The weekend was interesting.
On saturday, Seth and I picked up an engine for his prelude. He recently spun a bearing. Car people will be making painful-looking faces upon reading that last sentence. Non-car-people should know that this is because spinning a bearing is among the worst things that can happen to an engine. Taking an engine with a spun bearing to the shop isn’t usually an option since it generally it requires tearing the whole engine down, replacing the spun bearing, and inspecting just about every damn thing in there for damage. See also: prohibitively expensive. Doing it yourself is not usually an option for the same reason. See also: prohibitively complex. Anyways… one of my contacts at Honda-Tech (the same one that sold me the crossmember during The Great Clutch Debacle of 2003) recently IM’d me asking if I needed an H23A1 for cheap ($200). Within 5 minutes Seth was on the phone with him, and he was wondering if he was letting it go for way too cheap =P. He was faithful about it and let it go for the promised price. We drove for a net time of around 6 hours to upstate NY. Never drive for that long in an early 90’s pickup truck. My back aches so bad from sitting in it. It was actually exhausting to sit in those nasty bench seats for so long… It was un-possible to get comfortable. I would have rather been standing. But we got the engine, and all is good.
Sunday was productive. I installed the stereo that Tereza gave me when she upgraded hers. Thanks so much, sweetie =D. I wicked appreciate it. It really made my gridlock commute much more bearable today. Up till now I’ve been using my PDA and a set of earbud headphones for a car stereo. It was convenient as it was legal. It’s a little skippy sometimes, but whatever. Much better than the punching bag non-functional stereo I had in there before. Later I went to toss on my snow tires since it’s going to be snowy/freezyrainy/newenglandy for the next couple days. Oddly enough I could only find 3 of them. =/. Not cool. I really need to find the fourth. 3 snows and one bald “all-season” would be pretty nasty in inclement weather. Also, I couldn’t really race this season since my dynamics will be *a little off*. Even driving around on dry pavement feels very weird. If I can’t find it, I’ll have to hit up James for 2 new tires on steelies. I don’t want to go that route since Dunlop doesn’t make Graspic DS-1’s anymore IIRC, and I don’t want mismatched tires. bah.
Oh, and I got a cat. My parents had 4 cats (all siblings)… 2 were theirs and the other 2 belonged to my brother. They got pawned off on my parents when he moved to Poland. The one female cat didn’t *get along well* with the other female cat. She was quite brutal in fact. So much so that my parents were about ready to give the victimized cat back to the shelter. Apparently it had been denied foot and the kitty litter by the other female cat for some time and was getting very unhealthy. They were very convincing in asking me to take her, and once they offered a couple dozen Lindt balls as incentive I didn’t stand a chance. I mean seriously… that’s good chocolate! So I took her in. Her name is Desdemona, or just “Dezzy”. I’ll post pics once she settles down enough for me to actually snap a few.
So yeah. That’s my story.
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