car asplode, again
I'd been noticing a bit of a high pitched whirr from the engine yesterday, knew the fan belt was wearing thin, and was thinking about taking it in to a mechanic soonish... Turns out soonish is nowish. It made this lovely kurchunk gasnick scccrrrrrr noise, and then there was smoke. I managed to pull over, call a tow truck, and persuade my mother to rescue me from the mechanic's and take a tour of our new house :) Hope that a fan belt is a fairly quick fix if not a cheap one... We've got about one load of stuff left at the apartment that glitch25 has very very kindly offered to help us out with, so things are ok really. Glad it didn't break before the big moving days! Disappointed that I missed the book reading that Jacqueline Carey was doing at the University Bookstore though. Home safe, life is good!