I am very bad at asking for help ( Read more... )

The one time I went to this chain service store, they were polite, and friendly, but compleatly unable to change the transmission oil in my odd '70 Hanomag Henchel. They had no spec listing for it and didn't want to risk putting the wrong kind of oil in. I admired their caution and honesty. That was in 1998 ( Read more... )

Seattle is now Cold. Winter has come. And revealed a hidden flaw in Simba's electrical system; Headlights, heater, windshield wipers, charge battery, Pick any two. getting greedy and trying for three or more at once will be punished by loud squealing noises from the alternator belt (echo off buildings loud).. There are good technical ( Read more... )

I normaly avoid anything even remotely political online ('cause I in no way want to put myself in a confruntatory position with the Unitied Snakes or with them.), But, as you watch this Biszare Music Video of Seether "Country Song" Try to not think of Bush Jr.

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Other: --- Yesterday was a painful exercise in the importance of asking questions and ( Read more... )

I recovered from a bout of illness to discover that I'd turned my chair into a bookcase..

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"..And saint Fred The Mechanic, covered in the black sacrament, did raise the lubricant pump on high saying 'Oh Lord, bless this piece of [EXCREMENT], known, in diagram #4 on page 170, as part number 14j-OPmp, so that the rebate flange shall not become cross-threaded, like the last time this [INTERCOURSE]ing thing was put together, and please Lord ( Read more... )