I have always been somewhat of a homebody. I like the area I live in and have not ventured far from home. The furthest north I have been is northern Pennsylvania; the furthest west, just into Tennessee; the furthest south is a tie between Savannah and Metro Atlanta. I grew up in the rural outskirts of a small city and have had no desire to go to a big city like New York, Chicago, Tampa, Los Angeles or Dallas. If I believe half of what I see on television shows about those cities, why would I want to go there in the first place?
On The Mend – Part 2
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Jan•
20•12
It’s been a week since I wrenched my back working on the Civic Hybrid. I’m doing mostly better, yesterday morning was painful, maybe it was the classic ‘I slept wrong’ syndrome. Right now it’s OK.
Civic Hybrid Battery Module
On The Mend
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Jan•
17•12
Last Friday, the 13th no less, I managed to hurt my back at work. It all began as a simple replacement of a battery module in a Civic Hybrid. Pretty simple as the owner had diagnosed it himself, order a ‘rebuilt’ battery module on eBay and dropped the car off with the instructions to install it. Great, no liability on my part if it doesn’t fix it (Which it didn’t!). I’m sure the kid at AutoZone meant well when he retrieved the codes for free and told him the battery module was shot. I don’t know what planet he was born on, but if I’m dropping $1,800 on a ‘rebuilt’ battery module, I want to know if that’s the problem. But hey, he didn’t pay for the bad diagnosis, so it’s all good. Right? (more…)
Rediscovering Shaving
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Jan•
10•12
Mens Only Post
It seems some days that I have been shaving all my life. I was one of those guys that had to start shaving around 14 years old. Even with a beard, shaving is still a daily or at least every other day thing. Years ago I started out with a Safety Razor and an Old Spice shaving mug and brush. The Gillette Trac2 and the Shick Injector had been on the market for several years, but the safety razor was the old reliable, tried and true. Prior to the safety razor, men used the infamous straight razor that can still be found in a barber shop today. I wonder how many men bled to death learning to shave. (more…)
Have You Bought Gas Lately?
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Jan•
08•12
Have you bought gas lately? Over the last week gas prices have surged over fifteen cents per gallon. There are a couple of things in play here. One is market uncertainty as Iran is trying to pick a fight with the U.S. in the Strait Of Hormuz. The U.S. already had a warship en route to the Gulf region. The Gulf itself is accessible only by a small ‘C’ shaped waterway called the Strait Of Hormuz. The Iranian’s are threatening a shooting war with the U.S. if it tries to navigate the Strait. Meanwhile the Iranians have announced that they are once again processing uranium for ‘nuclear reactors’, I’m sure everyone believes that one. (more…)
A Really Quick Cat Video
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Jan•
01•12
These are not our cats, I just like the video because I easily could see Pixie doing this to Skoodles.
Thinking About New Years
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Dec•
31•11
I was giving a little thought to New Years and about the year past. I don’t put a lot of stock in New Years resolutions, I see every day as a new start. But we as a society put extra emphasis on Calendar Milestones.
I was thinking about the saying farewell to the old year, and there humming in my head was an old song by Mike Cross called “The Farewell Toast”. If you’ve never heard it, it’s worth the listen. I only found one full version on YouTube and it’s actually in a snippet from the Dr.Demento Show. But here are the lyrics below. (more…)
A Carmen kinda of morning
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Dec•
31•11
I woke up this morning with a song in my head. Don’t know why this particular song, but I had Awesome God by Carmen making laps between my ears.
Carmen is a singer and worship leader that doesn’t make the headlines like he once did, but to me anyway, his music is timeless praise and worship. It’s not just catchy tunes that are good to listen to, they are simple enough that anyone in the pews (more…)
Back to work to get some rest
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Dec•
27•11
It has been a long Christmas weekend, I ended up with a four-day weekend and I am grateful for that, but it has been busy. When I was growing up, fortunate or not, I only had one set of grandparents close by. My dad’s parents lived a few hundred yards up the road and my mom’s parents lived 300 some miles away in Virgina. So the usual flow of Christmas was a Christmas Eve Moravian Lovefeast and Candlelight service, Christmas morning gifts at our house and Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa’s house with all the aunts, uncles and cousins. We went to my mom’s parents in Virginia a couple of times for Christmas, but North Carolina was the norm. (more…)
RichardCraver.com is reborn!
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Dec•
26•11
Hi,
A few years ago I tried my hand at blogging and due to life events it petered out. The hosting bill came due and HostICan wanted to knock me to the ground for renewal. So I transferred my domain, closed my hosting and just let things lie fallow for awhile.
While I was going through the hassle of transferring my domain from a reluctant former provider, I also picked up www.greenlinecomputers.com which hopefully will be up in coming weeks. That is my home-based and on-site computer repair endeavour. It is a slow work in process and I’ll write more about that as it fleshes out.
Meanwhile, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas weekend. I am taking advantage of the day off for getting a few things done, this website being one of them.
Richard