The Car Wash Life

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Friday, May 6, 2016

Better to Be Rid of Him

Location D has a Car Wash Club, a Car Wash Club that of which I have written little about, both in this series, and in general. D is a very small part of my work week, about three hours in a thirty-five hour work week. Located in a tiny rural town, D does not have nearly as many members as B's. Even... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Not That Far

When people find out I work where I work in relation to where I live, they are amazed. To them, the towns Dad's different businesses are in are far away. To me, though, the forty-five minutes commutes to B, C and D are not that far away. When Dad was operating Location A, I was so used to that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 2, 2016

Dealing with the Other Glitches

I have already talked about how the RFID sticker situation more or less solved itself save for the occasional hiccup. What about the other glitches that of which I have spoken about. There are three glitches. One is that the scanners were reading too far, setting off multiple automatic touch frees.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 1, 2016

So Much Can Go Wrong

For a time, the way in which the automatic touch frees would let the operator know if there was a problem was via pager. The machine would page its number and a code. Operators would either go by memory or a cheat sheet of some sort. Dad himself kept a laminated paper the size of a business card in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 29, 2016

Blame the Sun

The fixing of a mechanical problem all starts with a hypothesis. If the hypothesis is correct, great. Either the problem will be permanently fixed, or one has the solution in one's mental library. If not, the hypothesis will have to be modified or outright eliminated. I have seen mechanics over the... Sign in to see full entry.

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