Your moon position is disturbing
What is going on? Couples I've known for years are splitting up, all suddenly, without much reason, just bam, it's over. I'm starting to wonder if people generally get depressed in July more then other months. People may feel lost, or confused, unsure, who knows. Anyway, I saw Livelihood at the Old Arizona Theater near by where I live. It would have been faster to walk then run around trying to find parking. The play was great, really clever writing. Lots of comedy. I think their last night is tonight, and I was in the largest crowd they had had since the beginning of the run almost two weeks ago, and there were only a dozen people watching. Go see it if you can make it.
My car decided to take several calculated poops on itself in a row. It's not that old, just 5 1/2 years old. It has 111k miles on it. It probably still has Tony Jackson's ass juice on the passenger seat at some microscopic level, if anyone would like to clone him from ass juice, go ahead. On Tuesday, I brought my car to Tires Plus to get a rotation, and to check a tire that was running low in the front. Oh, we found your leak, your front rims are bent, and need to be replaced, we can't get them now because the ford parts department is closed, but it should be $600 to get both rims. Oh, by the way, you have a nail in one of your other tires, it's too close to the sidewall, so we can't repair it, but we'd be glad to replace it with a slightly different tire. Mind you, my tires are only six months old, and generally, if I'm lucky, will be $100 each to replace. So, that'd be, $700 at Tires Plus, without labor, which I would be bent slightly further over, with a total running about $800.
I was kind of pissed because I didn't want to drop that much money on an older car. I am damn grateful that I could afford paying for it though without selling a kidney. The next morning, I took my car in to a shop to fix the A/C, which had been charged in April, but leaked in May. I finally got pissed out driving with the windows down when it's so hot out, it feels like a hair dryer blowing in your face. I toughed it out as long as I could, and was ready to drop another $100-$200 to get that fixed. I get a call back from the shop. We found your leak, it's in the evaporator and compressor. Now, I do know that's pretty much your whole A/C system, and this won't be cheap. We're looking at around $1200 to get that repaired. Uh, no, that's OK, I tell the guy. I picked up my car, and they didn't charge me anything for all of the work they did to test the A/C. That is awesome. I went to Lyndale Auto Service on Lyndale and 28th, if anyone cares.
So, I took my car, which I thought wasn't in that bad of shape, but was now going to cost me $2000 to get fixed, into work. Now, I may not be broke, but I'm not rolling in that kind of cash either. Plus, Jeannette has had some money issues, so I've been helping out with that, and rent is on me these last two months. I really like my car, it's still pretty peppy, I still have a sport chip in it to make it faster. It's been pretty reliable, except for a fuel pump, but that was covered under a recall. I've taken plenty of parts out of it, replaced them with crappy parts off of eBay that are supposed to make it faster, or make it look cooler, and replaced them back with stock parts. I've been inside and outside of that car, I know every scratch and dent. I have freakin Pac Man on the hood and rear window. I installed better speakers myself. I installed a CD player myself. I put in an MP3 Player under the seat and wired it up myself. The car has been to New York four times.
Now it was time to bury the Focus. Wednesday night, I had my car appraised by a guy, $2200 was all I could get for it, with the A/C not working. I imagine it'll make some college kid happy. I know they'll take Pac Man off, but I have another set of the decals. I ordered a Scion xA a month ago, because I was kind of interested in getting a different car, but now it was certain. The car arrived on Thursday, got the loan paperwork filled out and signed on Friday. Had a check made at my credit union just half an hour before I was supposed to pick up the car. Drove to the dealership, picked up the car, had my title transferred, signed everything, and was out of the door in 40 minutes.
The car is awesome, and the payments easy to handle. It'll be paid off in four years, so I'll have some time without payments before this car craps on me, and wants to be replaced. This new one is Japanese, so it might last longer, who knows.
I saw A Scanner Darkly. The animation, while cool, I think distracts from the story a bit. It seemed too short, the plot too simple. Whatever, I'm overly critical anyway.
Bill, I still have your Pinto keys, if you'd like them, let me know.
My car decided to take several calculated poops on itself in a row. It's not that old, just 5 1/2 years old. It has 111k miles on it. It probably still has Tony Jackson's ass juice on the passenger seat at some microscopic level, if anyone would like to clone him from ass juice, go ahead. On Tuesday, I brought my car to Tires Plus to get a rotation, and to check a tire that was running low in the front. Oh, we found your leak, your front rims are bent, and need to be replaced, we can't get them now because the ford parts department is closed, but it should be $600 to get both rims. Oh, by the way, you have a nail in one of your other tires, it's too close to the sidewall, so we can't repair it, but we'd be glad to replace it with a slightly different tire. Mind you, my tires are only six months old, and generally, if I'm lucky, will be $100 each to replace. So, that'd be, $700 at Tires Plus, without labor, which I would be bent slightly further over, with a total running about $800.
I was kind of pissed because I didn't want to drop that much money on an older car. I am damn grateful that I could afford paying for it though without selling a kidney. The next morning, I took my car in to a shop to fix the A/C, which had been charged in April, but leaked in May. I finally got pissed out driving with the windows down when it's so hot out, it feels like a hair dryer blowing in your face. I toughed it out as long as I could, and was ready to drop another $100-$200 to get that fixed. I get a call back from the shop. We found your leak, it's in the evaporator and compressor. Now, I do know that's pretty much your whole A/C system, and this won't be cheap. We're looking at around $1200 to get that repaired. Uh, no, that's OK, I tell the guy. I picked up my car, and they didn't charge me anything for all of the work they did to test the A/C. That is awesome. I went to Lyndale Auto Service on Lyndale and 28th, if anyone cares.
So, I took my car, which I thought wasn't in that bad of shape, but was now going to cost me $2000 to get fixed, into work. Now, I may not be broke, but I'm not rolling in that kind of cash either. Plus, Jeannette has had some money issues, so I've been helping out with that, and rent is on me these last two months. I really like my car, it's still pretty peppy, I still have a sport chip in it to make it faster. It's been pretty reliable, except for a fuel pump, but that was covered under a recall. I've taken plenty of parts out of it, replaced them with crappy parts off of eBay that are supposed to make it faster, or make it look cooler, and replaced them back with stock parts. I've been inside and outside of that car, I know every scratch and dent. I have freakin Pac Man on the hood and rear window. I installed better speakers myself. I installed a CD player myself. I put in an MP3 Player under the seat and wired it up myself. The car has been to New York four times.
Now it was time to bury the Focus. Wednesday night, I had my car appraised by a guy, $2200 was all I could get for it, with the A/C not working. I imagine it'll make some college kid happy. I know they'll take Pac Man off, but I have another set of the decals. I ordered a Scion xA a month ago, because I was kind of interested in getting a different car, but now it was certain. The car arrived on Thursday, got the loan paperwork filled out and signed on Friday. Had a check made at my credit union just half an hour before I was supposed to pick up the car. Drove to the dealership, picked up the car, had my title transferred, signed everything, and was out of the door in 40 minutes.
The car is awesome, and the payments easy to handle. It'll be paid off in four years, so I'll have some time without payments before this car craps on me, and wants to be replaced. This new one is Japanese, so it might last longer, who knows.
I saw A Scanner Darkly. The animation, while cool, I think distracts from the story a bit. It seemed too short, the plot too simple. Whatever, I'm overly critical anyway.
Bill, I still have your Pinto keys, if you'd like them, let me know.