I think I can swear the landlord messes with the cooler every time he comes over cause he likes my aunt and wants an excuse to come over again … yesterday he picks up the rent looks things over Now he’s fixed the cooler before and everytime he’s here he checks It out … and hours later it stops working
Now so cal is having a record year or heat … i live in a valley that’s in the Mojave desert as a lot of you know …it was 98 at 9:30 am …
I just got the car back. It turns out it was the inverter and battery - basicallly the whole hybrid system that died. Luckily, I still have about three months on my warranty. So I have a whole new hybrid drive system on Toyota’s dime. The PCV valve that was also bad, on the other hand.
Very nice!
And that’s why I keep suspecting that I should stop buying used cars off Craigslist…
Though I do get them checked out before I buy, and the local mechanic even gives me a dollar figure: “In the next six months, you’ll need two new low-friction tires at $135 each, and the CVT’s going to get worse. Now, there’s a hail mary I can do for $450 that’ll last two to five years…”
But a new replacement ANYTHING from the car company? I’m jealous!
I like lots of onions, finely minced carrots, and kielbasa added to mine, can you please do that next time?
(D & R)
Have to fly back to New Mexico tomorrow. Sister has been put on comfort care, and moved to a hospice facility, as of Friday - no more cancer treatments, no more meds except for pain meds they’ll give her whenever she wants. Doc says only a few more days, at most. As the only sane, capable one in the family, it’s up to me to deal with it.
I’m so sorry. What a hard thing to have to face 
It sucks when you just want to focus on your loved one, but you’re expected to deal with business. I’m sorry, Dogginit.
The host of one of the podcasts in my feed adheres so fervently to his “no editing interviews!” mantra that he won’t mute his own microphone for coughs, throat clearing, or other sounds. So you’ll frequently be treated to “uhhhhh-HUUUUUUH” before he asks the guest a question.
Oh, those poor beans. What did they ever do to you? 
Oh yeah - I dodged a bullet there. The Toyota dude said it should be good for another 100,000 miles. We’re selling it to my son when he graduates in May, unless he gets stationed overseas.
Sorry to be that guy, but can you make sure the warranty is transferable to your son (or anyone)?
The new parts are covered by the existing warranty, which expires in November. I’m not too worried about him. He saves money like a Ebeneezer Scrooge. (He’s nicer though.) I’m willing to bet, even on a 2nd Lt salary, he’ll have enough money stuffed away to buy a new car outright in five years.
I loathe TicketBa$tard. That is all.
Sounds like my daughter. When she passed her driving test at 16, she asked if I’d help her buy her first car. She meant go with her, etc, and I agreed.
However, I also wanted her to be able to buy a fairly decent car once she had saved up enough money. So I told her whatever money she could save up, I’d match the amount.
What I never realized was she had banked every cent she made babysitting, waitressing, etc. She had plenty saved! I had to pull money from savings and my business to match her amount.
I bet she should looked fly in that Ferrari, though. Not that someone that frugal would actually buy something like that.
She bought a newer stick shift that was in great condition. She has always like cars/driving. I taught her to shift my Jeep, sitting on my lap, when she was 10. She drove my Jeep with me in the passenger seat at a deserted park’s parking lot when she was eleven.
That year she asked for a car for xmas. I explained that she couldn’t legally drive until she was 16. Her counter argument was she could wash & wax the car, sit in it and listen to music, etc. She didn’t get a car for xmas that year, but I felt bad about it.
My son was always the polar opposite. He never wanted a car. He had friends who drove, why would he want to need money for gas and insurance?
My oldest was the same way. It was like pulling teeth to get him to get his learner’s permit. “Why do I need a licence? You can just drive me where I need to go.”
No, no I can’t.
Just got off the phone with my bank’s fraud department as I wanted to transfer a large sum. It took 30 minutes which is far too long a process but the guy insisted on using the words “yourself”, “myself” and “itself” nonreflexively throughout. Virtually every sentence he said had words that should have been “you” “me” or “it” but he added the self. After 30 minutes of that I was ready to scream.
Just like my kids. One wanted a car, saved up, bought a ridiculously practical used Civic (“Hey, don’t you want that blue one with a decent engine and a good sound system?” "Daaaad, this beige one without anything is perfect!")
Other kid has always lived where they have great public transit, and no street parking.
And, despite his willingness to support the transition to a new leadership model, the business has handed him a cardboard box and told him to go home.
So awesome.