Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Its been a long week of long hours. Two more to go. 135 drawings with red lines. Only 58 more to go.

[GH85Carrera]

Just give the grandkid a red crayon and let her go to town on the drawings. She can make red lines fast.

[Porsche-poor]

Ha! That idea would be great in the paper days but he would not be to nice to the monitor screens.

[GH85Carrera]

Ah, just get her set up with the digital crayon!

We had a 60 inch solvent based plotter - printer at out last office. Really neat machine, and it came with a "free" roll of 60 inch wide bond paper. We only printed photo quality stuff and never needed the bond paper. The owner of the company gave it to one of the employees and they took it to their daughter's school. It was a roll of 5 feet wide, x 250 foot long paper. The teacher said it lasted all the school year. The made a lot of banners. It was a heavy roll of paper.

[GH85Carrera]

We have been fans of the TIVO brand for our DVR for many years. Our first one was not HD or digital, so it had to go when we upgraded to digital. The one we used for the last 7 years is getting slow, like any computer. It is just a computer in a box, with special OS that is limited to a few tasks.

For Christmas our present to each other was anew Tivo Edge. It records 6 programs at a time, not just 5 like the old unit. The setup and initial programming is about like setting up any other computer. It took me 4 hours yesterday to get online and the old unit off the cable connection. It can't record anything new since it is no longer connected to the cable TV service. The really cool part is with the CAT6 cable we can keep the old unit online and actually access the recordings it contains from the new unit.

We have a few TB of old movies my wife has recorded, and for whatever reason wants to keep. She never goes back to watch them, but they are there. The complex part is the OnePass list. The shows we like and want it to record is a list that I managed to transfer to the new unit.

Bottom line the new unit is way faster, and has new features. And we still have access to all the shows she has recorded. It has a ton of streaming options and I mostly watch streaming movies or shows.

[flipper35]

We don't even have an OTA connection at the moment. Don't really miss it other than bad weather days.

[GH85Carrera]

The master gardener in the house finds it hard to be stuck inside over the long winter months of non growing season. She watches a lot of investigation shows, gardening shows, house hunters-flippers-remodel and fix up shows.

She is a big "sports" fan and loves to watch the games of football, basketball, some baseball, and golf and all the other games with people playing with a ball. The entire time she usually has some knitting project in her lap, and one or two dogs in the recliner with her.

I like some of the car show TV programs, and lots of the streaming movies. I went for years with no TV at all, and I did a lot of reading instead.

Of course F1 is a real sport, and we watch all of those. Le Mans, Sebring and other big races.

[GH85Carrera]

I have been dealing with a client that is a medium - large organization. The email they sent from from the beginning about doing the project had 6 people on it. And evidently they all had to make decisions. We flew the project back in September. They finally made their print order this week, and today I will deliver the prints. Hopefully the pay the invoice faster than that.

[Porsche-poor]

afternoon all. Sounds like where I work no one wants the responsibility so they gather in groups for safety.

[GH85Carrera]

Whew, I had a busy afternoon.

I went to get my hair cut, then drove just over a mile to our bank. I got a rather large cashiers check. (Think 997 or 991 money range) I then drove half a mile to the bank that has our airplane loan and gave them the large check. That will put us down low enough on the balance that we can go to a fixed rate loan and still pay it off in the same time frame. We save a whopping half a percent on the current loan, and no more worry about interest rates going nuts.

It just blows me away that in December of 2021 the bank with the airplane loan preferred a piece of paper with a signature, and a paper check to make it happen. My bank charges MORE to do a bank transfer or ACH payment than printing a Cashiers check. It took one teller, and he walked it to two bank officers to sign, so three employees yet that is cheaper than electronic transfer.

Then I had to run by the drug store to get some allergy meds, and back home to grab the prints to deliver to the client. I am exhausted after such a long hard few hours of activity!

I for sure need a nap.

[Porsche-poor]

go take a nap!!!!

[flipper35]

At least you didn't have snow to deal with.

[GH85Carrera]

My day stayed busy yesterday. My business partner and I both regularly use one piece pf software regularly. Back the early versions of it it just cost 99 bucks and it is great software. Now for us to both have current versions it cost 780 bucks. Yesterday I had to log on to the web page, pay the cost with a credit card, and they sent us bot a ling to download the software and activate it online.

Then I noticed the was was once called the BIOS, but now is the UEFI for my motherboard had a new version out that was highly recommended to prevent some sort of hack, and make the computer faster was out. So, I downloaded and installed that. There was even an update for the Intel MEU or the management engine.

Work work work work.

[GH85Carrera]

We went to the PCA breakfast on Saturday. As I pulled up the only two other cars that were there were both G body 911s. So the three cool cars were in a row, and then the water pumpers started to arrive. We had a great turnout. Nice weather, and good food, and good company seem to make that happen.

[Porsche-poor]

evening all. its been a day. 163 drawings of which I finished 70

[GH85Carrera]

Job security!

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. 33 and everything is covered in a layer of ice. Fun walk to the curb with the garbage can.

[GH85Carrera]

We are at 60 now, and supposed to hit 72 this afternoon. I may put on my garage shorts and go tinker in the garage. I can always find something to do out there.

[Porsche-poor]

pants and sitting at the computer all day working on more drawings.

[GH85Carrera]

Somewhere in this long thread is what I wrote about converting the El Camino to fuel injection. Getting rid of that horrid computer controlled Rochester carb and converting to throttle body fuel injection is the best upgrade ever for my Elky.

It was back when I still had the 305 in it, and well over 100,000 miles ago. I have it all written down in my Elky records, I am too lazy to look up the exact date.

Anyway, the FI has been flawless since I got it put together and all tuned. The other day I got a temporary Service Engine soon light, and the reader said it was the throttle position sensor. I guess it is worn out and needs to be replaced. I ordered a new one, actually made in USA, for $32 and I need to put it on. The engine is running fine, but I don't want it to fail and lever me stranded. So after 100K miles or more I have to spend 32 bucks and almost 10 minutes to swap it out.