04-19-2014, 05:52 PM
Well, I'd said I wasn't going to work on the van today. Silly me. I got an email alert that the packages with the decoders and computer parts had been delivered so I wad going to go to my fathers place to get them. Went to start my van and 'CLICK'! So I ended up having to work on it anyway. Took off the clamps and cables then put a steel brush bit in the Dremel and polished everything. Posts, clamps, cable ends, nuts, bolts, tabs. It all got cleaned. Put it all back together and it starts up great now. Still gotta get a new battery though. This ones toast. About ten to twenty seconds cranking is all it's good for then it's just real slow cranking. By the time I got it started I was wiped. So went down to my fathers place and opened the packages there. I inspected them them put everything in one box for ease of carrying.
Power went out too. For about five hours. There were about thirteen hundred homes effected. When it came back on my step mothers Life Alert system got a wild hair and called 911 so we were all surprised when an ambulance showed up in the driveway.
Had to change the filter canister on my wound vac. It's only been one day and it was full already! It holds 150 ml and it was indeed full. So it has a new filter on it now. I put the old one in a gallon bag so the Home Health nurse can see it Monday.
My father wants me to go with him to the Easter service at church tomorrow morning. I don't often go to church services as I'm very uncomfortable around crowds But I decided that since it's a special day I'd make an exception and go. Also he hasn't got many years left and I want to spend as much time with as I can with him. We didn't get along well when I was younger and it seems we're both trying to make amends for that in the last few years. He's mellowed quite a bit and I've calmed down a lot from the wild person I used to be.
Here you can see the Digitrax decoders and most of the computer boards I picked up. The CP/m board is already in a computer and isn't in this photo. What is here is a RAM expansion card and three disk drive controller cards.
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Power went out too. For about five hours. There were about thirteen hundred homes effected. When it came back on my step mothers Life Alert system got a wild hair and called 911 so we were all surprised when an ambulance showed up in the driveway.
Had to change the filter canister on my wound vac. It's only been one day and it was full already! It holds 150 ml and it was indeed full. So it has a new filter on it now. I put the old one in a gallon bag so the Home Health nurse can see it Monday.
My father wants me to go with him to the Easter service at church tomorrow morning. I don't often go to church services as I'm very uncomfortable around crowds But I decided that since it's a special day I'd make an exception and go. Also he hasn't got many years left and I want to spend as much time with as I can with him. We didn't get along well when I was younger and it seems we're both trying to make amends for that in the last few years. He's mellowed quite a bit and I've calmed down a lot from the wild person I used to be.
Here you can see the Digitrax decoders and most of the computer boards I picked up. The CP/m board is already in a computer and isn't in this photo. What is here is a RAM expansion card and three disk drive controller cards.
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Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Collector of Apple //e's
Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam