Life and Times

I have set a new personal best by scoring more than the maxium available points on an exam.

I scored +1 on my diagram of a feedback inhibition system for a drawing that was “better than in the book”.

Yay and all that good stuff.

I certainly rant about car service a lot.

Well, this week I’m trying to get the hood latch replaced. I called Barrier to ask about this, they could fix it with parts in stock in under 2 hours… I started this with Overturf Wednesday… and I don’t mean this week’s Wednesday.

Oh yeah, and the pinch sensor for my front passenger window is acting up again. I can’t close the window from time to time. It was replaced Oct 2004, at 46,000mi so it’s under warranty… Overturf can’t find the incident listed…

Anyway, this Wednesday I had an appointment for 2:30pm, a loss of a week, but at least I was going to be able to put washer fluid in again… at 2 I was called and told they couldn’t find the part and would call back to reschedule. I called friday, was sent to voicemail and haven’t heard back yet. I’ve filed a complaint with Audi, Desert had problems, but at least they _tried_. And, they did get better too.

Oh, and Overturf closes 5pm weekdays and isn’t open Saturday at all. Schedules loaner cars weeks in advance (so say, when your car is overheating and needs to go in NOW you can’t get one even though your car is in 4 days). Has no shuttle service (or has told me they don’t when I’ve asked for rides). Now, for my schedule this is generally ok for small things, ie I come in 2:30 Wednesday and hope they can fix before the end of their day. But, how exactly does someone working 9-5 get their car in?

Anyway, I’m looking into Minis at the moment, there are no car dealerships here I’m overly interested in unfortunately.

I hate Kennewick.

Ok, I’ve got too many projects, but I have added another. Missionaryhosting.com will be my new site, it will offer free hosting, and even some web design if I have time, to any Christian missionary or missionary organization.

Domains cost the actual cost incurred and will be available if wanted. name.missionaryhosting.com will be free.

I haven’t worked out all the details in my head as this just now came to me, but I think it’ll be a good use for Cecil, which is a lower cost server than one can get right now from Fast Servers. I would hope to get enough donations to cover the costs, but I’d cover out of pocket. Maybe get it setup through IEO so it’s tax detuctible.

Well, barring anything huge happening, I am going to tag along with a couple of IEO teams going to Tanzania.
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