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Coming Back to Life

The fever broke, and I’m almost fully back to my regular self.  It’s legendary how sick I sometimes get, there’s a photo around here hang on….. yup, here.

And the tiny amount writer’s block that came with it has dissapated (thankfully it wasn’t a full blown block, that’s only happened once, I wouldn’t wish that feeling on anyone.)

A week with this 2016 Cadillac Escalade helped.

No really – I was so into this vehicle.

Even watched a movie in it.

This yesterday helped too – here I am tossing a truck around for Motoring TV’s new intro.

Can’t wait to see the final edit, hope it all makes it.

I have deadlines this week!  It’s started up again… the first piece will publish next Tuesday at this new outlet I write for that I haven’t told you about yet, and the other next week maybe?  Not sure?  Guess that’s the nature of freelance: the paper was regular and immediate, so’s blogging, but freelance is up to someone else.

It feels good to type again, and blogging today was its usual fun.  Maintaining a blog for so many years, it’s …. hard to describe…. the headspace, the constantly-documenting mind frame…. oh I love it, but it can get weird sometimes…

Have a million cars to blog (okay maybe 45) and as much security stuff, and I can sense a writing rhythm establishing itself…. feels for the first time since quitting my job (7 weeks) that things are straightening and settling… prepare for takeoff…

Thanks for always checking in.

xo Keri

 

 

Apple’s CarPlay is Bundled with iOS 9

CarPlay – the software that allows an iPhone to talk with a car’s dash screen. It arrived in the latest update, iOS 9.

Go: Settings > General > CarPlay

And on the car side, it’s starting to arrive pre-installed in 2016 model year vehicles.

Be mindful when connecting your car to a mobile… ensure the phone is fully updated always, and if you even suspect it may contain malware, don’t connect.

 

 

Only thing I Accomplished was this Win

Yesterday I could NOT get it together.

I read, daydreamed, laughed over lunch and that’s it.

Despite the lack of posts here, I spent the weekend working. Sunday I had an appointment at Apple to have my cracked screen and took the moment to wipe my entire computing environment.

Ever done that? It’s a good idea to do regularly, same as how a car should be sent in for routine maintenance.

Big undertaking though.

At the very least change your bank / email / Facebook passwords this week, because when was the last time you did?

I’m en route downtown on a bus. Going to meet those behind my new writing job. How old school of me eh, wanting to physically shake a hand.

Send get better vibes, been fighting a fever since last week and it’s starting to win.

xo Keri

 

 

Yanking the Computers from a ’99 Pontiac Sunfire

It’s my neighbours car. We spent a Sunday pulling out all the computers we could find.

Note the plural – computers.

Because there’s up to 100 computers in your car. Learn more in this column – the Computers in your Car.

Above – on the left are the fuses, on the right is the OBD port.

The brain of a 1999 vehicle

Whew, being a mechanic is physically taxing eh – hold a weirdo yoga-ish position for an extended time, hands above your head wrenching on wires.

Below are some of the connectors.

1 – there’s just one port you should know – the OBD II port. More here.

Was it assembled more cleanly and elegantly in your mind?

Was for me. There was no electrical tape in mine.

After all this turns out there’s no point in me hooking the computers up to my laptop for testing, since the protocols have changed drastically since 1999.

Made a nice blog header though.