what do you do outside of TV/Internet/cell phone...really anything digital for fun?

[Ultimatum77]

Sitting on the front steps petting my cats. Or my dog, whichever comes first.

Reading a good book with a real story - I get bored with books that were obviously made just for the sake of making yet another (fill in genre) book. Good books start with a story and the author figures out how to tell it. Bad books start with the author trying to make a story so he can tell it.

I agree there is too much junk out there now that passes off as literature all for the bottom line of selling some books for profit....I don't really care for a lot of the fiction works put out by most now, I really like reading biographies/autobiographies of real life people, and stuff about the occult such as beliefs/rituals (not to practice of course, but to know how the other side operates and be aware of it) afterall if you don't know your enemy you can't combat him.... and we need to be wise as snakes but innocent as doves as Jesus said.

The fact is we are inundated by occult imagery daily w/o our knowledge b/c it is hidden in a lot of our media/logos....I think it is interesting to see things in a different way once you know what the symbols mean....

For those interested:

'An I Heard 'Em Say: Hidden Signs In Corporate Logo's

 

[posthuman]

I love night driving! The roads are relatively clear of most traffic late at night, and you just turn on some techno/groover music and just drive with that beat....

Yes
For my job the last year or two, i've been leaving the house between 3 & 4 am, sometimes as early as 1 or 2!

I love cruising through the countryside, windows & 'moonroof' open in the coolness of summer, with no traffic anywhere, only animals. What will i see this morning? Counting deer, foxes, rabbits, cats, raccoons, opossum. All these, though, i have to be very careful for - praying every morning not to hit anything! And praying thanks, for these beautiful times, the long commute, alone with my Lord in the car, in the night, a bubble of light zipping through the darkness.

& i ((usually)) miss the bulk of afternoon traffic, because i'm done with work much earlier than most everyone else.

 

[posthuman]

like so many othershere i see, i love:
to walk
taking pictures
spending time with my cats
. . and all the animals in creation - the tiny insects and lizards all over. talking to birds and squirrels and chipmunks.
reading, doing math - imagining spiritual algebras
meditating on the Word - cliche? no really, i love it, Him!

solving puzzles. equations, crosswords, logistics

practicing longsword, bocce, drumming, juggling, origami.
when the cars break down, i do enjoy figuring out how to fix them, and replacing parts. but i don't generally mess with them when they're not broken.
i like fixing anything that's broken -- at least trying to. figuring out how to disassemble it, reverse-engineering, looking for a solution.

sketching, sculpting.
seeing, listening.

 

[posthuman]

[video=youtube;rXHTXdlWw1w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHTXdlWw1w[/video]

a few months ago i was in a parts store and a guy was buying clear acrylic paint to restore headlights.
i asked the clerk at the counter about it -- he said the man was a used car dealer, had been for decades, so if he says it works, he supposes it is true. the man had mentioned that it was so much cheaper, and permanent.

toothpaste is just a wet-sand, basically. i think you're better off using actual 1,000 or 2,000 grit wet-paper, which is going to be more consistent, and less likely to leave any scratches.

with acrylic clear-coat, ((i looked it up)) this is what you do:

• best to remove the headlight from the car first.
• wet-sand the headlight surface completely, from about 600 grit up to 1 or 2 thousand. use plenty of water. you want to remove all the coating that came on it OEM -- that's what is fogged. after sanding it will be a little foggy, but better than it was. this is the best you can achieve with toothpaste, if you're lucky -- like i said this is probably better than toothpaste, IMHO ((not having tried it at all, LOL))
• tape it off
• spray about 3 or 4 coats of acrylic on it, letting the coats dry in-between.
• let the whole thing dry and cure for about a day before driving

from what i read, this should last a LOONG time. it's a semi-permanent solution, and cheap -- clear coat is about $5 a can, and you won't even use half a can of it. sandpaper is a few dollars too.

headlight-restorer that you can buy all works pretty much the same: it melts the surface of the plastic. toothpaste/sanding with some other method accomplishes kind of the same thing -- it removes the top layer. both of these methods leave the lamp unprotected though -- but acrylic clearcoat, which also melts the plastic a little, which is how it becomes clearer than the sanded lens, leaves a clear, hard protective coating: the acrylic itself

look it up on YT -- lots of DIY videos you can see it gets very good results

i'm going to try this over the weekend to my own car, Kiki -- who isn't that bad off, honestly, in the headlight department ((she's a 2011)) but i need to pick up some other things from the parts store, so why not hehe

