When I upgraded to WordPress 2, I turned on the Akismet plugin. The description of the plugin is to the point: “Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not.”

I haven’t had to moderate a spam comment since I enabled it.

chele’s Dad and I spent the afternoon today attempting to bleed the brakes on the Spitfire. After not getting any fluid out of the rear lines, we discovered that the rear reservoir on the master cylinder was empty. It also leaks fluid all over the firewall and into the drivers footwell.

Joy.

Thankfully I had ordered a rebuild kit for the master cylinder a couple of years ago. Unfortunately that means the car stays on the jackstands until I get the it rebuilt; the firewall stripped of rust, sanded, and painted; and the brakes bled yet again.

Yesterday evening the UPS driver rang the doorbell. The rear brake lines I had ordered from SpitBits had arrived! I eagerly opened the box and compared them against the original… YES, they were the same length!

After getting the kids to bed, put them on the car. I was surprised how quickly they went on. Even after 32 years of rust and grime, everything unstuck without too much torquing.

Tonight I’ll bleed the system out, and perhaps get the new clutch slave cylinder on.

I stopped by the course at First Baptist Church St. Charles on the way home from work today and threw a quick round. My elbow is finally healed and I was able to throw without pain. It was a perfect day for disc golf, and it showed in my score: 1 over for the entire 18 holes, the best I’ve ever done. I’ll admit, I was playing from the red tees (the easiest), so I didn’t have any killer long shots to make, but still, it was a great round. My best throw was a 70′ second shot on 13 that I intended to just put near the pin. The wind and throw was perfect, because I heard that satisfying *clang* sound of a disc hitting chain.

It’s great to be back on the course.