ADT scheduled me for service today for an alarm problem I have. I knew that they would not keep the appointment, but I took it anyway. This morning I got the call that they had to reschedule AGAIN. Every freaking time they schedule a service call with us they have to reschedule. The last 4 times it was a truck that broke down. This time the service tech was sick. I call BULLSHIT.
I will be shopping for a new alarm company.
Second day in a row of this stupid high wind system. I hope it moves east soon. Driving the Jeep in heavy wind is less fun that you would think, but driving it in this stupid wind is just dangerous!
Had my tires balanced today. Turns out that Jeannie went to Walt for tire prices, but he was too high for her and she’s going to go to Santa Fe and get the type of tire that lasts only half as long as tires sold be Walt. Jeannie is one of my employees for all of you that don’t know.
While in town, I went to Dick’s Liquor for lunch. They have a good menu in the bar and the owners are nice people.
Just a short trip to Alb. today and lunch at Red Robin. Stopped at Sportsmans and saw empty hooks where guns used to hang. Shelves were bare of ammo. Everyone’s hoarding again.
Sequester? Anyone notice that all this talk of sequester cuts are domestic cuts? No talk of cutting aid to Israel, or Arab countries, or African countries or Asian countries, just talk about screwing over OUR citizens. Why the Hell are we electing these bastards to office? They just are in place to stick it to American citizens I guess. Makes me feel proud that we get it shoved up our rectal cavity while the middle east countries still get to spend our tax money to talk shit about us and most likely plot against us. We are idiots.
OK, I spent yesterday afternoon on the tractor. The earlier snow left my lot in sad shape and I had another implement on the tractor, so I never jumped on it like I usually do. I decided to do what I needed with the forklift attachment on the tractor and make the switch to the box blade and 4 hours later I was ready for a nap. Lot looks good again and the box blade will stay on for a while.
While out on the tractor, I decided to do the roads in the campground. Since closing 10 years ago, they’ve been sadly neglected. I would go through there to pick up material on occasion, but I never bothered to do much more. Since I got my fitbit, I’ve been walking in the back more and yesterday I figured to make it easier to do so. I figure that the track I graded out back will let me walk more without tiring. I guesstimate that 3 trips around will be 1 mile. I know that 1 trip around the perimeter of my property is 1 mile, so my guesstimate is probably pretty much dead on. Edit: 1 trip around that new loop is 1/3 of a mile. I checked it this morning. So 3 times around plus the distance to and from the house equals a mile.
Yesterday, Nina and I went car shopping. We went to the Mercedes dealership in Santa Fe and looked at the Smart cars. I’ve always had a perverse? interest in these little cars. I drove a nice little blue one that looked like I could carry it on my keychain, but once your in the car and driving it, it doesn’t have that small car feel. Made by Mercedes, they are well built and while it was a small car ride, it felt larger than it truly was. These cars are freaking small!
Pretty cute, ehh? Anyone interested in why? Well, I was thinking of buying a new Jeep, but the cost of the new Jeep, with my trade-in, was huge. Now we’re thinking of just getting me a second car to take the milage pressure off of my Jeep. My 3 year old Jeep has 135,000 mile on it already and I’d like to keep it still. I doubt that a Smart car will be my final choice, but it was a fun visit and test drive.
Maybe a Harley?
Just a note to friends; My uncle is dying and was just placed in hospice. The prognosis is less than a week. Family says that he’s just starting to lose it mentally and we hope his passing will be easy. He is the last of my father’s brothers alive. Sad to see, but death is part of life.
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Yeah. End of April.
Screen shot from Google Maps of the pub at the hotel we’re staying at.
What a P.I.A. trip home, but we made it. Wind, break down, tow truck, sitting in the service waiting room and getting told I can’t do something that I like to do. It seems that John Hoffer Dodge doesn’t like it when there’s customers in the service area. Really? It’s not like I was giving advice or trying to do it myself, I was just watching. I like to watch people working on my equipment. I like to learn how to fix things I’ve never had to fix before. Oh well, it took only an hour to fix it and we were on the road again.
The wind really wore me down and I felt it at the end of the day. Headwinds on Monday and crosswinds today. That Jeep in wind handles so well that I was surprised that I didn’t get stopped for DUI. Like driving a refrigerator box in a windstorm. Still like the Jeep though.