I hate cars.
I wonder if it’s still too late to finish carriage training Donna. (Donna is the horse that I saddle broke and started carriage training at my gma and gpa Walker’s farm. She’s still there but it’s been several years now since I’ve been on her back.)
The maintenance manual said that it was time to replace the sparkplugs on my car again. First, I tried to do it on my own since the plugs themselves are easy to get at in the front of the engine right under the hood. I bought the plugs that were required for my car and opened the hood. I couldn’t get the wires off….KB couldn’t get the wires off….so I took it to the mechanic instead. They got the wires off and found that they were disintegrating and that I needed new wires as well as the plugs I was expecting. I also needed to replace the fuel and air filters as well as the valve cover for the gasket (oil leaks are bad and I’ve had one for a while now). The price for what started as a “routine” maintenance checkup and replacement is going to be ~$332. Now my tummy feels ill, and KB is the one at the doctor….
…The eye doctor that is. He broke his glasses frames about a year and a half ago and with BGEA he finally has a good enough medical coverage plan to get a checkup. He scheduled an appointment for today and called me telling me that he had some problems with one of the tests that they were doing. They were checking the pulse in his eye and he had a very bad reaction to it. Now he’s getting new glasses.
On a somewhat happier note, I’m looking forward to going to mom and dad’s this weekend. I just hope that the weather isn’t too bad while we’re traveling.
neumatikos 
Turns out they were testing my “eye pressure,” which usually means nothing to most people, but it can cause some people, usually men, to faint. I didn’t faint. But barely avoided throwing up.
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