So I went to the dump a couple weeks ago and came back with something pretty cool. I was dropping off a box of old electronics (which they take for free), and I spotted an Apple product in the pile. Despite being gold in color, I pulled it out and brought it home. After charging it up, I learned that the screen was damaged, probably because the previous owner closed something in the hinge. Otherwise, it functioned perfectly. I wiped out the previous owner’s data and got macOS installed so I could get to About This Mac. I picked up a 2015 12″ MacBook; the base model with a 1.1 GHz Core m processor, 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. Definitely not amazing specs, but it runs Firefox and ssh sessions just as well as anything else. Plus it was free.
I bought a used display assembly on eBay for $120 and used OpenCore Legacy Patcher to get Monterey installed. I’m pretty pleased with my find. I was originally planning on selling it, but it’s only worth about $250, so I think I’m going to use it until the keyboard stops working (this was the first device with Apple’s infamous butterfly keyboard) and then sell it for parts. If finances allow I’ll probably pick up the then-current MacBook Air when that happens.
I have a perfectly good HP laptop with a Ryzen 4500U, but I hate the form factor. It’s a 15″ laptop with a 16:9 display, which is just too damn wide, and the 1080p resolution is barely adequate for a display that size. The trackpad is awful, especially coming from the Surface Book I had previously. Two things Apple laptops do better than anyone else are displays and trackpads. All their displays are 16:10, which strikes a nice balance between width and height, although I think I might prefer 3:2 or 4:3. Apple trackpads are second to none in my opinion. Large, but not too large, and the force touch thing is fantastic. The whole trackpad clicks, so you never have to move your fingers off their target to make a click.
I’ve been making trips to the dump here and there since I got a truck (which is another post I should write), so hopefully the next dump trip has another diamond in the rough waiting for me.
In my last post, I mentioned it was almost time for my final (for now at least) semester of college to start. Now it’s almost over. I graduate in about a week and a half, and hopefully I’ll be moving on to a big-boy job without much delay. Between then and now not much worth sharing has happened, but two events in the last week or so are worthy of a post. The first is related to my parents’ car shopping, and I’ll post about that once a conclusion is reached, but the second is 90% finished and it’s right here in my house.
A week or two ago, my wife decided that we should host new year’s eve at our house. This gathering will include friends and family, a few of which will be staying overnight. We do have a guest room, but up until now it was kind of a catchall junk room with a bed, a dresser and an old TV just sitting in there. Functional I suppose, but not a place you’d want to spend too much time. Last week we rearranged the furniture into a much, much nicer layout. I’ve taken to calling it “the hotel room.”
The current guest bedroom layout (feat. my tractor sheets from when I was little).
Previously, the bed was in the far corner and the dresser was against the left wall. The TV was sitting on the floor in front of the dresser and the TV stand was not in the room. The current set up of a rather empty room featuring a bed and a large TV make it feel like a hotel to me. The ladder is for our cat Martha to sit on so she can survey the neighborhood wildlife. It’s so much more functional, and I’ve used the room to relax in the afternoon a few times. All it needs now is a nightstand next to the bed to keep phones and the remotes.
I used a Raspberry Pi 4 with LibreELEC to get Kodi on the TV, so it has access to all the cable TV channels and Jellyfin content that you can get on the other TVs. An older Roku stick is also connected to the TV for the streaming services. Unfortunately there isn’t a smooth solution to get things like Netflix in the Kodi interface, so the Roku will have to do. Which is fine, it just adds a seam to the user experience. I’m waiting on a FLIRC receiver to make one remote work with both the TV and Kodi. The Roku is RF only, so it will have to have a separate remote.
To improve guest hospitality even further, I 3D printed a QR code for my guest wi-fi network. It came out pretty nicely for my first multi-color print I think.
Censored 3D printed wi-fi QR code.
With this, all you need to do to access the guest network is point your phone’s camera at the code and click the button that shows up. No entering passwords or browsing for the right SSID. I added a couple magnets and standoffs to the back so I can stick it on the fridge.
With all this activity I’m really excited to have some overnight guests. It almost feels like a bed and breakfast or something.
It’s been a while since I posted an update, but things haven’t been that exciting. I haven’t done anything with the Triumph, so it’s just been sitting. I’ll probably see about getting it inspected next week though, and I want to check the throttle shafts for leaks and I should order those little parts before the end of the season.
