As odd as it sounds, I used to be pretty high strung.
(I picture everyone shaking their head in mock disbelief)
No, really, I was.
Since I’ve entered the medication generation, my tension has lowered somewhat and now I’m merely low-to-medium strung.
Been taking a lot of naps recently, and so my sleep schedule is off, spent yesterday late night hard wiring my radar detector (and remote display) into the uh…..no-named car……
Managed to screw up and buy 25 ft of phone cord that didn’t work, so I found some and installed it. I really should have known better, as an installer….
ALWAYS test for FUNCTION before the FINAL placement.
I wound the phone cable up through my headliner, down the side door drip rails, under the dash and hardwired into my stereo wiring. Then I realized that it wasn’t powering on. So I clipped the jacks, rewired to match the factory cabling (three times) and it still didn’t work.
Grabbed a random phone cable (8 ft) and it worked…..so I pulled it all back out and started from scratch.
Couldn’t have pulled that off a few years ago.
Routed the remote display onto my dash just below eye level. It has cool little arrow indicators to tell you which direction the radar beams are coming from.
So, my point about being high-strung, it will be interesting to see how this radar “locator” (rather than detector) works in Houston this weekend. The last time I had a radar detector (and the Viper alarm) was back in the mid 90’s – that freaking detector went off ALL the time. If I was high strung then, I’m not sure how I ever put up with it…..must have been one of those necessary evil kind of things.
The detector I have now is super well built, and is supposed to be “smarter” so I don’t expect that it’s going to be going off as much. We’ll see.
Maybe I’ll call this car “Acura Pt 2”. Or K.I.T.T. or C.A.R.R.
LOL
