By way of introduction…(Where did I put that 10mm line wrench?!?)

I don’t write or read poetry.

That is going to become painfully obvious.

If you want poetry, or poetic analysis. You need to talk with my daughter, the British Lit major.

If you were searching for famous soliloquies by Shakespeare, Welcome! However, I doubt that you will find what you want here. I am not The Bard, a Bard or even a bard, although I did role-play one in AD&D when I was 13. But I digress…

Why the really silly blog title/URL? Well, first of all, this blog will chronicle the various repairs that I have done. That is the …from Under My Car part. It is usually where I end up spending a Saturday, and it usually involves a water pump.

I was going to call it Conversations from Under My Car, but let’s be brutally honest. There is no one around when I am doing these repairs. I try to get my boys involved so I can teach them, but they always seem to be very scarce when I do. My wife wisely stays out of the way so when things go really south, she is not in the blast radius. So I happened to think that my “conversations” are really more like:

so·lil·o·quy: \sə-ˈli-lə-kwē\ circa 1613

1. The act of talking to oneself.
2. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

My blog site has a four-fold mission:

1. To document, illustrate and/or complain about my (mis)adventures in automobile, appliance or home repair. Maybe you will be able to take my examples and fix your own stuff as well. Most likely, you will just wonder at the problems I create for myself because I am trying to save a few bucks or in desperate lack of certain important tools.
2. To fulfill my desperate need to blog something that I can call my own. There are many DIY sites. This site will not only talk about how to do repairs, but it will also reveal the stream of consciousness conversation that I have with myself in the 8th hour of a 2 hour repair estimate that I gave my wife.
3. To allow me to have a place where I can put my pent up thoughts. It gets crowded in here and pent up thoughts can cause a lot of pain. Ask Dumbledore. Why do you think that he needs to use a Pensieve?
4. To try and keep up with my experienced blogging friends, who are far more accomplished, witty, clever, relevant, etc., etc. You can usually find them here and also over here (don’t forget her other blog here). After looking at these blogs, I’m sure that you will agree. Why follow my blog when you can follow theirs? Here it is, I promise to make cookies.

Oh, and you may be asking. Why H-Geek? Look, do you really want me to reveal everything in the first post? C’mon!