Broke shit

I’m getting tired of fixing broke shit around the house. In the last week, I replaced the shocks on my wife’s car. They were overdue to be changed out. What should have been a simple operation turned into a four hour ordeal because the new ones wouldn’t fit just right. She has a Focus which is easy to work on because they are simple cars. However, like most aftermarket parts, the replacement shocks didn’t fit exactly right. I wrestled them in place and buttoned the car back together. Next it was time for an oil change and spark plug replacement. Easy peasey right? Wrong. Oil change, no issues. Pull the first spark plug. Whoever changed the plugs last didn’t use anti-seize. No big deal, I just have to be careful with the rest. Get ready to pull the next one and the channel is full of oil. Shit. Pull the rest of the power packs, they are full of oil too. It’s off to the parts store for a new valve cover gasket. Luckily, they had one in stock. So, I get the gasket changed out and the plugs replaced. Now guess what? The microwave decides to crap out. After researching the problem online and talking to a few people to confirm, the magnetron is bad. If the microwave was a Wally World special, I wouldn’t think twice about getting a new one. Alas, the microwave is an in-cabinet model that doubles as a range hood. Oh yeah, they don’t make this particular model anymore. So, $115 later and the part is ordered. Last one. This summer my phone got wet. The fancy case was supposed to be  waterproof to a certain depth. Didn’t work. I got it apart and got it all dried out but ever since the battery life has been shit. Last week I finally broke down and bought a new battery. The iphone 6 battery was $20. It went in pretty easy because I already had all the special tools.