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The Black Knight Cometh

When we were kids, James and I would play for hours and hours with our Lego bricks. One of our imaginary characters were Black Knight and White Knight, leaders of a motley band of adventurers who roamed the land, besieged and defended castles, fought dragons, and other such things you would do in the fantasy land of kids.

Several years ago he got a white Nissan Sentra B13 and soon after I also got a white Nissan Sentra B14, our White Knights. Two years or so back, he shifted to a black Honda City while my White Knight soldiered on. But today, after a long wait, I finally got my own Black Knight, a Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T BK! Yay’s the word!

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What A Difference A Day (Or Two) Makes

During workdays, I often have to drive Michelle to her office then proceed to my office. At the end of the day, I pick her up before proceeding home. That means I spend about 4 hours per day driving! In a month that would be around 100 hours or more than an astounding 4 days! That’s a major loss! You only have a fixed amount of time and can’t get any back. If the time I spend driving can be cut down even by half, I’d have 2 full days per month of my time back. Time better spent with Jeanne, for example. Or learning iPhone programming. Or even just sleeping! If that’s not justification for another car, I don’t know what is!

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Driving With A Cold

Michelle had to go to this funeral cum get-together with friends (in this country, practically everything is a social event) so I had to drive and drop her off so she can go to the funeral while I then went on to take Jeanne to the in-laws. Would have been a breeze except that I got bitten by a nasty bug, probably during the holidays, and it’s rearing it’s ugly head. Normally colds would just be sniffles or a congested nose at worst but this one gave me a fever and a bad headache. When we got to the in-laws I had to babysit Jeanne for an hour or so before I got a chance to lie down. I didn’t know who’s been lying on the bed nor what they did but at that point I couldn’t care less. Lying down never felt so good!

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Holiday Travel Blues Part 2

We were on my Dad’s truck halfway on the way from Iligan to the airport in Cagayan De Oro when we smelled fuel fumes. James took a look at the engine temp gauge and it was high so we pulled over and opened the hood. The engine was smoking so we suspected a cooling system problem right away.

We opened the radiator cap (which was breaking apart) and found little water in the radiator. There was water in the overflow reservoir but it was muddy. We added water from James’ water bottle into the radiator and immediately it started trickling to the ground. We checked for a leak and found a 2-inch gash on the radiator hose!

My dad asked for some rubber strips from a nearby vulcanizing shop. He also learned that there’s an auto supply shop just a bit ahead. We patched up the gash best we could. We then asked for some clean water from a kind lady at a nearby house and filled up the radiator. The water seemed to be holding so we went off to look for the auto supply shop.

After a few minutes of driving, we still didn’t see the auto supply shop so we pulled over at a roadside store and asked for direction. A guy there said there’s indeed an auto supply shop a bit further along but since it is a Sunday, it is closed. He offered to take a look at the problem.

We found out our patch worked loose and the water was trickling down again. But it looked like the guy got some auto repair  experience: He removed the hose with the intent of patching it up better. He found out that the leaking portion can actually be cut off and still be long enough. So that’s what he did, reinstalled the hose, off we went to the airport, and got there just in time.

Now that’s twice lucky!

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Gymkhana

Completed downloading and watching all three Ken Block Gymkhana videos (Watch them here, here, and here). I actually saw the third one first, at a DC Shoes in Eastwood. Ken Block and his Monster Energy Ford Fiesta are awesome! Makes you wanna go get a Ford Fiesta yourself. Now if only there’s a Wide Body Kit and the R2 Rally Kit here.