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At work, I convinced Ash (William Ashley Baker, a.k.a. Jackash, a.k.a. Ashhole) to help me drop off my bike at the shop, either at lunch or after work; he allowed as how lunch is important, so after work it was. At lunch I drove home and rode back; shortly before 4:30 I was introduced to Ash's car--a VW Jetta TDI (turbo diesel), that he's basically lived out of for the last two years. I'm not exaggerating, either--he has the car, a large storage locker, and family back in Texas. Most of the time he sleeps in his car, has an inverter, sleeping bag, and XM radio in his car, a trunk full of stuff, and that's that. Occasionally he'll grab a motel. He figures he'll only get a static location when his fiancée moves here from Tajikistan. He's delightfully nutty. :)
Anyhow, I followed him down a winding back-roads route to Telegraph and PW Pkwy, changed order so I could lead the way, and on to Coleman we went. I dropped off the bike at Service--where they had issues looking up my records but eventually succeeded--and explained the peculiarities the fuel injection system was exhibiting, got my invoice stamped PRIORITY (huzzah for Preferred Maintenance), and away we went.
Ash's car, with a mere ~90hp, has a good 180ft-lbs of torque and can really move when he tells it--and it can corner, and it can tow a double-axle trailer, though not at the same time. :) (He also custom-mounted the trailer hitch himself, which is quite solid and looks much better than the stock install would've been.)
We then headed, in this car, to B&B Hobby (something like that), where we checked out their R/C helicopters (in which we're both interested), many of the plastic models (many of which Ash had seen, been in, or controlled their real counterparts), and ordered an airbrush kit for him. After that it was over to Harbor Freight Tools, our intended destination, where we ogled lots of tools, mocked many cheap tools, and got assorted tools and supplies for him.
After that, dinner at the bar in Uno's, which was quite good. Finally, return to Lorton, where he met all of my animals (and was relatively well-received by Lucy, surprisingly enough) and checked out some of the nifty crap in my room before heading on his way. (And somewhere in all of this driving--possibly shortly before dinner--he missed a red light until I pointed it out as we were entering the intersection, and he hung an immediate e-brake turn to the right with the practiced skill of one who's done it many times before. Exciting! I was not shaken. :)
Anyhow, I followed him down a winding back-roads route to Telegraph and PW Pkwy, changed order so I could lead the way, and on to Coleman we went. I dropped off the bike at Service--where they had issues looking up my records but eventually succeeded--and explained the peculiarities the fuel injection system was exhibiting, got my invoice stamped PRIORITY (huzzah for Preferred Maintenance), and away we went.
Ash's car, with a mere ~90hp, has a good 180ft-lbs of torque and can really move when he tells it--and it can corner, and it can tow a double-axle trailer, though not at the same time. :) (He also custom-mounted the trailer hitch himself, which is quite solid and looks much better than the stock install would've been.)
We then headed, in this car, to B&B Hobby (something like that), where we checked out their R/C helicopters (in which we're both interested), many of the plastic models (many of which Ash had seen, been in, or controlled their real counterparts), and ordered an airbrush kit for him. After that it was over to Harbor Freight Tools, our intended destination, where we ogled lots of tools, mocked many cheap tools, and got assorted tools and supplies for him.
After that, dinner at the bar in Uno's, which was quite good. Finally, return to Lorton, where he met all of my animals (and was relatively well-received by Lucy, surprisingly enough) and checked out some of the nifty crap in my room before heading on his way. (And somewhere in all of this driving--possibly shortly before dinner--he missed a red light until I pointed it out as we were entering the intersection, and he hung an immediate e-brake turn to the right with the practiced skill of one who's done it many times before. Exciting! I was not shaken. :)
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