Aaron's Status

6:02 am

Brakes

In yesterday’s status I failed to mention that my car is now displaying a message that says “Brake System: Drive Moderately,” which is always reassuring to see in a vehicle. The car status display says that the front brake pads need to be replaced, which is confusing because I swear I just replaced them.

But of course I keep no records and neither does my mechanic. He’s a “salt of the earth” kinda guy. I suspected that the car just reached some date or mileage threshold, but I took it over there and he wasn’t able to reset it. He looked at the pads and said they should be fine, but probably the sensor is malfunctioning.

Just more stuff to have to fix.

Doors

I decided not to try to keep this cracked door and set out to find a new/different one. I am resigned to spend more money if it means I can stop thinking about this; and I conferred with $WIFE and we agreed that our bar for what the door looks like is pretty low, it just has to stylistically match the front door.

So, I abandoned the “1/2 lite” (with nine glass panels) and found a “1/4 lite” (with six), which is the same as the front door. It’s the same manufacturer so hopefully they don’t fuck this one up in shipping, too, but at least I can be confident about the color because it should be the same as this busted one.

Now it’ll take another week or two for the new door to come. Annoying.

Dinner

Got out to dinner last night with my friend, $LAWYER. We had a spirited conversation across many topics from our hobbies to financial fraud and elections. We went to a nice Mexican place called Painted Burro and the food was good! A bit of a parking nightmare, though. Because cars are a nightmare.

Bevvy fridge

We’re on our second “beverage fridge” which I guess you can actually call a “wine fridge” since its racks are designed for wine bottles though we never use them for that. This house came with one and we got really used to having it, so when that one died (which seemed expected because they always give you shit appliances with a house) I replaced it with what I thought was a nicer one.

But now that one is failing to get cold, which is not a big deal because nothing in there needs to be refrigerated for food safety or anything, but I ordered yet another one and it’s supposed to come today so we’ll see how that goes.

Worky work

This has been one of those weeks where I had a couple things planned to work on and they were completely interrupted by unexpected issues, which snowballed into a lot more work than anticipated. None of this is bad; the work needs to get done and nobody is on my back about it and it’s going to make our product better so it’s a win-win-win, but it can feel like a lot sometimes.

I think after today I’ll have it all in a good place.