I know I said I would update more regularly, but I had an interesting issue, or three.

First issue for fun and enjoyment, my laptop died. Dead. Kapoot. I can get the data off of it, which is good because it had a lot of my stuff on there, but it would not charge at all. The charger works, and no I didn’t lick it to find out. It would just not charge or turn. So reset in peace Annonymous. For a replacement I am using an iBook G4, it is actually a really nice replacement for 90% of the simple things that I do. I read email, try to respond to it, look at web pages, I tried to do a blog update but couldn’t type overly well on it, REALLY small keyboard.

I also got another car, I need to post a pic or two of it, maybe Angsto will want to run downtown this weekend and take a couple pics of it. It is an 1998 Honda Civic CX. The manufacture color is “Dark Amethyst Metallic Pearl” that means it is a pretty shiny purple color. Although to be honest and fair to it, the car does look blue in some lights, grey in some lights, and purple in direct sunlight. The idea behind it is to save gas, it gets about 35MPG so keep the moding on it to things that will only improve MPG I should be good.

I am trying to find a tip that is helpful and when asking a couple of people they had some interesting ones, today we are going with Kolbold’s choices of commands:

Tree – shows you a tree view of all the folders on your computer.

Attrib – allows you to view and change the attributes on a file or folder

Assoc – shows you the file association view, by extention

Find – allows you to locate files form the command line.

Ok, this post goes under the How-To section I don't have. But it is basically how to relocated the air condisioner controls from the stock location

To the glove box

This is a bit drawn out and not for everyone, so if you are interested click More...

So on Wednesday I was involved with an accident with a BMW 3 series, I did not get the year or the plate number, but it did some bad stuff to my SUV.

Now you figure BIG Denali vs small BMW the BMW would have the worst, nope, not a broken light on the thing. The Denali on the other hand

Talk about an ouchie. it is all "beauty" damage though, the parts should be just a simple plug and play, then paint.

Not to bad for my first car accident though, her water had broken about ten minutes before this happened. The other car motioned like it was going to make a turn, so I got up close and then it stopped and POW! I had turned hard to the right to try to prevent from hitting them at all. I missed be just a little and ended up not driving to the hospital but being taken as a passenger in the police car while she road in the ambulance.

So this past weekend was the FFF Show, I can not find a link to it, but it was HUGE. My Club web, and we all showed. But we were only 10 of about 620, so yeah a lot of vehicles showed up. The fun part was getting down there, I ended up leaving with the Second Half caravan, that included a 94 Camero, a 89 Chevy Full Size towing a 59 Impala. and  myself. The fun started when the truck over heated and was waiting on the side of the road. The side of the road was at the merging of two freeways, right in the middle. But they were able to get it going again and then we got to the hotel. At the hotel it was a night of drinking, and staying up late.

The next day at the show it was going around and checking out what others had done, looking at the eye catchers, and the ones that didn't really stick out. It was fun, one of our club members brought home a trophy for his 59 Impala.

The down side to the event was it is hot and dusty out there in Lake Perris. Really dusty, so if the  heat doesn't wear you out, then the dust hitting you all day will. The annoying part is I got a sunburn on top of my ears. But it was still worth it, and I would do it again, for at least a couple of more years.

And no reason for a video with this one, I am not talking about anything over the top.

So I traded my small car in for a big SUV. It is a 2004 GMC Yukon Denali. It is also really huge and not to bad to drive

It does not get the greatest gas mileage, so I will be open to taking some tops on how to improve that if you have any. But what it will help me do is use public transportation more and mainly use it as a weekend family transport. It is nice, has a lot more creature comforts then the Lexus had. It has heated front and rear seats, DVD NAV system in dash, read DVD player, 6disk in dash changer, stereo controls on the steering wheel, and 1-touch power front windows. It is a really nice large SUV. It also has All time All Wheel drive so it doesn't handle like a truck. It actually has a pretty good turning radius as well. I have not done anything major yet, the wheels are not meant for off-road, they are actually really shiney.

No video with this.