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april 10 2009

april 8 2009

Oh SNAP I’m a happy explorer again; I picked up the studio at the end of the day.

And as luck would have it (well it is the 8th of the month) Dave the owner said it wasn’t the whole clutch that needed replacing but just the clutch cable; that’s half the price.   Then he gave me a 12 item list he’d made me of things that will need to be done soon, itemized in priority of urgency.  

So off I went and promptly got lost in Etobicoke.  And that’s how I accidentally found Woodbine Racetrack. 

If you’re like me and have never bet on a horse here’s what you do: go up to the second floor, look for the guy in the little booth and get him to help you put $20 on the horse with the best name.  

Top left is ‘Everything Zen’ hoofing it around the track, and top right is my winning ticket; he came in second.  I was SO pumped to take that ticket to the cashier where I proudly exclaimed, “I won SIX bucks”.  Oh and apparently Wednesday nights are the time to come in the summer… live racing and lots of young people.

april 7 2009

From downtown, to the east end to pick the studio, to way out to Etobicoke to drop it off, then a long subway back to downtown. 

That’s my CAA driver Shawn, nicest tow truck driver ever.  He let me play his new PSP and even took me on a detour when I mentioned in passing Canada’s only centrifuge was around where we were. 

Turns out it’s in the decommissioned Downsview military base where he said they had installed giant pools of water on the rooftops to fool enemy planes flying overhead: “hmmm, nothing worth investigating below, just some old ponds”. 

The name of my new autobody shop is awesomely named “Auto Shop”.  I’d link up their website but they don’t have one, instead click here.  They specialize in VWs and seem unaffected by my clutch woes; I get to pick it up tomorrow.

april 3 2009

90 seconds off the highway I’m waiting to turn left when my clutch, it just gets sucked into the engine and that’s that.  

Top left is what it looks like when my car is being pushed down the road by my friend and another guy who came out of now where to help him; so Canadian eh!  On the right is something that appears broken.  

Now it’s stuck in a parking garage and I’m immobile and my world just got sooooo small.