Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Karate Monkey, BEEOTCH!
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Rooted Verizon G'Zone Commando
WOW!
[✔] Integrate Dalvik cache system elements into ROM
[✔] Integrate system app updates into ROM
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Rooted my Commando
Faster.
NO bloat ware.
Look at the Superuser. He makes apps like Open Garden Tether, and Screenshot available.
Worth the risk of ending up with a brick:)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Fixed First Freshies
First freshies of the season for me and TTOB (not TTB-Todd the Biker Skopic but TTOB-Todd the Other Biker)
Friday, January 20, 2012
Friday DP on the Edge of Freezing
Trails were in good shape considering temps teetered just around freezing all night. They were just like waffle mix...
Mostly krusteaz and frozen with a rare battery spot hither and thither.
I can remember 8 of us. BB, XX, MC (for a bit), Krazy Karl, JF, Tree-vor, and guest AFCers Jay and Lance (?? I think). I think at least 6 of us were SS. I was fixed.
Usual clockwise loop with lots of extra credit cleanings. The train's pace wasn't super fast but it was super sweet when I saw/heard the engine, XX, and the first 4 cars clean tuffys like the Cascade's Roots/Rock/Reggae and Ridge's rockiest dips...not sure if cars 5 thru caboose pulled 'em too or not.
W and YDT were sorely missed as no DP can penetrate as deeply without them;-P
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Five SS's
Five Single Speeds and one Minizzle met at the usual spot at 6. Four
were rigid. Four were freewheels. Three were steel. One fell on a
teensy log whilst trying to StravaKom the Log Trail. One started
with a straight seatpost and finished with a laidback. Minnizle wore
a Garmin! Conditions varied from frozen-fast-cement-dirt to
crispy-crust-heave-rut-remnants.
SEGS were worn by BB, XX, JF, Jerry, CBC
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Dye Ektorp Chair and Sofa Covers and Save Hundreds
Ektorp sofas and chairs from IKEA are awesome because the covers come off completely so you can wash/replace them. Our two sofas and one chair were ready for a makeover so we asked Santa to bring us new covers this year.
Santa didn't want to get off his wallet for the Idemo Brown covers at $149/sofa and $129/chair. Santa was willing, however, to foot the bill for Blekinge White at $49/sofa and $29/chair.
White sofa covers?!?!?! With four kids. Bad idea, right? Enter Rit Dye which the Elves were willing to ship direct from the Rit workshop for $38.
Check it out
Before pictures
The Recipe for Dying
I skipped the advised prewash step figuring that 100% cotton white covers would be clean enough already.
Split the covers into four equal weight piles.
Fill the washer with HOT water and add:
- One cup Kosher salt - Instructions said not to use Iodized salt so I went for Morton Coarse Kosher. Now our sofas will be ready for Passover;-)
- One bottle Dark Brown Rit Dye
- One bottle Cocoa Brown Rit Dye
Toss in a batch of textiles.
Turn on the wash cycle and set an alarm to remind you to come back and add more time to the wash cycle. The instructions say to let the wash cycle go for 30 minutes. My washer maxed out at a 15 minute cycle so I reset the cycle midstream to end up with 30 minutes total.
Two cold rinse cycles per load seemed enough for the rinse water to run clear of dye.
Throw in the dryer but pull the load out while the covers are not quite totally dry. This prevents shrinkage.
Zip the new covers on.
Repeat the recipe steps for the remaining batches. Run a large load of hot water with soap and bleach to clean the washer.
After Pictures
Savings = $277 ;-)
Dyed covers - total = $176
- 2 sofa @ $49/each = $104 with tax
- 1 chair @ $29/each = $31 with tax
- 8 bottles Liquid Rit Dye (4 Dark Brown and 4 Cocoa Brown) shipped = $38
- 1 box Kosher Salt = $3
Idemo Light Brown covers - total $453
- 2 sofa @ $149/each = $316 with tax
- 1 chair @ $129/each = $137 with tax