JOKER 192
Blow it up
Fenway, you are shameless. How can you dangle a stacked smoke meat on fathers day.
Fenway, you are shameless. How can you dangle a stacked smoke meat on fathers day.
Well mission accomplished.
If I ever did anything right it was surprising mom here at the Cape.
My sisters couldn’t believe it when I knocked on their room door.
Mom broke down. All good. Had supper delivered and just got her to bed.
Tomorrow we will get her down to the sand and water edge.
Tuesday if she’s up to it she wants to see PTown own more time. The old penny candy store, Portuguese bakery and Herring Cove beach. Places she and dad took us 50 years ago.
View from my room.
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Six months ago, or so, my car started with a hiccup and a burp, but it started. Then maybe two months ago the radio was in and out and my heater controls froze up. I never replaced anything and assumed it was my battery starting to finally fade away. (2012 dodge 155k)
today, there was a ding and my dash lit with a battery icon. But that was it. Then a half hour later the light returned, followed by another ding, and another and another and another. One by one, a few seconds apart, the abs, e brake, traction, battery, transmission, and airbag lights came on. The my ac cut out and went to full blast heat and the radio flickered
so i shut the headlights off, turned off the radio and the touch screen display, and unplugged my phone. One by one the lights went away again, and then my transmission started holding gear and would go beyond third. Even manual mode did nothing.
computers and cars do not mix. We have gone backwards. My father loves to tell me that in the 60s and 70s you could start a car and pull the battery and drive off. I long for those days
Dude , if that is the original battery , you passed borrowed time long ago. What do they call it?? Oh ya, maintenance. It just might work for ya.
This would have been a monster tourism weekend for the Cape
90 degrees in mid June would have set that place up
Dude , if that is the original battery , you passed borrowed time long ago. What do they call it?? Oh ya, maintenance. It just might work for ya.
I had the same thing happen with my car, although it was (sort of) my fault. Had a slow leak that started in January that blinked "low pressure" on my dashboard, but it went away after I filled the tire with air. Happened again in March, which scared the bejeezus out of me because it happened after my one and only trip out to the pharmacy. It then happened again in April, so I got the tire replaced at home ala Safelite for windshields - turns out it was a nail. But in doing so, I had to move my car in and out of the garage about 5 or 6 times (furnace problems too - had to move it for access). The off-on-off-on was the last straw for my 3.5 year old battery.
TBH, that's probably a little on the young side for a battery. In another era, I might have tried to futz with it, getting a zap from AAA and seeing if it could hold a charge. But considering all the new gizmos on the car drain the battery, just like Charlie said, I guess that's about the life of the battery. I also didn't want to repeatedly call AAA, as I'd called them a few times in the last 12 months, and I hear they get cranky after too many calls. (Hadn't called them much before that....so, I guess on average I'm a good customer.)
I had the same thing happen with my car, although it was (sort of) my fault. Had a slow leak that started in January that blinked "low pressure" on my dashboard, but it went away after I filled the tire with air. Happened again in March, which scared the bejeezus out of me because it happened after my one and only trip out to the pharmacy. It then happened again in April, so I got the tire replaced at home ala Safelite for windshields - turns out it was a nail. But in doing so, I had to move my car in and out of the garage about 5 or 6 times (furnace problems too - had to move it for access). The off-on-off-on was the last straw for my 3.5 year old battery.
TBH, that's probably a little on the young side for a battery. In another era, I might have tried to futz with it, getting a zap from AAA and seeing if it could hold a charge. But considering all the new gizmos on the car drain the battery, just like Charlie said, I guess that's about the life of the battery. I also didn't want to repeatedly call AAA, as I'd called them a few times in the last 12 months, and I hear they get cranky after too many calls. (Hadn't called them much before that....so, I guess on average I'm a good customer.)
Working at the exes house this morning. Scheduling got weird so I’m here with the kids. Toasted up some waffles for them and then realized after that they are out of syrup.
They are not going to be happy when they stop fighting and come downstairs begging for waffles.
Any whipped cream and or chocolate syrup around? Nutella? Some kind of alternative to maple syrup?
No whipped cream, i checked for that one. I didn’t consider the Nutella though. They will most likely have that here somewhere. That’s one thing they will not run out of
There's always a solution if you dig deep enough! lol
i ended up quickly toasting the waffles again, burned them, and i ate them covered in butter. Had to pivot the kids to Cheerios and toast, washed down with...mini muffins?
Initiate self preservation mode
i am well aware. Battery was fine, fine, fine, and now it’ll be changed tomorrow since it gave me fits today. I’m not upset with the battery. What i dislike is the concept of computers in cars.
Oh my, your outta luck. Every thing works with computers in your car. My mechanic tells me mine has 9. You'd think 1 would cause enough trouble , but no, 9.
Working at the exes house this morning. Scheduling got weird so I’m here with the kids. Toasted up some waffles for them and then realized after that they are out of syrup.
They are not going to be happy when they stop fighting and come downstairs begging for waffles.