Tuesday, August 21, 2007

beginning to feel like home.

...also known as, I moved my bed in tonight. Not too bad. Colo, Dettman, and myself went to lunch today and within about 2 minutes became 6yr old boys... because a big tractor trailer looked cool. We called it optimus prime and took pics.
Julie got a clutch for her car today. But apparently andrew and I are highly qualified technicians of all sorts. She asked if we knew what we were doing, I said, sure, It'll go something like this:

*pull car into warehouse. raise front end. look underneath for a little while*
Stand around. look at the car. drink some beer. discuss car things totally unrelated. drink some more. munch on cinnamon flavored pita chips. drink some more beer. take a leak. Tear car apart. find problems. stand back, look at car. drink some beer. get some food. stand around. reassemble car with problems fixed. stand around. test drive. call it a day.

Now this didnt seem to really convince her, so we instead rattled off some technical sounding terms.

Phone call from julie saying the clutch was in stock in irondequoit but the place closed at 9pm and would I be able to get it. I'm in pittsford and its 8:42pm. Sure.
Make it to Hudson and Ridge at 8:56pm and pick it up. Stop by julies after getting gas. Limped her poor car to Rutgers. our short jaunt on the expressway took nearly 40 seconds to hit 60mph. Poor clutch.
Parked that, took her back to Leland and then headed back to the city. Stopped by Max and had a drink with Kotok and Mary and Alex. Alex got a new FJ and its pretty sweet, he loves it. We talked cars and food and then I took off, as dave felt the need to instigate trouble in the kitchen. I went home and managed to stuff the whole damn futon into ryans car and get it out of my old place and into the new, with no damage to anything along the way.
But I forgot to deliver Andrew's mom's bike to her before it got late. Tomorrow it is.
Then I'll get to see this catwalk He's building all out of stainless steel. Damn him! I want to make neat stuff like that. time for some 'fixtures' in the apartment. Now, for no real reason, I'm going to sleep at Rutgers.
Getting kind of pumped for the week. end of summer style.

Honestly, after driving it longer, I wonder if its just low on hydraulic fluid. How boring would that be, just "topping it off" instead of 12hrs of never-done-this-before-should-that-be-there?-I-don't-know-don't-touch-it and hoping for the best...

I need to start adding pics to this.

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