(Photo) shoppin' for happiness

[greatbearmd]

Here's a rare glimpse behind the scenes at the underground bunker at La Casa Mayhem. What am I doing, you might ask? Well, once again I am directing the full power of my fully operational battle station awesome IT infrastructure to bear on an innocent old man in hopes of making him cry again. In other words, I am fixing and printing more family

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These pet carriers come fitted with a clasp and short strap you attach to the dog's collar or harness to keep them inside and not jump out. It's short enough to keep them seated comfortably but not stand up. Snickels with his long legs will be stuck sitting no matter what. I just have to make sure he doesn't freak out. Kodi is fine and actually enjoys the ride. We'll see how the new pup does.

This dash computer was a simple hack, there were only five wires, switched and unswitched power, ground, and two data lines. The computer acts as a simple listener on the data lines, taking all the info on speed and fuel duty cycles, fuel tank level, outside air temp and other parameters already used by the engine control computer and turns that into mpg, distance to empty, trip odo, outside temp and other readings that are human readable. The only parameters the computer has self contained is a timer and the compass sensor. The tough part was taking apart the glued-together dash hood and cluster trim, I didn't need the wrong-color major dashboard piece, just the trim around the cluster, which is the only thing different. It looks factory. I'm just glad there was no unnecessary programming needed. Since the car is old, stuff was simpler back then.

I can't wait to give him the next batch of photos, plus his grandson/Jeff's nephew graduated from highschool and I printed another copy of a photo of him with dad when he was only about five, he loved that photo and was upset it was lost. He has his own copy as a graduation gift in 8x10 color glory. :-)