The new TV tuner has been working fine, and I don’t think I’ve run into a time where three tuners wasn’t enough yet. In keeping with my thinking from last update, I replaced the processors in the server for lower power versions and removed the graphics card. This netted a savings of about 20 watts or so, which isn’t a ton, but it’s still a few dollars per month. I decided to keep the whole server because I just can’t get 12 TB of storage for a reasonable price any other way.
Going back to cars, my friend is coming over on Sunday so we can do the brakes on his car. I haven’t done brakes in a while, and they’re easy so I’m looking forward to it. I need to do struts on another person’s car in the next week or so, too, so I’ll try to post about that.
Otherwise, things are going pretty well. Classes start up again in a few weeks, but I’m only taking two of them this semester. My investments that I started a few months ago are doing well, and I’m helping my wife get an IRA set up. This money stuff is really interesting to me, and I totally see how people get into day trading. If I had more money I probably would.
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking I need an air compressor. I have a sand blast cabinet I’d like to be able to use, and it needs a pretty substantial compressor behind it. I might be able to run my grinders on 3-6 gallon compressor, but the sand blaster would destroy it. I was dismayed to find that most air compressors priced under $500 these days are oil-free. I don’t know how they stay lubricated, but whatever it is will eventually wear out. I wouldn’t using a compressor in a professional capacity, so it might not be a problem, but why take the chance? Plus, I’ve read that oil-free compressors are significantly louder than oil-lubed ones. Because I planned to keep the air compressor inside the garage, the noise level is a priority.
Lowes and Home Depot didn’t have a ton of choice for air compressors larger than 8 gallons. The options above that size were perfectly capable, but a bit too expensive for me. Harbor Freight had a few choices that were oil-lubed where a comparable Lowes or H-D unit weren’t, but the prices were too high for a complex piece of equipment from a store that’s known for less than stellar quality. The 90 day warranty on a $300 and up item is a complete joke. I remembered Tractor Supply, and found a perfectly fine air compressor there. It’s a Porter Cable 24 gallon unit, with an agreeable price of $220. The warranty on this is 2 years for the pump, and 1 year for everything else. Not amazing, but a hell of a lot better than 90 days.
An air compressor needs electricity to run, and of course there isn’t any in my garage. There are some old electrical wires there that suggest it has had electricity in the past, but I do not know the source of it. And even if I did, I probably wouldn’t try to use it. Luckily, I was hit with a bolt of inspiration. While I could just run a long extension cord from the house to the garage every time I wanted to plug something in, why couldn’t I run that extension cord into a regular outlet instead? Turns out, it’s a thing. I got an electrical box, outlets, and a male plug to hook everything up.
I’ll be replacing that hand-held reel with a wall mounted one this week. I realized at home I bought a 20-amp GCFI and a 15-amp regular outlet. I have to check to see if the circuit breaker is a 15 or 20 amp. The outlets are connected with a 12 gauge cord and 12 gauge wire inside the box.
The picture shows things pretty succinctly. The male end of the extension cord plugs into an outlet near the back door of the house, and the female end plugs into the “tail” from the electrical box, powering up the outlet. It works great so far. The cord plugged into the outlet goes to the air compressor.
I put the air compressor on the table/bench to maximize floor space.
The air compressor is also great so far. It takes a little while to fill up an empty tank, but recycle time isn’t too bad. It’s also not quite as loud as I was expecting. The 50 foot hose I got is just adequate to reach the back of the cars in the driveway. I think what I’m going to do is get some PVC air hose and string it along the ceiling joists to get a couple air outlets by the overhead doors and one by the sand blaster.
I was struck by more inspiration later in the day when I realized I could connect more outlets to the one I installed so I wouldn’t have to have extension cords all over the place. I think I’m going to add a few in each back corner of the garage.
I was almost bowled over by inspiration when I realized I could add some LED lights to the garage just as easily as outlets. I’m really, really looking forward to that, which should be in the near future. I’ll keep you posted.
It’s been almost a month since my last post, so I figured an update is due. It felt like nothing worth reporting has really happened in the last month, but after thinking about it there are three things that are worth a mention at least. First, and least interesting, I started my second to last college semester and things are going fine so far. There is a good bit more group work than I’d like, but it seems that most everyone else in my classes is interesting in pulling their own weight.
