Steelers won! Then again, if you’re finding this out from me, you should probably just crawl back under whatever rock was covering you. I’m happy they won. Did I really keep track of the season to this point? No. Am I a huge football fan? No. But I do like to watch the games (if they’re Steelers games), and drink beer. So I win. I do, however, miss the steeler games of my youth. Sitting with my family and neighbors watching the game, eating chips. Everyone had a terrible towel. The tv was muted and Myron Cope was on the radio cranked up really loud. Yoi and Double Yoi, he’d say, and everyone was merry. Now I’m in Virginia, surrounded by people who like the Redskins. Suck.
On the brightest side of today, my car is functional again. I didn’t put the interior back together yet, so you can see the road go by through the holes in the floor for the shifter and t-case lever. That’s planned for tomorrow. It’s been like 3 weeks without a car. It’ll be nice to be off 2 wheels in the damn cold. I think I froze my testicles one morning driving to work. Hopefully I’m not sterile. The transmission is completely rebuilt and the car’s got a new clutch and clutch cable. All of this was accomplished for about $300, and I know it’s done right. Any shop would’ve charged a grand easy for this work, and who knows if they’d do it correctly? When i bought this car, I took it to the dealership to get the valve lash adjusted. They fucked it up. I don’t trust people who work in the service industry. I’d rather do things myself. Besides, as a college educated engineer, I think I’m much more qualified to rebuild a transmission than some asshole at a service station who probably dropped out of highschool. I have some pictures that I’ll probably put up here at some point. I’m too lazy to do it now. I’ve also been to0 lazy to post pictures of the wrestling match between the girlfriend and I. It’ll happen eventually. Give it time.
Here’s everything…by the numbers:
300 – dollars spent fixing this
210 – number of miles driven in only 4th gear
36 – number of beers required to complete all this work
35 – number of degrees Fahrenheit in which i worked on the thing outside
21 – number of days without a car
20 – oz in the bottle of coke i had to pour on my pants to put out the fire
6 – number of bearings in my transmission
5 – number of gears in my transmission
4 – the gear I had to drive all the way from DC to Virginia Beach in
3 - Number of cuts on my hands requiring super glue to stop the bleeding
2 – Number of bearings that self destructed, making me have to go through this
1 – Number of times I hit myself in the hand with a hammer and screamed really loud
0 – Times I considered conceding to the “expertise” of an automobile service professional
