5/14/08

Ok, this week is going very slowly. I'm not sure why that is. Actually, I do think I know why. Work is dreadfully slow this week. I've had one thing scheduled each day leaving the rest of my time mine to kill. I can only spend so much time talking to y'all before I get bored, no offense. It isn't you, it’s me. I can’t think of things to say a lot of the time. Well, here’s a perfect example I suppose. I'm just ranting away, saying nothing. Ok, so here’s something. I have been thinking about the floor shifter for Mr. Wiggly. There is no provision for a reverse lockout. Normally that wouldn’t even occur to me except that reverse is where first would be on a four speed. I know I'm going to try to cram that thing into reverse while rolling up to a stop sometime. Actually, what will be worse is I'll drop it in reverse at a stoplight, thinking it is first, and pull a “Better Off Dead” where I back into the car behind me when the light changes. [ I've always thought of that as an "American Graffiti" move... - SM ] No, I need to engineer a reverse lockout. I've got a few ideas in mind but I really need to have the part in front of me to come up with something workable. I'm torn between a plate on the floor or a pin of some sort on the lever. It will probably wind up being a combination thereof. I suppose a simple brake light switch mounted on the floor plate that would illuminate a warning light on the dash would work. It wouldn’t prevent a downshift into reverse but it would keep me from backing up at a light. I wonder if the reverse lights work in that thing. It would be the only old car I have where they do. I don’t think I've ever had a Datsun with working reverse lights. Well, maybe when they were stock, but they don’t stay that way for long once I get a hold of them. I just had to run across the street to pick up a projector. Now I'm back. What was I talking about? Oh right, I suppose if the reverse lights in Mr. Wiggly work, I could tap into that circuit for my warning light on the dash. A buzzer wouldn’t be such a bad idea either. Perhaps if I can’t finger out a lockout I'll go that route. So the other day I was thinking about a cartoon I really enjoyed back in the eighties. It was a British affair called “Danger Mouse.” I decided to go to Amazon.com and buy it on DVD. It arrived the other day and I finally brought the first season to work. I watched a few episodes this morning and I think I'll go watch a few more now. Yes, that is what I'm going to do. See you in a bit. Well, “Danger Mouse” was much better in my memory. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. It will just be one of those esoteric items in my DVD collection to make people go, “Hmm, so that’s why he’s like that.” Well, Pat and I are going to have bait for dinner tonight. I just finished texting with him to confirm that we’re meeting at 1830 h at Wasabi Sushi. I can hardly wait! I really like bait. Yummo. Speaking of “yummo,” I missed “House MD” on Monday. Apparently he got hit on the head or something and had a hallucination about Dr. Cuddy doing a striptease in a naughty Catholic school girl outfit. I found it on Youtube and have watched it a couple times. Holy moley! I mean she’s hot in her usual outfits but this was “homina, homina, gna, gna, gna, woo, woo, woo!” hot. Perhaps Spiderman will do y'all a favor and link to it. Oh, she’s good. She was so good in fact that I almost had to go to a strip club myself last night. If I had, and there had been a girl there who looked even remotely like Lisa Edelstein, I probably would have dropped a couple hundred dollars on her. Aw, who am I kidding? I would have dropped a couple hundred if she looked nothing like Lisa Edelstein. I probably would have bought her a car if she did! That got me to thinking; I wonder how many strippers who remotely resemble her had really good nights after the airing of that episode. I wonder how Juan would go about researching something like that. I don’t suppose there really is a way to do that. Oh well. Hey, would you look at the time? It is 1525 h already! I think I'll go play some solitaire for the next half hour or so and then call it a day. Toodles.