September 29, 2003
Material Things Will Fail You
They fixed the window in my VW. Before I go on, know this: if you own a
recent model year VW, either a) one or more of your windows has fallen into the door,
or b) one or more of your windows will fall into the door. VW might consider adding this to the
feature list on the sticker: "* Chrome Alloy Wheels, * Monsoon Sound System, * Eventually Malfunctioning Windows, * ABS Breaks . . ."
As I was driving my car away from the shop, I noticed it was running pretty rough, and the check-engine light started blinking. After a U-turn, a few days with another loaner, a replaced ignition coil, and a reprogrammed engine control module, I was good to go . . .
Until Friday morning, that is, when, as I set out on my drive home to Jersey for Rosh Hashanah, I discovered that I could no longer turn on my stereo. The NPR junky and music fan in me panicked: two and a half hours of silence!
I recently learned that, before he came up with the lyrics to "Yesterday", Paul McCartney used the working title "Scrambled Eggs". So I passed the time by writing just-in-time (JIT) lyrics for Yesterday as I drove northward. "Hyundai Santa Fe, please stop tailgating me, I'm going over 83, I hope you crash into a tree." You get the idea.
In other technology news, after approximately ten minutes the battery in my iBook reports zero charge and my computer shuts down without warning. There are apparently some things I can try, so if I'm lucky I won't have to buy a $140 replacement battery.
Posted by cradle at September 29, 2003 1:50 PMI love singing in the car. That doesn't sound so bad to me.
I guess that you don't have the captive audience that I do, and can entertain yourself thinking that you're somehow enriching that audience, too.
Posted by: Maureen at September 29, 2003 2:19 PMDid you do anything naughty to your battery? (Like not fully discharge it before plugging it back in? Or not fully charge it before unplugging it?) or are apple batteries shoddy? ::worries::
Car silence is bad. I start talking to myself if it's too quiet. I need music.
Posted by: Brooke at September 29, 2003 3:00 PMLeprosy - Little pieces falling off of me
I'm not half the man I used to be
Now that I have leprosy
Syphillis - It all started with a little kiss
Now it burns me when I take a piss
Oh why do I have syphillis
Veeee Deeee from a blow - it won't go
It's here to stay
It's been said before, but it bears repeating: This is your punishment for purchasing a Volkswagen.
Posted by: Dan at September 30, 2003 10:16 AM