Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[RED-DOG]

So Red, did you ever get your new beep beep buzzer installed and did it cure your problem?

Sorry Tom, I've been a bit busy. Update coming soon.

[RED-DOG]

So Red, did you ever get your new beep beep buzzer installed and did it cure your problem?

Sorry Tom, I've been a bit busy. Update coming soon.

 

[atdc21]

Any Indication of an update......

[RED-DOG]

Any Indication of an update......

Who knows 

That Red Dog is one crazy unpredictable dude.

[booder]

Any Indication of an update......

WP

[RED-DOG]

Any Indication of an update......

WP

Bollocks!

How did I miss that pun?

[RED-DOG]

Right! I know you're all waiting for a blinking update but first I have to tell you about this....

[RED-DOG]

I always just have Ring Ring, Ring Ring as the ringtone on my phone, but several members of my family have now gone that way too, so an incoming call sends us all reaching for our pockets or handbags.

I decided to leave them to it and download something a bit more distinctive. A piece of music would be OK, so long as it ticked certain boxes.

Something that I like obv.
Not too common.
A soft, quiet-ish start but quickly building to some strident notes if I didn't hear it straight away.

I settled on the Bond theme.


My wife is called Muzelley, but I usually shorten it to Zel or Zelly.

My Daughter is also called Muzelley. (So is my Granddaughter but that's a different story)


Anyway, millions of years ago when I got my first phone, it was capable of storing up to 10 numbers, one for each digit on the keypad. There was no way of assigning a name to a digit, you just had to remember who's number was stored where.


By the time Mrs Red, (Zelly) got a phone many years later, you could store as many numbers as you liked, and what's more, you could add a name.

It still wasn't an easy process though, there was no touch screen, you had to press the keypad buttons, (often several times) to produce each letter.

Putting something like a hundred phone numbers in was a real pain in the arse so like most people I abbreviated the well known and often used ones. I used a Z for my wife Zelly and, to avoid confusion, an M for my daughter Muzelley and now, even with my modern phone, that is the way it has stayed.



I was with a group of friends and my phone was face up on the table when I received a call. At this very moment I saw the unintended consequences of my actions for the first time. The Bond theme filled the air and a big letter M flashed on the screen....

I'm hoping they will run out of puns soon.


 

[RED-DOG]

So I got my brand new beep beep buzzer home and guess what?


It was too big to fit into the hole that the other one came out of.

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[RED-DOG]

I was committed now. It had to fit, so I started by clipping it's wings.

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[RED-DOG]

I then used a sharp chis specialist tool to make the hole bigger.

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[RED-DOG]

After that it was a simple case of re fitting the light cluster and testing the indicator.

(If you hold the pic close to your ear you can hear the beeper buzzing)

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[RED-DOG]

Lastly, put the tools away.

How can you use so many things on such a simple job?

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[RED-DOG]

These BTW, are the nicest biscuits in the world.

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[Karabiner]

I then used a sharp chis specialist tool to make the hole bigger.

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It's amazing what you can do with those Swiss Army knives.