The Pan that Can

Laugh and Learn Puppy and my girl

2012-01-14T14:47:00.001-08:00

Homemade Winnie the Pooh ears :)

2011-10-26T21:58:00.000-07:00

Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G

Fixed my Dell Vostro 2510 laptop LCD screen

2011-07-24T23:09:00.000-07:00

http://www.insidemylaptop.com/replace-damaged-lcd-screen-dell-vostro-1500-laptop/So, I dropped my laptop and it landed screen down and spread open and my LCD screen cracked. I forgot to take a picture of the broken screen. Here's how I replaced the screen for my Dell 2510. I followed the instructions for a Dell Vostro 1500 which was only a little different.

Tools that I used: one eyeglass screwdriver and a pair of tweezers (I dropped one of the screws in a hard to reach place).

My broken screen

I pulled off the little sticky black circles (6 total) that were covering the screws in the plastic frame or bezel.

Here's the screw behind the sticky black circle.

The top circles are actually rubber pads.

The sticky tape holding the rubber pads in place kept getting stuck to the screw.

I used the flat head of the screwdriver to pry off the sticky tape to reuse.

Picture of the sticky tape circle on my finger. I tried to keep it as circular as possible.

I stuck the tape onto the rubber pad that I picked off.

After all six screws were removed, it was easy to pull off the bezel.

Here's a photo of the bezel completely pulled off.

There were three more screws take off near the bottom of the screen at the corners and near the middle. The two screws in the corner attach the metal frame to the lid of the lap top and one in the middle that held the inverter connector in place.

Inverter connector screw.

Once the metal frame could be separated from the laptop lid, there were six more screws that needed to be removed. These six screws held the LCD screen to the metal frame. I removed the screws before I unplugged the inverter and the LCD cable connecter, but I should have unplugged the two cables first before unscrewing the LCD screen from the frame.I ended up putting the screws back in before I unplugged the cables.

The following pictures are of the LCD cable connector.

A close-up of the LCD cable connector.

The connector was held in place by some tape. I peeled the tape back slowly

I peeled it off only the LCD screen parts and left it stuck to the cable side so that I could reuse it on the new screen.

The LCD cable connector pulled straight out. I didn't have to pinch any flaps or tilt it.

Underside of the LCD cable connector.

The cable connector was also stuck to the LCD screen near the bottom of the screen.

I slowly peeled the sticky part of the cable off of the screen.

The inverter connector was at the bottom of the screen near the middle.

I pulled the pink and white wires out of the inverter.

I pulled out the old screen and screwed the new screen into the metal frame. Then I screwed the frame and inverter back in place.

I removed the plastic from the new screen.

I plugged the LCD cable connector to the new screen.

I stuck the tape to the new screen.

I plugged the inverter cable back in. The new screen had a pink wire and a black wire instead of a pink and white.

I snapped the bezel back in place.

I put back all the screws in the frame and the black covers.

My new working LCD screen :)

Rewiring Thermostat to Furnace

2011-07-13T10:50:00.000-07:00

Currently, the wiring from our furnace to our thermostat only has two wires, red and white. These two wires let our heat and fan to be on or both to be off. I want to add a third wire so that the heat and fan can be on, the fan only can be on or both are off. I got some new wire with three wires so that I can run a wire from G on the furnace to G on the thermostat. I hope that works! Below is a good website that lists the colors of wires and what they do. We don't have AC so that's less wiring for me!

I'm still looking for a good video about how to pull the new wire using the old wire.

http://www.dr-fix-it.com/ttt/10005.html

Terminal Designation	Wire Color	Function Description
Rh	Red	24 Volt Hot for Heating
Rc	Red	24 Volt Hot for Cooling
Y1	Yellow	First Stage Cooling
Y2	Blue	Second Stage Cooling
G	Green Grey *	Energizes Indoor Fan
W1	White	Energizes First Stage Heat
W2	Black	Energizes Second Stage Heat
O	Orange	Heat Pump Reversing Valve Energized In Cooling
B	Brown	Heat Pump Reversing Valve Energized In Heating
C	Brown**	24 Volt Neutral (Common) leg

Corner toilet

2011-06-23T22:11:00.000-07:00

Where did the owner of this house find a corner toilet?

Testing email to blog with a photo from Berkeley Bowl

2011-06-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

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New Mommyhood Blog

2011-04-11T21:50:00.000-07:00

Check out my new blog about the things I never could have imagined about pregnancy, post partum, breastfeeding and mommyhood at muchmorethanmorningsickness.blogspot.com.

