4/27/12

Ok, I know I say this a lot but THIS HAS BEEN THE LONGEST FRIGGIN’ WEEK EVER‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼  It seems like months since we were at the muffler shop with Lil' Wiggly last Saturday.  On the plus side, the clutch hose I ordered left the Purolator Shipping depot in Not Texas this morning at 0521 h so hopefully it will be at the house when I get home.  So, my plan for the shop tomorrow will be to jack Lil' Wiggly up onto stands, again, and crawl under it to replace the hose and finger out what I did wrong with the adjustment.  With any luck, we’ll be driving Lil' Wiggly tomorrow afternoon.  Oh shit, I just remembered the windshield wipers.  Well, we won't need those until time for state inspection I guess.  Then again I could forego the “WIGGLY” license plates for some “vintage” plates and not have to get inspection at all.  I just filled out the form on line but for some reason it is not printing.  I wonder if I otter take that as a sign NOT to do it.  I also just asked John for his thoughts on the matter.  I'm pretty sure he’ll say to do it because it was his idea in the first place.  Well, somehow the form has locked the printer up.  I fucking hate computers.  I guess I won't be getting vintage plates after all.  Then again, John has said he will print out the form for me.  His advice was that the only downside is the loss of the personal plate.  He pointed out it is cheaper, and I won't have to get an inspection.  Had I done this a year and a half ago… nope, not going there.  What I think I'll do is use the hole in the dash where I currently have the wiper switch for the headlight/fuel-pump/radiator-fan bypass I mentioned last week.  Oh yeah, that will make it an easy “flash to pass” button as well.  Sure, using it in that manner will temporarily shut off the fuel pump and radiator fan while driving but it shouldn’t affect the car’s performance.  Now, will I “add lightness” by removing the wiper motor and all the rest of that stuff?  Hmm, probably.  I suppose the master kill for the battery could be “plumbed” to one of the resulting holes in the scuttle.  That would be a good idea on a race car but I don’t think I'll do it here.  No, I like the under hood master kill with perhaps a “primer” button to run the fuel pump and maybe a starter bump button as well.  I don’t know, I guess we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.  Ok, another thought crosses my mind.  With vintage plates, I'll only have a rear… um, plate.  Sorry, that sounded like the Austin Powers line, “Allow myself to introduce… my… self.”  I’m reminded of the statement Harrison Ford said about George Lucas’ scripts: “You can type these words, but you cannot say them.”  I'm guilty of several Lucasian slips from time to time, I must admit.  Anyhoo, I digress.  So, with only one license plate, I'm going to have to fill the gap in the front of the car in another manner.  I don’t want to run a bumper because I like the smooth look better.  I suppose we might be able to make a 1200 or 510 chrome bumper tuck in somehow.  I'll take a look at some of the ones we have out back to see if it is possible.  Holy crap, it is only 1100 h!  This has been a long assed morning.  Part of what has made the day, and the week for that matter, so long is that it is dead around here and I'm bored out of my skull.  Why didn’t I have anything to say in the rant all week?  Because I didn’t have anything to say, that’s why.  Anyhoo, Larry is also out sick so I can't even go hang out in the shuttle.  I've been sitting at my desk, goofing off, trying to think of ways to make “sitting at my desk, goofing off” sound productive in the weekly time report.  Ok, I guess I'm going to close this down for a bit and go… I don’t know, play solitaire most likely.  I may come back later in the day if I think of more to say.