My car’s odometer rolled over 181,000 miles this week. I’ve had the car for 11 years now – it had 24,000 miles on it when I bought it.
In the last 2 years, I’ve driven 72,000 of those miles just to and from work.
I plan on buying a newer car within a year. But I am really going to miss this one when its gone.
Damn. It. All. Why does this always happen when I have a bunch of other, more pressing, issues going on?
I came home yesterday after lunch and the computer was powered off, with that awesome tell-tale “burnt electronics” smell emanating from its general area.
I can order a new one for about the same price (heh, including Windows 7) as it would cost me to replace the borken parts of the current one. The choice seems fairly obvious.
This will also give me a chance to do that long-delayed update from Kubuntu 8 to Kubuntu 10. And give me an excuse to buy a new monitor. And an external HD dock. And install VirtualBox so I can have Windows as a guest OS instead of rebooting every time we need Windows for something.
Back in the Life Update post I mentioned that our Tahoe had white lettering put on it to express Bart’s displeasure with having to shell out a bunch of extra money to fix stuff right after buying it. I won’t go into specific details here, but just suffice to say he got his money back for the repairs, in full. The lettering is now gone. I do have a pic of what it looked like, if you want to see it let me know.
Just gonna make it a list.
Bart purchased an after-market alarm/remote start for my car back in August. We ordered 3 remotes (1 two way and 2 one way). The 3rd remote wouldn’t program. After a few weeks of fiddling with it, the guy who installed it finally got it programed, in the 4th remote ‘slot’, and the general consensus is that slot 3 doesn’t work.
A couple days ago, I was taking a nap and Bart was up working at his desk, and my remote started going off, like someone was trying to break into the car. He rushed out, but didn’t find anything suspicious at the time. We figured someone just lifted one of the door handles to see if it was locked, and ran away when the alarm went off.
Tonight when I got home, I got out of my car, locked it, and went inside. By the time I kicked my shoes off at the front door, my remote started beeping, and the shock sensor icon was on. I put my shoes back on and went back out. The alarm didn’t seem to be going off, but as I was standing there, the shock sensor gave warning chirps like someone bumped the car. Nothing was touching it. It wasn’t windy, and there were no trucks rumbling by.
I’m starting to grow very suspect of this alarm unit. My remote has also randomly rebooted itself on several occasions, despite the battery icon showing ‘full’.