Monday, as the saying goes, is a hell of a way to spend one-seventh of your life.
When I was in the corporate world, the Universe often removed my regularly scheduled Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and even the occasional Friday, and replaced them with Mondays. It’s been quite a while since it has done so, as I’ve been reclaiming all those lost other weekdays. But today was just one of those days.
The morning went as usual except for walking the dogs. When it was time for Magdalena to walk, she wouldn’t come to the door. The wife was busy eating breakfast, which took precedence. I finally put everything away, hung up my jacket, and settled in to start making my own breakfast. Then Magdalena runs to the door, eager to go on her walk.
After that the rest of the morning was spent in going to the pool, taking the wife to one of her medical appointments, and doing some shopping.
After we got home, I made lunch, and the wife turned on the Presidential Debate from last night. Got sucked into watching the first half of it before I couldn’t watch any more.
I was just getting ready to run another quick errand when the dogs started playing in the other room. I was working on the computer when I hear Sirocco squeal, and Magdalena’s playful growl turned into a nasty snarl. I ran into the other room. Magdalena was on top of Sirocco and the two of them were snapping at each other. I broke it up and Magdalena ran into the other room to hide by my wife. Sirocco was hiding behind a table. That’s when I noticed the blood on the floor. I finally coaxed him out from behind the table. Magdalena had bitten him near his nose and upper lip. Got him cleaned up but he was making noises like he was gagging. I’m guessing some of the blood went up his nose. I’m guessing their budding love affair has hit an impasse.
Left to go on my errand and it turns out the car is broken. I got in, put my foot on the brake, hit the button, same as I always do. The car pushed back on the brake pad, the headlights started flashing, and the center console and dashboard lit up. A message on the dashboard said ‘Ignition on’ but the car clearly was not running. Then I couldn’t get the car to turn off. After several tries I finally got that done.
Ran my errand in the other car. Came back home, and called the dealership.
Talked to a nice lady and told her what was going on with the car. She’d not heard of anything like that happening before. She suggested disconnecting the battery, letting it sit for a minute or two, reconnecting the battery and trying to start the car again. Did all that, but no change. The plan now is to call a tow truck in the morning and have the car towed to the dealership for them to deal with it. I’m hoping it will be something simple like changing the battery, but it’s a new car so I don’t think it will be so simple.
Got some work done for the rest of the afternoon.
Went to Bible Study. During the class the Pastor said that when he was a kid, computers hadn’t been invented yet. Being both a computer nerd and a sci-fi nerd, where we argue about pointless things endlessly, and the greatest sin is being wrong, it was hard for me to let that slide. (I’m older than the Pastor and computers were invented back in the 1940’s, with the ENIAC bein the first – between 1943 and 1946 – followed by the UNIVAC, and the UNIVAC mainframe in 1951.) Let it slide I did, though.
Anyway, I hope you’re day has been better, my Hordeling..
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