I got into an accident this morning. I am ok, but my car is not. I was at a stop sign, a car signaled and proceeded into the turn lane. I pulled into the intersection and the other car changed his mind about turning and collided with me. Into the shop it goes…

wow, what a weekend. thanks to a pile of close friends, we strategically removed my back porch. the home remodel project continues…

you know you want one

<3 it’s on like donkey kong

The blower fan in my 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix GT stopped working. Since i bought it, settings 1 - 4 have not worked. Monday, setting 5 stopped working. I checked all the fuses and relays. The Pontiac dealership said to replace the blower fan assembly resistor. Google sent me here:

http://www.oqcgp.com/forum/kb.php?mode=article&k=70

I spent 2 hours upside down under the dash on the passenger side removing the old resistor. Napa Auto Parts sold me the replacement part for $31.02. I installed the new resistor and presto, my fan works again on all settings, 1 through 5. I love google.

I woke up today and peaked outside to find we were in the middle of a decent ice/snow storm. Because the broken-down Mazda is stuck in the garage, my car now has 4 inches of ice to be scraped from the windshield.

So, I worked around the house, made a killer batch of chili, and played with my new kitten named “Oscar”, who has made it clear to Shadow he is taking over the role head-of-household.

(Yes, now I have 2 all-black cats.)

The Mazda broke down RIP. -40 degrees windchill, thank god i have a garage. After determining the ignition coil was not putting out a spark, I swapped it out with a new one from Napa. Started right up, drove around the block, parked, shut it off, tried to turn it over and it wouldn’t start back up. Checked the ignition coil again and found it was fried.

Continue dumping cash into a heap-o-junk, or look elsewhere for wheels… A friend came to my rescue and sold me his ‘99 Pontiac Grand Prix GT! 90k mileage, power-everything, sunroof, 2-door, ABS, SRS, etc, etc.

Stress is relieved.

Today, 8/15, the house is mine. Papers are signed and the house officially belongs to me now. Re-financing under a 30-year fixed cut my monthly payments in half (not to mention the cash in pocket). Today is a good day.

it is 2:17am, servers are back up. *sigh*

(starts over)
2/20 2:47pm: power goes out, the whole building. weee. thank god for power-over-ethernet, VOIP phones, and laptops.
2/21 12:32pm: so the good folks doing our point-to-point T1 decided it was a good idea to start unplugging things, bless their souls.
2/22 2:17am: after re-routing power to the catalytic converter for the warp drive, we’re up an running. I’m going to curl up in the comm room now.

g’night.