Gloves In My Glove Box

The sun and 60 degree weather didn’t arrive as predicted. The clouds were hanging heavy overhead all day and I bet it didn’t get out of the lower 50’s. By quitting time it was already too cold to think about putting the top down, drat it all. I’m sure tomorrow’s weather will be absolutely correct because they are calling for rain….

My intent was to keep the driving gloves in the center console, but alas there isn’t any room because of the 2 sets of sunglasses that reside there now, so I’ve decided to keep them in the glove box, how about that?

Started up, still up.
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Poor Earl

Just got through watching “An Evening With The Dixie Chicks” on NBC. While I’m not a big county music fan, I liked this enough to stay for the whole show (which is either a testament to a good program or a statement on the amount of crap available on the other 60-odd channels.) It was actually good stuff. Put me in mind of the Eagles’s Hell Freezes Over concert of a while back. Nice harmonizing with the extra kick of a string section. You can tell it was filmed in Hollywood though, you had to be an aspiring actor/actress to get in the audience – nothing but good looking people to be seen in the whole theater, I’d have never gotten in.

Christmas Packages

Tomorrow starts the nearly daily trips at lunch to the Post Office to mail Christmas boxes to relatives in far flung lands. It is always a pleasure to stand around and wait and then have to go through the little verbal song and dance about how fast would you like it to get there, do you need insurance, or delivery confirmation. Now they have got an exit spiel too, about that did you know the Postal Service now accepts credit and debit cards as well as checks. I guess I could go to one of those mailing places, but they are hit and miss and charge more. I will just suffer and use the experience as my penance for actually not visiting family over the holidays.

Christmas Music

I’m a sucker for Christmas Music. Not just any Christmas Music though, mostly I go for for the slightly weird and non-commercial type stuff. I own about 20 Christmas CD’s and about 5 of them come from Rhino Records if that helps. Every once and a while I pick a CD that I listen to once, and my Christmas CD that falls into this category is “Blame it on Christmas.”

Don’t be seduced by the glowing reviews on the bottom of that page. If you want a humorous Christmas CD buy Dr. Demento presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time.

Why Won’t It Start

The streak of failures continues:

Tonight for no apparent reason Donna’s Mom’s 97 Honda Civic failed to start. It had started fine 2 times earlier in the evening, but the 3rd time was a charm. To ice the cake it decided to not start 25 miles from home in a quick-stop parking lot in Augusta. Plenty of battery power, it just wouldn’t turn over. Mom is a AAA member so we called a tow truck to haul the car back to Honda Cars of Aiken so they can hopefully fix it in the morning. We called a friend to come over to Augusta to take Donna and Mom home while I waited for the tow truck. Fun way to spend a Friday night. At least it wasn’t raining….

Custom Calendar

Had high hopes of the dropping the top for the drive home, but they were dashed when the sun never materialized and the temps never made it into the 50’s. I guess I have lived too long in SC as I’m now getting colder at a much higher temperature…

My 2003 calendar arrived yesterday. I had a custom one made online at Shutterfly using the 12 best pictures from the Barndoor Fan Club’s Twilight Photo Contest. You can get your own too if you want, $24 and 4 days is all it takes. Start by picking your pictures.

Started up, still up.
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No Ice

Not only did we miss out on the ice storm, we are now missing out on ice cubes. For the second time in the 7 year life span of our refrigerator the ice make has quit working. The first time, about 3 years ago, it was the valve that controls the water to the ice maker. You couldn’t just buy the valve you had to buy the whole ice maker kit. When it broke the other day I figured it was the valve again. I still had the old broken one, so I took it to work to see if I could make it work again. Sure enough I took it all apart, cleaned it and it worked. So I put it on the fridge when I got home yesterday and guess what – no ice. Must not be the valve. Up into the attic I went and dragged down the box with the rest of the kit. Tonight I replaced the ice maker unit itself with the new one – so far no ice. Wiring harness? either that or some thing in the refrigerator itself, because one end of the harness hooks into the back of the fridge….

I’m going to hate to have to go to ice cube trays.