Friday was a big day ( Read more... )

Get up. Shower, get dressed. Call Howdy Honda and arrange a loaner car and a tow for mine (they're picking up the tab this time). Drive my jeep to Jeep Masters so they can fix a bad wheel bearing and investigate a check engine light. Get the courtesy car to drop me at Howdy. Stand around, get them to refund the money for the battery they ( Read more... )

So, About 5:00 today I got a call from Howdy Honda, returning my call. My car is all fixed. I can come pick it up ( Read more... )

It's not statistically significant, but 100% of the writers of this blog have not experienced Honda Civic's being the most reliable compact car this year ( Read more... )

I got the proof copy of my book from CreateSpace ( Read more... )

Apparently the A/C going out on my Civic was the harbinger of greater woes.

The block's cracked. They think it'll be covered under warranty, so I'll just be out the towing and rental car costs.

If only I'd had my Jeep fixed when I first noticed the bad wheel bearing, I'd not even have to rent.

Live and learn.

Apparently, the City of Austin has begun buying Priuses (Prii?) for use as official vehicles. There was one ahead of my as I was driving to work. The guy driving it looked like a mechanic (weather beaten face, light blue work shirt with name tag). I didn't catch what city department he was from, but I thought it was cool that the city would be ( Read more... )

Another 2 hours of fighting with things and I hit on the solution to my PDF size problem ( Read more... )

My CreateSpace submission was rejected. No spine text on books less than 130 pages, and they recommend redoing the contents because it has images of between 130 and 250 DPI. If you'll remember, I had to resize to 250DPI to get the book < 100M.

Looks like I have some more work ahead of me.

I've just spent the last 4 hours fighting with InDesign and Acrobat ( Read more... )