Tiny Monster

Dog monster!

This is what happens when Linda and I get bored.

The pleasures of owning a vehicle

Feeling Victorious
Hearing Less Than Jake

So my darling little car is fast approaching the big 100k and our 4 year anniversary together. She might be a POS but I do my best to do all the proper maintenance to keep her running.  It was time to replace the PCV valve.

Ooooh! Ahhhhh! What's that? What's that?

Well it's this little $3 part that you just pop out of a hose on your engine and pop the new one back in. It has something to do with emissions, and it is USUALLY located on the crankcase on top of your engine. Takes maybe 1 minutes to do.

Unless you drive a Focus, and you don't know much about cars. ;)

Linda and I had to search and search, popping hoses off here and there, but to no avail. She went over to her car and it was just RIGHT THERE. But my car is counterintuitive in many ways when it comes to working on it. I even googled it to see if I could figure out where it was, and came across a message board where other people were surprised to see where it was. You can see it from above, but it's easiest to get it from underneath the engine.

So this stupid valve ended up being quite a debacle, two girls gawking at the engine from every angle to only finally spend about 30 seconds actually DOING anything to it.

In the meantime, Linda started tinkering around with hoses on her car and popped this cap off of her engine that attaches to a hose... and couldn't get it back on. For over half an hour. And ended up being late for class.

Yeah, we're obviously related to each other.

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Got some more pics back! They'll be up on Trekshare.com soon, and probably as an album attached to a journal entry some time.

Haven't even been in Michigan for a week but already been having a great time. Dancing with Heather, Amadeo, Jeff, Tom, and a few other people, and then staying out until 6 am... it's good to be home. :)  Even did some climbing, Amadeo helped show me the ropes of "tossing my line" with my new flyfishing rod, and finally got to see Steve's new house! He's got his work cut out for him, and if any of ya'll haven't seen it yet, then GO VISIT HIM! Just because he's officially going to MSU now doesn't mean he's a Spartan... he's just a Wolverine in green clothing. ;)

Photos

 

Finally uploaded some photos from Browns Park, Bison Range, Swan River, Bitterroot NF, Fish Springs, Alamosa, and Yellowstone to my trekshare website. Still have a few more rolls to develop, and I will probably upload them to AOL as well - trekshare changed their format, so you can't see all the thumbnails at once - you have to watch a slide show one by one, and that sucks. In the meantime, click on the photos to see more!

HOME!

I'm home!

I haven't slept in... 38 hours. But I've been so excited to be back, I haven't found the time to go to bed yet! And now it's time for an aromatherapy bubble bath. :)

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