Annddd, its Sunday

Started off with the intention of repairing my dads truck. The front differential started making some funky grinding noises last month, thanks in no small part to a leaky seal. We knew the bearings were toast so ordered them and new seals.

Today though, we started diving in and I dropped the drain plug to clear the case and heard two quite distinctive ‘Plop’s. Ran a magnet through the muck and came out with two large chunks. The ring gear is shot. Snapped those teeth right off.

Not sure what my dad intends on doing at this point, but we disabled the front end so he can’t accidently engage it and really screw things up(like lock the front wheels while driving, that wouldn’t be pretty.)

But its sunday, and that means laundry day, and maybe kayak time, and it also means back to work tomorrow. Blah. But ya gotta make the donuts and while I am working the passive income side of things, its just not enough, yet, to tell the job thing ‘sayonara’. I’m a determined stubborn headed mule type; it’ll happen yet.

I broke down though and did get another laptop that is running windoze. I need it for using the Kindle publication program so that I can get a better product from my writing. Yeah, still pounding keys, emulating a room full of monkeys trying to copy Shakespeare. (LOL, like I could actually compete with the Bard himself, NOT!) Its helping in that regard ONLY and only reinforces why I so dislike win-dohs. Thus is one area where I would love to teach programmers the wisdom of “if it ain’t broke, don’t FIX it.” (Interestingly, when I wrote that last, my thumbs typed ‘FUX’. Yeah, thats about what it seems they do with each ‘upgrade’) I much prefered XP and Vista builds over the last 2 or 3 builds. 10, which is what I have on this new unit, purt much flat SUCKS. Its a clonky patchwork of crap that attempts to give the feel of a smartphone operating system(and fails in the most mind-numbing way).

It wasn’t broke boys, but ya tried to FIX it anyway,,,,

Bad programmer, no latté for you!

And its so funny that the reason I need the windohs, is for a program to write a book, that will be read on a unit, that has a unix based OS under the hood. Wait, what? Why?

I couldn’t answer that with any amount of research, and I’d bet Bezos couldn’t either, but some project manager could, if you could comprehend his mumbles.

But, its Sunday, laundry is done, and I hear the gurgle of the river calling to Duh!kee.