Heya.. just to let anyone who cares at all know that I have not died and passed beyond the need for keyboards to get my point across.  I'm actually working on an update of my own personal website that will include front page area for this type of blogging.  And then I will move my daily/weekly blogging to there so that I'm updating my own domain/webpage and not someone elses.  :) 

There was an article in the paper about a satellite that fell to earth...

Satellite crashes back to Earth, after seven years

Debris falls near Galapagos Islands

LOS ANGELES, April 30 —  Everything that goes up must come down, including a 3,086-pound Dutch-Italian satellite that splashed into the Pacific Ocean seven years after being sent into space.  (more...)

Point is, did anyone notice?  In the late 70's the infamous Skylab fell to earth.  The world watched it for days as it made it's way to it's final end on our small blue planet.  My friends and I all went out and bought toy yellow hard hats and put labels on them that read, "I'm Ready for Skylab."  We wore them to school and work for the week before it hit the ground.   It finally landed in the outback of Australia, or at least what was left of it after the burn off.  Although with as much as it says is falling to earth all the time it's probably good that we don't know every time something is coming our way.  But it's amazing how desensitized we become about such things.

  Happy Easter!

My son insists there's an Easter Monkey at work here.  However, our survailence cameras caught this dogbunny red handed, or is that pawed? 

For those who are unfamiliar with the holiday, my Wiccan friend explained it beautifully.  It's the day when Jesus comes out of the ground and sees his shadow and theres another 3 weeks till Spring.  LOL

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter.

This week my big fight has been with my car.  Monday I went to my Fencing class and on the way home the car tried to stall out.  Tuesday I got up and got in it to go to work and it stalled dead three times just trying to turn around in the culdesac where I live.  I called AAA and had them come tow it to the shop.  I called the shop and told them that there was a vacum issue with the car and could they fix it. 

At 6PM Tuesday I called the shop to see what was up since I had not heard from them.  They said, they hadn't looked at it yet that they just pulled it into the bay.  Sheesh! 

At 10AM the next morning I called them to see what was up.  They did not know and would get back to me.

At 3PM I called again.  They said it was a vacum issue and that they would replace two hoses and fix the idle timing.

At 5PM they called me to tell my my car was done and ready.

At 6PM I picked up the car.  I live three blocks away from the shop and the stupid car stalled dead three times (every stop sign and the curb).  I went in the house and called them to complain that they had not fixed my problem.  They said to bring it back in and they'd fix it and it wouldn't cost me anything.  So far it was $80 diagnostic labor and $115 parts and labor.  Over $200 with tax. 

I dropped it off this morning at 9:30AM.  I called them at 5:30PM to see what was going on.  Oh it's something wrong with the Throttle valve and they're trying to find the part.  Probably won't be till tomorrow (which is now Friday) that they can find out where to get the part. 

Oh and two other things with this issue...  Their customer service SUCKS!  Whatever happened to customer service? 

When I got home last night the right wiper blade looked weird.  On inspection I found that they had shut a pair of heavy duty plyers in the engine hood at the top near the wiper blades.  If it had been a new car they would have damaged the hood hinge in that area.  Also I noticed that I had a ton of light inside the engine but none outside of the car.  Some how when replacing the hoses they managed to get the bulb socket out of the headlight and didn't put it back so the bulb was happlily illuminating the inside of my engine but not the road ahead of me.  What was the response when I handed them back their tool and mentioned it?  "Oh that must be a consulation prize."   Oh if I had a newer car I'd have given them a throttle right up their consulation prize.

We'll see if they can fix it tomorrow and how much they're going to try to sock me for this time.  What a bunch of crap!

Don't ever take your car to Merchant's Auto in Alexandria.  I already stopped getting gas there because the gas guys are lewd and crude about trying to get me to go in the back room with them!  I've got to find a different place to take my car.  Either that or go find some Automechanics classes so I can do it myself.  Just makes my nails break and get so dirty though.