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I present to you a set of circumstances:

(1) My car is in the shop for minor issues.

Turns out there’s a rust/gunk buildup around the brakes in the rear wheels causing an annoying wub-wub noise and some shaking at high speeds.

There’s also an electrical issue, but the garage ran an AVR test and all base vehicle components (battery, alternator, etc.) are operating properly. They believe the issue is in the aftermarket cable feeding my aftermarket amplifier, or maybe it’s my aftermarket stereo. ‘Aftermarket’ in this context is a keyword substitute for “not our problem, sir”.

Now that I know it’s not a power system issue, I can work on tracking it down myself.

Anyways, my car goes into the shop last night, it’s ready for me this morning.

This would not normally be a problem because MaHunnybear has a car, too, and she can help me with a ride.

(2) Some of my colleagues are going to be late getting into the office this morning.

Instead of picking my car up in the morning I postpone it to this afternoon so I can be at my desk nice and early.

This would not normally be a problem because MaHunnybear leaves in time to get to her own office at 08h00 (which is, due to an awesome coincidence, in a completely different company just downstairs from my own).

(3) Instead of being a nice plus ten degrees as last weekend and is predicted for this weekend, it’s freezing out and there’s snow all over.

The sort of snow you’d expect to see in January.

This would not normally be a problem because MaHunnybear and I both have cars to get us where we need to go. If one is down, the other can help, right?

You can sense a trend forming here by now, yes?

(4) So on the way into work, we decide to stop at a gas station. She turns the car off. When she tries to start it again, nada.

The kind of nada that makes your eyes go a bit wide, makes your heart sort of sink as you try again, and nothing happens.

This would not normally be a problem because again, we both have cars and normally if she gets stuck I can help, and vice versa. Right? Right.

(5) So we ask a guy with a truck for a jump.

Maybe she just needs more juice. We have cables in the trunk. He pulls up, we exchange words about the beautiful weather, we hook up the jumpers.

Now she cranks and she turns over, but she don’t catch.

See Item 4, final paragraph.

(6) We call CAA.

Due to Item 3, the wait time is 3 hours.

I am intimately familiar with the inventory of a certain gas station at a certain intersection somewhere between my home and work. Should you be in need of a flashing spinny top (”LET ME SEE WHO IS FAST OR LONG TIME WINNER”), a bottle of Stewart’s Lime or a Gladhand connector for your tractor-trailer rig, I can guide you.

EPILOGUE
All is not as bad as I make it sound in my little story.

For one, the CAA truck showed up sooner than expected. Turns out he did have two calls before us on his list, but he decided, since they were at home sippin’ coffee in their comfy chairs and we were freezing our hineys in the snow at a gas station, that he’d visit us first.

And by “hineys” I do NOT mean the nice beer in the green bottle, m’kay?

And anyways, on the drive in - before we got stuck, I mean - we saw a car sitting in the snow in a ditch on the side of the road.

So, yeah, all is not bad.

WTF THIS IS NOT A PHOTOGRAPHY POST!
Once again, this infrequently updated blog has failed to post about anything interesting or related to photography, including a project involving wires and soldering and vaguely interesting DIY-ish-ness mentioned previously.

Fear not! There are now TWO DIY projects in the works, and I will be blogging about them when they are complete. Both involve soldering. One involves high-speed photography, and both involve triggering various camera-related, er, triggers.

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