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Saturday, February 28, 2004
Major Update
Back in January one Saturday, we got inspired and went and Gerald bought a tow dolly and we hauled the Woody down to Shafe in Norfolk. No mishaps, believe it or not (although we didn't get back until midnight).
Then the torque converter (according to my preliminary diagnosis) went out on Jill. She's been sitting there for a while. Actually, it seems to me that Jill went down before we got rid of the Woody because if we would have had the tow dolly, I wouldn't have wasted all that money on a tow truck ....
Gerald got a ticket for reckless. Then he hit a pothole with Sylvester (thank you Fairfax County), which started an interesting course of events.
This pothole damaged two of his wheels, as well as one of the tires. Checking ebay first, he found he could get another whole Volvo for less than the cost of just wheels. This added Jersey to our family, albeit temporarily. Somewhere along the line, JV bought on ebay a Volvo that runs pretty well (especially after changing the fuel pump fuse or something silly like that). Then he bought another one, an older one. Then Gerald hit the big time when he got Abe, a 1950 Cadillac. Last weekend, he and Belle went out to get Abe in Lincoln, NE (if you haven't figured out by now why it's called "Abe", then you're just stupid) and while he had to stop for a little while somewhere in Ohio to get his A/C compressor changed, he made it back without too much mishap.
Tomorrow, we're apparently going to be getting Jersey out of the shop to make room for Abe. We also might be changing the wheels on Sylvester, but maybe not. I need to change the oil in Jade. If we do anything with Jill, it will probably just be to bring her back to the apartments here.
Oh, and no more fireworks now that Deb & Jamey have had their baby.
Then the torque converter (according to my preliminary diagnosis) went out on Jill. She's been sitting there for a while. Actually, it seems to me that Jill went down before we got rid of the Woody because if we would have had the tow dolly, I wouldn't have wasted all that money on a tow truck ....
Gerald got a ticket for reckless. Then he hit a pothole with Sylvester (thank you Fairfax County), which started an interesting course of events.
This pothole damaged two of his wheels, as well as one of the tires. Checking ebay first, he found he could get another whole Volvo for less than the cost of just wheels. This added Jersey to our family, albeit temporarily. Somewhere along the line, JV bought on ebay a Volvo that runs pretty well (especially after changing the fuel pump fuse or something silly like that). Then he bought another one, an older one. Then Gerald hit the big time when he got Abe, a 1950 Cadillac. Last weekend, he and Belle went out to get Abe in Lincoln, NE (if you haven't figured out by now why it's called "Abe", then you're just stupid) and while he had to stop for a little while somewhere in Ohio to get his A/C compressor changed, he made it back without too much mishap.
Tomorrow, we're apparently going to be getting Jersey out of the shop to make room for Abe. We also might be changing the wheels on Sylvester, but maybe not. I need to change the oil in Jade. If we do anything with Jill, it will probably just be to bring her back to the apartments here.
Oh, and no more fireworks now that Deb & Jamey have had their baby.
