From good to ... wtf?

This week has gone pretty well in general. My to-do list has been shrinking, my house is nearly completely unpacked, everything's in hand...

...until today happened. So far:

  • Hard drive corrupted on my HTPC. Won't boot any more.
  • Leave home in a hurry for some reason.
  • Truck abruptly dies backing out of the driveway. Crap.
  • Got truck going after a couple of minutes. Huh.
  • Had to stop on the side the road to close the hood. Crap x2.
  • Release the parking brake half a block later. Sigh.
  • Discover that I don't have my cell phone. Crap x5.
  • Temporary crown pops off of my tooth when eating breakfast. Crap x10.
  • Truck refuses to start at work when I want to go home for it. Crap x100.
  • Last day at the old office (hence bringing the truck to help move)

So, I have no idea what's up with the truck other than the motor is not getting any fuel. I don't know if it's purely a fuel system problem (pump, injectors, relay, filter, etc) or something wrong with whatever turns on the fuel system, possibly affecting the ignition system too. Given the initial portent of it dying (briefly) in my driveway, it's looking like it's something deeper. It ran great on the way here.

Fuses are all good, motor cranks great. No fault codes reported by the ECM. No apparent voltage across the fuel pump fuse connector. Uh-oh.

Even if I am able to diagnose the nature of what's wrong, it'll still need to get towed away from the parking lot of my old office, So I'm leaning towards having AAA just tow the damn thing to a mechanic and let them worry about it.

In a little bit I'm getting a ride home so I can get my car and cell phone (I hope), after which I'll drive back down here and figure out what I'm going to do with this thing.

I wonder what else can go wrong today?

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