 

[Ultimatum77]

a few months ago i was in a parts store and a guy was buying clear acrylic paint to restore headlights.
i asked the clerk at the counter about it -- he said the man was a used car dealer, had been for decades, so if he says it works, he supposes it is true. the man had mentioned that it was so much cheaper, and permanent.

toothpaste is just a wet-sand, basically. i think you're better off using actual 1,000 or 2,000 grit wet-paper, which is going to be more consistent, and less likely to leave any scratches.

with acrylic clear-coat, ((i looked it up)) this is what you do:

• best to remove the headlight from the car first.
• wet-sand the headlight surface completely, from about 600 grit up to 1 or 2 thousand. use plenty of water. you want to remove all the coating that came on it OEM -- that's what is fogged. after sanding it will be a little foggy, but better than it was. this is the best you can achieve with toothpaste, if you're lucky -- like i said this is probably better than toothpaste, IMHO ((not having tried it at all, LOL))
• tape it off
• spray about 3 or 4 coats of acrylic on it, letting the coats dry in-between.
• let the whole thing dry and cure for about a day before driving

from what i read, this should last a LOONG time. it's a semi-permanent solution, and cheap -- clear coat is about $5 a can, and you won't even use half a can of it. sandpaper is a few dollars too.

headlight-restorer that you can buy all works pretty much the same: it melts the surface of the plastic. toothpaste/sanding with some other method accomplishes kind of the same thing -- it removes the top layer. both of these methods leave the lamp unprotected though -- but acrylic clearcoat, which also melts the plastic a little, which is how it becomes clearer than the sanded lens, leaves a clear, hard protective coating: the acrylic itself

look it up on YT -- lots of DIY videos you can see it gets very good results

i'm going to try this over the weekend to my own car, Kiki -- who isn't that bad off, honestly, in the headlight department ((she's a 2011)) but i need to pick up some other things from the parts store, so why not hehe

Cool I didn't know that about acryllic clear coat on the lens....I did read about sanding and well me being a little rough than most....I decided against it for fear of sanding away my headlight b/c the plastic is thin and when i sand stuff I go all out so to speak so it would be a bad combo lol Some people said to use OFF bug spray or similar but said it melts the plastic on your headlight and when you use your lights it melts b/c of the OFF embedded in the light? IDK but there's a lot of cool things on youtube about cars and a lot of wait and see stuff b/c some people jsut put junk to get a subscriber/video....

Thanks to youtube I fixed my car's ac blower motor by myself, just had to buy the parts that's it....it would have cost me probably $200 + with parts and especially labor. But for about $60 part and some free time on a saturday, I unscrewed it from under the passenger side glove box, and installed the new one lol. It was mostly difficult b/c i had to be headfirst with my head on the carpet mat, and half my body hanging out the door, while turning a screwdriver in the hot day....it was tough getting it installed with me upside down basically lol, im not a car guy/mechanic but I was proud of myself (and enjoying AC after a week w/o) and rewarded myself with take out pizza.

My fav youtube car channel is 1a auto b/c they show you the part and also how to repair it on your vehicle or similar....

 

[Ultimatum77]

[video=youtube;zNz-HX92OyQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNz-HX92OyQ[/video]

This is basically what I did, it was hard but my wallet was not burned so I was very happy lol ....

 

[zeroturbulence]

I've sanded my headlights before on my honda and the hardest part is getting rid of the sanding marks so its scratch-free again. I didn't think about spraying them with clear. That would have made it easier since the clear would fill in faint sanding marks. Now I have a rotary polisher and meguiars 105 polishing compound so its easy to restore the headlights and takes about 5 minutes. Polishing the rest of the car is the hard part but I don't do it very often. In fact, the car needs several panels repainted to its not getting polished at all until I get the painting done..

