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Nov. 12th, 2006
I wish they'd call me already
Nov. 12th, 2006 14:09Four new tires. If I get an alignment (I suspect it needs it) it'll come out to roughly $500.
My mom and I were working it out on the way home, though. I got new tires, I think just two, shortly after I got the car; I remember shredding one on the on-ramp from 580 to 80, the day I discovered that I didn't have a jack. So that was at about 180,000 miles, call it five years ago... and she's now at 250,000 miles. 70,000 miles and five years is not bad ay-tall, even if I'm a little winded by the bill at the moment.
It's a good time to get them, too -- for one, the place has a tire sale going on. For another, it's just getting into the rainy season, and I'm far less likely to fishtail on slick pavement with a back right tire that isn't downright bald. I'll feel a bit better about rainy-weather handling now.
( So far this weekend has been pretty good. )
So now I'm waiting for the car to be done so that I can go out and get butter and flour to make pie crusts. I've dropped a line to Dr. J telling him I'm a train wreck again, asking for a half hour to whack my endoskeleton back into some semblance of correct form. And I'm thinking very hard about reneging on my study group in Davis tomorrow, as my weekend went all pear-shaped and I'd really like to have a little more time down here...
Edit: Not picking up the car today because they couldn't get one of the wheels off. One lug nut on the left back froze, apparently, and the stud ends up just turning and turning. They cut it out and looked for a replacement, but the dealer isn't open on Sundays and they don't have one in stock. So Gwen spends the night at Wheel Works. I'm rather glad I took the faceplate off the stereo, now...
There is the distinct possibility that it's not the stud that's stripped, it's the place it fastens to (can't recall the term right now)... at which point they'll tell me it'll cost way more than $70 to do the welding, and I'll tell them to send the whole damn thing home with three lug nuts on (sure, I'll sign all the necessary forms) and let my dad do the welding. It may not come to that, but with the way life has been going lately, best to plan for it.
So much for going up to Davis tomorrow. The weekend has gone beyond pear-shaped by now.
My mom and I were working it out on the way home, though. I got new tires, I think just two, shortly after I got the car; I remember shredding one on the on-ramp from 580 to 80, the day I discovered that I didn't have a jack. So that was at about 180,000 miles, call it five years ago... and she's now at 250,000 miles. 70,000 miles and five years is not bad ay-tall, even if I'm a little winded by the bill at the moment.
It's a good time to get them, too -- for one, the place has a tire sale going on. For another, it's just getting into the rainy season, and I'm far less likely to fishtail on slick pavement with a back right tire that isn't downright bald. I'll feel a bit better about rainy-weather handling now.
( So far this weekend has been pretty good. )
So now I'm waiting for the car to be done so that I can go out and get butter and flour to make pie crusts. I've dropped a line to Dr. J telling him I'm a train wreck again, asking for a half hour to whack my endoskeleton back into some semblance of correct form. And I'm thinking very hard about reneging on my study group in Davis tomorrow, as my weekend went all pear-shaped and I'd really like to have a little more time down here...
Edit: Not picking up the car today because they couldn't get one of the wheels off. One lug nut on the left back froze, apparently, and the stud ends up just turning and turning. They cut it out and looked for a replacement, but the dealer isn't open on Sundays and they don't have one in stock. So Gwen spends the night at Wheel Works. I'm rather glad I took the faceplate off the stereo, now...
There is the distinct possibility that it's not the stud that's stripped, it's the place it fastens to (can't recall the term right now)... at which point they'll tell me it'll cost way more than $70 to do the welding, and I'll tell them to send the whole damn thing home with three lug nuts on (sure, I'll sign all the necessary forms) and let my dad do the welding. It may not come to that, but with the way life has been going lately, best to plan for it.
So much for going up to Davis tomorrow. The weekend has gone beyond pear-shaped by now.
If you like trance music
Nov. 12th, 2006 14:29AfterhoursDJs is trying to cover their bandwidth costs; the plea seems to be more desperate than usual at the moment. It's a really great channel, to the point where I rip the stream to put it in the car, and I've been really happy with 75% of what I get. If you like trance, check out the live feed at http://www.afterhoursdjs.org (click through at the bottom) and think about tossing a little change their way.
