Sunday, July 29, 2007
Seems like we're going all out!!
My brother n i had one of those mechanic days where we just go fixin everything that has a motor in sight. I installed some Galfer HH+ brake pads on the moto, easy as pie. Glad i learned how to do it, it's not that hard, think of it as swapping a video card, sorta. They work, which is a good thing, and they have a pretty good grab to them. I like how these silly engineered things work. While looking at the old pads, they seemed to be made to be replaced in 32,000 mile intervals, which happens to be the "BIG" tune up schedule. I think i remember getting new pads with the new stainless brake lines back a while back at 4k miles. Nothing like doing it all at once, i still have 4k to go but hey i've already pulled the calipers off..
On Jenny's Rav4, we did an oil change as well as a coolant flush. He's going to a friends to do the Transmission fluids as well as possibly doing a brake fluid flush. Bangbangbang! do it all!
Got home and the in-laws were ready to flow, off to the Tachi reservation for some 'cha-chinging' as mums says. They can now call while on the road.. Oooo!
Sat around for a while and was informed that fluffielady has found a hutch for a decent price on craigslist and received a reply stating it's still there ready to be picked up. Took out the rear seats on the rav4 and headed to Rossmoor, which is embedded at Walnut Creek. It's a gated community, make that more like a gated city, with it's own police and mall areas.
The people we met were nice and was replacing their furniture. We find out that you need to be at least 55 years old to live in Rossmoor. Everybody lives in condos and their association pays for everything even tax assistance for retirement. The nice lady we guessed from her stories comes to an age of 79 while her 2nd husband (we think) is a little younger. They both were pretty mobile and spry. The husband helped me load the hutch into the rav4 and he was hopping in and out of the back seats with no trouble. I wanna be this guy when i'm that age!! Everybody around was nice and the weather was a sunny 80 degrees. It's like dorm life, minus the kegs, but who knows what these people do at night.
Stopped by Nan Yangs at Oakland (or edge of Berkeley?) and headed home with not much traffic. Fluffielady got all giddy and filled the display area quickly. It matches the dinner table quite well, almost exactly. Now i have a little area for my martini glasses and scotch crystal, woo!. Pic coming soon.
We're cool until project wine closet comes online.
My brother n i had one of those mechanic days where we just go fixin everything that has a motor in sight. I installed some Galfer HH+ brake pads on the moto, easy as pie. Glad i learned how to do it, it's not that hard, think of it as swapping a video card, sorta. They work, which is a good thing, and they have a pretty good grab to them. I like how these silly engineered things work. While looking at the old pads, they seemed to be made to be replaced in 32,000 mile intervals, which happens to be the "BIG" tune up schedule. I think i remember getting new pads with the new stainless brake lines back a while back at 4k miles. Nothing like doing it all at once, i still have 4k to go but hey i've already pulled the calipers off..
On Jenny's Rav4, we did an oil change as well as a coolant flush. He's going to a friends to do the Transmission fluids as well as possibly doing a brake fluid flush. Bangbangbang! do it all!
Got home and the in-laws were ready to flow, off to the Tachi reservation for some 'cha-chinging' as mums says. They can now call while on the road.. Oooo!
Sat around for a while and was informed that fluffielady has found a hutch for a decent price on craigslist and received a reply stating it's still there ready to be picked up. Took out the rear seats on the rav4 and headed to Rossmoor, which is embedded at Walnut Creek. It's a gated community, make that more like a gated city, with it's own police and mall areas.
The people we met were nice and was replacing their furniture. We find out that you need to be at least 55 years old to live in Rossmoor. Everybody lives in condos and their association pays for everything even tax assistance for retirement. The nice lady we guessed from her stories comes to an age of 79 while her 2nd husband (we think) is a little younger. They both were pretty mobile and spry. The husband helped me load the hutch into the rav4 and he was hopping in and out of the back seats with no trouble. I wanna be this guy when i'm that age!! Everybody around was nice and the weather was a sunny 80 degrees. It's like dorm life, minus the kegs, but who knows what these people do at night.
Stopped by Nan Yangs at Oakland (or edge of Berkeley?) and headed home with not much traffic. Fluffielady got all giddy and filled the display area quickly. It matches the dinner table quite well, almost exactly. Now i have a little area for my martini glasses and scotch crystal, woo!. Pic coming soon.
We're cool until project wine closet comes online.
Labels: house, Maintainence, Moto
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