Good morning! Happy Monday. Wait, what...?

Some of you noticed that something went wrong. I wrote an email for Monday, and Tuesday, and today, but somehow none of them got sent. We'll get to that in a minute.

But first, I started my car in the gym car park this morning only for it to go all "flashy flashy beepy, beepy" which is how I described it to the mechanic at my local garage. Turns out that's not a helpful description for car fault diagnostics 🤷🏻‍♂️

But saying there's a fault on the dashboard that says, "Brake Failure, Stop Safely and Immediately" is helpful, up to a point.

Anyway, he's a busy guy, but he grabbed a torch, and asked me how I got it to him. "I drove it", I said. "With that error?" he enquired. "Errr, yes and the beeping was annoying," I said.

At this point I wasn't sure if I was going to get a telling off or just a withering stare.

I got a facial expression that I choose to interpret as, "kudos mate", but might have been "well you survived".

But the thing is, I may not be a mechanic, but I am observant. Each time I switched on the engine, for a moment, the car thought the doors were open when they were not. And it thought a tyre was flat, which they were not.

Which led me to conclude the fault probably wasn't mechanical.

And so, I tested the brakes, safely and was sure they were working fine. I didn't risk anything unnecessarily. I drove cautiously -- both with the warning beep from the dashboard and my hazard lights on -- to the garage.

Guess what, he looked at the pads (fine), dipped his fingers in the brake fluid (full) and suggested I move it onto flatter ground so he could see the engine better and ... magically the problem resolved itself.

So what went wrong? "Cold weather has probably done something odd to the electrics, nothing to worry about."

Which is also my excuse for not sending emails about goal setting this week so far. The cold weather did something odd to my electrics 😉

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

Have a beautiful day, Stephen

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