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like a four-cylinder Harley Davidson
Saturday, November 11 2017
After Saturday morning coffee, I braved the cold and obdurate rust to install the new battery in the Subaru. The old one had especially crusty terminals. I don't know what is in that white powder that forms there, but my sense is that it is probably toxic and bitter (if one were to, god forbid, put it in one's mouth). I started up the Subaru so it would be warm when I later took it for a spin. The makeshift fixes I'd made earlier this summer to the rotting pipes of its exhaust system no longer appear to be doing the job; it sounds like shit again. These days I don't like driving cars that draw attention to themselves, and this things sounds like a four-cylinder Harley Davidson.
With the Subaru once more working, I took the dogs on a drive out to the Tibetan Center thrift store (where I found nothing I wanted) and then out to the Home Depot, mostly to buy short (3 inch) half-inch galvanized lag bolts. I'd realized that the somewhat longer 4 inch lag bolts I'd bought the other day were actually 3/8 lag bolts, which is a bit under-spec for my needs. Also, at 4 inches, they were running into some undrillable layer (probably concrete) in the wall. 3 inches seemed likely to work better. I would've also bought a number of 12 foot two by eights, but there were none in a place where I could load them into a cart, so I kicked that can down the sidewalk of life for another day. Conditions were still miserably cold, and I for one was happy not to be strapping long pieces of wood to the roof of the Subaru.
We'd changed to standard time since I'd last driven the Subaru, so I was going to have to figure out how to change the time on the dashboard clock even if the battery hadn't been changed (thereby losing the time completely). The interface for that thing is pretty simple; one just rotates a little stem left or right, and I both re-learned how to do it and did it during a brief stop at a traffic light.
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