The Monday before this one (before I fell ill) I discovered a Check Engine Light lighting up my life. I went to AutoZone to see what the code was – “Low Emmisions leak – very small.” This is apparently the infamous Mazda6 “loose gas cap” code – so I decided not to do anything about it until my next oil change/service (in a few weeks). Yesterday – the CEL vanished.
Good thing too – it was bugging me that I was going to drive to San Diego today with a CEL (“very small” or not).
Friday morning we shut down the house and headed to LAX. Despite a disorganized boarding queueing procedure from Air Canada, the actual flight was not full and we ended up with an empty seat next to us. However, the flight was delayed for about a half hour due to a “maintenance procedure” that prolonged our […]
I posted a bit ago about how we’d gone back to Shaw’s Cove for the first time in five years. Part of that was because we’d visited La Jolla Shores on one day down and back trips in 2020 and 2021. Then no swimming at all anywhere in 2022 or 2023. So while it had […]
A month ago we returned to Shaw’s Cove after a 5 year drought to find out that we’d been snorkeling to the wrong side all along. A few coves south lay the Laguna Beach Marine Life Refuge, where most of the juvenile leopard sharks learn to drive. Last time all our friends cancelled on us, […]
