Here are some random things which have been occupying my time:

• My super Aunt Kathy passed away last week, and we drove to ONONdaga County to attend her memorial service. I was glad to be there for my family, and it was a nice service. An Irish style remembrance of all things which made her awesome with a great vegetarian buffet from a local ( Read more... )

For many months now I've been putting off a project on my car, and I finally decided the time was right the weekend to get it done.  Between my GPS, Sirius Radio, and iPod, I was having serious contention for the sole ("cigarette lighter") power connector in my car.  After a few weeks of using a crappy 3-way splitter (and having it get knocked out ( Read more... )

AAA came out in less than 20 minutes to service my car..  After a few tries, a jumpstart got it going...  I picked up
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This was a pretty crazy weekend!  On Friday night I went to Symphony Hall to see Artie Lange, from the Howard Stern Show (and formerly of MadTV).  It was a great time, Jim Florentine and Greg Fitzsimmons opened, both of whom I've enjoyed for some time, so it was great to see them live.  The MC was some local guy, who wasn't that good and got pretty ( Read more... )

I was scheduled to start the new job this morning at 9am, so I hung around the house, listened to Howard Stern, and got my things together. I was planning on driving in this first day so I could unload all of the books/manuals in my trunk as well as the box of desk effluvia. But when I got out to my car, it wouldn't start. The battery was ( Read more... )

On the way home from work yesterday I had another flat tire... Fortunately, this time around I was able to get it off the car myself and replace it with the donut spare. By the time I got home all the tire places were closed, so I was forced to take care of it this morning. Unfortunately, I had plans to meet up with some of my family at Old ( Read more... )

Hawkeye has had some tar on his fenders for awhile now, and I finally purchased some tar and bug remover to get it off. The can required me to pry the lid off, a task intended for a screwdriver, but since I didn't have any handy, and I am impatient, I chose to use a key for. And of course, I chose the tiniest, most fragile key I possessed for ( Read more... )

I had the 3rd headlight in like 6 months die on me yesterday... I am very careful not to get oil from my fingers on the bulb, so I don't know what's causing it.. I changed brands this time, so hopefully that will make a difference....

In other Hawkeye news, I had to get his brake pads replaced on Saturday (the little scrap-y doohickey was doing ( Read more... )

On Monday my drivers side windshield wiper stopped moving.. I stopped by the dealer first thing Tuesday morning to have it fixed, and it turns out the nut that holds it on to the motor came loose so all they had to do was realign it and retighten it.. But since they considered it an "adjustment" I had to pay for it (it wasn't covered under ( Read more... )

Had a fairly laid back weekend.... Friday night I just stayed home with coco_b, who had a nasty cold (probably the same cold I had, although we had thought she had dodged that bullet). Saturday morning I decided to mount my Sirius radio in the car. It had been flopping around, kind of propped up in the ashtray while I waited for a nice mount to arrive ( Read more... )