In which victory attends us

[rolanni]

Got the September sublet in Archers Beach Old Orchard Beach. YAY!

The garage had originally quoted a price to replace the muffler just one point south of Five Bills, but! When I got to the shop to pick up Binjali (two minutes shy of closing time, thanks to Steve’s expert driving and knowledge of back roads), the bill was for half of that, because the front pipe was able to be re-used. YAY!

OTOH, Binjali failed inspection. Needs to get outfitted with a new pair of back tires inside of two weeks, and try again. Sigh.

On the way home from The South, we stopped at Target and scored chairs for the new, covered deck, on sale! YAY!

Came home and watched Tin-Tin, which was just a touch slow in the middle, but enjoyable overall, so — YAY!

Which makes four YAYs and one Sigh; according to our Rating System — a Very Good Day.

Today is catch-up-on-all-kinds-of-crazy-things day, including a blog post about writing stuff.

See you later.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[psw456.livejournal.com]

Four YAYs to one sigh is an excellent ratio in anybody's system. So glad to hear you got the September sub-let. You guys deserve a vacation.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well...not *exactly* a vacation. I have two Carousel Tides books to write, both of which are set in an-only-slightly-alternate Old Orchard Beach....

New Tides books

[bobbie marcus (from livejournal.com)]

and we shall await them with contained excitement.

Re: New Tides books

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

What she said!

[bearddevil.livejournal.com]

That's the bad part about Subaru - when you need to replace a tire, you need to replace ALL The tires, lest your center differential explode. As per usual with all car stuff, though, your mileage may, in fact,vary. Awesome that they could re-use the midpipe, though.

Speaking "Archer's Beach", I am seriously looking forward to the continuing adventures occurring thereabouts.

Tires

[draconis1234.livejournal.com]

Two on the back or front, Tires Plus are good. :)

Re: Tires

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll buy a pair. Tire Warehouse is having a sale!

Tires

[margaret thomson (from livejournal.com)]

5/5/2012
You're lucky that they were able to re-use the front pipe, and thus keep your bill down.

Last year, my '95 Subaru Legacy station wagon needed a catalytic converter and a part for one of the front tie rods replaced. Cost was well over ten bills. That's the problem with Subaru cars. they don't nickle and dime you do death as my two previous GM cars did, but when they do need a part replaced, you're likely to have to dig deep into your pocket. Still, they are very reliable.