Jan 24 - well duhhh

A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry. That's from the Snapple "real facts". I'll bet that a watermelon has even more sugar. I'll bet that they're all gluten free !!

M5 tinkering.

I've had a drippy power steering hose. A year ago the service guy replaced the clamp and it stopped dripping. A couple of days ago I replaced one clamp with two and it seemed ok and then two days later, drips. Today I removed the one engine air filter box (there are two) and also replaced the lower clamp. I probably need to have these hydraulic hoses replaced. I'd replace the reservoir as well since it has a non removable filter. Replacing the hoses is a job in a hoist, not for me.

The BMW phone. Way back in 2001 when I bought this car I took it in and had the phone installed. A box in the trunk, a diminutive aerial, a tray between the armrests, a voice control module somewhere, all told it was expensive. I only played with the voice control module a couple of times. Think SIRI but much more limited.

Anyway, Marda noticed that the coiled curd was deteriorating so I decided to remove the whole thing. Lo and behold, the replacement tray was only $12. I wonder what happened to the original that I had removed ?

A YouTube video showed me how to get the armrest off to get at that phone tray. A half hours work and I've got a nice empty tray and an AT&T TDMA phone in a drawer. I'll betcha that it would be hard to reactivate that phone. It would be short lived without a charging mechanism !!

The car got an oil change a few days ago (me). I replaced the cabin air filters and kept the new set of engine air filters for another day. The existing ones still look clean.

Now if someone would only spring for a good detailing !

PC work.

My regular backups were taking too much manual intervention. Storage is cheap. I bought a 4TB drive, stuck it in the external drive bay, found that DOS partitions are limited to 2TB so I used a different partition type. Bill Gates wasn't thinking ahead.

Formatted and backups consolidated, nicely working, I then bought another one for up north and copied data from one to the other. All is well, so far.

Since these are only used for backup, and mostly write, not read, I bought the drives that are optimized for surveillance systems where multiple cameras are always writing. I'll leave them external for now. After this initial setup they won't get a huge amount of use so I'm not worried about heat.

My boot drive is a 500gb SSD. Nice and fast, it takes some care to work within that space. Music and pictures take up more than half of the disk. At some point I will offload the pictures. The Windows VM disk is only 60gb of that.

Linux, VMware - Some of this is just make work. It's interesting more so than necessary :). I've still got done things that I do on the PC - Quicken, my copy of MS Office, TurboTax ... I could migrate some of this to the laptop if I wanted.

Cassie had a trip on her boat today. There was actually sand to run on. I just got back from the barber.

Enough.



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