Peanuts, engine compartments, Woodfield, cell phone death
Today was pretty nice, despite itself.
We decided today would be a good day to head up to Woodfield and check out the Fossil store - Julie's been eyeing a few watches and wanted to get up there and find a new one.
Well, we got ourselves ready to go and hopped in my freshly-oil-changed car and headed out of town. We got a mile or two down the road (Alpine and Broadway, for those that know Rockford), and I noticed that I had the Check Engine light on. Julie suggested that since I was just in for service, a cap could be loose. So I pulled over and started rooting around in the engine compartment, looking for all the caps. I found them all.
But I also found two in-the-shell peanuts. Still in the shell. Resting on my engine block.
I'm pretty upset by this - who eats food while working on an open engine? There are places food can get that wouldn't do good things for, well, just about anything in there. Add the fact that after tightening all the caps the Check Engine light is still on, which means that someone was very careless while working on my car. I have to take time off tomorrow morning so they can fix it. And you can bet that it's going to be no charge. We turn around and swap cars; I manage to leave my cell in my car.
We proceed to have a fine afternoon at Woodfield. Julie didn't find the watch she was looking for, but we did spend some quality time at the Apple store and a neat little shop called Teavana. We've got a loose-leaf tea maker, and we picked up some nice tea. I'm going to be brewing myself a cup of some really excellent chai tonight. We walk around and then decide to leave. The trip back was pleasant, if a tad snowy.
We get home and I pile out of her car with my iPass and garage door opener and go around to move my car into the garage. I do so, but I don't find my cell phone in the car - I find it buried under the snow on top of my car. The screen is crushed and it won't turn on.
I don't really have anything else to say about it except: >:(
The iPhone is coming in June sometime, so that'll be good. And hopefully I'll have found one of my old cell phones by then. That would be nice.
We decided today would be a good day to head up to Woodfield and check out the Fossil store - Julie's been eyeing a few watches and wanted to get up there and find a new one.
Well, we got ourselves ready to go and hopped in my freshly-oil-changed car and headed out of town. We got a mile or two down the road (Alpine and Broadway, for those that know Rockford), and I noticed that I had the Check Engine light on. Julie suggested that since I was just in for service, a cap could be loose. So I pulled over and started rooting around in the engine compartment, looking for all the caps. I found them all.
But I also found two in-the-shell peanuts. Still in the shell. Resting on my engine block.
I'm pretty upset by this - who eats food while working on an open engine? There are places food can get that wouldn't do good things for, well, just about anything in there. Add the fact that after tightening all the caps the Check Engine light is still on, which means that someone was very careless while working on my car. I have to take time off tomorrow morning so they can fix it. And you can bet that it's going to be no charge. We turn around and swap cars; I manage to leave my cell in my car.
We proceed to have a fine afternoon at Woodfield. Julie didn't find the watch she was looking for, but we did spend some quality time at the Apple store and a neat little shop called Teavana. We've got a loose-leaf tea maker, and we picked up some nice tea. I'm going to be brewing myself a cup of some really excellent chai tonight. We walk around and then decide to leave. The trip back was pleasant, if a tad snowy.
We get home and I pile out of her car with my iPass and garage door opener and go around to move my car into the garage. I do so, but I don't find my cell phone in the car - I find it buried under the snow on top of my car. The screen is crushed and it won't turn on.
I don't really have anything else to say about it except: >:(
The iPhone is coming in June sometime, so that'll be good. And hopefully I'll have found one of my old cell phones by then. That would be nice.