27th January 2005

Posted January 27, 2005

It was another long day, and it is hard to believe that February is almost here.

I had a fairly big deadline for work that had some small loose ends that needed to be tied up, but I had pretty much everything else covered by Wednesday night. But since I have been working from home my schedule for everything, from eating to waking has been off, because when you are at home, sometimes that line between work and not working is pretty fine and I have been doing some of the needed work later at night.

But starting tomorrow I will be heading back into the office. From what I understand we may have our T1 line installed on Monday which would be awesome.

I made some customer changes on a website tonight and then I went and ran in the bone chilling weather tonight and deposited some checks. There isn’t much snow, but gosh it sure is cold.

Like I mentioned last night, I was going to make a note about my adventures in working on my car on Sunday.

Before Christmas when I had my oil changed, the shop told me that I had less than 20% of my break pads left and that I needed to change them. They said it would be $90, which was talking to some people, isn’t that bad for breaks. But since my bud Chris at work knows how to change breaks, I figured, why not? I know barely anything about cars, and would always enjoy to learn something new that can save me money, and depending on how hard it is, I could do it by myself in the future.

It was not that hard at all. I went with him to an Autozone by his house and just told the guys there what type of car and what year it was. They gave me a set of front break that were close to factory installs, and away we went back to his place.

After about 3 hours total of having the car up on jacks, we had them switched out. They were not nearly as bad as the oil change place claimed, except for one break pad on the inner left wheel was really low. That must have been the one he saw but the others were maybe 50%. Which is fine, it was a lot less money to do myself, and I know for future reference. Plus, that 3 hours, a lot of that time was just determining how to get them off since every car is different. My old set were kind of rusted at the axis points, so we really had to work to get them out of there.

I read some more of my Flash book today. I thought I would include a couple of hints I picked up.

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