Holar, folkses!
Sorry I missed yesterday! I’ve just been so crazy lately. I don’t know if I’ve ever been busier in my life than I am now. I mean, I’m always slammed, but right now? It’s a special sort of brain stuffing that’s just… out of this world.
I’ve done it to myself, of course, filling my life with so many things going on at once. So much to say, but I’m just… beyond exhausted, and though my brain is stuffed, it’s… not functional right now.
There’s just… so. much. going. on.
😶
Five weeks until I leave for the land down under.
So much to get done between now and then.
Quick summary of yesterday: They couldn’t figure out what was wrong with Malaki’s daughter, so they’re going to a pediatrician tomorrow.
Doctors. What… good are they? So many people I know, myself included, the only thing we hear from doctors is that they can’t find anything wrong. We’re fine.
Right.
Ugh.
Anyway, so Malaki spent the day with his family yesterday (family first–always), and I fixed six cars. I got lucky on the 1992 Corvette. I only accepted that job because I thought my brother in law might want to do some jobs for me, but he didn’t get back to me quickly enough, so I ended up doing the job myself–at least the diagnostic part. Gratefully, I was able to diagnose it as having a misfire on cylinder 8, most likely a fuel injector, and also a bad brake booster (pedal was crazy hard to push down when trying to stop the car).
Second car was a 2012 Nissan Pathfinder that wouldn’t start and just had a bad battery, so that one was easy, gratefully. Third was a 2016 Ford Escape that also wouldn’t start and just needed a battery. Fifth car was a 2019 Jeep Cherokee Latitude that was running super badly and died on him and was making an awful sound. Turns out the dealership that told him they did an oil change on his car apparently forgot to do it, as the oil was super dirty, and extremely low. I put three quarts of oil in it just to get it to the safe range.
Good gravy.
Anyway, he’ll be contacting the dealer tomorrow to let them know what happened.
Fifth car was a 2010 Lincoln MKS 3.7 that had a bad starter. This is one that Malaki diagnosed (and did a good job diagnosing, as it was indeed the starter. He wasn’t comfortable trying to fix it, as it had some sketchy looking stuff to have to do to remove the starter, so I did the job itself. Were he with me, he’d have realized it wasn’t too bad, and he’d totally have been able to do it.
Last car was a 2017 Nissan Rogue–another likely battery issue, so I taught him how to test and check his battery and also to test for a parasitic draw. I tested for one, but there wasn’t anything really to worry much about.
Ok. So tired. So so tired.
As for today, I sent my accountant the info she needs to do third-quarter accounting. I spent a good while working on our Genie lift, trying to figure out how to use it and diagnosing the various issues it has (has a leaky cylinder, and the rotation motor is locked up somehow. Can’t get it to turn at all, almost, just a slight turn.
Spent a good little while talking to Stevie about the tree business stuff, spent a good, long while at the hill-family party/get together. Lots of people. Good stuff.
Chatted with Thomas for a good, long while. It was his birthday today. Happy Birthday, Thomas! Chatted with my mom for a good, long while.
It’s after midnight, and I’m so short on sleep right now, but I’m not used to having a room room mate, and being the crazy-light sleeper that I am, I’m… not getting much sleep. I think y’all already know that I have a pee bottle by my bed because if I get out of bed to go to the bathroom, I’ll wake up enough that I won’t be able to fall back asleep. Well… with a roommate, I can’t just use my bottle like normal. I wake up to pee, but I’m trying to be super quiet–a no-sound pee-bottle experience 🙃–but that effort wakes me up because of the concern I’ll interrupt his sleep.
(sigh)
So I’m super tired, and it’s after midnight again, but I didn’t want to miss two nights in a row of writing here.
My love to all y’all.
Saw an armadillo in our yard tonight. I miss…
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 