One of the blogs I read daily is Engadget.com (see link in column on the right), and they just reported that Honda fudged their odometers so that they showed nearly 4% MORE miles than the vehicle had actually driven.
Great! Of course, we just so happened to lease a 2004 Honda Odyssey from June 2004 to June 2006 and had to pay Honda ~$200 because we went over on our miles allowed on our lease. Here's to hoping we get all that dinero back asap.
Honda Overclocked Odometers
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Comcast Rant: update
Picking up where I left off...Comcast had gone 30 hours without fixing my phone when they said it would be finally "fixed" within 24 hours after 5+ weeks of ongoing problems. So due to travel and other commitments, I had it on my "to do" list yesterday to call Qwest and sign up for their DSL service. I would then cancel Comcast services once Qwest was running.
At around 8:13am yesterday, Comcast called to say they had fixed the problem. After a quick test of my own, I discovered he was right. This creates an interesting dilemma.
So...should I stick with my promise of cancelling, or should I stay with Comcast and avoid future hassles? Post your comments to let me know. I'll share my decision later.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Everyone always talks about the weather, but never seems to do anything about it.
First off, that title is a quote from Carl Sandburg. I don't know why I thought of it since I'm not the type to spout out random quotes from literary giants, but it came to mind - so why not let the opportunity go to waste.
This is now uncharted territory. Two posts on a blog - and in one day no less. So I thought I share what's happened regarding the weather here in MN. While most Minnesotans pride ourselves in being hearty and dealing with harsh winters, this past weekend was a doozy. It never got above 0 degrees, and the overnight lows got into the upper negative teens. Add another negative 20 degrees or so for wind chill, and it's pretty darn cold.
Now, normally I wouldn't make these types of posts about the weather (so now you don't have worry about boredom on future posts), but today we learned about a new problem in our house that the winter has caused. It started Saturday morning when we went to empty the dishwasher which we had run overnight. When we opened it up, the bottom was filled with water. I thought the drain might be clogged, so I did some disassembling without finding any culprits. I suspected it might be the pump, but didn't want to tackle that problem. Well, today I was asked to pick up Karsten from Kindergarten and Kiera from pre-school so that Nikki could try to get to work by 4pm. I got home to a crying infant (Avalyn) and an 19-month-old (Teagan) who had just awakened from a nap and had a leaky diaper that went through her whole outfit. Oh, and Nikki was coming upstairs to say there was water on the floor in the laundry room. I didn't even get to kiss Nikki she went out the door so fast.
So I called our plumber (a friend from church, Jim Morrison - give him a call) since it seemed to be a sewer line back-up. They recommended a different friend that did that kind of work, who came over a couple hours later. After an hour of trying to snake the line, he couldn't get it unclogged. The nice technician (Paul Olsen, from a one-guy company named Alpha Plumbing) said he thought the line was frozen or collapsed. We're hoping it's the former.
Paul recommended that we call Viking Sewer and Drain since they had cameras they could run through the line, and also have a steam system to melt any frozen areas. I called them at 9pm and got a busy call center, followed by a return call from a technician within 5 mins. They are coming tomorrow afternoon (since they can't get any more hot water tonight - scary thought) at a fee of at least $350. Crap. I hope our tax refund is bigger than expected. More updates later.
Update: $435 later and 3 companies later, we now have an unclogged sewer line. The guy that got it unblocked said there was 15 feet of frozen "stuff" in there. Maybe that $435 wasn't such a bad deal after all... Now we can start saving to fix the dishwasher (or get a new one if that may be cheaper.)
This is now uncharted territory. Two posts on a blog - and in one day no less. So I thought I share what's happened regarding the weather here in MN. While most Minnesotans pride ourselves in being hearty and dealing with harsh winters, this past weekend was a doozy. It never got above 0 degrees, and the overnight lows got into the upper negative teens. Add another negative 20 degrees or so for wind chill, and it's pretty darn cold.
Now, normally I wouldn't make these types of posts about the weather (so now you don't have worry about boredom on future posts), but today we learned about a new problem in our house that the winter has caused. It started Saturday morning when we went to empty the dishwasher which we had run overnight. When we opened it up, the bottom was filled with water. I thought the drain might be clogged, so I did some disassembling without finding any culprits. I suspected it might be the pump, but didn't want to tackle that problem. Well, today I was asked to pick up Karsten from Kindergarten and Kiera from pre-school so that Nikki could try to get to work by 4pm. I got home to a crying infant (Avalyn) and an 19-month-old (Teagan) who had just awakened from a nap and had a leaky diaper that went through her whole outfit. Oh, and Nikki was coming upstairs to say there was water on the floor in the laundry room. I didn't even get to kiss Nikki she went out the door so fast.
So I called our plumber (a friend from church, Jim Morrison - give him a call) since it seemed to be a sewer line back-up. They recommended a different friend that did that kind of work, who came over a couple hours later. After an hour of trying to snake the line, he couldn't get it unclogged. The nice technician (Paul Olsen, from a one-guy company named Alpha Plumbing) said he thought the line was frozen or collapsed. We're hoping it's the former.
Paul recommended that we call Viking Sewer and Drain since they had cameras they could run through the line, and also have a steam system to melt any frozen areas. I called them at 9pm and got a busy call center, followed by a return call from a technician within 5 mins. They are coming tomorrow afternoon (since they can't get any more hot water tonight - scary thought) at a fee of at least $350. Crap. I hope our tax refund is bigger than expected. More updates later.
Update: $435 later and 3 companies later, we now have an unclogged sewer line. The guy that got it unblocked said there was 15 feet of frozen "stuff" in there. Maybe that $435 wasn't such a bad deal after all... Now we can start saving to fix the dishwasher (or get a new one if that may be cheaper.)
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