So a bit of follow up to my car “incident“. You’d think that going into the insurance company to be looked after when a truck, driven by a driver who was known to be negligible (as the police officer saw that he ignored the flashing “you’re too tall” lights), hit a bridge and sprayed your […]
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Today I had a photoshoot with the lovely Terra Jean downtown Vancouver, helping out my friend Danielle who is working to break into the makeup artist business. Headed down there mid-afternoon with my friend Len and did the shoot over the next few hours. Two models, a makeup artist, a location of a hot tub
Truck Right Beside Me Went Under An Overpass Too Low Read Post »
An odd thing happened coming home from work yesterday. Out of nowhere about 5 minutes from work my car suddenly died. Just turned off. I coasted to the side of the side street I was on and thought “that was odd”, then started back up and kept on going. About 5 minutes down the road
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Oh, what a great morning this is turning out to be. I woke up late this morning (big surprise) and had to rush (big surprise) after being up late (big surprise) because something computer related wasn’t working (big surprise). Manage to get into the car in time to get to work on time and it
… or at least that’s what Darren told me. Some odd random grinding noises last night turned into non-random grinding noises, so I dropped it by the mechanic that luckily is right by the place I park for work. Less than an hour later I get a call telling me that not only have my
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I will attempt to compress my three day ordeal to try to re-insure my car into just a few bullet points. It started of course with it breaking down on Sunday. Monday and tuesday it was in the shop, but tuesday night I got it back. When I first got into the car there was
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Just heard from Pat over at the service place… sounds like the timing belt didn’t do any engine damage….. Whohohooo! This makes me especially happy after asking for a worst case senario and hearing “new engine” 🙂 I am still going to eat a big bill as I’m getting them to do some of the
Timing Belt Good News Read Post »
Bah, only four months after my last bout of car problems, I was struck again. Coming home from my folks after an awsome chicken dinner, just hitting the bypass the car stalled. Luckily right at a light, so after a couple of minutes of asking it really nicely to turn over, I pushed it off
Bah. The repairs I had done to my clutch around this time last year seem to be coming back to kick me in the ass. The last couple of days have had the point where the clutch engages “sink” further and further, and today, spurred by the feeling that it was starting to get to