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Looks like we're in for nasty weather...
Aug. 15th, 2007 03:00 amI know how awful the aftermath of a hurricane can be. So I ought not to be quite so gleeful. But Jiminy Christmas---we're tracking Tropical Storm Dean!
Aug. 15th, 2007
Looks like we're in for nasty weather...
Aug. 15th, 2007 03:00 amI know how awful the aftermath of a hurricane can be. So I ought not to be quite so gleeful. But Jiminy Christmas---we're tracking Tropical Storm Dean!
Will irony save me from anemia?
Aug. 15th, 2007 07:05 pmThis afternoon, when I was trying to leave to go meet Kat, my car decided not to start. She convinced her older son (my old buddy BC) to come by after work to look at it. He has minimal automotive aptitude, so we managed to get it cranked and took it to his mechanic, who is just a block or so from Camaro Bob.
It was late enough in the afternoon that the guy isn't going to start on it today, but I enjoyed talking cars with him very much. He's got a Year One Firebird he's restoring, and a tasty old Mustang. I showed off---correctly guessed the engine as a 289 and the year as a '68---and drooled. He also has a 280Z (with T-tops!) that he's rebuilding for dirt track and going to shoe-horn a 350 into it. *whimper*
As I remarked to BC on the way home, that's what I need in my life---a guy who knows cars that I can have an intelligent automotive conversation with once in a while. BC was uncharecteristically quiet throughout the visit. When it comes to technology and science, he's quite the know-it-all, but he admitted he had nothing to contribute to this particular topic.
So I'm stuck here without a car until morning at least...no idea what the problem is, except that we observed a fan stuck on even when the car was off and the key was elsewhere. I'm praying that it's just a loose wire and not a gazillion dollar part, because at the moment, anything more than $40-50 is going to draw blood.
Oh!
The mechanic chap *also* gave me the story behind the Studebaker 4x4 I saw a while back---some philistine kid inherited his grandfather's family car and went medieval on it---and he gave me directions to where it lives. Now I know!
It was late enough in the afternoon that the guy isn't going to start on it today, but I enjoyed talking cars with him very much. He's got a Year One Firebird he's restoring, and a tasty old Mustang. I showed off---correctly guessed the engine as a 289 and the year as a '68---and drooled. He also has a 280Z (with T-tops!) that he's rebuilding for dirt track and going to shoe-horn a 350 into it. *whimper*
As I remarked to BC on the way home, that's what I need in my life---a guy who knows cars that I can have an intelligent automotive conversation with once in a while. BC was uncharecteristically quiet throughout the visit. When it comes to technology and science, he's quite the know-it-all, but he admitted he had nothing to contribute to this particular topic.
So I'm stuck here without a car until morning at least...no idea what the problem is, except that we observed a fan stuck on even when the car was off and the key was elsewhere. I'm praying that it's just a loose wire and not a gazillion dollar part, because at the moment, anything more than $40-50 is going to draw blood.
Oh!
The mechanic chap *also* gave me the story behind the Studebaker 4x4 I saw a while back---some philistine kid inherited his grandfather's family car and went medieval on it---and he gave me directions to where it lives. Now I know!
Will irony save me from anemia?
Aug. 15th, 2007 07:05 pmThis afternoon, when I was trying to leave to go meet Kat, my car decided not to start. She convinced her older son (my old buddy BC) to come by after work to look at it. He has minimal automotive aptitude, so we managed to get it cranked and took it to his mechanic, who is just a block or so from Camaro Bob.
It was late enough in the afternoon that the guy isn't going to start on it today, but I enjoyed talking cars with him very much. He's got a Year One Firebird he's restoring, and a tasty old Mustang. I showed off---correctly guessed the engine as a 289 and the year as a '68---and drooled. He also has a 280Z (with T-tops!) that he's rebuilding for dirt track and going to shoe-horn a 350 into it. *whimper*
As I remarked to BC on the way home, that's what I need in my life---a guy who knows cars that I can have an intelligent automotive conversation with once in a while. BC was uncharecteristically quiet throughout the visit. When it comes to technology and science, he's quite the know-it-all, but he admitted he had nothing to contribute to this particular topic.
So I'm stuck here without a car until morning at least...no idea what the problem is, except that we observed a fan stuck on even when the car was off and the key was elsewhere. I'm praying that it's just a loose wire and not a gazillion dollar part, because at the moment, anything more than $40-50 is going to draw blood.
Oh!
The mechanic chap *also* gave me the story behind the Studebaker 4x4 I saw a while back---some philistine kid inherited his grandfather's family car and went medieval on it---and he gave me directions to where it lives. Now I know!
It was late enough in the afternoon that the guy isn't going to start on it today, but I enjoyed talking cars with him very much. He's got a Year One Firebird he's restoring, and a tasty old Mustang. I showed off---correctly guessed the engine as a 289 and the year as a '68---and drooled. He also has a 280Z (with T-tops!) that he's rebuilding for dirt track and going to shoe-horn a 350 into it. *whimper*
As I remarked to BC on the way home, that's what I need in my life---a guy who knows cars that I can have an intelligent automotive conversation with once in a while. BC was uncharecteristically quiet throughout the visit. When it comes to technology and science, he's quite the know-it-all, but he admitted he had nothing to contribute to this particular topic.
So I'm stuck here without a car until morning at least...no idea what the problem is, except that we observed a fan stuck on even when the car was off and the key was elsewhere. I'm praying that it's just a loose wire and not a gazillion dollar part, because at the moment, anything more than $40-50 is going to draw blood.
Oh!
The mechanic chap *also* gave me the story behind the Studebaker 4x4 I saw a while back---some philistine kid inherited his grandfather's family car and went medieval on it---and he gave me directions to where it lives. Now I know!