A good, honest mechanic is hard to find. This week I found one.
Tuesday morning my wife called me to say that the car had died. The dash lights came on, and the car just shut off. I drove out to get her and to see what was wrong with the car. My past experience with cars (which isn’t a lot, but when combined with my dad’s experience is certainly worth mentioning) said that it was a timing belt issue.
I didn’t know a mechanic out in Hiram. Towing the car to my regular mechanic wasn’t feasible. I called the good people at Discount Tire in Hiram and asked for a recommendation. They suggested I call Pee Wee at Hiram Masterbend. So I did. He said he could do the work, and he gave me a contact for towing.
When I got to Pee Wee’s place, I was immediately impressed. It’s got that “this is my shop and it’s going to look nice” feel that made me feel like they care about the details. And they have Bibles to give away. It’s hard to be a dishonest mechanic when you’re giving away Bibles.
Pee Wee told me that fixing the timing belt and replacing the water pump (since they were already in there…) would be about $500. Gulp. Well, I didn’t have much of a choice, so I told him to do it. On Wednesday I went to pick it up.
Pee Wee told me that he was wrong on his pricing estimates. What he said would cost me $500 cost just over $300. He could have easily charged me the quoted amount, and I would have never known any difference. Instead, he chose the honest route, and I really appreciated it. My checking account appreciated it, too.
So if you’re near Hiram, Georgia and find yourself in need of a good, honest mechanic, I highly recommend Hiram Masterbend. They’re at 1434 Hiram-Douglasville Highway in Hiram. Phone number 770-222-0212.
I moved my site to another server today, so if you see anything odd going on, please let me know. I tested as much as I can, but I probably missed something somewhere.
I’m back, after an unexplained 36-hour absense.
Always backup your files, because hard drives never die at a convenient time.
It was one year ago tonight that I decided to enter into the world of blogging. It’s been fun. I wouldn’t say that I’m a better writer now than I was at this time last year, but I have had a good time with this.
Also, I must admit that I have enjoyed looking back on the past year and seeing/remembering what happened in my life these past 12 months.
Then there’s Google, who I have loved watching this past year. I’ve learned a lot about the Googlebot. Some top search terms for me for the year:
I’m sure there’ll be lots more coming this next year. Some serious, some helpful, and some just pretty much worthless. All of it will be worth reading. Really…stay tuned. 
I’ve noticed a lot of search traffic of people looking for Ron Davis. I know I’m probably the one everybody is searching for, but just in case - for whatever reason - you want to know about a different Ron Davis, I put together The Ron Davis List.
I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, but I never got around to it. It’s a list of all the people named Ron Davis that I could find in a very brief Google search. I’m sure there are more, but I’m too lazy to continue too far into the search.
It seems my credit card on file with my domain registrar had expired, and so my domain name did the same. I don’t remember seeing the email about it, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get one. I updated the credit card on file, and the domain came back this evening sometime.
If you sent me email this afternoon and had it bounce back undeliverable, do me a favor and resend it.
Anyway, have no fear, moreron.com is back in action. I normally wouldn’t bring this up, but I wouldn’t want anybody losing sleep over it.
It’s time for a new look, so I’ve been digging through some canned themes available for use with this wonderful WordPress blogging software. I think I like this one, but there’s that little snail thing at the top of the page that I’m not crazy about. Maybe I’ll change that later.
I’m going to be working on a WordPress type site for my rock star pal Eric Peters, so I’ve got to figure out more specifics about WordPress. This site seems like the perfect place to start.
If you know of (or have) a theme that looks better than this one, let me know.
Well, I finally gave in to the peer pressure and joined many of my friends over at MySpace. I suppose I should have acted sooner because some other guy already got the name I use on every message board I frequent. Fortunately for me, I’m the only real moreron, so you can see my myspace space over at http://www.myspace.com/moreron.
Come say hi if you want. While you’re there, you can check out my friends and hear some of their really good music.
My domain name is a good one. When I bought it way back in 2002, all variations were available. But since that day, this Ron has come along and put up his own site. I find great humor in the fact that they are charging people to be associated with them ($18/$22). Heck, you can be associated with me for half that amount. Paypal only, please.
Their web site says that they’re “always looking for 1 moreron,” but you all know that only I fit the description of moreron. Don’t fall for the hype, folks; they’re just a bunch of people that wish they could be me.
There is something about being a guy that requires an excersize in stupidity once in a while. I hadn’t been outright stupid in quite a while. Sure, there are moments of stupidity, but overall, I’ve been pretty non-stupid for the past few months. So, before you read this, know that I was way overdue for some stupidity.
My friend Gaines issued the challenge. The rules are simple. You have 1 hour to drink 1 gallon of milk, and then 1 hour to keep it down. If you win, you win nothing. If you lose, you puke in front of your friends. Well, I had never puked in front of friends (not in this manner, anyway), so I gave it a shot.
I failed.
I got about 75% of the gallon down before it all came rushing back. Since I was unable to do it (without cheating), I officially deem it as impossible. Why it’s impossible, I’m not sure. But if you know, please enlighten me.
