car people!

So a few weeks ago -- one of the days of Carmina Burana, which was the end of March, so okay, four or five weeks ago -- I noticed a crack in my windshield that, upon inspection, can only have come from the effort of de-icing the car following the Valentine's Day ice storm. (I mention this by way of orienting the damage in time, in the hope that this will confirm my suspicion that it doesn't really matter all that much.)

The source of the crack is under the passenger-side wiper blade, and may have come from an especially sharp rap with the corner of the scraper, or may have come from allowing a wiper blade with ice on it to smack back down into the windshield. Impossible to say, at this point, but it's definitely a ding in the outside. The crack itself runs just a bit inside the lower right-hand curve of the windshield, up into the edge. Its total length is a little longer than my handspan from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my little finger.

It has not grown any longer. There is no spidering. I can't feel the crack under my fingertips from inside the car (though I can on the outside). The windshield does not leak in the rain.

( Does the windshield need replacing? )

yay!

cmshaw gave me a virtual tree!  Thanks, C!

a meme from kassrachel.

1) Comment and ask to be tagged!
2) I will pick THREE of your interests and/or user pics I find odd or nifty!
3) You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
4) People comment on your post!

kassrachel asked me about ( three icons, since I don't have any interests listed. )

and!

Although they're technically not supposed to turn it on until May 15 -- because Arlington County has no concept of anything even like reason, evidently -- when I came home today the AC was on in my building.  HURRAH.