Secondly, I have a totally new TV set up in the living room:
A terrible picture of the new TV, speakers and other equipment.
I was browsing Slickdeals mindlessly late at night a few weeks ago, and I saw a deal on this set of speakers. It was a five-speaker package of Jamo’s best speakers for $379 at Adorama. After some quick research, I decided it was a reasonable deal and ordered them. I think $379 was a good price, for an average of about $76 each. The normal price for the package at Adorama was a little over $1,000, which I think says more about the markup on home theater products than the quality of the speakers. I think there’s definitely $379 of sound here, but I would never spend $1,000 on these speakers, or probably any speakers for that matter. Which brings me to a little rant/ramble.
I mostly listen to music through Spotify, which while compressed, sounds totally fine to my ears. I really doubt that I could tell the difference between high-quality Spotify and a lossless source, and even if I could, I think it would be impossible to hear the difference between a $400 set of speakers and a $10,000 (or more) set. “Audiophiles” are probably the only group of people who are worse than camera people. I definitely love cameras and taking pictures, but I don’t have the best gear and I definitely don’t have all the skill. It’s very easy to feel inadequate in the photography world when it feels like every review or forum post or comment is talking about how you just have to have this new super sharp $5,000 lens for your vintage Leica so you can take make amazing pictures photographs/the next great American “photo essay” (whatever that is) in some lush tropical destination. Anyways, it’s a tough community to be in and deal with. Audio equipment feels about the same. If you don’t have a $10,000 Marantz amp connected to 50 different $2,000 speakers from a brand you’re not rich enough to have even heard of are you even watching the movie? Or if you’re not playing a 5000 gram vinyl record through a vintage grass-fed organic tube amp are you really listening to the music? Both hobbies can easily make the regular Joe feel like it’s not worth bothering getting started if they don’t have an unlimited budget.
With that out of the way, I knew I was going to need a new receiver to work these speakers. I already had two receivers, but neither was up to the task. First, I have a late 1980’s JVC quadraphonic receiver, which works perfectly fine, but is just too old to be relevant anymore. I also have a mid 2000’s era JVC 5.1 channel receiver, but it can only work with Dolby Digital signals from a single optical input (no HDMI or anything like that) and the buttons on the front are messed up and don’t work properly anymore. Initially, I was willing to spend a little extra money to get a new receiver that can handle variable refresh rate through its HDMI ports, has Spotify built in and can do Dolby Atmos. After reading some reports that suggest all recent VRR capable receivers have a hardware problem, I decided to get something cheap for now and then maybe upgrade in a few years.
I settled on a refurbished version of Denon’s least expensive receiver, the AVR-S540BT. It can do all the normal Dolby Digital and DTS formats except Atmos or similar, it has five HDMI inputs and two optical inputs, with five speaker channels and two subwoofer outputs. It switches sources automatically when possible and chooses the correct output mode 99% of the time. I’m very happy with it, and I really doubt a more expensive receiver could give me better sound quality. I am interested in an Atmos setup at some point though.
I knew I was also going to need a subwoofer, and in a bid to save some money, I grabbed an old unused JVC sub from my parents’ place (it came with the 5.1 JVC receiver). My parents retired this one for the same reason I eventually did: it has an automatic sleep/power saving function, but it’s much too eager to enter the sleep state. This means the bass cuts in and out almost constantly and always very noticeably. After a couple days I decided to get a new subwoofer. The internet says the Dayton Audio SUB-1200 is the one to get if you don’t want to spend a ton of money, so that’s what I got. Just like the speakers, I’m sure there are better ones out there, but to my untrained ear it sounds fantastic. I could foresee upgrading to the 15 inch version of this sub if space allows in the future, but the 12 inch is an incredible upgrade over anything from a home theater in a box.
I got the receiver set up with my five-ish year old Vizio 4k TV via the HDMI ARC connection. This presented a problem right off the bat. The TV is old enough (and cheap enough) that it only has one HDMI input capable of 4k at 60 Hz. Having a refresh rate of at least 60 Hz is totally essential to using a computer on any screen, and at least strongly recommended for everything else. Unfortunately, the HDMI port with ARC is not the one with 4k 60 Hz capability, so I had to keep all my video sources plugged into the TV and then rely on ARC for audio output to the receiver. This got the job done, but I was plagued by the video from any source cutting out and flickering for about ten seconds at unpredictable intervals. On the PS4, I could just pause the game, but watching TV though the computer was frustrating. The cut would happen at really inopportune times and occasionally the audio would return but the video would not, so I’d have to stop and restart playback. My assumption was that this was due to conflicting HDMI versions between the TV and receiver, but I didn’t put too much effort into solving the problem. Instead, I set my sights on a new TV, one that I’ve had my eye on for a year.
