While I was flabbergasted as to how my car was driving around with a battery fuse, I wondered whether or not that was a good idea. Not so much, it seems, and for the time being Pingjing is grounded again ( Read more... )

Wow--just realized how long it had been since I'd posted here. I'm not dead, as at least a few of you know. I'm just buried in work (which is including manual labor now, as we save our heavy-duty projects for breaks), reviewing for the PW / Amazon contest, and gearing up for Christmas, among other things ( Read more... )

About five weeks ago, I left my car's headlights on and...once again...drained the battery. For the fourth time. So I figured it would be another inconvenience but one easily remedied. That is, of course, until I tried to jump the car and the negative cable on my car's end sparked every time I attempted to clamp it to something ( Read more... )

My dearth of LJ entries over the past few days hasn't been due to a lack of subject matter, but rather having too many things I could write about all at once. Such as...

Writing. I was hoping to play Full Time Writer at least one day this past week--this past week being my Thanksgiving Break--but in fact I got less writing done than on my regular ( Read more... )

A few nifties brought to my attention by whiskeyrivers and jaylake:

Lost City Could 'Rewrite' HistoryThe city could date to before 7000 B.C., and is another reason why underwater archaeology is one of the hottest fields going ( Read more... )

Since I think all of these names were hit sooner or later in the comments, here is my dedication list ( Read more... )