No sooner did m0mmy come up for the weekend and we got the brake lights fixed than we had 4-5 in. of snow yesterday and the battery is dead. And when I called the AAA, they told me they weren't taking calls from anyone (like me) who was at their residence just then, as there were too many stranded motorists. Which I understand, but that doesn't ( Read more... )

So no sooner did I get the right brake light to work again than the bulb in the left burns out. And I don't really want to get cited for it, so I'm paranoid, and I'm seeing cops everywhere. I'm sorely tempted to abandon the damn thing, and to hell with whatever complications arrive from that. I wonder if I can even replace it by myself ( Read more... )

1.) I'm feeling better. I did figure out what's causing the passenger side brake light to go out; the car is old and the lining in the trunk is coming unglued. As it does, it rubs against the switch for the brake lights (yes, there is a sort of switch, although it rotates rather than being an up-and-down number), and it causes the light to go out. ( Read more... )

( Warning for anyone offended by TMI: May contain way too much information. )

To the person or persons involved, should they see this:

I had a minor scare involving the car, leaks, etc. on Friday before I left.

I drove 3 hours here on Friday and was stuck for 40 minutes because there was an accident about half a mile up ahead.

I am starting class tomorrow, and while I have most of my textbooks, I don't have all of them ( Read more... )

Good things that have happened in the past week ( Read more... )

So we finally had snow yesterday, real snow and not flurries! I was a little worried about the car, since it's coming up on that part of the year where it has to be driven every day or it goes berserk. Fortunately, it started and I had no trouble getting to the library. ThankyouZeus. However, I had to scrape 8 tons of snow off the windshields ( ( Read more... )

Okay, so more accurately I was just looking on eBay, more specifically looking for books of the type I collect. The Caitlin book that's being sold is the one I already have; there are no Malory Towers books being sold in this country; and I found several magnificent lots of Sweet Dreams, none of which I can afford to buy. (Also, I'd wind up with ( Read more... )

True, "meh" and its derivatives are more and more frequently used by me.

It snowed here, sort of (flurries), but the car started okay except the lock seems to be shot. True, the lock on the driver's side door has always been shot; I have to lock and unlock from the passenger's side. Still, this morning the damn thing wanted to be locked on the ( Read more... )

Good things that have happened in the past week:

--forgottensanity sent me a Sadira-as-Mary-Sue e-mail which made me giggle uncontrollably ( Read more... )