Wednesday, December 15, 2010

2010.12.15 Wednesday

The sun seems to be rising later and later in the day. Winter solstice.. please hurry up. I also slept in later than normal, so I had a delayed start to my day. Cool.

Work was more documents and meetings.

Popped into Too Hotties for a haircut. I really was hoping to get it cut yesterday, so I would have extra time this evening, but they were pretty busy. Instead, I got a really good haircut by a new hairdresser. She was really nice, and we chit-chatted about H-town and ATX.

So I did one thing that really made me feel like an engineer: started to change my oil at 9:30p at night. Yeah, pretty crazy I know. Considering how the wind was gusty, I was able to stay relatively clean and not spill much. It seemed like my car was at the full marker with only 4 quarts (instead of the prescribed 4.25 quarts). I'll have to check on this later.

Cleaned myself up, and off to bed.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Did you run the engine after completing the oil change? It takes the oil pump running to get oil into the filter. The filter probably holds a quarter of a quart. Just saying.

AndySk8inMan said...

Yeah I let the engine idle for about 3 or 4 minutes to get stuff flowing. I even took it for a spin to see if the variable RPMs would produce any leaking.

The level stayed just fine. I'd rather trust a dipstick than a plastic jug.