Daily Archives: December 13, 2017
Pizza and Ocean Blue . . .
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On my way home from work I detoured over by Sundowner Canvas to pick our finished awning and dropped off the old one.
Karma thinks the Ocean Blue looks pretty good.
I’ll install the new one tomorrow afternoon and then let them know how it fits. Then they can do the other rear one.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I was going to take a look at our friend Bob’s Kindle. It would not longer charge so I thought I’d pop it open and see what I could do. And unfortunately, that was not much.
First thing I did was check the voltage from the wall charger which showed 5.5 volts, right on target.
This is a first generation Kindle, one that probably a lot of you have never seen.
It debuted on November 19, 2007 and cost $400. The first run sold out in five and a half hours and was out of stock for the next five months.
Besides the hardware keyboard, another difference is the fact that the charge connection is separate from the data connection.
The first thing I noticed is that when you plug the charger connector in, it doesn’t seem to touch anything, just moves around in the hold.
So taking out the screws under the back cover, I popped the case open.
And it was quickly evident why it wasn’t charging, and why there was no connection.
The entire inside connector had melted and broken loose from the circuit board. So it’s pretty much toast.
BUT . . . if you were really determined to save it, you could solder two wires to the circuit board contacts and then run them out the old charge connector hole. Then you could install a new connector on the wires and a matching one on the charger wire.
It wouldn’t be pretty, but it would work. However, the time involved probably wouldn’t be worth it for a 10? year old device when you can buy a new Kindle Fire for $50.
For dinner tonight we decided to hit up the Grimaldi’s Pizzeria at Baybrook Mall. After thinking about it, it’s been nine months since we last were at a Grimaldi’s and that was this past March in Tucson at the 57th Escapade, where we had dinner with our friend’s Chris and Charles Yust.
So it was about time for another slice.
After our Chopped Kale Salad, we got the big (18”) pizza with Pepperoni, Mushrooms, Italian Sausage, and Meatballs.
Cooked in their Coal-Fired Brick Oven, it doesn’t get any better than this. And we also get the big so we can eat half and take the other half home for leftovers. Yumm!
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Thought for the Day:
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