My car’s been nice to me. Even though hail trashed a window last year, and I’ve gone through a couple of tires and other miscelaneous parts including a cruise control amplifier (whatever that is), I haven’t had any major problems it it.

SO. After this summer’s vacation, my brakes were squealing a bit after takeoff. And then a couple weeks ago they started grinding. So I take it into CarX to see what’s up. They said $550 for new brakes in the rear and $450 to replace my coil springs which they just happened to notice were broken. I told them to wait, considering I paid barely twice that for the car.

Yay for CyRide dispatchers with husbands who work on cars! Jen’s husband is helping me out with the brakes. Worst-case scenario, we’ll have to replace calipers only. Best case would be just new pads. And the coil springs are only cracked way on the bottom, so they’re fine to leave the way they are. But anyway… I had my car over at their house for him to look at. When I was ready to leave, I turned the key and “click… click.” We played with the battery for an hour, but there was nothing wrong with it. Apparently my starter is toast, so we just added another $100 to this car. *Sigh* Fun things going wrong with old cars. I suppose it could’ve easily been a whole lot worse. Question is… do I get rid of the thing as soon as it works, or keep on driving it until the next major malfunction? I suppose if I’m spending money on parts now, I might as well keep it for awhile. It’s still a nice car… fully wired up with 12VDC and 120VAC power :-D. Yay geekdom!

Well, someone paged me the other day saying I never update. This made me sad because I meant to update more regularly (like I said). On the other hand, I was like “hey, someone’s reading my page!” So any way, in honor of my text message, I’ll make a couple entries and back-date them to make it look like I’ve actually been updating.

So I don’t really seem to update that much. Ever. I keep having good ideas of what to put here, but I never get around to doing it. Maybe having the remote tool finally installed will help. Then again, I’ve thought about putting something on my own website, but it never gets seen. *sigh* oh well, I’ll try again this summer.

So… I realized that pop cans now cost exactly the same as bottles in terms of $/oz, so I’ll try buying those from now on to cut back.

But I also realized, I can’t drink from cans in my usual freaky matter because of my furry face. I can’t form a seal on the can to get anything out of it.

Anyway, I said I should update. So here it was. Maybe I’ll put something more productive in later.

Wow…. so about 2 hours after I made that post (the day after the event)… I bought a package of wheat thins…. there was already one pack stuck in the machine, so when mine dropped, I ended up getting 2 for 1. Plus I got a raspberry cookie thingie that was hanging out next to the wheat thins. Sweet! 🙂

Hrmm, well I suppose my morals are strong…. yesterday I saw a vending machine that was unlocked… The thing had already stolen a quarter from me, so I felt like some kind of retribution. My conscience finally kicked in, and I re-locked the machine. Sometime I think I’m too nice of a guy.