Well Fuck My Ass And Call Me A Bitch
03.14.06 (12:09 pm) [edit]$365 to fix the car. The water pump is literally coming apart, the coolant system will need flushed since there's bits of metal in it, and it needs a new serpentine belt. That's $35 less than the other place I went to told me, and I wasn't going anywhere else knowing that the thing was leaking fluid like a motherfuck and in danger of over-heating at any moment.
It's irritating as fuck, but given that I've driven this car 40,000 miles in a year and the only other work done on it (other than near-constant oil-changes, of course) was to replace the starter last summer. It's been very good to me, all things considered.
Most of the cost is labor since it's a bitch to even get in there to work on it. I like how the guy put it. "Well, you've got a Saturn, which is a more reliable vehicle than most and you'll probably have to bring it in half as much as most cars with 135,000 miles on them. On the other hand, it'll cost you twice as much to do some of the work given how it's put together. If it was my car, it would cost you $200. Of course, my car needs about $600 of other work right now." he gave me a ride home in his car. I was amused to be in a car owned by a guy who does this shit for a living, but HIS car was rattling and wheezing and fucked up all over. Sounded like the whole exhaust system was about to explode, and it took about seven hours to get into second gear. Go figure. Yeah, I'm lucky I suppose.
I'm leaving it there until Monday since I won't have the money before then. Fuck. Now I've gotta worry more about rent. Everything else is done for the month, thank fuck.
I've put over $120 of gas in the van in less than two weeks. Fucker gets nearly half the mileage the Saturn does, which is another reason to love the Saturn - between 30-35 mpg on the highway.
Too bad I know fuck-all about cars, or I'd try to do some of the work myself. But I can't even operate a fucking can opener, so...
Fucking temp agency is worthless. They offered me a job yesterday that cuts into my hours on everything else, so I couldn't take it. That's all they've had this week. i told the music store last night to go ahead an open up Monday nights for lessons, but I'm not expecting much in the way of new people.
So, back out to find some part-time shit to supplement what I've got. I'm making around $50-60 a week less than I was before. It'w worth it to finally get into something that frees some time up and allows me to breath, but the downside is that I've gone from running my ass off with no time for anything, to having so much time on my hands I don't know what the fuck to do with it.
Well, I know now. Go find some more income, asshole.
Love,
Dougie