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Jan. 10th, 2009 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerWell, well, well. No sooner did the final (and unexpected) escrow check from the house sale finally arrive (now to figure out how to get ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redactrice her share...) than I spent a good part of my share!
I was hoping to spend the afternoon having coffee with a new acquaintance and possibly winning a new convert to "Fjords", but instead I found myself driving around Takoma Park on a cold, rainy day trying to find an open auto mechanic. Eventually I would up at the defrocked Shell station on 193 and Carroll, which proved willing to take a look at my car and try to figure out what was making the truly horrific grinding noise at the front left wheel (and making the brakes feel a bit dodgy).
Turns out something (I suspect the HUGE pothole on the 123-to-495 offramp) snapped by left front axle and either that or driving on it completed the ruin of my front left wheel bearing and hub (which I think had been bad for some time). Three hours and $400 later... :-(
Text messaging (which I'd discovered, thanks toban_leodhasach my phone is unexpectedly able to do), allowed me to warn my prospective gaming partner that we would have to postpone our meeting to another day. And I had two books with me (good thing, since I finished one!) But a great deal less fun (and more cold!) than how I had hoped to spend the day!
redactrice her share...) than I spent a good part of my share!I was hoping to spend the afternoon having coffee with a new acquaintance and possibly winning a new convert to "Fjords", but instead I found myself driving around Takoma Park on a cold, rainy day trying to find an open auto mechanic. Eventually I would up at the defrocked Shell station on 193 and Carroll, which proved willing to take a look at my car and try to figure out what was making the truly horrific grinding noise at the front left wheel (and making the brakes feel a bit dodgy).
Turns out something (I suspect the HUGE pothole on the 123-to-495 offramp) snapped by left front axle and either that or driving on it completed the ruin of my front left wheel bearing and hub (which I think had been bad for some time). Three hours and $400 later... :-(
Text messaging (which I'd discovered, thanks to
ban_leodhasach my phone is unexpectedly able to do), allowed me to warn my prospective gaming partner that we would have to postpone our meeting to another day. And I had two books with me (good thing, since I finished one!) But a great deal less fun (and more cold!) than how I had hoped to spend the day!
