Things I Did – blog.AjCrAzYo.com http://blog.ajcrazyo.com/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:20:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.4 Banana bread https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/127 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/127#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:05:31 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=127 Word problem:
It takes Dick and Jane 5 hours to make 108 banana bread muffins, if they each comsume one muffin every half hour while cooking, how many muffins will remain at the end of the 5 hours?

If you can’t figure it out, I guess you could just go ahead and count them.

]]> https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/127/feed 2 Broken glasses https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/125 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:19:13 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=125 I “fixed” a pair of glasses today by soldering them together. I used an inch long piece of bailing wire to strengthen the joint.

I know this would look and work a lot better if it were welded but I don’t know how to weld, I know how to solder. hopefully it lasts more than a few hours.

]]> Cell phones https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/124 Mon, 25 May 2009 02:10:36 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=124 How many phones do you carry?
I carry three. excessive? maybe. necessary? absolutely.

The first is my Sony Ericsson w760, It gets used primarily for texting & personal calls. Of all the phones I’ve ever owned this one is my favorite. The second phone is a Blackberry 8700c, it’s owned by Honeywell and I carry it because they make me. The third phone is my Nokia 3360. It’s about ten years old and I carry it around because it has “Snake II” which is my favorite game of all time. I spend twice as much time on the Nokia then on the other two phones combined.

]]> Car bearing https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/123 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:04:26 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=123 The front right axle bearing in my car has been getting louder and louder over the past few weeks so I figured I’d better replace it before my wheel falls off or something. I called Goodyear to see how much it would cost to have the whole thing done for me, they said it would be about $500. I figured I could beat that. I started by pulling off the wheel, then the caliper, then the rotor, I unbolted the steering knuckle and pressed the axle out of the knuckle. I don’t have the tools to press out a bearing so I took the steering knuckle to Goodyear and they did it for $50. Here it is just before I started to reassemble everything.

It took 6 hours to get everything apart and about an hour to get it back together. I’m sure the auto shop could have done it faster, but I did it cheaper.

]]> No Trees https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/119 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:26:44 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=119 About a month ago I came home and found a notice on my apartment door. I looked down the hall and saw that everyone else had the same notice on their doors. Here is the relevant part.

What the hell? This really pissed me off. I pulled out my rental lease and gave it a quick read through and there was no mention of not allowing real Christmas trees. So what, they think they can just make up new rules on the fly? whats next? no pumpkins on Halloween? no hard boiled rabbits on Easter? What a bunch of crap. So I called my parents and asked them to find me a small Norway pine tree and bring it down on thanksgiving. here it is.

The funny thing is I wasn’t even planning on having a tree this year.

UPDATE: we ended up keeping the tree all the way into March when all the needles fell off.

]]> Tire Blowout https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/118 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:06:39 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=118 I was driving home on the interstate tonight and my damn tire blew up. I almost veered into the side of a semi truck before getting to the the side of the road to put on the spare.

I didn’t think to take a picture while it was on the car but here it is laying on my patio

]]> Four Wheeler https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/117 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:27:57 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=117 Check out this awesome bruise I got when I flipped my four wheeler into a ditch yesterday.

Pretty neat huh?

]]> Truck Sold https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/116 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:53:26 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=116 I just sold my truck, I’ve been trying to sell it for the last 6 months and now its finally gone. The guy who bought it didn’t have a drivers license, only an ID but he paid cash so I didn’t really care. I wanted to take a picture of him driving my truck away but I didn’t have a camera on hand. Luckily, I made a copy of his ID card and was able to recreate the moment.

Looks pretty real huh?

]]> Fun With My Car https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/111 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/111#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:52:22 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=111 I’ve had a good deal of success working on my own vehicles in the past and this last weekend was my biggest undertaking yet. My car had a leaky heater core so the first half of Saturday was spend disassembling the dashboard. Once I found the heater core, I drained the coolant and replaced the heater. Next I went after the timing belt. To get access to the timing belt I had to un-mount one side of the engine and jack it about 5 inches out of the car. Once the belt was off I took out the water pump. It was getting dark out so quit for the day and went back at it Sunday morning. Reassembly went a lot faster than disassembly. I put the new water pump in, aligned the engine and installed the new timing belt.

After that I remounted the engine, rebuilt the dashboard and refilled the coolant. I started the car and everything worked, which is always good. All that would have cost just under $2,000 at a shop. All it cost me was my weekend and $300 for parts and tools.

]]> https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/111/feed 1 S10 Starter https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/110 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/posts/110#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:22:36 +0000 https://blog.ajcrazyo.com/?p=110 Back in November, the starter died in my truck but I wasn’t willing to dish out $400 to have it replaced. I bought a starter on eBay for $30 and waited for a weekend warm enough to install it and yesterday was it. It took me 4 hours, most of which was spent trying to loosen a single bolt, but I finally got it. Now that it’s running, I’m going to sell it before it breaks down again.

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