One of those days
We moved back to Seattle 11 months ago, and in the process, my jumper cables got packed. Our garage is full of packed boxes, and my jumper cables are still somewhere in there. The only reason I know this is that I NEED them this morning as apparently I moved my lights from "auto" to "stay on all night and kill the battery". And we have a big event in downtown Seattle today - naturally. Gah. My lovely bride is going to the hardware store to buy jumpers while I blog - er - do my email.
On an unrelated note, Yahoo! just launched their hosting plan for $11.95 a month for unlimited storage. I think there are upload limits of some sort to prevent people from totally abusing it, but for my purposes, it is unlimited. I was on their legacy "standard web hosting" which was $19.95 for 10GB storage, but I switched over this weekend. This new deal is screaming freakin' deal. Aside from all theeislers.com subdomains having 403 errors for about 12-14 hours, it was smooth as a zipper, as my son would say.
Okay, back to email. Still lovin' Live Writer! Also lovin' the fact that Entourage supports accessing Exchange via https://blah.blah.com so no VPN required! I have an Alienware gaming PC with a 30" monitor and one of the new 24" iMacs side by side in my home office, and so I spin 25 degrees in my chair to use one or the other - it is a pretty sweet setup.
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I keep cables in the trunk of every car in the family.
I also keep a small set of wrenches and sockets in the trunk.
BMWs have such a toolkit mounted on the inside of the trunklid. I no longer own a BMW, but I learned the lesson: having a set of tools handy is good.
If for some weird unknown reason I didn't have jumpers in the trunk, I could have grabbed the wrenches and swapped batteries with the wife's car.
OR, here's a trick - loosen your cables, tap them to the wife's battery to start the car, leave it running off the alternator for seconds while you bolt your battery back in place. It's bad to run for any length of time with no battery, it stresses diodes in the alternator, but in a pinch that's one way around the problem.
Of course this doesn't work if you have a Chrysler - some of those require changing the battery through the wheel well - that is, remove the tire to get the battery out.
Posted by: vmarks | March 8, 2008 11:06 AM