I’m a nostalgic old fool. Okay, “old” doesn’t exactly apply. But I do like old things, particularly things to which I can relate. Which would explain my choice of entertainment lately. During my recent rediscovery of the fine art of Wolfenstein level design, I went above and beyond the simple recollections [...]

I unwrapped some saltine crackers at lunch today, and this fell out:

So, where’s my cake? I must find it!
Oh…and if, upon reading the title of this post, you were reminded of Harvie hiding in a ventilation shaft and chowing down on a chocolate cake [...]

I spent three hours on the phone with Dell tech support on Saturday. Why? Because my wife discovered that her new notebook was bluescreening itself to death every time she tried to send an email. I tested it a few times myself and discovered that, without exception, sending email was impossible. [...]

Got under the Trans Am today and changed the burnt-out parking lamp on the passenger side. It certainly is an experience, though. You have to take off a couple of hex-head screws which are securing an “access panel” under the front end, then you bend the access panel back. The panel isn’t [...]

It is with a somewhat bittersweet story that my six years of GM warranty coverage come to a end on my ‘98 Ram Air Trans Am. After putting up with “hella crap” from dealers in the southwest Florida area for the past several years, it seems that I have finally discovered one—and a service [...]

After receiving a few requests to post some photos online, and realizing that there were some pictures I was planning to post myself but never wanted to take the time to create all the thumbnails and junk, I decided this past weekend to create the official Oddball Update Photo Gallery.
My regular readers can journey there [...]

I could have posted half a dozen updates by now given everything that’s been happening lately—admittedly, most of it rather uninteresting to the common folk—but I didn’t, so now it’s time to stuff it all into one entry.
My Trans Am is over at the dealer now, having its fuel level sensor replaced. This, as [...]

I just wanted to share my exuberance with you all, upon learning this morning that the Pontiac dealer finally was able to prove (to themselves) that the wackiness with my car’s fuel gauge is an actual, genuine, for-real problem that needs to be fixed. Lucky me—the warranty’s gone in nine days. But because [...]

Busy day it was. Only now, at 5 in the afternoon (or evening, or whatever your religious beliefs tell you to call it), is it slowing down. I’ve wrapped up pretty much all the big stuff on my plate today, and let me tell you…after all I’ve done, I am not going to [...]

This week sure seemed to fly by fast! Just the way I like it. Now that it’s “finally Friday morning,” as they say on the radio down here, I can hopefully get out of here a little bit early, head home and pop a Voyager DVD in the deck. I’ve also got [...]