That’s so nice to hear. My now-former dentist wanted a lil over $6m for an implant. :eek: Now you know why he’s my now-former dentist.
In my car it’s
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[li]Park it [/li][li]Turn the wheel all the way to the side [/li][li]Remove the (supposedly) reusable plastic screws that hold the wheel well cover in place.[/li][li]Blindly reach up to turn the quick release.*****[/li][li]Remove old bulb[/li][li]Blindly fit it back into the socket[/li][li]Replace quick release ¼ turn.[/li][li]Open bag of replacement plastic screws (that you really needed to order in advance, since, if your lucky, one (of about eight) is reusable.[/li][/ul]
It’s best to have someone with a small diameter arm, like an 8yo. Remember to give them a compound fracture of both forearm bones first so than they can snake their arm up thru the non-straight opening. :dubious:
Of course, the high beams, which are used less & therefore should burn out less frequently? Those you just open the hood & turn the quick release before pulling out the old bulb. Takes about 55 seconds, including opening the car door & pulling the hood release. :smack:
metal mouse, I was correct about the washer being overloaded. Once I pulled some clothes out, unplugged/plugged, and ran the drain/spin cycle and it was good to go.
Glad you’re feeling better spidey
Juliet, I hope that the Capulets and Montegues continue to improve.
{{{Kona}}}
Mooooom, my dad always taught me to replace headlights, tail lights, wheel berings, tires and essentially anything that comes in pairs on a vehicle in even numbers. Both sides will have the same hours/miles on them and in the case of lights, a lot of time, the labor to replace one is the same as to replace the pair.
We had some high winds here last night. I was awakened twice by tornado alerts. I watched the radar long enough to determine that the bad part of the storm was past. In another part of the county, a woman was killed when a tornado hit her house. Poor little Nelson was scared and glued to my right hip for the night.
Mom, isn’t FCD too old for jury duty? In Orygun, after ‘a certain age’ they quit calling you. Probably 'cause the judge hates having to call recess every 30 minutes for potty breaks.
I had a Datsun once that I needed to replace the water pump on. Of course I was too poor to have it done, so I did it myself.
It was held in by three bolts.
One of the bolts was at least 2" longer than the other two and too long to take out because of the radiator.
To get to the bolts for the radiator, you had to remove the grill.
To remove the grill you had to take off the front bumper to access it’s bolts.
I shoulda just hacksawed the head off the too long bolt and replaced it with a shorter one. As far as I could see it didn’t need to be that long anyway, but it was probably holding the seat belts in place or something. :dubious:
Well, they’ve called our governor’s race for the Republicans in Tennessee (no surprise). I don’t care for his politics, but I’ll give him credit for running a clean advertising campaign. The real race is in the senate.
I once had a Chrysler Concord where you had to remove the wheels, then take off the nose of the car to change the bulbs. It was easier to change the car.
Next ride was a Honda Odyssey, which ate light bulbs, but they were easy to change,
My next car will have LED bulbs–by the time they die, I will have also.
The frightening thing is that my vast knowledge of such things has been acquired stone cold sober. Imagine the silly stuff I would do if I did do any silly stuff when drinking.
OK ---- there were those canoe races in the fountain of Point State Park. But canoes rarely blow up.
What most people don’t know is that while Japanese the Datsun was actually named by a German consultant. When working on a proper name for the company, he toured the factory and talked to all the engineers. The chief engineer said: "We want to make a car for the American market, so impossible to work on, that the owners will be reduced to tears and broke from paying us to do. It will be our revenge for the loss in WW II !!! Those fat Americans will regret even touching a wrench within the first two hours !!!’
To which the German replied “Ach -------- Dat Soon?”
An old useless fact I just made up.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN I was a slugabed this mornin’ and did not get up until seven a.m. Imagine! ‘Tis 68 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 78 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon. We shall see. I get to go to the tooth doctor at eleven. Rah. I also need to lay in some provisions. I don’t want to make two separate trips so I shall do that after the tooth doctor. I can go to the other Pubic Sto’ that is on my way back to da cave from the tooth doctor. We shall sup upon grilled chikin 'n sallit with cheesey garlic bread. Easy-Peasy sup!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, I must purtify and don goin’ about the public attire. Such a bother it is! I even have to do this the next three days as convention starts up tomorrow. Woe.
