Headlight Headache

For the past week my driver’s side headlight has been non-functional on low-beam. Now, I’ve replaced this myself before, well actually my friend Chris did most of the work, but what I mean is I didn’t take it to a shop just to replace a bulb.

But this time I didn’t feel like being bothered, so I drove down to the auto shop this morning to have them look at it. Of course, they can’t look right away so I have Marcella pick me up so we can run some other errands. Finally the guy gives me a call back and what does he tell me? “It’s working now…seems fine.”

“Of course,” I think to myself. It’ll only NOT work at NIGHT! I mean, why not? Why wouldn’t it work when I take it to the shop?

So tonight I’m going to go out to my car after the sun has set. I’m going to turn on my headlight, and when it doesn’t work I’m going to walk around to the front of my car and I’m going to bang on the headlight once or twice with my fist to see if it will flicker on, and when that doesn’t work I’m going to smash my headlight with my bicycle pump and then take the car to the shop again on Monday and have them check it again.

Lubricating the political machine

I did my duty and cast my vote this afternoon. I wasn’t originally planning on voting today, but it looked like I had a good opportunity to take the afternoon off from work and run a few errands. I decided to take the chance and go ahead and cast my vote.

Oh, and I also got the oil changed in my car.

Somehow these two functions seem to echo each other.

I can see clearly

I just installed new windshield wipers on the car. It took a few minutes just to decipher the little latching mechanism, but once that was figured out it was only a matter of moments to get them all on.

Marcella has been saying for a while she thought I needed them, and it’s been raining lots and lots here for some time now. Sure enough, the rubber squeegee strip on the rear hatch window wiper broke loose the other day and was just flapping around; not very effective.

Just watch though, now that I’ve replaced them we’ll start having another drought.

I hope everybody understands that I wrote this post solely to use the word squeegee. That’s twice!