Halp!

Okay car gurus- here is your chance.

The transmission is working again and appears to be working fine.  For the moment anyway.  Here is a list of its symptoms:

• Occasionally shifts from 1st to 2nd gear slightly rough.  Doesn’t jar teeth- just a touch rough.
• Does not slip at all in reverse or under a strain.  Shifts appropriately into passing gear as needed, gains speed going up steep inclines.
• Seems to jump out of gear mainly only when trying to maintain a lower speed like 25-45.  Then, it only does it when you are easing off or gently giving it the gas.
• By “jump out of gear” I mean- all the sudden, the engine revs up, take your foot off the gas and it goes into gear.
• No pattern as to the temperature outside, nor does it seem to matter how far it’s been driven.  Have had it happen within a couple of miles of start up, after 40 miles of driving, and sometimes not at all.

The fluid is full.  It doesn’t appear to be burned nor dirty.

Heh, it has 250,000 miles on it nearly.  It may very well be ready to be buried. (I get allllllll the goodie out of everything I own.  No need to get rid of something until it absolutely won’t work anymore.)

It’s supposedly a E4OD transmission- Ford 94 Econoline van.  I can’t find anything about anything older than a 95 having a E4OD transmission in it though.

I’ve gotten several different diagnoses from people who are supposed to know.

Person A.  The vacuum hose is sucking air.
Person B.  It doesn’t have a vacuum hose.
Person C.  If the transmission was really going out, you’d have more than occasional trouble out of it. (I will say when I had a vehicle that the transmission died on- it just up & croaked.  Pulled it into R an it didn’t budge.  Pulled it into 1, 2, & D and it didn’t go anywhere. )
Person D. Change fluid and filter.
Person E.  Don’t change the fluid!! It will die on you then!!!

The bottom line for all of them was- I can rebuild it for $2000.00.

I’d like someone with no interest in parting me with my money to give me an idea though.

Anybody?  Bueller?

FFS Part 934837

My boss has made my damned head nearly explode.

The thing he’s the least likely to understand is he came close to having his own exploded for him.

More later.

Oh and I’m pretty sure I have road rash on my butt.

More on that later too.

3 things I was certain would last forever

Death.

Taxes.

Billy Mays screaming commercials.

Guess I was wrong.

Supper, Southern Style (Almost)

Skipped the bread and cantaloupe was part of the meal…

Chicken, sauteed squash, broccoli, tomatoes, field peas with snaps, cantaloupe, and pound cake for dessert.

I pulled a Justin Wilson with the chicken.  Meant to add a few sprinkles of ground red pepper.  It was more like- Dash, dash, dash, hmm, dash, OOPS!  Let’s just say it put a little zest to the meal. 

Anyway, I am thankful to have airconditioning again.

And the husband put the bullets back in the Black Hawk.  Not sure why he took them out last night after the a/c went out, not sure at all…

YAY Cool Air!!!!

My a/c is patched up for the moment.  Seems the capacitor was dead, which was making the fan overheat.

My a/c guy was here at 8:30, but didn’t have a capacitor that fit.  Seems he replaced 5 just in the last couple of days.  So he “afro-engineered” several together to get us through the weekend until a new one comes in that is the correct size.

I love my a/c guy!

To the asshat who

keeps copy/pasting the comments of others, but adding the link back to naughty sites-

I know my regular commentors’ email addresses.  I know where they are coming from.  Your shit is going straight to the spam folder and being deleted.

So, quit wasting your time here.

Thank you & have a day.

Paint me putrid green and call me happy

The transmission went kaput.

The air conditioner blower just burned out.

My grandmother isn’t predicted to make it through the night.

I have $3.58 after bills until the next paycheck.

Life is fucking grand tonight.

Just briefly

Before heading out to parts unknown- fishing, tennis, who knows what…

I want to say I’ve never been as proud to have “normal” children as I am today.

My children most likely will not be the next Einstein, Kenny G, Farrah Fawcett, Dale Earnhardt, Michael Jackson or Britney Spears.

And I’m thankful for that.

My kids are normal, living normal lives and are seemingly quite happy & mentally balanced.

That beats fame and insane fortune any day of the week in my book and is what I consider a true blessing.

He is or he ain’t?

Well, there are reports here and there in reference to Michael Jackson’s medical condition.  Some say he’s died, some say he’s just had cardiac arrest.

Personally, I think he’s riding in the UFO with Elvis now.

Elvis doesn’t necessarily like it either…

Damnit all

I’m at work and there’s a message on the machine from a Georgia Health Care Partnership worker (those are the folks that control Medicaid here in Georgia).

Mrs. So & So has a toothache, she’s had it for a week.  She has to be seen TODAY.

Gives us Mrs. S0 & So’s phone number and her number, like her phone number means shit to me.

Would appear she’s on a 3 way call, because at the end she says-

Okay Mrs. So & So, that’s the best I can do.  If you can’t take it any longer, the best I can tell you is to, well I hate to tell you this, but you go to the emergency room if they can’t see you TODAY.

So when you wonder WHY these folks abuse the system like they do (other than just because they can), perhaps it’s because Medicaid folks are encouraging them to.

Call up Cigna, BCBS, Delta…ask them if you should go to the ER for a toothache.  They’ll tell you real quck you can go, but they sure as hell won’t be paying for it because it’s not an emergency.