No Brakes

Tamara and I are going back upstate this weekend for a 'spay day' and to visit both sets of parents before she leaves for her job this summer. A 'spay day' is a day where one of the vet clinics in Chicago is offering free or low-cost spays/neuters for stray animals and pets of low income families. Since these days tend to be pretty busy, the vets there invite vet students up to help out, which is a great opportunity for the students to practice actual surgery.

Because we're going to be driving alot this weekend, I took the car in today to find out what was wrong with the brakes. Turns out that the rotors had overheated and warped, which explains the reverberations we could feel while braking. Plus--of course--I needed new brake pads. Five hundred dollars later the brakes work great.

Now I'm at the lab processing a new set of samples that we grew yesterday. Hopefully I won't need to be here too much later.

-Tim