Now Playing: "Shrek the Third" - forgot to return it to the RedBox.
Current Mood : Overjoyed and recovering
At least the gunk in my lungs is moving. It's darn disgusting, but better out than in, right ?
After putting in a full day at work, Beloved Hubby came home, took off Molly's passenger rear tire, and in about a minute, found the problem. Her rotor's out of true. It's scraping the arm that holds the brake pads on and compresses them, resulting in the horrible noise problem. Why the mechanic, the expert, couldn't figure that out, neither of us had a clue. Further examination showed a seal had been broken, and just pushed back together tightly, which also caused major damage to the supposedly brand-new bearings mechanic had just replaced. Um, no. Not one word was said to us about this, ever. It's not life-threatening or anything, but even if his ‘repair' hadn't gone belly-up twenty minutes after we paid him, it would have within a week or two. And it would have taken other parts with it.
Well, to make an odyssey short, $82. at AutoZone (new rotor, new seal, new bearings) and two hours later, I have an almost silent Molly. It's simply incredible how quiet she really is. So I'm happy. Awesomely happy.
Unfortunately, about all I did today was experiment with the printer and mess around. I've been wanting a nice ‘night' backdrop for a while, but my options were limited. Nice night images are expensive ! And our printer does a good job - see the above photo - but the images tend to be a bit small. The one above is fine if I just want to showcase a blouse, but what if I want more in the photo ? Not that Shinobu isn't doing complete justice to a photo of downtown Chicago...
It's kind of silly for me not to know this already, but our printer can handle single image over multiple page jobs. And with the lightbox Beloved salvaged/made for me, I can get it to synch up really closely ! Add a coat of Krylon Matte finish ($3. at Mal-Wart) or two, and the ‘seam' will barely show. And it'll be just what I need ! So I don't have to buy expensive prints or anything. Just a can of Krylon.
With that solved, I sewed the pants to View 2. Peachskin fabric. It's gorgeous, but it really attracts dirt and lint. Once that image is posted - probably tomorrow - I get to start on the Han Solo project. Tuesday or so. I got a lot of work to catch up on Monday !
