This morning I woke up at 7:00. We drove our friend's car to my dentist appointment because the Chrysler transmission was in "limp mode" after coming home from our end of the semester celebration dinner. Apparently the Chrysler is in no mood to celebrate.
At the dentist, while accompanied by Bing Crosby Christmas tunes, the petite, blond hygienist went at my teeth with what can only be described as a death metal shred guitar technique. It seemed like she used a low E guitar string to floss. Afterwards I felt like I had fallen off of my bike and gotten road rash on my gums. My teeth however, are spotless!
We drove our friends car back home and we tried the Chrysler out in the parking lot, but when we put it in gear we only heard one thump. This indicates that it is in limp mode. Two thumps and you are good to go. No thumps mean the engine stalled when you shifted from park to drive. You can also see square boxes around the PND3L indicators on the dash when in limp mode... if the instrument cluster is working. As the instrument cluster was not working this morning, we relied on the one thump/two thump method. I grabbed a ratchet and 5/16" socket and disconnected the transmission control module (TCM) under the hood of the Chrysler to reset the fault code that causes the car to drive in limp mode, where 3000 RPM gets you about 30 MPH. After 10 seconds I reconnected the TCM, listened and when shifting into drive heard two thumps, and so, we drove in to work.
In the parking garage, I passed the car with the I Brake For Meteorites! bumper sticker. I have never seen the driver, but I am willing to bet that he is a nerd.
At work, at 10:35, the door was still locked. Friday at the University! No one else is here, except for Dr. Death, who is, at the moment I write this, still alive.
At my desk, I logged into the webserver for our new lab and was pleasantly rewarded with a log file that shows that the firewall I configured has kept the Chinese out. I rushed the server into production for my boss, and kept hearing a "tick........tick..........tick" from the hard disk as the machine updated the failed login logfile. Someone had been trying to brute force into the machine with computer generated usernames and passwords. From the logs, it appears that the attacks came from China. After messing around with it for a while I found a good configuration for the PF firewall, that allows all web traffic, and allows only me to administer the machine. I reinstalled OpenBSD 4.2 and set up PF with logging, and have to say that OpenBSD is the best OS that I have ever used for a server. I also use it on another computer for a desktop machine, and am typing this right now on it in Firefox.
In my Email Inbox, I see that I have won the Irish Lottery.
One interesting hit to this blog from yesterday was a BellSouth customer from Birmingham Alabama looking for "ccw Desert Eagle" on google. Problems in Birmingham must be worse than I thought. My sage advice: Dude, get a 1911, then you will be able to defend your family and people won't laugh at you behind your back.
(Me with Laurence welk voice): And now, I leave you with Slayer playing an interpretive number titled "Raining Blood". I wonder if the song writer from Slayer and I go to the same dentist office?
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2 comments:
Well that wasn't a great start to the day.
Good blog and to each his own in his or her views. I spent many summers in Knoxville and Kodak, long before it became the tourist area it is today.
I have family there now.
Peace Out,
Ella
Still goggling at the notion of somehow concealing a Desert Eagle upon one's person...
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