My car is in the shop. I'm borrowing a car from my sister who happens to live near by. I'm very fortunate to have family around. I'm sure I could get friends to give me a lift to and from work, but having my own set of wheels is better.
I really don't have anything I want to say right now. The other day I did but I don't remember what that was. Well, I have to go to bed. I'm trying to get to work before 8am because some of the staff is on vacation this week.
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Hey there ya'll.
Well, Cornerstone was fun and enlightening as usual. I had an absolutely wonderful time in 1998, but this year wasn't so bad either. Attendance was down this year, though. Also, a guy drowned in the lake, which, of course, isn't cool. I didn't really get into any of the seminars this year. I when to a bunch of them but none of them really gripped me. There was one that could've been challenging but I figured I'd just read the book... as soon as I buy it.
I saw an old class mate of mine, a guy I know from here but didn't totally realize it was him until it was too late and a nephew of mine at the fest. That was pretty cool. I don't really talk to much of my family enough.
We were planning on leaving Sunday morning but a storm was rolling in Saturday night. We decided to hit the road then. Of course, by the time we had packed up the storm had subsided. We hit the road anyway. We almost hit a deer. I managed to miss it and retain control of the car. I drove a little ways and then made a U-turn. Usually deer don't lay in the road so I figured someone else had hit it before me. I didn't want anyone else to hit it like I nearly had so I went back and pulled it off the road. I then phoned it into the police. I hope they got enough of the message to act on. My cell phone was acting flaky out there in Illinois. I'd have a full signal and then lose signal a few seconds into the session. Anyway, things went smoothly on the ride home until the air conditioner in my car broke (in Kentucky). Even after that things were going okay(except for the sound of scraping metal) until we stopped in West Virginia and the belt broke. That was around 5pm? I called AAA and they took us to a garage. They looked at it and said they'd get to it in the morning, the car wasn't designed to have the AC compressor bypassed. They were going to replace it.
I rented a room a Motel 6. One room two beds... I probably should've spent the extra $50 and got separate rooms. We were pretty exhausted from long days in the heat and dust and staying up and driving the night before. My friend went to sleep right away. I took a shower and watched an old Doris Day movie on TV. The next day I called the garage and they still hadn't gotten to the car. The garage never called me, I had to call them a few times throughout the day. They looked up the car and found there were 3 different compressors used on my car. They had to pull off the broken one in order to see which one they needed to replace it with. They said the broken one they pulled off didn't have a part number or something on it so they couldn't order the replacement. They put it back together and put a shorter belt on it bypassing the AC compressor. They reassured me greatly when they said, "the book says it can't be bypassed but my eyes tell me it can." It got me home, but I payed them ~$170 (in cash... they don't accept credit cards) and it still needs to be fixed. I finally got home Monday night around 8pm.
Oh, and I had to totally switch my website over when I got back home. super. I'm still not in love. great.
Well, Cornerstone was fun and enlightening as usual. I had an absolutely wonderful time in 1998, but this year wasn't so bad either. Attendance was down this year, though. Also, a guy drowned in the lake, which, of course, isn't cool. I didn't really get into any of the seminars this year. I when to a bunch of them but none of them really gripped me. There was one that could've been challenging but I figured I'd just read the book... as soon as I buy it.
I saw an old class mate of mine, a guy I know from here but didn't totally realize it was him until it was too late and a nephew of mine at the fest. That was pretty cool. I don't really talk to much of my family enough.
We were planning on leaving Sunday morning but a storm was rolling in Saturday night. We decided to hit the road then. Of course, by the time we had packed up the storm had subsided. We hit the road anyway. We almost hit a deer. I managed to miss it and retain control of the car. I drove a little ways and then made a U-turn. Usually deer don't lay in the road so I figured someone else had hit it before me. I didn't want anyone else to hit it like I nearly had so I went back and pulled it off the road. I then phoned it into the police. I hope they got enough of the message to act on. My cell phone was acting flaky out there in Illinois. I'd have a full signal and then lose signal a few seconds into the session. Anyway, things went smoothly on the ride home until the air conditioner in my car broke (in Kentucky). Even after that things were going okay(except for the sound of scraping metal) until we stopped in West Virginia and the belt broke. That was around 5pm? I called AAA and they took us to a garage. They looked at it and said they'd get to it in the morning, the car wasn't designed to have the AC compressor bypassed. They were going to replace it.
I rented a room a Motel 6. One room two beds... I probably should've spent the extra $50 and got separate rooms. We were pretty exhausted from long days in the heat and dust and staying up and driving the night before. My friend went to sleep right away. I took a shower and watched an old Doris Day movie on TV. The next day I called the garage and they still hadn't gotten to the car. The garage never called me, I had to call them a few times throughout the day. They looked up the car and found there were 3 different compressors used on my car. They had to pull off the broken one in order to see which one they needed to replace it with. They said the broken one they pulled off didn't have a part number or something on it so they couldn't order the replacement. They put it back together and put a shorter belt on it bypassing the AC compressor. They reassured me greatly when they said, "the book says it can't be bypassed but my eyes tell me it can." It got me home, but I payed them ~$170 (in cash... they don't accept credit cards) and it still needs to be fixed. I finally got home Monday night around 8pm.
Oh, and I had to totally switch my website over when I got back home. super. I'm still not in love. great.
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