car

My 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS refused to start today as I tried to pull away from a gas pump. It’s had problems dying occasionally, but always started right back up again until now.
I managed to coaerse the driver of the pickup at the next pump to give me a jump start, and drove straight to [...]

So, those studded snow tires are starting to look really nice. It took me an hour to traverse a distance that normally takes 15-20 minutes. The steep hill on Garden of the Gods, west of Union, normally takes me 30-45 seconds; I spent 15 minutes on that hill alone. Ambient traffic speed was so slow, [...]

I ran a traffic analysis today and must say, I like the results. Stats are for the dates of 07/14/07 19:40:19 through 10/16/07 17:09:55. All stats have had internal addresses (hits from me) filtered out, so this is pure external data.
General
Total Hits: 103,697
Avg Hits/Day: 987
Avg Hits/IP: 3.87
Total Page Views: 29,656
Avg Views/Day: 282
Avg Views/IP: 1.11
Total Sessions: [...]

The car is finally completely running. I just paid $1100 for a bigass tuneup and new-car repairs (see previous entry), but it runs alot better now.
The thing I find amusing, of course, is that the “Check Engine” light came on after the mechanics at Meineke checked the engine. It wasn’t on before, but it [...]

Meineke finally finished inspecting my car and gave me the run-down on the initial repairs needed to get it up to a “reliable” position:
BRAKES: $557
($69*4) Rotors
$62 Front pads
$59 Rear pads
$160 Stuff I didn’t write down
ENGINE: $459
$74 Valve Cover Gasket
$20 Oil Change
$150 Plugs & Wires
$55 Coolant Flush w/new radiator cap
$160 External Drive Belts
There was more, which [...]

I registered the car today. It took two freaking hours, with 13 booths open. Other than the stagnant departmental progress, I was unexpectedly satisfied with the service. I walked in with a signed title and my DD 214, and had the proof of insurance faxed in; I walked out with a new title, registration, and [...]

So, I’m on my ninth car now. The Eclipse is fully paid off ($950) and I have the signed title in hand. Now, I must look into locations and hours of operation for the DMV (Which handles registrations here instead of the County Clerk). I have to remember to bring my DD 214 so I [...]

Some of you may have been following my endeavors to acquire a reliable conveyance. I’ve been trying on and off for over two months.
First, I tried (and failed) to buy a 2000 Celica GT. I was ultimately turned away because there’s a repo on my credit report that won’t go away until sometime around 2010-2011; [...]

Some of you will recall the plans to upgrade to Dual Broadband as brought on by the Year-Long Saga. Qwest delivered their modem as promised, and it’s up and running.
Initially, the plan was to set up a load balancer to pipe outgoing connections to whichever outbound network had the most bandwidth available at the time. [...]

Not having a car sucks. I tried to finance one awhile ago, but got turned down because I have a repo on my credit report. They didn’t care that I make enough money to pay it off in two months, nor that I make five times what I made when the repo occurred. Bah.
So I [...]