It'll be at 4:30 Eastern Standard Time on Monday. Looks like 3:30 in Regina.
Best excuse ever for skipping school!
He doesn’t live the region/area where his school is located… so if his grandma (My Girlfriend) ‘s SUV doesn’t start, he’s not going Monday.
I found out Friday morning that Thursday afternoon, she drove away from the house with the block heater plugged in…. so I’ve been outside skinning things back and reinstalling a plug on the end of that cord. I’ve got a blow dryer working on that cord now…. Because I found out that she ran the battery dead trying to start it (with her remote car starter Friday morning) instead of just not screwing around. Oh well. Got a little float charger on it along with the block heater now… and I’ll leave that on for about 18 hours until tomorrow morning… then I will throw my bigger battery charger on it at two amp
where I can watch it, so it doesn’t develop legs. In the summer my charger is worth about $150, but right now it’s beyond priceless.
With the cord to the block heater screwed on Thursday afternoon, and running the remote starter a couple times Friday morning from the kitchen table where she can’t see her truck…with it too unhappy to start…well, I’m cold today.
With the only exterior outlet on the house being on the back of the house, I’ve got 100’ cord running 50’ along the side of our house from our rear deck, then tied every 2’ into a wrought-iron fence, with an extra 20’ to allow for variance in parking spots…& only one cord that length..well…the options are limited.
(I know the old ‘92 Dakota will start ‘cuz it just doesn’t care and the engine is sloppy enough that it will fire, even with stiff stiff oil…& it’s plugged in with a fresh battery 900CCA batt… but I start work at least an hour before they open the doors at the school and I get off work at least an hour and a half after that boy gets done school on a short day for me)
