Here's The Thing

I may have said this before but I do very much love when life imitates music.  I was driving home over the weekend and as I pulled up to a yield, which I have no recollection of ever having to yield at before, there were cars turning from the other direction and I came to a complete stop.  And just as I did stop the chorus for the Mumford song on the radio came on, "I will wait, I will wait for you."  And that just made me laugh.

So after all of my life threatening home repair attempts, I still require a repairman.  The AC does not budge a tick below 77.  And that was only accomplished by leaving the screen door open.  Which honestly is not a great alternative because of how loud Hwy 10 is.  It sounds like every car is right beside my face.  I went out and bought some self drilling screw anchors, so I could properly hang my new thermostat and not look like a total boob.  They worked so beautifully, I just don't have any words.  They screwed right into the wall, and felt as if they had been cemented in.  I took yesterday off, and I'm taking today off as well.  The AC repairman was supposed to come yesterday but he had to cancel.  He rebooked for this morning bright and early.  Kind of a good thing I had both days off, or I would have been rather pissed off.  I'm not overly pleased as it is.  I want to do some shopping today, and I need to know how much of my income is disposable.  Dean was giving me a bit of a lesson at work about home repairs.  About asking how much a replacement would be, and if the repair is a certain percentage of the replacement I should consider doing it.  I get taken care of both Dean and Ross in different ways.  Ross' wife runs their household so he wouldn't be able to give the same advice as Dean.  But Dean would never get his hands dirty and help me change a bulb in my car.  Between the two of them I'm covered.

Ross went on a bit of a tirade the other day.  He had his transmission rebuilt less than 2 years ago and it has broken down.  He took it to a friend's friend's shop by his friend's recommendation, when he knows his own trans mechanics.  So he takes it back to that shop after it dies in the middle of traffic.  They basically took no responsibility for the trans failing after just 50,000km and were going to charge him almost the same amount as the full rebuild last time, but just to fix it.  The madder he gets, the more he loses his words.  He already has a wicked bad habit of replacing full parts of a sentence with "thing", but with his rage it only got worse.  And I had to write this one down just to make sure I didn't forget it, because it's a beaut.

"He's very thing.  You'll get along as long as you don't get into thing."

Ross has this really hardcore towing package deal.  I think it cost him something like $4000 for maybe 10 years.  And he can call his tow guy and have any car picked up and towed any distance for free.  No questions asked.  Doesn't have to be his car.  I don't think he even has to be there.  At first I thought he was crazy, but after hearing all the times he or his wife have needed a tow this year alone, it has been worth it.  And for example, he mentioned that someone like CAA might tow you to a shop, but they would never come and pick you up from a shop to take you to a different shop, for free.  Maybe that's true, maybe it's not true.  I would guess that's a true statement.  It's expiring this year, so he better get some coin saved up if he wants to renew.

Time to get ready for my visitor.  Hopefully after this I can go do a bit of shopping.  And then maybe nap under a blanket with cold air blowing over me.