grindmonkeh

This movie looks really good: Moon.

The 4th of July was rain-filled and anti-climactic, but Bran and I had a chance to spend some time with WhoreLearn and Julia at Victory Field while we absorbed the scenery until the game was called. We exchanged our tickets for the August 5th game, the Indianapolis Indians (Pittsburgh Pirates) against the Charlotte Knights (Chicago White Sox). ...So we'll reconvene our brat-eating and b.s.'ing at that time with perhaps some baseball to spectate.

I picked up a '95 Jeep YJ a week ago on Sunday, and managed to blow the brake-line on Wednesday after a couple hundred miles of driving at extremely boring intensity. I pulled/cut the corroded brake-line out on Thursday evening and installed the new one on Friday morning. With a cookout to attend Friday evening, the trip to Indianapolis on Saturday, and a ride planned with my friend Tom on Sunday, I put off bleeding the air out of the brake system until Sunday evening. This seemingly simple task spiraled into the throes of adversity when I attempted to loosen up the bleeder-valve and it sheared right off in my socket. My neighbor happened to walk over to ask me to look at his pc as I was lying on the garage floor staring at it stupidly, so he went home and got his set of EZ-Outs. That's when I sheared his EZ-Out off in the sheared-off bleeder valve. If there was anyway possible, then I would have broken something else trying to remove the sheared-off EZ-Out...I called it a night instead. Now I have to pick up a wheel-cylinder for the brake-drum and swap that out so the system has a good bleeder-valve. I'm picking one up after work and deciding if I want to tear anything else up or pay someone else to make my problems go away.

I should mention that the previous owner mentioned as a selling point that his son-in-law had recently rebuilt the rear brake system. He must not have felt the need to replace the corroded lines, and his son-in-law must have thought that bleeder-valve needed torqued down like a motherfucker.