Discovered at Sam’s Club the other day that repeatedly compressing a stack of 400 coffee filters sounds almost exactly like walking through snow. No joke. I’m applying for a job as a foley artist next week.<\/p>\n
Drove through the most torrential downpour I’ve ever experienced last night, a solid wall of water from the Wade Avenue split near Raleigh to the Durham Freeway, or about 10 miles. I was hoping my car windows wouldn’t shatter from the lightning bolt strikes not a quarter of a mile away. The worst part of it all is that my car’s alternator belt slips terribly in anything more than a mild rainshower. What this means is that the car’s voltage drops to ~10V, the headlights dim and the windshield wipers slow, among other things. Not a pleasant proposition. I’ve tried to fix it repeatedly, but belt dressing doesn’t seem to have much effect. I’m thinking about making an aluminum shield for that part of the engine bay. Thus go the joys of driving a 19-year-old car in a North Carolina summer.<\/p>\n
But the good news, after all that, is that temperatures are bearable again.<\/p>\n