A Day Off

Car Repair

Called in sick for work today . But halfway thru the morning was feeling much better and decided to have the car’s front suspension have its much needed check because of suspicious noises coming from the front under chassis. The mechanic said that both tie rods needed to be replaced. The sheet where the wheel gearbox is attached was patched up with acetylene. Shelled out about Php 2,200.00 for the repair. The job was over in less than 3 hours and the car was in good shape again. My car’s a 1977 K30 Toyota Corolla sedan . Not exactly uour kind of muscle car. But it still serves me and the family well, No trouble with the engine. Paint job is excellent, except for some irritating scratches probably made by some moron with nothing else to do with his life but pick on some helpless car on parking areas.


1969 BEACON

In the afternoon, I decided to help out the wife ( in the office right now) by cleaning up the bedroom. I bet she’ll be delighted.

The bedroom closet is a mess, with assorted debris (mostly my own) accumulated through the years. About 20 minutes sort later, I found my 1969 Beacon Yearbook (ATENEO) still in one piece, though the hardbound cover edges had been eaten by mice or ants or something. Funny how time flies, huh? I looked at my grade school class picture and remembered those familiar faces .Hey, that’s me ! I looked funny. But so did my classmate’s faces. Why do old pictures always looked funny and horrible?

Too bad no 1973 High School yearbook . It was the year of Marcos martial law and publication was prohibited then.

Got to go and continue with the cleanup. I guess I’ll scan some pictures from the yearbook and post it later.