Author: rihahn
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Long and winding road
On this day in 1986 I arrived at what was to be my first I.T. job – which makes today my 40 year I.T. anniversary. I’ve seen some shit in…
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Reality check
On the way in today I was leisurely motoring down west-bound Iliff between Chambers and Blackhawk, enjoying the lack of traffic and some cool morning air with the windows down…
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Gas Discount Mini-Game
Driving a full-size supercharged American race car, you develop new hobbies… One of mine is the gas discount mini-game, where I see just how much I can get off of…
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Video shenanigans
I have a dragon character that resides in some science fiction stories I write, that has been wrangled into doing in-world SecondLife PSAs for a Thursday bad movie night that…
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Update
Been a busy couple of weeks here… I’m still ‘the one employee that’s capable of doing the thing’, so my days are filled with random crap that interrupts whatever it…
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Emissions Adventure
Here in Colorado any car made before 1981 needs a yearly emissions test, otherwise anything over seven model-years old needs to have a bi-yearly emissions test done on it –…
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Transmission issue part 2
Got the car back from the dealership this afternoon – turns out the issue was either a loose ‘star connector’ (CAN bus interface block) or the OBD dongle for the…
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Transmission issue
This morning on the way to work the hellcat flashed a warning message on the dash; “Service Shifter”, and then immediately went into limp mode. I was able to get…
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Waylens part 2
The second new Waylens Horizon arrived this afternoon… And after some firmware updating and physical installing, I took it out for a test drive: Much better. The only real issue…
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Friday Night Car Shenanigans
Took my roomie down to the Gunther Toody’s in Parker for dinner to get him out of the house for a while, and to get my Friday Night cruise out…
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Waylens
A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I’d purchased a new in box Waylens Horizon – and it did in fact arrive today, in one piece even! But, as…
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Interactive Entertainment
I’ve been orbiting the game development space for over three decades at this point, so I have a lot of cool stories and weird artifacts from the past. For example,…
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1987
For me, certain albums tie deeply to certain periods of my life – and today as I was listening to my tunes and working on some C++ code, I came…
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And done – for now…
The new carbon fiber intake tube / filter arrived today and was promptly installed. And with that I think I’m done for a little while. In the last 30 days…
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33,000 miles
Another thousand miles added to the car since March 12th, so 83 days. I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 733 days ago – and…
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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,…
