Everything Is Breaking
the brakes on my truck have needed replacing for some time, so today i finally said "f-it" and dropped it off at the shop in the morning to get the brakes done as well as all the other maintenance that i've been less than good about keeping up with. i'll need to put moth balls into my wallet any moment now. what peeved me more; however, is that as i started walking back to the shop this afternoon to go pick it up (it is less than 2 miles there)... it starts to rain. yes, rain. it is july! it doesn't rain in california in the month of july. wtf?!?
they're fixed now, i'm dry again, and i got some good exercise and fresh air walking from/to the shop. and if nothing else, now if my truck goes off the edge of a cliff, we'll known it wasn't because of the brakes. unless the brake lines were cut i suppose.
the dishwasher died the other day... while sweeping up the kitchen floor and pushing the broom under the dishwasher, the boy saw sparks. the teenager that he is thought "cool" and made it happen again. result: dead dishwasher. it didn't always go through the cycles without a little manual intervention, so it just pushed the inevitable purchase up in time.
yesterday i thought for sure my ipod was broken. i lent it to the boy -- yes, the same boy that finds dishwasher's sparking amusing. minutes later he comes back and says the scroll wheel isn't working. hmmmm, it was working last night when i went to bed... i know, because i had to scroll down to find the jack johnson album i wanted to listen to. after getting a bit peeved, i did some googling and found out how to do a reset on a 3G unit (toggle the hold switch back and forth, then hold menu and play/pause down at the same time). thankfully the reset took care of the problem. so much for having to go get a new one... like, oh, say the 60gb iphoto.
so what's next? i shudder to ask that question and probably really don't want to know.
Posted by ac at July 21, 2005 06:22 PM