§ I’ve been continuing to try to spend some time drawing and painting this week. I’m very rusty but it’s a satisfying challenge and good exercise for my attention span. My biggest challenge has been ignoring the impulse to draw what looks good on the page instead of what I actually see in front of me.
§ Tis the season, I watched Beetlejuice and Halloween for the first time. I’m sure this isn’t news to anyone else but they’re both good movies!
§ Wednesday marked my 365 day crossword streak on Puzzmo. I would love to see a graph charting my “time-to-solve” over the course of the year. I feel like I’ve made huge improvements but Puzzmo doesn’t seem to have a good way to export my data to confirm.
§ On Thursday the museum I work for a received a surprise donation of a 1959 Wurlitzer Sideman—the first ever commercial drum machine. It sounds amazing and the mechanics are fascinating, it basically works like a huge motorized music box.
§ Backing out of my parking spot at the grocery store on Friday, my car made a sudden super concerning jolt and a Service StabiliTrak message popped up on the dashboard. I’ve been suspecting for a while my driver’s side rear tire might have a slow leak. Quick research into the “StabiliTrack” system tells me that one of the myriad reasons the system could fail is bad data from a particular wheel sensor.
I brought it in to the dealership on Saturday. They patched the tire and then mentioned the rear break pads were “basically gone” and a front pad was “falling off.” I got them all replaced. This seems to have fixed everything including the strange noises I mentioned last month.
I desperately wish Cleveland had better public transportation. I’m trying not to think about how many CTA trips I could take from the cost of this repair alone.
