The Blue Whale Dies.

The Blue Whale is dead! I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO WRITE ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!! Wow. So, it's a funny story...

The Blue Whale has been under some major repairs and renovations for the past...9 months or so. But really more so in the past 2 months, because that's when I've had some money to make said repairs. The Highway and his buddy Fly decided they are capable men who were willing to undertake such a projects as trying to fix a 30 year old STATION WAGON. We are talking an old, old station wagon. The kind that weighs about 8 tons and is made entirely of steel.

In all honestly, The Blue Whale has technically been road ready for the 9 months --  meaning that I *could have* started it up and I *could have* driven it somewhere if need be. But it was just easier to drive The Highways car, as it is not 8 tons and doesn't take about 10 gallons of gas to drive a mile to the grocery store.

Some issues the Blue Whale had:

• In need of a new muffler
• some alleged collaborator problems
• could have used some new break pads

This last little gem is a little something we found out the hard way. Or, should I say The Highway found out the hard way. In this case, the "hard way" was rolling backwards in a 8 ton steel death trap car down a hill with a giant cliff at the bottom... The good news is that it turns out The Highway's time spent in the Army was good for one thing: it taught him the importance of the "tuck and roll" method of escape, which is what he needed to do as he was in the driver's seat of a car that was heading backwards off a cliff.


A vid of the tow-out:

* yes, I know the vid isn't working right now. No, I do not know how to fix it...

A pic to tide you over:

One of the greatest things about this car is I bet I could put the keys in the ignition and it would start right back up... INDESTRUCTIBLE, this thing! Also, please note the fence it torn down on it's way over.

Hot Wheels.

I'm having flashbacks of living in Maya tonight. I have been without a car for ONE WEEK, and tonight I am sitting here in from of the computer because...out of gas, out of road, out of car (name that tune!). I'm thinking about walking down to Calypso because N is working, but the risk of being run off the road/victim of a pedestrian hit and run/having my body found in the mangroves makes me think twice about it. But, not eliminate the option completely....For now, tonight I am becoming a seasoned Torrent downloader. I really want to watch Party Girl, but it's taking ages to download. Times of silence such as these kinda make me wonder like, uhhhhhhhh, what did i actually do before The Highway was around, and I was alone all the fracking time? (Probably work on my thesis. *ba-dah-ching!*)

I missed my class tonight due to the car situation. The car "situation" is that my keys have been lost since THURSDAY. Luckily (?), I really was sick this weekend, which made it easier to call in sick to work, since I wasn't *technically* lying about it. Nevertheless, I still fell like a loser. Out of desperation, I tried to Skype into my class tonight and when my ADVISER answered my frantic Skype call to the classroom computer, my pathetic face popped up in the video and I realized I was wearing a strapless top which means it looked like I was calling in the nude. :(  *sigh* Humiliating. Maybe funny tomorrow. We will see.

The Blue Whale. On vacation until I find the keys :(