{"id":2844,"date":"2003-08-04T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2020-08-27T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:59:41","slug":"bad-news-and-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2844","title":{"rendered":"Bad news and sweat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manual labor isn&#8217;t half bad.  It&#8217;s getting back out there once I&#8217;ve sat down for a break that&#8217;s the difficult part.  I&#8217;ll get used to it, get into it, and get money for it.  That&#8217;s the important part to remember.  Stress-releasing and health-helping work that I&#8217;m getting paid for.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself drinking more fluids and eating more fruits.  Still, I find myself getting nearly no rest while I sleep.  I&#8217;m unsure if it&#8217;s the bed, the general environment, or my particular state of mind.  To quote <lj user=\"atropis\">, this bears investigation.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p><lj-cut text=\"Car woes.\">Known needed repairs:<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>Exhaust system.<br \/>\nCatylettic (sp?) converter.<br \/>\nFront and rear shocks and struts.<br \/>\n<strike>Front brake rotors.<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>New repairs as of today:<\/p>\n<p>Transmission side pan is leaking.<br \/>\nTransmission main pan is leaking.<br \/>\nCoolant is leaking from a rusted pipe in the fender.<br \/>\nCoolant is leaking from a valve near the radiator.<br \/>\nThe serpentine belt needs to be replaced.<br \/>\nThe tie rod ends are almost completely degraded.<br \/>\nA ball joint is almost totally done, which has been causing the vibrating when I brake at high speeds&#8230; it wasn&#8217;t warped front brake rotors.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the Lumina is dead.  Long live the Malibu?  The Cavalier?  The Sunfire?  We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manual labor isn&#8217;t half bad. It&#8217;s getting back out there once I&#8217;ve sat down for a break that&#8217;s the difficult part. I&#8217;ll get used to it, get into it, and get money for it. That&#8217;s the important part to remember. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=2844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-JS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}