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Ok, so I took my car to the shop on thursday evening for it's MOT check. Friday morning I get a call it failed. And needed 1100 euros (or about 1650 US$) worth of repairs to have it pass. That's a bit too much money in my eyes. For instance, they were charging 300 euros for changing the rear breakcilinders, which is about an hours work and costs 20 euros in parts. So yeah, we're not going to have it repaired there. Luckily one of my colleagues and his father used to be carmechanics, so instead I brought the car to them on saturday and we fixed all the points on which it failed (well, all but one, because they didn't have the part needed in the store). The hardest thing was welling up a hole in a the rear girder. That took a while, but still not 450 euros worth of while they were charging for it at the auto shop.
The part for the headlight adjusting will come in on tuesday, so on wednesday I am going to make another appointment at the shop to have it tested again. They will probably not like that I fixed it myself (yeah, like that's unexpected at those prices) but it should pass. Maybe I'll take it to another shop instead. Hmmm... I'll have a good think about that.
Last Friday there was a Tom Waits evening in the bar, where I, along with 3 other acts, performed Tom Waits songs all evening. I did four and did some unrehearsed backingvocals to "Hoist That Rag" in the last act, because it was needed. It was a bit of a jamsession, so no one was annoyed :p. On my own I did "Hold On", "The House Where Nobody Lives", "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You" and a last minute rendition of "Chocolate Jesus", which I decided to play and learned to, about 2 hours before I actually did.
I got quite a few compliments on my singing, which I think is strange, because in my mind I can't sing for shit. One of the audience members compared my voice to Ray Lamontagne (big compliment in my book). And JK actually wondered why I was passed on singing backingvocals for our band :p
And on a sidenote, why is the internet so slow? Is it because I'm apparently uploading something at about 40kB/s, while I have my torrent program set at 10 (and which is claiming to do). I have a mystery 30kB/s upload stream... doesn't sound good. I might reboot this thing. It's running Windows and has an uptime for over a day. It was bound to happen :p
The part for the headlight adjusting will come in on tuesday, so on wednesday I am going to make another appointment at the shop to have it tested again. They will probably not like that I fixed it myself (yeah, like that's unexpected at those prices) but it should pass. Maybe I'll take it to another shop instead. Hmmm... I'll have a good think about that.
Last Friday there was a Tom Waits evening in the bar, where I, along with 3 other acts, performed Tom Waits songs all evening. I did four and did some unrehearsed backingvocals to "Hoist That Rag" in the last act, because it was needed. It was a bit of a jamsession, so no one was annoyed :p. On my own I did "Hold On", "The House Where Nobody Lives", "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You" and a last minute rendition of "Chocolate Jesus", which I decided to play and learned to, about 2 hours before I actually did.
I got quite a few compliments on my singing, which I think is strange, because in my mind I can't sing for shit. One of the audience members compared my voice to Ray Lamontagne (big compliment in my book). And JK actually wondered why I was passed on singing backingvocals for our band :p
And on a sidenote, why is the internet so slow? Is it because I'm apparently uploading something at about 40kB/s, while I have my torrent program set at 10 (and which is claiming to do). I have a mystery 30kB/s upload stream... doesn't sound good. I might reboot this thing. It's running Windows and has an uptime for over a day. It was bound to happen :p