So after being awake for several hours on Saturday night, I decided that it would be too stressful to take a broken car to Sydney on Sunday. I thought I'd take it in to get looked at on Monday and maybe go up Monday night.
Got up and went to Pulp Kitchen for breakfast with Daniel and Fi.
Daniel was pretty stoked with his bowl of hot chocolate and breakfast ;)
As I was with my breakfast raclette with a side of Pulp Kitchen bacon ;)
Daniel and Fi then went off to their own thing, while I caught up on things like downloading photos.
By Sunday night my phlegmy throat had turned into a very sore throat and I felt pretty crappy. Decided that it'd be too draining to go to Sydney for just a couple of days, even if they did fix my car, so decided not to go at all this week.
But I was on call, and they don't pay you overnight if you don't turn up for work, so I went in Monday morning with a still sore throat. Dumped the car at the mechanic and said please fix. And gave him a few days since I hadn't booked it in.
Monday afternoon I numbed the pain of the sore throat with a pint of Wig&Pen Two Knuckles Deep and then two half pints of Smokey Olde Spice - which I *loved*. Such a nice beer. Reminiscent of smokey whiskeys to some extent. Daniel and Fi tried a couple of things, then got two "tasting trays" of four different beers each. So they basically tasted most of the Wig & Pen beers on one night! I was impressed :)
We also had dinner there. I had a butter chicken.
Then went home and I had a great night's sleep.
Tuesday at work was ok because I'd had such a good sleep. But then Tuesday night I couldn't get to sleep til 1am :( Damned insomnia :( It's a bit after 9pm now and I thinking about crashing into bed already ..
At least I got my car back today. It was the alternator, as suspected. And even though he said it was out of warranty (you only get three months on second-hand parts, and this had been five months), apparently his supplier hadn't charged him, so he didn't charge me for it. So that was lovely of him.
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