Ramblings

After a restful weekend, I total blew it. I stayed up all night Sunday night working on a project of mine. So I got to work a little early, which was great because I’ve been running a bit late recently (like today), and tried to concentrate on work. Staying focused was a bit difficult, but I did get some good work done on the Student Web Payments (stupid little bug when dealing with payment plans on future session where the user has paid more so far than they needed to).

As I headed home last night, my brakes sounded horrible. They’ve been getting worse, and I’ve been trying to take it easy on them, slowly over the last week. I’m trying to hold out until this weekend when my father will be up here to help me replace them and a few other little things. I sent dad a text message (I knew he was travelling) telling him I thought they were to the point that I was a little concerned. Ha! What an understatement. He suggested that I pull the wheel off and inspect the brake and rotor in question, take a few pictures and email them to him. I was so tired by that time that getting the van jacked up and the wheel off just about wiped me out.

Once I got the van up and the wheel off I got some pictures, trying not to get grease all over my camera in the process. I felt around the rotor and didn’t notice anything really wrong. That just goes to show how tired I was because once I got everything back on, the van down, got cleaned up, and the pictures downloaded I knew better. I resized one of the photos down to an acceptable size for email and shot it off to dad. He responded after I had already crashed for the night (sometime around 8:30) and posed a few more questions. After reviewing those this morning and taking a second look at the full size photos, I realized just how bad things really are under there.

See that groove? Well I didn’t last night when I was looking at the real thing. So, it’s time to set the van aside for the next few days until dad show up.