I was out an about and thought of a couple of little thing I want fixed on the interior. The leather strap with a snap that holds the back seat rest up is broken. Anyway I stopped at the place that I have used in the past. He said he just does not work on cars older that 2000. Even with pleading, the answer was no. She cave me the name of some guy down in Norman. I just can't see driving way down there for a simple fix. I feel sure someone on this side of town can do it. So I swung by the Porsche dealer. I talked to the salesman that sold us the Macan. He has worked there since the early 90s and he gave me a name of a guy. So now I have to call strangers to come fix some minor issue.

The city has been improving a road that goes past the dealership. It is part of the old Rt66, and they added a lane to make it 4 lanes, and widen the intersections. I figured I would go down it just to see the new road. There is a business that sells LEDs of every sort. So it pulled in and talked to them. I can get a drop in replacement for the 10 florescent bulbs over my work bay. Just bypass the ballast, and use the old fixtures. $27 bucks per bulb. And they are brighter. I may need sunglasses to work out there. :)

Not till Wed. 5:58pm Jim.
At 5:59 all the snow disappears ..........i hope.

would this be the Star Trek approach? As in beam it points elsewhere?

Body shop on SanteFe has an independent interior guy. The shop is GW & Sons. His pricing was very good to redo the headliner on the Cayenne.

Thanks. I know Gary the owner. I may call him.

Worked wth JD Ogle and GW&Sons.
The interior guy happened to be there when I was picking up my Cayenne.

There was a jet aircraft that crashed at the airport where we have our airplanes. It was a Westwind corporate jet style airplane. Two pilots were the only ones on board and they were both killed. Very sad day out there.
It crashed on the airport grounds, just off of the runway when it rolled suddenly and went inverted and hit the ground. If it had rolled the other way it would have hit hangars with aircraft and people out there.
It was not wind or weather related.

That is sad.

When I was flying R/C a lot there were these two guys. One would spend his time making really nice looking scale planes. The other would fly them. What was interesting is they swore by this one brand of motor. Then, they would spend literally hours getting it to run. Then they used a brand of radio that nobody else used and seemed to always have problems with it as well.

What reminded me of them was once they got their really nice scale plane flying on either take-off or landing it would suddenly roll upside down and hit the ground. They would aways blame their radio (the brand nobody else would use) saying it glitched and crash the plane. Those of us that flew our R/C planes a lot more than they did recognized it as the plane starting to stall and the pilot doing the wrong thing to recover causing it to flip and crash. A little in their defense, truly accurate small scale R/C planes do tend to stall at higher speeds than most R/C planes.

In looking at the reports on TV in crashed right in front of our hangar where we keep our 182. We have a leased 172 on tie downs that was shown on TV as a the background shot of the airport. It is a pretty small community of pilots out there. Very much a family like group. The company I worked at for 12 years had their Cessna 206 out there. One of the contractor pilots we hire for specific projects has his Cessna 140 out there. We have our other leased 172 in a hangar that is shared with a guy that has his kit airplane in the same hangar along with a bunch of junk.

The speculation right now is that one of the thrust reversers came on when it was not supposed to. With one engine pushing forward and the other pushing in reverse the aircraft will do bad things. No doubt the FAA will figure it out and file a report in a year or so.

Morning all. Sad to hear Glen. Make a Monday at the office look pretty good.

LOL Now that's funny.

Yee haawww. The automation on my computer turned in a separation ticket for a terminated employee before HR go to it this morning. It was within 5 minutes of them updating their database.

A separation ticket creates and releases work orders for IT staff to check all the places an employee may have logins and delete them.

Turned on my automation because we had an employee last week they forgot to enter a separation ticket completely. This morning instead of entering a separation ticket they sent a bunch of out-of-office notices to our ITHelp system. And that was an hour after my automated ticket was submitted. Arrgh, what a bunch of noise.

Have been telling our IT staff can just automate the tickets from them terminating an employee in their system and will get rid of most all the HR human errors and be faster as well. BUT, what do I know. My database automatically takes care of all the places I can login to remove an employee which is about half. Can't de-install software and reclaim the licenses from their PC. The only thing I can't do automatic that I do is export their pst from Office365. It is not scriptable because it specifically requires using Edge on Win10.

"Back in the old days" when I worked at the retail photo lab before getting into aerial photography they were a bunch of folks that could use computers if they had a set of instructions. No one really understood computers. Then I came along. One issue was on the main money making system the photographic printer. It was a system with all Kodak supported IBM branded computers, running Windows NT 4.0. One little file would get corrupted and the system would quit working. When the operators called Kodak, they too were just "follow the procedure book" readers. They would reload the entire OS from CD. That takes hours. No production.

I set up a simple floppy based boot disk that would run a simple batch file, and copy that one critical file back to where it was needed, and then pop out the floppy and and reboot. Back on line. I had to get the owner of the company to tell the operators of that machine to give it a try. They were convinced only the "great yellow father" AKA Kodak could fix it.
When they finally saw that my cure would get them back into production in minutes not many hours they were amazed.
Come to find out they really liked just sitting on their butts, talking to tech support and not having to make prints. They were mad at me for ruining their break from real work.

Wednesday which month?

1/2 day of work for me today! Should be mostly sunny and 48*! Another week of this and I can put the snow blower away, get the roadster out, change the oil and all that good stuff.

On a side note, when I recover the dash for the new gauges I need to replace some toggle switches. Who makes a good, durable toggle switch that feels robust? Like a quality click, click when you operate them.

I should put a covered momentary one in for the starter!

When I was doing more graphic arts we got one of the first Canon Color Laser Printers. The seller and a corporate rep came out to make sure it worked. Ended up not having a correct poscript description file for telling the drivers what the paper trays and options were. I edited the bad file they had and it worked great. The rep asked me for a copy of the file. Gave it to him cause I am such a nice guy.

What i didn't tell him is I put my name in the description file so it would print on the test/spec page for the printer.

About 6 months later we bought a 2nd Canon Color Laser. Installed everything from the Canon disks. One of my guys brought me the test/spec page and there it was, my name on the printer description file. Canon what actually using my printer description file and didn't even bother to either take my name off, or pay me.

Foggy & cool here this morning. Good chance of rain tomorrow. I’m caught up on yard work, so maybe I can tinker on the 280Z for a few hours.

I never knew caught up on yard work was a thing. You will have to tell me you you managed that.

Later dudes, I am outta here. All y'all have a good afternoon.

Another chamber of commerce weather day here.

Yea, the only time I am caught up on yard work is winter when things are dormant. Even then we "get" to pick up dog crap, and do some koi pond cleaning. Soon the grass will be back to growing. The Bradford pear trees started blooming today. They STINK and big trees have a really funky bad smell. They look pretty, but are just stinky and messy.

Would rather have a Bradford Pear with all their splitting instead of this Sweat Gum tree and it's littering my yard with 100's of those freaking 1 inch diameter spiney balls!