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Name: Eric
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 4/30/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: golf, cars, paintball
Expertise: Computers
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
Message: message me
Member Since:
6/23/2003
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| Tomorrow, June 2, is my Alameda neighbor Hank's 90th birthday. I
remembered him telling me that he always drinks Jack Daniels at 5 every
day, so my gift to him was a bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey.
He invited me into his house and we talked for about 45 minutes. During
our conversation I asked him if he was looking forward to his 90th
birthday and what he had planned. His response surprised and touched me
and left me with a smile. His exact words were "There's nothing in life
that I haven't done. I have no regrets about not doing something."
Hank is completely satisfied with life. He neither yearns for things to
happen in the future, nor does he wish he had done things that he
hasn't done. I think so often we look to the future and think things
will be better than they are now, or we think about the past and tell
ourselves that we would be better off had we done something that we
didn't do.
I was so happy to hear that Hank is so content with life. I hope that
when I'm at his stage in life I can say the same about mine, and I hope
that you can say the same.
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| me: hmm you may not find this as interesting as i did but nevertheless, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKPIOelTgA&feature=related in preparation for the upcoming indiana jones movie ![[smile]](https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif)
Ellen: ok i just watched the videothat was oddly hot haha
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Turns out that somehow the alternator was unplugged and the battery was dead, so my mechanic plugged the alternator back in and I bought a new battery at Kragen and installed it myself :) If you ever want to replace a battery, the proper way to do it is to remove the ground (black) lead first, and then the red. When you're plugging in the new battery, you plug in the red lead first and then the black.
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| Ahh I think everyone remembers that line by Han Solo from Star Wars. Han's ship, the Millennium Falcon, is always on the verge of breaking down. Maybe it adds to the excitement and comic relief of the movie not knowing if his ship is going to work, or maybe it's just in his character to have a ship with poor reliability.
Not so long ago (Thursday) in our galaxy, I experienced a Han Solo moment.
I was on my way to the airport to fly home for a doctor's appointment and a Warriors vs Rockets game (unfortunately my Warriors lost, but it was still a good game) in my 1989 Honda Prelude. It's ghetto, I know, but it can do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.
My car already had trouble getting started; it took me a few minutes to get it to turn over. I was on the freeway when all of a sudden I felt a gigantic lurch and the Check Engine light came on. The car would jerk violently if I let off the gas or stepped on the gas even slightly.
I had two choices: pull over, try to restart the engine and hope that the Check Engine light would go away and that the lurching would stop, or keep on going knowing that there was a chance the engine wouldn't start back up. WHAT WOULD HAN DO!? Han would keep going. Han would make it to the airport and Han would make it to that Warriors game! I knew what I had to do.
I yelled out "HOLD TOGETHER, BABY!" and sped down 15 South and 163 South, while my car groaned and moaned, begging for Chewie to put her back together.
I finally pulled into the airport parking lot and just as I was pulling into my parking space, I lost power steering. Having reached my destination, I turned off the engine, waited a few moments, and then tried restarting it...
Only a few lights came on, and the car didn't even attempt to turn over. It occurred to me that that may have been its final journey, but I was still happy. Why? Because it got me to the airport and I made my flight home to see the doctor, my family, and of course, my Golden State Warriors.
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| If you've lived in San Diego for a while, chances are you've seen at least one hot air balloon floating around on a sunny day. I see them all the time and sometimes they get pretty close to houses and areas where I'd be scared to float around (like the freeway).
Well today I was driving home from work and was rounding the corner in our residential neighborhood when all of a sudden a gigantic hot air balloon took up most of the view in front of me. It was a little dark outside, so for a second I didn't know what it was and thought we were being invaded or something because it was literally in the road. Never having been in one, I guess I never realized how big they were.
Added to my list of things to do...
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