I thought that I had worked out how to change the oil on my car. Use the wheel ramps. Place a big sheet of cardboard under it. Use a tub for the old oil, but place a garbage bag in it to catch the oil. Wear disposable gloves. Well the last bit is where I came unstuck. I did this, and when the oil filter came off it was a bit heavier than I thought it would be. Oops. No problem, except it dropped into the old oil with a bit of a splash. So I needed to get it out.

Which would have been fine, except I then needed to fit the new one, and did the same thing with the new one. Dropping it into the old oil. Not fun. And the splash also got oil onto the cement. Degreaser fixed that. Sort of. The gloves did help keeping the oil off my hands, but they did not actually keep it off other parts of me. Next time will be better.

When I was out apart from getting birthday card for my mother I also picked up the Rob Thomas CD. Rob is the lead singer for Matchbox 20. This CD has maybe a couple of decent songs, and the rest is lacking something. None of the anthem songs of matchbox 20. None of the great lyrics. Basically this is an album based on name recognition, unfortunately. I was hoping for something great. And I got this.

I also went running around lunch time. My left ankle was feeling a bit stiff so I did not go to far, nor did I take the GPS. I did take the iPod, and I loved it. What I would like would be remote controls on the headphones to go to the next track, but I love it. The first half of the run I was holding the iPod, and the rest of it found me placing it in my pocket. Having my hands free is good whilst running. With no GPS I am not sure how far I rang, but I think it is about 3km.