Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
At the Car Wash.
Took the Fit down to Metro for a washing Yesterday.
I think I may poke around fitfreak.net and learn how to properly hand-wash a car as I want to keep it nice as long as I can.
Fittingly (har har har) it rained last night so I need to go take the car back and use my rain guarantee to get it cleaned again.
Pictures:
I think I may poke around fitfreak.net and learn how to properly hand-wash a car as I want to keep it nice as long as I can.
Fittingly (har har har) it rained last night so I need to go take the car back and use my rain guarantee to get it cleaned again.
Pictures:
Weekend Update
This weekend was a busy one full of people and things.
Saturday morning I went to the junk yard and got the pieces needed to rebuild the door handle hardware on mom's Volvo 740.
Saturday Afternoon Sean came by and helped me change out the broken turn signals on the Volvo, It turned out to be a much more involved thing than expected.
Then we delivered the car to Mom and she's quite pleased to have a reliable comfortable vehicle.
Next was a Birthday dinner for my friend Tyler, It was nice to see him and his wife along with my old friend Jon and his Wife. It feels like its been years since I've seen Jon.
After the birthday dinner I showed off my Honda Fit for a little bit and then it was a drive out to Cheryl's house to watch Babylon 5 with the Tucson Scifi & Fantasy meetup group. I got there just in time to see War Without End parts 1 and 2. Ahh how everyone loves Zathras.
Today I woke early to return to the junkyard to get more door parts for mom's Volvo. I got the stuff to rebuild the two rear doors. Now all four doors have new hardware and work great. I also got the power windows to work altho the driver can not presently control any windows other than their own, I think its a switch problem.
After leaving my parents I went down to the GGR Garage and hung out with Chris for a bit tinkering on my Stella. The rear brake has been adjusted and the bike rides entirely different now with the brake adjustment + the new shock on the front and other work that we have done to it over the past two weeks.
That's about it for the weekend, Later I may go over to Sean's house and work with him on repairing Bald John's iMac.
Saturday morning I went to the junk yard and got the pieces needed to rebuild the door handle hardware on mom's Volvo 740.
Saturday Afternoon Sean came by and helped me change out the broken turn signals on the Volvo, It turned out to be a much more involved thing than expected.
Then we delivered the car to Mom and she's quite pleased to have a reliable comfortable vehicle.
Next was a Birthday dinner for my friend Tyler, It was nice to see him and his wife along with my old friend Jon and his Wife. It feels like its been years since I've seen Jon.
After the birthday dinner I showed off my Honda Fit for a little bit and then it was a drive out to Cheryl's house to watch Babylon 5 with the Tucson Scifi & Fantasy meetup group. I got there just in time to see War Without End parts 1 and 2. Ahh how everyone loves Zathras.
Today I woke early to return to the junkyard to get more door parts for mom's Volvo. I got the stuff to rebuild the two rear doors. Now all four doors have new hardware and work great. I also got the power windows to work altho the driver can not presently control any windows other than their own, I think its a switch problem.
After leaving my parents I went down to the GGR Garage and hung out with Chris for a bit tinkering on my Stella. The rear brake has been adjusted and the bike rides entirely different now with the brake adjustment + the new shock on the front and other work that we have done to it over the past two weeks.
That's about it for the weekend, Later I may go over to Sean's house and work with him on repairing Bald John's iMac.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Looking for Info Motorola T-1380
I picked up a Motorola T-1380 DC Remote from a junk pile today, I'm looking for information on it as I'd like to try to interface it to something.
Attached is a picture of the device.
T-1380AE/T1380/T1380AE.
T-1380AE/T1380/T1380AE.
I found a picture of one on Wikipedia.
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
September Ride (Foothills Madness 2)
Today was another ride with The Sky Island Riders.
Howard called the ride Foodhill Madness 2.
I rode it on my Stella, Sean was there on his Riva 180.
Howard led on his Stella, It was nice riding with another hand-shift bike.
I have to say this was one of the more difficult rides that I've done, There was a lot of technically challenging riding due to the constant changes in elevation and all the curves. The Stella ran like a Champ for it altho at one point in time it started to smell a little funny. Later I learned that Howard had the same problem, We think it was because we were both coasting with the clutch in and may not have been getting enough oil into the engine or were wearing the clutch.
Pictures!
Howard called the ride Foodhill Madness 2.
I rode it on my Stella, Sean was there on his Riva 180.
Howard led on his Stella, It was nice riding with another hand-shift bike.
