Not sure what tomorrow will bring. Not planning great things I’m afraid.
Past couple of days have left me somewhat short of sleep. As I was driving home this morning I stopped at the gas station, filled up, and picked up a couple of quarts of motor oil, and a couple of quarts of transmission fluid.
Since you want to check and add transmission fluid while the engine is running, and the transmission is warm, I left the car running when I got home and parked. Grabbed a funnel out of the trunk, pulled the transmission dip stick, put in the funnel, and added a quart. As the fluid drained out of the funnel I glanced at the bottle, and realized that things had just gone pretty bad. The fluid I had just poured into the trany was motor oil. Well, synthetic 5-30 motor oil, but definately the wrong stuff to go in. Added the right stuff, but don’t know if I got enough fluid in yet, in any case I’m going to have to drain it all out as soon as possible, and better would be to flush it, drop the pan and check and if necessary replace the transmission filter.
I then add the remaining motor oil to the engine where it was supposed to go, but I expect I will need to add more. When I topped up for gas I checked my mileage since the last fill. I’m getting less than 13 mpg, which is pretty bad for the car. Normally I see between 16 and 19. I’m pretty sure that the combination of the low tranny fluid and low oil have not helped my mileage any at all.
So I then go in. do a quick check, yes I’m going to have to drain the tranny, all kinds of wonderful stuff I really didn’t want to have to do. So I decide I might as well get off that track, do some other writing, and invite a bit of other disaster. And head off to bed. I get to sleep at about 7:30. And promptly open my eyes at 9.
That’s followed up by not being content with putting my foot in my mouth, but firmly planting both feet down my throat in a comment. that I only realize later I did, apologized for, but I still feel pretty bad about my phrasing.
Some good? Well, I hope so. Forwarded a different picture of a friend to them cropped to be specifically them, and all set to go to be used for a profile, or something else. It’s not perfect as the camera was not in focus at the time. Also encountered the online presence of someone I’ve heard of, and whom I have a lot of mutual friends with that I have a lot of respect for, but I don’t know if I’ve ever done so much as nodded in hello to in passing some place. Of course the way my day has been going, I’ve probably insulted her in some completely unforgivable way, and I’ll be regretting it for years to come. I kind of hope not though. Kind of thinking it would be a good balance for the day if things went well. We’ll see.
So, after cleaning up something that’s been annoying me for months, I apparently finally fall asleep. I don’t know what time it was. I do know that I responded to the alarm at 4:00 pm, but wasn’t up. I did wake up at 5:45. Now recall that my schedule is to be at work at 6:00 pm. I normally get to my desk at 5:45 give or take 5 min, and take off for work about 5:00 pm. So the day just got worse. Called my boss, explained that I had just woken up but was on my way, and ended up at my desk at 6:30.
Really kind of wishing I don’t end up dragging my collection of bad fortune into Sunday. If things some of the results of actions Saturday, or this week turn out good, I really would be happy about that. If it doesn’t work out well, I’ll be disappointed, but that happens.
Live, It’s not really all that bad.
