Author: rihahn
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Fuel Injection
Memorial Day weekend over – back to the office, though I had to take an Uber to get there and back. After telling my roommate for the last four days…
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And again…
So, the injectors I ordered, that were scheduled to arrive today, then FedEx told me Thursday, then at 1pm Thursday decided that, no, it would be Friday – arrived. Well,…
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AT&T
When I moved in here, five-ish years ago, I had CenturyLink broadband installed, and got the “lifetime” $75/month deal for 1gig bi-directional… Not bad. The problem with ISPs and “lifetime”…
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Shipping and Handling, part 2
Since my last post regarding the epidemic of shipping foibles currently, I had an especially good screwup… In last Thursday’s meeting (The 14th of May), one of the project managers…
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The cost of (horse)power
Back on June 17th, 2022, during the height of an unprecedented global pandemic, I hit a personal record at the gas station: $5.20 per gallon. Today I set a new…
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Automotive
Two things done on the Hellcat over the last few days; coil packs and catch can. For the coil packs I started with the hard ones first – the passenger…
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Shipping and Handling
I’m not sure what’s going on, but for the last month I’ve not gotten a single package on time, and two so far have gone completely missing. It’s not like…
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Technology
A couple of months ago the battery in my 2022 iPhone 14 Pro Max bit the dust, so I replaced it with the iPhone 17 ‘air’ – which is a…
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Been a while
With everything going on – and none of it really noteworthy – I’ve not posted anything here in a while. Let me remedy that. First up is another of the…
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Old Photos
I found a few really old digital photos from a camera I had that decided to only take 320×240 images and ran them through Topaz Gigapixel for fun – not…
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And I would drive 1000 miles…
Hit 32,000 miles on the way to the office this morning. 31,000 miles happened back on November 9th… So it took me about four months to put another thousand miles…
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People suck
I’ve done pretty good for myself over the years, and accordingly I managed to acquire a really nice car – it’s one of four hundred and fifty for its model…
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Relics of a bygone age
I was digging around in storage and came upon an old box of ‘gaming stuff’… Pictured are my old Logitech “Wingman Extreme” joystick I used to play Descent II in…
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Update
2026 has been – interesting – so far… I’m 57 now – so that’s a thing. Three more years to 60, eight more years to retirement. Not that retirement is…
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Generation X
I was talking with a younger employees today – I think he’s 19 or 20 – and we got on to the subject of what makes Gen-X tick… I boiled…
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Update…
Still head-down and plodding… At work I’m still cleaning out the office / store room where I stashed all of the crap our spinoff abandoned in place when the plandemic…
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Microslop
Microsoft has been taking a lot of heat lately, but I don’t really play in the Windows World anymore so it’s just been an entertaining memefest while cruising the socials.…
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Old Odd Storage
There was a brief period in time where portable electronics had gotten small enough that the HD was the limiting factor – but SSDs hadn’t caught up yet… So you…
