So Hugo died again not too long ago. The starter stopped (I will always find that oxymoron amusing). He’s alive now that my dad resurrected it. After two trips to Auto Zone and spending $180 on a new starter.
Basically, it wouldn’t start. Originally thought it was the battery that died, turned out the battery was fine. My dad’s next idea was that it could be the starter. And his way of diagnosing this was hitting the starter with a metal pipe and hammer.
Yes, he tried fixing the starter by smacking it with a pipe and hammer. My friends found that amusing too.
Apparently, if you tap the starter it sometimes helps it start. Smacking it sort of helped, since it almost caught. Unfortunately, the starter was beyond the point of no return and the only way to make my car run again was to get a new one. And that was how my dad fixed my car. By smacking things and spending a lot of money for a replacement.
I’m still alive. Really I am. School is just kicking my ass right now. Moving on.
I really like my hands. They’re small and slender with long fingers. I’ve been told many times that I have the perfect piano hands, and sadly I don’t play piano. However, they make life a little difficult.
I find it a little sad that I can’t hold an XBOX 360 controller properly because my hands are too small. I have to position my right hand at a weird and uncomfortable angle so I can properly push all of the buttons. I can hold Playstation and Nintendo controllers just fine since they’re a little more compact. Or at least the buttons are placed close enough for my fingers to press without resorting to weird hand positioning. As demonstrated here.
Crappy cellphone picture is crappy. Also trying to balance camera phone and the controller was apparently a difficult task for me.
Even if I position my hands the proper way, my right hand will always resume to the position as pictured above. I don’t get it either.
This also makes it difficult to find rings in my size given how small my fingers are. My ring finger is a size 5, which is pretty damn small for an adult. It’s also a not very common size, grrr.
And with tiny hands come puny wrists. Finding a watch that doesn’t look ridiculous on my puny wrist is impossible. Basically, I need a watch with a narrow band and small face. And apparently that is difficult to find. FML!
