Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Yawn

[GH85Carrera]

I have a friend with a Panasonic Toughpad tablet computer that I may well borrow for my trip. I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse I can use. It is a little thing and the default font is crazy small. I have changed the standard font and it is still small, but not crazy.

I am going to see if I can install the Garman Ground control software on it. If that works I will be set. If is an OK tablet.

He wants to sell it to me.

https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Toughpad-Tablet--plane-FZ-M1ABACXJM/dp/B00N2LPPQI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1464799230&sr=8-2&keywords=panasonic+toughpad+fz-m1

I don't know what he wants for it, but I am not willing to pay full boat retail for sure.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Noah930

How retarded. My office is in the ground floor of a 13-story building. My car is parked on the 3rd floor (assigned parking). Tonight as I left my office and tried to take the elevator to the third floor, the security guard made me sign in to the building visitor log. First time this has happened in 9 years. Wonder if he makes the building cleaning crew or himself do the same thing.

Funny you had to sign on when leaving and not when you arrived.

[Noah930]

Also, you're supposed to sign out when you leave. Right next to where you signed in when you arrived. How am I supposed to sign out in the lobby when I'm driving out the parking garage?

[flipper35]

I can think of a few signs...

[RKDinOKC]

You are obviously not taking the correct security route in and out of the building.

When I visited Apple in Cupertino the friend I was visiting had a presentation to do at the stockholders meeting. He had me wait at the Apple Company Store next to the main entrance. I got bored. When you first walk in the entrance there is a check point area that they give visitors and contractors ID cards with chips allowing passage to whatever part of the offices they were granted access to. Then you went thru some glass doors that only open with the ID cards with the correct access. Once inside there was a huge 4 story atrium with a coffee snack shop besides the hallways to go into either of the two building separated by the atrium. I just walked on in (following someone the doors had opened for), got a soda at the shop and sat at one of the tables in the atrium. After about 15 minutes a guy came over and asked my name and what I was doing there.

Told him who I was and that I was waiting for my friend to get out of the stockholders meeting. He laughed and knew exactly who my friend was and said he never checks his guests in like he is supposed to. Said I surprised them when I just walked right in. Said they had been watching me since I first entered. Noticed I came in without a badge and were watching me to see what I did. Even offered to give me a tour. Told him my friend was planning to do that when he got out of the meeting. Told me to just not try to go anywhere else in the buildings without a badge or an escort. After another 20 minutes went out in front of the Apple Company Store, met my friend and off we went. Don't know why he thought I would be entertained for an hour at the company store.

Never did get a badge even though my friend did give me a tour the next day.

[Porsche-poor]

went out at lunch and bought me a new Porsche.............its a fixer upper......

[flipper35]

Modular, cool!

[Porsche-poor]

some assembly required.

[GH85Carrera]

Does that snap together or glue?

[Porsche-poor]

It will snap together.

[RKDinOKC]

What is that, some kind of autobot or transformer?

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

went out at lunch and bought me a new Porsche.............its a fixer upper......

I'm on the fence on that model. I was tempted to go to the local Lego store today, but the practical side reminds me how much it costs. Plus I've been at work all day, and am still here. Maybe this weekend....

[porsche4life]

Been driving Thuy's van because it gave me a CEL a few weeks ago and I want to figure out what going on before she is sitting in traffic with it, and it needs new tire, getting those tomorrow. Went to leave work and the damn 18month old battery is dead. Getting ready to drive this bastard off a cliff!

[GH85Carrera]

Batteries are just different now. (Geezer voice) back in the past a battery always just started not holding a charge and got weaker and weaker with a slow death and lots of warning. For the last 10 years batteries are fine one minute and DEAD the next. No warning, no charging them, just dead.

[RKDinOKC]

On the Cayenne forums read that if you start getting error warnings that come and go it is a sign that the battery is going out even if it tests good. Some have even had the issue with new batteries that were bad.

[Oh Haha]

Back when my wife was driving the Suquinox she went out to leave work and the battery was dead. No warning at all.
I was on the road so I had my FIL jump it and follow her home so I could install a new one.

Gonna regret posting this but the Odyssey still has the original from 07.

Sooooooo do I replace it just because?

[GH85Carrera]

I would replace it.

On my El Camino after driving it for 25 years and over 300,000 miles I have replaced many batteries. I always buy the best battery with the longest warranty. On at least two occasions I have driven to a location with no issues and 10 minutes later when I was ready to go the battery was so dead the radio would not come on and even with a jump start it would not start. It was an internal short and just dead.

I was just lucky in that it was the middle of a work day so I could call a friend to come get me. I just pull the battery and go get another one and drop it in and all is well for a while.

I looked at the battery in the 911 last month. It was a 84 month battery and it was 83 months old. It got replaced now, before a long road trip.

I have been lucky enough to have several battery problems and been at home in my own garage. It is handy to just jump in one of the other cars and get it replaced.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

What is that, some kind of autobot or transformer?

nope standard lego model with working transmission.

[flipper35]

I had an Optima in the Cobra that I bought before Optima sold out. It was on a solar battery tender in CA and it lasted almost 10 years. The batter before that one was an Exide that had been replaced under warranty several times. The first time was less than two weeks after purchase.

So a working transmission? Must not be an early aircooled!

My wife got to work today to find Windows 10 installed. She had not told it to do any updates or accepted any but there is another person that uses it now and then so they either accepted it or MS pushed it out regardless. Set her back a couple hours with all the additional updates it had to do. If it weren't for racing and flying games with the kids I would go to Linux.