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Aug. 11th, 2021 12:16 amOtakon: I went, I had fun, I survived. Going to a convention felt good. It's been 18 months since Katsucon '20. I don't think I'll go back to attending 8 or 9 cons in a year; 2 is fine, 3 is plenty now.
Lego has recently made a completely new type of roadplates, the kind that actually needs to be built up to use. The old roadplates were big flat pieces that were fine for building on top of, but you couldn't have anything under them. The new type are radically different, and can take bricks underneath. That gives it potential for things like bridges or elevated roads. Or put a few alongside each other for multi-lane highways. As long as there aren't any curves involved. Maybe they're working on that.
Either I didn't get all of the air out of Nozomi's clutch hydraulics or the clutch itself is indeed bad already. She's still sort of driveable in the meantime, but there's a certain squeal that also manifested right before I had the clutch replaced the first time. There's no point in going back to the mechanic who did the first one. They'll either deny they did anything wrong or say that 5 years and 70k miles was plenty (that wouldn't be wrong). She may also need extensive suspension work soon, front and rear. I have a garage, an engine hoist, impact tools, the QuickJack, and I'm not afraid to use them.
Then, when I decided to do a general under-hood check, I pulled the hood release and nothing happened. I don't know what I did wrong when putting the hood latch back together after doing the condenser fan, but I sure did miss something. After raising the front end, removing various splash shields, and pulling on what I could see of the cable, I finally got it to release. Again, I'm lucky in that I discovered this while at home.
I want to take another week off. I could. I almost have to. I still have a lot of vacation time to use up.
Sometimes I feel like I have too many hobbies and interests, or they get too involved. I'll look at something I know I have to do related to those hobbies, then think about the prerequisites for that specific task, then it becomes "I also need/want to do this and that and this and that" and suddenly I throw my hands up and decide it's time to go to bed because my ambitions have gotten too far ahead. It comes and goes. But every now and then, in the process of trying to keep up with said ambitions, I learn stuff. New things, new tricks, new techniques. My skills and abilities go up a bit, making the next project a little easier.
Lego has recently made a completely new type of roadplates, the kind that actually needs to be built up to use. The old roadplates were big flat pieces that were fine for building on top of, but you couldn't have anything under them. The new type are radically different, and can take bricks underneath. That gives it potential for things like bridges or elevated roads. Or put a few alongside each other for multi-lane highways. As long as there aren't any curves involved. Maybe they're working on that.
Either I didn't get all of the air out of Nozomi's clutch hydraulics or the clutch itself is indeed bad already. She's still sort of driveable in the meantime, but there's a certain squeal that also manifested right before I had the clutch replaced the first time. There's no point in going back to the mechanic who did the first one. They'll either deny they did anything wrong or say that 5 years and 70k miles was plenty (that wouldn't be wrong). She may also need extensive suspension work soon, front and rear. I have a garage, an engine hoist, impact tools, the QuickJack, and I'm not afraid to use them.
Then, when I decided to do a general under-hood check, I pulled the hood release and nothing happened. I don't know what I did wrong when putting the hood latch back together after doing the condenser fan, but I sure did miss something. After raising the front end, removing various splash shields, and pulling on what I could see of the cable, I finally got it to release. Again, I'm lucky in that I discovered this while at home.
I want to take another week off. I could. I almost have to. I still have a lot of vacation time to use up.
Sometimes I feel like I have too many hobbies and interests, or they get too involved. I'll look at something I know I have to do related to those hobbies, then think about the prerequisites for that specific task, then it becomes "I also need/want to do this and that and this and that" and suddenly I throw my hands up and decide it's time to go to bed because my ambitions have gotten too far ahead. It comes and goes. But every now and then, in the process of trying to keep up with said ambitions, I learn stuff. New things, new tricks, new techniques. My skills and abilities go up a bit, making the next project a little easier.
