Car Trouble
June 22, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
The Picture below pretty much best represents my life as of the last two weeks. I have a very intense fascination with cars. That fascination is dependent on one main clause…that they work.
My first car was pretty much a dream first car. It was an Acura Integra GS-R, it was a stick, redlined at 9,000 rpm it was amazing! After I totaled that one in college I got an even more amazing car, a Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T with about 330 horsepower. It was soooooo fast! That wore out with time, I sold it to a roommate and then got a Nissan Maxima SE. Great car, more roomy than any other car I’ve had before but still nice. I then got married to my wife Cristina, who has a Mazda 626. In the last two weeks I have had to replace the front axle and boot on her car, recharge it with Freeon, her car then overheated on Sunday (making for a wonderful time) we replaced all four of her tires, then my brakes started wearing out (wonderful metal on metal sound let me tell you) so I had to get those replaced. All this wouldn’t be bad if getting your car worked on were like going to the grocery store or some other venue of updating your life. However, car mechanics have this wonderful tact of telling you that EVERYTHING on your car is breaking all at once. You’ve been there before, you go in to get a nail taken out of your tire and they tell you, “while we were under your hood…” and then they continue to list off things like…
1. Your transmission is falling out from under your car
2. Your engine manifold left quarter head gasket seal is leaking from the front
3. Every hose or tube that connects something to anything is falling apart, cracked, or just old, so you know need that replaced
4. Your “hardware” needs to be replaced (In my world of computer technology hardware means anything that is outside of the computer’s operating system, you know anything that makes the computer work ram, hard drives, fans ect.) so wouldn’t think mean THE WHOLE CAR!!!!
5. Now comes the fluid. You know most of your car is driven or runs by things that pump fluid from one part of the car to the another part of the car. Well of COURSE all the fluid needs to be replaced. They use fancy terms like drained, flushed, replenished, recharged, so on and so forth
Yes I know the list can just go on but I will choose to stop at least for now. To make a long story short Heaven will be great! I’ll never have to go into the shop to get my angel wings repaired. I’ll never have to get my halo fluid flushed because it has grown dim over the past 1,000 years. The bearings on my rollerblades will never have to get clean because the gold dust on the streets I skate on each day have clogged them up. I can just live 24/7 (or maybe that will change too because technically we don’t have days up there) 100% in awe of God and glorify Him.
Until my next post…
My thoughts in black and white
AP
San Diego Trip
June 4, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Recently, my wife and I got the opportunity to have a few days off and get away to my in-laws house in San Diego. We actually helped them move from La Jolla to Mission Valley over the weekend. It was a very fun and exciting time. I got to sleep in each day, have Starbucks for breakfast, enjoy walks on the beach, afternoon walks through small town shops, amazing candy stores, and a phenomenal dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack. I would highly recommend this place if anybody is a love of crab, it was AMAZING! While we were there My wife and I, Melissa and Chris, all got into a discussion about the famed Coronado Bridge which goes between downtown San Diego and Coronado Island. This bridge is known as the second most popular suicide bridge in the world. Not only in suicide attempts but as well as suicide deaths. Many people who have actually lived from the fall itself have died in the river below of drowning. Very interesting facts indeed. This bridge is second only to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. So i reassured my in-laws that they are living in the “Great” state of California that has the two most deadly bridges in the world.
On a side note, Cristina and I had a ton of fun moving Chris and Mel and we definitely enjoyed the bonding time. Thanks for the great get-a-way Mel and Chris!
