Busted

January 5th, 2010

So pretty much everything in my world is broken at the moment, and I am pretty much sick of it. It’s so cold that some pipes in my yard have frozen, and my kitchen sink won’t drain. Now it’s full of nasty brown drain water, which will be just sitting there until it warms up. This also means that I can’t use my dishwasher, as it will just back up into the sink when it tries to drain. It does this any time it gets into the teens for more than one day, and I know it will solve itself once it warms up, but it’s a total PITA.

My oven is all farked up because I accidentally let olive oil spill into the bottom of it, and I’ve applied two coats of oven cleaner, and it’s still on there, so I can’t turn on the oven without detonating all the smoke detectors. I will try again tomorrow to get it cleaned, but for now it’s non-functional.

My car is doing that thing again where it won’t change gears properly on the highway. I am pretty sure it’s the cold. But try driving from the Galleria to Jefferson with your car in some weird low gear and see how that feels. It sucks. And see what it does to your freaking gas mileage – that also sucks. I am now getting about 180 miles per fillup instead of 225-250, and that is a large pile of balls. I need to have the guys at work look at it, but I know they’re gonna lecture me about getting a new car and I am not in the mood to hear it.

Also, this isn’t broken, just aggravating, but it’s so cold that my furnace runs constantly to keep the first floor at 64. This makes the second floor somewhere around 70 I bet, and the 3rd floor (where I sleep) in the high 70s. It’s like sleeping in a dry sauna, so I have to turn the heat down to 62 or 60 to keep it reasonable on the other floors. This means the bottom floor is basically off-limits, which is fine because all that’s down there is the broken freaking kitchen. But it makes me feel like I am camping out, making occasional forays down into the frigid first floor for supplies. And try getting three chihuahuas outside to pee when it’s 8 degrees out. Just go ahead and try it. I’ll watch.

Basically, this cold weather is fucking up everything in my world, and I sincerely wish it would stop it.

Now would be good.

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One Response to “Busted”

Dim Reaper on January 6, 2010 4:25 pm
I know that people can argue that machinery doesn’t work well in cold temperatures, but I’m sure that the reason everything breaks down in winter is because the universe knows that it is the most inconvenient time.

A drain blocks in the summer? You go outside and have a poke around yourself before finally calling a plumber (who doesn’t mind coming out to earn money in the sunshine).

Car not working in the summer? You get the garage to fix it whilst you go and relax in the park.

I do hope your machinery fixes itself soon – and I’m guessing it’s a lot colder over there than it is here and we’re all struggling. People were emptying the supermarkets yesterday. They’ve probably forgotten that you can just walk to a shop if you need to. *rolls eyes*.