The National Football League is awesome this year. Anyone who watched any of Sunday’s games would agree. My wife, who really isn’t a big NFL fan anyway, even enjoyed (with heartbreak for my boy Jason) the crazy ending in the Chicago game. Of course, I REALLY enjoyed watching the Cardinals beat up on the Cowgirls. The Steelers had a bye this weekend so that all the banged up players could get some much needed R&R. This caption was posted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to post it because I think it’s hilarious, and quite possibly the coolest cartoon I’ve seen to date. The Stillers have three injured running backs (Fast Willie-he's in the very back of the jeep- will be back this weekend) one of which is done for the year with a broken shoulder, a punter that’s out for the year, and no less than four other starters that have missed time due to one malady or another. Coming out of five weeks of football with only one loss is a good thing. Going back into the rest of the season starting off with the lowly Bungles is a great thing. Sunday afternoon’s matchup should make for a nice tune up for the rough schedule to come. I’m looking forward to it immensely if this past weekend’s excitement is any indication of what I should expect.
This weekend also meant more fun wrapped up in my seemingly never-ending Jeep project. I got out the new wiring harness, switches, and myriad gauges to start routing the brand new wires that look like a mound of multi-colored spaghetti sitting under the dash. I mounted the fuse block, routed some of the wires, and got the engine harness and computer mounted and wired under the hood. It’s not extremely hard, but very tedious and time-consuming. Gathering a ton of scrambled information on what connects where and keeping it straight is the hardest. I’ve got the service manuals from the 2001 Silverado that the engine came from and it’s a necessity. Five books and approximately 3500 pages of codes, diagrams, and schematics make for a lot of reading and sorting. I use three of the manuals mostly, because the only thing I’m using from the truck is the engine and computer-the heart of the beast. I also have fifteen to twenty sheets of schematics and diagrams for the new harness for the Jeep. I take that and the harness for the computer and engine and make them work together as one. It sounds like a nightmare, but it’s really enjoyable and I’ll be diving right back in tonight when I get home. That’s the only way my baby is going to be road-worthy again. I’m so close I can almost feel the rumble of the V8.
A couple of readers noticed that I haven’t been posting recently and I really don’t have an answer for why this is the case. Much of it can be attributed to the fact that I’ve been much busier than normal at work. I lost my number one salesperson a month ago. This necessitated a new hire and a ton of training. I always seem to lose track of how much knowledge is required to work here and do the job well. Rephrasing, a job done well enough to meet my standards, anyway. My standards are high, so this takes a while. The new guy is coming along nicely, but is still about a year shy of being completely up to speed. I’ve come to realize over my eight years of service here that it takes around a year to be completely proficient at everything involving the daily duties of a parts and accessories salesperson. Who knew there was so much information to absorb about our toys-motorcycles, ATVs, and most recently-scooters. In addition to Kawasaki, Polaris, and Suzuki, we picked up Kymco recently. They sell ATVs, UTVs, and scooters, and I’m actually excited about a new franchise bringing in a whole different clientele. Rockers and Mods will both now be regulars. It should be fun next spring.
This weekend also meant more fun wrapped up in my seemingly never-ending Jeep project. I got out the new wiring harness, switches, and myriad gauges to start routing the brand new wires that look like a mound of multi-colored spaghetti sitting under the dash. I mounted the fuse block, routed some of the wires, and got the engine harness and computer mounted and wired under the hood. It’s not extremely hard, but very tedious and time-consuming. Gathering a ton of scrambled information on what connects where and keeping it straight is the hardest. I’ve got the service manuals from the 2001 Silverado that the engine came from and it’s a necessity. Five books and approximately 3500 pages of codes, diagrams, and schematics make for a lot of reading and sorting. I use three of the manuals mostly, because the only thing I’m using from the truck is the engine and computer-the heart of the beast. I also have fifteen to twenty sheets of schematics and diagrams for the new harness for the Jeep. I take that and the harness for the computer and engine and make them work together as one. It sounds like a nightmare, but it’s really enjoyable and I’ll be diving right back in tonight when I get home. That’s the only way my baby is going to be road-worthy again. I’m so close I can almost feel the rumble of the V8.
A couple of readers noticed that I haven’t been posting recently and I really don’t have an answer for why this is the case. Much of it can be attributed to the fact that I’ve been much busier than normal at work. I lost my number one salesperson a month ago. This necessitated a new hire and a ton of training. I always seem to lose track of how much knowledge is required to work here and do the job well. Rephrasing, a job done well enough to meet my standards, anyway. My standards are high, so this takes a while. The new guy is coming along nicely, but is still about a year shy of being completely up to speed. I’ve come to realize over my eight years of service here that it takes around a year to be completely proficient at everything involving the daily duties of a parts and accessories salesperson. Who knew there was so much information to absorb about our toys-motorcycles, ATVs, and most recently-scooters. In addition to Kawasaki, Polaris, and Suzuki, we picked up Kymco recently. They sell ATVs, UTVs, and scooters, and I’m actually excited about a new franchise bringing in a whole different clientele. Rockers and Mods will both now be regulars. It should be fun next spring.
2 comments:
Yay - a new Nash blog!! :)
What time do the Steelers play this week? I know Scott missed them during the bye week, but the bye week allowed us to get the nursery painting finished and shelving installed in his new closet. He'll be ready for a Steeler break Sunday ;)
you forgot to mention that you were sleeping and missed the good part of the game!! :-) :-)
i don't dislike NFL and even like some teams :-)
i do like college ftball a lot more!!!
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