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Aedunan foils the assassin
Nov. 15th, 2005 07:00 am
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Should make 50 percent done by tonight. Still on schedule.
New chapter added here.
Nov. 15th, 2005
Should make 50 percent done by tonight. Still on schedule.
New chapter added here.
Grrr! Why horses are better than cars
Nov. 15th, 2005 08:09 pmIn light of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corelog's recent auto headaches, I just have to post this.
A month or so back I went out on a Saturday morning to find I had a flat tire. Totally flat. And it wouldn't pump back up. Getting the wheel off to put the spare on was a monumental struggle. Examining the dead tire revealed that it had marks looking like it had been driven on. I couldn't have driven on a flat tire without knowing it. I just can't believe that. But the evidence is there.
The wheel rim was so rusty that I suspected it was causing a slow leak anyway. So I ordered a new replacement wheel and figured I'd get a new tire put on when that came. Well, getting the wheel was a problem. It was supposed to take three days and instead took more than three weeks. Meanwhile I was driving with no spare. Now you can drive for years without ever needing the spare tire, but the day you don't have it with you, the likelihood of a flat goes up by ten orders of magnitude I think.
Anyway, I haven't had a flat yet. Today I finally dropped the new wheel off at a car dealership near where I work to have a new tire put on it. Probably will cost me about $110. But I can't stand driving with no spare any longer, and I'm driving to Furfest this weekend. Murphy's law says I'd get a flat while away from home for sure.
So fine, the spare will be ready to pick up on Thursday and I'll be all set to go to MFF on Friday. Right?
On the way home from work tonight, in a rainstorm, my brakes failed. Not a total failure, thank the goddess, but the pedal gave out with a pop, the red brake fluid warning light came on and stayed on, and I still can stop but it definitely feels iffy and I wouldn't dare drive much over 30 mph. So tomorrow morning I either have to arrange to get my car towed to someplace that will fix the brakes, or hold my breath and try to drive it there with minimal brake power. Living where I do, that's like 15 miles at least that I have to cover somehow. And I have to work noon to 8 pm tomorrow, can't get out of that easily. Car must get fixed before Friday or I've got a real problem. MFF is only 40 miles away, but there's no other way to get there.
And this vehicle is only eight years old, with less than 80,000 miles on it. All regular maintenance has been done, and the brakes were redone once already. So, you see, Rex, random failures in the automotive department just happen. And they tend to happen in clumps, and at the least convenient time possible. It just goes with automobiles, in my experience.
corelog's recent auto headaches, I just have to post this.A month or so back I went out on a Saturday morning to find I had a flat tire. Totally flat. And it wouldn't pump back up. Getting the wheel off to put the spare on was a monumental struggle. Examining the dead tire revealed that it had marks looking like it had been driven on. I couldn't have driven on a flat tire without knowing it. I just can't believe that. But the evidence is there.
The wheel rim was so rusty that I suspected it was causing a slow leak anyway. So I ordered a new replacement wheel and figured I'd get a new tire put on when that came. Well, getting the wheel was a problem. It was supposed to take three days and instead took more than three weeks. Meanwhile I was driving with no spare. Now you can drive for years without ever needing the spare tire, but the day you don't have it with you, the likelihood of a flat goes up by ten orders of magnitude I think.
Anyway, I haven't had a flat yet. Today I finally dropped the new wheel off at a car dealership near where I work to have a new tire put on it. Probably will cost me about $110. But I can't stand driving with no spare any longer, and I'm driving to Furfest this weekend. Murphy's law says I'd get a flat while away from home for sure.
So fine, the spare will be ready to pick up on Thursday and I'll be all set to go to MFF on Friday. Right?
On the way home from work tonight, in a rainstorm, my brakes failed. Not a total failure, thank the goddess, but the pedal gave out with a pop, the red brake fluid warning light came on and stayed on, and I still can stop but it definitely feels iffy and I wouldn't dare drive much over 30 mph. So tomorrow morning I either have to arrange to get my car towed to someplace that will fix the brakes, or hold my breath and try to drive it there with minimal brake power. Living where I do, that's like 15 miles at least that I have to cover somehow. And I have to work noon to 8 pm tomorrow, can't get out of that easily. Car must get fixed before Friday or I've got a real problem. MFF is only 40 miles away, but there's no other way to get there.
And this vehicle is only eight years old, with less than 80,000 miles on it. All regular maintenance has been done, and the brakes were redone once already. So, you see, Rex, random failures in the automotive department just happen. And they tend to happen in clumps, and at the least convenient time possible. It just goes with automobiles, in my experience.
