How the dog and the car almost died
Well last weekend was the big camping weekend at Kanopolis Lake. We got off early, but everyone else had headed out there first thing so we were already going to be the last to arrive. Andrea and I got off at about 2PM and stopped by the post office to pick up the mail before we packed up and hit the road.
As soon as I got back in the car, Andrea said, “Um… its stuck.” Sure enough the damn car was stuck in park! And we were double screwed because we couldn’t even put it in neutral to get a tow home. So we walk back to the house. Luckily nothing is farther than three blocks away from anything else in Albert! We loaded up the tools in the back of the other car and headed back to see if I could figure anything out. I tried several things, but finally just had to unhook the shifter and craw under the car and shift the transmission by hand, which at that time caused the car to start rolling with me under it! Luckily Andrea was quick on the brake.
Next I swallowed some pride and walked over to the local restaurant and got the owner to help push the car into the street and give us a tow home. I told him I’ll stop by his place and rack up a big bill here soon.
So we made it home. And since we weren’t planning on taking Andrea’s car anyway we loaded up the Toronado as planned and got the heck out of town. Figured I’d worry about the Cutlass when we got back.
Camping was great. It’s always awesome seeing the family and the kids, and it was especially fun haning out with my buddy Chris! We just don’t keep in touch the way we should so it was great to spend a little time hanging out.
One of the nights though, Daisy (who loves to bark at anything that moves within 1,500 ft) took off after a truck. Andrea had her on a leash, but the leash slipped out of her hands. So here goes this stupid little wiener dog chasing after a big ol diesel pickup in the middle of the night with a leash flapping behind her. She runs along side yapping and yapping, then all of a sudden we could see Daisy in the headlights of the truck. About half a second later she appears to trip over something and the truck rolls right OVER her. She goes right between the tires and the truck keeps on going and a bewildered wiener dog finally notices Andrea screaming at her, and in a daze, trots straight back over to the campground. Our guess is her leash she was dragging behind her got caught under a tire and tripped her up.
But despite some unnecessary excitement it was a very excellent weekend. We got Andrea’s car fixed that following Monday after work and Daisy is still the same as always.
Blackout
We’ll be going into communications silence here soon. Internet is getting disconnected here in Great Bend sometime tomorrow. Of course internet in Albert is already up and running, but I won’t be over there until Saturday. Andrea is off tomorrow, so maybe she can at least go over there and take a few boxes and log the server back onto the DSL.
I’ll still have the phone, but it means no Guild Wars or Minecraft. Ack! That’s fine though. Plenty else to do yet to get moved.
See ya on the flip side!
246,865 miles
And that’s as far as she’ll go. Figures, right after the brand new tires.
I think the Toronado is finally done for. I went out to start her up this morning just like every morning and it started up, but then immediately died. Try as I might she wouldn’t turn over, but I couldn’t get it to run again.
So I didn’t have time to mess with it, and it was a nice morning anyway, so I walked to work. Andrea picked me up at lunch and brought me home and I started to trouble shoot. I found that there was no spark at the spark plugs, so after checking all the wires and making sure they were working, I pulled the distributor cap off to see if anything was broken or corroded. Just for S&G’s I had Andrea turn the car over with the cap off…. the rotor didn’t move AT ALL. There’s only a few ways that could happen, and none of them good.
No turn, no spark, no run, no go.
The most likely scenario is the timing chain finally gave out. And to fix that takes more tools than I have, and a good part of the front of the engine needs to be disassembled. We’re talking water pump, balancer, timing cover, hoses, belts, and since the engine is so far forward in this car, the radiator would need to come out to just to get a puller in to get the balancer and timing gears out! ARGH!
It pains me but I think it’s just not worth it. If I can’t sell it quick for cheap I’m going to have to junk it just to get SOME money out of it, because I have to have a car of some kind, and the Blazer isn’t reliable without some work and I still am not 100% sure what’s wrong with it. Ugh. Oh well it’s been a good run. Anybody have some leads on cars? Anything? I’m desperate and would even drive something foreign at this point!
Oh HAIL no!
Well we had quite the hail storm roll through late this morning. Golf ball sized stuff and it fell hard. Did a number on my car. I’m going to have to fix the hood, roof and trunk. No other serious damange that I could find.
Figures. In a week and a half my car would have been parked safely in a garage. 
My El Camino project is no more.
Well the landlord came by today with a saw to cut down limbs. Instead of getting me to move the car, he goes ahead and chops one down above the car and wouldn’t ya know it punches in the roof. 
Luckily I hadn’t done a ton of work to the car yet. But I sure was looking forward to the spring and diving into it. Even found a new transmission to put in, and I had fenders, a hood, doors and a new rear bumper all ready to put on.
My landlord is a good guy and mistakes happen. He’s gonna call his insurance company next week, but it’s without question totaled. Dunno how much I’ll get, but I guess I’ll put it towards another El Camino.
Just feeling blue about it all.
biebsworld hacked
everything is gone … the forums everything… it is GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
CRAP!
Red’s was closed Saturday because of the Labor Day weekend. I decided I’d get up early and get ALL my house work and chores done so I could have two whole days to myself. It all started out great! I was a cleaning fool and by ten that morning all I had left to do was clean out the tub in the spare bathroom. Yay me!
Well, before Tyson packed up and left he’d mentioned that the guest tub was draining REALLY slow. So I thought I would use the stuff the landlord gave me to unclog it, Rossilite. (You see were my first problem was… I THOUGHT!)
