Just about....almost there....?
Kinda better---sorta fixed--better than I was?
Hoping that perhaps there might be one individual from
my state--New Mexico reading this blog---
I am attempting to do what i can to support an on-line
New Mexico related petition from MoveOn.
The Republican Governor Martinez is attempting to
formalize New Mexico as a "right to work state"
crippling the few remaining unions here fighting for the working citizen.
If you are a resident of New Mexico please go to this site and send
a message to New Mexico law makers by standing against this issue.
Right to Work is a conservative scam---!
This week I was able to fulfill my quest to obtain
a good quality, reasonably priced, 1st generation Citizen NaviHawk chronograph.
My new/old (1993) NaviHawk pictured below is in route.
I'll be describing this watch in later blogs as well
as any work or modifications I may make...
Right now I am just dancing the happy dance after acquisition!
in San Francisco and protests against the upcoming Olympics in Brazil.
These huge for profit driven extravaganzas suck the money
from area's in which they are held leaving only massive debt behind.
The Super Bowl and the Olympics now affordable in person, only to the oppressors,
and the organizers are facing a viable question asked by we peasants--
Why is there money for these spectacles
but there is no money for needed community improvements,
higher minimum wage or money to fight the Zika virus in Brazil?
The Olympics, America and Zika
Why will our government will spend enormous amounts of money providing security
for the Super Bowl---a private commercial endeavor--
but nothing on it's citizens...?
Read the article below on what it's like to serve up hot dongs
to the 1% at the Super Bowl---
The abused workers of the Super Bowl
Do these demonstrations prove that we
the peasants are barely starting to wise up?
Eventually the real populations of the communities involved will hopefully
refuse to hold future costly circuses?
Aren't people more important than spectacles?
Apparently not?
Super bowl inequality
I completed the process of repair/rebuilding on a
Timex T42351 chronograph displayed below.
This particular model Timex is featured enhanced with a beautiful sort of
Germanic touch in its styling. It was, at the time of purchase, quite a bargain.
Being a Timex however meant it crashed itself immediately after purchase.
I recently discovered that this particular model is now valued at
four times my original investment hence the desire to repair & wear.
I pulled this watch from the "fix this someday" drawer
and went to work on it.
Watches are like humans,
no two are alike and the so-called rules of "how to" never actually apply
to the watch, or to the human one is working on?
Timex has a shitty tradition of using snap on/off case backs
to access the watch movement. A cheap substitute to a screw off case back.
It took me literally hours to remove it's very heavy duty case back cover
off this watch, but i finally succeeded.
Replacing the rather huge CR2016 battery was not a problem,
nor was the standard cleaning, resetting of the chronograph hands,
lubing replacement gasket etc.
Once opened, all standard tasks were accomplished and the watch
was running very well, very accurately, and all features operated properly,
there is always a but--isn't there?
For hours I was simply unable to re-install the case back on the watch..
It was the most stubborn fucking part i have possibly ever encountered!
The only tool left in my toolbox to
work this watch to a conclusion was
my inability to accept defeat.
I kept at it, finally closing the watch case and completing
the process but it was a truly tough fight.
Wearing this watch has become almost a symbol for me...
Timex T42351 chronograph displayed below.
This particular model Timex is featured enhanced with a beautiful sort of
Germanic touch in its styling. It was, at the time of purchase, quite a bargain.
I recently discovered that this particular model is now valued at
four times my original investment hence the desire to repair & wear.
and went to work on it.
Watches are like humans,
no two are alike and the so-called rules of "how to" never actually apply
to the watch, or to the human one is working on?
Timex has a shitty tradition of using snap on/off case backs
to access the watch movement. A cheap substitute to a screw off case back.
It took me literally hours to remove it's very heavy duty case back cover
off this watch, but i finally succeeded.
Replacing the rather huge CR2016 battery was not a problem,
nor was the standard cleaning, resetting of the chronograph hands,
lubing replacement gasket etc.
Once opened, all standard tasks were accomplished and the watch
was running very well, very accurately, and all features operated properly,
there is always a but--isn't there?
For hours I was simply unable to re-install the case back on the watch..
It was the most stubborn fucking part i have possibly ever encountered!
The only tool left in my toolbox to
work this watch to a conclusion was
my inability to accept defeat.
I kept at it, finally closing the watch case and completing
the process but it was a truly tough fight.
Wearing this watch has become almost a symbol for me...
Keeping the Blade Runner vibe running is apparently a Japanese national goal,
as evidenced by this Japanese men's belt with the auto-condom delivery system!
Science!
as evidenced by this Japanese men's belt with the auto-condom delivery system!
Science!
I waited over a year to view AIR on DVD.
I was really looking forward to it.
It is an interesting SF film plot concept.
It has several unique hooks forcing character action.
It just never made a connection with me,
and I was one viewer who especially wanted that connection to be there...
but it just wasn't.
I can only recommend AIR for true, die-hard SF film fans..
I was really looking forward to it.
It is an interesting SF film plot concept.
It has several unique hooks forcing character action.
It just never made a connection with me,
and I was one viewer who especially wanted that connection to be there...
but it just wasn't.
I can only recommend AIR for true, die-hard SF film fans..
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