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Feb. 12th, 2019 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomdreamsI'm taking an electrical engineering course through the engineering department of CU Boulder and it is kicking my butt. He says second order differential equations so casually.
Today I left work early, came home, watched a nice man haul off my poor old Subaru, drove the Triumph down to the credit union and paid off my new Subaru, then drove over to get a crown replaced. On the way home, the seatbelt retract mechanism on the Triumph failed. This isn't the original one, it's one I put in 5 years ago when I replaced the original belts. I think seatbelts should be replaced periodically, but I don't think 5 years is a suitable replacement period. Nevertheless, that's what I get. There is a plastic hat-shaped bit that engages a spiral spring on one side, and engages the reel on the other, and it broke in the middle. I could mend it or 3d print a replacement, or best of all machine one out of aluminum. But I could also just buy another.
Today I left work early, came home, watched a nice man haul off my poor old Subaru, drove the Triumph down to the credit union and paid off my new Subaru, then drove over to get a crown replaced. On the way home, the seatbelt retract mechanism on the Triumph failed. This isn't the original one, it's one I put in 5 years ago when I replaced the original belts. I think seatbelts should be replaced periodically, but I don't think 5 years is a suitable replacement period. Nevertheless, that's what I get. There is a plastic hat-shaped bit that engages a spiral spring on one side, and engages the reel on the other, and it broke in the middle. I could mend it or 3d print a replacement, or best of all machine one out of aluminum. But I could also just buy another.
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Date: 2019-02-17 03:34 pm (UTC)Good luck with the EE course. I can definitely identify with having your butt kicked by math. Fast fourier transforms scared me off of the Computer Technology degree I worked on back in the 90's and I settled for an AS before going a liberal arts route.