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Dr. Dvorak

Dr. Jim Dvorak is Professor of Greek and New Testament and Chair of the Division of Bible at Oklahoma Christian University.

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Always more work to do on the Astra

I freely admit that my '08 Saturn Astra XE is no longer just a daily driver; it's a project car. The next item up for repair at 115,224 miles is the right (passenger side) CV axle. It's flinging some grease, and is now starting to click a bit. Th...

Cleaning a household fan

We're in the dog days of summer, as the saying goes (although here in Burlington, Ontario, it's been pretty cool [thankfully]). My family back in Iowa and in Oklahoma are dealing with some pretty high temps. Sometimes the A/C just doesn't keep up ...

New patio table

A while back, the lovely CJD asked me to make her a little table for the patio that she could set next to her chair. Here it is. It's made with cheap lumber (= pine) and a lot of pocket screws. 😛 If you look close, you will see flaws in both the w...

Replacing an oven lightbulb

Our oven lightbulb burned out (no pun intended), so I replaced it. It is about as simple a #DIY job as one can do. How many PhD's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Apparently only one.🙂

Blower fan barely blowing air in your car?

On our drive from The Farm to Tulsa, at about Kansas City, we noticed that the A/C was not cooling the car as it should. Actually, as it turned out, it was not a problem with the A/C but a problem with air flow out of the vents. Even with fan on h...

'08 Astra Oil Pan Resealed!

You've probably heard me talk about it before (on my YouTube channel), but in case not . . . the oil pan (a.k.a., "sump") on my 2008 Saturn Astra was leaking. It was to the point that I was giving my car a good oil undercoating and I could smell i...