Handmade Baby Crib Bumper

2011-03-03T18:30:00.000-08:00

I couldn't find a crib bumper I liked that was less than $40 and was ready to settle for the Ikea crib bumper for $12.99. It's cheap and simple. We went all the way to the east bay, over the bridge to get one, but they were all out even though their computer system said that they still had it in stock.

Here are a couple on Amazon that I was also considering:

white breathable bumper for $20

and this white cotton bumper by carter's.

I ended up making a bumper for baby out of an Alexander Henry print from Jo-Ann's Fabrics. The print is called kleo and this woman on etsy is selling it and she has a lot of other pretty prints.

Baby Chokes While Breastfeeding :(

2011-03-02T21:51:00.000-08:00

The first time that baby choked while breastfeeding, I thought I had drowned my baby. Her little cough was so sad. I immediately sat her up and started patting her back. She seemed to get over it quickly and wanted to go back to feeding. I asked our pediatrician about how to prevent the choking. He said that she probably choked during a milk let down. At the time, I didn't know when my let down was occuring. Now I can tell. I feel a tingling near the tip of my nipple when I let down. The doctor said that I could press my finger just above baby's latch to slow down the milk. Seemed to help. Now she delatches by herself during a let down. The first time she did, the milk sprayed all over her face. :)

Bottle Drying Racks

2011-02-24T19:44:00.000-08:00

I love the grass bottle drying rack by Boon, Inc.

When my husband was home on paternity leave, he fed baby at the 6 am feed so that I could sleep after the 3 am feed until the 9 am feed so we only needed a small bottle drying rack to dry one bottle and my pump bottles and valves. At first, we got this small bottle drying rack at Babies R Us for $3.99.

It was ok, but when you're tired, you don't really want to bother with arranging the bottles and valves carefully on each little stem. I guess the larger bottle drying rack version

would have worked better with the basket in the middle in which to throw the little pump pieces, but my cousin got us the grass bottle drying rack before we had a chance to try the larger one and I'm happy she did. Not only is it super cute, I can just throw bottle supplies anywhere on the rack which is convenient in the middle of the night :)

Mother's thumb

2011-02-15T23:54:00.000-08:00

After I had baby (and a little toward the end of pregnancy), my hands were swollen in the morning and it hurt to use my thumb to do simple things like pull up my pants. I thought the thumb pain was just due to the swelling and would go away when the swelling went away. I tried icing both wrists with an ice cube wrapped in an Ace Bandage at the base of the thumb several times a day which helped alleviate, but not take away the pain. Fifteen weeks after baby was born, I was back to pre baby weight, with no swelling, but my thumbs still hurt. At my post partum appointment, my OB/GYN recommended an orthopedic surgeon that I could see if the pain persisted. I finally made an appointment and went yesterday. He told me that I had de Quervain’s tendinitis, a common ailment for new moms which causes the tunnels holding the thumb tendons to swell and cause pain. My tunnels were so swollen that I had bumps at the base of both thumbs. He also said that eighty percent of mom's who suffer from this had girls.

The treatment was just a couple of cortisone shots to the tunnel through which the thumb tendons run. The shots were super painful even after a topical anesthetic and a little freezing of the area. The surgeon stuck the needle into the tunnel and squirted. Instantly, the swollen bumps at the base of both my thumbs went away. The pain did not go away instantly, but today is the first day that I have had no pain in my thumbs! They are a little sore, but I can definitely tell that they are on the way to recovery! I don't know why I didn't do this earlier. Dr said that chances of pain coming back were slim and is very unlikely in subsequent pregnancies. I'll write again in six months to see if the cortisone shots stuck.

Back to Blogging

2011-01-17T19:30:00.000-08:00

I'm back to blogging after some time off to have a baby. Here we are in the Peruvian baby sling that I bought at the market in Aguas Calientes, Peru. It's actually just a square piece of cloth, but the Peruvian women use it to carry everything from babies to groceries to goods for sale.

PB&J My first plushie special order

2010-08-14T22:23:00.001-07:00

Target Sunnyvale

2010-03-01T18:01:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Day Target

2010-02-14T16:24:00.000-08:00

For Valentine's Day, we drove to Ventura to see the last big Target store that I worked on :) Hmmm... it looks like I was photoshopped in, but I really did finally get to see it.

California Architectural Oral Exam - your question is on paper!

