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I was headed to D/FW to see my Mom for Christmas, but after I left the Metro in the cold for about 30 minutes on a stop just past Georgetown, the transmission started making a soft but clearly wrong grindy noise whenever I would let out the clutch.
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In other news, I've put the lie to recent criticisms that my yard is becoming a vehicle junkyard by wiping out the yellow jackets that had created a nest inside the driver's-side mirror of Echo's Geo Metro. This had the perfect yin/yang effect of both taking me one step closer to being able to work on it while also providing me with a perfect excuse not to work on it *today*. If I can get this vehicle working again, I'll have raised the Road-Legal-and-Functional-Index of my home to an impressive 40%, 20% higher than it's current value. The wasp attack I didn't notice was happening until I was several pages into the Chilton's manual also provided a nice symmetry with the recent bee attack on my father.

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