Man, August has gone by quickly. I had all these grand plans to post on some of the (many) projects I’ve been working on lately, but they’ve been keeping me exceptionally busy. Now I find myself with 1 week left still school starts and many loose ends that need to be wrapped up before then!<\/p>\n
Ah well, such is life. Possibly the most notable news I have is that I finally took the motorcycle road test and obtained my Michigan motorcycle endorsement. That’s pretty cool. I can now legally ride alone, at night and can carry passengers. I also have my computer back on water cooling with a new CPU waterblock<\/a> and a fancy speed controller to quiet the pump. I have my linux box up and running Ubuntu after a hard disk failure earlier this summer.<\/p>\n Right now I’m in the middle of a rear brake overhaul on the Taurus. They have been squeeking (ok squeeling) for a couple months now and I’d like to get it taken care of before I likely put another 1000 miles on it this coming weekend. The driver’s side rotor popped off quite nicely. Removing the passenger side rotor is proving to be a tremendous pain. Hopefully I can rent a large claw puller at the auto parts store tomorrow that will do the job — if not I am really out of ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man, August has gone by quickly. I had all these grand plans to post on some of the (many) projects I’ve been working on lately, but they’ve been keeping me exceptionally busy. Now I find myself with 1 week left still school starts and many loose ends that need to be wrapped up before then! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-life","category-honda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}