2009年6月20日土曜日

彼女 募集中

My Kind of Girl

What kind of girl should I be looking for? A good one, I think. I guess it is well past time for me to double up my efforts both in finding one and becoming the guy she would like.

日本語

彼女募集中

最近、どんな女とデートしたらいいかについて考えています。 最近だけではなくてずっと前から考えていますが最近、よく考えています。 今までたくさんいい人と会ったことがありますが、とくにデートしたかった女が少なかった。 それでどんな女とデートしたいかどんな女と結婚したいかについて考えました。 考えるとある経験思い出した。宣教師のとき、教会の後でワードの食事会があって皆が質問をこたえました。宣教師への質問は「伝道の後、どんな女と付き合いたいか」だった。同僚の答えは「美人と付き合いたい」でした。そして私の答えは「若人の強さのためにという教会のパンフレートを進めてることに従う女と付き合いたい」でした。 最近までその経験について考えませんでしたが、最近はまたそれについて考えてどんな女と付き合いたいについていくつかの点ができた。時間がたつとリストが変わるかもしれませんが、今はこんなリストについて考えています。やはり、教会のパンフレートだから教会の教えがいっぱいはいてると思います。(最近、日本語あまり使っていないから、日本語が間違ってるなら許して、教えてください。)

  • 教育が大切  
  • 家族が大事
  • 慎みがある
  • 人々への奉仕が大切
  • 私がいいことをするために助ける
  • 自身を持ってる女 (ほかの人を印象付けるために私とデートしたいわけではないなど)
後はいっぱいあると思うけど今覚えていないか日本語に翻訳できません。もちろん、そんな女とデートしたかったら、そんな女がデートしたい男にならないと。

2009年6月19日金曜日

Car Troubles :(

Coolant leak

A little before finals, I noticed that the car was now smelling like radiator fluid. That seemed less than optimal to me, but not enough to get my focus off of school and graduating. (Oh yeah, I passed all my classes :).

Just before finals, I had to drive up to the stake center (about 20 minutes) for seminary/institute graduation. After I got there, I got out and started to talking to friends in the parking lot and one of them pointed at my car and said oh no. There was a bunch of radiator fluid coming from under my car, onto the parking lot. No good. I stayed extra long to make sure the car had time to cool down and added some water into the overflow tank. I managed to get home fine monitoring the temperature gauge the whole way.

During finals week, I avoided driving as much as I could. Every now and then I would pop the hood and try to see if I could notice anything. The fan came on when I turned the A/C on, so it looked like the fan was not the culprit to making the coolant overflow. Once, it sounded like the cap was leaking, so I replaced it. Then I noticed that the old cap and the new cap did not seem to make a proper seal with the tank. It would screw on a bit, then become loose once you twisted too far.

Finally, after finals, I got a recommendation for a repair shop in town from my uncle who lives up here. The last place I went to in town wanted about $900 for something that the next shop back in Longview said did not need to be done and could be fixed for $40. I liked The Panacea. They were strait forward about what they were going to do and what it would cost. They talked to me as though I had useful information and was smart enough to be involved.

The end result... ... The coolant tank needed to be replaced. The one that was on it was a non standard tank. Then the testing showed that the heater core was leaking, luckily the head gasket was OK or so it seems. The heater core costs less than $100, but the installation takes all day and brings the total cost up to near $700.

They said i could try to use some leak stopper to slow the leaking, or possibly have someone put the heater core input directly to the output to bypass the heater core and cut out the leaking. As it is, I should avoid using the heat (evidently breathing coolant isn't that great).