Boy O boy, ain't I a great blogger. I promise to make more of an effort to keep this up somewhat better.
Worked on the LeMans most of the weekend. New master cylinder, rear wheel cylinders and front calipers, new shoes and pads, and one new brake line. Still need to bleed the system, hopefully more lines won't break.
Mostly fixed the heat problem in the Voyager, backflushed the heater core. Now instead of getting 60 F air from the heater I'm getting 110 F. Not as good as the Gladiator's 130 F, but I'll take it for now.
Wouldn't ya know it, I almost get the other two running correctly and the Gladiator, old reliable, starts to have brake problems. Pulls ferociously to the right in a hard stop. I guess I'll park it for now and get the LeMans done.
New network is almost there. Don't go IP in a large phone system unless you have plenty of time and money to throw at it. 10 weeks since we brought it online and went live and we still have glitches. IP Telephony is SOOOO dependant on having perfect network connections, not tolerant like a PC. When someone moves a large file across the network (all the time with digital imaging) the burst of packets even over a 1 gig link will cause the phones to drop out and sound like a bad cell phone. Even though they are on separate vlans and with QOS and bandwidth limits. I have the Extreme Networks support people looking into now because it shouldn't.
Got a bunch of 78's and victrola records from bro, used to belong to dad and grandad and ?, they pretty much date from about 1908 to 1957. Borrowing a friends 78 rpm turntable to rip them. How about "The Three Little Pigs" as told by Al "Jazzbo" Collins? Or "Avalon" by Al Jolson? Or "After Taps" by Kate Smith? Most of them are pretty rough but still good listening.
Finally got around to getting Myst V End of Ages. A little tougher then I remember Riven to be. I missed Myst IV, I'll have to get it. Myst V is very specific on hardware requirements, fortunately so am I and I have the correct sound and video cards. Before I saw the requirements.
That's enough for one sitting I think. Later!
