Last Year my family moved not only across the state but across the country for my dad to accept a job in California, I could have stayed behind in our house that we were about to lose because we could not afford two places to live, but I came to California and I’m living with my parents in an apartment during my first year of college and last year after we moved was my senior year. I recently learned of a teenager who is only 16 and building his own tiny house and I want to do the same thing in my own backyard, but we don’t have a backyard to build it in. As I see this problem I think about how far my family came when we moved we had a 2 BR 2 bath house in a nice neighborhood and on a corner, now we’re renting a condo above garages for almost more than we can afford (that’s California for you) and I have to wonder where do I start in sizing down my life if I wanted to move into a tiny house when I move away, do I start with the books I don’t read, the movies I don’t watch or even the video games that I don’t play without friends? I think that I will start with the most sizable possession which is all my crap stowed in boxes that I still haven’t opened since I think that we’re moving in a year anyway so whats the point?

This is the start, I Am Going To Start sizing down my life soon in order to keep my room clean and fix what damage I’ve done in wanting all these things that I realize now that I really don’t need. I’m making an oath now to start getting rid of some of the things I have only for decoration and start actually using the things I do have more instead of asking for more things I don’t need (though I still want a chromebook because it won’t kill my back taking it to school). Anyone else ready to take the Tiny Dreams challenge?

I just found a couple of websites who started this but didn’t continue, why? I have no idea! I’m going to try starting one to last within a week or so. Any ideas to get started people?

I’m very excited to be going to college this year as it is the first year for me but I have to ask one question, how do people handle the reading? I am trying to stay organized but I have a hard time getting through to my brain to get it back into organize mode! If anyone is actually listening and has any suggestions I would be happy to hear them, as long as they’re not from the Apple personnel who keep losing their Iphones, lol, but seriously: how do you deal with the reading?

Me and my friend Marc are undertaking the filming of an event, I’ll mostly be in one place though, and I need to learn how to use my camera and how to connect it too my computer to film without the hassle of changing the card every 17 to 30 minutes. So, the first part was a piece of cake since I’ve used this camera for 3 years and will keep using it for a while, the second part is going to be the hard part because this is a “pressure test” for me, I have to decide on one good converter that requires almost no power and has the quality that’s the same as the camera. As if that were not hard enough, my camera has great quality and I’m running only linux on the computer I’ll be using and I might not even be able to find hardware like that for my laptop. Pinnacle makes some and they are the first ones I looked up, I’ll go to best buy and get the full lowdown from someone who is meant to sell them, the consumer reviews seem promising but none of them use linux, that they said, so I’ll be checking it out tomorrow.

So, My friend has an old fujitsu that is acting… to say it in the nicest way possible: ANNOYING! it’s harddrive is busted, won’t accept drivescrubber, and I replaced the memory and use a flash disk and it works good with external peripherals but as soon as you touch it the memory goes kablooey! does anyone out there have the same problem with a s series lifebook? if you do please tell me how you might fix it.

I’m taking the monitor, later today, to my dads work to try to make some very cool progress by testing the power board. Parts of a board are alot cheaper than an entire board, $0.50 vs. $30.00, and it is a more fun fix than just taking the board out and placing a new one in, I’ll have video later today or tomarrow morning.

My family has almost finished moving and I’m getting ready for my first project. I’m going to try to fix not only a monitor but actually fix the power supply board so that I can minimize cost and to do this I’m going to my dad’s work to learn about how to diagnose the problem then try to fix it with some cheap online parts. Tell me what you think in the comments, I’ll have some video soon.

Ok, so, even though I’ve fixed other computers in the past this is the first one I’m documenting completely with pictures and such so here are a couple pictures of the monitor I will be trying to fix… yes, I’m going to actually try fixing the board not just buy a new one.

the inside boardsthe backingall of the other crap that surrounds the boards