pouring rain

a quiet morning with the rain coming down, house silent, everyone sleeping...

my shoulder isn't feeling much better...

there was a cascade of events that kept saturday a rest day, and right now, with how the shoulder feels and the rain, it might be day two of rest.

walking through warren I thought i saw someone i haven't seen for 15 years, that's a long time, and I wasn't sure enough to walk up and ask until they disappeared somewhere. It was just a 'no couldn't be' kind of feeling that held action in check until it was too late.

that book place where they have faces is actually sort of almost drawing me in, only and mostly because my family uses it quite a bit... if nothing else keeping up with them more than I do now is sort of pushing the "maybe i should reconsider getting on there" debate in my head...

Rainy day should mean clean up and organize bike room. Certainly isn't conducive to helping hook up the tiller to the tractor and making mud soup of the soil. Nor is it good for crawling in and out under and over the passat.

but yesterday with the sun and the heat i managed to get a few minutes to check on why the sunroof isn't working. Was it a switch? A loose connection? Or is the motor really shot.

Motor is really shot. But there is a manual over-ride. So I put a small hole in the cover and now can stick the manual crank (5mm allen) through the hole and open and close the roof like my '81 rabbit or the '83 wasserbosser(sp) vanagon. Maybe there is a manual retrofit for real that can be done, but for now it is nice to have the sun roof functional!

Now to figure out where the water is going all of a sudden. It went at least a month if not more w/o needing a drop added, now suddenly - it is vanishing much faster. As bad as it sounds hopefully it will just suddenly gush out and the leak will be identified. There is still a bunch of oil on the three way hose and the other lower coolant hoses making it hard to tell if the shimmering is from oil or coolant. But it is one of those fun problems to solve. And yeah, I'm getting attached to this old wagon. A pretty damn cool car even if it is a bit quirky at the moment.

time to make some food for the girls who are slowly waking up...
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