Zen and the art of Cougar maintenance (pt 2)
The good news is the Coug’ is back on the road. The bad news is I could not fix it by myself. The thing with cars is that they crave attention. It was not enough that I walked 8kms too and from the tool shop, spent $60 on tools and parts and spent several hours wrenching out spark plugs, labeling wires and cleaning contacts. The Cougar wanted more, it wanted other people to be involved - so eventually I had to get in a pro.
Raff is my new best friend because he can come to my car and spend only 20 seconds diagnosing why it won’t start. Raff said it was the ignition module and I doubted him for a bit but went with his professional opinion. 30 mins and a new ignition module later, all I had to do is twitch the ignition key and the Cougar sprang to life again. Problem solved. So now I just have to find out where the oil is leaking from and why the car rumbles at speed. I do have to be careful how I use the phrase “rumble”, these days you can be sued for asking someone if they are in readiness for rumbling.
In other news I have now experienced Halloween in North America and at the same time I experienced an American football game. Well - technically it is Canadian football or CFL, but it is pretty much the same. A CFL game on Halloween generally goes like this:
- 4:00pm; buy a case of beer
- 4:20pm; start drinking said beers
- 5:00pm; start wrapping electrical tape around home made banger bomb
- 6:00pm; make way to the stadium
- 6:45pm; light the fuse of the bomb we made earlier and hurl that bad boy into an empty lot in downtown and then run whilst the car alarms up to 2 streets away go off.
- 7:00pm; arrive at stadium, proceed to buy more beer from authorised stadium beer tent
- 7:45pm - game end; drink beer and watch cheerleaders, maybe take notice who is winning every now and then
- Game end - ; drink much more beer, try to steal a school bus, get as far as starting it and then get rumbled and leg it, continue in this vein untill tired - proceed to sleep
A good night was had by all.
Finally - I have a job, I start on Wednesday working for Best Buy as a general web monkey for 2 months and maybe longer if I am a good monkey.
November 1st, 2004
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