Author: rihahn
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Breakfast on the house
During the week I normally eat breakfast at home before I head into the office, but today I decided to splurge and get something on the way in. I drive…
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Always One
One of the things Colorado is infamous for is its terrible highway interchanges. The most infamous of these would be the I-25 / I-70 interchange – lovingly called “The Mousetrap”.…
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Weekend Update
Friday afternoon, here at the office, my CFO came in and asked for a ride to pick up his Camaro from the shop – he had the front suspension redone,…
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That New Laptop Experience
I’m in the office today and staging a few Windows laptops for employee use. It takes me about an hour to set up a Windows laptop these days, mostly because…
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The Current Rig
As mentioned previously, I generally lean towards Apple computers for my personal computing needs… But I work with Windows professionally and I’m also a bit of a gamer – so…
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Smiles Per Hour
Something I do to keep track of miles and maintenance over time is snap a photo of the odometer every thousand miles to timestamp it. I bought the car with…
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Hellcat costs
I got the Hellcat back from the dealership this afternoon – they swapped out the fuel pumps on it and that seems to have fixed the issue. Without the warranty…
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Sports Cars
My CFO came into the office today and asked if I could drive him over to the dealership to pick up his Lotus Emira – and being as my Hellcat…
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Recollections
To say the world has changed a bit since I was younger is a dramatic understatement. And I like to ponder the tides of change on slow, quiet weekends like…
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How it is
Ran over to my local gas station to top off the tank in the 300 and pick up a couple of 20oz sodas for the day… Something I’ve been doing…
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The end is nigh
Got word from my CFO yesterday that things are coming to a head with the company; Bidenomics are kicking our ass as far as operating costs and we don’t have…
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Windows
At work I do a little of everything, and one of the things on the list of “everything” is graphic design for things like advertising, flyers, t-shirts, trade-show booths, whitepaper…
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Automotive
Been doing a little work on the car; new CAI and over the weekend I put a new oil catch-can on it. What the catch does is strip the oil…
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1000th post
Just for posterity, ye olden blog here is now over 1000 posts… Not bad for 20 years. Listening to “Alive And Kicking” by Simple Minds
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Car stuff
A couple of days ago I ordered a new CAI for the car, and it came in today – so I wasted a half an hour in the garage installing…
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What is old is new again
A friend of mine worked for the phone company back in the early 90’s and was sent over to Panama to support the military during the ousting of Noriega, and…
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Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow
Found a good deal on a new filter and intake tube for the car the other night, so against my better judgement I purchased it… $400 later and I have…
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Phreaky
In the early 80’s the phone system was kind of a passing interest of mine – specifically the rapidly developing digital switching systems that were replacing the very mechanical and…