We seriously need a car thread! lol

 

[posthuman]

Thanks to youtube I fixed my car's ac blower motor by myself, just had to buy the parts that's it....it would have cost me probably $200 + with parts and especially labor. But for about $60 part and some free time on a saturday, I unscrewed it from under the passenger side glove box, and installed the new one lol. It was mostly difficult b/c i had to be headfirst with my head on the carpet mat, and half my body hanging out the door, while turning a screwdriver in the hot day....it was tough getting it installed with me upside down basically lol, im not a car guy/mechanic but I was proud of myself (and enjoying AC after a week w/o) and rewarded myself with take out pizza.

haha that sounds like replacing the heater core -- which is a little radiator behind the dashboard on most cars, and usually what broke if you aren't getting any hot air through the vents anymore.
it's not really *hard* as in you don't need special tools or know-how, just a screwdriver and a walk-through of where it is and how disassemble your particular car. but it's really, REALLY awkward to get to!

i've probably saved thousands of dollars over the years by searching first shop manuals, before the internet, then car forums and whatnot for how-to's to fix broken things on my cars. i looked at something breaking down as an excuse to buy more tools! haha
but with a good set of ratchets and wrenches, and a torque wrench, and patience, persistence and the ability to follow directions, if you have time then very often you don't have to go to the mechanic and pay someone between $60 and $120 an hour to fix something.

well i guess you have to be able to diagnose the problem first too.

but the internet is sooo useful!
used to be, the first thing i bought with every car i owned was the shop manual for it. now though, you can always find a .pdf of this anyway, and it's really easy to get walkthroughs, with pictures, of fixing things - even videos! - and diligent searching can help you figure out what is probably broken, and how to tell if that is what is broken, too.

i get a big kick out of doing this -- it's puzzle-solving, to me.

 

[Ultimatum77]

I've sanded my headlights before on my honda and the hardest part is getting rid of the sanding marks so its scratch-free again. I didn't think about spraying them with clear. That would have made it easier since the clear would fill in faint sanding marks. Now I have a rotary polisher and meguiars 105 polishing compound so its easy to restore the headlights and takes about 5 minutes. Polishing the rest of the car is the hard part but I don't do it very often. In fact, the car needs several panels repainted to its not getting polished at all until I get the painting done..

We seriously need a car thread! lol

Yea brother, we've been talking about it for a while, but I just went ahead and created a "group"...feel free to join ( I never thought I would start a group on CC but a lot of car guys post on this forum and I would like to learn some tips and tricks from you more experienced car repair veterans as I'm a relative rookie but I think the skills and know how would save a ton of money as car mechanics mostly love to overcharge for stuff especially dealers.....

http://christianchat.com/group.php?gmid=15289&do=discuss#gmessage15289

 

[Ultimatum77]

haha that sounds like replacing the heater core -- which is a little radiator behind the dashboard on most cars, and usually what broke if you aren't getting any hot air through the vents anymore.
it's not really *hard* as in you don't need special tools or know-how, just a screwdriver and a walk-through of where it is and how disassemble your particular car. but it's really, REALLY awkward to get to!

i've probably saved thousands of dollars over the years by searching first shop manuals, before the internet, then car forums and whatnot for how-to's to fix broken things on my cars. i looked at something breaking down as an excuse to buy more tools! haha
but with a good set of ratchets and wrenches, and a torque wrench, and patience, persistence and the ability to follow directions, if you have time then very often you don't have to go to the mechanic and pay someone between $60 and $120 an hour to fix something.

well i guess you have to be able to diagnose the problem first too.

but the internet is sooo useful!
used to be, the first thing i bought with every car i owned was the shop manual for it. now though, you can always find a .pdf of this anyway, and it's really easy to get walkthroughs, with pictures, of fixing things - even videos! - and diligent searching can help you figure out what is probably broken, and how to tell if that is what is broken, too.

i get a big kick out of doing this -- it's puzzle-solving, to me.

Yea my car stereo's backlight bulbs burned out and while the default/OEM radio was still good the display was burned out, a simple search on google, some small bulbs bought online and a soldering iron, and tada, I fixed my car's OEM radio display and I didn't want to replace it with an aftermarket b/c the sound was good already and it was linked to the onboard computer on the car as well....youtube has taken DIY in general to a whole new level I agree....

 

[Ultimatum77]

haha that sounds like replacing the heater core -- which is a little radiator behind the dashboard on most cars, and usually what broke if you aren't getting any hot air through the vents anymore.
it's not really *hard* as in you don't need special tools or know-how, just a screwdriver and a walk-through of where it is and how disassemble your particular car. but it's really, REALLY awkward to get to!

i've probably saved thousands of dollars over the years by searching first shop manuals, before the internet, then car forums and whatnot for how-to's to fix broken things on my cars. i looked at something breaking down as an excuse to buy more tools! haha
but with a good set of ratchets and wrenches, and a torque wrench, and patience, persistence and the ability to follow directions, if you have time then very often you don't have to go to the mechanic and pay someone between $60 and $120 an hour to fix something.

well i guess you have to be able to diagnose the problem first too.

but the internet is sooo useful!
used to be, the first thing i bought with every car i owned was the shop manual for it. now though, you can always find a .pdf of this anyway, and it's really easy to get walkthroughs, with pictures, of fixing things - even videos! - and diligent searching can help you figure out what is probably broken, and how to tell if that is what is broken, too.

i get a big kick out of doing this -- it's puzzle-solving, to me.

