Letting go.

I am going to make myself go to bed.

It is 2:20 a.m., and I am freaking out. I noticed today that someone had managed to get the locking lug nuts off Vincent's wheels. I meant to go to Pep Boys and get another set, but I had some Medical TMI and spent the after laying down more or less, after I picked up David from his day camp.

I remembered late enough to make a dash for it, but I couldn't find the Pep Boys and arrived at the Kragen Auto Parts just as they were locking up. No luck.

So now I am sitting here afraid to go to bed because if I do the potential thieves will strip off Vincent's custom wheels. Except that chances are they could strip the wheels even if I were awake, as long as I was not sitting out at the car.

As of ten minutes ago, the wheels were still there.

I have. got. to. go. to. bed. I am driving to Coalinga tomorrow. I need to be in good shape for that.

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Damn iTunes. Damn Pixar.

Every time I really really want a song off a Pixar movie, it is album only on iTunes. So yeah, "Life is a Highway" was good, and I got it, but why the hell can't I buy John Mayer's version of "Route 66"?

*pout**pout*

And let's not get into Sarah McLachlan and "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2.

Brought to you by my inner three year old.

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Vincent's* wheels are still there. I did not really get to bed until after four, and then I got up a couple of times after that because I could have sworn I heard someone in the front driveway. So I got maybe three hours sleep.

Definitely have to go to Pep Boys today.



*Vincent is a black mid 90s Mustang convertible my husband bought off of eBay a couple of years ago. It's like an old racehorse: pretty to look at, still goes pretty fast, breaks down a lot.

My husband calls the car Vincent because it is black, vaguely sinister looking, and with a mysterious past. I call the car Vincent because it keeps trying to kill itself.

The saga continues....

I was driving back from Stanford today when a man pulled up next to me and said "Lady, your front wheel is either bent or so loose it's about to come off!" Given what's been going on, I suspect the latter.

Thing is, it was driving fine yesterday. And this morning, Kevin told me he though that some of the lug nuts on the now loose tire looked looser -- a notion I pooh-poohed after looking at and feeling them. I guess I owe the boy an apology. He has really sharp eyes.

GEICO will not send road service out to tighten the tire lug nuts until I can find the key to the remaining locking lug nuts (one of which is still in the loose tire). I don't know where it is, and brian1789 is out of the country.

*headdesk**headdesk*

Meantime, I leave in ten minutes for Coalinga.

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More details of things later, but I just want to say for the record that my friend Jennifer is a Hero of the Revolution and a jolly good sport.

Question...

Can I tighten the lug nuts on the Mustang without jacking up the car?

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karenbynight and princeofwands just left, having dropped by to check the lugs nuts on the Mustang for me.

Turns out they weren't loose -- although the locking lug nuts in the rear were missing, both of them -- so maybe the wheel is bent. In any case, now that I know that the wheel is not going to come off, I can drive it somewhere to have it looked at. (The rear locking lug nuts have been replaced, as I had the foresight to stop at the auto parts store on my way home from Coalinga.)

Or maybe not. I now have the van back.

I have music! I have air conditioning!