April 8, 2003
What started off as a horrible week is slowly becoming a horrible month. On top of all the bad stuff that happened last week, this week started off no better.
I went flying on Sunday, which was cool. On my way home, however, my car decided that it had enough of this whole driving thing, and stalled out on I-285. I was extremely low on gas, so I figured I was out. I called AAA, who tried sending a truck out to me, however the first truck had a dead battery. A truck finally did arrive after about a half hour, and towed me to a gas station. I fueled up to half a tank, and tried starting it again.
Yeah, like it'd be that easy.
The car was still not starting even with a half a tank of fuel, so I had it towed to Pep Boys. They checked it out, and were quite prompt in their attempts to assrape me. Their conclusion was that my fuel injectors are leaking, my spark plugs are "fouled" (whatever that means), and that the distributor, wires, and plugs are arcing in every different direction. Cost to fix? $1056.36.
I gave them $70 for the diagnostic and got my car the hell out of there before the ink was even dry on the estimate. I had it towed to another auto shop yesterday, who said I should be hearing from them by noon today.
During all of this incredible fun, two of my computers also decided they didn't want to function anymore. Britney, my mail and file server, happened to be one of them. Obviously this is a relatively important box, so I was less than happy. It's back up, but Waterhouse still needs a CPU fan.
I'm really hoping this streak of bad luck has reached its end.
(09:15)
Update: Found out this morning that the login system was broken. It has been fixed.
(11:01)
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