Not In Hot Water

[madbaker]

...because the pilot light in our water heater is out and won't re-light. A quick call to the installer suggests it's a minor part like a spark igniter or something. I won't lie - I tuned out when technical talk happened. The technician is supposed to stop by this afternoon so we will get hot showers again.

Less good news on the car front: the engine has been a bit rough for the last month. When idling it often feels like it's jerking forward and back a bit, like an impatient racehorse. Eventually the "check engine" light went on and we took it to our usual garage; but by then the light had gone out and they couldn't find what was happening. (Too much software I guess - they can't fix it without being told where to look.) Unfortunately, after a couple weeks it started up again. We dropped it off today, but they want to keep the car another business day. Which means Monday. Oh well; I didn't really plan to drive much this weekend. The grocery shopping and dry cleaning pickup we normally do on Saturday will just have to wait.

Comments

[beanolc]

Sounds like a forced weekend in. Could be worse!

[madbaker]

It might have been much worse if we had gone to West/An Tir, fully (over)loaded, and have it conk out somewhere during the 800 mile round trip. The mechanics wanted to keep it in part because they really didn't want us driving it until they fixed the problems.