Souper Pickin

First week of braces sucked. never ate so much potato in my life. Good thing i like soup. tried to eat some soft cheese and broke one of the braces off. Going in tomorrow to get it reattached and possibly adjusted again. Every time I look in the mirror i think of a miniature roller coaster.

WARNING: TOOTH PICS.

I am trying to leave lots of scroll room for those who dont care for wild pictures of me.

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As some of you who folow my wife on facebook already saw, i was knocked out for most of yesterday and had my mouth blasted and tunneled for the instalation of a new railroad. I tried to make the pictures as less gross as possible, by removing most of my face.

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I must reduce myself to a diet of baby food and frappe’d twigs, with the occasional Steak-shake.  I hear this  can be hard to keep clean.

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The first shot is in a mirror, so its wackbards

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Looks like a little roller-coaster I saw at the fair.

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TEEFS

California Firsts

We were privileged to free entry to the OC fair thanks to one of Sarah’s Co-workers.   We went for the second half of our redneck weekend and saw the first for California demolition derby with class C motor homes.  Some of you out of stater’s don’t see this as anything new, but it was awesome to watch.

These arent mine, in fact you can probly make out me and Sarah cuddling accross the carnage in the grandstands.

Saturday night, Toyota made available tickets for us to see a local nascar race.  It ended with a Figure 8 style race that got some yelps out of Sarah.  She may post a bit of this on her blog.

I have my own video of this, from my phone.  If its any good, i will post that too.

Changing Face

In one week, I will be starting the last stage of years of work on my face. Those of you who know me are aware that i have a birth defect called a cleft lip. This, along with other oral oddities have required extensive work, including 9 stitches, broken wisdom teeth, and waiting for teeth to move and bank accounts to grow. Next Wednesday morning, the last stage begins. I will have one deformed tooth removed, and a retainer installed to move another tooth to a location where it can be used to anchor a bridge. Next week, if people arent too grossed out, i will post before, during and after pictures.

solly for the deray

Hard drive crashed on the laptop i use to post most blogs. It got tossed into the pile of things to repair at my desk, while a substitute laptop is being used at work. Lost all my future post ideas in the crash, so until i can recover some or get other ideas, things will be light.

Its not fake, it Isreal

A while ago, i saw a video of a stunt plane that lost a wing mid flight. the Youtube showed the plane more-or-less landing safely, but the video had some mysterious “Vaseline on the lens” look about it. Today i saw this, and it has me thinking, maybe, if the plane has enough horsepower, it could work. This is just a model plane, but the concept, and the amazement, are still the same.

Plane Loses Wing In Mid Flight – Watch more Funny Videos

Straydreams

Norwegian Sunbather

Work is slow again, so my mind is observing its tendency to go for long walks down short thoughts.
Here are a few things I have pondered as of late.

An accident between an Isuzu Ascender and a Chevy Avalanche.

A designer for Ford on the Snap-on tool truck measuring extensions and screwdriver handles in an effort to make sure none of them fit in locations where they would otherwise be useful.

Fiat is buying Chrysler.  The new European company could be called Fiat Chrysler United Kingdom…  FCUK.

Over the police scanner we heard a call about a man sitting in a lounge chair in his front yard cussing at no one.  Sounds like my retirement plan.

In an attempt to attach a plastic molding to a car door, I pulled out a special adhesive for bonding plastic to metal.  I couldn’t get the cap off.   The glue was in a metal tube with a plastic cap.

TV allert

Our friend Eddie Newton, who some readers know, will be on TBN television tonite for a short interview. keep a lookout for it.   His website is eddyunmasked.org

my contribution to TLL

compiments of a tweet from Brent Spiner
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Sensors Weep 4

If my sceptulation is correct, a problem with one sensor was showing on both of them, explaining why I had codes for both at the same time.  Not enough of a problem to actually effect anything the sensor was putting out, but just enough  for the computer to gripe like an old lady and throw it in limp mode.
I limped back to the shop and ordered the output speed sensor and went into pulling the garage apart to get to it. After replacing it, the car drove fine, no problems.  I sliced open the wire tail on the old sensor, and didn’t see anything suspicious, but when I looked closer i saw small cracks.  I pinched the wire in my fingers and the insulation between the shield and the conductors crumbled like Parmesan.   Some mechanics are familiar with this, a guy i used to work  for called it goat milk insulation.  Seems the European car makers haven’t learned their lesson yet.
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I had done my research and found other VW’s with these codes, and didn’t want to be another mechanic that threw sensors at it and sent it off only to have the problem return.  However, if I had just done that, I would have accidentally fixed the car, and I would be smoking a cigar at a party a bit earlier than I did.   But, a small part of me is proud.  My internal Spock is happy.  I found an actual problem, and I did a fix that I know is a fix.  I didn’t assume, I didn’t shotgun, I didn’t send them off with something half fast. Only problem is I still go home with the same paycheck and the same grease stained bottle of Tylenol. Still, jobs like these make my blue collar feel like a tiny cape.