futon out, couch in

We got a couch from some friends so we needed to get rid of our futon. We decided to just put it in our front yard and label it "free" since we get so much traffic on our street. The funny part was that after about 20 minutes or less some lameo pulled up, opened his trunk, threw the futon pad in, closed his trunk, and drove away.....!!!! We were very disappointed because we thought that we were now stuck with a futon frame that no one would want. Oh well, we just laughed because he got a very flat, used futon pad. After about another 20 minutes a lady walked by and decided she'd try to take the frame down a few houses to her daughters house. She couldn't move it. So I carried it down for her. So we now have a couch to comfortably sit on :) END OF STORY

Got help

Dipstick Drama!

So the dipstick on my transmission in the '71 Nova has leaked since put the TH400 in it a couple years ago. So I've single-handedly been driving up oil prices by purchasing massive amounts of tranny fluid to keep it topped off and out of harms way via overheating. This weekend I took on the task of changing what I thought was a cracked O-ring. Sounds simple, but it requires dropping the trans to get the dipstick tube out because of the nice curve it has. Got everything down and out quickly on Saturday and went to purchase the new tube. After hours of trying to finagle the new tube in I discovered that I must completely take the trans out, not just lower it. Then I discovered that the tube didn't fit by snapping it in two while trying to force it into trans. Broken $20 tube and no fix..... So I grabbed a new O-ring and put it on the old tube to throw it back in......I put it in, tipped the trans. sideways to see if it leaked and discovered that the old tube had a nice crack in it. So it had been leaking from a crack not from the O-ring. Well, I sulked around for a bit on the verge of crying and it dawned on me that I had 2 other different tranny's in the garage. I found the tube for one of them and it happened to be an exact match, although not nearly as beautiful, it is functional.........now to get it all back together again.....Lets go Humpty Dumpty.

Whew, It's over! (Long Post)

X-mas, the "worst" time of year! :( Hopefully some day I'll have a job that doesn't make me feel that way, but until then I'm just so glad the rush at FedEx is over. Time to get in a few things that happened recently..... Most memorable, Dad's 60th Bday. Sister S. set up a nice "treasure hunt" around Santana Row in San Jose. We went to several stores and let them know that Bob was there and he was given a gift card at each store, then the card would tell us what store to go to next where there would be another gift certificate and another place to go to. Somehow we hit the Cohiba store twice :) Here's a few pics:




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