Status of things
Jul. 9th, 2008 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyGenerator: Totally torn down. I'm not sure where I'm going to go with it, but I'm leaning towards slapping it together and giving it to my brother. I hate to just throw it away since it's generally acceptable, but I looked around last night and current generators are MUCH nicer. This one has THE most primitive engine in existence, and no muffler to speak of. I may put it back together and just see if the oil problem is something stupid like a leaking breather.
MP3 player: Shorted out in the rain last night. Even disassembly, cleaning with MAF solvent and drying on a heating pad only got it to where it'll play (though it thinks the new battery is nearly dead) and it won't connect to USB right. Oh well, it's a $10 player. I'm going to see if I can find L's old 1G Samsung player. Or maybe that old blue Sansa I had before; it's not ideal but it works, I just don't know exactly where it is. I used the 30G Zen this morning; it's a fantastic player but way too big to carry in a bike much. If I do buy something new, it'll probably be a 2G Zen Stone. Unless Woot puts cheap-ass Sansas on sale again soon. chinavasion has a few interesting looking tiny players with FM radios (required for me) - if they had one that would record from line input, I'd be on it.
Around the house: I've been dealing too much this week with entropy; trying to fix something that just broke, or recovering. Also been spending several hours preparing for the incoming DS invasion. I need to just ignore non-emergency stuff and get the house into shape and prep for next week's trip, or it's probably going to get pretty unhappy in the next few days.
MP3 player: Shorted out in the rain last night. Even disassembly, cleaning with MAF solvent and drying on a heating pad only got it to where it'll play (though it thinks the new battery is nearly dead) and it won't connect to USB right. Oh well, it's a $10 player. I'm going to see if I can find L's old 1G Samsung player. Or maybe that old blue Sansa I had before; it's not ideal but it works, I just don't know exactly where it is. I used the 30G Zen this morning; it's a fantastic player but way too big to carry in a bike much. If I do buy something new, it'll probably be a 2G Zen Stone. Unless Woot puts cheap-ass Sansas on sale again soon. chinavasion has a few interesting looking tiny players with FM radios (required for me) - if they had one that would record from line input, I'd be on it.
Around the house: I've been dealing too much this week with entropy; trying to fix something that just broke, or recovering. Also been spending several hours preparing for the incoming DS invasion. I need to just ignore non-emergency stuff and get the house into shape and prep for next week's trip, or it's probably going to get pretty unhappy in the next few days.
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Date: 2008-07-09 06:20 pm (UTC)