NWS says we could get up to 5 inches of snow by Tuesday. Just when I started to get some miles on the bikes. I've heard predicting snow is the most difficult job in all of weatherdom. The weather dorks have been off all this winter when it comes to snow accumulation predictions for the cities. Here's hoping they're wrong one last time.
In other crappy news, the wipers on Crapmobile are broken again, after spending $190 to get them fixed the first time. They are not stuck in the hillbilly "up" position in the middle of the windshield this time. Remember in the good old days when you turned on your wipers and they would both sweep up going to the left and back down down to the right? GM thought it would be cool if they had the wipers on this piece of garbage work in opposite directions. Driver's side sweeps up to the left, passenger side sweeps up to the right. But what may look cool to GM engineers is not be easy to execute, at least for those morons. TOYH used the wipers the other day and they got caught on each other. This threw them out of synch and the nut holding the driver's side loosened up and the wiper stopped working completely. Simple fix I thought, tighten the nut and we're good to go. Not so easy. As I was trying to get them to work in tandem, they kept getting caught on each other. Finally the passenger side wiper, caught on the driver's side wiper, bent the blade so that the top tip of the blade was touching the windshield, and the top third of the blade was bent in an upside down "U" shape while the bottom two thirds was touching the windshield. This gave me an idea. Why not take the blade and bend it back the other way? Voila. Now we just have a wiper that resembles Dilbert's necktie. And please dear reader, if you happen to meet or know an engineer from GM, please slap them. Hard. Multiple times.
In non-crappy news, last night we dumped the kids off on the Dreadful Man (well that's not entirely true he wants the company as long as Evil Grandmother is rehabbing) and we went to an actual dinner party. The party was thrown by 4 of TOYH's clients in celebration of her getting a new job. Kristi and Jodi hosted the party and Mark and Valerie, who live across the street from K & J provided the food. Well, Mark provided the food. It was delicious. The company was fabulous. It's been a while since I've laughed that hard.
Oh, and the final tally of miles not driven in the car this week.....117.
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