RECENT THINGS
Not another
SPARE TIRE FROM HELL!!!
What is ZWEISAMKEIT?
The love story of
Admetus and Alcestis.
Fixing office
chair wheels.
I replaced all our
fill valves.
So who was this guy
Eratosthenes?
Finished the kitchen
counter with my son's help
The Beast Beam is gone
How to machine sew a
button. (It opened my eyes to a hole new world)
Replaced a side
marker light on my son's car. Some things are easy. Some
are hard.
On patching knees on
pants.
Updated my security
system.
A discussion of one of my favorite
sci-fi movies.
My daughter Fiona wrote a poem on
summer.
I did two videos for Cyn,
Invisible Tears and
Part of Me.
I also did If You
Go Away for her.
Just revised my Old
Record Collection.
My latest dealings with
car brakes almost drove me nuts.
I added this also to my rant section. I needed
to rant on this.
Updated our Christmas together.
Kind of fun to watch.
I wrote an article about
relays
and modern communications.
When it comes to
packing wheel bearings I am the greatest!
There are many ways to
unlock the mysteries of life.
I just did it all with my
awl.
I did a short page on
vulgar fractions.
How to time a sewing
machine
Found another real cool
German word.
Just finished my
department of redundancy department.
I have seen the elephant. Just how I
got the COVID.
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SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS
You
can find information on my soul mate
Cynthia. She was a great writer, mother and wife. God, I
wish there were more women like her. Maybe I can get her
replicated.
I try to collect things about our family and put them in a
presentable way. Check out any or all of the table of contents.
I plan to do bigger things as time goes on but as my mind continues to
deteriorate, and as the kids begin to leave home and as dogs die.
But as I do age, things seem to get better in some ways -- more
perspective maybe. After all I'm officially retired and have
nothing else to do except kitchen, laundry, cars, kids still at home,
each with cars, some with associated boyfriends and girlfriends, each
kid having the usual personal problems and struggling to get educations
and stay out of debt (with my help of course).
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LESS IMPORTANT THINGS
Here is my latest rendition of Point of
Order by Stan Freberg. I think it's awfully funny especially in
these times, and those times too where there was a commie lurking behind
every bush. Now there's a politician lurking behind every bush.
I began to wonder why Music is Disappearing
or at least my kind of music is.
I managed to get together a version of
Early American Popular Music, the only book which I will ever write.
Here is an essay on the Pacific Northwest
and how we got it and I think it's worth a read.
And also I did a page that has some Old Song
Sheets and believe me song sheets are rare.
I continue to talk about My Former
career but I have a new one now which is making trouble.
I did some stuff on The History of Computing
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There is some GREAT NEW STUFF Too
I set up two newer sections on this site, one entitled
MY LIFE -- SORT OF which has to do with my early days and
continues to improve as I do, growing up, seminary, education, army,
girls, love life, (before the wife and kids and dogs and house and
credit cards and teenagers and cars and jet skis and snow-mobiles).
The second section goes into
MY ROOTS. This is a hugely difficult section and
it will eventually be done (person by person). One of my
brothers, the unofficial caretaker of the Vautier Archives has
graciously sent me lots of info about where I came from and who were
all those guys that gave me such weird and disorganized genes.
But then again my children get genes from Cynthia who can claim to
be descended from U.S. Grant, whereas I can only claim genes from
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PUBLICATIONS
Early
American Popular Music
The Great Longitude Mystery
Where Do Numbers Come From?
My all time favorite
Gregorian Chants
Cascadia - Puget Sound
A History of Computers
Old Song Sheets
Electromagnetic Waves
The Oracle
On Virgil
Poems
Systems Analysis |
VINYL RECORDS
Null
Points
How to set Anti-skating
How I Digitize Records.
Some Hints on Digitizing
Here's how to build the perfect turntable
Some ideas about records
Early Memories on LPs
Phono Cartridges
What is sound recording
- Analog vs. Digital
Anyway how do I play a warped vinyl
record
Ever wonder how records are
made? I did.
Turntable Rumble
LP Pop Removal
Return adjustment for Technics
turntable
Turntable Hum
What to do about Record Mold. not
much.
Tonearm Fixing
a real Pro-ject project
Mysterious Record Player Hum
MySansui
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CARS
My
Last Brake Job
(I hope)
Some thoughts on fuel pumps
The tire from hell
The Ranger Canapé
My Little Car Subwoofer
Radio Replacement for Ford with CD Changer
My Ford Ranger Radio
on Motor Oil
Headlights
Manual clutches
RVs and wheel seals
Focus Alternator Replacement the hard
way
Blower Motors
The beauty of replacing a Power Steering
Line
ZX2 motor mounts
Blower Fans
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TECHNICAL STUFF
How
to make web pages more presentable
on other devices like tablets and cells.
I updated my page on building
Home Internet Sites. It was, like me, really old, but
now it's better.
Here's an essay on electromagnetic waves.
Deep stuff.
Just Where Do Numbers Come
From anyway?
My Resume (long out of date)
just to show how smart I used to be.
Skills
(mostly for making trouble)
All about molly-bolts
My ZUNE. So why did they stop
making them?
What is a TCC solenoid? I don't
know either.
LG DLG2302R main board
Finding my Location on Earth
is an essay that explores my early adventures in navigation when
I was just a kid.
Watch out for those Sleeping Dogs.
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ARTSY
FARTSY
Got to see the Sistine Chapel
exhibit in Seattle.
I Did an essay on the Four
Quartets. Deep stuff!
