So something that happened....shit two years ago at this point, I think, is my truck died. Don't know exactly what happened to it, pretty much drove it home from picking Kep up one night and the next morning it wouldn't start. Granted it probably didn't help that I somehow pretty much ran it dry as far as the oil goes. But at the same time I had an issue with it for a while where it was severely leaking antifreeze, so that was just becoming too much of a pain in the ass to keep filling it and it was going to cost a lot to fix it. The weird thing is that a couple months after it stopped working it randomly started up the one day. So I ended up driving it down to the main road and back to the house, but after I tried starting it up again it wouldn't go. It could have been something as simple as needing a new battery for it, but again there was so much wrong with it and it was killing me as far as gas went.

Well that's about when we got a lucky break and got screwed at the same time. Kep's parents went and drove all the way to PA to "visit" us. After all that was over we essentially inherited their 99 Mercury Cougar. Which ended up being the point where we figured we may as well just stick with this car instead of trying to figure something else out and find something else. We got all that settled fairly easily, but now I have to deal with it getting inspected in December. But the major issue with the car is it needed a lot of work for it to pass inspection. Of course his parents, mostly his dad, kept claiming that nothing was fine with the car and everything that needed fixed was just they lying to try and get more money from me. For a lot of instances I'd believe that, in part because of how I am, but I had been taking my truck there for a while and the place is pretty good. But I think it needed something like $2,000 or so work on it to get it safe to drive according to how PA was. A lot that was messed up with it too was either because the places his dad took it to didn't know what they were doing or Kep's brother messed it up the short while he owned it. And unsurprisingly they pretty much refused to help out with it at all, but again in their minds nothing was wrong with it and they refused to understand why the work needed done.

But so far this year has been far better then last year was. Well at least aside from work being crap as usual, but that's something to be expected and not really easily fixed. But I'm at that point again where I need to take the car in again in a few days to get it looked at. It's been acting a little weird with some things, but I don't know how much of that is just due to the cold. One thing is it's been annoyingly weird and the turn signals won't work properly. I keep having issues where it'll just stop blinking and then start again. Along with the engine being a little weird and revving at times when it shouldn't. I guess the only good thing is I try to expect to pay a bunch when I take the car in for inspection, which I'm not going to be surprised if it ends up being around $1,000 or so for some kind of work that needs done on it. But I figure that's better than expecting everything to be fine and then getting hit with all this work that needs done. But I know it helps that I've always had a older vehicle and have had to deal with this sort of thing for the past 7 years or so at least. Either way it's not any less of a pain in the ass. Which is why I just hope it doesn't end up being too bad and I can get it back fairly fast. Because I really don't look forward to having to bike into work while it's getting worked on. ^^; Though I'd only have to do that for at least a day. Since apparently the week of Christmas the shop I take it to will be close, but typically they will probably be nice enough again to let me take the car back so I'm not screwed over for that long and then drop it off again when they open back up.