As expected, calm is cool

So the driver side headlight was out on Cindy’s Prius for a few days.  With her new job she has been on the road early in the morning to teach 530 AM classes so it was sort of important to get it fixed.  I figured I would do it last night instead of waiting for the weekend.  I had prepped by watching a number of videos on YouTube by amateurs.  Watching those videos gave me a good sense of what the job entailed and it was clearly a pain in the ass.

You would think Toyota would make a common maintenance item like headlight bulbs relatively easy to replace.  Well I can attest that they definitely did not consider easy maintenance when it came to bulb placement.  In total I spent around an hour replacing both bulbs.  The majority of the time was spent blindly trying to jam my hand into a small space trying to perform frustrating precise movements.  If you watch the video you will get a sense of how annoying it was, and I cut A LOT of it out.  So anyway, eventually persistence paid off and I got both bulbs swapped out so Cindy can once again drive down properly illuminated roadways. I heard a dealership will charge anywhere between $100 and $300 to perform the same work.

Katie and Bowser were at the house last night for the first time in a couple days.  I have to say, even though Bowser is a big lovable dog, there is a lot more peace and tranquility in the house when he is not there.  Elsa kicks things into the next level of crazy when Bowser is there and his spontaneous barking episodes are something that I can do without quite easily.