Monday all day
Comments Off on Monday all day Got a bit done today even with the down time I had to take.
Steve brought to my attention that I had neglected to say what the van was. I thought I had posted something on that but looks like i didn't.
Tis a 1989 Plymouth Voyager Turbo SE. 4 cylinder turbo with automatic transmission. Power locks but manual windows. Mechanical and vacuum controls on the heat/ac control panel. Manual seats. 2 front doors. One rear on passengers side and a rear hatch. Need to burnish and coat with silicone grease the rear side door lock contacts. It works fine until it rains and then quits locking and unlocking. May need to put a spacer behind them as the rubber may have fatigued a bit over the years.
Got some boxes front the front moved upstairs earlier in the am while cat was at the post office mailing a book. Also moved a chest of drawers out from in front of some of the shelves in the front room. Need to move both of them to the trailer. Tomorrow.
Got worn out quick. Cat came in and I went and got the toyota truck and drove to the 12 wide. tis close to a city block if you go around by the drive and I am feeling poorly today. read a bit then came back here and had lunch then returned to the 12 wide to stare at the world for a while. Bill came by and we bsed a bit then went and started on the nissan.
Got the tools gathered up after a hunt for 12 and 13 mm sockets. got to buy a bunch next mountain top trip. or flea market trip. took the valve off to get to the alternator and removed it and the block mount. drilled the broken bolt out in the drill press and then through drilled the mount to receive a long bolt and nut using the bridgeport milling machine. so much easier than a hand drill and vice when drilling through that long an area. put it back in and relocated the front bracket and after a bit of adjustment and tightening cranked it up and was much less vibration than before. So hope that go it. Talked a bit bad to the boy when he came and got it. ;-)>
Spent several hours tonight working on organizing books in the front. Got a long way to go but it's a start. gonna move things out tomorrow and clear room to put the parlor stove in there. I think it will give enough heat for the whole building most of the time. with the big one in the greenhouse should be able to do fairly well without electric this winter (i hope)…
Need to get the plants in tomorrow too. so much to do and so much more that needs attention. not gonna get it all done this year I am afraid.
looking at getting filemaker pro 7 to handle the inventory and website data. I am leaning toward php-nuke for the website. still got to decide on the look. Cat has been working on it a bit and I like her logo concept. will see how it goes. Site url is http://www.bluespringsbazaar.com/ just fyi but it is just a blank page right now. Name is Blue Springs Bazaar. Figure that way we can sell whatever and not be too out of character.
figuring on filemaker cause I have used it before and is so much easier to develop in than m$ access or mySQL or any of the other ones I have worked with. or it is for me. 7 is a lot different but I can still get it done even having to relearn how a lot of it works ( or i hope i can). I started seeing a bit of the data structure tonight while walking around here looking at books and whatnot. tis gonna be a bitch but I think I can do it. the big part is going to be exporting the data to the different sites. But it's just a script with filemaker. Or so I am hoping. And I can have a script and one or more layouts for each site that the books need to be uploaded to and have them controlled by another master script to created each and upload and or post it to each site in the proper format. I am thinking of using static pages for each book on the site and using the built in search in php-nuke to locate book and author or text or whatever and display a list. a link to the book at abe books or paypal to buy it and a menu and tis done. as they are static pages the search engines will be able to catalog and point to them.
Guess this will be my winter computer project.
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