I do not live in an American sitcom
Aug. 30th, 2011 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prunesquallormdWhich is to say, when the 'check engine' light is on, I probably shouldn't assume that the only problem with the car is that there isn't a check 'check engine light' light.
So, after more than 8 hours of traveling on Sunday (although over 4 of those were spent waiting on people to come fix the car/tow me home) I arrived back exactly where I started, with my car on the back of a truck, sans water pump and 'auxiliary belt' whatever one of those is. Having driven it about 50 miles with no effective cooling system (other than the air going over it at 70 miles an hour) it remains to be seen how much other damage I've done to the engine (the last time I let a car drastically overheat, it melted the engine and it had to be rebuilt, for an eyewatering amount of money :/
God, I have such bad luck with cars :(
So I've got a week off work, and my plans to visit family and friends down south are a complete bust (especially as it was a bank holiday yesterday, so there were no garages open till today. Gah. Great timing, that). I've got a whole load of stuff that I can do at home. Stupid amounts of books to read, beta-ing to do, stuff to write, house stuff (need to sort out repairs, and there's always cleaning), so many comments to catch up on, and emails to write to, and loads and loads of TV to catch up on. It's just, I was looking forward to having a nice wander, and seeing people I've not seen for a while.
I'm trying so hard to be productive and not just faff my time away. I'm just naturally a faffer, what can you do!
Talking of which, I'm going to watch a couple of episodes of Criminal Minds now. I do love a good police procedural :)
So, after more than 8 hours of traveling on Sunday (although over 4 of those were spent waiting on people to come fix the car/tow me home) I arrived back exactly where I started, with my car on the back of a truck, sans water pump and 'auxiliary belt' whatever one of those is. Having driven it about 50 miles with no effective cooling system (other than the air going over it at 70 miles an hour) it remains to be seen how much other damage I've done to the engine (the last time I let a car drastically overheat, it melted the engine and it had to be rebuilt, for an eyewatering amount of money :/
God, I have such bad luck with cars :(
So I've got a week off work, and my plans to visit family and friends down south are a complete bust (especially as it was a bank holiday yesterday, so there were no garages open till today. Gah. Great timing, that). I've got a whole load of stuff that I can do at home. Stupid amounts of books to read, beta-ing to do, stuff to write, house stuff (need to sort out repairs, and there's always cleaning), so many comments to catch up on, and emails to write to, and loads and loads of TV to catch up on. It's just, I was looking forward to having a nice wander, and seeing people I've not seen for a while.
I'm trying so hard to be productive and not just faff my time away. I'm just naturally a faffer, what can you do!
Talking of which, I'm going to watch a couple of episodes of Criminal Minds now. I do love a good police procedural :)
