I spent the past two and a half days helping K and his dad put my car back together after we ripped it apart.

Remember the story about how the car decided to hunker down and sleep for a bit in the road? Yeah...

Out came the transmission, the axles, the tires, the catalytic converter, the air filter and everything it sits with, and finally the clutch.

There are four springs inside a clutch. They're pretty hefty springs. What had caused my problem was that one of the springs had broken into two pieces and lodged itself in the other springs. And they must have been bouncing around in there for awhile because not only where they flat as pancakes, but rubbed all the way down to a nice shiny reflective silver.

Long story short, the car is back together again and I finally got to drive her yesterday.

The main test drive is the trip to school today for precalculus. Oi, math. I'm doing okay in the class right now, but math is definitely not my favorite subject.

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In other news, my cell phone has died a mysterious death. It cannot make outbound phone calls without throwing up an error code and cannot receive incoming calls at all.

This figures for Sprint, if you ask me. I've had them for a service provider for four years now and I have never had one good experience with their customer service, billing, web-site, or even the phone. And since I only have two months left on my plan until I leave them for someone else...

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I'm taking dad out to putt-putt and then to dinner this weekend. Hopefully that morning Sam and I will be able to make it out to Mutt Strut - a doggie walk for benefiting some of our local dog organizations around here. If so, I'll have pictures to post!



BryM: If you can wake up and get to the Raleigh dog park by 8am - want to tag along for the Strut?