2:30 PM -- Power is Back ^_^
My power just came back on, yay! First thing I did was pull half the stuff out of my fridge and freezer to throw away. Power's been out for 3 1/2 days.
Yesterday I decided to get out of the (dark, cold) house and get something accomplished that needed to be accomplished anyway: renew my tabs. I was afraid that this might not work since, when I had my car worked on last August, I did not have them fix a faulty sensor in the power steering that had no effect on engine performance but made my engine light come on anyway. Before the test I tried to explain this to the test people, but all they want to hear from you is yes, here's my money, I'll go stand over there... then they explain to me that my test failed because of a faulty sensor in my power steering. Gee, thanks guys.
I took the car to East Hill Auto Service where I had it worked on in August. It would have cost me $90.00 to get it fixed in August, because they were already tearing my car apart at the time. But I was spending in excess of $600.00 already so I passed. Now it cost me $233.00 to fix. Or, since the faulty sensor didn't actually do anything, I had the option of paying them $150.00 to not fix it, and then I could get a waiver for the test since I'd spent at least $150.00 on my car. Uh... no, let's actually fix it, thanks.
This took until about 12:30 since they had to go get the part. In the meantime I wandered around Target and renewed one of my prescriptions, which I also needed to do anyway. When they were done they explained that they hadn't reset the engine light because if the light was off and the engine hadn't gone through a full drive cycle, they wouldn't be able to test it, whereas if the engine light was on it would automatically fail again and then I could just do the waiver thing. Only, when I got in my car and started up, the engine light did not come on.
/sigh. I decided to drive around a bit and do some errands. Among these was to buy more wood to burn. I'd had two and a half packages of wood saved up for a rainy (well, a no-electricity) day, and I'd used all of that up Thursday and Friday. All the stores in Auburn were out of wood, but I found some at Fred Meyers in Kent.
By the time I was done I figured I'd gone through a drive cycle, but by then it was 2PM and the testing site closed at 1 PM, something I'd failed to take notice of. Oh well, car's running fine, I can pass the test Monday.
Went to writer's night so I didn't start a fire Saturday. Also hit my comic shop, and bought some more wood just in case. When I got home last night I read Yotsuba! volume 10 and went to bed.
This morning I started a fire, I read volumes 39 and 40 of Ah! My Goddess, and I listened to the football game on the radio. I also took an ice-cold shower, brrr! Although I discovered that even after three days the hot water was actually still slightly warm, or at least warmer than ice cold.
I got dressed and went outside where PSE guys and some pipe/plumbing guys had trucks out and were hard at work. Among other things, they'd cut a lot of the downed trees into manageable chunks. I decided to store some away in my small outside storage closet for a future rainy day, free wood and all you know, and in the end I spent an hour lugging wood to my porch. I rolled six very large pieces downhill and stacked them... any one of them would provide as much wood as one of the packages I bought from Fred Meyers for $3.99, after they're split up. I'll just leave them to dry for now, maybe buy some plastic to cover them, and maybe buy an axe later, though I suspect I'll need a sledgehammer and logsplitter.
But anyway, it was good exercise and nobody else seemed to want the wood. I think a lot of my neighbors are visiting people with power actually.
I was planning to run to the store just to get out of the house... now I don't know if I need to. The house is still pretty cold though.
Yesterday I decided to get out of the (dark, cold) house and get something accomplished that needed to be accomplished anyway: renew my tabs. I was afraid that this might not work since, when I had my car worked on last August, I did not have them fix a faulty sensor in the power steering that had no effect on engine performance but made my engine light come on anyway. Before the test I tried to explain this to the test people, but all they want to hear from you is yes, here's my money, I'll go stand over there... then they explain to me that my test failed because of a faulty sensor in my power steering. Gee, thanks guys.
I took the car to East Hill Auto Service where I had it worked on in August. It would have cost me $90.00 to get it fixed in August, because they were already tearing my car apart at the time. But I was spending in excess of $600.00 already so I passed. Now it cost me $233.00 to fix. Or, since the faulty sensor didn't actually do anything, I had the option of paying them $150.00 to not fix it, and then I could get a waiver for the test since I'd spent at least $150.00 on my car. Uh... no, let's actually fix it, thanks.
This took until about 12:30 since they had to go get the part. In the meantime I wandered around Target and renewed one of my prescriptions, which I also needed to do anyway. When they were done they explained that they hadn't reset the engine light because if the light was off and the engine hadn't gone through a full drive cycle, they wouldn't be able to test it, whereas if the engine light was on it would automatically fail again and then I could just do the waiver thing. Only, when I got in my car and started up, the engine light did not come on.
/sigh. I decided to drive around a bit and do some errands. Among these was to buy more wood to burn. I'd had two and a half packages of wood saved up for a rainy (well, a no-electricity) day, and I'd used all of that up Thursday and Friday. All the stores in Auburn were out of wood, but I found some at Fred Meyers in Kent.
By the time I was done I figured I'd gone through a drive cycle, but by then it was 2PM and the testing site closed at 1 PM, something I'd failed to take notice of. Oh well, car's running fine, I can pass the test Monday.
Went to writer's night so I didn't start a fire Saturday. Also hit my comic shop, and bought some more wood just in case. When I got home last night I read Yotsuba! volume 10 and went to bed.
This morning I started a fire, I read volumes 39 and 40 of Ah! My Goddess, and I listened to the football game on the radio. I also took an ice-cold shower, brrr! Although I discovered that even after three days the hot water was actually still slightly warm, or at least warmer than ice cold.
I got dressed and went outside where PSE guys and some pipe/plumbing guys had trucks out and were hard at work. Among other things, they'd cut a lot of the downed trees into manageable chunks. I decided to store some away in my small outside storage closet for a future rainy day, free wood and all you know, and in the end I spent an hour lugging wood to my porch. I rolled six very large pieces downhill and stacked them... any one of them would provide as much wood as one of the packages I bought from Fred Meyers for $3.99, after they're split up. I'll just leave them to dry for now, maybe buy some plastic to cover them, and maybe buy an axe later, though I suspect I'll need a sledgehammer and logsplitter.
But anyway, it was good exercise and nobody else seemed to want the wood. I think a lot of my neighbors are visiting people with power actually.
I was planning to run to the store just to get out of the house... now I don't know if I need to. The house is still pretty cold though.