when it rains...

the timeline of this irony is just too great to not be shared.

last week, i submitted an insurance claim and paid $75 bucks to have my winshield replaced on one of the rare days when i had a spare 5 minutes. i'd been driving with a crack longer than a foot across my windshield for quite some time, and had it replaced solely for the purpose of passing state inspection, which is due this month.
my priority was to get the inspection passed before the next rock got kicked up into the glass on 495.

this week, i failed inspection for a leaky exhaust in the midpipe region. fair enough. today, my only goal was to locate the leak and ascertain whether we could patch it or had to replace the whole shebang. i was hoping for a quick patch, because once you get into the time and money spent on replacing components, fuck it i say, let's do some aftermarket headers too.

beginning of day: the survey begins with kz ripping off the heat shields and trying to patch the midpipe only to find that the flexjoint is leaking too. meanwhile, i rainX my new pristine winshield and start replacing the wiper blades to get that streak-free effect. somewhere in there, the hood gets opened with the wipers up but with no blades attached yet; and the spring-loaded metal snaps down onto the glass. the result: a starbust shatter the size of my palm.

end of day: i have a broken windshield, epoxy on my shopping list, and new ssautochrome headers and downpipe shipping this week.

i seem to have made little progress other than net loss of money and time. hmm.