trains, planes, automobiles
I've been reunited with my car. All it needed was a tuneup, in the end. I asked if there were any big problems looming on the horizon, and the mechanic said "Everything looks good. [pause] For a Neon."
If he'd said it looked or sounded good, without that caveat, I'd have had to laugh. Especially with it sputtering and rumbling in the background. But two years of use and counting, on a free car, with total maintenance so far under $600... Can't complain about that.
I like my mechanic a lot, but San Leandro is far from home. A few people have pointed out that there's a great shop down the block from me, at 18th & Florida, the San Francisco Auto Repair Center. They're a co-op, or something like that, and they rent tools and space and have classes on basic car repair. But I'm told they also have a good normal mechanic. Maybe I should check them out.
On my way down to the mechanic's, I looked out the window of the BART train as we passed the airport. I saw a jet, normal-sized but at the wrong angle for me to identify it, flying low and slow and flanked by two red helicopters. They were the size & shape I associate with medevac helicopters, not the little bubble-shaped news choppers and not military as far as I can tell. What's up with that? Google News is uninformative.
If he'd said it looked or sounded good, without that caveat, I'd have had to laugh. Especially with it sputtering and rumbling in the background. But two years of use and counting, on a free car, with total maintenance so far under $600... Can't complain about that.
I like my mechanic a lot, but San Leandro is far from home. A few people have pointed out that there's a great shop down the block from me, at 18th & Florida, the San Francisco Auto Repair Center. They're a co-op, or something like that, and they rent tools and space and have classes on basic car repair. But I'm told they also have a good normal mechanic. Maybe I should check them out.
On my way down to the mechanic's, I looked out the window of the BART train as we passed the airport. I saw a jet, normal-sized but at the wrong angle for me to identify it, flying low and slow and flanked by two red helicopters. They were the size & shape I associate with medevac helicopters, not the little bubble-shaped news choppers and not military as far as I can tell. What's up with that? Google News is uninformative.