What's up with your Sunday?

[tjr42px]

DW is still sleeping. DS1 found his way in our bed last night. So while I was with the little one, I'm sure she got little sleep. DS1 is a bit of a kicker in his sleep. She slept in until 9 yesterday! That's crazy. I don't either of has slept that late in 5 years...kids.

Not sure what's on our agenda today. I do know there is left over egg bake and chicken for dinner that I made yesterday. So other than making coffee there is little to do for cooking today. Maybe I'll bring up a slice of breakfast and coffee for DW again this morning. It's rare she gets a peaceful breakfast.

We cleaned the kitchen yesterday and the playroom the night before (it's a disaster again but it was recently clean). We did most of the laundry yesterday. Neither of our teams play until 4:30. It's cold and rainy, but we spent the whole day inside yesterday. Maybe we'll hit up the aquarium or Touch Museum.

[tjr42px]

Currently watching the littlest one try to figure out how to launch him self from the trampoline into the shopping cart. Kid is determined.

[tjr42px]

Just got schooled on a level of Where's My Water...DS1...skillz he has them.

[tjr42px]

Feeding LO and putting him down for a nap I came across this gem. How dumb are people? This has to be a joke.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-delays-flight-by-calling-in-bomb-scare-gets-arrested-still-misses-flight-a6678346.html

[tjr42px]

After putting DS2 down for a nap I found this:

So that's a house, with a garage that doubles as a mailbox (but isn't for cars), a driveway, a boat instead of a car, and that thing that looks like a car (on the left) is actually a chicken coop. Not sure why the coop was needed, but nonetheless, well done my little buddy.

Great day! Hit up a smaller children's museum nearby. Good times, followed by a late lunch at a diner on the way home.

[schicksal]

At work since 5, today and yesterday.

After work I need to place hopefully the last order of parts for the car I'm restoring and in the afternoon we might take chairs/boxes/... to outline the walls for the new floorplan for the part of our house we're soon rebuilding and see if what looks good in my CAD drawing makes sense in person.

Otherwise I need to finish routing, clamping and terminating the power cable for the amps in the car and maybe reinstall the passenger side carpeting and dash speakers if I'm lucky.

[JukEboXtheTanK]

Installed my New K&N Intake in today.



Bottom one is the new intake

DW started painting the babies room. I am not great at painting and she wanted something to do so she is all over it. I moved all the furniture and starting cleaning up a bunch of stuff. Also got an AMP from someone at work yesterday so I figured I install that to my home theater so now my wife doesn't have to get up to change the volume.

Tomorrow I have to do laundry, pet stuff and setup my surround sound on desktop.

[schicksal]

Sunday...
Wasted 2 hours trying to figure out INOP dash lighting (instrument cluster lighting was fine though) only to discover that the lights for all the switches and center console ground at the stock radio for some reason. The car now has a new one so that's why the lights were out.

Also discovered that someone let the smoke out of an amp I bought. Four resistors are blown but ten new ones will cost 12 cents.

[JukEboXtheTanK]

Nov 2, 2015 7:17:09 GMT -5 schicksal said:

Sunday...
Wasted 2 hours trying to figure out INOP dash lighting (instrument cluster lighting was fine though) only to discover that the lights for all the switches and center console ground at the stock radio for some reason. The car now has a new one so that's why the lights were out.

Also discovered that someone let the smoke out of an amp I bought. Four resistors are blown but ten new ones will cost 12 cents.

Ouch that sucks! I have to take my bumper off again this weekend to put more reflective foil over my fogs to make them brighter and plug in part of my headlight that my Headlight guy didn't do. 

BTW if you want your cluster converted colors let me know. I know a guy.

[schicksal]

Nov 4, 2015 20:55:14 GMT -5 JukEboXtheTanK said:

Nov 2, 2015 7:17:09 GMT -5 schicksal said:

Sunday...
Wasted 2 hours trying to figure out INOP dash lighting (instrument cluster lighting was fine though) only to discover that the lights for all the switches and center console ground at the stock radio for some reason. The car now has a new one so that's why the lights were out.

Also discovered that someone let the smoke out of an amp I bought. Four resistors are blown but ten new ones will cost 12 cents.

Ouch that sucks! I have to take my bumper off again this weekend to put more reflective foil over my fogs to make them brighter and plug in part of my headlight that my Headlight guy didn't do. 

BTW if you want your cluster converted colors let me know. I know a guy.

Thanks, though I'm probably the one guy out there that likes the greenish numbers everybody but BMW used for a long time. I've seen people change the dash lighting, probably by overcoming the tint applied to the reverse side of the actual gauge numbering with stronger red/orange bulbs, but I can think of about 20 other places where it would also need to be changed.

On tap for today after work... first redye the console armrest, steering wheel and all seat leather to get the 2 day no-touch time started on that. Then reassemble the instrument cluster, console and other interior bits so that the only thing left to put in are the seats and steering wheel. I'm hoping those resistors get in today too. If that happens all there is left to do are putting the rear suspension and brakes back together, pop in a new transmission filter, seal the pan and fill it up.

[JukEboXtheTanK]

Must be nice to have a garage. I can't do any fluid work at my apartment. My landlord would kill me.

[tjr42px]

Must be nice to have some car knowledge...lol! That's a skill I've never really acquired, but consistently tell myself I should.

[JukEboXtheTanK]

Nov 7, 2015 18:24:52 GMT -5 tjr42px said:

Must be nice to have some car knowledge...lol! That's a skill I've never really acquired, but consistently tell myself I should.

ROFL I am still picking it up. I only started working on my car last November.

[schicksal]

Nov 7, 2015 11:28:11 GMT -5 JukEboXtheTanK said:

Must be nice to have a garage. I can't do any fluid work at my apartment. My landlord would kill me.

I worked my way up to this one. The first was technically a 2 car garage but you couldn't open the door all the way without hitting the other. I insisted on storing two cars in there anyway. Bought a dead 944 for $500 and brought it back to life in there, and I installed blue and white VCT on the floor. Starter house, there were 3 twins to my place on the street.

The next was better... two doors this time around with windows at the top, and it was maybe 3' wider than the last. Early '90s house by a custom builder, still miss the place.

House #3, this one has what will be the ultimate garage. It's about 33' wide x 30' deep with high bays. With lifts there's room for 6. I have an HVAC system ready to go when the 220V runs and subpanel happen next year. Right now it's a mess because tool storage is terrible and I have some building materials to be used this winter hanging around. This place is a 1959 midcentury modern but the garage was added in the late 1970s.

[schicksal]

Car's almost back together. Mechanically I still need to deal with power steering fluid, transmission fluid and filter, axle fluid and flushing brake fluid. Sounds like it's ready to drive except...

The driver's seat can't go back together because the seat bottom heating element still has to come in the mail. I'd love to take it for a spin around the block or even apply electrical power or tune the all-new sound system, except for the part where the airbag electronics are underneath the driver's seat and that's not something I should be stepping on while power is on.