It's the first day of my vacation, and how have I spent it? By getting up earlier than usual to take my car in, of course ( Read more... )

My car has needed to get its oil changed for weeks, probably since April. For various reasons I never made an appointment to get it done, but figured last week would be great for that, being the one week for the immediate future where I only had one late night. Then dad's tire blew, and mom had the painters scheduled, and I ended up not making an ( Read more... )

My poor car. She is 16 years old and I know I have to take care of her to keep her going for who knows how much longer. Maybe 20. Maybe more. She still runs great, in part because I try to be decent about taking her in in a timely fashion, and doing what they recommend, maybe not that time, but the next time, depending on what's needed ( Read more... )

I saw a construction marquee yesterday on the way to my concert: Week Of December 9th/Extreme Delays Begin/Proceed With Caution. This was at the Fabyan/Kirk intersection ( Read more... )

My car hit 100,000 miles back in January, not long before the very cold snap. My maintenance light came on immediately, and I knew I needed an oil change and possibly the 100K mile check-over. I figured belts would need to be replaced, stuff along those lines. And then, during or shortly after the very cold snap, my car got noisy. A few years ( Read more... )

I forgot a couple things in yesterday's post, in part because it was so late by the time I finished it that I just wanted it done and over with. So, one of the things I wanted them to look at happened to be my brakes. I had the front ones replaced last year; the back ones, we're watching, but it seems like it'll be a while. (To wit: They were ( Read more... )

My grandmother and I are having mirrored experiences with our cars. A month or so ago, she was in a fender-bender which required body work. I guess you could say my car was in a mirror-spearer (heh) and had its own body work done. I got my car back and within hours its check engine light came on. Last week, grandma called dad a couple times ( Read more... )

Today was the day I had to get up about my normal time. One of my goals was to take my car in, and I made sure to get an early appointment in case it took several hours. Not only did I need my oil changed, but I wanted the brakes done. I knew they were low the last time I was in, and lately I could feel that they needed a change, and I was ( Read more... )

Extra-crunchy crunch time. I'm working to get stuff done before I go, especially considering I'm gone the next two days. I managed to get my oil changed yesterday, and today wanted to do a couple things before my goddaughter's wedding--bank for gift, and then post office for stamps. Except, coming up Randall Road this afternoon, I saw emergency ( Read more... )

I'm trying to get back into doing my own projects, as opposed to just working on stuff from my grandfather, but it's hard. Not so much because I'm still working on my grandfather's stuff; I haven't done much with that lately. It's just that in terms of my personal projects, things keep popping up. I'm working on my year-end roundup for last year ( Read more... )