Well howdy there, folks! 🙂
Happy day to to you. 😊
Let’s see… Wednesday. As promised, Wednesday gave us a nice, good rain. That gave me an opportunity to take the day off, as I mentioned. Not that I don’t have the opportunity every single day to take the day off, which is a huge blessing, but in my struggles to say no to people, having a rainy day makes it easier. 😁
Anyway, there was a house for sale up in Stella, Missouri that was dirt cheap. So I decided I wanted to give it a look. It had just barely gone on the market, and it was on Facebook marketplace but not on the regular real estate websites, which made it more likely to be something that I could get a good deal on.
So after taking care of some things here on the home front in the morning, I drove over to my Hill niece and nephew-in-law’s house whose Honda Odyssey I thought I fixed a couple days before. They had gotten spark plugs just 25,000 miles ago, so being a Honda product, it seemed pretty much 100% guarantee that the issue was just a coil, because that’s what the issue is The majority of the time anyway, and with spark plugs already out of the equation, so much the more likely.
But once again, there they were with a misfire code, and it was for the same cylinders before, meaning either the spark plug itself was bad (which could have been killed by the bad coil, though it’s rare in my experience), or there could be a more significant problem with the cylinder.
Ugh.
I hate callbacks no matter what, and even more when it’s family. I get embarrassed and start to worry that they might think that I’m a crappy mechanic.
Gratefully, call backs are not common for me at all. Most of the time, I have very happy customers. 😊
Anyway, so I went over there, swapped the coil packs from cylinders two and three over to cylinders 5 and 6, and the spark plug from cylinder 3 over to cylinder 4.
Then I handed my nephew-in-law the keys, and told him to go take it for a drive well my hill brother and I drove up to Missouri to take a look at the house.
It was about a 45-minute drive up to the house, where a tiny little village was nestled out in the country. It seems like a pretty forgotten town. Half the houses were okay looking, and the other half were dilapidated and needed to be torn down.
For that reason, when we had trouble finding the house itself, and I called her and was told it was the yellow one, well, the yellow one wasn’t what she had posted for sale online, and it was an absolute piece of garbage that needed to be turned down.
Having been burned before by people saying one thing about what they’re selling and finding out at something completely different than what they said when I get there, I assumed this was the same. A bit disappointed, and a little annoyed for having had my time wasted and also my hill brother’s time wasted (he left work to help me look at the house), we drove back to pea ridge where I left my van at my nephew-in-law’s house. (I actually locked my keys in the van before we left).
I thought I had a spare key hidden on the van, but when I went to the place where I hidden it, it wasn’t there. 😶
So my hill brother took me home, and gratefully, one of my other Hill nephews took me back to my work van with the spare key.
Probably 30 minutes later, the lady selling the house told me that I was at the wrong house. We had driven around and around trying to find it before finally calling her, and when I described where we were, and she described the little yellow house right there, well, that’s where we were. But apparently we still weren’t at the right place, and apparently the house really was what she said it was, and unfortunately, apparently she had sold it just an hour after we left.
That was disappointing. It was like a 900 ft² little thing for absolutely dirt cheap that in the pictures and buy her description needed very little. It was just out in the country in a forgotten little town.
Oh well. Next time?
After getting home, I spent some time driving down to Rogers to give the guy who’s going to rebuild the transmission in my van the deposit check for the parts and everything that he asked to order. I chatted with him for a bit and then headed home.
Once home, I spent some time putting my Google pixel 7 pro back together. I had taken it apart quite a while ago and ordered the parts online to replace my busted screen assembly. I had tried to fix it last week or so, but I accidentally put the gasket in the wrong place, so I ordered another gasket. It came, I put it in, and now I have my working Google pixel 7 pro back, which is a heck of a lot better than my poor little Samsung a73 international version, I think, that I bought in New Zealand.
The 873 itself isn’t bad, but the reception is atrocious. Even my little a12 gets a lot better reception than the much more expensive. A73.
Go figure.
I had hoped to sell it when I got home to recoup some of my losses, but how do you sell a cell phone that’s got crappy reception. I suppose I could sell it to someone who lives in a city and not out where I live. They’d probably be fine.
Chase was trying to convince me to buy the iPhone while I was there, but I didn’t want to spend that kind of money on a backup phone. Phone. At this point, I think he was right. The iPhone would have been a heck of a lot easier to sell once I got home.
Oh well. Live and learn.
I did a lot of looking at cars for sale in the evening before bed. I’ve been used to having so many cars that I had basically my pick to drive when I wasn’t using my main work vehicle. But now, My Honda Civic lives in Utah and is being driven by my niece until the times when I visit, when I’ll have it back to drive around while I’m out there.
That leaves me with three busted up work vans, might beat up work truck that leaks oil pretty badly, and my little Z4 that is a cute little car but not the practical one?
So I’ve been looking for another car to use for daily stuff. It’s only been a day and a half, but now I can’t even remember what car I was excited about and then lost out on, but there was some car that was a fabulous price that I just barely missed out on. I was going to call today’s entry lost opportunities 🙃, but that would be negative, and I’m trying to be more positive.
Anyway, all in all, it was a pretty decent day. Slightly bummed about missing out on the super good deals, but not enough to hang on to it (obviously, in the case of the car that I can’t even remember what was 😆).
And that… was the 22nd 😊– at least, as much as I can remember of it at the moment. 🙃
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 