Getting to the headlight on a Jetta? I'm so not doing that myself.
Holy fuck. I thought the Germans were famous for good engineering? That's purposefully perverse. Evil Germans.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 16, 2005 7:24:52 am PST #7910 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lee - Mar 16, 2005 7:25:36 am PST #7911 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
tommyrot, there is a question for you (and Chikat) in F2F.
brenda m - Mar 16, 2005 7:25:52 am PST #7912 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My headlights have never gone, thank god - the times I thought it had it turned out to be a fuse. Which, actually, in my Golf were really easy to access and visually check to see if one had blown. In my Passat you basically have to lie prone on the sidewalk in a really contorted sort of on your back position and crane your neck backwards and then you probably still can't see them. Utterly ridiculous design.
shrift - Mar 16, 2005 7:26:49 am PST #7913 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Ack. Sorry, shrift.
Ah, don't worry about it. The pain was fleeting, and has been replaced with inbox-induced rage. Too! Much! Work! Just now:
Boss: You sneeze every time a new job comes in.
Me:
t gasp
I really
am
allergic to work!
Gudanov - Mar 16, 2005 7:27:23 am PST #7914 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I didn't realize VWs were that bad. The more expensive German brands seem to be serviceable by dealer or specialist garage only, but I thought VWs were less prone to that sort of stuff.
tommyrot - Mar 16, 2005 7:28:10 am PST #7915 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot, there is a question for you (and Chikat) in F2F.
Thanks - I would have missed it until tonight otherwise....
juliana - Mar 16, 2005 7:30:02 am PST #7916 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I thought the Germans were famous for good engineering? That's purposefully perverse. Evil Germans.
Efficient engineering. Those headlights probably take up .001% of the battery's output or summat.
DavidS - Mar 16, 2005 7:30:35 am PST #7917 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So the statewide school API scores were published in the paper today.
I was mildly talking out of my ass by saying Emmett's district is one of the best in Northern California. There are better ones out in the rich white people suburbs. Not that his school isn't good (API score of 884 with 800 as the benchmark of excellence. That ranks it 10 out of a possible 10 statewide, and 8 out of 10 compared to other schools with similar demographics). Cupertino looks impressive though. It's got 23 schools and an average score of 911. Yowza - that's across the board excellence. Emmett's district has five schools in the mid 800s.
sumi - Mar 16, 2005 7:33:09 am PST #7918 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I'm glad that Emmett's school is so good. Will he be able to stay in that district through high school? (Assuming no moves in your's or his mom's future, of course.)
Ginger - Mar 16, 2005 7:34:41 am PST #7919 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Changing the headlights in my last Nissan truck involved taking off the plastic front grill, which was held on by these improbable plastic screw/snap things. I lost at least one each time I changed a headlight. There was also a lot of cursing and skinned knuckles. The current version, however, just has these little halogen bulbs that snap in. Great improvement.