It's just the console shifter. You hook the cable up to the shifter on the tranny, then the other end to the shifter in the console. When you move the shift lever, the tranny magically 'shifts' into whatever gear you select.

Some of them even have indicators that show what gear you're in. And the really good ones even light up at night.

hmm.. and my XJ does all that frmo the factory...

LOL. Nah, this one's gray, an automatic cable shifter, and center console all in one. It's also plastic, so I can trim and make it fit however I need to. If I can get it to clear the T-case shifter, we're in business.

Plus, it was free, so it's worth a shot, in my book. Otherwise, write off another $2-hunny to a B&M Mega-Shifter.

Went for lunch with mom, did grocery shopping, experienced weird things with my car , went for a walk, made lunch for tomorrow, prepared tonight's dinner, did laundry, ate dinner, did dishes, took out garbage...sitting here now for a bit of relaxation!

Got up, left for work ridiculously early so as to not get stuck in the construction...and sailed right through it without even having to take off the cruise control.

Stopped for lunch since I was about to be an hour early for work.

Did one show, found out they weren't going to feed us even though we only got a 25 minute break, ordered cheap Chinese food for delivery.

Did the second show, got tipped remarkably well considering I was dressing children, did the loadout. Stopped for a drink with the wardrobe crew, then drove home.

Took out the trash, called Comcast to let them know the connection was down again (happens about every third day latenights) and to let them know that their anti-customer-service is not acceptable.

Now surfing again, at least until my connection goes out again. Should happen twice more before I give up in frustration and go read a book instead.

:werd:

I'm fond of saying in my projects <whether they be RC, fourby, computer, or etc>

"It'll fit.... I've got a grinder, a Dremel, epoxy, and a welder... I'll MAKE it fit...."

oh you are SOOO right, there.....

If all goes well with the bid I put in on that house, I'll be moving around the first of June. First goal: kick Comcast's arse to the curb and go with Knology <I'll get broadband, phone, and CATV for LESS than I'm paying for CATV and BB right now>

The comcast tech support couldn't be more obviously reading a script- they tried to ping my box last time, immediately after I told them I had it behind a hardware firewall and was not replying to ICMP packets.

"Whut's an ICMP packet?"

Then they told me I needed to reboot my machine to reset the cable modem <ok, so we all know it is an ethernet bridge, but I'll play their little name game>

- uh, hello-- it's not ATTACHED to the friggin' computer!!!


this is only one of many hundreds of examples. I could go for days. I've taken to just immediately asking for their next tier of help- and when they say they have to help me before sending me up, I let out a heavy sigh and run them through their entire script as if talking to a slow 3 year old, and explain that I do this stuff for a living.

They usually tell me to hoold for a second and transfer me up. One gent got a bit uppity-- "Sir, I have numerous certifications- MCSE, CCNA, A+...."

- to which I replied "and this is all you can do?"

<I'm not normally so abrupt, but they really are asking for it when things get to the point they have with their "technicians".....>

Sort out the apartment until I tweak my back so it's giving me a reminder occasionly.....blooming thing.....then Harvey isn't himself all day today.

So a bit worries about him.....

Had a hard time getting out of bed
Took the car into the shop
Thought I was going to have to use my kick scooter to get to work, but they called me a cab

-found out the offer I made on the house was accepted-- so it is now off the market AKA "under contract!"

-went to take the earnest money deposit to the realtor, and he got me talking to the finance guy, so I was there for an hour instead of the 5 minutes I'd meant to be

-found out that he might be able to get me into the house for 1.125% less than the other company, and possibly fixed rate instead of ARM as well...

-found out when he ran my credit that the SOB's that I paid off 4 YEARS ago who swore they'd update my report-- never did. So I had the wife dig out the records. Luckily I had managed to not throw them away in the intervening time.

... but still... .@#$@ $%#$$%& ^#$%##@'ers!!!!

Congratulations!!! Now you'll have room for all your stuff!

I've just run into the creditor thing myself...applied for a loan a couple of weeks ago, and was turned down because my bankruptcy from 1998, which was paid off in full in 2001 has apparently never been posted as "cleared" on my credit rating. According to the bank, I am still paying it off. I, however, didn't manage to keep the freaken statement from the court, so I've had to pay my lawyer $50 for a new one so I can send copies to the nitwits.

