The Dinner

Flying J’s bacon cheese burger.

Came with mayo on the side.

YESSSSSSSSSSS!

The Rental

Hyundai Accent.

They were out of Yarises.

Weak.

Flying on Christmas Day

To Ohio.

Denied

My debit card got denied access to the space between the fender and the lip of the rim.

No debit card fisting…  damnit!

And no, the lip isn’t hitting the fender.  There’s a microscopic clearance between the lip and the fender, and nothing’s actually rubbing there.

Too bad I won’t be able to ride like that, as I still have gooey stock bushings in the subframe, lower control arms, and the rear knuckles, so I’ll need a little more clearance between the lip and fender so that if things shift, I’d have some wiggle room.

Merry Christmas…

From our corgis

Vacuum mechanic

Krystal was being a vacuum mechanic. Hood propped and everything!

Wallpaper Available Meow

Thanks to 86fighters for putting up the high res version of Adam from C’s Garage’s 180sx from my previous post!

My Head Exploded

This image blew my mind.

So much epic.

TE37s here I come.

Pic courtesy of C’s Garage.

Hacked

So I decided to find out how to hack the Master lock that I’ve had since the 8th grade so Krystal can use it.

After a few hours I finally got the lock hacked.

Then I found her old lock and hacked it too.

I’m awesome.

Trust me, I’m a doctor.

So lately, I’ve been having issues with my interwebz, to where I have to reset my modem/router pretty much every other day, maybe even every day, and a thread on my local car forum led to me testing my newer D-Link router that I had bought to replace the bricked Linksys that I had before.

I had a Linksys WRT54G Version 2 router that I’ve had since the Version 2 first came out, and I’ve never had a problem with it.  One day, I had an issue with the modem, so I had to power cycle that to get it to work again, and in doing so, I would normally power cycle the router right after so that all the signals go through and work correctly.

That day, for whatever reason, I thought it was a good idea to press the reset button on the back of the router, which basically returned the router to factory default settings instead of just power cycling itself.

Seeing that, I said “oh wtf?” and went ahead and logged into the webgui and tried to change the settings back to the way they were right away.  Upon the first “save settings” click, it froze, and when I power cycled it, it wouldn’t power back on anymore.  The power light would just keep blinking.

Fast forward to yesterday, and I was determined to give it a try to try and revive, or un-brick my Linksys, as I had narrowed most of my problems to the D-Link router that I had.

Friend of mine gave me a few webpages with different methods to revive the router to check out, and the more easier ones didn’t work, and I literally came to the “try this as the last step because there is only a 20% success rate” step, the step right before “put on your coat and go down to Best Buy and buy another one” step.

It involved opening the router’s casing up, finding the flash chip on there, locating a specific pin, and using a copper wire to ground that pin to the antenna base.  However, the pin is so small, that I actually had to separate the strands and just use 1 strand of wire to touch the pin, while the other end of the wire, I just twisted all the strands together and touched it to the antenna’s base.

This step, however, I would highly suggest that you have a second person to help you, because you need to hold that wire on that pin, and only that pin, while you ground the other end to the antenna, which will take up both of your hands, and while you’re grounding it out, you need to plug the router in to give it power, thus completing the circuit and grounding the pin out.  I had Krystal plug in the router, while I held the wire in place, all the while looking at the cmd screen’s continuous ping attempts to see if it will give me a “TTL=xxx” response.  Right as Krystal plugged in the router, I started getting TTL=100 responses, so I started the TFTP process to load the new firmware onto the router.  Soon, it was back up and running!

It was an awesome feeling, and I literally felt like I was doing the equivalent of using defibrillators on the router to shock it back to life  lol

Thus the title.

PS – I will put up the guide that I used to bring it back to life on my next post.  Gotta run to the in-laws’ to prepare Thanksgiving dinner!

Happy Thanksgiving y’all!