de-icing this morning was rough... then I got some good news.

[salin]

my ten year old Mazda's engine just started idling way to fast while it is cold - and simultaneously the thermostat just went wacky (swings all over the place), so when there was a sheet of uncrackable solid ice on the car this morning - running the car to help it start deicing wasn't an option.

I was out for fifteen minutes and in to defrost/thaw about twenty, then back out... each time getting another patch of viewable window.

The Prius I ordered in October is supposed to get in to the dealer (an hour away) by the end of the week. The whole time I am scraping I am cursing not getting the garage door opener fixed, yet (was going to have it installed before getting the new car - all be the end of the week) and cursing the timing.

I finally hang in there longer than the fifteen minute splits to just get the deicing done. My fingers were freezing through the gloves (did I say that it was sixteen degrees with some windchill making it colder?). THen the cell phone rings. The new car has just been delivered...

So now, eight hours later... I am driving this:



WooHoo!