Duane saw that I was getting ready to try to do some plumbing and he immediately realized that THAT was not a great idea. He jumped in there and poured in some of HIS drain-unclogger-kinda-stuff, called Liquid Fire. Soon as he did it the smell was BAD. I’m not talking poopy-diaper-bad or even driving-by-a-feedyard-bad. It was so bad I had to go outside just to breath. Duane said the drain was completely clogged and all the sewer gases were coming back up AND he was sorry but he had to leave and get his truck ready for a haul.
We called the landlord and he came over to try and fix it. Since Duane had scooted on me, I had to help Gus with the plumbing. On top of the chemical Duane had already put in, Gus added another, then another. After he had combined three different chemicals I had had enough of it all. Granted, I never made it through a full semester of Chemistry, BUT I really think combining all those bubbly acids in a small, unvented area is on the dangerous side of the scale.
After all Gus’ mad scientist routine, my guest bathtub is still plugged and still stinking. I have those rooms closed off, air conditioner is off and all the windows are open that I could get open with fans going. Febreze helps for a little while. But I gotta tell ya, this smell is kicking my ass.
Duane took off for Missouri, Nebraska and Texas last night and before he left he said, “It smells bad when you first walk in, but you’ll get used to it when you’re in here.” Yeah, I don’t friggin’ think so!
Biebsworld crashed
some how ive lost everything so dont visit biebsworld for awhile its gone. I’m working with support to get this resolved.
Wedding Date
I know that I had agreed that we had set a date, but it has been changed yet again.
I talked to my advisor, and it turns out that I can’t take any of my major courses over the summer. Yes, it sucks. So, this will push me back another semester. Unless my dad agrees that it’s okay for us to get married before I graduate, then it looks like either the spring or summer of 2009.
Sorry to let you all down, cause I knew how excited everyone was to finally know. Things change, and the university has to be a pain in the butt! If I take 15 hours each semester I will graduate in the fall of 2008. So, at least I can give you a heads up on when my graduation will be! 
I hope to get a date sent to everyone by this summer. Until then, erase the previous date that Matt told you to put down in pencil! Love you all!
I think a part of me just died.
Yes, it’s true. I think my Nintendo 64 has played it’s last game. I’ve been in the mood for some old school N64 gaming the past couple days, so I go to fire it up, and glorious glorious sound…but no video. I spent at least 30 minutes making sure I had all the connections right and making sure the cables weren’t bad. But nothing I could do would bring back the video.
It’s kinda sad. I mean, all the time I spent playing that Nintendo 64 is probably an easily measurable percentage of my life. All 120 stars in Super Mario 64. All the record times in Mario Kart, all the GoldenEye Fests/Perfect Dark Events. There’s a lot of my history in that little machine as nerdy as it is. So I’ll admit I was pretty sad when I finally realized that it probably isn’t going to work anymore.
So I’m going to have to scower the local game shops and see if they have any N64s. They should be pretty darn cheap. Hopefully I don’t have to resort to eBay. But one way or another, I shall game again! Luckily the console is easy enough to replace. Finding decent controllers on the other hand, that’s a challenge.
Kids these days.
So I’m doing the show right? And I get a lot of kids calling in, it’s just the way it goes.
Well this girl calls me and says, “Hey! Today is my friend’s birthday and she wants to hear ‘I’m In Love With A Stripper’.” This girl couldn’t have been but 12 or 13 years old. When I was 13, I was wishing I were old enough for somebody to give me a job. Oh well right.
I ask, “What? Is your friend really in love with a stripper or something?”
She says, “No, that was just her first slow dance song and she wants to hear it again.”
Wha!? Maybe it’s because I went to school in po-dunk ville USA, but that never would have gotten played at any of our school dances. And even if it were, I’d be pretty uncomfortable out there slow dancing to “I’m In Love With A Stripper.” What has the world come to!? I can’t believe I’m leaving my elderly years in the hands of these hoodlums.
flashing a bios
well i figured out how to flash the bios on my computer using a usb flash drive however i hosed it before fixing it
when someone says that flashing a bios from a usb is easy and possible to do. laugh at them then kick them in the balls(assuming the person who told you was male)
after hosing my machine i got out ole yellow jacket and did some research and found out that my mobo bios could only be flshed with a floppy my machine didnt have a floppy =( …then i remembered i had a couple of part machines and …what do you know one of them had a floppy drive in it. I created a boot disk put both my flashing utility and bios image on the drive and followed the instructions on the site i found …tada i was able to do it with the floppy drive and im up and running again with a new and fresh bios =)
Wow! What happened?
I’ll tell you what happened. I’m a scatter brained putz. I ordered some new parts for my computer (motherboard and processor) and needed to reinstall windows. There’s about seven different ways I could have backed up all my info. None of which I utilized. So the old BGWillers.com and everything it was is gone. Along with all my pictures and music, and videos, and everything else. Why I didn’t save any of it, I don’t know.
But the blog itself (the posts and comments) are always saved on Blogger, so to get this thing back up it was just a matter of republishing everything. I moved the webserver. It’s no longer on my home machine. It’s now on ucom’s webspace. Which (as terrible as ucom is) will be better in the long run.
The photos section, as I mentioned, is gone. As in deleted forever. Some of the photos survived. But for the most part it’s all gone. Hopefully I can revive it to some extent in the future, but as for now this is the whole site. Have fun at the new, remakably similar B.G. Willers.com!
We suck again!
Heart and soul of the Chiefs running game, Priest Holmes, will no longer be playing football this season. Priest took a helmet to helmet hit two weeks ago against San Diego. Fox Sports online stated that he has bruised in his spinal canal, and will most likey retire as early as Wednesday (today). After that team doctors will re-evaluate him as to his playing status for future seasons.
