I have my car and can drive it, but it still has a few problems.
Luckily it never was the head gasket, it ended up being the upper intake manifold and shitty seals.
Now I just have to figure out what other vacuum lines are weak and get them replaced and hope that also fixes the non-automatically downshifting transmission.
Looks like there were more problems than I though, it blew the head gasket and now it is a $1200 repair.
My car was starting to overheat, going up to 230 degrees and then dropping down to 185.
Turns out that is never was going up that high, the temp sending unit was sending bad signals to the computer.
I still need to replace that last tire and then I will finally be on new tread all the way around.
I finally joined the CUDA world.
I bought a Nvidia GTX 460 to replace the ATI HD4830 that was in my XP machine.
I had to run down all the tasks that were in the machine, then switch out the cards since they are from different companies and use different drivers.
Now I get to see if my SETI RAC will go up at least a little bit.
I am back to working 5 days a week and getting close to 40 hours as well.
I have managed to get the swamp cooler to work fairly well now and it keeps it about 18 degrees cooler than the outside air.
I just ordered a wool cloak so I will be able to keep warm during winter SCA activities.
I tried to run with my 5000 BTU unit in the bedroom window, but it had 2 problems.
1: It blew the cold air at the ceiling
2: It could not keep up with this no insulation and 100+ temp days.
I now am running a 6300 BTU window unit and it is doing a much better job.
Still gets up to 83 in the bedroom, but I can live with that.
The swamp cooler is just plain laboring and I think I will still have to get some new pads for it and some cleaning solution.
I now have the 22” Dell monitor hooked up to the iMac and don’t have to see those lovely colored lines while watching movies and TV shows.
I still want to upgrade to something newer eventually, but I do not have to be in that much of a hurry now..
Of course I still have to be able to see the iMac as that is where the DVD drive is.
I have purchased a new 23” monitor for the gamine machine and once an adaptor arrives I am going to try using the 22” on the iMac.
I purchased new pads for the swamp cooler and found out that they are pretty much worthless, they do not hold enough water to cool the air as it comes into the place.
I ended up putting my old pad back in as it still works just fine.
Looks like it is time to start saving for a new Mac, my iMac is having display problems and crashes randomly.
I am thinking that I can get a Mac Mini and a 20″ monitor and that should keep me running for a few years.
Cost will be about $820 or so.
I just went out to go to the store and my old tire on the driver side had finally given up the ghost and was flat.
There goes another $45 or so.
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