Calgon, take me away!

Sometimes life just stinks.

My car is out in the garage with the engine all torn apart. Dan's truck is acting up...will start sometimes and not others. He'd been messing with it for 2 days and it started up on the first try this morning. It seemed to be running pretty good, so we headed out to get parts to fix my car.

We had to stop for gas first. You're supposed to shut off the engine when you pump gas, right? So, he shut the truck off, pumped the gas, climbed back in and of course, it wouldn't start.

So now we're stuck at the gas station in another vehicle that won't run. After sitting there for about ½ an hour and trying over and over to start it, we finally decided to call a tow truck. By the time the guy got there we were both freezing. And, wouldn't you know it, about 2 hours after towing the pick-up home, Dan went out there, turned the key and the damn thing started right up!!!!

He didn't dare take it to get the parts for fear the same thing would happen and we'd end up being towed twice in one day. We had no way to get to the parts store so Dan called one of them that delivers to shops and asked if they deliver to private homes. They don't. We sat here for a while longer trying to figure out what to do.

Finally, Dan decided to give one of his friends a call. Jason would normally be working on a Tuesday but it just so happened that he was off today and he was kind enough to come get Dan and take him to get the parts for my car. He even stayed for a bit and helped.

As they were working on the car, Dan started getting sick. I told him he shouldn't be out in that cold air while sick so he decided to come in, warm up and take it easy. He's on the couch being kept warm by Shteve!

I hope it's not that nasty flu.

Cats and Old Cars

After I went to bed last night, Dan caught these two acting like friends...



I'm glad he got a picture of it. Seems they only act this way when I'm not looking.

My old '93 Beretta is getting tired. The 'low coolant' light came on yesterday morning as I headed to work. Dan checked it when I got home and found that the anti-freeze is leaking internally (into the engine) and has started mixing with the motor oil which now looks like chocolate syrup.

I figured I'd just take his pick-up to work this morning but it wouldn't start last night. He worked on it for a bit to see if he can keep it running long enough to go get parts to fix my car. No go as of this moment. He'd been up all night so he's taking a nap now. And I'm not at work which is where I need to be, especially since the cut in hours this month.

Three vehicles sitting here and not one is drivable.

*sigh*