heading home
i bought a little waterproof hd camcorder and time compressed my commute home.
not much
haven’t really been doing too much lately. i’ve been absorbed in home improvement and other maintenance stuff for the last couple of months. i planted grass seed and the wind blew it away 2 days later. replanted, grass started growing and then rabbits started snacking on it. now i’m trying to figure out how to repel rabbits. i’m leaning towards fox urine powder, but unfortunately it’s a lot harder to find locally than it should be.
last week, i had to pay almost $700 for rear brakes since carmax decided when they “repaired” an issue with my rear brakes when i bought my truck, that they wouldn’t have to follow a TSB issued by dodge that would address the problem at its root and prevent its recurrence.
while it was up on the rack at midas (no way i’m touching drum brakes. too many little parts for me to lose) they pointed out that the front brakes were ready to go as well. i ordered some rotors and “premium semi-metallic pads” from brakeperformance.com and had them delivered tuesday. wednesday, i spent 6 hours replacing the rotors and pads. it shoulda been a straightforward thing since the truck is equipped with a floating rotor assembly (the rotors are held on by a bracket and the lug nuts) but since the truck spent its early life in colorado, the rotors were seized to the hubs. 3 hours of beating and spraying w/wd-40 freed them and i was able to get them replaced. stopping distance is much improved, as is noise. pedal feel kind of sucks but i can live with it so long as the truck stops straight and the wheels don’t fall off.
next on the list of things to do to the truck is a bedliner. i’m leaning towards a bedrug because it’s soft and chemical/dirt resistant and can be rinsed like anything else. i’ll plan on doing that sometime later this summer. after that, maybe i’ll do cat-back exhaust or something equally snazzy. maybe some new weathertech floormats if they ever sort out their production capacity issues.
i’ve started playing star trek online. i found that it’s a good trade-off between the sci-fi stuff i loved about EVE but without all the know-it-all assholes that have populated the EVE universe since mid-08. i don’t feel like i’m missing out if i don’t play for a few days and i can easily kill a couple hours doing space combat missions without really having to do any away team missions (they’re boring, derivative MMORPG crap for the most part)
it’s also a very pretty game.
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- ENGAGE….or something
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- OOOOOO…nebulae….
eh, why not?
just added some automation for image posting because i’ve been too fucking lazy to post anything here. all my microblogging nonsense is on twitter and all my mobile photos get posted on posterous, so why not integrate them here? at least this way i’ll have stuff newer than a couple of months, right?
spent this last weekend repairing sprinkler problems which led to an even more awesome issue. since i cut out part of the drip irrigation loop, we found out that our neighbors’ flower garden (which used to also be a shrub wall when their yard was the parking lot for pulte’s office on our culdesac…) is on our second irrigation zone. the removal of the leaky section of drip line increased water pressure quite a bit, so now they have jets of water soaking their patio every time we water our trees. whoops.
homeownership is sort of an interesting thing at this point. especially considering all the stuff i can do to *my* property without really worrying about repercussions of my actions. woot.
busy, busy, busy
i haven’t had a ton of time to update lately, but we did end up getting the house and we’ve been in the process of moving in.
i might document a bit more of the bs we had to endure to get our house at a later point. as of right now though, we’re just trying to button up the apartment and finish moving everything into the house.
it’s hard to believe we spent three years in that apartment. it honestly feels like much longer. i think it’s going to take some time before the house feels as much like “home” as the apartment does, but that’s the way it goes.
house-buying continues to suck
we’ve now sent 2 copies of some forms, 3 copies of others, 4-5 revisions and different versions of files to our broker at the request of our lender. we’re constantly being given the run-around on a house we’re under contract on. we’re not sure if we’re even going to get the fucking thing at this point because everything’s been so vague and lame.
but i guess that’s the fun part, right?
SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLOOOOSION
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