Blackout fun!

but not for me...

I'm sorta sad, most of LA suffered from a huge blackout this morning/afternoon (supposedly someone accidently cut a wire there), but my work was untouched.

I like my job, but am extremely lethargic this morning. It doesn't help that I have had about three people call me from work because they're 'bored and can't do anything else' so my nose is being rubbed in it the fact that I'm working and they aren't.

Bastards....

Nothing big and new here in the land of fun. Car's running great, like it always did, but now the $750 CEL is off. Whoopee!

Cars are fun!

I shouldn’t be doing this, but mentally I need to stop for a minute and do something not work. Things have been crazy here, which isn’t a bad thing, because I really do like the place a lot and the things I’ll be doing here are great, but it is crazy at times, and that can be stressful, which is something I’m learning to deal with. But this isn’t really about work.

It’s about the death of the automobile.

Or hopefully mine.

I want to kill it, many times.

It’s in the shop right now, which is the 4^th time in less than two weeks that it has gone in to the shop.

The beauty of it?

It runs fucking great. Unfortunately, the check engine light is on, and has been for the entire time I’ve had the car. Though it annoyed me that no mechanic (I’ve had it at three different VW specialists) could get the light to stay off for more than 25 miles, I never sweat it because I take good care of it and make all its scheduled maintenance. I still don’t really care about it because it runs fine. The issue? It won’t pass smog, even though it will (and has) passed the emissions part of the test it doesn’t matter, it automatically fails with the light on like that.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Oh well, I have my car. Until this smog thing is taken care, then I’ll be back to enjoying it.