It’s nice and N.O.S. outside today.
It’s 54 degrees now, supposed to get up to 63.
Ripple is at day care today, so I might do some work outside. It’s hard to get stuff done when he is trying to steal my shoes. We’ll see, because it’s still awfully wet out there. I hope to get some more stuff put away in the junk room as well.
It has 4 years worth of I don’t know what to do with it so put it in the junk room.
I need to order groceries today to pick up tomorrow, but Thorsday is the day the store changes the sale prices and I have no idea what is going on sale tomorrow.
When we got to day care, Ripple goes out first and as I was getting out a huge sherman shepherd came rushing out of another car, barking and dragging his owner towards us. I’m not sure if he wanted to play with us or eat us, I’m glad the owner got him back under control.
It didn’t seem to bother Ripple any.
When we walked in the door, Ripple looked around and said ok, we can go back home now. However, he walked in nicely with me and let the nice girl lead him away. I hope he has a good time and starts to look forward to going.
Morning all. Rain is in the forecast for the next several days, we’ll see what turns up. My girl’s soccer team has practice planned for Thursday, but the fields may be closed. Still need to see them as the AYSO is insisting that the forms they electronically signed by pen-and-ink signed too. Silly but thems the rules.
I WILL get laundry done today…I guess.
Bumba, glad the tooth implant worked out, and spidey, I think you mixed your k’s and m’s up there, or else your dentist wanted to make your implant out of vibranium…
I think I tried to change my headlights once–when I was 22 years old (much older now). Since then I’ve left it to the professionals.
Finally made it to the office! The lab lady’s computer was acting up, so I sat for about 10 minutes while she farted around with it. But she got a good vein, so that part was quick and easy. Unfortunately, the traffic sucked for no apparent reason, and when I stopped for gas, some moron was backing up to get to the pump, blocking everyone who was trying to move. Idiot!!
Blurfage I am probably the only one but Florida sucks when it comes to elections. I had no idea there are so many rednecks in Florida.
Irk but I think I shall leave early today as I am tahred. Gotta use up some leave.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. There’s nothing so soothing as a rotund cat on your chest purring you to sleep. There’s nothing no alarming as when said cat goes " purrrrr.hichickhichic hicc hurk hurk" :eek: Alex Catt is still talking to be this morning, even after being flung halfway across the room.
On a board dedicated to fighting ignorance, it’s amazing how many people don’t know Roman numerals (You’re hardly the first one who thought that means Millions instead of thousands.)
The fever is gone, the achies is gone, the hurty [del]toof[/del] gum is gone, but now I’s a bit stuffed up. Not sure what the 'eck I have as the symptoms change every day.
Doggie ------ actually for cats I use my fly rod trainer ------- something like this.
Luckily for them I practice catch-and-release and not Korean cooking.
Up and studying the election results; about what I expected. See some things I like on the LGBT front, some things I am not as pleased about in the firearms-ownership front so I am betting it went pretty well. Were I totally pleased it would probably be time to break that Georgian passport out of the safe.
That would be usually be rendered as capital M, not lowercase m. You just wanted diamond gnashers, admit it.
Bets on how many students will show tomorrow: normally Thursdays we have one class, then a ‘tutorial’ session, which only about half the students come in for. Tomorrow’s class has been moved to Friday. I’m guessing around 1/4 will show?
My car has one headlight that’s easy to replace, and one that’s a right pain. There’s something taking up half the space, leaving maybe 2" of room to get your hand in and wiggle the bulb in and out. It’s like they thought about it for the left, then went ‘Aah, I’m sure they’ll never need to replace the righthand headlight.’
Given that I’m not a Roman (or even given to roamin’), I think the confusion is pretty obvious. In other words, it’s your fault.
Rain this morning and looking like more rain for the afternoon. Four out of five loads of laundry are done and the fifth are leftovers that I missed in the first 4 loads. Dishes are washing themselves so things are moving along. Going clothing optional now so that everything in the house is washed. P.S.–4th load just finished, going to put it into the dryer and start the last one.
