- crown vic horn wired in

- trans drain and flush complete

Can't find my personal service log and want to save some stuff here for posterity.  Because LiveJournal will.. exist.. forever... ?

TRUCK:

- Replaced battery negative cable ~2 weeks ago

- Replaced front left rotor, repacked outer bearing, replaced front pads last week.

- E-brake cable is shot.

- Drain/flush trans fluid TBD this weekend

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On Saturday I'll be running in the Komen Race for the Cure. I'm not saying you have to donate, but if you don't, people might think you hate breasts.

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helped a friend build a sukkah this weekend; something I used to do every year for my family. Went pretty easily, though the measurements on the plans from the Internet weren't quite right. I've never even tried to use sukkah plans I hadn't drawn myself on scrap paper; this one's lighter, not quite as stable, gonna be a little harder to dismantle ( Read more... )

been thinking recently about craftsmanship and gender. at the bead shop had an interesting conversation about epoxies for bonding plastic to metal; then yesterday talked for a while with a clerk at Michael's about alternatives to o-rings for fixing components in the new headset design ( Read more... )

You ever have one of those nights where you've got your eyes closed, trying to fall asleep, thoughts drifting... then suddenly you have this idea and the next thing you know it's four hours later and you're sitting bolt upright in bed holding a very hot soldering iron with a fully functional (albeit rough) prototype of an in-ear-canal boom mic ( Read more... )

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yesterday i painted the cellphone. bad idea. still looks beat up, and even after cleaning out all the pocket lint & dog hair the keyboard is still giving inconsistent input. ( Read more... )

cut down the junkyard antenna tonight, think i might cut it a little more. technically i should be choosing a fraction of the wavelength of the radio station i most want to receive; but in most cars the portion of the antenna running from the stereo to the antenna mount isn't shielded (at least, not well), so stressing the math is pretty pointless ( Read more... )