Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

You might notice that I missed yesterdays’ update- my network was down until about 9pm due to poor weather finally eroding my cable (both signal and coax) to the point of being useless. It’s snowing today.

Not a lot to note since I can’t work on the cars- but I’m working on adding keepassxc to V...

GM, in their overtime-penny-pinching wisdom, left the cabin air intake (this is what goes through your heater, and your AC) open in the 2006-2013 Impala.

It’s nearly directly exposed to the weather. This cover (which was not designed to be completely watertight) will not keep water from pooling on...

The “Former Known As” Police Impalas are shaping up!

New fluids, bulbs, buffed out headlamps, and a preliminary rub of the paint- they don’t look all that bad. Oh, and I cleaned the engine compartment. I don’t understand why so many people let them stay filthy. They don’t need to be this clean...

I’m not the biggest fan of overcast, rainy days- they tend to usher oneself inside, since it’s never fun (or sometimes safe) working in a cold, damp environment. The good thing about this weather, however, is that it allows you to work on “to do later” projects. Today was one of those days.

This...

After so many short posts (after hours of work on the cars), one might wonder where all of my nerd posts have gone- they’re still here, and some I’ve been holding off until I have adequate time to compose an actual article, rather than a drive-by paragraph.

Void Linux, while it may deserve a bett...

My ohmmeter wasn’t working. Batteries were fine, but absolutely no juice. Needed to test fuses. Fuses were fine. There was actually an issue with the negative post. I wrapped it with aluminum foil, and everything is back to normal.

The bulbs have been replaced, and the headlamps put back into th...