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Weekend Project and Odds and Ends

This weekend I decided it was finally time to refinish my car's headlights. They looked terrible! Not that I am so concerned with the appearance of my car but I think they were so bad it was probably to the point the headlights weren't as bright as they should be.

Here are the before pics:



After 1 hour of sanding and polishing this is the outcome. The driver's side came out much better than the passenger's side. :-(



Not perfect, but at least they are better than before.

Also, something else random. The other day Tucson water was doing something in the street and this is how the water looked coming out of my tap:

Yuck. I am pretty sure it was dirt.

In other news, I finally had a chance to finish a book I have been reading by Margaret Atwood called The Blind Assassin. It was very good. Mostly about women and stages of life and how decisions we all make can change the course of things for yourself and the people around you forever. This book was so good I passed it along to my mom and she already finished it! She really liked it too and commented on how Atwood is such a good writer and how her characters are so well developed and how her stories are so accessible no matter what your age is.


I absolutely need to have a book when I go to the laundry mat so I went to Bookman's and picked up a book called Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver. I have read other books by Kingsolver such as The Bean Trees and I really enjoy her writing. She is actually from Tucson and her undergraduate degree was in biology so I really can relate to her in those aspects. This particular book I picked up is a compilation of essays published in 2002 mostly with a slant focused on the state of the world which was strongly influenced by the events of September, 11th and the US "War on Terror". I am not finished with this book yet and I will comment on it later when I am done, but so far it is very good and thought provoking.

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