Yesterday saw some heavy rains, even a small bit of hail. While this double rainbow should have been a highlight, it in fact turned out to harbor evil leprechauns with a pot of nasty electronics. After pulling over to grab this photo and admire the refracted sunlight in the rain to the east, we left the parking lot of our local community college, and not 100 feet down the road it felt like we ran over an old coyote. We even turned around to look for something on the road, well in slowing down and turning around I figured out what happened – our transmission was broken by those leprechauns that moments before were darting in and out of the rainbow. Our car was stuck in 3rd gear which made for some slow acceleration from a stop. Over the next week, I heard all methods and diagnoses of how my transmission was going to put back together again. Twelve garages offered twelve different solutions ranging in price from expensive to painfully expensive. Turns out that the last person I wanted to trust, my dealer, correctly identified the problem and quickly fixed the tranny by replacing a malfunctioning computer unit, that was covered by our warranty. So maybe the clouds did hold a silver lining and the pot of gold wasn’t so far out of reach.