This time last year, in the before times, I was very interested in a new TV, and TCL had just what I was after. They had just debuted their 2020 line, which included a 55 inch QLED TV, with HDR, variable refresh rate and Roku built in, for an excellent MSRP of $699. I kind of forgot about to thanks to the turbulence of the world, but it popped into my head a few times and I read the reviews, all of which just about said it was the best bang for your buck TV in 2020. Thanks to this glowing reception and manufacturing problems due to coronavirus, supplies were short and demand high for much of 2020. I decided I was going to buy one from Best Buy once they had stock available near me, preferably at my local store. I also opened up Walmart and Amazon pages for the TV to up my chances of snagging one. And it’s a good thing I did, because one afternoon I refreshed the Walmart page on a whim, and found the TV on sale for $578, well below the usual $650-$700 price. I grabbed it before it could disappear.
It showed up on Friday, and just like the speakers and receiver, I’m sure there are better TVs out there for more money, but I don’t know that I could see the difference, and I don’t think the performance per dollar is beatable. Even the regular SDR picture is an enormous improvement over my old Vizio, the built-in Roku apps are great as usual and the modern HDMI inputs on the TV mean I can route all my stuff through the receiver first, then into the TV. To be honest, HDR (both HDR 10 and Dobly Vision) isn’t as life changing as I expected, but after watching a few episodes of Our Planet and Planet Earth II in 4k HDR, SDR content just feels like it’s missing something. It’s kind of like cooking without salt. It’s alright and it works, but just a dash of salt takes things to the next level. This TV has a 120 Hz panel and will do VRR, but unfortunately I don’t have anything to take advantage of that. My living room computer has a GTX 1080, but it can’t quite make 1080p at 120 fps, and Nvidia is stupid and doesn’t support VRR over HDMI on cards older than the 3000 series. Forza Horizon 4, my typical couch game, looks amazing in 4k 60 fps with HDR. I suspect playing at 60 Hz on a 120 Hz panel has some benefit because the action looks much smoother than my 4k 60 Hz monitor in the office. The PS4 Pro, in contrast to contemporary Xbox models, has no VRR capabilities. It will do a sort of fake 4k at 60 fps and it’ll do HDR, which I’m satisfied with.
I’m really pleased with my new set up and the value it offers. It’s just nice. My third thing worth mentioning will come in my next post, and is a lot more interesting than this I think.
It feels like forever ago that I mentioned I ordered a new laptop. I was expecting to get it before Christmas, and initially at least, the post office agreed. It quickly made its way from Long Island to a post office distribution center in New Jersey. Where it then sat for almost two weeks. It appeared to be lost in transit. Eventually, someone must have tripped over it and got it on the right truck, because it showed up on Saturday. It’s pretty much what I was expecting so far.
I picked an excellent condition open-box option, which saved about $70. The computer arrived in its original box, and appeared to include all the original items, which was just the charger and a couple papers. My HP Envy x360 15″ is equipped with and AMD Ryzen 4500U, 8 GB of RAM, a 256 GB NVMe SSD and a 250 nit 1080p display. I ordered a 16 GB RAM kit which should be in some time next week. I picked a Ryzen system to take advantage of the excellent on-board graphics capability, and I’ve been pleased with that so far.
I’ve only tried out Civ 6 and Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but both have been completely playable at 1080p on medium settings, getting 30-45 fps with no trouble. Neither of those are terribly intense games though, so I’ll have to try out something heavier in the near future. I should also try them out on the old Surface Book to see what a big leap it is.
Other things I like: the keyboard is excellent, and it has a number pad which is nice. It has a little cover for the webcam that’s electronically controlled. The display takes up almost the entire lid. The battery life is good, and it’s very quiet. It’s a new computer, so of course it’s still speedy and uncluttered. I almost love the trackpad. Its clicks are great, and it’s a nice large size. It would be perfect if it was glass instead of plastic.
