post more later.