Author: aron

  • Record Breaking Bike Ride

    19.55 miles is my new longest bike ride of the modern era. Sandy and I went biking on the Cotton Belt Trail mostly. We started in NRH and went 8.2 miles west into Colleyville. I was mostly manual on the way out and then e-biked it back. A good time was had by all.

  • Horn Working Again

    The issue reported yesterday with the clockspring replacement has made some progress, it was the connection that I thought so I pulled it apart and made sure that those connectors were properly seated. So the horn is now working but the airbag light is blinking and the VDC/Slip lights are on. I think the latter…

  • Clockspring Replacement

    So the Xterra is due for inspection and I don’t have a horn. Everything seems fine from a fuse point of view and in reading an article on what it could be it said to hold the horn and turn the wheel and if it beeps then you have a clockspring on the way out.…

  • Perot Museum Field Trip

    The KC Chiefs are the Superbowl champs and it was a nail-biter of a game. I was happy about the outcome. While the 9ers were an amazing football team through the season, they just haven’t paid their dues. A big payment was made last night and they’ll be back. Sandy and I went to exercise…

  • Superbowl Sunday LVIII

    Ah, another Superbowl Sunday. This was an excuse to party in years gone by but like most of those other drinking holidays, this one has faded too. I still don’t understand why the game hasn’t been moved to Saturday. They should have done that for 50 and then on. But it’s the audience that would…

  • New Laptop

    I had a really spirited debate with myself on whether or not I should get a new laptop. My current one is a Dell that’s 5 years old and the keyboard is starting to go. Now that should have been about $50 or so but I got to thinking that it’s time for a new…

  • Synology Woes

    So a couple of days ago, we had an issue with the NAS. It was beeping and complaining that it had a power issue and that the data needed to be scrubbed. I got that fixed and up and running again but then today, it crashed, and when it came back up, 3 of the…

  • Yardwork Finished, Fertilizer Applied

    We got the twigs bound and cut up anything larger and put it on a patio tile base in the corner of the yard to dry out so we should have some firewood by fall. More importantly than finishing up the clean-up, we got fertilizer applied and this will stand as a record of when…

  • Getting Old Is No Fun

    Starting exercise class yesterday along with planting the trees left me physically exhausted so we took today off and did inside stuff. I’m happy that we got the plants in but boy, I forgot how much work it can be. Oh well, it’s nice to take time and do nothing. Back at it tomorrow.

  • Exercise Class and Arborvitae Installation & Maintenance

    So Sandy is more comfortable getting physically fit when she’s in a class setting or working with a trainer. Which is quite the opposite to what I do which is exercise on my schedule. To that end we started the ‘Energize’ class this morning. We’re the youngest and I’m the only guy. My only iffy…