I'm going to Fort Dodge tomorrow.

 I'm going to a junkyard to pick up a couple of fenders for my truck. I'll also have a picture framed at Hobby Lobby. 

I hope the junk yard has more parts for my truck. I could use a driver's seat maybe a driver's sid door. Maybe just the interior. We'll see. 

I'm getting more old laptops working so maybe I can use them to barter with. 

I think I'll link something here.

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It's one A.M. and I Heard a voice calling my name.

 At really close to 12 P.M. I heard someone say "hey Craig". It was a freindly call, but I'm still alarmed/

There is probably a locical explanation but of course: I figure it's a freindly ghost. At least it doesn't seem to want to hurt me. 

It could also be God. It's highly reminiscent of an Old Testament story involving a young boy working at a temple or syn agog. 

I lean towards a ghost. I've been haunted for years. It's part of being an ex-Marine. I had major problems with that in the early 1980's 

On different topics I've got a few other things going. I'm waiting for a new seat post for the light bike. The one that came with it is too long and I hope the one from Amazon will fix that. 

I found white fenders for the truck. The're a little pricey but I won't have to paint them. 

I sent my sister a laptop: I hope she likes it. We'll see. 

Chat says that the platter is plated silver. I'm going to polish it and look for a small mark. But I doubt that I'll find it. Either way I'll get some use out of it. 

Chat is encouraging me to buy the 10 computers going for $10. I should be able to swap parts and get a lot of them working.

I'll link something here.

Later

I got my new bike out of the shop, today.

 It's new to me but it's built on a 49 year old frame. I'ts a carbon fiber frame so I felt it would be worth rebuilding. Almost everything was replaced with aluminum parts. It took the shop owner a lot of time to get all the parts but I feel it's worth it. I paid around $1200 for it to be finished, but that's a lot less than a newer carbon framed bike would cost. I'm taking it out tomorrow on the path to Breda. I bet it will take half the time I usually spend to get there. 

I'm also buying used laptops online. I'm trying to keep my spending below $5 each. I'm afraid that the shipping will eat me up, but we'll see.  I do enjoy fixing up old laptops and loading Linux on them. 

I think I'll link something about the Ukraine war, here.

Later

The Fair is Over

 I worked at the Kiwanis food stand for 3 days and I'm glad it's over. I have troubles with my hearing and I couldn't hear over the noise of the fair when orders were placed. Oh, well it's over. 

I'll link a video about habits that will change your life, here.

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I've been talking with Chat GPT about going to Arizona to get truck parts and metal detect for gold. I think I'll leave soon. I should be able to stay at Faye's for a day or two.

I'm going to get fenders and maybe something about to bed of the truck as well.

It's the hot time of the year so I doubt that I'll metal detect now, maybe I'll go into the mountains. I'll ask Chat what he thinks.

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I Just Rode 14 miles on the Trail

.I ride the Sauk Trail from Lake View south. I was going to go to Breda but I encountered a head wind so I turned around at the 7 mile marker. 

After working out at the gym and working with the Kiwanis club at the fair, I'm beat. 

I'll go to the fair for a while and then go to Sioux City for a camera club meeting. That starts at 7:00 P.M.

I'll link something I saw the other day on YouTube here.

It's been a long time since I made a blog.

 I've been busy with a visitor and traveling to the Mount Rushmore Memorial. I've been busy for more than month.

I bought a couple of old laptops in an on-line auction. 

The first one only needed a battery charge. I was able to get it working well when I finally took out a memory module that Windows used to prevent anyone from installing Linux. I'm really happy with it and I'm using it now. 

The other laptop is a problem child. I've replaced the charger and the battery. It also needs a display.; which I'll get tomorrow. 

In spite of a broken display. I got Linux Mint installed. It turned out that the sound doesn't work. I found a broken variable resister. It could be called a rheostat.. The headsets work so I'll leave it at that. 

I might just send back the display and throw it away. Replacing the rheostat is just to hard. I don't do much soldering. and I don't know how to get a replacement part.

I don't feel inspired about linking a YouTube video. I'll find something. I wasn't able to link a video. Maybe it's censorship.

 

I Wasted a weekend and a couple of days working on my car.

 The rear seat window is stuck in the down position. I've got  it all torn apart in the rear seat. 

I'm taking it to a shop tomorrow and will have it fixed by a pro.

I need to get back to working on my trading bot.

I think I'll link Tuosi here. 

I couldn't link it with the Brave Browser. I'll go to Google.

I got it done.