Emissions retest!

Two years ago, my truck passed emissions inspection with flying colors.
Two weeks ago, my truck failed the same rather spectacularly--values of both HC and NO too high at both 15 and 25mph.
Since then, I've run a bottle of "Greased Lightning Concentrated Fuel System Treatment" through, refueled with premium gas ($37 worth!), replaced the spark plugs, wires, distributor cap, rotor, and air filter, and made sure the engine was still hot when it was tested. Considered checking/adjusting the timing, but couldn't without dad's help, and he won't be home until after the inspection station closes.

Inspection guy was surprised to see me again, since I was just in a few days ago for the safety retest. He suggested I keep the engine running while waiting in line, which I was already doing. After the test, and while waiting for the results, he commented that it didn't -feel- any different than before, and that I must really like this truck--I do, in fact, but it's more that I can't afford to replace it yet, so it needs to pass this month. When I start at RDR, I'll sell the truck to Katia and replace it. :)

( The envelope, please.. )

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This evening's plans include:
a) moving a lot of stuff to Lorton, particularly clothes, bed frame, and computer
b) moving myself to Lorton

Tomorrow's plans include:
a) Driving up to NY for a fabulous holiday weekend with Melody and her family and friends
b) Starting said fabulous weekend in such a way as the rest of the weekend will naturally follow
=)

...so much wasted time and mental energy!

The last thing my truck wanted before a long-ish trip, especially one in 80- to 90-degree weather that may include bringing Melody back to VA, was a recharge of the Freon in the A/C system. We have the quasi-legal R-12, but it seemed that the female standard adaptor on the refrigerant can was larger than the male fitting on the A/C compressor. So, we started driving.. Lowe's, Economy, Advance, AutoZone, and even the Ford dealer, before returning home empty-handed. We were thinking that it was quite odd that this original equipment compressor had a non-standard fitting..

Odd it would be, indeed, were this the case! :P Upon returning home (after receiving a call from mom/Shauna asking if we wanted to meet them at Ruby Tuesday's), my dad discovered that despite the optical illusion of size difference, the two connectors fit fine! :P! So we recharged the A/C over the next 15 minutes, which works just fine now, and headed over to the mall for dinner.

Tonight's plans still include a round-trip of stuff to Nathan's, though I'll probably do a final move of necessary stuff (computer, for example) after returning to VA Sunday.