2010-02-03T21:35:00.000-08:00

I just found out that 30+ questions for the oral are now on a piece of paper for you to read! No more asking, "could you please repeat the question?" over and over again just to hear all of the parts of the question. Although, I used that line to buy time to think about my answer. :) Woo hoo for future architects!

Where I've been

2010-02-02T12:54:00.000-08:00

This is a cool little map that let me map out where I've been :)

Multiple teeth

2010-01-28T11:02:00.000-08:00

I will be putting more teeth on my etsy site soon! Here's the line up.

New Moon

2010-01-21T14:28:00.001-08:00

My friend Virginia married a man named Al Moon and became a Moon. In September, they had a baby moon. I made this little moon for their baby shower.

Change Transmission Fluid in 2002 Toyota Prius

2010-01-17T23:22:00.000-08:00

1. Looking under the car from the driver side wheel, the tank in the forground is the transmission fluid tank.
2. The hexagonal bolt right above the tank (photo: top slightly right from center) is the transmission fluid fill bolt and is removed to fill the transmission fluid.

3. Removing the bolt.

4. This is what the bolt and washer look like.

5. Using a 24 mm socket wrence, the bolt on the bottom of the transmission fulid tank is removed.

6. Transmission fluid is drained.

7. This is the transmission fluid tank pan gasket.

8. After the tank has drained, the bolts on the edges of the tank are removed and the pan is taken off.

9. One of the bolts removed from the edge of the tank.

10. The bottom pan of the tank with old gasket.

11. The inside of the pan is cleaned. The metal shavings are wiped from the surface of the pan.

12. The magnet that is found inside the pan is cleaned and put back into the pan. New gasket is placed on the pan and the pan is bolted back to the rest of the transmission fluid tank.

13. We used ATF Type T-IV.

14. To refill the tank with new transmission fluid, we attached a hose with a nozzle to the transmission fluid bottle (or another clean bottle that fits the hose with transmission fluid in it) and inserted it into the transmission fluid fill hole (where we removed the fill bolt) above the side of the transmission fluild tank. We squeezed a quare of transmission fluid into the tank. There are better tools than the hose with a nozzle, but this is a cheaper tool to fill the tank with transmission fluid.

15. When all of the transmission fluid was squirted in, we screwed the transmission fill bolt back in place.

Target Pasadena - East Colorado Boulevard

2010-01-14T20:29:00.000-08:00

Address:
3121 East Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, California 91107-3814

Phone:
626.584.2931

Hours:
Monday-Saturday 8am-11pm
Sunday 8am-10pm

Change oil on Toyota Prius

2010-01-14T15:32:00.001-08:00

1. To change the oil in our Prius, we needed a new oil filter, 5 quarts of 5W-30 oil, an old rag, a wrench, a filter wrench, a gasket for the oil filter, something to catch the oil in and a funnel.

2. We jacked up the car.

3. Then we unscrewed the oil cap under the hood to prevent creating a vacuum as the oil comes out.

4. Then using a 14mm socket wrench, we unscrewed the bolt on the oil tank under the car, and let the oil flow out into a container. We lowered the car to get all of the oil out.

5. We poured a little bit of new oil from the hood to clean out the system.

6. Once clean oil comes out at the bottom, the system is cleaned.

7. We screwed the bolt back on and wiped the opening with a rag.

8. Unscrewed the oil filter with the filter wrench.

9. Let the oil drain from where the filter was.

10. Coated the new oil filter with new oil and placed the gasket on the threads where the oil filter goes.

11. Screwed on the new filter.

12. Poured in 5 quarts of oil per the manual.

13. Checked that there was enough oil.

14. Screwed the oil cap back in place.

15. Poured the used oil into the oil container and brought to Autozone/PEP Boys/Kragen for recycling. They have a bin in the back and we just went to the back and emptied our container.

Target Westminster Mall - West Minster, California

2010-01-12T15:45:00.000-08:00

This is one of the first three-story Target stores.

Address:

200 Westminster Mall

Westminster, California 92683

Hours:

Monday-Saturday 8am-10pm

Sunday 8am-9pm

Phone:

714.657.1351

Tooth - molar

2009-12-30T16:48:00.000-08:00

This is a molar that I made for my etsy site. I ended up giving it to my nephew because he has a loose tooth that is about to fall out. The pocket in the back is for trading the tooth for money from the tooth fairy.

Target Anaheim, California

2009-12-22T22:29:00.000-08:00

Address:
101 South Euclid Street
Anaheim, California 92802-1011

Phone:
714.422.1120

Hours:
Monday - Saturday 8am-11pm
Sunday 8am-10pm