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For some time I've had replacement headlights for my 1992 Ford F250 waiting to be installed. These are DOT-listed and apparently OE-spec, and they are identical in most respects save that one of the adjusters is a 6mm hex stud where it was originally a philips screw. The original headlights were both badly clouded, and one had broken glass inside of it. This may be the prelude to a HID upgrade, but first I'll have to see what the lights look like with the new, unclouded plastic lenses.

The wacky axle I've got on my F250 is apparently a super duty axle. If I install one ton springs and a class V hitch then I have all the equipment (but not the legal weight rating) of an F350, and then some. My rear springs need replacing anyway, and the ideal would be to find super duty springs, but I assume they're in short supply. The alternative seems to be to get rear lift springs, which is a somewhat spendy proposition; indeed, they are almost as expensive as the rest of the lift put together!

It would be excellent to remake Star Co- er, excuse me, The Ur-Quan Masters in the Vega Strike engine. It wouldn't currently permit the resource-gathering portion of the game, but that was my least favorite part anyway. The most hoped-for features in Vega Strike are first-person combat and continual flight down to planets' surfaces, so one day that too may be possible. All the really good parts of the game could be implemented in the existing engine.

The temporary placement of the CDR on my custom F250 intake was apparently a little too temporary and I lost it on the way home the other day. So I hustled out and picked up another one from a GM 6.5 liter diesel in a van at Last Mile in Upper Lake.

Two days in a row the daily woot has been an HP desktop computer. Kind of makes me wonder if everything they sell is complete shit nobody wants. I thought most of it was just stuff they got cheap.