Which brings me to things I don’t care for: The overall construction, while solid, appears to only use metal on the lid exterior and it doesn’t feel nearly as nice as the Surface, or my wife’s old Lenovo Yoga, which are both all-metal. The screen, which does have nice colors, seems kind of dim to me, but it’s not problematic indoors. This particular laptop has the lowest-end 250 nit display, and there are 300, 400 and 1000 nit versions available. I couldn’t find a 400 nit version anywhere for a reasonable price. Maybe some day in the future I can swap in a used one. The display is of course in the 16:9 format, which frankly sucks for a laptop. It’s way too wide. The 3:2 of the Surface is maybe a tad narrow, but it’s so much better than 16:9, especially for writing. My Surface pen works perfectly with this computer, but with the screen so narrow and ridiculously long in portrait mode, it’s almost pointless to write on it. I don’t think there are any Windows laptops other than the Surface line with a 3:2 screen, and they’re just too expensive now. Dell offers a 16:10 format on there higher-end stuff, but they’re a little too expensive for me. Personally, I think the 4:3 format of the iPad is probably the ideal for non-television screens.
Anyways, I really like it so far. I’m eager to get the new RAM installed and see if that makes any difference to gaming. Task manager showed that all 8 GB were used with Lego Star Wars going. Despite it’s foibles, I think it would be hard to do better for the price.
My birthday was last week, which is whatever. I don’t get all that excited about it, but it is nice to have some cake and a birthday dinner prepared by my mom. This year I was a bit more curious about my birthday present than usual. My wife said she came up with the idea a few months ago, and she thought it was a great idea. The day finally came (or actually two days before my actual birthday, just because it was easier), and I opened it up.
It’s a new grill, something I’ve been pining for since last summer at least. My old grill was fine I guess. I mean it cooked the food, but other than that it kind of sucked. It met the minimum requirements of a grill, like having a spot for a fire and racks above it, but that’s about it. It didn’t allow for much temperature control and it was incredibly hard to light charcoal and keep it going in temperatures below 65° or so. Plus it was old, probably coming from the late 1970’s or early 80’s.
A couple years ago, my parents got a kamado style grill, and it’s been fantastic. Maybe a little tricky to get used to, but once you do the results are great. Temperature is very controllable, and since the fire can be smothered when you’re done, it saves charcoal. I’ve been wanting to get one for myself for a while. The only catch is that many of them are very expensive. Like over $1,000 expensive. That’s out of my price range (and probably out of range for a birthday present too), but there are some decent ones available in the sub-$500 range.
The grill sits right outside my back door. I think I put the legs on a bit wrong, but I’ll fix it in the spring.
The model I got is a Char-Griller Akorn, which seems to be a popular choice for grill enthusiasts on a budget, much like the Ender 3 is a common choice in the 3D printing community. It’s definitely not the best at anything, but the price more than makes up for that.
I’ve used it once so far, on my actual birthday. There’s going to be a bit of a learning curve to the temperature control. I had some trouble keeping a stable 350°-400°, but I’m sure I’ll get it with some practice. It was in the high 40’s or low 50’s that day, but I had no trouble starting the fire or keeping it going, which gives me hope that I might be able grill through the winter. It’s been raining here since then, so I haven’t had another opportunity to use it. Next week looks clear, but cold, so we’ll see how it goes.
Since the whole “lockdown” thing, I’ve been spending a lot more time in my home office, just like everyone else. I’m taking four classes this semester, two totally online where we don’t see the instructor in person and two in Zoom meetings where we do see the instructor. I’m sitting in the office pretty much all day, especially when my wife is working from home. I began to grow tired of my cheap Ikea office chair I bought several years ago over the summer, and I decided to look for a replacement.
I’ve had a new chair on the way back burner of my mind for a while now, and I occasionally check Slickdeals to see if there’s anything out there for a decent price. Most everything that pops up there is a Staples or similar house brand, which is fine with me, but comments always indicate the chair is falling apart after a few years of light use. My $60-ish Ikea chair has held up great, even with two cats in the house. I’d be disappointed if a nicer $150-$250 chair couldn’t do the same.
I figured it might be a good idea to look into actually office chairs. You know, like you’d have in an office. The two top brands there are Herman Miller and Steelcase. I discovered that while the chairs are very expensive new (sometimes over $1000), they can be had for only a couple hundred used or refurbished. I googled around and found several online retailers dealing in refurbished office equipment, but going on reviews of the places on Reddit and other sites, I just didn’t feel confident ordering from any of them. Everyone on the internet said there are used office furniture dealers in every city and that would be the best place to look, so I did. The first place I went to was closed, and the second had mostly no-name brand stuff that was overpriced. I was really hoping to find a Steelcase Leap or Herman Miller Mirra or Aeron there, but no luck.
