Can they use death certificates I wonder????

http://www.twcc.com/articles/2014/04/11/o/obama-to-focus-civil-rights-message-on-voting

I have been voting in Indiana for many years. They ask for a drivers license or state ID card. Period. No, even though I am a white boy, I don't have a passport either. I don't travel abroad Obama and I find the pole just fine. I know many dead people vote democrat so I sort of figure maybe the death certificate is ok. Simple solution. Use a bit more of the money us working folk dole out to supply state ID cards to all the welfare drones. Take away their excuse. Not the illegal immigrants mind you, seeing as how they are illegal and NOT citizens, but, free ID to all the welfare recipients, no matter what their race. Leave it to Obama to once again beat the race drum. Bigots, him and Al both.....

Machine gun shoot day, yesssss

Got up at the crack of dawn and headed out. I love the new radio. My entire I-pod collection on the dash. The navigation unit is flawless. I love how it turns the volume down and lets me know the turn is coming up. I still tend to crank the volume, so, I use to miss a turn once in a while with the garmin. Made it out to the shoot really early, but, not quite early enough. I got all excited when I first got there. They ushered me up to the parking lot up by the entrance to the shoot. The lot was full, dang it. They funneled us through that lot and way way back to a far back lot. If I had been there ten cars earlier, I would have been parked by the gate. Parking by the gate gives easy access to your vehicle for carrying heavy items back to the vehicle rather easily. It also gets you out of the overcrowded bus ride up to the shoot. I always walk as the buses are standing room and everyone packed in like sardines. Maybe next year. I keep toying with just camping there. The spring shoot is usually decent temperature wise. Besides, the helicopter pad is in the campground.

I picked up a couple of lowers that need a little work. I picked them up for $30 a pop. Have a little mill and want to try my hand at making a lower from scratch. The 80% ones look way too easy: ) If they turn out decent, I may pick up a billet and make one from scratch. Another project for my free time. Also picked up a 40 round magazine, just because. First time I saw one and I just got a have one.

Finally,,,,,,,

Finally finished the radio project. Couldn't figure out why the navigation unit didn't work. Wrote pioneer, and sonic electronics for support. Several hours later and still waiting for them to call back. Figured it out after checking the wiring for the brake and double checking all connections. Went through all the submenus in the system folder. Finally found the setting. Does it simply have a drop down menu like the rest of the tabs in the system, no. Is it titled nav unit, no. They set a default to the I-phone, because I guess the whole world uses the I-phone. Make it too easy if they had no default and a menu to pick what you are actually using. The setting is titled for the USB input, even though it uses a RGB input. The I-phone setting doesn't change when you click it, you have to touch a grayed out small icon in the shadows of the setting and then it displays a grayed out drop menu. Wasted a couple days checking wires because of a setting they decided to hide. Maybe I can let them know what it was if and when their support team decides to follow through on their promise to call back.

On the plus side, it is awesome. The navigation unit turns the radio down and lets you know where to turn, then, unpauses the radio again. Best part is it won't be sliding around the dash when the mount loosens up like the garmin did. Found the setting to shut the voice off that lets me know I am speeding. We are officially done with the install and ready for the virgin run. Tomorrow starts the machine gun shoot. The very best gun show around. Where else outside of combat can you go and watch things get blown up and burn. Rent a machine gun, a flame thrower or go for a ride in a Huey. Only in America. Suppose to rain, but I'll just take a rain coat along. Most of the gun show is under a pavilion anyhow.

slight delay between drizzles

I finally got a break in the weather to install the navigation unit to the radio and run the cable back to the back up camera. Definitely not near as flexible as I use to be. Age and a fat belly have made maneuvering in tight spaces a bit of a challenge. I finally managed to get the back up camera working, after much fiddling with the settings in the radio. I thought I had it wired wrong at first, but it was just a setting on the radio. Still have to hook up the wire to the parking brake. Navigation unit is not working. Trying to figure out if it's a bad unit or just a setting on the radio. Stuff is just too complicated anymore. Can't get video through the navigation unit, but, the annoying bitch voice on the unit notifies me that I am speeding when I headed to the store. Sorry, my truck doesn't do thirty, period. Have to play with it tomorrow and see if I can get the video on navigation to work. It may have to do with the parking brake wire not being hooked up. Don't plan on watching movies, so I wasn't too concerned with it, but it may be needed for the navigation control. They use to hook it up to the ground side, but people just grounded the wire out and bypassed the safety. Now, it hooks to the hot side of the brake light circuit so it can sense voltage change somehow. Nanny police making life more difficult. Hopefully have it debugged tomorrow.

Ahhhhhhh, time to relax

It is officially vacation time. Hoping the weather is a little drier out. Two days and nights of rain is enough for a long, long while. This weekend is the big Louisville gun show at the Expo center, next weekend, the machine gun shoot. It don't get much better than that. Tomorrow, probably do a little relaxing. Not suppose to rain so I will get the video cable run back to the back up camera and hook up the navigation unit to the radio. Going to start the day off with a long overdue haircut and a nice breakfast.

Baby steps

Getting there slowly. I got the radio in yesterday, today, the weather was dry and I managed to get the rear view camera installed and the power hooked up to it. Crawled under the truck and found the best path to run the video cable. That's a job for tomorrow. Now that I found an entry point into the cab, I should be able to get the cable run and hooked up in short order. I will be able to hook the wire to the parking brake while down there. If I don't get the navigation unit hooked up tomorrow, it will be a short job for Friday. Then, just a little cleaning up and tying up of the wires, and we are done. Maybe Saturday will be the day to check out the navigation unit. First day of vacation should start with a road trip. Destination to be determined.

Well, it was nice out all day anyhow

Absolutely gorgeous out all day, until I get off.... It got up well into the seventies and sunny. I did manage to get a couple hours of nice weather before the rain. The car radio looks and sounds so much better now that it is in the car and not on the counter. I installed an adaptor that lets me use the steering wheel control as well. Didn't get the navigation part installed, but the rest of the radio is in and works flawlessly. Hooked up my Ipod and the radio actually controls the ipod right from the touch screen. It is awesome. I managed to get four speakers, the radio, the navigation add on, back up camera with wiring and all the adaptors and harnesses for about three hunded less than the local auto joint wanted for the just the radio and  camera with installation. She went in smooth.

 

 

 

                                                     Out with the old single cd player.

                   New radio looks factory. The adaptor fits perfectly with no ugly gaps or bulges.

The I-pod links up perfect and displays really nicely. Going to try and get the nav unit installed tomorrow weather permitting. I ran the wires while the dash was apart. Just need to run the antenna for the navigation, and the separate antenna for the traffic updates. Shouldn't take but a half hour. Just don't like trying to install stuff with the doors shut because it is raining outside. Thursday, weather permitting, I hope to run the cable to the back for the license plate back up camera. Again, the cables are connected at the radio end so I don't have to pull it again. Only odd wire I have left is the one that connects to the parking brake so you can play movies. Don't plan on watching movies, but, I will hook it up so it is proper. Looks and sounds awesome. Hope the weather is decent tomorrow so I can play with it a little bit. I linked my phone to it as well. You can make and answer calls through the radio, which reminds me I have to run the microphone as well. The important part is done. I am so happy to be able to play my I-pod through  the radio as I have quite an extensive audio library on it, and it is so much nicer than fumbling with CD's.