Today:
I slept in. Made some lunch. Finished my book. Played on the computer. Arranged my schedule for the week.

Soon I may get dressed...I do have to walk out to the road to get the mail after all.

I love weekends.

Went to a couple boring classes and now I'm back home, contemplating what to do.

Picking belly button lint is always fun

My dear car is ready for pickup...it'll be a nice walk to the dealership!!

What was wrong with the car and was it expensive ?

It's always expensive I had to get the coil assembly replaced.

Yesterday it started shaking and then the check engine light came on. Good thing I already had an appointment for other stuff today!

It's fun, but it doesn't take up much time.

It doesn't have to be your own

Finished up making my presentation document for class. Now all that's left is to turn my paper in and present.

Farted, scratched arse... repeated.

Finally got dressed at 5:15pm. Made dinner. Yakked on the phone with my sister for a while (my niece has chicken pox).

In all, a most excellent day off.

First day back at work after a week. Hell of a lot of paper work and multiple workins. Vacations suck when you return. Over 35 patients and piles of reports , labs , etc to sort throigh. and one foot tall pile of mail and medical periodicals to sort through. Wheeee

Went running.

Picked up my car, put away the snow tires, doing laundry, feeling kind of bitchy!!

-seem to have eaten something that didn't agree with me- and have been running back and forth to the facilities since 6pm. Hopefully it'll be cleared out by tomorrow- I'd hate to go through this at work the couple days before I go to the concert and go on vacation.

-realized that I won't be getting the SAS done during my vacation. With any luck, though, by 15 June <closing has been pushed back> I will have my own damn place, and can do the swap at my leisure in my own damn back yard!

-realized that I will know if the agent was able to get financing together by 10am tomorrow AM, or if I will have to jump through some hoops first...

Went to bed last night after working for 13 1/2 hours

woke up refreshed but still tired, come to the conclusion i need a holiday, and its a good job i have one in just under 8 weeks

I feel bad as well, but it was my fault i guess.

Went to work and sort out one job then on learning curve with the wireless thinging at work. Interesting....

I think I've slept too much...about 9.5 hours...I was feeling absolutely bagged and drained yesterday. But I got up this morning, cursed that I won't have time to go to the gym today, made a salad, packed my lunch, and came to work

Gone home then email to the assessor with further information. And to find that the Norton is zapping those emails must let my ISP know.....

Fighting Harvey off the cat treat that he had attacked.....

Emmmmm.........today I taught sex education, acids and alkalis, Metals, and marked some test papers. I also attended a meeting and went shopping and best of all I got a new pc in my classroom...........wooohoooo!!! Its about time too.

Hey up me Duck! Welcome to the 4peeps and glad to hear that the teaching went well. Bet that there loads of laugh during the erm.....the erm education!

...we have a teacher in our midst... you're making a difference.

worked on the company's new website... what a PITA!

Odie's only being nice because he wants you to teach him sex education.

More boring classes.

Dealt with entirely too many people on the phone who don't seem to understand that I have no control over what the webmaster for the parent site does even when it affects my page.

Made arrangements to cut my lunch with my dad short tomorrow so I can go in to the office to take care of this web site problem. Thank gods he understands, even if I have only seen him once since Christmas. This is the last time that'll happen, though. I can NOT have morons interfering with what little time I have left with him ever again.

Worked with MS SQL and ODBC for most of the day. Got tired of it and still more to do tomorrow.

My roommate and I couldn't find an empty baseball field in town, so we drove all around the outskirts of the city looking for a baseball field. We didn't find one, but we did see a bunch of cows, horses and goats, a few llamas and even a couple pigs gettin' it on.

-picked my son up from daycare early since the wife had a State board class to attend to fulfill state regs

-reassembled the steering on my Jeep after having put about 5 layers of paint over the new plates and welds

-having run in and out of the apartment all the while <was only putting in 3 bolts> to check on my kid, I popped in to tell him we had to take a trip to the hardware-mongers' since I'd managed to loose the 4 swaybar bracket bolts.....

-responding to my bellowed "Wil- get ready!" my boy jumps out from behind the counter to the right of the back door I'd only just stuck my head in, shouting "DADDY!!! I'm a SCAWWY GWEEN MONSTER!!!"