I have to say this was one of the more difficult rides that I've done, There was a lot of technically challenging riding due to the constant changes in elevation and all the curves. The Stella ran like a Champ for it altho at one point in time it started to smell a little funny. Later I learned that Howard had the same problem, We think it was because we were both coasting with the clutch in and may not have been getting enough oil into the engine or were wearing the clutch.
Pictures!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Moped? More like Less Ped.
Behold my latest Bike. Or at least most of it.
It's a Italjet Pack Away from the Late 70's or Early 80's.
I have most of the pieces I think. It should be sweet when its done.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
My First NEW Car!
Friday I used the Cash for Clunkers program to trade in a 1991 Isuzu Amigo for a 2009 Toyota Fit Sport.
This is my first new car. It came with roughly 120 Miles on it from test drives at the dealer.
After having it since Friday I had to fuel it up for the first time today. I've decided to track my mileage using Google Docs.
Below is a chart of my mileage.
Friday, August 07, 2009
My Weakness
I think after nearly 30 years on Earth I have figured out what my major Weakness is.
It's been something I've struggled with for years, and its become more and more apparent over time.
Paper. Yes, Paper is my downfall. There is too much of it in my life, Its all over the house.
The only room that doesn't have a stack of papers waiting to be filed is the bathroom I think.
I've never been good with it, I never know what to keep and what to trash so I end up keeping nearly all of it.
If I could get rid of all of the paper in my house it'd be so much cleaner!
Sunday, August 02, 2009
August Ride
We met up at the El Con Starbucks at Broadway and Randolph Way. We then rode east to Old Spanish trail and followed it out to Vail then came back through Rita Ranch.
This was the first ride on my Stella, What was Awesome is Julie was there with Her Stella and it was also her first ride with her Stella.
This also marks one of the first rides I've been on where I have the same size engine as everyone else, It was nice not being the turtle!
My Stella ran great, I do admit to stalling it out once or twice while we were riding by not giving it enough gas or letting the clutch out quick enough. I think Julie may have stalled hers a couple time too.
Pictures!
This was the first ride on my Stella, What was Awesome is Julie was there with Her Stella and it was also her first ride with her Stella.
This also marks one of the first rides I've been on where I have the same size engine as everyone else, It was nice not being the turtle!
My Stella ran great, I do admit to stalling it out once or twice while we were riding by not giving it enough gas or letting the clutch out quick enough. I think Julie may have stalled hers a couple time too.
Pictures!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Mmm Bacon
# yum install bacon
Loaded plugins: dellsysid, dellsysidplugin, fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirrors.solfo.com
* dell-community: linux.dell.com
* updates: linux.mirrors.es.net
* base: linux.mirrors.es.net
* addons: mirror.hmc.edu
* extras: centos.mirrors.redwire.net
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package bacon available.
Nothing to do
No Bacon :(
I do however have Cobbler now.
Loaded plugins: dellsysid, dellsysidplugin, fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirrors.solfo.com
* dell-community: linux.dell.com
* updates: linux.mirrors.es.net
* base: linux.mirrors.es.net
* addons: mirror.hmc.edu
* extras: centos.mirrors.redwire.net
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package bacon available.
Nothing to do
No Bacon :(
I do however have Cobbler now.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Mount Lemmon Ride
Went on a nice ride with The Sky Island Riders up Mt Lemmon, It was really cool as it turned into a Four Club ride with GGR, The Sky Island Riders, The Club in Phoenix and the club in Green Valley showing up.
We met up at Le Buzz Cafe on Tanque Verde and headed up the mountain, I rode my Riva 125.
We had 24 riders show up for the event.
My Riva 125 wasn't running so well, The 4th of july trip I had a problem with fuel filter clogging and the bike had been consuming a little bit of Oil, This trip turned out to be the last for the bike as I suffered ring failure on the way back from the ride. However it was still a great time and it was quite the adventure. At one point going down the mountain Craig from GGR gave me a push to get me some help going up one of the inclines. The bike did make it all the way down to the Hooters on Wilmot. It was crazy, I got cheering when I showed up at the 1/2 way point going up the mountain and again at the top. Despite leaving with everyone else I was a good 10-15 minutes behind them due to the bike loosing compression.
The Riva will run again however! I should have no problem rebuilding it with Seans help.
We met up at Le Buzz Cafe on Tanque Verde and headed up the mountain, I rode my Riva 125.
We had 24 riders show up for the event.
