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Chad and I were heading North on Ridge road, just a couple blocks from the 96 ramp in Wichita when i saw a dark Ford pickup in our lane at a high rate of speed, I pulled off the road just in time to see it blow by us leaving a spray of pieces of tire all over the road from the spike strips he had just apparently hit.  As soon as all the cops blew by us, we turned around and followed the pursuit where it ended up in a residential neighborhood. I was interviewed in the clip below.

I came home this afternoon to a cold house. I felt like someone kicked me in the stomach because if i knew that if the furnace was broken I wouldn’t be able to get it fixed any time soon.

It was giving me error code 33, i did some research and found out that it means the high limiter was tripped, i.e most likely a dirty filter. I looked an it was indeed very dirty. I cleaned it, put it back in then had to do more research to figure out how to reset the limiter.  I found this post that explained how to do the reset. I went back down, did the reset and waited for the furnace to kick back on which it did!

(Bryant-High-Limit-Switch)

Its always a pleasure to swing by here (Hutchinson)

July 23, 2011 I married the most amazing woman, the one I have been looking for all of my life. I love you Janet!

My brothers company (IBM) has lost their contract with CNH in Wichita so his work is moving him to Arkansas. Sucks since we did quite a bit or riding together but I guess its a nice raise for him and some additional training as well. Good luck Jeff!

Well after 9 months of being with this company ive been promoted to (FC) Field Coordinator . I’ll be responsible for all hiring, training and running the crews in all 6 of the stores. This also came with a pay raise, almost double what i started out as. Wish me luck.

I recently scored a new job with a company that contracts with Lowes. They merchandise all the plants in their 6 stores in Kansas. Not the best paying but there is worse. We`ll see where it goes.

My friend Bryan and i recently visited the Le Hunt Haunted Cement Factory.. This was during the day and we shot some video, took quit a few pictures but didnt catch anything. We both want to go back sometime soon, preferably at night! If anyone wants to go with us please let me know!

Well to my shock, after I contacted yahoo support about my calendar problem they sent a reply saying that they were in the process of fixing it. The next day it was indeed fixed. This tells me that I couldnt have been the only one having the issue after all. Thanks yahoo support…for once.

Yep that’s right. “I” am having issues with Yahoo Calendar and it seems to be only me. When i try to load the page, i get a blank page with one link up at the top left that says Yahoo Calendar and leads to http://calendar.yahoo.com/???UH_cal_home_url???.

If i use the Yahoo toolbars calendar button and go to “options” i get a different page that says:

Sorry…

We’re experiencing technical difficulties. A crew of technical puppies have been dispatched to fix the problem.
Additionally it has a picture of a cute puppy, gosh that makes me feel so much better.

Now i already know what some of you technically minded people are probably saying, “clear your cache and cookies, its a local problem with your browser” My answer to that is, no its not. I took those “101″ measures to begin with which had no impact, additionally i used a different browser and even a different computer and got the same result. I also tried my kids accounts and their yahoo calendars work fine.

I also realize that yahoo`s networks are made up of clusters, and clusters of clusters of servers, and the problem could be isolated to that cluster or server.

The real problem is, is that Yahoo support are so incompetently trained, and really trained to answer the most stupid, newbie questions like “how do I add a event to my calendar” that they simply do not know what to do when someone has a real problem. Iv been down this road before in the past with them and if you have a problem like this your just screwed.

Of course i sent a message to their support, and i got the confirmation mail saying that they will answer within 24 hours, which really means that i will actually get an automated response that takes a guess at what my problem might be based on keywords that i used in the inquiry, which answer the stupidest of questions which you can find in their support f.a.q. so it will be of no real help. And if their support system is the same as it was the last time i used it, once you get that automated mail, then it finally gives you an option to contact a support person, which cant help you if you have a real problem.

So we`ll see what happens. I might end up waiting till it works itself out, or I may have to take a drastic measure like finding a new calendar provider like google, or even get a php calendar package that does what i need it to do and host it myself from now on. Ill update the blog later when I find something out. Wish me luck!