-noticed my son had taken the wife's green highlighter to his face, arms, both palms, and tongue

.... yes, TONGUE. Not just a streak or a stripe.... the
WHOLE
DAMN
thing.

-after frantically checking the marker to make sure it was non-toxic, laughed at the little goofball, then proceeded to half-convince him that he'd have to go through life as "the little green boy". Belted him in the truck, and off to Lowe's, all the while saying-

"well--- I guess I'll always have an easy way to differentiate you if you get lost... "Pardon me- have you seen a little green boy?""

"ok, Little Green Boy-- hold the bolts for daddy while he measures"

"Little Green Boy-- watch out for the nice lady.. say excuse me"

"<whispered> little Green Boy, quit talking about that lady's boobies"
<what can I say-- he's my son... and VERY much so... I once nearly got my dad ni trouble with a biker. We're all siting at a light, there's a biker next to us with his "old lady" on the back... and I look over at her, point, and YELL "But Daddy- she ain't got no BOOBS!!"

<my father immediately floored the accelerator, running the light, so I am told>

=been a bit spacey lately, what with all the things going on, so pardon if this is a reprint:

-my offer on the house was accepted. Now to go through all the rigamarole of getting a loan for it. This seems absolutely bass-ackwards: I offer someone 6 figures for a house, which I do not have in my bank account. Then after they say, sure-- I have to flit about, looking for someone to right me a check for said amount.

Insane.

-found out that, worse come to it, I can get a loan although at a higher rate that I'd prefer to pay. However- my payment still comes out to only about $80/mo more than my current rent. This year. Which means it'll probably be cheaper than my rent, next year....

no brainer

have been up and down all day. I'm not a polar person- but this is just driving me nuts. It's going to be a long time till 15 June.....

Discovered that if you're an idiot and don't defrag for entirely too long, your computer gets all wonky, causing many problems with the web site you manage that are miraculously cured when you finally get around to running the freaken defrag.

-just realized tomorrow is my last day at work till the 10th May....

.. AND I am going to the Buffett show Thursday!!!!!

"if the phone doesn't ring, it's me....."

Finished my take home programming test. Played Dr. Phil to two friends that were bickering on MSN while doing it to

-realized I have somehow managed to avoid buying Jimmy's Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads CD... so I bought it <ok, it was used on amazon, but I bought it>. Outstanding CD. But still- $45 for 4 hunks of plastic is a bit nuts.....

-found a couple cool websites for tropical shirts, Buffett stickers, and the like

-can not find a grass skirt anywhere in town. I KNEW I shoulda bought one when I was at South of the Border when I drove back from VA 2 months ago!

Talked on the phone for a while with my six-year-old niece, because she had to tell me all about her chicken pox. Then talked to her four-year-old brother, because he didn't want to be left out even though he doesn't have chicken pox.

And then when sitting down to eat breakfast, found myself channel surfing, where I landed on Blues Clues and watched about 15 minutes of it before I remembered they weren't actually here, and I could watch something for adults.

I have two grass skirts Picked 'em up after Hallowe'en a couple of years ago...still unused though...

So far I've woken up with back and right shoulder pain

Well, did you figure out what Blue was looking for?

Took the dogs to teh vet for $350! now i need to make some bread and go to the dump

somehow I picture you being _slightly_ smaller than me..

Yesterday, I saw a guy standing up on the seat of his motorcycle at 55 MPH

Did you shot him........on photography speak!

Of course I did! After soccer practice, they were going to go to an ice cream truck and get ice cream cones!

The middle part of my day:
Went out for lunch with my dad and stepmom, then sat in the driveway in their car and opened my birthday presents, then stayed in the car chatting for a while. They're not allowed in the house since it's mom's.

Then, upon walking into the house, I realized that the $200 car payment I made yesterday was actual ~$25 more than I owe on the car, so I'm completely paid off AND I'm getting a refund check!

Does this mean I'm a grownup, now that I've bought my first car on credit and paid it off?

Now I'm getting my stuff together so I can go into the union label office to fix the website, then get the checkbook balanced and the bills paid and my reports printed before the meeting tonight.