After yesterday’s post, I’ve got a few final thoughts. First, I’m surprised to learn how many cars still, for some reason, have a pedal operated parking brake, and that people even like them. I look at them as a problem that I thought everyone has solved long ago. That said, if you’ve got have one, I do prefer one…

My F-150 has gone to the dealership for a couple of recalls. Nothing big, just adding shields to the door latch assembly inside the door and trimming insulation around the seat belt pretentioners. I don’t really care much about either recall, but this will get Ford to stop sending me letters. I’ve got mixed feelings…

We continued weeding the collection of an Operation Paperclip scientist that was donated to us many years ago. Everything here is weeded material we’re not keeping in the collection but that caught my eye nonetheless. Some of this will go that great big recycling bin in the sky, and some of it will go to a space m…

One of the dogs is about to be disappointed that I’m going to be now. I maintain a strict one doggo limit to sleeping on the bed with me.

While this is a little outside the work with political papers and rare books that I usually do for the university, I pitched in today to help weed an archival collection in the regional history manuscript portion of our department. These are some weeded documents that I thought Oppo might find interesting. Somewhat…

The NM MVD misplaced a decimal on the registration renewal for the racecar trailer. I think I’ll pass on the two-year option for $390 and stick with the one-year option for $20.50

Now that I’m done with living roomlopnik, I spent Sunday having Mustang day. It got an interior detail, oil change and service and an wash/wax/detail. It wasn’t anything fancy, just a clay bar and coat of wax. It was in need of some attention, and it never turns down some fresh Mobil One and new filters. I didn’t…

This past weekend I wrapped up updating the 1990 out of my living room/dining room area. White walls, pink accents, frilly details, bad carpet, shiny brass hardware, mismatched outlet and switch covers, it was all there for the fixing. For those that have been following my houselopnik posts, since we bought this house…

A month or two ago a friend and I took down three 40-50ish foot dead trees that were near the house. Chainsaws are fun, and it was successful. All three trees came down without falling on either the house, a wall or a person. I gave my buddy most of the wood from the trunks too big to burn without splitting, and I’ve…

I guess this is one way to crowd fund. Don’t see many Corpus Chrsiti area code numbers in Las Cruces.

I’m a few days late writing this up, but I took a long weekend and got the boat going for the season and my parent’s pool up and running in Albuquerque. Normally, the boat goes in the water in early/mid March, but it has been a colder than normal spring in NM and I’ve been busy updating the 1990 out of my…

The dogs met the new Rumba. They’re not sure about it. The head of household security kept trying to corner it.

I decided to apply for a job today, and it has been a reminder of why I don’t do this very often. I haven’t applied for a job of any type since 2012, and all this resume updating and online application doing has taken a bunch of time. Although not required, I suppose I should write a cover letter too. I’ll probably…

Spring has come to the borderland. Those aren’t clouds, but rather dust originating from Northern Chihuahua that has blocked out the sun. If you want to talk about the real invasion at the border, this it: Mexico coming over the border by the sky full of sand. The forecast for the rest of the day is 40mph sustained…

I never got around to posting the finished product of my mostly new build from last week, so here it is:

Four hours of my Monday was spent in the dentist’s chair this morning getting four crowns and a filling. I’ve now got four new front teeth in the form of temporary crowns with the real ones getting put on in a few weeks. While not pleasant, it also wasn’t unexpected. I had known for a decade that I would eventually…

The CPU cooler showed up today, which means I could finish* the build. My PC now has a radiator.

Amazon brought me boxes today. I’m just waiting on the CPU cooler to show up tomorrow to see if I end up with a functioning computer out of this project.

For those following my computerlopnik escapades of the last week, the new case came today. Amazon sent me a Fractal Design Define R6, with the USB-C front port and tempered glass side panel so I can enjoy staring at my future machine. I’m pretty sure I’ll have a use for a front USB-C port in the future, and I’m a…