So I wake up this morning feeling pretty good. Get a shower and head out 4 minutes ahead of schedule! Pretty good! Anyway I'm just getting out of town when I notice my seat is not in the fully upright position. Well in the evenings I recline it a bit if I'm sitting in traffic and otherwise I like it straight up and down. Anyway so I reach down pull the lever and nothing... it does not come up?!?! hmmm.... ok it's been a little off lately so I recline it a "notch" so the mechanism will relase and then it can go up, it stays one notch lower. Well it's only two notches down from straight up which not so bad until I decide to give it some and it slams all the way back against the back seat, while I'm doing 70 down 225! Hello! After regaining control of the vehicle and my pants I realize the seat now stuck in the fully fully reclined position...WTF! I pull over and jack with it for 3-4 minutes and say screw it, sit on a folded up tarp I have in the back and drive on in to work.
Once in the parking lot I proceed to start dismantling the seat, but it's dark and hard to see and I can't really get anywhere so forget it I go on in and look it up on the internet... a couple of phone calls later I'm off to the dealer to throw gobs of cash at them and see if they can fix it... how much do you think a truck seat costs? I'll answer that in a minute!
Around lunch I get the call "Mr. Morton, this is Allen Samuels Dodge, I got the estimate on your truck... they are going to have to replace the upper part of the seat and the hinge mechanism"... "ok how much is that?"... "the total is gonna run you $422.14." ... "what! for half a seat! forget it!" an hour later I pick up the truck and to thier credit they did not charge me any labor for looking at it. While I'm there I decied to see how much a whole new seat would cost... $1600! Cloth, no electrics, no heat nothing! Basic driver seat! $1600!!!! Insanity...
Ok I stick a big box in the back seat and lean the seat back against it and drive on back to work. Well you know I can't let a sleeping dog lie so I peel the upholstry off the seat. It come off easily with no damage at all, and I'm able to now see the problem, I have a quarter stuck in the hinge mechanism! Oh yes and it's in a tight spot no way am I able to reach it... wow I guess I'm going to have to take the seat out and flip over and shake it out...
Inside the office I tell everyone about the situ and W pulls out the longest needle nose pliers I've ever seen in my life! Hey that might work... p,r,w and me, a lot of jiggling and bloody knuckle later it came out... and it is mangled! That was it, all is well now, except I have to make up a little time at work and now I have a new story to tell!
Long time no bloggie!!!! Taken, are you watching it!!!!! Wow it's really good... can't wait for tonights episode. What did I do for the last week... well let me tell you... not much really. I've been working really really hard at the office and it's resulting in my leaving late and not wanting to blog much.
Angie and I took Dade to a carnival at the mall this week and I was really proud of him. He awas scared but he went on just about everything we asked him to. Some things twice! It was fun fun, and for some reason the total cost was only $12 a person to ride it all! Maybe because there was a competing carnival down the road, or maybe because it was damn cold that night!
I think the HipTop is very cool but the battery just sucks! It is growing in popularity though.
Want to see some very cool 3d renderings and animations? Go here! Where do they get the time to do this stuff!
This is major major geek news...I Robot to made into a movie!
It looks like Spielberg's "Taken" on SciFi is getting RAVE reviews... glad I Tivoed it... might as well set a season pass... I have not started to watch it yet but I will tonight.
Damn I got fat this weekend! Eat eat eat eat eat eat is all I did and now I'm feeling like a whale! Hope everyone else had some good turkey! BTW I saw Bond this weekend... kick ass!
LOOK AT THIS!!!!!! Extreme Tech is reporting about a nasty new virus out there that could really put a hurt on you. Make sure your virus protection is up to date! please!
I'm about to go home, but I thought I'd throw out one link... someone sent me Salpar.net, it's PRON so watch out but anyway it looked interesting, I'll try it when I get home tonight.
From PopSci ... IN DECEMBER VAST HORDES OF EAGER FILMGOERS will mob cineplexes across the land and witness, at the climax of The Two Towers, one of the most anticipated scenes in recent movie history: the great Battle of Helm's Deep. See the rest here... it is an incredible read...
Two days no bloggy! I suck! Today got away from me real quick... damn it!
These assholes! Are sueing people for downloading shared files over Kazaa yep $16 per song and $60 movie! If they delete files and and pay half the bill they won't get sued... let's see them prove it.
What do you do if your Tivo thinks you are gay? Look here and see...to funny!
You've all heard the conspiracy theorys about the "faked" moon landings... well NASA is about to give big up yours by pointing a seriously bad assed telescope at the moon and looking to see if they can see the moon buggy and stuff they left up there. I can't wait to see these pictures.
Pretty geeky here... you can buy the cantenna or you could make the one the Screen Savers did about a month ago.
check out my new custom saber... a true Jedi makes his own saber, I will make my own soon!
Never ever doubt the power of the force! Someone was compelled to pay $28,900 for this original Star Wars Tie Fighter Helmet! WoW!
Well another run of my Jurassic Park Cryocan is almost complete... I have a few extra if anyone is looking for a very very unique gift for christmas... they are $250 each I'll have about 2-4 extras if anyone is interested.
Did you know Comdex is going on... I miss it so much! I'm still hoping to go to CES this year... rumor has it Comdex is leaving Vegas or leaving for good, and coming to, you guessed it HOUSTON! How cool would that be!
Wonder what's goin on at Comdex? Funny you should ask... I spotted this little item about CD quality audio through Bluetooth! For those who don't know Bluetooth is a local small area wireless netowork... think of this you have a Bluetooth PDA and get in your car your Bluetooth car stereo reconizes the PDA and instantly has access to all of the mp3s on it, at the same time it reconizes your phone and knows when the phone rings to lower the volume, oh and your phone and PDA stay in sync just because they are near each other... it's all very cool in theory, well we are about to prove theory to fact.
Looks like all of MS's geeks were at Comdex instead of minding the farm... Longhorn was leaked on Tuesday... it's not functional yet but very interesting things showed up in there.
Modding PS2s and XBoxes have been popular for years, the mods usually allow the user to play bootleged games from overseas or even games that have been copied. Xbox just launched it's Live service and now that is has everyone online it has started to ban mod chip users from it's network...
Seems like every other day a new phone comes out that I want... Here is the letest offering from Nokia. Oh and there is still this cool one too!
Some of you know I collect replica movie props, my collection is growing well, some of prized pieces are The Luke Skywalker Lightsaber, the Map from the Goonies and of course the Cryocan from Jurassic Park... well I'm going to have to add to the wish list pretty soon... This Golden Snitch from Harry Potter looks pretty damn cool!
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Light a kitchen match in a dark room. blow it out. that is the history of the universe.
Damn I got fat this weekend! Eat eat eat eat eat eat is all I did and now I'm feeling like a whale! Hope everyone else had some good turkey! BTW I saw Bond this weekend... kick ass!
