{"id":22169,"date":"2013-02-25T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2016-09-19T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:22:08","slug":"getting-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/getting-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

After putting in a few hours of work on my book this morning, I headed out to the post office where a new battery for my cell phone was awaiting me.<\/p>\n

The cell phone has pretty much been dead for weeks, but it took me a while to concede this fact even though the phone will randomly turn off even when it is plugged into a power source. I found a genuine Verizon battery on Amazon for just under $7 with free shipping from a well rated seller. The new battery’s arrival could not have been timed better because the phone shut off late this morning and refused to turn back on!<\/p>\n

To my surprise, my O’Reilly’s gift card<\/a> had also arrived! Walmart didn’t have any refrigerant for vehicle ACs<\/a>, so I headed to O’Reilly’s to see if they carried such a thing, which they did. Since I’m not sure that adding refrigerant will actually start my compressor, I bought the cheapest kit they had, which was about $20 and included a hose but no gauge.<\/p>\n

Next, I moseyed over to the tools to look for a socket wrench kit. Everything on display was way more expensive than I was willing to pay ($50 to several hundred dollars). I crouched down to see what was on the bottom shelf, knowing from my days in retail that you can find very good deals near the floor, and I emerged with this:<\/p>\n

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It’s a 57 piece set with both metric and imperial sockets. Not the best quality, but should serve me well for the little amount I will use it, and was just $20.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t even tempted to have lunch in Port Lavaca since I had my lunch all planned out even before I headed out:<\/p>\n

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(Lightly seasoned black refried beans, tomato, avocado, a squirt of lime juice over a grilled tortilla.)<\/p>\n

It is scary windy out there right now, so I’m staying in, putting as much weight as I can on the passenger side (JOKING), and will wait patiently to see if the can of refrigerant helps my truck at all. As for the socket wrench set, I will be using it to disconnect my truck battery to reset the check engine light. I know why the light went on and the issue was resolved, so there’s no point having it on the dash mocking me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After putting in a few hours of work on my book this morning, I headed out to the post office where a new battery for my cell phone was awaiting me. The cell phone has pretty much been dead for weeks, but it took me a while to concede this fact even though the phone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1242,635,5,1039,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-magnolia-beach","category-north-america","category-rving","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}