Furniture Moved

[billroper]

So I went out to the van yesterday, hopped in, and turned the key.

The van said, "Click, click, click, click, click."

I said, "No!" And I called AAA.

Fortunately, it was just a dead battery. This is now two cars that have had original equipment batteries go out from under me with no warning after 3.5 years. I consider myself officially warned.

New battery installed, I made it on the road about 3 hours later than I'd hoped for, two hours later than I'd planned, and one hour later than I would have if the battery hadn't failed.

Happily, catalana held dinner. A very long time.

The weather cooperated by being warm enough that the snow on the berm had melted to the point where I could back the van up into the snow and load out directly on the cleared sidewalk (which we cleared a bit more before starting), up the back stairs, and in through the kitchen. All of the furniture is now in place and no major damage has been done to it or us.

Yay!

And I've seen Ohio Northern University, which is a very pretty little campus.

Comments

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Most OEM batteries just suck rocks. At the soonest sign of weakness, I've generally replaced the original battery with the largest, best aftermarket battery that will fit securely. Those usually last me over a decade. Unfortunately, the soonest sign of weakness is sometimes a dead battery.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Y'know, the word 'load' in your antepenultimate paragraph is important. Makes me wish I'd seen it the first time through. OTOH, I would have missed out on the chance to imagine you backing the van across the sidewalk, up the back stairs, and into the kitchen :)

new battery

[janmagic.livejournal.com]

i took my car to the dealer for an oil change my car has 45, 000 on it and i have had the car 1 week short of 3 years. they showed me how my battery had low juice..and then told me i got a new one under warrenty. sweet.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

It's gotten a whole lot larger since I got my law degree there; there's never been much there. The area is *very* conservative; Allen County / Lima / Ada was the *only* county in 1964 in the state of Ohio to go for Goldwater in the whole state.

When I was in there, it was terribly hard to get anything other than 3.2% beer; you had to leave the area for it. (In Ohio, you buy anything with serious alcohol at 'state stores', with lots of restrictions.) The law students and the pharmacy students were the two big graduate schools at the time, and the pharmacy dudes did a huge business in recreational stuff. Tons of pot; I remember one party where there was a big bucket of cleaned-out pot on the table ('help yourself, folks') that some law school student had grown in someone's south 40.

Of course, that was over 25 years ago.