So this week has been kind of terrible, but that being said, it could’ve been a lot worse.
Sunday, HVAC issue that I wrote about last week.
Monday, I was taking my car into the dealership (they give me a ride to work so I don’t have to bother anyone) to get an oil change / tire check. My tires had been leaking, and I’ve just been to busy to get ‘em in, so I had just been filling them up. On my way to the dealership, one of my tires, clearly had a big problem, so I pulled into the gas station to fill up the tire to make it to the shop, to see that it had clearly been shredded. We paid for roadside assistance to make sure that we could get help when we went on our multi-state road trip. So I called them to get a tow truck to take my car to the dealership. You got the service, use the service. The first group came back and said 4:PM, and I’m like I Can’t wait all day for that, got sent back to the customer service, they got another group that said 11:AM, which, while a while, was way better, then I got a text update that it was then 7:PM, So I tried to navigate through the menus to get to a person to talk to about the situation (I’m not even quite sure how I got there). And added a window notification so I could then go to work.
The benefit here is that because I had been pacing around the Git & Go (thanks for the accommodation for the place on Franklin and Merle Hay), I had already gotten my steps and then some in for the day.
My co-worker came and got me and I made it to work.
So due to the combination of stress, forgetting my morning pills (including an acid reducer), I think forgetting my breakfast, drinking way to much iced coffee (normal + 2 starbucks unseated ones at the gas station) and probably just coming down with a stomach bug, I was at work for a couple of hours an then proceeded to return my lunch to the world.
Not wanting to reduce Shannon’s earning hours, I had my brother come and get me (who happened to be in town visiting).
I attended one final meeting, but basically most of the rest of the day, I rested.
Tuesday, I was still feeling less then stellar, being without a car I decided to work from home, which is a clear benefit, and proceeded to work through a number of mostly email or process related things, and get on the right track for a number of items. I took a couple of breaks through the day, and started eating a bit more then crackers around lunch time.
My HVAC people came over in the afternoon, did a visual and computer check of the furnace and found nothing the matter (good) and had no charge for the visit (also good).
2 tires only had leaks in them (which were fixed), the front two tires were shredded and had to be replaced, so the cost could’ve been twice as much, but I got away without having to much cost.
Late Tuesday, we went over to the dealership (I may have slept through the shuttle driver) and I picked up the car, everything seemed fine, though it seemed odd that my stereo was asking for it’s code (only happens when it completely loses power), I finally found the code (which I need to put in a more digital location) and thought that was taken care off.
Wednesday, I was right on time to make my 9:AM meeting, get out to the car, lights light up and unlock the door, put the key in, and…
nothing.
No click, no lights come on, nothing.
I thought that maybe I left the headlights on (not that I do that, but it could happen), but they were off.
So I call the dealership and they’re going to send someone out to jump the car.
I joined my 9:AM at home
My co-worker, over lunch, was nice enough to deliver me my other laptop allowing me to at least split screen (only in an emergency will I have my personal devices touch my work anymore).
Dealership called back and was like the post just wasn’t connecting well, so they fixed that.
I had a fairly productive day at home and made a bit of progress. The only complaint I really had is that when coding, the auto-complete doesn’t work so well on remote desktop, though in thinking about it, I did install visual studio on my pc work laptop, so I should’ve used that instead.
Wednesday afternoon, we received a bill for Shannon’s PET scan from earlier in the year, which was unexpected.
So I think the Gremlin’s power is fading as we have only had a lightbulb here and there pop, but on that, we’re almost out of florescent lightbulbs and can start transitioning to LED.
So it could’ve been worse. There could’ve been an actual problem with the heater, or twice the cost for 4 tires instead of 2 (though the back two do only have ~5k miles left on ‘em). And we were able to payment plan the PET scan, which we will pay off more rapidly, just don’t have the cash without robbing the emergency fund.
The rest of the week, has, on the other hand, been pretty good, baring a few burned out bulbs here and there.