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Cleanliness is next to sleepiness

Or something. Second night in a row now that I've gone to bed after 1am thanks in part to halo 2.

I also spent a couple hours last night cleaning up my wheels. You heard me, cleaning. It's that thing I don't do very often. I bought a bottle of Castrol wheel cleaner and a cheap plastic wheel brush, packed up my stuff, and went over to my parent's house, as they have a hose. ;-) Cleaned up the race wheels first, as they were pretty easy, and I wanted to give them time to dry before putting them back in the car. They're all shiny again, so that's good.

Next was the real challenge, the street wheels. I took them off the car, as I (a) didn't want to get the rest of the car wet since I just washed it, and (b) I wanted to clean the back side of the wheels as well. The front side went ok, they get fairly clean when the car gets washed, it's just a matter of getting into the smaller areas. The back side was amazing. There was no evidence that these wheels were ever any color but dark brown. Just cleaning the outer portion of the inside, I had to rinse out my wheel brush after getting halfway around because it was full of dirt. As I was cleaning the back side of the spokes, the dirt was mixing with the foam from the wheel cleaner, and forming some kind of disgusting paste. They now look pretty clean though...at least as clean as they'll get. ;-) The finish is gone, but at least they're fairly shiny as well. In the end, I think I just about destroyed the cheap wheel brush, and I used almost an entire bottle of wheel cleaner (a large bottle, at that).