In a happy coincidence, a writer over at Ars Technica was facing the same trouble as me. He wrote an article on using a gaming chair in the office. I gave it a read, and decided to look into gaming chairs. I’m pretty sure that gaming chair companies have nowhere near the R&D budget of Herman Miller, but people must buy their chairs for a reason. They look neat, but if they were uncomfortable, would people keep buying them? After all, pretty much every streaming personality out there has one.
After a little research, I settled on the Secretlab Titan. It looks good, has the features I want and the price isn’t terrible. I bought one, and it finally showed up last week. I wish I could have tried it out before buying it, but I still really like it. It’s miles better than the old Ikea chair, and probably better value than a used Herman Miller or Steelcase. The packaging was excellent and assembly was no trouble. The chair itself appears to be very high quality, with lots of metal parts where you might expect to find plastic. It took me a little while to get every adjustment set up properly for myself, but now that I’m used to the chair it would be hard to go back to the Ikea chair.
I only have three small complaints: first, it took a while to get the chair. I guess Secretlab does a pre-order system where people place orders, then they make a run of chairs. I ordered the chair on October 17, but it didn’t get delivered until November 20. Secondly, I’m not sure if it’s the shape of the butt cushion or the height of the chair, but my feet don’t quite sit flat on the floor with this chair. That’s not a big problem, and I have a foot rest coming today that should fix this problem. Finally, the racing seat style of the chair is a little bit much for me. I have a light-up keyboard, and while my computer doesn’t have any RGB, I don’t mind it, but the racing chair might just be a little shark-jumping for a gamer. But no matter the looks, it’s comfortable, even though I’m sure Secretlab spends a small fraction of what Herman Miller does on research to make the chairs ergonomically correct. The Titan is expensive, but so are “real” office chairs, and if you’re sitting in the office for most of the day, I think it’s easy to justify spending some money on comfort.
So I’ve got my first job working on my own schedule. It’s for my wife’s sister, so I’m not sure if it really counts, but I’m getting paid for it. I had to buy some new tools for it, so that’s fun. They should be here in the next day or two. I should still be making about $300 on it even with that expense. I set up some invoice software to keep track of everything, which makes me feel pretty businessy.
I’ve been in contact with a few other potential customers, which seem promising. I’m waiting for the weather to improve in the middle of the next week to see where things go. I haven’t had as much trouble getting responses to my ad as I expected. My goal is to bill 10 hours per week. I’m charging $60 per hour, so I’d be making $600 in labor. Profit on parts would probably work out to a similar level per week. If this takes off like I’m hoping, I should be in decent financial shape.
Since I last posed, there have been some changes in my life.
First, I lost my job in November. The owner of the company decided he wanted to sell the building, and told everyone to not come in the next Monday. Probably not the best way to end things. I wasn’t out of work for long though.
The owner of the place next door (who rents his space from the owner referenced above) needed an extra hand, and I needed money, so it was hard to say no. He has been looking to buy a bigger place, and he finally settled on something. He agreed with his landlord that he’d be moved out by March 30. The landlord broke that agreement, and now the move-out date is February 28. So I will be once again out of work.
Hopefully not for too long though. With some encouragement from my current boss, I’ve decided to start a mobile mechanic business. If all goes well, people will contact me for an appointment and I’ll go fix their car at their place and get paid for it. I’m charging $60 per hour, which is low when compared to most independent mechanic shops in the area. I’m hoping to keep myself busy with work for 10 hours per week. I’d be making $600 for my labor, plus some markup on parts. Here’s my Facebook page if you’re interested.
In January, I started going back to college. I’m going to get a two-year degree in computer information systems. I think eventually I’d like to be a systems analyst. This subject is something I’m already interested in, and thankfully doesn’t require me to take any math courses. So in a couple years I should have a real job that pays me a decent amount of money.
So that’s it. I’m hoping my mobile mechanic thing takes off so I can make some money to pay for college and other things. I’d really like to do some photography in the next few weeks. It’s been a long time since I’ve gone out for some picture taking.
