I don’t know how I did it, but I got my Windows Home Server stuck in an endless reboot loop. Thakfully I was planning on upgrading it tomorrow anyway. Its leaving the P4 era and entering the Core based Celeron era (using the same processor HP uses on their new home servers). Should be nice to see it booting with ~eTB of storage space

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Well, I got sick of having to manually assign a category to every phone call that gets added to Outlook because I have an app on my CrackBerry that creates an appointment for each call. I wrote a macro that does it with one mouse click
I will post the macro later in case anyone wants it.

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I’m pretty sure hell just froze over, my brother just called me.

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Well, still have the noise in my bike. Got a few more things to try and then I’m gonna wait ’till next year. Gonna build an electronic voltage regulator to replace the mechanical one soon. Printed out the directions on my home printer from work earlier today. I also need to get to work on modiying the coil module from a mid ’90s GM with wasted spark ignition so I can mount “modern” coils on my bike. My dad came up with the idea of using Ford coil on plug modules, but I’m not a big fan of that idea if for no other reason than making the mounting brackets and figuring out how to drive 2 coils at once with good sparl sounds way to hard. Scary fact, geek with old motorcycle = interesting ideas.

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I hope everyone had a nice relaxing Father’s day (unlike my dad who got to help me fix the door on my Jeep)

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PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.
MECHANIC’S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing leather goods.
ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.
HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VISE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads and transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETELENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your garage on fire.
WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you’ve been searching for the last 15 minutes.
DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.
WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar callouses in about the time it takes you to say, “Ouc….”
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a car to the ground after you have installed your new front disk brake setup, trapping the jack handle firmly under the fender.
EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering a car upward off a hydraulic jack.
TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters.
PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.
SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.
E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup.
TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testingthe tensile strength of ground straps and brake lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.
CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.
BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.
AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.
TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic’s own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin,” which is not otherwise found under motorcycles at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at aboutthe same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round out Phillips screw heads.
AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 60 years ago by someone in Springfield, and rounds them off.
PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.

Well, after a night of almost no sleep, work is kinda hard today. Also no contact from my brother to anyone in the familt, but I don’t really expect any until he needs something. At that time I will tell him to fuck off due to the way he treated our (my?) parents and me.

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Seriously, WTF is up with being told you will have to wait ~20 minutes to get support for your cell phone?  For some reason, I cannot use Shazam on my BlackBerry Curve 8330 and I’ve exhausted the options w/ Shazam support so I’m on hold with Sprint BB support now.  Been 13 minutes and I was told it would be at least 20 when I called.

well, i am writing my brother off completely. he has proven that all he cares about is keeping his wife happy and keep us from being part of his life. i’m not doing it to make her happy, i’m doing it to hopefully reduce the stress in my life.

well,
i think i am going to see if i can fit a “late model” charging system to my bike so i can have a little more “spare” power to play with. right now, i have around 2 watts when everything is working right and that doesn’t give me enough power for EFI which i’d really like since then i can avoid carb tuning (poking carb needles into yourself is not fun).