Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Sigh♦



My poor little car is wounded. I have a bad transmission or axle – I hope it’s the latter since it’s cheaper- and I have to put it in the shop today, which means I’ll be driving the boat (Ford Ranger) for a few days. Oh well, there’s always golf.

Went to an auction over the weekend and bought two PCs, cheap, cheap, cheap. One I’m going to setup for Sharon and the other for my sister. Both have small hard drives, which I’ll replace and I may have a line on two hard drives for a good price.

The neighborhood grass feud continues and it appears as though the paranoid old guy (no not me) is erecting a rather large fence and hopefully that will resolve his viewing issues and abate the flurry of emails. However, I’m sure the email relief will be temporary and it won’t be long before the POG (paranoid old guy) will find something else to complain about. While I don’t agree with the POG –not completely anyway- I can’t understand why a Doctor and a Jaguar-driving big time Christian woman with three teenage kids can’t or won’t take better car of their yard in a nice well-kept neighborhood. I mean if cleanliness is truly next to Godliness, wouldn’t that include your lawn?

Saw the grandkids Sunday before the MINI event and Sara is becoming a real joy. She recognizes me and although she can’t pronounce GPa (my grandfather nickname given to me by Sharon) the fact that she recognizes me is heartwarming. Evan at three months is also a pleasure to see and hold even though he isn’t at the playful stage yet and it’s still hard for me to believe I have a grandson named after me. Life is good, wounded auto or not.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Nice weekend, mediocre Monday

Although I did have to be onsite at 3:30AM yesterday morning to replace a part. It only took 30 minutes from the time I received the system until the system was back up. Why is it some customers purchase a IBM mainframe, that IBM spent millions of dollars to develop and designed in the ability to replace parts with the system up, and yet will only allow the parts to be replaced when the system is down?

Two early calls (simple ones though and then I tried to start the truck this morning, but had problems and upon further troubleshooting this afternoon it appears the starter is bad. Sigh. Looks like I’ll replace the starter and or the solenoid this week.

Alison started her teaching job today; a job she has wanted for quite some time. She left her position at UGA and accepted the teaching position in the Newton County school system. Since Chad (son-in-law) works in the same school system and across the street they will ride to work together -at least until baseball season starts and Chad resumes coaching- which could make for a long school year. LOL