Look At What I Got

A Two Car Family Of One

This is my new car, a 1997 Toyota Corolla. It has already displayed hopeful chick magnet qualities -unlike my other car, the lights on my Toyota stay on after removing the key from ignition, so this afternoon I got to spend some quality time with a cute young office maiden who volunteered to help me jump-start my dead battery.
We snuck out of the office and got all tangly and electric...well, we jumped my car, anyway. Later, she fed me peanut butter cookies...yum!

Last night I hit a gaping pothole on the way home and knocked my front driver's side hubcap off and bent the wheel rim. Luckily, it doesn't seem to have broken the tire seal and it looks minor enough to bang out with a sledge and woodblock. Even better, I found the missing hubcap on the way home tonight!

As I slowly approached the pothole this evening, I saw at least four hubcaps scattered around both sides of the road- there was also a young man parked just up the road from the hole, just finishing changing a flat on his Honda. This pothole had been wreaking havoc, it seemed.

"You too?", he called to me, pointing at his tiny spare tire.

"Last night! No flat, thank god!", I replied, waving my new-found hubcap in the air. He gave me a grimacing smile and a thumbs up. I wished him luck and got back in my car.

I need to sell my Volvo ASAP. I put it on Craig's list and had quite a few replies, but no one has asked to see it yet. I may have to lower the price,but $1000 is kinda low already...

My Poor Old Volvo:

I Want My DTV!

I've been TV-Free for two weeks and I'd decided to stay that way when my buddy Dave offered to loan me a Digital Converter Box. I accepted and set it up a day or two ago.

No signal. Darn.

So I unscrewed the antennae and saw a flicker of picture as the cable was disconnected...after some experimenting, I found that all signal was lost if the antennae was securely connected and that it worked pretty well while precariously dangling from the inner pin of the RF cable.
Hmmm.

I stapled one end of an old bass guitar string to the wall and inserted the other end into the tiny hole of the antennae input and viola! I get ABC,CBS,NBC, FOX and two PBS channels, clear as a DVD! Best picture my TV has ever had, in fact, and it's FREE!

Most of the stations have two or three stations , e.g., CBS 6, 6.1, 6.2.- the extra channels are mostly weather feeds...or old movies!
Cool.













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