Party van keeps giving
The sale of the old party van combined with the surprisingly low amount of cash spent to fix 
the AC on PV 2.0 has given us a little bulge of cash that I am using to knock other items off the to do list. Today the Tacoma goes in to have it’s timing belt replaced. The timing belt in these motors needs to be replaced as preventative maintenance.
Instead of a timing chain, Toyota employs a rubber belt to maintain engine timing. If you ignore replacement of the part and are unlucky enough to have it break there is a good chance the upper end of your motor will be trashed. It’s a pretty expensive repair because there is a lot of labor involved. While it is in there I am going to have them give it a good once over since for the last 60,000 miles the only things that have been done is oil changes and air filters.
I got a quote from the dealer of a grand to have the timing belt done. The place I am taking it to are ex-Toyota mechanics that were recommended to me by two co-workers. They will do the work for almost half the cost of a dealer.
I’m hoping to have a few dollars left over to redo the deck in Nicki’s area with composite lumber that will never split, crack or rot.
My back is feeling better although after a few steps of running after the dogs inside I could feel the throbbing in the area. No running for me in the short term future.
Yesterday I posted two football related status updates that may have seemed odd. The first was about Brian Ehrlacher being out for the season with a dislocated wrist. I guess I don’t have a good grasp on the seriousness of the injury. To me it seems like the sort of thing they could immobilize with a cast on game day.
The second was about Shawn F’in Andrews. Shawn Andrews is an offensive lineman for the Eagles and he was a pretty good one for a few years. He missed all of last season due to injury and it was just announced he is now missing this entire season as well. Along with the injury there has been talk that a good part of his issues are of the mental variety.
Well the reason it was particularly annoying that he was scrubbed for this year was his blabbing about how he was going to be a “beast” this year and various other bragging remarks that seemed totally inappropriate for a guy that hasn’t been on the field for more than a year. He also is apparently a wannabe recording artist. You can check out his channel on youtube. On the channel you can see him laughing, talking hype and doing everything except acting like an athlete that is injured to the point of missing yet another full season. Unfortunately for him his youtube channel has been discovered by angry Eagles fans. The comment section is filled with venom towards Andrews, including some negative comments from me.
It angers me to see a guy collecting the NFL equivalent of welfare. 20 months should be long enough to recover from just about any ailment, I can only assume that he hasn’t been working as hard as he should have been to get better. F him, by placing him on IR I think the Eagles have raised the white flag on this lazy mental case. He will be out of the NFL sooner rather than later.