Song of the day: “A perfect 10” by The Beautiful South. Cute song, if you’ve got the time, look it up on youtube. If you know it already, you know what I’m talking about hah.
So, I’ve got very little time today…well, I usually have little time, but these past few days have been downright hectic. Which has its good points, I assure you. On the plus side I’ve had hardly any time to think either, and in light of the Prama and Camera debacle that was good. On the minus side, I havent’ had any time to think about writing either, darn it. Did reach 100 pages, but it’s been teaspoon sized efforts for as far as I’m concerned.
It seems like we’ve been out of the house every single day since the weekend…let me rephrase that, we have been out of the house every single day since Saturday and it’s driving me bonkers.
The Land Rover is back (definitely a plus) but it was a hassle, I tell ya. Jeez. We could finally go to pick it up yesterday even, but somehow the garage had messed up. And when I say messed up, I mean seriously fucked up (pardon the language).
1. They didn’t fix the hand brake, which had been the deal.
2. They insisted on 800 bucks instead of the agreed upon 600.
3. When I started the car up everything went haywire.
4. Did I mention haywire. Gawd, I almost had a conniption.
5. The mechanic insisted that it was just a short, so I took it home.
6. We checked and it was not “just” a short.
7. I’m never going to that place again. Grrr.
We brought the car, had to wait for the mechanic for an hour to insist he fix it for free. Did I mention the not going back? Ever? Grrr!
But anyway, the guy fixed their error…of course this was after we went to another mechanic who was nice enough to tell us what the problem could be, allowing us to actually sound like we knew what the heck we were talking about. Jeez. Once we came there to pick the car up, the owner (he’s an arrogant little snot, if you must know. The only reason we always went to this garage was because the manager is a good guy) came up to us, grandly declaring that we didn’t need to pay for this particular fix. DUH! When he called a very pointed “Hasta Luego” (loosely translated into Seeya) I rolled my eyes in a “Yeah, yeah, hasta luego…never again” and got the heck outta there. Gawd! They’ve so lost a good customer.
Due to the nice dude at the other garage, you know, the one who suggested the problem which proved to be correct has earned himself a new Daewoo customer in the near future, but anyway, he suggested and Land Rover specialist in Malaga, to whom he brings his own Freelander as well. Though such a remark does not inspire great confidence in a mechanic (you know, being in the profession himself and everything) he did make a point that the Land Rover is not necessarily a difficult car to fix, but that it is very different from the cars people drive these days. We’re bringing the Defender to this specialist next week so he can fix the hand brake proper. *sigh*
Oh, did I mention that we’re finally getting the Daewoo Matiz tomorrow (knock on wood etc.)? Yeah, well, if Ray the car sales dude isn’t flapping his mouth without saying a single sensible word, we will have both cars safe and sound where they belong before the end of the week.
Next bit of “good” news: In all likelihood I’ve got a second route with the distribution job. The main distributor and I will discuss it on Monday, so keep yer fingers crossed. Got that Land Rover bill to take care of after all. *double sigh*
It’ll be interesting to set up a route from scratch, seeing as the main distributor is just now starting with the expansion and will leave that to me. Or at least, that’s the plan. It’ll be a lot easier to remember personally found spots, rather than those from someone that you have to keep to.
Of course we also had to pick up our friend in Marbella, which was another two hour trip. It went fast, but still cut sharply into the day. With all the driving going on we have been able to do very little project wise, darn it. Grandpa has been doing most, for crying out loud, since whenever we were out for a day (we already did a dry run through the second route, just to familiarize ourselves with the areas) we would come home, have a late breakfast/lunch and dinner combined, and then head into the yard for small harvesting and watering.
Today we did manage to do a little, after bringing the car back to the garage for the fixing of the screw up. I painted the new shelving for our gas supply, and put higher legs underneath tenant’s armchair, since the poor woman has been having the worst time getting out of the dratted thing.
With a few inches added to the height, she should manage just fine. At the same time big brother did some masonry on the new storage spot, and hung shelves above the dog food that’s already in there, yay.
We were just about done to, ready to head into the yard for today’s watering, taking the dogs along with us, (they’ve been missing us somewhat fierce these days, what with all the trips going on) when I got the call that the car was fixed and we could pick it up.
Gawd, I’m so glad that I actually managed to catch the monumental 8 hours of sleep last night. Seriously, these past few days have been so exhausting; I just want to sleep all the time. Hah.
Well, I should be getting back to book writing ‘cause tomorrow is grocery shopping day, darn it!!!
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