{"id":104,"date":"2005-04-07T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/thems-the-brakes-a-long-walk-and-a-cold\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T14:16:00","slug":"thems-the-brakes-a-long-walk-and-a-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/thems-the-brakes-a-long-walk-and-a-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"thems the brakes, a long walk, and a cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brakes have been squeeling for the past few week or so &#8211; and I finally went to get them fixed yesterday.  Pulled into Midas, went inside, and the guy behind the counter remarked, &#8220;So, you need your brakes worked on?&#8221; &#8211; since he had obviously heard me pull in.  I was slightly embarassed about that &#8211; but hey, it&#8217;s his job to notice things like that.<\/p>\n<p>They were really busy yesterday and shorthanded, so he asked if I could leave the car there.  I thought for a moment and then agreed, since it was a reasonable walking distance home.  I gave him the keys and walked homeward, stopping briefly at the comic store to get some reading material.  I got home, played a video game &#8211; waiting for the call from Midas and hoping they could fix it that day.  Otherwise, I&#8217;d have no way to work today.<\/p>\n<p>They finally called at 6:30, said the full crew was there, and they should have it done at 5 till 7:00.  I told them I&#8217;d be there and headed out &#8211; wondering why the odd time.  In route I figured they maybe they closed at 7:00 and I had visions of finding the place shut down and my car locked in one of the bays.  I hustled a little and got there at 3 till 7:00 &#8211; and my car was still in the bay, still up on the hoist, and the rear tires weren&#8217;t back on.   So, I sat and waited for a bit while they finished up, took the car for a test drive, and handed me the keys &#8211; after I paid a boatload of money.  Brake pads, rotors, and cleaning.  Yikes.  My car is running fine now, I just can&#8217;t afford to put gas in it. <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve officially got a cold.  I usually have a mild sniffle most of the winter that gets slightly worse when the temp changes, but this is a full blown cold.  Sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuff head, and maybe a feaver.    So, I&#8217;m drinking a lot of tea and slowly filling my garbage can with tissues. <\/p>\n<p>I organized my art supplies a bit this week &#8211; with an eye toward some new projects.  I&#8217;ll update my site when I get some things done and photographed.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think that&#8217;s it for now &#8211; time to get back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-111288450318125673?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brakes have been squeeling for the past few week or so &#8211; and I finally went to get them fixed yesterday. Pulled into Midas, went inside, and the guy behind the counter remarked, &#8220;So, you need your brakes worked on?&#8221; &#8211; since he had obviously heard me pull in. I was slightly embarassed about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}