Rufus The Doofus

I’ve been working on cleaning the garage the past few days. Why? I needed to find a 14mm box-end wrench recently and gave up after up after 30 minutes of digging through piles and boxes. I know I have at least six of these wrenches somewhere in the garage. The whole [...]

It’s been a little over two weeks since lightning blasted some of my stuff. My “computer” life is starting to get back to normal finally.
The new Dell Precision T7400 arrived. I’ve been working on getting it setup for the past few days. It’s a dual quad-core Xeon system so I [...]

It’s the summer solstice today, the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. Ain’t that special? So special we’re having a party and you’re invited. See ya tonight.
Don’t know what the Summer Solstice is?

When you’re self-employed and go on vacation for a month there’s always a ton of stuff to catch up on when you get home. That’s what I’ve been up to for the last week. Unfortunately mother nature threw me some curve balls mid-week that we a real pain in the butt.

After 6,350 miles we’re back home now. Cody and Philo are asleep in their normal spots. We’re all happy to be home.

We’re still broken down. The shop that’s working on it didn’t have any luck fixing it today and said they couldn’t source a replacement fuel injection line anywhere. I ordered a complete set from 4 Wheel Auto in Edmonton, Alberta. They are sending them via FedEx overnight. I should have them [...]

We ran into some car troubles today on the way to Connecticut. The number two cylinder high pressure injection line developed a leak at the injector fitting and was spraying fuel all over the engine compartment. I found the local doofus mechanic/wrecker operator and he “fixed” it with a horrible solder job. [...]