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MEMORIES
It was so fun being a little kid.
All our Christmases together since
like forever.
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JUST
MUSIC PLEASE
The GREATEST
song ever? IMHO
So what happened to
all the Big Bands?
My really Old Record Collection.
Some stories about early
Popular Music
Do you wonder why Music is
Disappearing?
What's with the Three
Minute Song Barrier?
The First Rock & Roll Song - honest
Gilbert & Sullivan - the greatest ever
Psychoacustics
You know what a
magnetophon is? I do.
My Beatles
collection will be soon featured.
The
White Album
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HOME
IMPROVEMENTS
Some time ago we got our carport converted to living space.
It gave us a bathroom, hallway, small cook area and so
everybody's happy except the cars which get to remain outside.
Some features include additional washer and drier as well as new
shower, so if any old washer breaks there's another one and
I will have time to fix it. I don't exactly see paying
property taxes on garage space for cars, not it Bellevue.
The cars can just pay their own taxes.
We put a new French door in the
living room.
My son Val helped me build a set of
front stairs.
How to really clean a toilet.
I got a sewer liner.
Replaced the old shed roof.
After 40 years we got a brand new roof.
We put in a nice shower.
House Painting
The Floor
French Doors
My sewer - root of the problem
Laying Tile
The Roof
More Roof
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THE SALESIANS
I was a Salesian Brother from 1961 to 1964. Here
are some of my experiences.
Richmond
More Richmond
Novitiate
Newton
Camp Don Bosco Newton
Joe Herzog
My Last Recitative
The Hound and Hare Hunt
Moving Music
Blue Water Line
The Mikado
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VACATIONS
Crater Lake
Moses Lake
Our Millennium Trip
Ocean Shores
Hamilton
Montreal (2004)
Solar Eclipse (2017)
DC
Val's Big Airplane Trip
Dublin
2017 Eclipse
what a trip!
Did the Columbia Gorge with my
son. then we went to Oregon
to visit Sisters and
Crater lake.
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PROJECTS
The Mound
Apple Tree
My gas fireplace
Central Vacuum Systems
A Brand New Tree
Cyn's Roses
The Great Snake
Bed frames and wrestling
CENSE
My hanging lamp base
A great grate
Installing a security system |
FUNNY THINGS
The Great Crash
The Tub
Our Poor old Doug Fir
Val's motor scooter
Luci's new do
Val goes out for Football
The Perfect Kitchen
The Perfect Bathroom
Ballast Replacement
Zune Socket Replacement
Installing throttle
plates the hard way
weltuntergangsstimmung
On Flappers
Imperious Inturruptus
My really bad jokes |
PETS - woof woof bark
OLD DOGS
The Basset
Phoebus
Pumpkin
Black dog
and here are the NEW DOGS
Black Dog2 - Smokey
White Dog - Sophie
Brown Dog - Moses
Running the Dogs
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General
Life Summery
Resume
My Career
Places I have lived
Bellingham (page to be done later)
Everett - Grand Street
Portland
On S.E
17th
Lincoln Street
The
Irving House
The
House on Citadel
The
Auburn House
St. Edwards
Seminary
for 7 years I was a Salesian
student and brother
My Many Army Experiences
Friends
Lifetiming
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Where I came from
The Family
Genealogy
My Mother
My Dad
The Vautier side of the family
The O'Rouark side of the family
My little sister
Brother Frank
Brother Mike
The Jessups
Paul Jessup
Postcards
Pop's
Scrapbook
Gallery
The
Farm
Christine
Rachel
Uncle Bud
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Here is a collection of my latest complaints
against the world, the flesh, the devil, God, the
Government, and anything else I can think of.
Back disk brakes -
beware - a mystery
The Great Toilet Seat Debate
Tensioner Replacement
Fire Alarms
Motor Oil
How to test a CO
alarm
Changing Transmission Oil
Making a really safe oven
hood
My sweet Maytag
Dryer Timers
Two Californias
Micro switches
Hot Water Heaters
Two Dishwashers? Really!
The trouble with door handle
locks
My rain gage dun broke so's I
fixed it
Sleeping Dogs
on Smoke Detectors
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ANYTHING ELSE THAT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT
Cuz' there's still a lotta
drinks I ain't drunk
and there’s lots of pretty thoughts that I ain't thunk
oh yeah
And Lord there's still so many lonely girls
In this best of all possible worlds.
Best of all Possible Worlds (1966)
Roger Miller
Good Dreams / Bad Dreams
Sudden memories I
could'a been Rich Rich Rich
Fixing Subwoofers
Fr. Buck
On being an Altar Boy
Lake Hills Village
Apartments
Some comments on Martin
Luther
The Arcane Arts
weltuntergangsstimmung
School - Why did I go
anyway?
Forsitan
The story of Admetus
Souls
The Post
Washing Machine Leaks
Effectivities
Entertainment center
Convert Home Video to DVD -
Some workable ideas
My Record Cabinet
Lili Marlene
Glendy Burk
And much more as I get older and I think I will
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ACTION PLEASE
Gabriel decides to kick the football:
Opps -- right into the phone line.
Val doing a trick of two with his
skateboard on his new rail -- well sort of anyway.
And here comes Sparky the Basset
wagging her way through life.
See Pumpkin run
-- the fastest thing around on four feet.
Cyn is handy with a brush. She
now will attempt some faux painting in the bedroom.
And Val goes out for a pass -- and
he's going... going... going...
Here is Gabe, our star chef cooking up
a fine Denver omelet.
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