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Today I decided to get the old 240Z going. Since we’ll be moving soon, I don’t want to pay for a rollback to come pick it up and move it for me, I want to drive it to the new house. So I hooked up some cables to my truck and to the Z and I let it sit and charge for a while (unfortunately I left my battery charger out in the rain and it just doesn’t feel smart to plug it in now). So after a while it got some juice and I was able to get her to turn over… but she wouldn’t start. Now she’s sat for at least 8 months if not a little longer, only been pushed out of the way when I mow the grass… so this isn’t totally suprising. I took the air filter off and sprayed some starter fluid into the carbs and with very little trouble she started right up.

Then the popping starts. It sputters and it acts like it’s going to die. I give it some gas and it goes POP and white smoke puffs out of the carbs. What is this? I’m not familiar with this. So I decided to go get my camcorder and video tape it for the Z forums for some advice. But by the time I got out there ready to record it’s warmed up and it’s not doing it anymore.

I drove it to a friends house and we caught up, hadn’t seen each other in a few months. After a couple of hours I go back out and hop in, it starts right up with no troubles. I drive to the end of his street and the engine cuts off. When I try to turn it back on… it won’t turn over. Bummer. So I called my friend and he came and jumped me off and followed me home. Think it’s time to get the alternator tested.

Here’s the video I recorded.

I have been getting an awful lot of spam from spam bots on this blog, but hopefully I just fixed that.

I’ve also been getting comments and e-mails about more people with problems with Tessie Toys.  It sucks that so many people are having problems with them.  I did finally get a working blackberry from them, it wasn’t in great shape but it worked.  I chose not to write a negative feedback because I noticed a trend with their feedback.  They have A LOT of mutual feedback withdrawls.  That means that they retaliate with negative feedback, and I didn’t want my feedback lowered because they are crooks.

 The only way to solve this people is to complain to eBay.  I know you may think this won’t help, but trust me it does.  eBay listens to complaints, and if a buyer is doing things like this they will remove them from the site.  But my complaint isn’t enough, everyone needs to complain.

 I hope everyone is having a great 2008 so far, and hopefully I’ll have some new and interesting stuff to blog about soon.

Okay I admit it.  Every time I see this Mac commercial I want to switch from Vista to XP.

I love Vista. People are shocked when I say this, but I really REALLY love Vista. I love the way it looks at it works, and for some reason the “confirm/deny” thing doesn’t bother me. But for things like World of Warcraft or Second Life or other games I have, it locks up. I’ve tried various nVidia drivers and nothing seems to stop it. Vista is very nice about catching the driver crash and restoring itself so I don’t have to reboot… but still the crashing sucks.

So today I sucked it up and backed up everything that was important, formated and reinstalled XP Pro. After 12 reboots after all the patches and updates, I’m SCREAMING FAST on this new machine. I installed WoW and with full screen graphics, everything turned up to max I am at 20% CPU usage and 723 megs of memory usage. I was over that much memory just running Vista!

So maybe I won’t miss Vista at all….