Friday, January 19th, 2007
Not quite sure …
about how I actually feel at the moment, kinda numb i guess.
I’m annoyed at my car, for not working since last sunday:
I drove home from work fine, on friday evening, no incidents or anything to note that could cause a problem, however …
I get in my car on Sunday evening, to go to get fuel for the coming week, and the immobiliser has decided to not let me start my car! An hour later it works, and I go to the petrol station, manage to get back without incident.
Go to go out to see a friend a few hours later, but Immobiliser has decided to not let me use my car again, and stays so for the rest of the week.
How annoying, I now have to get my car towed to the local Renault Garage, as there is no way to by-pass the immobiliser, even with a silly long code and a rain-man style dance (It’s a “security feature”, according to one renault customer services monkey).
Apparently it may be that the key’s need re-coding, which costs around 40 quid (to hook a sodding laptop up to my ECU, and to send a radio signal to my key, bastards. Excuse my french)
However if it isn’t a simple case of my key needs re-coding, it “COULD” be the code ring/receiver (or whatever the hell it is) sat in my steering column, which will cost circa 90 quid to fix. Going on from that there could be another load of things to fix! I hate having a car, it sucks having to spend so much on it (400 quid this december gone had to be spent on another part of the electrics 
)
I’m also supposed to a resource in for some work this coming tuesday, due to start at around 04:00. If my car isn’t fixed I will be buggered and unable to come in early enough, as I will be having to get the train in till the car’s sorted (apparently it could take around 12 days to order the parts for the immobiliser), which will no doubt piss my boss off
As I’ve moaned about before, someone close to me died just after christmas, which meant I attended my first funeral. I really didn’t like it at all, I felt so bad and actually got emotional (yes, I do have feelings other than annoyance). The bastard thing is, a friend with whom I went to college with and worked with during that time at the world famous blackpool burger king, passed away too last week. Carl Denby was an awesome lad, and though I hadn’t seen much of him since our college days, I will always remember the guy as one of the most down to earth, genuine blokes that I have EVER met, rest well mate, I will rememeber and miss you, Carl.
January 2007 sucks, I hope this month is going to be the worst, and the rest gets considerably better.
I’m looking forward to next month though, work are sending me on a redhat course, and there’s NIN at the end of the month at the Apollo, woo!
