Change of plans

that's what happened on the drive in when the coolant level light started blinking. Damn it! I had just filled it up when I changed the oil. Now it has dropped again? It was fine for a month or more. What gives?

I think I've got a guess. Not sure if it is a good one, but the cap for the resevoir has always been weird. It tightens down too far almost, and then is impossible to get off. This morning I had planned to go fill the fuel tank up. Yeah 750 miles later with the fuel gauge sitting at 6 (who knows how much is actually left - various reports say that these things go dry around the first or second red line - ie before empty on the gauge) it is time to fill up. the plan was to head there this morning, hit work, then take the little one for her dental cleaning. Well change up, flashing light meant, work to get some distilled water to top off the reservoir. I've got coolant at home, haven't yet flushed it, but I know adding a half a liter of plain distilled water will keep the mix a decent ratio still. The cap though. It is like there isn't a gasket, and something is nagging at me that there is supposed to be a gasket in there. I'll have to compare it with the Golf tonight I guess. Anyway the fuel place is out in Cumberland. Yeah I drive an extra 25 miles out of my way to get fuel. But not just any fuel. Biodiesel. Sure there is an over priced B10 (10% bio) pump in PVD, but the cars don't like that fuel as much. All summer long I drive out there to get B100 (100% bio), well worth the trip esp since I'm not seeing much mileage difference between that and regular dino diesel with the around town driving. They've got B20 out there now. And it is a local operation, family owned, old fashioned pump, no price display, only a revolving (anyone remember those) gallon display. That and they've got wicked good fuel. So to reduce trips I've got 4 6 gallon yellow containers in the back of the wagon, gonna be a big fuel trip. That and getting the fuel after the dentist means, not only I get to top up the coolant so the light isn't blinking, I won't be driving around with an extra 24 gallons of fuel in the tank. The Golf went 5 weeks between fueling. This one? Well heck, what do ya know, 5 weeks.

Shoulder's feeling a little better this morning - managed to sleep at least from 1am to 6am without waking up...

finished the North Wind in Your Spokes. Definitely a book written for euro audiences, US folks like happy endings where the hero prevails. This not so much. Book kinda went down hill after the Tour. But came back up with the return. Maybe the LOTR feeling comes from the names of the climbs in the Tour?

Worth reading if you haven't yet.

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