Yea it was just the blower motor, it just gave up the ghost after making grinding noises and I had to buy a new one online was neat to do though...

 

[zeroturbulence]

Yea brother, we've been talking about it for a while, but I just went ahead and created a "group"...feel free to join ( I never thought I would start a group on CC but a lot of car guys post on this forum and I would like to learn some tips and tricks from you more experienced car repair veterans as I'm a relative rookie but I think the skills and know how would save a ton of money as car mechanics mostly love to overcharge for stuff especially dealers.....

http://christianchat.com/group.php?gmid=15289&do=discuss#gmessage15289

I joined and found out I'm the only member We needs a thread!

 

[Ultimatum77]

I joined and found out I'm the only member We needs a thread!

I agree, I'll start up a thread in miscellaneous to see if we can recruit some more peeps! As far as our own subforum that's up to RoboOp to decide

 

[NewWine]

Pente is fun. Winning Pente is more fun. Walks/blowing stuff up is also good clean fun.

My dad likes to sit on his porch swing and toss firecrackers into the grass next to the road....the best time to do this, according to him, is when traffic is backed-up from watching the fireworks on Independence Day.....lol

 

[Tintin]

Read fiction and non-fiction
Catch up with friends
Read
Have Deep and Meaningfuls with family and friends
Read
Play board games
Read
Go for walks
Read
Eat
Read
Study the Bible
Read

And I want to get back into drawing and writing.

 

[Fenner]

I go for walks with my family. I go to work. Sometimes I go out with my Husband. I drive people places. I read and go to the library, do stuff for church. Get together with friends, take naps.

 

[Tintin]

I agree there is too much junk out there now that passes off as literature all for the bottom line of selling some books for profit....I don't really care for a lot of the fiction works put out by most now, I really like reading biographies/autobiographies of real life people, and stuff about the occult such as beliefs/rituals (not to practice of course, but to know how the other side operates and be aware of it) afterall if you don't know your enemy you can't combat him.... and we need to be wise as snakes but innocent as doves as Jesus said.

The fact is we are inundated by occult imagery daily w/o our knowledge b/c it is hidden in a lot of our media/logos....I think it is interesting to see things in a different way once you know what the symbols mean....

For those interested:

'An I Heard 'Em Say: Hidden Signs In Corporate Logo's

I'm sorry, brother. That website is utter tosh. For example, the Starbucks logo is a mermaid, not Isis with two snakes. If they get something that simple wrong, they're not going to have a good record. As for the eyes, maybe some do have occult influences. But I know, as someone who enjoys doodling, that eyes are fascinating and drawing weird eyes is just a whole lot of fun.

 

[mochi]

Feeding miaw and cleaning their mess
Go on food adventure
Baking experiment (not cooking.. i cant cook)

 

[mar09]

Feeding miaw and cleaning their mess
Go on food adventure
Baking experiment (not cooking.. i cant cook)

Like u, but i have to cook and learn to also! i suggest u do the same before u find urself with a family and start learning then-). unless all u bake can also be eaten at mealtime and not just for snacks.

 

[mar09]

Yes
For my job the last year or two, i've been leaving the house between 3 & 4 am, sometimes as early as 1 or 2!

I love cruising through the countryside, windows & 'moonroof' open in the coolness of summer, with no traffic anywhere, only animals. What will i see this morning? Counting deer, foxes, rabbits, cats, raccoons, opossum. All these, though, i have to be very careful for - praying every morning not to hit anything! And praying thanks, for these beautiful times, the long commute, alone with my Lord in the car, in the night, a bubble of light zipping through the darkness.

& i ((usually)) miss the bulk of afternoon traffic, because i'm done with work much earlier than most everyone else.

U do! in that case what time do u need to go to sleep.. or do u manage naps during the day so u dont feel like a zombie at 7 pm?