Car & Computer Woes

I am hoping this is not one of those “things happen in threes” events. During this past week both my car and computer needed repairs.

I was told by my mechanic that my car (aka van) needed two new tires and I had scheduled this to be done. I also scheduled an alignment because I felt it needed one but I wanted my mechanic to confirm this.

Well he and his assistant looked over the tires and moved them back and forth and concluded that I needed ball joints and a tie rod before I could get the alignment done. So I had the two new tires put on and am going back in two weeks from now to have them fix the ball joints and tie rod and then get the alignment. Of course this will require leaving my car there for the day but, if I don’t have anything to do on that day, I will just have a friend help me drop it off the night before and then get a ride back there the next day to pick it up.

So that is my car woes.

My computer woes involved it freezing up on me. Since my computer has Linux on it, there is no reason for this to happen unless my hard drive was going bad. So I drove it out to my brother’s house (he does this for a living – fixes computers, websites, etc.) and he ran tests on it. He felt that the hard drive wasn’t perfect but wasn’t necessarily completely bad but he replaced it just to be on the safe side. It is all better now.

I am really tied into my mechanical devises. Whenever my car is in the shop, I feel like my whole world is off. I feel the same way when I am without my computer. I do have a laptop to use but for most projects, I prefer my computer.

I guess the way I am tied in to these things and am so emotionally attached to them, I could include what happened to my hand as part of my woes this past week.

You see, I was fixing corn bread for a lunch at church and, as I was pouring milk into the batter, I noticed that the edge of the measuring cup was chipped and sharp. I have owned that measuring cup for something like 12 years so it was bound to get a little chipped by now.

As my hand touched the sharp edge I thought to myself that I should get a new measuring cup since I might cut myself on that some day.  In the mean time, I dropped it into the sink full of soapy water so I could wash it.

As I was doing the dishes, I picked up the measuring cup to wash it, ran the dish cloth on the inside of it and sliced the top of the base of my right thumb all along the edge. OUCH!!! Major cut! Major bleeding!!

What did I do? I carefully rinsed the measuring cup, put it in the dish drainer to dry and then set about getting the bleeding to stop. I rinsed the wound and bandaged it. Then bandaged it a few more times throughout the day. I finally got it to stop bleeding that evening.

My pastor asked me at a meeting the next night if I considered going in to the hospital for stitches and I explained that I had corn bread in the oven and had to get to church for the lunch. I weighed my options and felt that I didn’t have time to go to the hospital to have them check it and possibly stitch it up.

That is usually what happens when I have a kitchen injury. When it happens I am too busy to bother going to the hospital. I’m a firm believer in putting pressure on a wound and hoping for the best. Generally speaking it works. So far.

So I guess I did have three woes this past week. Hopefully that will be it for a while. I hope!