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*sigh* Definitely one of those days!
Dec. 7th, 2009 05:55 pmSo I sign on to work this AM and one of the managers is bitching at me for moving some databases and that he can't sign on to the system. He was trying to sign on to the wrong system. And I'm not sure he has the right software to sign on to the system he was trying to sign on to.
So I go down to Alamogordo to the university to get my account reactivated. Since I didn't take any classes in 2009, my account was turned off. I get re-enrolled, but it's going to take them a few days to catch up and reactivate me online. No biggie. So I go to the bookstore to see how much the book is going to cost me for a remedial algebra class that I need to take. $178. My wife, who has a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, never paid that much for a book.
So I go to the tire store to get two tires replaced. Back in August, I took my Toyota in for an oil change and my two rear tires had splits in the sidewalls. We replaced the rear tires immediately with the expectation that I'll replace the front tires in the winter. It's now winter, we've had about 4' of snow already and it was 3 degrees F when I drove down the mountain last Friday. So I go to the same dealer, different city, and he tells me the dealer in Las Cruces set me up with a pair of high-performance tires. A set of four tires that should be good in snow? About $550. Here's the kicker: I took Russet's new Subaru to the same dealer Friday to get the el cheapo factory tires swapped out with good tires, so they've gotten around $1300 from me four days.
So I'm heading home, and starting to drive up the mountain, when my tire pressure warning light comes on. I pull off to a gas station that has free air, pull out my tire gauge and check, and all four tires are at FIFTY PSI. That's almost 50% over-pressure. I called the tire guy and told him, I think the person who installed my tires had his pressure gauge set to metric, 50 PSI is 36 kilopascals, or something like that.
Some days it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints.
So I go down to Alamogordo to the university to get my account reactivated. Since I didn't take any classes in 2009, my account was turned off. I get re-enrolled, but it's going to take them a few days to catch up and reactivate me online. No biggie. So I go to the bookstore to see how much the book is going to cost me for a remedial algebra class that I need to take. $178. My wife, who has a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, never paid that much for a book.
So I go to the tire store to get two tires replaced. Back in August, I took my Toyota in for an oil change and my two rear tires had splits in the sidewalls. We replaced the rear tires immediately with the expectation that I'll replace the front tires in the winter. It's now winter, we've had about 4' of snow already and it was 3 degrees F when I drove down the mountain last Friday. So I go to the same dealer, different city, and he tells me the dealer in Las Cruces set me up with a pair of high-performance tires. A set of four tires that should be good in snow? About $550. Here's the kicker: I took Russet's new Subaru to the same dealer Friday to get the el cheapo factory tires swapped out with good tires, so they've gotten around $1300 from me four days.
So I'm heading home, and starting to drive up the mountain, when my tire pressure warning light comes on. I pull off to a gas station that has free air, pull out my tire gauge and check, and all four tires are at FIFTY PSI. That's almost 50% over-pressure. I called the tire guy and told him, I think the person who installed my tires had his pressure gauge set to metric, 50 PSI is 36 kilopascals, or something like that.
Some days it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints.
