Since I didn’t get the call that the car was done til I was more than an hour into the bus ride home yesterday, we decided to pick up the car today. The shop closes early on Fridays, so I decided to get the car first.
So I took my normal 06:20 bus (the earliest available). I worked on bus ,but only for just over an hour. Then I was feeling too aware that I needed to get off the bus at the first stop after we got to the city, so I packed the computer and got myself ready.
Luckily, the bus I needed to transfer to came pretty quickly, so I was at the shop at 08:00, which meant that I was at the inspection station in Ånäset by about 09:00.
I had planned to work for the 50 minutes before my appointment, but that shop is a “sit in your car and wait for the SMSto tell you to drive into the shop” kinda place, so I just scrilled on the phone, so I would notice the SMS.
It worked. Since they do inspections, which mean looking under cars, they have a valley in the middle of the room, and we are to drive over it, one tire on each side of it. I didn’t know that I have a phobia about driving over a hole in the floor that is wider than half the car, but it turs out that I do. Next time either Keldor takes the car to the inspection, or I drive to the door, and let the inspection people take the risk of needing to keep tires on either side of the hole in the floor.
Luckily, and not particularly surprisingly, given that the csr has just been fixed, it passed inspection.
Around that time I talked to Keldor, who had had such an effective work morning that they had already finished the day’s job. He has been commuting in his work car, so it makes sense that I drive in to get him, so he can leave the work car at work. Besides, we needed to buy more insulation for the Create an attic bedroom project.
So, rather that going home and working, I drove in to town and we bought the insulation, then we went to several second hand stores, finding a variety of useful objects, though not a suitable cabinet for the upstairs loo, which we had hoped to find. The day’s acquisitions included:
- a black velor couch pillow
- a shirt and a pair of trousers for me, and a pair of jeans for him
- a couple of lamps for the upstairs room
- a cookie jar
- two bentwood boxes
Once we were home I started working on Charlemange’s camera, and stayed up till 01:00, oops
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