Friday, 24 August 2012

24 August 2012

Woo Hoo!  I'm below where I was when I went on vacation--I've now lost 69 lbs!!!  Very pleased with myself at this point--and more and more people are starting to notice, which is nice.  My weight hasn'y been this low since the early '90s--maybe before.

In spite of that bit of good news, I have to say that if it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.  I went out to run my errands this afternoon--and the car wouldn't start!  It just made a grinding noise, like it was trying to turn over but couldn't quite make it.  I have RAC (although why, I'm not sure), but they charge a fotune if they have to come to your house.  So I called Piccadilly Motors in Ripon where I bought the car and they sent someone out.  Between his very strong Yorkshire accent and my very bad hearing, I wasn't real sure what he said but after a while of him talking, I decided he might have said 'bore wash'.  Yesterday evening, when I got home from Liverpool, I decided to move the car back to where I usually park it.  [I guess I need to get over my OCD.]  Anyway, according to him when you first turn over the engine, the gasoline "washes" the oil off the cylinders--and if you only turn the car on for a few seconds, it's not enough for more oil  to replace what was washed off.  I guess the morale of the story is to let the car run for at least a few minutes once you've started it...

I start 4 day shifts tomorrow.

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