Monday Monday

[jazzfish]

"I can't think of much worse than spending a lifetime doing something that isn't what you want to do." --Neil Gaiman, 2003-05-18

meeshdoublel has a brilliantly insightful piece on Matrix mythology here. (Spoilers, although mostly confined to the third and fifth bullet-points.)

I acquired the Foxtail Book (plus foxtail) Sunday at work... figured, hey, it's summer, it's nice out, and K and her foxtail are seven states away for the summer, so I might as well.

Got up Monday to try getting back into the whole 'running' thing again. Discovered that, to steal a cliche, there is nowhere to run around here. Too many steep hills, not enough loops in the streets. Grr. Drove to class. Glyndwr is doing the stupid thing where it shakes a lot when I press the gas pedal if it's been wet out. Grr. Class was cool, though. Medieval Lit, with JoAnn Harvill. (I had her for Irish Lit during one of several semesters when I flaked out. I suspect that she remembers me but don't really want to jog her memory.) Looks like it'll be a lot of fun. We're reading Boethius, The Inferno, and various other things out of an anthology. Got out after about half an hour (yay!), went and paid tuition, and bought books for class. Then bummed around for awhile. Went to work (yay fun). Read Dealing with Dragons, the first book in Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Very cool. Cute, and fast. One of the elder dragons at one point insists that something has to be done, "or we'll show them, by George!" and then apologises for using such strong language. I was amused. Talked to K for a bit... she's doing well.

Yesterday afternoon E pointed out that the walk-path behind the townhouses actually loops around them, making a complete loop at the bottom of the hill. So I tried running that this morning. The hills are still annoying, but it's doable. (I'll just be way stiff tomorrow.)

I'm down to seven boxes that I haven't dealt with yet. Five of those are probably going to get sorted through and have things put right back in them and placed in storage, though.

It's nice to have a desk that my computer will fit under properly. Means it's not such a hassle to change music CDs, which means I'm actually listening to my music again.

Comments

[scathach.livejournal.com]

When Priscilla did that, she needed a new cylinder. Pricy. Ouch. Sorry.

[jazzfish]

Great. Just what I need to hear.

Did she do the shaking thing all the time, or just when it was wet/cold out? (Not like you can tell the difference in Minnesota...)

[scathach.livejournal.com]

Only when it had been raining, although it was starting to get chilly (I think it was the tail end of the summer). I got it fixed pretty quick, so it never got COLD.

It also only happened when I was in low gear - first or second. Once I made it into third, it usually stopped. It also didn't happen as much after the car had warmed up, although after about a week of that, it started happening even then.

I hope this isn't it - I think it cost me about $250 to fix it. It's not like getting a new clutch (yep, did that, too), but it's not an oil change either. Good luck.

[jazzfish]

Yeah, that's basically the same symptoms I've got. It's been doing this for about a year, but it's only gotten bad in the last couple months. Guess I ought to get it dealt with before I drive to Columbus at the end of June. (Come to Origins!)

Oh, okay. $250 isn't horrendously expensive, then. (For me, car repairs fall into categories of less than $100, less than $400, and at the point where I balance just selling the Damned Thing off and using the money to buy a (hopefully) less broken vehicle.)

Hope you're doing okay. New number here is (540) 382-4393. Just so's you know.