My Riva 125 wasn't running so well, The 4th of july trip I had a problem with fuel filter clogging and the bike had been consuming a little bit of Oil, This trip turned out to be the last for the bike as I suffered ring failure on the way back from the ride. However it was still a great time and it was quite the adventure. At one point going down the mountain Craig from GGR gave me a push to get me some help going up one of the inclines. The bike did make it all the way down to the Hooters on Wilmot. It was crazy, I got cheering when I showed up at the 1/2 way point going up the mountain and again at the top. Despite leaving with everyone else I was a good 10-15 minutes behind them due to the bike loosing compression.
The Riva will run again however! I should have no problem rebuilding it with Seans help.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Yesterday I went with Sean on a 140+ mile Scooter ride along with a number of crazy bastards from one of our scooter groups.We rode down to Patagonia Arizona to see a parade and a hanging, Saw the parade but the hanging was taking too long so we left part way through.
I rode my 1987 Yamaha Riva 125, We finished re-assembling the bike Thursday night about 10PM and put some miles on it Friday to test but nothing near the mileage we did on the trip.
The bike runs fairly well and is a nice upgrade from my 1997 Honda Elite 80, The extra 45cc allows the bike to do 50-55mph flat, 65 downhill and in the 40's uphills.
I consumed three fuel filters during the trip and about half a quart of oil due to the bad valve stem seals and the rusty tank. Both will be addressed in the near future.
Sadly even with the bigger bike this ride I still had the smallest bike on the ride with the 125cc. There were two 150's, Sean's 180, a couple 200's and 250's, a 400 and a Harley 850. (The only non scooter on the trip).
As one friend remarked I look like a gorilla on a tricycle, But hey its a bigger bike than the Elite 80 so its a little less out of proportion.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
It's been a while.
I know it's been a while since I blogged, I've just been so busy lately.
I'm part of two scooter clubs now, the Go Go Rilla and the Sky Island Riders.
I just sold the moped to raise the cash needed to buy a larger bike than my Elite 80. I'm looking at a 150 or a 250.
I'd love to buy a metal bike like a Vespa, Lambretta or a Stella.
The volvo is on the road again as my 2ndary vehicle (With the Elite 80 as my primary) It needs an oil change, plug change and some hope to get through emissions later this month.
I'm part of a local SCIFI themed Meetup group run by my friend Cheryl.
We're watching Babylon 5 all the way through, At 1 DVD every other week it should take about a year and a month to see it all.
Still planning to do the 2009 BABE, Will be using the volvo again for it likely.
That's about it for now, Going to try to update a little more often.
I'm part of two scooter clubs now, the Go Go Rilla and the Sky Island Riders.
I just sold the moped to raise the cash needed to buy a larger bike than my Elite 80. I'm looking at a 150 or a 250.
I'd love to buy a metal bike like a Vespa, Lambretta or a Stella.
The volvo is on the road again as my 2ndary vehicle (With the Elite 80 as my primary) It needs an oil change, plug change and some hope to get through emissions later this month.
I'm part of a local SCIFI themed Meetup group run by my friend Cheryl.
We're watching Babylon 5 all the way through, At 1 DVD every other week it should take about a year and a month to see it all.
Still planning to do the 2009 BABE, Will be using the volvo again for it likely.
That's about it for now, Going to try to update a little more often.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Licensed
Saturday Morning I got my Motorcycle License.
Failed the U-Turn portion of the test due to misunderstanding the instructions but hey I passed everything else so the license is mine :D
To celebrate I must have put close to 100 miles on the scooter Saturday.
Failed the U-Turn portion of the test due to misunderstanding the instructions but hey I passed everything else so the license is mine :D
To celebrate I must have put close to 100 miles on the scooter Saturday.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Scooter is Go!
Sunday the 7th of December with the assistance of my friend Sean I picked up a 1998 Honda Elite 80 from a gentleman in phoenix.
With the addition of some parts from a 1994 Honda Elite 80 I picked up two weeks prior and $50 or so in gaskets I now have a fully functional Scooter.
Today I went down to the MVD and took the written test for a motorcycle permit, I am now allowed to use my scooter when visibility is more than 500 feet between Sunrise and Sunset on any public highway.
I plan to get used to the bike and take the road test in the upcoming weeks.
With the addition of some parts from a 1994 Honda Elite 80 I picked up two weeks prior and $50 or so in gaskets I now have a fully functional Scooter.
Today I went down to the MVD and took the written test for a motorcycle permit, I am now allowed to use my scooter when visibility is more than 500 feet between Sunrise and Sunset on any public highway.
I plan to get used to the bike and take the road test in the upcoming weeks.
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