David's Life

2026-08-23

Dragging birthday week out a bit…

A friend of mine and I tried to meet this past week for lunch at the Dublin Pub. Our birthdays are six month offset from each other so we try and get together around those times. However, we got our days confused. So I enjoyed a meal to myself and get to do it again this coming week too 🤪

Some quartz watch stuff

R to L. Mine while the kids were growing up, Johnny and Andy’s while they were growing up, a super cool citizen that has everything (solar, atomic timekeeping, stopwatch, alarm, dual time zones, 24 hr hand, slide rule calculator) yet no screen, and a super nice recent timex entry in the Sapphire GMT market for $200.

Fun.

Funny to see this two next to each other.

Biggie and smalls. Two 4WD vehicles with very different sizes, designs and purposes haha.

Saw this posted on the club channel

It’s a screenshot from a video of one of our rides earlier this year. Good times. :)

Slowly getting better at hummingbird pics?

I managed to snag a pic of this cute little girl hummingbird at Julie’s feeder.

2026-08-22

Life with Andy…

I feel like there’s a Venn diagram in here somewhere from a few pics I snapped while hanging out with Andy and Sophie at his place this past week. I couldn’t quite figure out what should be in the middle, then Julie realized it would be ANDY! Good one Jewels. Haha.

Screenshots from my smart watch…

Always fun to capture screenshots and then go back and try and figure out why I wanted to capture them by the time I a computer to download them… Ha ha.

One complaint I have about the Garmin watch; I can’t plug it into my iPad and download the screenshots and use it as a hard drive like every other device in the world. Requires a PC. Maybe they will update the OS one day so it complies with the current mass media standards. 🤪

Getting ready for Dama at the Pond

Andy and I are heading over to Indiana to check out a new weekend adventure in early September. It’s speed ladder format for me. I can do most of these tricks. Number 3 gives me fits. But I am getting better. Andy gave me a couple tweaks and I have a chance now, at least. :)

Fun with watches…

I’m using my clone to practice a little. First, I had to get the case back off. I didn’t have the proper tool so I used a pencil and hot glue which worked really well (lower left pic). Then I had to tweak the tiniest of little levers (lower right, red arrow is pointing to it) to adjust the beat error and the running speed. If you can see how much you moved it, you went too far, haha. It’s a delicate operation with the hair spring and the balance wheel right below it!

In the upper pic, you can see I got it running nicely. Spot on timing, nice amplitude and a beat error less than 0.5ms. I tweaked it one more time and actually got the beat error down to 0.0 too. Beat error is the asymmetry between the tik and the tok. Now I just need to wear it for a few days and see how it does in the real world of getting knocked around on my arm 🤪 The first 24 hours it didn’t gain or lose any time, so I think I’m on the right track.

When I was all done, a little bit of rubbing alcohol causes the pencil to pop right off easily. I went ahead and got the right tool too. $12 on Amazon.