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Look Ma, No Hands
Jun. 21st, 2014 12:34 amA haiku, poorly-composed, on the summer McJob:
If you buy flip-flops
Online via Amazon
Please go fuck yourself
The drive home Thursday morning was pretty terrific. About halfway through the drive, the sky started to brighten, and I watched the first light of the day fill the eastern sky, going from deep blue to light blue to a beautiful pink, and the arc of the sun was just rising above the horizon when I got to Mom&Dad's. Just lovely.
And 10 minutes later, I was back in my childhood bedroom and dead to the world.
The things you learn inadvertently. My Focus has two cooling fans, one slaved to the air conditioning system. Should that one fail, the A/C loses a lot of cooling capacity, and the radiator's fan has to take on the extra load. Note that my Focus is a wagon, with lots more glass in the cabin, and on hot sunny days, that cabin becomes a greenhouse. Now, for the most part, the intricacies of auto mechanics are beyond me. I could recharge the A/C on my Taurus, for example, and change the oil (if I had a place to dispose of the oil, that is, but since I don't, it's off to VIOC every 5K miles or so). For whatever reason, the low-pressure valve on my Focus' A/C system is located in the passenger-side forward wheelwell, as the handyman my dad hired and I found out. We also found out that the system isn't leaking refrigerant, so, yay. And the fan is okay, so more yay. The relay, however, has burned itself out. Were my Focus any other model, it would use an easily-acquired relay, but as a wagon (much much more common in European Foci than American), it uses a weird relay developed with, of all things, Volkswagen. So, hopefully tomorrow, new relay. And better cooling, both under the hood and in the cabin.
A quick note about the fellow Dad hired. This dude is darn near a stereotype. He's country as anything, wouldn't want to live anywhere but here, got through high school and did a two-year tech school run, and sweet Christmas, this dude knows his shit. All-around good guy, and he's flat busting his ass to overcome a slew of problems plaguing his family.
If you buy flip-flops
Online via Amazon
Please go fuck yourself
The drive home Thursday morning was pretty terrific. About halfway through the drive, the sky started to brighten, and I watched the first light of the day fill the eastern sky, going from deep blue to light blue to a beautiful pink, and the arc of the sun was just rising above the horizon when I got to Mom&Dad's. Just lovely.
And 10 minutes later, I was back in my childhood bedroom and dead to the world.
The things you learn inadvertently. My Focus has two cooling fans, one slaved to the air conditioning system. Should that one fail, the A/C loses a lot of cooling capacity, and the radiator's fan has to take on the extra load. Note that my Focus is a wagon, with lots more glass in the cabin, and on hot sunny days, that cabin becomes a greenhouse. Now, for the most part, the intricacies of auto mechanics are beyond me. I could recharge the A/C on my Taurus, for example, and change the oil (if I had a place to dispose of the oil, that is, but since I don't, it's off to VIOC every 5K miles or so). For whatever reason, the low-pressure valve on my Focus' A/C system is located in the passenger-side forward wheelwell, as the handyman my dad hired and I found out. We also found out that the system isn't leaking refrigerant, so, yay. And the fan is okay, so more yay. The relay, however, has burned itself out. Were my Focus any other model, it would use an easily-acquired relay, but as a wagon (much much more common in European Foci than American), it uses a weird relay developed with, of all things, Volkswagen. So, hopefully tomorrow, new relay. And better cooling, both under the hood and in the cabin.
A quick note about the fellow Dad hired. This dude is darn near a stereotype. He's country as anything, wouldn't want to live anywhere but here, got through high school and did a two-year tech school run, and sweet Christmas, this dude knows his shit. All-around good guy, and he's flat busting his ass to overcome a slew of problems plaguing his family.
