2003-11-03 - 11:21 p.m.
A deep breath, and off we go...
Well, this afternoon sucked. Talcott says this is my way of getting potential trip-disaster out of the way before I'm actually gone. I want to believe that, but I don't, quite.
Anyway, this afternoon. I drove up to Toledo to make certain I knew how to get to the train station. On the way back, my car started to overheat in traffic on Woodville road. I pulled off into the mall. Went to walk around in the Andersons for a while. Bought some wine, mostly because I could. Got some premixed coolant.
Went back out to the car to find no coolant in the reservoir. Filled it back up, muttered a bit of lacking hope for a successful ride home. Started shooting the temp up before I was out of the lot, really.
Turned on the heater, because that helps pull heat from the engine -- only I kept getting cool air. Damned heater is involved with whatever's wrong, I suppose.
Engine light came on, and I gave up. No use killing it any more than it's already being killed.
Only took about 5 minutes for a cop to show up. (Did I mention that since I wasn't going to be gone long, I didn't take my cellular with me? I'm never going anywhere without my cellphone again.) The tow truck got there about 20 minutes later.
So now my parents have to drive me to the station tomorrow night. And one of them will have to come pick me up at 5:30 Monday morning. Ugh.
Oh, did I mention I'm going on a trip? *giddy smile* I am. I'm going on a trip. A long trip. I'll be on the train for like 14 hours. The train. I love trains, I really do. Experience on the way to FruCon last year aside, I think they're wonderful. And really, that could've been worse.
So, yeah. I'm going on an adventuresome adventure, or something.
Y'see Pauley and Co are invited to a wedding. And there's been talk of my going to visit him anyway. And since I'll be going so far east anyway, and by train, I'm going to NYC first to see Gella. :-)
I'm going on a trip. On a train. And I get to see people!
While my inner worrywort is recounting a lengthy list of things that could go to make the trip bad, or at least stressful... my inner puppy is too busy wagging her tail and thinking "go for a ride? ride on a train?"
Oh, one additional bad thought for the evening -- lest I seem too positive. I think the DeCon has worked on something, and I think that something has died somewhere in my room. Or in one of the walls of my room. Because the smell is getting notable.
Tomorrow, when there is light and I'm less likely to freak out of I find it, I may go on a short quest to find the poor little rotting beastie and move it somewhere outside, where it can decompose in peace.
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