7/23: It's a new day and still no screws!

7/23: This morning before work I had some time to work on space allocation and compartmentalizing.....since I skimped on Weeze's walk! I'm a visual person so I tried to sketch out (pic included) what I had in terms of fixed areas already, like the bed, to try to figure out where I had still had room to put my "kitchen" area (so far consisting of the cooler, maybe the 5 gallon water jug I'm hoping to buy, if I can find room for it, and my coffee maker and blender-essentials for me!)

Here is my day 6 "ding" "ding""ding" update/correction. In 2 minutes I

actually had 3 sets of "ding" "ding""ding"s, so when the Subaru forum people complain that it's every 3 minutes, its not, its so much more! But I've come to notice it much less. It's only irritating when I'm tired and crabby and then I want to punch my poor car in the balls! That's exactly what I was thinking last night at 9:30pm driving home from Home Depot when they didn't have my screws! So the dealership hasn't called me back yet and I had planned to call them tonight after work but I stopped by Lowe's first looking for my screws.... which they didn't have either. So I bought the next size up and at least the guy had a helpful suggestion of pre-drilling the holes to help decrease the chances of cracking...... then I decided I was starving and gonna go down the street to the Jake's Wayback Burger for a bbq bacon cheeseburger with jalepenos. I was

starving ....and in case you're thinking why am I not eating healthy? I..um...have no food in the house! As you can see by the pic I couldn't even wait to take the pic before inhaling most of my burger!

On a side note: since I'm talking about jalepenos. ...I got my lab results back for diagnosing my stomach issues... upside: everything they ran (blood and urine) came back negative for essentially celiac disease and urinary tract infection (which I already told them I definitely didn't have). Downside, next step is to move forward with my previously scheduled endoscopy! Yay! I get something shoved down my throat so they can have a "look" around. That should be awesome! I'm sure you can hear the sarcasm. Wonder if they'll see the Mc Donald's Playplace in there! That's what I totally picture in my head. So come August 12th, I'm pretty sure I'll be out of commission. What I really think is that they won't find anything and really the scope should be going "up" the other end since my pains are all lower abdomen. So it might all be a waste and I'll get to enjoy the pleasantness of having a scoped shoved in both places!

Back to the "ding" "ding" "ding". I was able to finish my dinner 3 minutes before closing so I called......so I can never call from work because they don't have cell phone service in the plant anywhere and our land line....no one can seem to hear us when we make calls outside the plant....hmmm...total scam to keep us isolated from the world while at work....not to mention that the internet is slower than dial up...so that is the reason I can't take care of this "stuff" while I'm at work. Anyways, back to the Subaru dealership. So Saturday I stopped by the Service department right when they opened cause the "ding"ing was driving me CRAZY (already on less than 24 hours!) The lady told me that the Service Manager wasn't working so she couldn't answer it for me but would find out and call me back. Well, it's now Thursday and no call. So I called them with 3 minutes to spare and amazingly someone ACTUALLY answers 3 minutes to closing. I ask them if the passenger seat belt notification can be turned off since I've removed the seat and he proceeds to tell me that the Service Manager is not there and I'd have to call back when he is....AMAZING, does anyone but me actually work they their full hours anymore, or in my case, more than their full hours? He thought that it was illegal to disconnect the notification but I'd have to actually talk to the so illusive Service Manager. So that's where we stand with that stupid issue!

Surprise....not really....but my first Amazon shipment is here....I think I have like 4-5 more still on their way! Window rain guards/vents! I think I am taking the night off from woodworking and I will try my hand at installing these. I'm feeling kinda of ballsy and might try it without

Googling a Youtube video!

So I go and pull all the parts out of the packaging and pull out the directions and there's like a total of 8 picture steps.....I'm sorry, but that is not enough for me! The steps are basically telling me that those 4 visors are going to stay attached to me car via glue, somehow I don't believe it! So I figure, I need more info; YouTube it is! All of the YouTube videos include clips in their attachments. I got NO clips! WTF! So all the videos have you pulling out the rubber gasket in the door to get to the screws to attach the clips....so I figure I'll have a go at it. Step 1: clean the area where it's going to attach. So I get my fancy Motorcycle polish spray...might as well use that since the Moto won't be seeing my love anymore (a story for another day-kinda forgot about it and skipped over it in the beginning, but I was nicely reminded!) So I spray the black gasket area around the door frames and get them real clean....not realizing I'm really supposed to be attaching this higher (on the paint). Then I decide I'll remove the rubber door gasket...maybe I can fit the vent in there and the gasket will help the adhesive hold it in place. Just as I realize this won't work because there won't be enough clearance to shut my door (thank you Amazon reviews-would not have known to make sure I check this before gluing anything!) out comes my neighbor, Crazy Tom. So his name really isn't Crazy Tom, but just Tom. I call him Crazy Tom cause I am quite sure that he doesn't have all his marbles...the stories I can tell about Tom. Anyways, he comes over to see what I am doing...and here I am trying really hard to hurry up and get the gasket back into the door jam so I can shut the door and run back in the apartment. But I've never worked with getting gaskets back in before, even though I've seen it done. So I'm trying to work it as fast as I can with no luck and here Crazy Tom is telling me about how he just worked out for 45 min at our apartment gym and burned 85 calories and on the treadmill and elliptical...am I supposed to be impressed? I'm pretty sure my measly buck and change burns more than that walking on the treadmill in 45 min and he's 3 times my size. Then he's telling me how hard his arms, neck and shoulders are that he's starting to feel like a Wrestler (on another occasion, he's brought out his WWE jeweled knock off victory belt that he bought for $500 with his disability check!) He's actually told me about his hard arm muscles before while I was trying to get by him, walking Weeze. That time he actually wanted me to feel it! Ick! He's uber icky! As he's getting closer, I can start to smell him, just wishing he'd back off and go away (he pretty much always smells and is a touchy person so he's always trying to hug me...eww!) ....and here I am still trying to jam the gasket back into place. Finally I manage to get it in enough to shut the door. I quickly walk back to my apartment and shut the door while he's still telling me about the flower out on his patio that he's growing and the apple tree he wants to get. Needless to say...another major fail project. The light was already declining as I was trying to get the gasket in place, so by the time I hid in my apartment long enough for him to go away, it was too dark to go back out and have another go at it.

I've included the before pic as I intended to have a nice matching after pic as well :(