Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy and 50 degrees in Westerlo. Tonight will have a slight chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. The clouds weren’t nice today but it was mild. Tonight is the Last Quarter Moon with 46% illuminated. It will rise at 12:38 am.

Monday will have a chance of showers, mainly before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. South wind 8 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

I checked the oil in my truck today and it was low. I wasn’t happy about that, but I realized I hadn’t checked the oil in a while, and it’s been 10,000 miles since the last oil change (that I thought about doing last weekend but never happened). I meant to check it but it didn’t happen. I wasn’t happy about the low oil, as it means the engine is burning oil, but then again, it’s been 10,000 miles, and I haven’t added any since then.

So I go to Walmart and buy a quart of oil. I decided to add oil in the parking lot, so I don’t risk driving on low oil. I didn’t have a funnel with but I poured it in carefully. But I managed to spill some on the manifold in the process. I get to the next stoplight and smoke starts pouring out from under the hood. I find a place safe in a parking lot to pull off, open the hood, and mop up the oil I spilled on the manifold. It smoked a little more, but a few minutes later it was all burnt off it. Everything seems fine now that it cooled down.

Needless to say, I’m not happy about the oil consumption. But hopefully I’ll get a least a few more years out of the truck without any major repairs. And if it consumes a quart of oil every 10,000 miles, it’s not the end of the world. I just got to check it more frequently and not leave it multiple months without checking. But with the battery issue in December and being busy in November, somehow it just slipped my mind (I put on like 3,000-4,000 miles on my October trip). The truck won’t last forever, but that’s fine, it’s hardly been a perfect vehicle to start out with.

But this kind of wrecked my afternoon.