My brakes have felt a little weird in the last couple of weeks. The ABS hits sometimes when I don’t expect it to (like one or two pulses sometimes in casual braking). When I braked hard it would hit ABS almost every time. Also in casual consistent braking, the braking pulsed a little and there was some squeaking. This has been happening for a while now.
Most recently, my brakes started getting really squishy and soft which is scary. When I got home last night I checked my brake fluid and it was very low. I added about a pint of DOT3 and pumped the brake pedal a bunch of times and it felt better this morning. I tried to take it to the mechanic to have it looked at but, the place I used last time (Northwest Automotive) can’t look at it until tuesday so I’m going to call Affordable Tire and Brake and see if I can get it looked at this weekend.
I’m thinking I’ve got a leak somewhere in the brake line or in the master cylinder somewhere. I might need new pads and rotors too. Hopefully I’m not out too much for the repair, but brakes are one of the systems in my car that I don’t want to worry about failing.
I didn’t die in Seattle or anything. It was a pretty fun weekend, the party at Shea’s was fun and Sunday was pretty lazy. The drive home was quick; I made it from exit to exit (U-District exit on i5 to mill plain exit on i205) in 2:04. That means I average 83mph, pretty damn fast. I could feel the difference with the new exhaust and muffler, more horse power means less slowdown going up hills means higher average speed = win.
I worked at home Monday because my camera was supposed to arrive and no one was around with the parents in the Caribbean. The DHL guy didn’t show up until 5:20pm, so I stayed home for nothing. Oh well. The camera is pretty tight. I’ve been messing around taking random pictures. I think I’ll get a lot more out of it this weekend…
…This weekend is Jim’s bachelor party. He’s getting married Aug. 18th so I had to have it some time. Right now the plan is to go to beer fest in Portland on Saturday then go to a hotel room and have a hotel party, optionally go to bars downtown afterwards. The current plan for Sunday is paint balling in the afternoon. Should be a pretty fun weekend 
edit: realized this is kinda long. Oh well if you’re not interested, don’t read it 
I had a fun and exciting birthday! Started out last night at the lan just kicking it with a bunch of random people then I went to sleep and woke up at noon. Adam called and we went to lunch at Red Robin. Our waitress announced to the whole restaurant that it was my birthday and then the all sang to me. It was pretty fun. After that I chilled in my room and watched a couple of episodes of house (I’m through ep 12 now). I was waiting to head out to Mr. Nething’s house for the previously scheduled BBQ (He called yesterday to set it up). It was Jim, Kira, Frank, Arlene, my Dad and I. It a very nice time especially due to the life of the party: Snickers and Scout (see previous video).
At the Net’s (Frank and Arlene’s house) we chit-chatted and had some nice hamburgers and the like and watched the dogs play with eachother and had a great time. Jim and Kira gave me some nice Guinness Glasses and a Guinness framed picture/poster thing to hang on my wall, pretty cool. Frank and Arlene got me a cake (see below) and it was super tasty.
My Dad and I left around 9:30 and headed home. My Mom got home around 11:00 and I opened my gifts. I got several nice pairs of shorts, a new polo shirt and an air conditioner for my room here in Vancouver. It’ll be a nice cool summer now!
My brother got me and exhaust for my S-10 that we had trouble with and had to replace. We ended up putting a Cherry Bomb glasspack muffler on there and it sounds super sexy. Once I get my new intake from chrome intakes it’ll be even better. High flow intake and low restriction muffler for better performance and gas mileage.
To add icing to the cake (pun intended) I got tons of phone calls, text messages, voicemail, aim messages and facebook wall-writes wishing me a happy bday. It’s nice to know so many people are thinking of me!
Overall I had a really fun birthday and was able to spend a lot of time with my family and friends.
I ordered a new intake for my s10 on June 19th. It is from an ebay store called chrome intakes. I haven’t received it yet so I gave them a call today to find out they haven’t even shipped it. He told me they were out of stock and that they just came back in stock today. It would have been nice for them to have told me that in the first place. Oh well, I’ll replace my intake and filter when it gets here (it needs it bad too :p)
The wonderful thing about ebay is that I’ll still leave the people positive feedback at the risk of them leaving me negative feedback. Don’t sellers know they’re supposed to leave feedback as soon as they recieve payment? Grrrrr. Such a flawed system.
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