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I'm watching youtube videos on how easy it is to change the sparkplugs on my car. Step three is "remove the engine mounting bolts so we can lift the engine up a bit."
ugggghhhhh I made an appointment to have someone else do this on Monday and was thinking well maybe I should just do it myself and save $200...

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threemeninaboat went off to a job interview this morning. I was sitting in the garage working on the Spitfire as she drove away. Her car makes a fairly distinctive sound, very growly, and as it drives off into the distance the sound sort of subsides into a dull rumble like a bunch of bowling balls rolling down wooden stairs.
Well, it kind of kept going. Only instead of sounding like a bunch of bowling balls, it sounded like one bowling ball. Being pushed somewhat furtively, down one stair at a time.
So I came inside, and found Monty, who has learned that she can pull the tablecloth off the table and all the stuff on the table will then fall on the floor.
She had eaten an entire box of dried apricots by the time I got there. That's about a kilogram of apricots. She seems very happy.