Anyway

I sure hope this week is a one-off. Noth­ing major, no life-threat­en­ing issues, just a bunch of annoy­ing smal­ler things that all came at once. While Tim’s away. 

Monday: go to drive Tim to the air­port; he’s away until Fri­day. The oil sensor light comes on in the car. Tim gets a cab, and I get to take the car to the work­shop. They prom­ise to look at it Tues­day morn­ing. The 19-month-old decides to have a party in her crib at 3 am, wak­ing me (of course). She gets back to sleep even­tu­ally, I lie there think­ing of what needs to be done.

Tues­day: the work­shop looks at the car, changes the oil sensor, changes the oil, the sensor light still comes on, they want to keep it until Wed­nes­day to do some fur­ther tests. The 19-month old only wakes twice dur­ing the night, so that’s not too bad, but then she wants to get up at 6:30 am.

Wed­nes­day: the prob­lem isn’t the oil sensor, it looks like it’s the instru­ment cluster. Which needs to be fixed at an “author­ized deal­er”, since they’re the only ones with all the secur­ity codes and appar­at­us to pro­gram the elec­tron­ics. So I get the car back, can still drive it short dis­tances (great ser­vice from the work­shop, BTW, and a reas­on­able price), such as to the author­ized deal­er. Whose first appoint­ment isn’t until Feb­ru­ary 4th, that’s almost two weeks from now. The 19-month-old fig­ures out how to take off her sleep bag in the middle of the night, gets cold, needs to have the sleep bag and blankets put back on her so she can sleep. Guess I’m not using that sleep bag for her any more. For­tu­nately she sleeps in till 7:30 am.

Thursday: cold, frosty, but sunny. The toi­let clogs. Badly enough that I can­’t get it unclogged, and I’m cur­rently wait­ing on a call back from the plumber. 

I sure hope the rest of the week goes better.