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Days off, stuff done and miles driven
Jun. 5th, 2008 10:27 pmI took today off work to get a few "during the day" errands accomplished.
This was supposed to start with getting Emily over to the exhaust shop to have new exhaust tips installed. When I went out to the garage though I found her left rear tire flat. Fortunately I had a spare of the same size so it was 5 minutes work to swap it over.
Then I drove her over and waited about two hours for them to squeeze her into their bust schedule and do the tips. During that time I got a lot of reading done (I don't understand how other people can sit and wait without a book). After that I stopped at Mustangs Unlimited in my ongoing search for two more 14" wheels for her, they were sadly unhelpful. Then I stopped at the Time Machine hobby shop and someone managed to get out of there without buying piles of pretty copper & brass stock for theoretical projects.
After dropping Emily at home I picked up Box and went over to Avery's Soda to return empties and buy yet more soda.
From there I headed out to Ulster Park NY to pick up a set of tires & rims for Box. These are the stock tires & steel rims, and they had about 5K miles on the and were selling for $160 (a set of new tires alone go for $300+). I decided to go the back roads way and trucked out mostly on route 4 and back mostly on route 44. It was a pretty drive and I stopped to take lots of pictures (they start here). Even more amazing was according to my scanguage I averaged over 45mpg(!) for the 200mile trip. Between the back roads, many stops and long trip the whole drive took me from 2pm to 8:30pm.
Tomorrow after work I get to do a thrash-fest to get Emily ready for autocrossing Sunday, and get myself ready for my cousin's wedding Saturday.
This was supposed to start with getting Emily over to the exhaust shop to have new exhaust tips installed. When I went out to the garage though I found her left rear tire flat. Fortunately I had a spare of the same size so it was 5 minutes work to swap it over.
Then I drove her over and waited about two hours for them to squeeze her into their bust schedule and do the tips. During that time I got a lot of reading done (I don't understand how other people can sit and wait without a book). After that I stopped at Mustangs Unlimited in my ongoing search for two more 14" wheels for her, they were sadly unhelpful. Then I stopped at the Time Machine hobby shop and someone managed to get out of there without buying piles of pretty copper & brass stock for theoretical projects.
After dropping Emily at home I picked up Box and went over to Avery's Soda to return empties and buy yet more soda.
From there I headed out to Ulster Park NY to pick up a set of tires & rims for Box. These are the stock tires & steel rims, and they had about 5K miles on the and were selling for $160 (a set of new tires alone go for $300+). I decided to go the back roads way and trucked out mostly on route 4 and back mostly on route 44. It was a pretty drive and I stopped to take lots of pictures (they start here). Even more amazing was according to my scanguage I averaged over 45mpg(!) for the 200mile trip. Between the back roads, many stops and long trip the whole drive took me from 2pm to 8:30pm.
Tomorrow after work I get to do a thrash-fest to get Emily ready for autocrossing Sunday, and get myself ready for my cousin's wedding Saturday.
