Friday "If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home" Random 10+

[drpaisley]

Still recuperating from Renovation, plus the usual (or not) entertainments of the week. These included the battery in my car dying* and a short power outage due to dead branches blowing out the fuse on the pole (not several euphemisms). Working on a Reno report, including The Big Reception and cracking Scalzi and Silverberg up (seperatly). But for now, back to the music.


1) The Lions And The Cucumber, Manfred Hubler & Siegfried Schwab

2) Biko, Peter Gabriel (Orpheum Theater, Boston, Mass. July 8, 1980)

3) Tall Cool One (Extended Version), Robert Plant

4) Rough Knuckles, Supergrass

5) Thank God It's Not Christmas, Parenthetical Girls

6) The Loved One, INXS

7) Feed the Fire, The Cracker Cats

8) Vampire, Pink Mountaintops

9) Come Together, Invisible

10) Suite III Overture, Janelle Monáe


plus


11) The Richest Kids, This Is Ivy League

12) Black Eyes, Shearwater

13) L.A. Getaway, Joel Scott Hill


Other than ramping up the PR work for Chicon 7 (join now! Memberships go up at the end of September!), the only scheduled activity for the weekend is the Ralphie Fantasy Football League draft on Sunday. Can the Romosexuals rebound from last year's horrible record? We'll find out. And while there is the Baconfest on Saturday, I can't afford the $45 entry fee, or even the $10 to enter the bacon eating contest, which I most assuredly would win. Such is life.

*Made more fun by the placement of the battery, which requires the removal of a tire to access. Nice job, Dodge!

Comments

[nkcmike.livejournal.com]

>of the battery, which requires the removal of a tire to access.

I had a mechanic tell me that too, but it turns out not to be the case. You can get to the battery from the top by removing a couple of other pieces (that are less problematic than removing the whole front right wheel). I've seen a guy get in there that way two different times.

[tully01.livejournal.com]

In my old Caravan (recently traded in) with the tranverse-mounted V-6 the shop manual says you had to remove a wheel and the wheel panel behind it to put on either of the two main belts. When the shop man told me that I laughed and told him no, you could do it with one person with just the hood open. He bet me an oil change I was wrong, so I showed him how and got a free oil change. Took me ten minutes or so as compared to an hour or more for all the "access" work. I've even done it on the side of the road in the rain when the belt slipped off the tension arm from moisture.

[sermelt.livejournal.com]

Isn't it ? I got home to a load of fun stuff like that too.

Good_Times