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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2025:
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I have a 2016 Rav4 with a key and a fob that remote unlocks and locks the door. Unfortunately, time had not been kind to my spare. It pooped out. So I went to the dealer and had them replace the battery. It still didn't work. The dealer said for a brand new key, cut and coded approximately 450 dollars! I couldn't believe it. That price was OUTRAGEOUS!! It was about 200 for the keys and 200 to program it. I think the guy at the dealer had pity on me and told me to try an aftermarket keysmith. I had no idea there was such a thing! Anyway, I went on EBAY and bought a key for the car and spent 30.00 dollars. Heck, I thought I was onto something. I booked an appointment with the Locksmith and showed up. The first thing he told me is that my EBAY key was a knock off. He checked all the numbers and everything looked good. He was surprised. Usually knock offs can't be programed. So he went to program it. He was pleasantly surprised to discover he was able to program the key to start the car. Now it was time to program the remote functions. It wasn't working. He was surprised. He tried it twice and it didn't take. He said if the key can be programed to start it, it should be programed to work remotely. He was stumped. Just as I was about to drive off he stopped me. "Was your car made in Canada?" Ummm... I know Toyota is Japanese, but I thought it was made in Kentucky. "I dunno," I replied. He checked the plate on the driver's side door frame - sure as molasses my Rav4 was made in Canada. And they're frequencies for their key fob aren't quite the same as the ones for American ones. At least we solved it. Now I have homework. I must obtain the part number for my key fob - I must order a Canadian Toyota Rav4 Key fob. He said to call the dealer but who knows if the dealer will actually tell me the part number. He wants to sell me the part for 200 bucks! I'm not an expert on ordering parts but it's time to put the sleuthing hat on. |