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I am sitting here at Pep Boys getting a new alternator. I was uncomfortable about the loose battery connection so I came into Pep Boys to have them fix it. Well after they replaced connectors and tightened everything down, the battery light came on again.
So, the guy tested for the alternator and it was a goner. Sigh, another 400 bucks I wasn’t planning on spending.
Posting from vacation actually! I’m in San Antonio this week staying at the Grand Hyatt. It’s beautiful here, especially the Riverwalk. We saw the Alamo this morning and I got my magnet. Nowadays the only souvenir I really want is a fridge magnet or two. Super small, super light, relatively cheap and I can remember my trips every day when I see them.
Hi everybody!
{{{Taters}}} vehicles are wonderful things except when they aren’t.
I have officially declared the irkday over. Thus endeth Moanday.
Remember kids, don’t go stickin’ your hands down the garbage disposal. :rolleyes:
ETA: Monk I like fridge magnets too. Have fun in San Antonio!
I hope there’s a lot more of that coming.
That’s a lot of coin so it probably also provides for a new universe or reality.
I had to use Pep Boys a couple of years ago, and was favorably impressed.
We’ve actually used Pep Boys many times for car work. I like them a hell of a lot better than Firestone. And, if it had just been them replacing and tightening down the battery connections, it would have cost me all of five dollars which was the cost of the connectors. The part was about 280 bucks and the labor was 105 bucks.
I wasn’t surprised the battery gave out. It’s the original battery and my rig is a 2006 Expedition. I wasn’t happy about the alternator, but again, it’s a 2006 and with battery giving out, it wasn’t any huge surprise about the alternator. When my husband first tried to turn the rig over yesterday, the noise it made kind of told me the alternator wasn’t right. However, I was trying to think positively and hope the battery replacement would do the trick.
They worked quickly. I don’t think it even took an hour after they took my rig to replace the alternator.
Things like this tell me it’s time for a new rig, but I really don’t want to take on a new car payment. It’s been nice not having car payments. My husband has been rumbling about getting new vehicles, but I keep pushing it off. However, when even little things start going wrong, bigger stuff is sure to follow. It’s something I’m going to have to mull over.
At any rate, I’m home and the weather is nice. I have already mucked out the dog kennel. And the dogs are now happily sitting at my feet while I sit at the computer.
**Taters **- when my Aerostar was becoming geriatric, I tried to look at repairs by comparing them to an equivalent number of car payments and figuring how long I could expect the repair to last. That made it a little easier to stomach the $500 repair bills, when it only happened every year or so. We did set a threshold to define when the death-knell would sound, but we got rid of it before that happened. Anyway, that might be a way for you to handle it until you decide you’re ready for a new vehicle.
Today has been profitable - we sold the lions and the dinghy, plus I got my check for April’s sales at the local little store. OK, it was less than $200 for all 3, but still, income instead of outgo is always good!
Time to start supper - poke chops teriyaki, broccoli (or maybe sugar snap peas) teriyaki noodles, mushrooms, and onions. I’m hungry just thinking about it! 
I just had a nice, albeit brief, visit from OYKW. He helped do a buncha yahd stuff around his mom’s place while he was there. He looked tahrd, poor thing. Anywho, I sent him home with victuals for when he feels like eatin’. He says he feels like he could shower and go right to bed. Plus, tomorrow is irkday after bein’ off for a few days. Oh well, when I get the go ahead from the doc, I can “welcome” him back properly. 
Taters I hate vehicle shoppin’. Twuck and 'Stang are paid off and I don’t even want to think about it.
It’s more of a mild fascination. I enjoy looking at rocks and thinking about how long they’ve been sitting there, being made and unmade. It’s like a Zen exercise.
Besides, I’ve never seen a fault line and with one so close to me, why have I not been there before?
BBQ pizza does not sound good. Nope. Not in the least. Sorry Pizza Hut, I don’t care how many coupons you offer, I ain’t spendin’ money on that. Matter of fact if you showed up at da cave with one and said, “Here! It’s free!” I’d still say no. It. Just. Sounds. ICK!
OYKW called and said he does not have hot water. Poor thing. He’s comin’ back to da cave to stay the night. One simply cannot live without hot water. His hot water heater is IMO the very first gas hot water heater ever made. It’s ooooooooold! Guess there will be replacement shoppin’ in the near future. Seriously. It’s one step above buildin’ a wood fire under it to heat water.
ETA: First on Two!
Supper was yum. The dishwasher is washing the dishes and I’m in the chill mode. Knittage will ensue later. Unfortunately, with FIL here, we can’t watch our usual evening TV because he’d be way too offended by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. So we’ll get to see Wheel and Jeopardy. rah. 
On the plus side, there’s tin roof sundae ice cream in the freezer for later.
I agree with you about the pizza.
Now, truly, did you sabotage his water heater? :dubious:
flytrap I am askeerd of that water heater. Seriously. It makes the most unogly noises! I’ve lived in houses with gas water heaters and I know they make weird sounds but this one makes (maybe made now) demon possessed sounds.
And in other news… a friend was at his mom’s place yesterday. There are stray cats all over the place there as it’s a rural area. A cat (or kitty) got up in his engine and he didn’t know that until he left and was goin’ down the road and heard said feline. It’s dead, of course, but kinda stuck in there. It will eventually fall out as this has happened before. Last time we made jokes about “engine kitty” so his facebook post says “engine kitty strikes again.” This prompted me to post the following:
“Dead Kitty. Smashed Kitty. Little ball of goo! Smelly Kitty, Icky Kitty. EW! EW! EW!”
Just thought I’d share.
Swampy, you have this backwards! While not my favorite, BBQ pizza is good on occasion. Pizza Slut on the other hand is never good. Even if they were offerin’ free I wouldn’t eat it. Yeeee-uckkkkkk!
Midget, I don’t know if I’m going yet or not but would you come out this year? There is bus service from Montreal.
Summer plans… hummm. Well, we saw the physical therapist today. I guess my summer plans are centered around hubby’s shoulder. She said he can NOT drive for 12 weeks. He’ll be in the sling for at least 8 weeks. I guess that takes care of the summer.
On the bright side, he feels better than he did with the other shoulder. He’s pain free a good part of the day already.
Today was weird.
Carry on.
Summer plans? Yeesh, I hope they involve moving somewhere because I’ve found a job.
Electric water heaters have a heater inside, and the properties of electricity and metal causes minerals in the water to “plate” or attach to the little heater thingie. This causes bubbles, boiling on the thingie, called an “anode” because of the above electrical properties. They do make strange roaring noises.
Re: cats. Rosie may never speak to you again. I’m thinking about it.
:dubious:
YAY! ** Sticky**
yuk Swampy
I was feeling bummed. I’ve gone through dozens of listings and was getting discouraged but today I found a few I am interested in seeing.
I don’t know if I can sign a contract yet because I don’t know if the other one has been released. I also told the realtor to tell the seller if they will lower the price by $30,000 I would still be interested in buying if I can get the financing to go through. I know they won’t but it never hurts to ask.
My mother was driving me nuts today. I know she is stressed over her bf but I hate when she goes into her martyr mode.
Trip to Georgia, Abkhazia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Israel, Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia.