Daily Archives: January 22, 2012
Buzzers and Tabasco . . .
You can tell Nick’s on his way to Texas, and will be here tomorrow afternoon.
Note that it’s sunny tomorrow morning, but the rain is due in tomorrow afternoon, and then rain all next week.
But on Saturday, when he leaves, it’s sunny again. Funny how that works out.
But rain or no rain, we’re really looking forward to seeing them again for the few days they’ll be here.
Jan and I are big fans of dragons, and I recently found these two neat pictures on the Internet and wanted to share them.
I really like the Tabasco baby bottle. The way I like spicy hot food, I wonder if I had one of these.
On another note, the turn signal indicator on the rig does not make enough noise for me to hear it. Jan can hear it from the passenger seat, but due to too many gun shots and and playing loud bands, I can’t.
So today as I was going through one of the bins, I came across a little 12vdc buzzer unit and decided to fix the problem.
I removed the flasher unit (that’s the red box) from under the dashboard panel and made up a couple of spade lug jumpers. crimping the buzzer leads into the jumpers.
I then Gorilla Taped the buzzer (that’s the little black unit) to the side of the flasher unit.
Here’s another shot of the leads.
I then plugged the jumpers into the flasher socket and checked it out. Loud and Clear!
While I’m on a roll, I also want to do one as a ‘headlights on’ alarm. I’ve got the diodes, but I’ll have to look and see if I have another buzzer. If not, they’re only a couple of bucks.
Other than this, it was a pretty quiet day. Jan cleaned (company’s coming) and I worked on some projects outside. For lunch Jan heated up some delicious leftover Mexican. I think it was almost better than originally.
Then around 5pm, I headed over to my client’s office to do some stuff that’s easier done when no one’s on the network.
Jan and I are really looking forward to Nick and Terry getting here tomorrow, even with the weather they’re bringing.
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Thought for the Day:
“…. that he is incapable of staying on the river of a thought, and is constantly lured down tributaries from which he can never quite work his way back–you can see him batting the little paddles of his mind against the weeds, trying desperately to return to the river but not remembering where it is, or where it was going."
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