Mood:  a-ok

Hey there everyone!  Flyboy here! 

Short post today... Niki was making dinner and cut her finger, a nice long and pretty painful cut, and I had to run to the store and grab some super glue to help seal the wound... it is just another thing that superglue is good for.  The wound is now securely shut and we shall be heading to the store later to get a more appropiate bandage.

Other things in my life are going rather smoothly; the rest of my squadron has returned from deployment and they are now on their R&R Compensation days... meaning that begining in February I get new leadership, get to schedule a lot of people for flights, etc.

So... Niki has moved to cutting the onion and asked me to get my gas mask so she doesn't cry from the onion...

 

"Onions are no match for me!!! Huah!" -Niki

Silly niki!

Hm... we think that we have solved the problem with our car. Our car has an anti-theft system called Pass-Lock.  Now, the Pass-Lock system operates by having a piece of silicon that detects whether a given key is the correct key that is placed in the ignition.  All is well during warm weather.  However, the silicon contracts during cold weather; which means that it cannot detect the key as well as it would.  It actually does not recognize the key as the same key!  Now, there is a procedure to reset the recognition for the key; however, it would be rather stupid to do it here, where we go up and down temperatures daily, so that procedure would be ineffective.  So, rather than having trouble with the system daily, I have discovered a rather simple way to bypass it all. The Pass-Lock system is activated by the remote lock.  So, we just need to manually lock the car, which does not activate Pass-Lock and therefore the silicon does not even check to see if the key is correct.  I tried out this theory by starting the car without warming the key or the ignition switch.  The car started the first time! (In 18 degree weather, I might add!)  Of course, I will continue to try out this theory and will update on the end results.  But so far so good!   

Ah well... everything here is pretty fine.  I think that should conclude today's post.

~Flyboy out.