{"id":4501,"date":"2009-02-10T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:03:36","slug":"automobile-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderful wife made omelettes this morning.  It must be the shredded cheese mix that she uses, because they come out tasting amazing every time.  The ham wasn&#8217;t overpowering, and it was done to perfection (she calls it &#8220;burned&#8221;).  After taking Hunter to school, picking up Morgan for day care goodness, and picking up a mug of Tim Horton&#8217;s crackified coffee, breakfast was a great finish to the start of my day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a morning person yet, but I seem to be on my way.  And after yesterday, I&#8217;m surprised the both of us didn&#8217;t just curl up under the covers and tell the day where to shove it.<\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"nitoria\">&#8216;s car has been being worked on for a little bit.  It&#8217;s the used car &#8220;every time you fix something, you discover something more wrong with it&#8221; problem.  Most of it was fixed, thanks to her awesome brother in law, but he&#8217;d gotten a bum part.  Bad bolt for the ball joint, to be exact.  It was too small, so when we hit a pothole, the bolt slipped, the ball joint came -out- of its assembly, pierced the aluminum rim, and gouged it as we scraped to a stop.  Did I mention that we were at a fairly busy intersection near a highway on-ramp?  This was after, when I&#8217;d pulled my car in to said brother in law&#8217;s driveway, my water pump started spewing coolant all over the driveway.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>Both cars.  Out of comission.  Aidan and Morgan in the car with us in Howell, Hunter in school in Lansing.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the brother in law injected himself with a shot of pure awesome, and left school to come and rescue us.  A 30-dollar lifetime-warrented water pump and some scraping away of the old gasket later, and my car was functional.  A replacement ball joint was acquired, as was contact info to start climbing the corporate ladder to get the rim paid for due to the faulty part.  However, a replacement rim seemed to be scarce in the area, so we brought my car back and collapsed.  AFAIK, all we&#8217;re waiting on is the rim, and we&#8217;ll be able to go back and rescue the Focus.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be a two-car family again soon.  As it is, I&#8217;m full of coffee, egg, cheese, and ham.  Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wonderful wife made omelettes this morning. It must be the shredded cheese mix that she uses, because they come out tasting amazing every time. 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