Breakitis

Or, When To Use Force (And When Not To!)

I think VW car designers and engineers must make too much money. Seriously. To them it must not mean much to have to take their car in and pay someone $30-50 to change the headlight. If it did, they wouldn't have placed the battery right behind the access to the front driver headlight.

Sheesh. I have small hands and that was tough. Naturally, I used too much force pulling the first cover off and broke off a little protruding piece of plastic. Turns out that was the guide for putting the cover back correctly. Oops. The tricky part was manouvering the cover out without harming the battery wire, and then getting the second cover off, bulb out, replaced, and back in. The back in part was awful. That's the part where I actually screamed in frustration. Could not get it anchored and that stupid locking ring fastened.

Wanna know why? I wasn't using enough force. Sigh. Once I got frustrated and shoved that thing in there it stuck like a charm. Naturally. [rolling my eyes] Then of course I couldn't get the cover back in. Because I broke the guide off. Pffffttt. Finally figured that out.

But I got it changed. Myself. And saved about $50. It only cost forty minutes of my time and some frustration. Hooray for me.

Feeling Guilty? There's an app for that!

The Catholic church is going digital and entering the 21st century. A little bit, anyway. If you're too busy to go to confession, or just don't like going, you can now download a church-approved Confession app. No fooling!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12391129

D Day, My Way

Well, it is a Monday and a half!

Whiteout snow conditions (boss is actually considering a snow day, which says a lot considering where I'm located!)

My little sister's mom is trying to laugh off the fact that the week before they got all the dogs fixed, her eldest daughter took her dog to a friend's and let him mate with the friend's female dog. So now there is soon to be a litter of puppies to find homes for. I told her to let the daughter and friend deal with it. It's their fault, why should the rest of us have to get involved? At the very least they should just turn the pups over to the humane society for placement. They stand a better chance of getting good homes. This "friend" of the daughter has got to be the most irresponsible person I have met when it comes to dogs. They have something like 5 chihuahas and none of them are fixed. They keep having puppies. Gee, wonder why! Stupid, stupid, stupid.

And then there are the local politicians (republicans) that are trying to...[political rant ahead, don't follow the link if you're sensitive or not interested!]

What did I expect?

Blogging has dropped off the radar for me the last months or so. I miss it, but somehow it seems "easier" to do the quick little meaningless soundbites on FB.

Possibly I've just been avoiding doing any thinking. At least, the thinking I should do for blogging. Life is pretty much the same in my universe. Work. Home. Family. Friends. Pretty short and sweet. [g]

Little Sis did decently at the climbing comp in Boise. She only made one climb out of three, but that happened to a lot of the climbers. Even one of her friends on the team, who is really good. The trip turned out to be fun, driving was pretty decent, and I really need a GPS for the car. LOL. I got around quite well, it's just that I did do some doubling back due to missing exits where two interstates connected/overlapped. Hate those. Especially when you think you're just on an on-ramp and geez, turns out before you actually get on the interstate you are past the first exit for that interstate, with no signs indicating so, and it was the one you needed!!!!

Had fun shopping, found a lovely basket - finally - for my Wi.i accesories. It even fits (barely) on my coffee table shelf. Just need to put a wee bit of felt on the bottom. Scratches the wood when it is pulled out. Oops.

So what else is new?