Author: Steve

  An historical artifact A business card from Dad, circa 1960, I’ve been hanging on to since then.   I looked up all those trailer brands.  It doesn’t look like any of them have been made since the 60s.  Mostly they look like this now:   Or this:   I remember them shiny and fine when they were new on the lot though.   Love the phone number on the card.  5 digits, with a two-letter prefix:  GA for Garfield in North Long Beach; our home number in Long Beach having GE for Geneva.  Before prefixes; in Seal Beach our number was 98779.   I looked up the trailer lot location on Google Earth. The trailer lot then is a storage center now.   The link to the google earth view showing Dad’s commute from Long Beach to North Long Beach. Commute map   And what the heck, a street view of our house. 321 Carroll Park West   Hey look.  The Christmas lights I put up are still there!   You can zoom out and see the neighborhood.  Carroll Park; a very cool place to grow up.  

    Except when it can’t be helped.    

  I got everything right yesterday about the green kingfisher except the part about the green kingfisher.  The green kingfisher pictures I sent out were really of a belted kingfisher.   My bad.  Forget everything I said about green kingfishers.  The belted kingfisher is ubiquitous.  

    With a hoodie.   Look how much he likes it!  

  The golf cart has all these little storage slots in the dash.   An oddity of the top center slot is that the stop at the back only goes half-way up.  If you put something in it, you have to be careful to keep it low, so it doesn’t just go past the stop and fall down into an inaccessible hole.   Well if something can go wrong, you know it’s only a matter of time until it does, and our time ran out.  Now we had to retrieve something valuable from the innards of the golf cart but didn’t know how far down that was or how to get there.  A good place to start would be to remove the drink holder and see if that gave us access.  We could tell that the top of the drink holder was a separate piece, but there were clearly releases to get past that would let it lift out.  I couldn’t figure them out.  I could just overpower it with screwdrivers and leverage, but I wanted the drink holder to still be usable after I was done.  What to do?   Ask the Google!  “Removing drink holder from EZ Go golf cart.”  Guess what.  There is a youtube video precisely for removing the drink holder from our golf cart.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7x4gZXuxRA  1:17   Knowing where to press while pulling on the drink holder, it popped right out, the cellphone was right there in plain sight, we retrieved it, and our lives are in order again.  All credit to the Google!   As a bonus, we found a letter from 2017 that had gotten dropped in there and never recovered.