So I'm looking at $1500 for a complete transmission rebuild. I swear I never grind the gears! SIGH.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Sep 10, 2018 6:23:05 am PDT #29299 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
-t - Sep 10, 2018 6:26:18 am PDT #29300 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry, Theo.
Gudanov - Sep 10, 2018 6:37:51 am PDT #29301 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Ugh, sorry Theo.
Laura - Sep 10, 2018 6:53:22 am PDT #29302 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Ugh. That sucks. Sorry, Theo.
sj - Sep 10, 2018 6:56:04 am PDT #29303 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ugh, Theo. That sucks.
I was all set to go back to working out today when I realized that it isn't just ltc's school that is closed for the holiday. I guess it will have to wait until Wednesday.
Jesse - Sep 10, 2018 7:12:50 am PDT #29304 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh no, Theo! I'm sure you've thought about when it makes sense to start over with a new car.
There is a wasp who fell in love with the top of my fridge and may try to build a nest there.
Yikes! You are Very Brave.
Shir - Sep 10, 2018 7:16:32 am PDT #29305 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I am sorry, Theo.
Yikes! You are Very Brave.
Thank you. My friend came, didn't even blink, and started handling the business with bare hands. Wasp was indeed trying to build a nest there. I am still a bit terrified just from knowing that.
Edit: for some reason I just googled it, and looks like it was a hornet, not a wasp. I now feel very entitled to every mini-scream I've had this afternoon.
Zenkitty - Sep 10, 2018 7:51:04 am PDT #29306 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm sorry about the car, Theo.
Hornets are assholes. Glad he's gone, Shir.
Shana tovah!
Beverly - Sep 10, 2018 7:55:12 am PDT #29307 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh EEeeeek! Hornets are nothing to mess around with. I'm glad your friend was a good hornet wrangler. Wasps were my bane as a child. They used to get into the house and I was the first one to know. They would bump around the ceiling seeking exit, and my child wasp-radar was attuned to that "dzzt...dzzt...dzzt" Struck pure fear in my heart. As an adult, we've had friendly species of wasps build their nests in odd places. One little one was especially fond of one particular tube of our brass wind chime. We'd only know she'd returned when the chimes went "Ding..dong..dud." We watched her fly up with a grass blade more than twice her length clutched in her grasp, crawl up the chime tube and pull the grass blade slowly in after her.
H waited till she'd left to clear the tube with a hard puff of breath. The little nest was a coiled and woven marvel. After that first time we didn't evict her again. She was completely non-agressive. Another one, different species, built in the squared tube of aluminum siding that cased our front door frame. It was open at the bottom, and she'd fly up with some building material. It was a high traffic area with the humans coming and going, and she would pause to let us pass, then hustle up her tube. She was never the slightest bit aggressive, either.
Paper wasps, on the other hand. Were *not* welcome. Those are the ones that earned the title "waspish temper."
Laura, such good news! Yeah, if it's the picture of Momoa I'm thinking of, it would definitely raise the...unwell. Continuing good healing thoughts to your SiL.
Sophia, I hope you find her soon. And I'm sorry.
Theo, my sympathies, and hopes for some solution that's manageable for you.
Theodosia - Sep 10, 2018 7:55:54 am PDT #29308 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I still have to pay off the car, and owe a whole lot more than that.
The only other time I had serious transmission problems, it was on a car with over 100K. This has just a bit over 40, and while I use it pretty hard (city driving) I'm pretty good at it. But it may just not be a rugged transmission. Le sigh.