A summary of the day...
Oct. 12th, 2011 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhere do I begin?
Apropos of finding a lock for our storage unit, Galina found a couple of loose Master combination locks in the garage, sans any tag with corresponding combinations. What to do? Internet to the rescue!
After viewing a YouTube video clip on how to open such a lock without knowing the combination, I managed to open them both within about ten minutes (admittedly, I was lucky in not having to cycle through all of the 100 or so "tries" that the technique produces for a given lock, hitting one combination on the third try). Now, I am not particularly dextrous or mechanically inclined, and will have probably forgotten how to do this by this time tomorrow, but it was a little scary to see just how easy it was to open this kind of lock, so Galina and I settled on a more traditional keyed lock for our storage unit.
The word bag for the day stands in excess of 4,000, plus two updated files. The plate currently carries a hair over 5,000 words due by the end of the day Sunday, and another update that will involve the translation of around 1,200 words and incorporating a bunch of revisions, which is due by COB Friday.
Off to go pack some books.
Cheers...
Apropos of finding a lock for our storage unit, Galina found a couple of loose Master combination locks in the garage, sans any tag with corresponding combinations. What to do? Internet to the rescue!
After viewing a YouTube video clip on how to open such a lock without knowing the combination, I managed to open them both within about ten minutes (admittedly, I was lucky in not having to cycle through all of the 100 or so "tries" that the technique produces for a given lock, hitting one combination on the third try). Now, I am not particularly dextrous or mechanically inclined, and will have probably forgotten how to do this by this time tomorrow, but it was a little scary to see just how easy it was to open this kind of lock, so Galina and I settled on a more traditional keyed lock for our storage unit.
The word bag for the day stands in excess of 4,000, plus two updated files. The plate currently carries a hair over 5,000 words due by the end of the day Sunday, and another update that will involve the translation of around 1,200 words and incorporating a bunch of revisions, which is due by COB Friday.
Off to go pack some books.
Cheers...
