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[Limmo]

I took mine in to the dealer

See, that's where you went wrong right there. 

I took my last car into the dealer to have a faulty door lock actuator replaced.  Hundreds and hundreds of dollars gone.

Then the actuator on the other side went.  I gave the motorhead kid next door a hundred bucks to find the part and install it.  Done and done.

All car dealership repair shops must be destroyed.  Find a local mechanic and stick with them.

[wombat]

This is how honest my local non-dealer car fixing place is: I once took my car in to fix something trivial, and they asked me how old the car was, and then told me that I should take it to the dealer because that sort of brokenness would still be under warranty and wouldn't cost anything.

I explained to them that I knew that, but that it was worth fifty bucks or whatever it was to have them do it, five blocks away from me, because it basically fucks up my whole day to take the car to the very far away inconveniently located dealership. I left out the part about how they made me want to give them the fifty bucks just because they told me that.

They clearly thought I was a little off, but they went ahead and did it anyway.

[CortJstr]

See, that's where you went wrong right there. 

I took my last car into the dealer to have a faulty door lock actuator replaced.  Hundreds and hundreds of dollars gone.

Then the actuator on the other side went.  I gave the motorhead kid next door a hundred bucks to find the part and install it.  Done and done.

All car dealership repair shops must be destroyed.  Find a local mechanic and stick with them.

I know better than to have real work done there but it seems generally worth it for the free oil changes. Although they do take twice as long as Jiffy Lube. I think Edmunds has some article about going undercover at a car dealership where they say most dealers actually make like 46% of their money from the service dept.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I stopped going to the dealership when they once told me that I needed to change the brake "master cylinder" and replace all my pad kits because the Brake Master Warning light was red. This was some extreme cost, so I asked to see the light. It was the emergency brake light, indicating someone had engaged the parking/emergency brake. If the dealership can't decode the parking brake light, Im going somewhere else.

[AugustWest]

If the dealership can't decode the parking brake light, Im going somewhere else.

 They can decode it, they were just betting that you couldn't.

[Doc]

... come down from the mountain a day early because the rain did not want to stop and we couldn't get any more walking done.
Went down a couple of beautiful trails though, I may post pics if I ever remember to get them developed (Forgot the digital so it was all on a disposable. Retro stylez!)

[Arachno-capitalist]

Today Im golfing my fuck*ng heart out. This is the first time in forever that we won't be taking a case of beer, so well so how it burns down.
Yes my going golfing is directly a result of Ray going golfing in the GQ achewood strip. We saw the strip and said "this is America, we can live that dream".

[theinevitable]

so.
I really need/want to take an anthropology class this semester, but none will really fit my schedule. I am pretty sure I want to change my focus within my major from linguistics to anthropology, and this is hard to do if I cannot take a single class.
Oof. I am optimistic, though.

But yeah, camp is kind of dragging suddenly. All new kids, and I have lost all of my energy. It might just be that I am really tired. I am working on it, though.

[CortJstr]

Trip to Carmax to sell our unneeded 2nd car. It wasn't actually that bad.

[wombat]

...finally find the setting on my camera that lets me take pictures indoors!

Seriously, whoever designed these menus needs to spend a long time in a special place in Hell where nothing you click on makes any sense.

[jaydub]

...play in games 11 & 12 of the inaugural Vitality lacrosse summer league, men's open division.  The experience to date has been simultaneously affirming and humbling.  Yes, I'm good enough to play with these guys - but holy God, the skills they developed playing since they were 8 or whatever instead of 20 are something to see.

[theinevitable]

clean up this kid's liquid shit, and smile at him, and tell him that YES he needs to take a shower, and let him keep thinking that I don't know that it was him (another counselor took him to the nurse at the time, he apparently thinks that counselors do not talk to each other.)
At some point I might pull him aside and mention that I know who it was, and since I was so respectful to that person, maybe they could be a little more respectful to me instead of having a horrible attitude.

also I feel like there are other stories, but I forget what they are right now.

[theinevitable]

yeah. I feel like I am 1/1000000th repaid to my parents for all the times they probably did that for me. I don't remember that happening when I was 12, but, maybe.

[Arachno-capitalist]

TODAY AND TODAY ONLY IS THE WORLD FAMOUS HAAAAAAMMMMMBLEEETONIANNNNNNN hoss race!

Ive been going to this hoss race every year for as long as I can remember.  There is nothing I enjoy about harnessed trot racing, but this is the Kentucky Derby of harnessed trot racing so we kind of feel obligated to go.
(The tradition began many moons ago when we both simultaneously, at different locations, consumed a vast amount of Rumplemintz and were so hung over we couldn't live anywhere but a hoss track)

[wombat]

Wow, this kind of racing still exists? Old school.