All Shook Up

Two things have happened that have me all shook up.

1. Saturday night, as we left the Caltrain lot to head home after the Stanford game, the Rabbit stalled at the light. I thought I perhaps hadn't warmed it up enough, and thought nothing of it. But then yesterday, it died three times while idling on our way home from Safeway! Once at a light on a hill as I was trying to turn left, the second and third times as I tried to turn right at a stop sign. I'm crushed. I don't want to tell my dad about it because he's the one who got it fixed, and if it can't be fixed beyond this, then...

2. For the past couple of weeks, our landlady has been telling us she needs to raise the rents but keeps forgetting to send our letter. She said she forgot to put Belmont on the envelope. Last week, she said, "Everyone else has gotten their letter, but I need to give you yours. Will you be home Saturday?" I said no, because we were heading to the City. I figured, state law dictates 30-60 day notice for rent increases, depending on the percentage increase, so we won't have to pay more till November. Nope. Tonight we got home and sitting at our door was the letter. It's dated September 5 [still not 30 days] and the envelope has the stamp in the upper left hand corner, the return label in the right hand corner, and after our street address, she didn't even write the city, state, OR zip code! It's been postmarked but was stamped "undeliverable as addressed." You think? I want to write at the bottom of the letter [we need to sign and return it], "Please note that this letter was not delivered until September 24, less than 30 days before the increase is to take place," or enclose a copy of the page I found for California consumer affairs. But AC wants me to just write, "Letter received September 24" and let it go at that.

Thoughts? I'll likely stick with AC's plan, but wonder if I'm chickening out. She's usually nice to us and has even had us over to her house a couple of times.

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

GUESS WHO'S BACK?



SNUGLZ!!

Yes, 5 years since it was filed as planned non-operational status, the Wabbit is running again. It had been in our carport, till the owner of our building claimed the fire inspection said it couldn't be there [hmmm...maybe our using it as extra storage gave it away]. I planned to donate it, but couldn't bring myself to call them back to arrange an appointment. So little by little, my dad got it fixed. It needs a paint job due to little specks of rust here and there. And although AC complained that it would be a hassle, he's actually been having fun tweaking it. For example, the gas cap lock was busted [it's not uncommon for me to get back a working car with something different fucked up by my dad's mechanics. I suspect it's because he feels that they owe him favors just because he's their banker], as if someone tried to open it with the wrong key. So AC ordered a VW star-shaped one, along with a new wiper fluid pump and tube. Additionally, a long time ago, a friend of his messed up the inside passenger door handle, so AC took the panel off and fixed that, too!


Then AC noticed that you can fold down the passenger seat for more cargo room, and he decided he needed to know how to do that...

I took the two pictures above through the trunk.

So far, we've driven it to San Mateo, and to the train station a few times. I'm scared it will overheat, so I'm taking baby steps, which AC finds totally amusing. The radio is even better than the one in the Corolla--it's a Kenwood CD player with three different 6-station FM presets.

Too bad I can't make the LRP BBQ--it would have been funny to drive up in this car!