Many things

[stephbg]

A bit of work, some fashion tips you should probably ignore, and terribly important details about my car's engine.



Work
Much to my surprise I appear to know quite a few things about small retail business development and the evolution of their information management requirements. Go figure. All I have to do now is express that knowledge in plain English.

Fashion
By way of an experiment today I bowed to fashion pressure and wore my boots on the outside of my black cord trousers. One of the architects asked me where I'd tied up my horse.

I've not done such a thing since the 80's and old friends will recall that I back then I wore boots with studs on the inside. And those fishnet socks. What can I say, I wore a school uniform and hand-me-down clothes for the first 18 years of my life. How was I supposed to know how to dress?

Back to the present, and in stark contrast to yesterday I saw no-one else wearing boots on the outside. That trend has apparently come and gone. However, I saw several lasses in knee-length skirts and knee-high boots. Logic to the contrary, this left knees exposed in both directions, and I can't say it's a particularly attractive look, but perhaps I have some kind of unnatural bias against knees. An anti-fetish, if you will. Boots and skirts should either overlap or maintain their distance.

Vehicle
Dave The Automasters Guy told me they'd replaced my spark plugs, checked the leads, and given the car a tune, but couldn't really tell if they'd made a difference. He hastened to add that it was likely they'd not detect something that would seem obvious to me. He suggested I take it (without paying - I like that bit) and drive it for a few days to see how it feels.

Sadly I must pay eventually, but he'd rather avoid the paperwork of a separate job if we need to do the next thing on the list, which is an injection service. Since the trouble--such as it is--began after the fuel filter was replaced, it wouldn't surprise me if some crud got knocked loose and is ever so slightly jamming up the works.

I drove it home. We need to do an injection service.

The engine runs differently; it even runs better. They've tuned it a bit higher than before, so that will take some getting used to. Unfortunately I can still hear that insistantly uneven rhythm deep in the bass, like the softest of morse code signals. Perhaps I should give SETI a call. Or just turn up the radio and stop obsessing about my engine. When did this happen to me?

Comments

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

No, no, no. Equestria style boots over the top of straight legged jeans is very in, my darling.

I am confused, however, by the studs on the inside of the boots. Was it for the pain?

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

The boots with studs on the inside were reversable, with heavily bedazzled cuffs, making shiny ankle boots or plain loosish mid-calf ones. I mostly wore them plain, with the pointy bits on the inside.

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

i don't think i've ever seen reverible boots. what happens to the soul.

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

I had reversible boots too at one point - very trendy in the late 80s.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

They weren't reversible like an entire sock - it was just the sleeve bit above the ankle that could be folded back.

[krjalk.livejournal.com]

Is Dave the Automasters guy South African? He used to be our mechanic in Morley, but he moved to somewhere further north. His replacement was complete shite and broke our camshaft. Warranty is one of the sweetest words in the English language.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

That's the one. He's been Perthed!

[krjalk.livejournal.com]

He's good. Cherish him.

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

Good mechanics are hard to find. Unfortunately ours was eaten by a shark.

[krjalk.livejournal.com]

O_o

Colour me amazed. And appalled/guiltily amused.