So my mom got her financial aid approved and has had her 1st chemo at the new place ( Read more... )

Matt's car was in the garage for a tune up today and I had a sick headache. I didn't actually feel like driving, so he asked D from next door to take him to go get his car. On the way back, they got about a block from the garage and she ran out of gas. Crazy, right? So getting a gas can, buying gas, following her to a gas station and so on took ( Read more... )

I've read that if your floor is not level, the best thing to do is to get a sheet of plywood, cut it to a reasonable size, put it down and level the plywood and then try the washing machine on that. I feel in my mechanic's Spidey sense that we are killing it and we are not running it one more time without giving it a level platform 1st. It might ( Read more... )

Hey, I found my camera. I'm hopeless at unpacking.

This is a 1937 Cord (I Hope its a 37, I know its a Cord) at the Ford Museum and it seems like the perfect get away car to me. They let people sit in this one. I think they ought to provide tommy guns too, but you can't have everything.


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Apparently, the car is supposed to sound like that, because the garage people did not mention "your exhaust is falling off" as one of the things they'd like to fix ( Read more... )

I have no use for the back side of winter, which drags on and on and makes me beg for spring ( Read more... )

I completely did not do any digging today. I think I will do that tomorrow ( Read more... )

Allow me to tell you one of my favorite quotes from Blazing Saddles ( Read more... )

The car has zero electrical charge. None, zip, nada. 2 days ago I drove it and it was fine. This is the third time its done this. The first time, Honda tested it for everything, found nothing, gave me a new battery for free and mumbled in embarrassment. The second time we tried to find an excuse for something I did to it (did I leave the lights on ( Read more... )