i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
11:58 PM: trick or trixie
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alas, i took trixie in for her 45,000 mile check-up and to fix a potential battery issue. they said it would be ready after 5 and that they'd call me, but i said they wouldn't be able to reach me because i'd be out all day. when i got there at 6 p.m. they said it would be ready "any second now," and asked me to wait, though after 10 minutes passed i got worried because i had to be at the iprc orientation at 7 p.m. so i asked again, and after a while of no response, someone came in and told me the guy who had been looking at it went home without telling anyone, so i'd have to pick it up tomorrow. apparently they did the battery service, but now the battery light in the dash is flickering and they don't know why. i was lucky enough to have sven there, but if i was at csusm this would have crippled me: how would i get home? how would i get to work in the morning? how would i even get to the dealership to pick trixie up again? grrrrrr. this is the second time i've been to this dealer and i'm not that impressed with them. the toyota dealer service department in escondido totally rocked, though.
anyway, no trixie. this'll be the third scheduled luxury day that turns out to be something else: sven was sick, then i was sick. and now trixie is sick. meh!