Dusty Chalk

No. I always do it (every time I get new tires), and they always try to sell it to you (when you get new tires), but it's a separate service, and hardly a requirement. Balancing is, alignment is not. Their stance is that since they just did an alignment, it won't be necessary. And that may be, but I think they should pay for their screwup in sweat. And I agree, they owe me more than just an alignment right now. I don't even feel comfortable driving anywhere of any distance today, so they owe me for screwing up my weekend. I was going to go to Gainesville (VA) to get some Wegmans Dragonwell, but I'd hate to be stuck. It was raining cats and dogs yesterday, and my car was hydroplaning every time I cornered.

My hat is off to you sir.

I think "legal counsel" is at a Giants game right now, catching his breath and letting his pupils contract. Any other counsel, legal or otherwise, is welcome to pipe in as well.

Community -- Paradigms of Human Memory -- outstandingly executed fake flashback episode. Nice references to The Cape and Glee, as well as myriads of fake prior episodes (the St. Patty's Day adventure was the best) and fake scenes from extant prior episodes, as well as references to things they often do.

Well, they did give me an alignment, they just didn't do it after the tire change, which is what I asked for. The alignment is pretty good right now, I just wonder what it's going to be like after the tire change. But they should do it. And I won't say it was without issue -- I've been sliding around and hydroplaning a lot lately. I looked, and didn't see anything, but that doesn't mean they aren't about to blow. So: ...?

(makes a mental note to try Stillwater beer) Win!

I have yet to send this: Thoughts? Edits? Additions? Shovels? Scorpions?

How long did you let it breathe?

[archer]Do you not?[/archer]

I figured it was just like it sounds -- boys you can rent.

They were all bald the same amount of wear, but yeah, WTF? How did they know which tires to change? Why didn't they recommend changing the other two tires? Also, remember, this is from the guy who put 89,000 miles on 50,000 mile tires. They actually still have some tread left on 'em. I may have been able to put 100,000 miles on them. I think it bears repeating: I am not hard on my tires. You can say a lot of other things about my driving, but that's not one of them.

They tried to tell me that Tirerack screwed up and didn't deliver them all at the same time, but UPS tracking says they all showed up there and were signed for at the same time. I just hope I don't have a flat with one of the two remaining tires between now and then, because they're going to owe me a tow if I do. I'm trying to get a free alignment out of it -- I paid for all four wheels being aligned when I bought them, but the understanding was after the tires were installed. I don't have the receipt in front of me, but I'm curious how many thousand miles I put on them between now and then. I went to Pennsylvania twice since then. Fortunately, I don't put no as many miles as I did when I was beer-hunting more regularly, I think I'm going to be happy with it as it is, as long as they make it right. I know I've had at least one oil change and tire rotation (WTF?) since then, so it's been at least 3,000 miles.

Night Tripper is their imp stout.

No, but I've had their Night Tripper which is outstanding.

So apparently, they only installed two of my tires. I didn't notice. Made an appointment to install the other two on Tuesday. I've driven thousands of miles on these tires, which pisses me off. And thousands more on the ones that were almost bald. So: the entire winter. ...

A lot of them are, but not necessarily so.

Schiit should name some of their amps "Volcano" and "Storm", because that would be funneh.

Just so you know, you are also doing it for our benefit -- namely, vacariously attending. So please feel free to post as much detail as amuses you. I'm no longer into coffee beers at all*, so Dark Lord itself does not interest me, personally, but the beer part still does. *I don't know what happened -- some time in the last couple years I got real squeamish about the smell and taste of coffee -- it's almost like I had a bad batch, but I don't drink coffee. So I don't know what it is.

Awesome.

Actually, Evil Dead -- Gaston has an uncanny resemblance to Ash/Bruce Campbell. ...and, of course, The Corinthian.

Definitely. Your timeframe has been defined.

I'm not sure which is more disturbing, that image, or the fact that I instantly recognized it as Gaston, from Disney's animated version of Beauty and the Beast.

This is a good general rule-of-thumb. Decide what you need, allocate a budget, and get what you will when you need to. There's always something new around the corner. I mean, think about 10 years ago -- would you have waited 10 years for what's available now, back then? No, you needed it then, so you got what you could, then.

Or (agreeing with grawk here) just pick a pair of headphones that are compatible with built-in headphone amps.