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rambly and boring regarding cars and names
Jan. 6th, 2006 10:00 pmMy car is at the shop. It made a huge rattledy-shmappedy-bong noise on the way back to work at lunch on Wednesday, and there were then click-thump-ick noises randomly afterwards. Not much, and not sounding as if they were coming from the engine area, but enough that I had M take a look at it when I got home. He found the problem (broken bolt thing) and called the shop, had a nice conversation with Friendly Old Guy, the owner, and then drove the car over immediately so he could make sure the car was safe to drive until we could bring it in over the weekend. He gets really frustrated sometimes because one of the very few areas where he doesn't know words is the technical side of working on cars, so he couldn't tell the guy what kind of bolt it was. (Sway-bar bearing, fyi.) Anyway, I drove it the rest of the week and we took it over tonight.
It's kind of funny because the car leaks brake fluid, and the part that it needs in order to stop leaking brake fluid (by the way, you cannot imagine how stupid I look filling the thing up with brake fluid when it starts dinging at me, but at least I can do it) has been on order with two different car repair shops for eight and twelve months. Isn't that crazy? They were both supposed to call us when it came in so we could schedule the repair and neither place called. It's a very slow leak so it wasn't really that annoying, and we probably should have just called anyway, but still. Two places! Anyway, when M called Friendly Old Guy, he immediately remembered who that part he had ordered was for. *laugh* He's going to fix a couple more small annoyances while he's at it, so the whole thing really is working out pretty well. I could drive it all week without worrying about rental cars or hitching rides, and M and I both have Monday off so we can pick it up then. Hopefully, anyway. For a car repair, this one is pretty painless. I won't have a car tomorrow, though, as M has to work, but I usually don't go anywhere on my days off anyway.
Three days! Three days of glorious unplanned bliss! Technically it's a Morehead weekend but after the whole Christmas/New Year's/Mom's birthday cluster of travels...I'm thinking it will be nicer to sit at home. M and I are both still in the mood to get some stuff done, and so I'm hoping I'll be able to cross a few things off my to-do list.
I was going to write something else but I've spent the last half an hour tormenting M with a baby name website, which was linked from a writing website I was reading. When we have kids, we are going to seriously have trouble with names. For one thing, M doesn't really like names, and that will cause us trouble. Ha. Just kidding, dear. I think our tastes are very, very different, though. During a discussion about other people and baby names, my mom gave me an impromptu lecture on how the woman gets to choose the baby's name because she is the one to carry the kid for nine months and then give birth. That ain't gonna fly in our house, I can tell you that much, and I don't think it did for most of my friends with kids. But maybe I can whip that out in the throes of childbirth and see if it helps.. okay, that was totally off the subject. Happy happy weekend yay!
It's kind of funny because the car leaks brake fluid, and the part that it needs in order to stop leaking brake fluid (by the way, you cannot imagine how stupid I look filling the thing up with brake fluid when it starts dinging at me, but at least I can do it) has been on order with two different car repair shops for eight and twelve months. Isn't that crazy? They were both supposed to call us when it came in so we could schedule the repair and neither place called. It's a very slow leak so it wasn't really that annoying, and we probably should have just called anyway, but still. Two places! Anyway, when M called Friendly Old Guy, he immediately remembered who that part he had ordered was for. *laugh* He's going to fix a couple more small annoyances while he's at it, so the whole thing really is working out pretty well. I could drive it all week without worrying about rental cars or hitching rides, and M and I both have Monday off so we can pick it up then. Hopefully, anyway. For a car repair, this one is pretty painless. I won't have a car tomorrow, though, as M has to work, but I usually don't go anywhere on my days off anyway.
Three days! Three days of glorious unplanned bliss! Technically it's a Morehead weekend but after the whole Christmas/New Year's/Mom's birthday cluster of travels...I'm thinking it will be nicer to sit at home. M and I are both still in the mood to get some stuff done, and so I'm hoping I'll be able to cross a few things off my to-do list.
I was going to write something else but I've spent the last half an hour tormenting M with a baby name website, which was linked from a writing website I was reading. When we have kids, we are going to seriously have trouble with names. For one thing, M doesn't really like names, and that will cause us trouble. Ha. Just kidding, dear. I think our tastes are very, very different, though. During a discussion about other people and baby names, my mom gave me an impromptu lecture on how the woman gets to choose the baby's name because she is the one to carry the kid for nine months and then give birth. That ain't gonna fly in our house, I can tell you that much, and I don't think it did for most of my friends with kids. But maybe I can whip that out in the throes of childbirth and see if it helps.. okay, that was totally off the subject. Happy happy weekend yay!
