And back to the shop

My car’s ABS warning light had been shining for a while, so I finally made time to take it in and have it looked at last week Monday. They found some problems, kept it over night, fixed them, and I paid them not quite 6000 SEK for doing so. Yesterday (Wednesday) another warning lamp came on, this time saying “check break pads”. Since I will be heading to Norway for a week, leaving on Saturday, I promptly took the car back to the shop this morning and asked them to have a look, as one wants working breaks for a road trip, especially one which will involve mountains. An hour or so later they emailed me to say that they found more problems (I can’t be bothered translating from Swedish), and it would be ~5000 SEK to get it fixed, but I could have it back tomorrow. Here’s hoping that this really does it for a while.

Since I didn’t know when I left the house this morning how long they would need to keep the car I was smart enough to bring along my sewing basket. I then spent all day in the office (other than the lunch time acroyoga session with Johan) till it was time for the Frostheim crafts night, then I walked over. We have only been doing them once a month this term, and tonight was an espeically nice turn out—we had 11 of us, many of whom were working on sewing projects, others had nålbinding, another was doing illumination, another polished some wire for making spirals for a Finnish Iron Age costume. It was a delightful evening.

Now I am tired and should go do my yoga and get to sleep. I will be working in the office tomorrow morning and then meeting Johan for acroyoga, and then will work more in the office till the car place says I can come get it.