{"id":78,"date":"2012-11-02T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-07-12T06:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:14:15","slug":"i-knew-it-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Friday 2nd November 2012 – I KNEW THAT …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… it was a mistake to have that second mug of coffee. <\/p>\n

05:30 and I was still going round and round in my little room without the slightest thought about sleep.<\/p>\n

When I did eventually drop off (simply lying down on the sofa), having switched off all of the alarms, it was all of 09:56 when I woke up – probably less than 4 hours sleep.<\/p>\n

After something of a hurried breakfast I went off to Pionsat. <\/p>\n

\"puy<\/a>The tool lorry was there and I was bent on buying a new toy – and I bet that you are wondering exactly what it is<\/p>\n

All cars made since 2002 (and many earlier ones, my 1988 Senator for example) are in principle fitted with an on-board computer, an ECU (Electronic Control Unit).<\/p>\n

This analyses and stores all of the data about the running of the car, and keeps a list of faults on a computer chip.
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Garages have machines that plug into the ECU (something with a connector like a SCART socket) which enables them to read the ECU and note any problem from which the vehicle might be suffering (a series of “fault codes”). <\/p>\n

There’s a computer program that can decipher the fault codes and translate them into plain English.<\/p>\n

In the USA all of this is in the Public Domain but in the UK, certainly as recently as 5 years ago, and maybe still today for all I know, this was all jealously guarded. <\/p>\n

I’ve no idea what the situation might be in France.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to cut a long story short – “hooray” … ed –<\/i>\u00a0 the tool lorry was selling hand-held ECU readers and the associated computer program, for just \u20ac69.<\/p>\n

That kind of thing is worth its weight in gold, as you can imagine. And now there’s one here.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, with the pouring rain, I carried on with the shelving. One of the side rails is now finished, and looking quite impressive too, rather an upmarket version of Richard Hauptmann’s ladder.<\/p>\n

The other one is cut, worked and polished and will be assembled in the next rainy spell. <\/p>\n

All that will remain then will be to cut the shelving to size and to varnish it all.<\/p>\n

With the temperature up here being just 13\u00b0C that was the signal to light the fire again. And I cooked rice and another helping of my red pepper-and-lentil curry in the oven.<\/p>\n

Beautiful it was too.<\/p>\n

So now I’m off to bed, early for a change. I have a full weekend ahead of me and I need to be on form.<\/p>\n

-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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