Glenn, I am tired, head hurts, we just got home and are both dead. Call me with the house line in a couple hours if you have not gotten a jump start. i need to be up then (say 8:30-9 pm) and could come out to help.
Urk. I crashed really really hard when I did crash, and just woke up now. So I haven't atually gotten around to calling anyone else yet.
I've let it get late enough that, this not being an emergency, it's not reasonable to try to drag anyone else over here tonight unless they already happen to be up and feeling social (if you're up to it, I'd be grateful, but if you're busy or still feeling crappy, I'll save the "please rescue me" coupon for when it's more urgent).
There's also a chance that we can do this in less-rain-than-now if we pick the right moment in the morning. Are you free then? My current plan is to try to wave one of my neighbours over when they're moving their cars for street cleaning, and to start calling Baltimore friends who might have flexible schedules if that fails (I really should have been calling people this evening, but like I said, I crashed really hard). Worst case, I'll sit in the car and work on a tune I've been meaning to write down, and wait for the parking enforcement folks to come 'round, at which point I'll explain that I'm waiting for a friend to help me start the car so they really [%flutters eyelashes%] don't need to give me a ticket. Any plan that gets the car moving before 3LF (http://www.wam.umd.edu/~eowyn/3LF/index.html) rehearsal counts as a Solution to this Problem. The other things I want to do tomorrow can be postponed; I've already dealt with the emotional hit from the frustration of this whole thing. (Still feeling plenty foolish enough about it though.)
Sheesh, I'm long-winded when I've just woken up, huh? Urk. Not quite awake enough to want to deal with rewriting ...
Whoops. Solution not so much. Got the car started, can't keep it running long enough to move it. Will explore more in the morning. If I'm really really lucky, the remaining problem will be something annoyingly stupid; if not, then I'm guessing I'll need an alternator. Let's hope it's nothing worse than that.
I hope it's merely the "too litle gas to park on this particular slope" problem (diagnosis: coast it around the corner and see whether the problem goes away; if it does, buy gas). Right now we'd have to push the car uphil to be able to clear the truck parked in front of my car, but the truck has to move for street cleaning in the morning, so ...
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I've let it get late enough that, this not being an emergency, it's not reasonable to try to drag anyone else over here tonight unless they already happen to be up and feeling social (if you're up to it, I'd be grateful, but if you're busy or still feeling crappy, I'll save the "please rescue me" coupon for when it's more urgent).
There's also a chance that we can do this in less-rain-than-now if we pick the right moment in the morning. Are you free then? My current plan is to try to wave one of my neighbours over when they're moving their cars for street cleaning, and to start calling Baltimore friends who might have flexible schedules if that fails (I really should have been calling people this evening, but like I said, I crashed really hard). Worst case, I'll sit in the car and work on a tune I've been meaning to write down, and wait for the parking enforcement folks to come 'round, at which point I'll explain that I'm waiting for a friend to help me start the car so they really [%flutters eyelashes%] don't need to give me a ticket. Any plan that gets the car moving before 3LF (http://www.wam.umd.edu/~eowyn/3LF/index.html) rehearsal counts as a Solution to this Problem. The other things I want to do tomorrow can be postponed; I've already dealt with the emotional hit from the frustration of this whole thing. (Still feeling plenty foolish enough about it though.)
Sheesh, I'm long-winded when I've just woken up, huh? Urk. Not quite awake enough to want to deal with rewriting ...
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I hope it's merely the "too litle gas to park on this particular slope" problem (diagnosis: coast it around the corner and see whether the problem goes away; if it does, buy gas). Right now we'd have to push the car uphil to be able to clear the truck parked in front of my car, but the truck has to move for street cleaning in the morning, so ...