Thursday, March 18

Nothing much going on today.
I drove the uncle around and in return he gave me an old wedding photo, and I borrowed one of Mike's CD's.
Van Halen, OU812, which completes my collection of Van Halen music. I intend to return it, because the uncle wants to give the music to either my brother or cousin, but I had to at least make a copy... Mike had a few cd's that I don't.

This is a really interesting, short You Tube video about a man who demonstrates an ancient Chinese martial art training method:
(cut and paste)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnQj1Lx02Y&feature=featured&playnext_from=TL&videos=TfK0Es3UwtE&playnext=1
The most interesting part is where he says that these kinds of ancient learning practices are dying out, because nobody devotes their entire life to something. He says he learned it because there was nothing for young people to do in those days. Nowadays, "There are too many things to do" he says.
I totally agree, because as an artist I am always finding distractions. Like hot rods, horses and rock and roll...

The car is up and running, but it has some serious issues. It is missing all over, or backfiring at 2000 rpm. Sometimes it has days where it is perfect, like half of yesterday, then the rest of the time it's just a mess. It starts right away and then the next time it takes forever and I have to hold the throttle open. Sometimes I panic and think there is damage in the cylinder, but it's not showing any other signs. Yet. I am mostly convinced that I need new spark plug wires, because one of the boots falls off of one, but fixing it only helps for a day, or not at all.

On Monday I was convinced it was a dead cylinder. I borrowed the temperature gun, and the cylinder seems to be firing OK, it is the same temp as the others...