Over the river and through the woods...
First of all: Happy Birthday to my Dad! Second of all, I thought I'd fill everyone in on what's been going down at Casa Rovnyak over the past two weeks. The weekend of the 6th will be going down in the history books as the "Lost Weekend of 2004". We spent the entire two days obsessing over chinese super buffet and Ms. Pac-man. The. Entire. Two. Days. We emerged from the house Sunday afternoon to discover it was about 70 degrees out and we didn't even know it. What a waste of a beautiful day. At sundown, it promptly dropped back into "too cold to bother being outside" temperatures, and there it has remained, so it really was sad to have missed out on it. To make up for our hermityness, we decided at the last minute to go to my Grandmother's this weekend. She and I were talking on the phone Friday morning, during which she mentioned that there was a big church fair scheduled for Saturday, it was snowing out, etc, etc. When we hung up I called Dave and said "I want to see my Grandma!" and he said "Okay, get the oil changed in the car and pick me up at 4:30", both of which I did. It was snowing by the time we drove up past the Pocono's. I was in heaven. It was gorgeous in the Berkshires when we got there. I love the snow. I can't imagine being any place where it doesn't snow. Anyway, the electricity went out around midnight so we all went to bed. We got up bright and early to go to the church fair, which was pretty impressive. They had something called a "Cookie Walk" where for $3.50 you get a tin which you can fill up with any variety of home-made cookies you want. Dave and I were in heaven, let me tell you. We spent the rest of the day hanging out, eating, napping - all the activities you want to do on a weekend. Sunday when we were driving home, the power steering went out which was rather exciting. I built up some upper body strength trying to steer the car into a gas station to see what was up. It fixed itself when we stopped and restarted the car, and stayed fixed all the way back home. I called the dealership yesterday and set up an appointment to have someone fix the two recall items that we'd been sitting on for a month, and also to have them check out the steering, which failed again twice last night. All of this leads up to my activities of this afternoon: sitting around in a car dealership lobby, waiting for people to stop working on my car. Apparently the fix for the steering is to replace the steering column, which I figured on (I checked it out on the internet; it seems to be a common problem. I'm sensing an impending recall.). The other two recalls were fixed and so now we're waiting for the call that the column is in, and now you know what I'll be doing yet another afternoon in the not too distant future. So there you have it, not too exciting, and yet kind of exciting, all rolled into one.